a Pouder The fourth Take roots of Asarum and Valerian Spignel Calamus Aromaticus Fennel Smallage Pursley Carrot Seseli seeds of each one dram Savin Schaenanth Spicknard Cinnamon Pepper of each half a dram Saffron one scruple make a Pouder The fifth Pouder Take Amber Gum of Plums and Cherries of each one dram Turpentine boyled half a dram the Jews-stone Alkekengi Berries Parsley seeds Asarum roots of each half a dram with Cinnamon one scruple make a Pouder The sixth Take of Egg-shels that are hatched and the Skin taken out one dram or nine swims of Herrings give them in Pouder The seventh Take the Ashes of earth Worms or Cray-fish of each one dram of Hog-lice half a dram Spanish flies or Grass hoppers their thin wings taken out or Scorpions half a scruple Cinnamon one dram Cloves half a dram Sugar two drams The eight Ponder quickly made in time of necessity Take two Cantharides and one dram of Sugar-candy beat them well give it with Honey and Water or the Decoction of Linseed or with Milk These Decoctions following are good Take Radish roots two ounces Asparagus and Rest-harrow of each one ounce Asarum half an ounce Mallows Pellitory of each one handful Berries of winter Cherries two drams Water-cress seeds two drams Smallage seed half a dram boyl them in red Pease broath Or this Take one Onion and a head of Garlick boyl them in broath and drink it being strained A Diuretike Oxymel is given two ounces with covenient Water or Wine to provoke Urine Also Wormwood Wine or Malmsey fasting or white Wine in which white Flints have been quenched till they turne to Pouder Or this Composition Take roots of Parsley Fennel Rest-harrow of each one ounce Asarum Elicampane of each half an ounce Wormwood Rue Strawberry leaves Savin Hysop of each one handful Broom Elder and Chamomil flowers of each one pagil Smallage Parsley Lovage Rocket Nigella Water cress seeds of each one dram Juniper-berries half an ounce Infuse them in white Wine Also this Lixivium Take Juniper Bean stalks and shales dried burn them and mix the Ashes with white Wine and straining it often make a Lie or Lixivium Let him drink a Glass And with the ashes of Broom or Bitter-sweet it is better Other Potions Take Oyl of Sulphur two drops spirit of Vitriol one drop with Wine and Water Or Take Oyl of Scorpions half an ounce with Milk or Wine Or Take Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with much Milk Two or three drops of Oyl of Wax given in great Nettle water provoketh Urin violently The fresh juyce of Pomegranate doth the same Or thus Take Horse Radish roots green bruise them sprinkle them with Wine and take two ounces of the juyce Or thus Take juyce of Pellitory two or three ounces juyce of Water-cresses one ounce add Wine Sugar and Honey Waters pierce most as that of Pellitory Alkekengi or Winter-cherries Lemmons Nuts or of Broom flowers with Cinnamon water also of Horse-radish Water-cresses and Sea-fennel Another Water Take Horse-radish roots half a pound Rest-harrow Winter-cherries of each four ounces Cherries and Peach kernels of each two ounces Broom and Elder flowers of each one ounce Fennel seed two drams Turpentine half an ounce with spanish Wine a fingers breadth above them being bruised distil a Water give one or two ounces The water of Peach kernels drawn with Spanish Wine is also good The buds of Asparagus boyled or raw make the Urin stink and provoke it often Make a Sallat of Purslane Water-cresses Chervil and Parsley with young Onions and Horse-radish sliced and Cowcumbers if the season afford them with Vinegar and Oyl It will provoke Urin if it be eaten for a Supper Or this Bole. Take Turpentine two drams Winter-cherries one dram Amber half a dram with Sugar Make Pils of unpleasant things Take Galbanum Bdellium Myrrh each half a dram Oyl of Sulphur four drops with Turpentine make Pils give half a dram at a Dse Somtimes we mix Purgers with Diureticks because the Urin is easier rendered when the Excrements are voided and because they prick and stir up the expulsive faculty of the Guts and give the same force to the Bladder Or this Bole. Take Cassia new drawn half an ounce Benedicta Laxativa Agarick in Troches each half a dram Winter-cherries one scruple with Sugar Turpentine doth both Take two drams thereof dissolveit with Honey and the yolk of an Eg and drink it with Wine Or thus Take Electuary Indum the great two drams Catholicon half an ounce Winter-cherry water as much as wil make a Potion If it come from clotted blood you must give things at the mouth which dissolve such blood among which Amber is best in this case Clysters are good in this case and Topicks to the bladder As Take Mallows with the roots Pellitory each one handful Chamaemel flowers one pugil boyl them and dissolve Cassia Benedicta Laxativa each half an ounce Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg and Honey half an ounce Oyl of Chamaemel and Scorpions each one ounce Salt two drams make a Clyster Another more compounded Take marsh-mallow roots and Radishes each two ounces Onions Garlick Leeks each one ounce Pellitory Water-cresses Parsley each one handful Chamaemel and Melilot flowers each one one pugil Smallage and Lovage seeds each two drams Juniper berries half an ounce boyl them in Wine and Water and dissolve the aforesaid things therein Or this of Juyces Take Juyce of Mallows Mercury Pellitory Rue each one ounce and an half of Water-cresses half an ounce white Wine two ounces Butter one ounce and an half Honey one ounce Salt one dram make a Clyster Divers things are applied outwardly to the Share neer the Bladder that dilate it and provoke Pissing A Fomentation and Bath of these Take Valerian roote two ounces Mallows Mugwort Parsley flowers of Chamaemel Melilot Dill each one pugil Linseed and Fenugreek each one dramâ— Smallage seeds two drams boyl them and add Wine These are good when the bladder is so ful they cannot piss Also you may add things that dissolve the clodded blood if there be any And Coolers if there be Inflammation Or this Emplaster Take roots of Marsh-mallows Radish and Pellitory boyl them stamp them and add a little Butter Or. Take Radish Water-cresses Garlick Juniper-berries stamp them and fry them with Wine adding Butter and Oyl of Scorpions Hot Cow-dung also with Cummin-seed and Oyl of Scorpions It is good in the Strangury to boyl Hempen thred newly spun in Water and Lie with Mugwort and Chamaemel and apply it You may use these Oyntments with the former or alone Take Oyl of Scorpions and Cunney grease each half an ounce Or Take Juyce of Water-cresses Parsley Onions each one ounce Sea-fennel Oyl of Scorpions each two ounces boyl them and add Oyl of Turpentine two drams and with Cunney grease make a Liniment Boyl Wine Vinegar and Honey thick with Linseed meal and apply them to the Pecten to provoke Urin.
from sweat it must be stopped as we shall shew in its place If from pain take away the cause and allay the pain for pain of the Heart causing swouning vomit purge and strengthen the Stomach as in Cardialgia some die of joy and that weakness which is from other passions if it continue especially from fear it is hard to be Cured If it come from a hot or cold distemper Cure it by contraries A Maligne quality Plague or Poyson often killeth for which we use Evacuations and Antidotes A Wound in the Heart is deadly and a corruption of the parts thereof uncurable These things observed though the evil be desperate yet with Restauratives and Cordials we may ply them to the last breath that if there be any hope and the weakness not fixed cure them And we may be the bolder if it come from Evacuation Pain or Passion or after a Disease And if there be a Syncope we may remove it and prevent it Examples of all which do folfow Let the Diet be of good juyce Cordials and in little quantity easie concocted give them little and often Especially if old men are lately sick or such as have had great Evacuation And if they cannot digest thick give broaths things strained or Jellies A good Julep Take Capon broath and boyl Rise therein with Borrage add the yolk of an Egg and a little Rose Vinegar or a little juyce of sharp Apples or Citrons or Wine Marjoram Nutmeg Saffron and Salt Or boyl and strain the flesh of a Capon in broath and give it with the rest The German dish of yolks of Eggs Wine Sugar and Butter doth restore excellently The Gravie of a roasted Capon mixed with the yolk of an Egg the fat being taken off and boyled with Nutmeg and Salt doth the same There are divers jellies As Take a Capon and Mince it with a little Veal salted and Spiced with a little Wine and boyl it in Balneo Mariae and take the juyce and strain it from the fat and keep it till it congeal in a cold place This may be given by it self or with others Wine doth suddenly and greatly refresh as experience sheweth give it alone or with Sugar let it be well sented and sweetish or mix Cinnamon therewith It is good in swouning to give a sop in Wine with juyce of Apples Lemmons Pomegranats and Cinnamon The Medicines to refresh the Spirits and preserve them are these Take the julep of Roses two ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce give it often Or thus Take the juyce of sweet sented sower Apples half an ounce Sack and Cinamon water of each two drams Or thus in the Heart pain Take of Balm and Lavender flower water of each half an ounce Cinnamon water juyce of Lemons or of Apples and Sack of each two drams Juleps are usual in Feavers and in thirst As Take syrup of Violets Bugloss water Lillies of each one ounce julep of Roses one ounce and an half Rose Bugloss and Balm water of each two ounces Cinnamon water half an bunce give two or three ounces A Distilled water to restore Take the broath of a Capon and Oxes or Dears Hearts well boyled four pints Sack one pint an Orange or a Lemon cut in pieces Galangal Balm of each one dram Cinnamon half an onnce Cloves two drams Coriander and Basil seeds Roses Scabious and Bugloss flowers of each one dram Saffron one scruple Harts horn and Ivory shavings of each one dram Distill a Water Or thus Take dried Citron peels Angelica roots Balm Borrage flowers Basil seed of each half a dram Cinnamon three drams Cloves and species of Diamargariton Frigidum of each one dram Infuse them in spirit of Wine give one or two spoonfuls with Sugar of Roses or white Wine Cordial Potions to be given at the point of Death to refresh Take Confectio Alchermes one scruple species Diamargariton Frigidum half a dram syrup of the juyce of Citrons half an ounce syrup of Poppies three drams with Rose Bugloss and Cinnamon water make a Cordial This is good in extremity with more Poppy water Or thus which is good against Poyson Take Confectio de Hyacyntho half a dram or Diamargariton Frigidum Diamoscum dulce of each half a dram Syrup of the juyce of Citrons one ounce with Scabious and Balm water make a Potion Treacle is good if fainting come from Poyson or an evil Medicine Also Lozenges of Sugar of Roses and Diamargariton Frigidum Or these Take species of Diamargariton frigidum of the Electuary of Gems or Cordial species of each half a dram Oyl of Cinnamon four drops Sugar dissolved in Rose water two ounces Make Lozenges Or Take Coral one dram Precious stones Pearles Ivory of each half a dram Citron seeds Sorrel and Basil seeds of each one scruple Cinnamon Mace of each one dram wood Aloes one scruple Musk two grains with Sugar make a Pouder or Lozenges To these you may add the Oyls of Pearls Coral or the like Portable Gold or spirits drawn called Elixirs are commended by Chymists to strengthen and hinder old Age. And they attribute much to their holy Oyl of mans blood Take of a sound mans blood of thirty or forty years old three pints Sperma Ceti Marrow of Oxe bones of each one pound Distill them in a Lembeck well luted keep the last water which is red and they say will change with the Moon give three drops in Wine or Cordial water Sweet scented things refresh and fetch swouning people again we shall mention some only to be applied to the Nose which are at hand Apply Vinegar of Roses with a Spunge or Cloth to the Nose or mix it with Penniroyal bruised or Basil or let him smel to Wine They use to chew Cloves and breath into the Mouth and Nose of the Patient Or this Take Cloves yellow Sanders Roses of each one dram Camphire one scruple beat them with Vinegar and apply them to the Nose Or Take Rose water one ounce juyce of Apples and Vinegar of Roses of each half an ounce Cloves half a dram Oyl of Spike one drop apply it to the Nose Or anoynt it with Civet or Chymical Oyls of Cloves and Cinnamon with white Wax Apply Epithems to the Heart and Pulses As Take Rose water three ounces Wine that is sweet scented two ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce juyce of sweet Apples or Lemmons half an ounce Cloves one dram Saffron one scruple Or this Take water of Roses Balm Scabious of each two ounces Vinegar of Roses juyce of Apples of each one ounce species Diamargariton frigidum one dram Camphire one scruple Saffron half a scruple Make an Epithem You may boyl Pouders put into Bags in Wine and apply them Take Cloves two drams Gallia Moschata one dram Saffron half a scruple Basil seed one scruple Camphire half a scruple Or anoynt the Pulses Take Oyl of Cloves and Cinnamon of each three drops and mix them with a little Wax Anoynt the Heart with those mentioned
and the whol feaver is taken away by giving that which prevents shaking But this cannot be done safely before the matter be prepar'd and purged for if the cause remain though the Feaver cease worse Symptoms may follow As Empericks find who ayming at nothing more but the Cure of the fit bring Cholicks Jaundies and Dropsies And somtimes we do willingly according to reason take away eth fit before the cause if it be so great that it destroythe strength or at least abate it with extraordinary Medicines yet so that we go on still Methodically to take away the cause And it somtimes hapens that after the cause is removed there are fits which come from custom or habit to prevent these at the first when they stretch and yawn we give things against shaking which we mentioned when we spake of depraved Motion Those things do it either by taking away the matter which getting by degrees into the body causeth the shaking or by stupifying the sences or by heating the body suddenly at first before the fit comes All these are to be done warily and not before preparation and purgation and then you may give either a specifical evacuation or stupefactive or an alterer or a Medicine made of all these together It comes to pass often that by large eating before the fit that nature removes from the cause of the disease to the Concoction of meat and hinders the fit Hence the German Proverb Sie haben das feber abgessen The same thing is done by evacuations when nature is busie to send Excrements upwards and downwards The fit is hindered by vomiting in the beginning of the fit because by it a revulsion is made of the matter from the Meseraicks to the stomach and the Feaver is quite taken away somtimes by throwing out the cause by the Stomach and Guts Gentle purges prevent the fit the same way but strong purges are dangerous to be given before it because they will work in the time of the fit and weaken as Agarick Senna with some alterers These are the best compositions that follow A Decoction Take Epithimum and Time Polypody and Senna each a dram Borage flowers a pugil boyl and strain and give a draught afore the fit with a little Wine This is best in a quartan Or a Pouder Take Senna three drams Turbith a dram Pepper a scruple Ginger half a scruple Cinnamon Myrrh each half a dram with Sugar as much as all make a Pouder for three Doses give one in white Wine afore the fit Helidaeus gives a dram of Agarick with juyce of Fumitory and Fennel Others mix a dram of Diagredium with three ounces of Syrup of Violets and give as much as a Chesnut an houre afore the fit Some give strong bodies the Pouder of Mercury with strong Vinegar Treacle and Sugar And the Chymists instead thereof give Mercurius dulcis or Mercurius vitae or Panchymagogum Rubrum Stupefiers are given afore the fit because they take away the sense of the parts and provoke sweat As Treacle a dram and an half or more or less in Wine is highly commended or in wormwood Wine Carduus Mints or Rose water some add Diatrionpiperion that of the three Peppers others Mirth as Dioscorides Also Panchrestum Nicolai with Wine or Methridate Dioscorides commends three or four leaves of Henbane with a dram of the seed thereof given in Sack at the beginning of the fit If you repeat it twice or thrice it is a sure remedy Also syrup of Poppies given afore the fit prevents it Also divers alterers do the same inwardly and outwardly and motion of the Body Inwardly we give both hot and cold Medicines Hot because they presently inflame the body and drive away shaking and then the heat which useth to follow the motion of the cold fit either goes away or is abated And hot things do it by dispersing the matter especially when it is thin And they cause sweat But vehement hot Medicines are not to be given before a Concoction of the matter least the thin be consumed and the thick remain and of a simple Feaver there prove a double or treble Ague or a continual Feaver This must be observed in giving of Treacle and other hot things and Stupefiers above mentioned Of hot things these by experience are found best Take Ginger half an ounce Pepper a dram Nut shels two drams boyl them in two pints of astringent Wine and to five ounces strained add an ounce of syrup of Violets give it two or three hours afore the fit and cover him to sweat Or Take Gentian roots an ounce Centaury tops and Serpyllum of each three drams boyl them in Wine and give a draught as abovesaid Or thus Take juyce of Calamints three drams or an ounce and an half of the syrup give it with Wine and Borage water Or this Take Gentian Centaury and Plantane water each an ounce and an half drink it with a drop of Oyl of Vitrial or some drops of spirit of Salt or Niter Or Take Plantane a handful Sorrel half a handful Vinegar and Treacle each four ounces Distil them give three ounces of the water half an hour afore the fit Or give three ounces of the juyce Plantane with an ounce of the juyce of Purslane half an hour afore the fit Or this Pouder commended in all Feavers though Pestilential Take Sugar candy three drams Ginger two drams Camphire a dram make a Pouder give a dram in hot water This Crato commends Another Take the Pouder of Cray-fish Mans skul and Ivory each a scruple Cinnamon half a dram Saffron a scruple give a dram in Wine A third Take Myrrh a scruple Pepper six grains Ginger half a scruple Sugar three drams give a dram or make Pills with juyce of Gentian An Electuary Take the Troches Rubiae of Nicolas a dram give it with white Wine or the Electuary of Asa in Mesue Trionphyllon Nicolai Electuary of Peter Arnold of Villanova Or Take Cinnamon two drams Pepper a dram Saffron half a dram Myrrh Storax Serapine each half a dram Benzoin three drams Gentian roots two drams with Honey make an Electuary give half a dram or two scruples two hours afore the fit Coolers do it somtimes and stop the fit but they are better external because they must be very cool which will suddenly hurt the Heart given inwardly Cold water drunk largely in the fit cures many Hence the Proverb Das feber abtrincken Two ounces of Pomegranate wine given in the fit removes it if you anoynt the Pulses with the Oyntments following A famous Physitian gives the Crystal mineral in a great quantity in Spring Plantane or Sorrel water in the fit Somtimes External things do it as excercise Applications Injections Amulets and Superstitious things Excercise doth it by heating the body and provoking sweat before the fit As Running Riding c. Instead of excercise in weak bodies you may rub them and cover them warm with cloths or use Oyntments before the cold fit Also
the same nature others apply living Oysters for the same In yong people Cupping-glasses are instead of bleeding and they are better for old than bleeding with the Lancet which weakens and draws in the venom if they are applied at first to help nature to drive out the venom when she is in motion with sweat and in those places where nature expels as when a pestilent sign is above to the Neck and Shoulders when in the Groyns to the Buttocks Thighs and Hands Scarification before Cupping in the same places draws outward more powerfully and because the superficial blood is only taken away thereby doth it weaken or hinder Natures motion Horsleeches may be instead thereof applied to the same parts A Vesicatory to the great Toe or Ring-singer made of Crowfoot or Flammula deriveth the Venom and the more if it be kept open with a Thred and Beet or Colewort leaf or anoynted with Butter A quick Pidgeon cut in two and bound to the soles of the feet or a Tench or a bruised Radish or Nettles with the roots or Ground-Ivy bruised doth the same Some commend a live Pigeon opened and laid hot to the Head In the yeer 1584. in plague-time I observed that a Cock pluckt at the Rump and his feet bound close together and his mouth stopt with the hand of a man was applied to the Heart with admirable success Evacuation made by sweat or insensible transpiration draws the venom from the Heart or outwardly to the superficies and is the chief way of Cure This Nature at first doth endeavor for the most part And the Physitian must help her motion or provoke her to it This is done somtimes by things given inward somtimes by Fumes or Frictions by sweating medicines and by Blysters and by things that experience teacheth us do resist poyson These are called expelling medicines and are of divers forms These must be used at the first and if possible before the Venom strike the Heart and beat it down which it doth suddenly if not resisted and expelled with the spirits and heat outwardly the sooner the better for it is the Key of the work and if it be not done in twenty four hours in which time the Plague somtimes killeth what is done after wil signifie nothing and except Nature of her self do it we shal labour in vain after this opportunity is neglected Neither ought bleeding or purging though required hinder this although some perswade to sweat after bleeding and if the Physitian come after it may be done but not so wel and repeated the next day and all the time of the Disease if strength hold and Nature offer to discharge that way The Patient must not be forced much to sweat except Nature tend that way for the Venom of the Plague may be carried away by insensible transpiration without sweating They are in divers forms but the moist is best as a Decoction or Water or Infusion or Potion or you may give an Electuary A simple Decoction or a common Decoction used in the smal pox to drive them out as is there mentioned may be given here For Children Take Pease and Barley each a pugil Figs ten Dates five Tormentil and Dittany roots each a dram boyl them add a little Wine give it Or a Decoction of Tormentil Dittany Angelica Burdock Butter-bur or Celondine roots Or of Sorrel Plantane Tansie Vervain Scordium Rue in Water and Vinegar or Wine and distilled Water Or Garlick boyled in Honey'd water to two ounces which wil cause sweat and Urin. Also this Decoction of Lignum vitae Take Guajacum two ounces Sarsaparilla an ounce Juniper and Bay-berries roots of Angelica and Elicampane each two drams with a little Cinnamon Juyces are not given alone but mixed with other things yet Rondoletius saith that three ounces of the juyce of Marygolds is excellent The best distilled Waters are that of Orange flowers and of juyce or flowers of Limons Also Angelica water with Aqua vitae produceth sweat violently to my knowledge or water of Citron leaves and Aqua vitae and to chew them is a good Antidote And 1534. I never used other when I visited my Patients of the plague Also Distilled water of Oak leaves wild Vetches Sorrel Burnet Tormentil Dragons Also Celondine boyled in Wine and Vinegar Or this Take Burdock roots a pound of the inward bark of an Ash two handful distil them give three ounces Also Water of green Nuts Or this Take Sorrel Scabious Vervain Rue not ful ripe each a handful Nightshade and Housleek each half a handful cut them small distill them And if you add Vinegar before stilling it wil cause Vomit but Sweat howsoever Or Take Limons ten cut them add Borage and Sorrel each two or three handful white Wine three pints distil them give two ounces The first choise Water Take Angelica roots Master-wort Termentil Valerian and Dittany Devils bit Burnet and Snake weed roots each an ounce Vervaine and Scabious each a handful distil them in Aqua vitae or strong Wine give an ounce The second Take Rue Marigolds Sage Vervain Scabious each a handful Burdock and Devils bit roots each two ounces distill them in white Wine give an ounce The third Take Guaâ—acum half a pound roots of Angelica Master-wort Gentian of each an ounce Orris and Zedoary each half an ounce Carduus Rue Scordium each two handful Basil a handful Lemons sliced six distil them thrice give half an ounce The fourth which I have often used successfully Take roots of Valerian five leaved Grass white Dittany Smallage Burnet Dragons Tormentil each an ounce Gentian half an ounce Dane-wort Birth-wort Angelica roots of each two drams Galangal six drams Valerian Smallage and Celandine each a handful Rue half a handful Bay and juniper-berries each half an ounce wood Aloes two drams Cinnamon six drams cut and bruise them distill them in Aqua vitae Borage Bugloss Sorrel and Scabious water give two ounces The fifth Take Tormentil Burnet Dittany Swallow-wort five leaved Grass Burdock Butter-bur and Devils bit of all the roots each an ounce roots of Angelica Master-wort Elicampane Mockchervil Valerian each half an ounce roots of Gentian Birth-wort each three drams Zedoary Galangal Ginger each two drams roots of Dragons Cookowpints Garlick Onyons of each two drams Laurel bark a dram Scabious Vervain Marigold Celandine Willow herb Scordium Rue Tansey Sage Balm Plantane Pauls Bettony Carduus Wormwood each three drams flowers of Rosemary Bugloss Borage Water-lillies Violets each a dram Saffron half a dram Coriander Basil Citron and Angelica seeds each a dram Carduus and Sorrel seed each two drams Bay and Juniper-berries of each an ounce Nutmegs Cloves Mace each a dram Lemons sliced five Wall-nut kernels fifteen Bole prepared an ounce cut them smal and cover them with Wine add two ounces of rose-Rose-water and four ounces of Aqua vitae distil them or infuse them in spirit of Wine Camphite is good if it be added to all these waters dissolved first in Aqua
vitae And therefore we commend the golden spirit of Life with Camphire above mentioned for the Cure of the plague Treacle also and Mithridate and other Antidotes as the Electuary of the Egg may be added before you stil and then they are Treacle waters Thus Take the best Treacle five ounces Mirrh an ounce and an half Saffron half an ounce Aqua vitae ten ounces distil them give half an ounce with a drop of spirit of Vitriol The second Treacle water approved often Take white Onyons sliced six Garlick pickt three heads Rue Celandine Plantane each a handful Treacle a dram and an half Aquae vitae two ounces Vinegar an ounce Wine two ounces distill them give half an ounce The third made by me for the poor 1594. I used few others and it cured many Take roots of Tormentil Burdock Valerian Burnet Devils bit each four ounces roots of Master-wort Angelica Dittany Gentian Dragons all dry each an ounce Onyons and Nuts not ripe each six ounces Rue Sorrel Carduus each two handfuls Camphire a dram and an half dissolved in an ounce of Aqua vitae Mithridate an ounce and an half with white Wine and two ounces of Rose Vinegar draw a Water give two ounces with syrup of Vinegar or Lemons if you please The fourth Take Angelica roots two ounces Zedoary half an ounce roots of Black-hellebor two drams Devils bit Tormentil Dittany Carline Gentian each an ounce Treacle four ounces Green Nuts twenty water of Pauls Bettony three paints Vinegar a pint and an half distil them give two ounces and an half Infusions may be used instead of waters and they are stronger you may make them of the things mentioned Or thus Take Camphire half an ounce white Ginger an ounce Cloves an ounce and an half Sugar candy an ounce infuse them in Aqua vitae give two drams Another Take Mithridate or Treacle two ounces or an ounce of each Aqua vitae ten ounces syrup of Limons or Citrons five ounces infuse them a moneth or in Balneo give an ounce The third Take spirit of Wine four times distilled a pint and an half Sack two ounces syrup of Lemons or Citrons two ounces Treacle or Mithridate ten ounces Angelica roots half an ounce Zedoary two drams Camphire a dram Saffion half a dram species Diamargariton frigid a dram and an half Cinnamon two drams Musk half a scruple infufe them give an ounce The fourth Take roots of Angelica Masterwort and Zedoary each two drams wild Angelica Burnet Valerian Swallow-wort Tormentil Personate Carline and Elicampane each three drams Juniper and Bay-berries each an ounce Angelica seeds a dram Cinnamon a dram and an half long Pepper half a scruple Saffron a scruple Mirrh half a dram make a Pouder add spirit of Wine syrup of Lemons Citrons or Sorrel two ounces set it in the Sun or in Balneo give an ounce with Treacle Mithridate or Mathiolus Antidote a dram if the Patient be young and hot give less and dissolve it with Marigold water Other Pouders above mentioned may be so used Syrups also of the Decoctions or Juyces mentioned Or thus Take roots of Angelica Tormentil Dittany Burnet Cross wort each an ounce roots of Master-wort and Zedoary each half an ounce Carduus Vervaine Rue Celandine Marigold Sage all dry each three drams Juniper-berries two ounces Bay-berries an ounce and an half boyl them in Winc and with Sugar make a syrup give an ounce Extracts of Angelica Vervain Elicampane and Rob of Elder are commended Mathiolus gives a scruple of Oyl of Vitriol with proper waters Pouders are mixed in potions or Electuaries or made into Lozenges for Children These may be given to Women with Child Take Angelica roots half a dram Tormentil and Dittany roots each an ounce Treacle half a dram Diamargariton frigid half a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Sorrel water make Lozenges give two drams A pouder for weak persons Take Tormentil and Butter-bur roots each half a dram Diamargariton frigid a scruple give it with Sorrel water and syrup of Lemons A second Take Bole Armenick prepared two drams Hearts horn a scruple Pearl half a scruple juyce of Lemons two drams give it with Sorrel or Carduus water A third that is bitter Take roots of Tormentil Dittany Gentian leaves of Carduus each half a dram Bole and Coral prepared each a dram give it with Sorrel water A fourth Take white Amber and Coral each half a dram Pearl a scruple Elkes Hoofe Ivory each half a scruple make a Pouder give it in purslane or Scabious water or make Lozenges A fifth unpleasant Take Diamargariton frigid two scruples Harts horn a scruple Basil seed half a scruple Sorrel seed a scruple Citron seeds six grains Mirrh half a scruple with Vinegar make a Potion Pouders with Camphire are thought to cool As Take Troches of Camphire a dram syrup of Citrons an ounce with Scabious and Sorrel water make a Potion Another pouder which cures all Feavers and is good against the Plague made of hot things and Camphire Take Camphire a dram Ginger two drams Sugar candy three drams give a dram with Carduus Scabious or Marigold water This may be infused alone or with Treacle The Itallians commend Euphorbium and make this Pouder Take Euphorpium and Mastick each half a scruple Saffron five grains Sugar candy a dram make a pouder give it with Sorrel water and Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Or thus Take Euphorbium Maflick and Gum Elemni each half a scruple roots of Tormentil and Angelica of each half a dram Camphire half a scruple make a pouder give it with Sorrel water and Rose Vinegar half an ounce The Chymists commend their Salts and Crato also As Salt of Angelica Scabious Scordium Carduus Zedoary Ash Guajacum Wormwood ten or twelve grains with Conserve of Roses or Citrons or a dram of Salt of Polypody in Wine it doth wonders Also Salt made of Vine boughs a scruple given in Wine or proper water if you take three hours after a scruple or half a dram of Antidote-Colubrine or the like to provoke more sweat Crato saith Diasulphur right made is a strong expeller And the Chymists use Antimonium Diaphoreticum but not safely Hartman commends his Panacea or sulphure of Antimony fixed which he teacheth in his Chymical practise There are divers Electuaries made of the mentioned things and may be given to Cure as well as to prevent You may make them of the pouders with Honey or Syrup The mixture among the preservatives made of roots of wild Cowcumbers with Smallage and Housleek is commended by Honoratus and Crato for to Cure also Opiate Antidotes are good against all poysons and the plague Treacle and Mithridate are the old standers a dram at a time or with Philonium of Gesner The later are Diascordium Mathiolus Antidote and the Electuary made of an Egg or Diacroceum Or thus first Take Treacle or Mithridate or Electuary of the Egg or Mathiolus Antidote a dram and an half dissolve it with the
have begun at the first taking of the medicine and while it was in the stomach and not a go long time after when the Medicine was carried with the Excrements into the Colon and laboured to get out When the Midriff is afflicted which toucheth the stomach all over behind The cause of pressing-pain is in the midriff and groweth to it there are pains in the region of the Heart because the Midriff being molested with evil and many vapors as in the night-mare mother and the like it causeth besides short breathing a pain which girts the Body like a Girdle And if the stomach consent that condoleth As a difficulty of breathing comes from a Disturbance of the Stomach by the Midriff The Cure The Cure is according to the Causes thus First we must cure the Diseases of the Stomach from whence come divers sorts of Heart-ach hurt of Functions and Crudities The Diseases are these Inflammations of the Stomach or coldness or stretching or windiness or heaviness twiching or irritation or else the weakness and hot constitution thereof Or a Discase by consent from the Nerves and from the Colon and Midriff The Inflammation of the Stomach is seldom The cure of inflammation of the stomach and never but from a violent Cause and is more dangerous because it is in a sensible and noble part especially if it be great for then there is a great pain and also Convulsion And it is better cured by dissolving then by Suppuration for so it wil turn to an Ulcer which is a new Disease and as dangerous as the former hard to be cured and which will leave a Callus or Hardness in the Stomach If it be beginning your aim must be to hinder the increase and abate the Heat with respect to the Fever and asswage the pain and fainting fits which are usual and to dissolve the matter that is there and if that cannot be done to bring it to Suppuration and cure the Ulcer thus At the first let blood in the Arm for though the veins of the Stomach come from the branches of the Gate-vein yet drawing blood from the branches of the hollow Vein is good against the Feaver and for Revulsion Give also a cooling Clyster to revel and abate pain for that will reach to the Colon and communicate its force to the Stomach under which the Colon lyeth You must not give strong Purges for they going presently to the part affected will cause pain and increase the Distemper by their Heat but loosning temperate Purges in the progress of the Disease can do no hurt As Cassia which also asswageth pain and pulp of Prunes and Tamarinds and the like Medicines to alter the Distemper must be cold both actually and potentially and in the beginning while the Humor floweth must be a little astringent and afterwards moist mixed with things that abate pain Thus Those Sauces which are good in a hot constitution of the Stomach and cooling as we shall shew are good here Cabbage chiefly and Rapes and other Fruits boyled and kept in pickle are good against heat And cold Spring-water with Snow or Ice is good drink in the opinion of some but I think it not safe for a sudden Repercussion is dangerous It is better at first with a little Vinegar and more pleasant with Sugar boyled like a Julep Cold Milk is good and allayes pain Or an Emulsion of the cold Seeds to ease pain and heat with Poppey-seeds Dioscorides commends the Water of wild Vetches also Plantane and Rose-water and Vinegar and Sorrel-water And the Julep of Roses and Violets Or Take Rose-water three ounces Plantane-water two ounces juyce of Sorrel or Pomegranates an ounce and an half Sugar of Roses an ounce boyl and strain them give two ounces at a time Or the Decoction of Barley cold with Violets Or thus Take Barley a pugil Cowcumber-seed half an ounce Liquorish an ounce boyl and drink them cold This is cordial also Take Liquorish an ounce Citron-peels two drams cordial Flowers each a pugil Flowers of Water-lillies half a pugil Barley a pugil the four great cold Seeds two drams Purslane-seed and white Poppey-seed each a dram Citron-seeds half a dram boyl and sweeten them with Sugar or these Syrups In the beginning give Syrups with spring or distilled Waters those that cool and bind as that of dryed Roses Quinces green Grapes Ribes sour Pomegranates Bar-berries In the progress that cool and moisten as of Violets Purslane Water-lillies And if the Liver be also hot as it is commonly and for the Feaver give Syrup of Succory and Endive And against Fainting Syrup of Bugloss And to asswage pain Syrup of Poppies Or thus Take Syrup of Violets and Quinces Syrup of Ribes or Pomegranates or of Endive each half an ounce Syrup of Poppies three drams Also the candyed or preserved and conserved Fruits abovesaid and of Citrons Gourds or Lettice or Coleworts This is cooling and cordial Take conserve of Roses an ounce conserve of Violets Citrons and juyce of Ribes each half an ounce species Diamargariton frigid and Diarhodon and red Coral each a scruple with sugar of Roses make a mixture To resolve the residue of the Inflammation or the Imposthume of the Stomach use these at the end First give Chamomil and Endive water then six ounces of Chamomil water alone often Or Take Chamomil and Endive water each an ounce and an half Sack an ounce spirit of Wine a dram with a drop or two of spirit of Vitriol Or this Julep Take syrup of Endive and Wormwood each an ounce Mint and Elicampane water each an ounce and an half with Triasantalon half a dram give it now and then Turpentine washed with Wormwood water given twice or thrice dissolves or ripens the Imposthumes of the Stomach Apply outwardly coolers and anodynes with strengtheners As this Oyntment Take Oyl of Roses an ounce and an half Oyl of Violets Rose Vinegar and juyce of Hawkeweed each an ounce boyl them till the juyces are consumed add red Sanders a dram red Roses half a dram Spike a scruple Camphire half a scruple with white Wax make an Oyntment This Cataplasm is good for the beginning of the disease Take Violet-leaves and Snakeweed and Vine-leaves each a handful Roses Violets and Comfrey-flowers each a pugil stamp them add Barley-meal or Bran. In great pain Take Chamomil and Melilot-flowers Roses and Violets each a handful Wormwood half a handful boyl them in Milk add Barley-meal six ounces Coriander-seeds and Sanders each two drams Oyl of Chamomil and Dill each an ounce make a Cataplasm Or this Fomentation against Inflammation Take Rose and Plantane-water each three ounces Wormwood-water two ounces Rose-vinegar an ounce red Sanders two drams Or this Epithem against an Erysipelas of the Stomach Take Rose Sorrel Nightshade and Succory-water each two ounces Wormwood-water and white Wine each half an ounce Rose-vinegar two drams Diarrhodon a dram Coral and Ivory each half a dram apply it to the Stomach Use these to
cold Distemper or against its Refrigeration or for the preparation of Humors altering or expelling of Wind And as the Stomach is moister or looser they must astringe more or less and if the pain be great abate it This is done divers wayes Among Drinks sweet Wine and old as Muscadel Sack Malmsey either at meat or otherwise when it is cold if it be drunk warm Also they are good when they are spiced Or made of Herbs by infusing or a little boyling as that of Wormwood is most usual but unpleasant to some It must be made of such quantity as may give it bitterness and good scent it is good in all Diseases of the Stomach from Repletion And Mints and Marjoram make it pleasanter Or thus make it Take Roots of Masterwort Galangal Zedoary each three drams dryed Citron-peels and Wormwood each half an ounce Mints Marjoram Coriander-seed each two drams Cloves Nutmeg each a dram and half Mastick two drams Wine four pints steep them if there must be greater Cleansing as in a foul stomach and Obstructions add tops of Centaury a dram and half If they hate bitter things leave out the Wormwood and the Centaury For a windy stomach give Fennel or Anise-seed Wine and the like Or this Take the barke of Fennel-roots and Roots of Calamus each half an ounce Mints Marjoram Spondilium each a handful Fennel Caraway and Seseli-seed each two drams Juniper and Bay-berries each an ounce infuse them in Wine add a dram of Cummin-seed if the scent be not disliked if they love bitter ad Wormwood Dioscorides teacheth that Melilot boyled or infused in Wine is good against pains of the stomach Also Wine is made of Infusion of Spices for the stomach which may be sweetned and strained To make Hippocras sweetned Take Cinnamon an ounce Sugar a pound wine four or five or more or less pints as you will have it more or less sweet add Pepper Ginger and Cardamoms each half a dram The Wine of Mountpelior called Pimentum is thus sweetned Take Cinnamon six drams or more Ginger five drams Pepper two drams Cardamoms the great Cloves Nutmegs each a dram Honey five pints Wine ten pints steep and strain them A Claret artificial for the stomach Take Cinnamon an ounce and half Ginger half an ounce both Cardamoms round and long Pepper each a dram Nutmegs Mace Galangal Cloves each a dram and half Spike Schaenanth each half a dram Honey or Sugar or both a pound and half Wine five quarts A spoonful or two of the Infusion of Spirit of Wine is good As Take Cinnamon an ounce spirit of Wine a pint Sugar four ounces set it in the Sun and add rose-Rose-water Or thus Take Cinnamon an ounce Pepper Ginger Cloves each three drams infuse them in a pint of spirit of Wine add a spoonful or two of this to Wine and Sugar and it will be excellent against the Wind of the Stomach Another against Pains of the Stomach Take Nutmegs two drams of Wine two ounces with Honey of Roses sweeten it If it must be presently used boyl it a little give two or three spoonfuls some boyl this till the spirit of Wine is gone and make a Mixture Or infuse Wormwood in Aqua vitae and mix some drops with Wine Or other Stomach-herbs Dioscorides teacheth that the Broath of an old Cock expels Wind. Or make Broath with Pepper Ginger Cloves Nutmeg Mace or the like with a little Saffron Some boyle the stones of Bay-berries in Broath to make it pleasant and strong to expel Wind. Or Herbs as Marjoram and other Pot-herbs as Mints Hysop Savory-Broath with Wormwood is commended if it be not distastful If the scent may be endured it is also excellent to boyl Chamomil and Melilot-flowers in Chicken-broath In a weak and windy Stomach Take Caraway-seed a dram whole Pepper ten grains boyl them in Broath with a scruple of Mastick The only Decoction of Mastick strengthens the stomach Syrups to prepare afore Purging when we will cut Take syrup of Mints Hysop or Stoechas each an ounce Honey of Rosemary-flowers half an ounce with Mints and sweet water make a Julep When we will cleanse also Take syrup of Wormwood and Bettony each an ounce Honey of Roses and syrup of Vinegar each half an ounce with Wormwood-water When we desire most to strengthen Take syrup of Citron-peels or of Nutmegs or of Myrobalans an ounce syrup of Mints or Chamomil half an ounce Give it alone or with Wine or Wormwood or Marjoram-water A Compound Syrup Take Fennel-roots half an ounce Roots of Masterwort Calamus Zedoary Citron-peels each two drams Mints Savory Hysop Marjoram Bettony Spondylium Sage Rosemary and Stoechas-flowers each a dram Fennel and Anise-seed each three drams Caraway-seed a dram Schaenanth half a dram boyl them in wine and water add Nutmeg half a dram and to the straining of Sugar six ounces boyl it to a syrup give an ounce and half alone or in wine Or Take syrup of Mints an ounce syrup of Wormwood half an ounce drink it with Wine Or this to strengthen Take juyce of Mints half an ounce juyce of Wormwood two drams give it with wine Juyce of Chamomil and Melilot each half an ounce given with wine takes away pain presently Stilled Waters to strengthen and heat the Stomach are of Wormwood Mints Calamints Marjoram alone or with Wine or with other Drinks or after Electuaries Cinnamon-water is refreshing and healing if it be made of Wine with Sugar Or some drops of spirits of Wine or Aqua vitae presently do help a cold flegmatick and foul stomach therfore it is so common and if it be compounded with spices t is the better Or with hot Plants and then distilled Some Natural Baths drunk to help the old Weakness of the stomach when it comes from too great moisture or foulness especially those of Niter Italians commend the Porrectan-Spaws and Germans have many as good Chymical Oyls also of Plants and Spices are excellent but not given alone but with distilled Waters or Wine a drop or two As Oyl of Cinnamon or Cloves the rest are not so pleasant and burn too much Or the Oyl of Marjoram or Mints or of Anise-seed and Fennel-seed proper against Wind. Also Oyls by expression are good as of Mace and Nutmegs and inflame less if taken with Broath Or Oyl of Palma Christi and bastard Saffron expels Wind. These are given in substance Mints Calamints Greek Mints Sage wild Mints Spikenard Lavender Tansey Goats-organ Penny-royal-seed and Root of Lovage Also Roots of wild Parsley and sweet Cane to expel wind according to Dioscorides Also Roots of Masterwort Zedoary Galangal Calamus Ginger are drunk in pains of the stomach and Rhapontick by Dioscorides Or Bithwort against the pains of stomach and guts Onyons eaten take away the pain and Pistacha's and Rocker help Concoction Also Pears and Quinces Or Mints fryed with Eggs. And Wormwood so fryed is used at great mens tables where I have been they seem not so bitter to
Plaster Take roots of Elicampane Costus Orris each half an ounce Sowbread and Cookowpints of each two drams Hermodacts Piony and Misletoe of the Oak each a dram Mustard Rocket and Rue seed each a dram and an half Cummin seed and Bay-berries each a dram Pepper Mace and Cloves of each half a dram Saffron a scruple Myrrh Frankincense Storax each a dram Niter and Vitriol each a dram and an half Euphorbium Castor each half a dram make a pouder add Ammoniacum an ounce Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax Sagaponum each an ounce dissolved in Vinegar and Aqua vitae add Storax liquid a dram Labdanum Laserpitium each a dram and an half with Oyl of Lillies and of Rue Turpentine pitch Rosin and wax make a plaster and wrap it in a sheeps Skin Another Take black pure and shining pitch Rosin each half a pound Sheeps sewet Goose grease each four ounces Olibanum half a pound add to it cold Cummin seed two ounces Pepper half an ounce Oyl of Spike half a dram make a plaster Or Take the Marrow of Veal Oyl of Roses of each two ounces burnt Salt a dram and an half anoynt the feet add dryed Ox lungs two drams and it will be better Or thus Take Oyl of Nuts Goose and Fox grease and Calves marrow of each two ounces Frogs ten Earthworms washed in wine two ounces Hog lice thirty Salt half an ounce Sack three ounces juyce of Danewort Elder Ivy or Ground-pine two ounces boyl them and add Turpentine and Wax for an Oyntment Or use Diachylon to a pound add Sulphure an ounce Chalcitis half an ounce Or this Take old Oyl a pint Litharge three ounces Brimstone a dram Chalcitis half an ounce boyl them and add Mucilage of Linseed and Hogs grease each two ounces make plaister or Oyntments Or use Apostolor Or Take Oyl of Bayes two ounces of Worms and Bricks each an ounce Soape an ounce and an half Calves marrow an ounce Turpentine half an ounce Ammoniacum Opopanax Galbanum all dissolved in Vinegar each a dram and an half Myrrh Frankincense Mastick of each a dram Birthwort roots half a dram Litharge Sulphure each a dram Verdigreese and burnt Salt of each half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Or thus Take Oyl of privet Elder or Dane wort two ounces Oyl of Turpentine and Ox grease each an ounce Glew dissolved in Wine an ounce Frankincense a dram Niter and Lime each half a dram some add the stone Asius Or use plaster of Frogs by Vigo in strong Defluxions and Sciatica pains with more Quick-silver and Euphorbium of which we shal speak in the French pox For the Sciatita wash with Sage Lavender Balm water and the like with as much Aqua vitae Or dissolve black Sope in Aqua vitae and anoynt it is a good remedy in all cold Defluxions Or boyl urin of a boy till it be as thick as Honey Or anoynt with Womens terms as Dioscorides prescribes Or with Ashes of a Weezle Beans Cole-worts with Vinegar or Grease Or with juyce of Nettles Rue Sage and Coloquintida or Indian Nuts Or use pouders of Snayles shels burnt or of rust of Iron Jet with juyces prescribed Or make remedies of other plants as of Moulin Nettles Rue Mugwort Smallage Sun-flower Scordium Wall-flowers Mouse-ear Comfrey Moss Sesami seeds and roots Hemp Birthwort Dittany wild Cowcumber Daffodil with Honey and Vinegar or boyled in water and wine or their juyces with meal In the Sciatica bruised Iberis and warmed is good or Cardamine Water-cresses Or Elicampane bruised or boyled in wine Or wild masterwort like Danewort which is called Goutwort for its vertue Dioscorides applies Balm and salt Or to the Sciatica Sage Rue Juniper berries with wine and Boys urin Or Linseed and Chamomil flowers boyl'd in a bagg in wine Or hot bread made of Secaly and Carway seeds Or Bran boyled with Sapa and Salt in the Knee Gout Or use Bean Barley and Lentil meal boyled with Oxymel Or Bran flower boyled in wine adding Aqua vitae and Butter Or Raysons stoned with Opopanax Or Sea moss or Pulmo or Fucus marinus green or Androsace Or Agarick beaten with Goats Milk and Barley meal Or Dwarf-Elder or Elder bruised or fried in Butter or Hogs grease with Plantane roots Or Rue and Bettony with Hogs grease and Salt Or Motherwort with grease and Vingar against a Defluxion Or Briony roots beaten with Aqua vitae and Hogs grease or Briony and Cookowpints or Dragons or Fig leaves with Cowdung and Honey Or Take Nettles bruised a pound Oyl of Bayes two ounces Petroleum half an ounce Or Coleworts bruised with Marjoram and Bdellium dissolved in Aqua vitae or Vinegar and Coloquintida Or Take Turneps roasted a little and then boyled a pound Fenugreek meal two ounces juyce of Dane-wort two ounces with Honey Or Pouder of hermodacts Barley and two yolks of Egs and Honey Or Take Fenugreek and Lupine meal a pound Pouder of Darnel Althaea roots Chamomil and Melilot flowers three ounces Cummin seed an ounce boyl them in Honey and Wine make a pultis Or Take roots of Althaea Lillies Briony Dwarf-Elder each two ounces Sage Ground-pine Wormwood Marjoram each a handful Chamomiâ— Melilot flowers and bran each a pugil boyl them in Ale bruise and add Barley Lime and Fenugreek meal two ounces Mastick an ounce Oyl of Bricks three ounces Saffron a scruple Or thus Take dryed Penny-royal Sage Savin Bay-berries Hermodacts of each a dram Mastick half an ounce Storax two drams Turpentine three drams with Honey make a plaster Or Take pouder of young Nettles a pound of Sage half a pound bay Salt a pound pickled Hering-Rows half a pound spirit of wine a pint with Benjamin three or four ounces dissolved therein make a pultis and repeat it if it ease pain if not take four ounces of Rose water instead of spirit of wine with an ounce of Fleabane seeds and with Acacia and Oyntment of Litharge make a Cataplasine Against the Sciatica Take leaves of Iberis Water-cresses or Elicampane each two handfuls Calamints a handful bruise them or boyl them in wine add Lupine meal three ounces Honey two ounces or Grease and Oyls or Vingar or Aqua vitae to make it peirce Or Take roots of wild Cowcumbers and Bryony Orris and Elicampane a pound boyl them in wine and Honey bruise and add Lupine meal two ouncer Cummin-seed an ounce Goats dung three ounees make a pultis Another Take roots of Althaea Briony wild Cowcumber each two ounces of Orris and Elicampane each an ounce and an half Pellitory Hermodacts each an ounce Ibery Lepidium or Flammula Calamints Rue Penny-royal Time Balm each a handful Sage Rosemary Staechas Lavander Chamomil flowers of each a pugil boyl them in wine add Honey Faenugreek Lupine four ounces Bay-berries two ounces Rue seeds an ounce Goose grease two ounces Oyl of worms three ounces Sulphure an ounce make a Cataplasme Or thus Take Orris Pellitory roots of each two drams Dwarf-Elder and Dragons each an ounce
Quick-silver an ounce Turpentine an ounce and half Hogs Grease three ounces stirr them well then add Cadmia burnt Brass each two drams Sulphur vive three drams rust of Iron half an ounce Another excellent Plaster with which I have often cured perverse Ulcers in the Legs Take Litharge Cadmia Ceruss each two drams Frankincense Mastch each a dram and an half Birthwort roots a dram rust of Brass Sublimate each half a dram Quick-silver three drams with Turpentine an ounce and an half Honey half an ounce Oyl of Roses and juyce of Plantane each two ounces make a Plaster When an Ulcer is clensed heal it with Quick-silver Turpentine Sarcocol and Honey Apostolorum of Avicen is the ordinary Clenser and Dryer and it is better mixed with Aegyptiacum or with a little Allum or Vitriol when the Ulcer is very soul it is made of Verdigrece Litharge Birthwort Gum Ammoniack Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax Myrrh Frankincense Rosin Oyl and Wax Apostolicon Mesue is the same with Aloes and Sarcocol added Apostolicon Nicolai is of the same Ingredients with burnt Brass and Scales Lapis Calaminaris Dittany Sarcocol Mastich Mummy Colophony Propolis Birdlime this wil draw any thing forth of an Ulcer The Emplastrum called Gratia Dei or Divine made by Nicolas is like these to draw out things fastned it is made of Litharge Verdigreece Birthwort Blood-stone Olibanum Myrrh Bdellium Mastich Oyl Some add Galbanum Ammoniacum Opopanax and Load-stone Diapalma also clenseth it is made of Chalcitis Litharge Oyl and Grease There are more Clensers and Driers made of Scales of Brass Ashes Verdigreece Allum Vitriol by Galen as the red Greek Plaster or the black Aegyptian Isis or Plaster of Asclaupius Melium of Serapio Diabotonon of Critonis the Plaster of Terentinus the Green Plaster of Andromachus or Panacea Hiroe and other Arabian Plasters and the Oyntment of Guido against corroding Ulcers They must be looked for in Dispensatories There are also strong drying and clensing Oyls as that of the wild Olive of Wheat Acorus Spurge seeds Radishes by Dioscorides and others for wounds which wil cure cleansed Ulcers they are called Balsamelaea that of Mant dung is commended by some and that which comes from a Linnen Rag dipt in Oyl and burnt The stronger are Oyl of Myrrh and Sulphur or a Plaster of Myrrh Colophony and Wax mixed with them Or Oyl of Tartar by deliquium or melting is a great Clenser and against eating Ulcers Oyl of Vitriol Antimony and Talcum Or this Take crude Antimony two ounces unslaked Lime a pugil Tartar an ounce boyl them in Lye then add Vinegar and the Oyl will swim this is good in foul Ulcers Balsom of Sulphur is a mighty Drier and Clenser thus made Take Brimstone a pound and an half boyl it in spirit of Wine digest it some daies in a Limbeck take it from the Fire and put it in a strong vessel add Vitriol in pouder an ounce and an half Tartar an ounce it makes a red Balsom Ruland makes Balsom of Sulphur thus Take Oyl omphacine a pint spirit of Turpentine two ounces Sulphur six drams digest it in hot Embers til it be Red strain and keep it There are also Washes Injections Fomentations and Bathes to clense and dry Ulcers Old Wine is a good Clenser Or Vinegar and Water and Wine is a gentle Clenser So is Whey wherein Barley is boyled with Honey or Sugar Posset Curd applied warm is good against the weeping Ulcer called in Dutch Slidwasser Water of distilled Honey or Turpentine clenseth and more if they be stilled together with Vitriol Or a Lye of many Ashes as of Vine stalks or Fig-tree or Savin adding Lime before you strain or boyl the Lye with Wine and Honey The Lye of Soap clenseth more called Soap-water thus made of Vine Ashes three parts unslaked Lime one part boyl them to a consistence for an Oyntment use a little and let it lie til the Ulcer be clean and then heal it with other things This Soap-Lye is made stronger with Sal Armoniack Water wherein Quick-silver hath been often quenched taken clean from the Lime wonderfully clenseth filthy Ulcers especially that which is made of burnt Flints of which we spake in Burnings A pound of Vitriol and a good quantity of Water is a good Fomentation in the weeping Ulcer called in Dutch Slidwasser Or Urin especially if old and stinking Or distilled water of Urin with Allum and Tartar dissolved therein Also all salt Waters with salt Armoniack especially also Brine or Pickle Or Allum water and Camphire which is good against Ulcers in the Privities The Water found in the cavities of old Oaks is thought to cure Ulcers There are divers Decoctions of Plants for Fomentations or Baths to clense and dry Ulcers such as are mentioned for wounds some are applied green and bruised or boyled The chief Decoctions is of Agrimony Yarrow Ivy Avens Ladies-mantle Hors-tail Strawberry leaves Burnet Bears-ears Pyrola Pauls Bettony Sun-flower wild Tansie Vervain Carduus Spondylium Solomons seal Woad Personatum Anagallis Butterbur Housleek Carrots Colymbades Hemlock Plantane Shepheards-purse Scabious Gallitricum Dogs tongue Celandine Wormwood Centaury Horehound Smallage Polymountain Mugwort Nettles Cypress Savin Oak leaves wild Olive Mastich tree Rhamnus Barberries Sumach Ceterach Coriander Roses Maudlin Costus Aesculapius his Allheal Pomegranate flowers Comfrey roots Birthwort Orris black Chamaelion roots Allheal Sulphur-wort wild Parsneps Astragalus Fern Anemone Thalictrum Alkanet Daffodil Pomegranate peels Ash leaves and Beets Also Guajacum which is proper in pocky Ulcers also bark of the Palm tree also Galls Acron cups Cypress Nuts Myrobalans Lentils Barley Myrtles Roses Barberries Plantane Coleworts boyled in Wine and Water and water with Vinegar in soul Ulcers to Dry and clense with Acacia and Hypocystis to dry more To these Decoctions when you wil clense more Take Smallage Plantane Agrimony each a handful Wormwood Centaury each half a handful boyl and dissolve in a pint thereof Honey of Roses four ounces or in hollow foul Fistulaes and Ulcers add Orris Hellebore or Cuckowpint roots boyled in Lye or Vrin for to inject or wash Or this Injection Take Gentian roots an ounce Hermodacts six drams Hellebore three drams Wormwood and Centaury each a handful boyl them in two pints strained dissolve Honey of Roses three ounces Aegyptiacum an ounce add pouder of Orris and Birthwort each half an ounce Agarick Myrrh each two drams Or Take Smallage Sage which allaies Itching in Ulcers Bettony Horehound each a handful Radishes an ounce and an half Onyons an ounce boyl them and to two pints add Allum half an ounce or Salt of Tartar two drams Honey of Roses three ounces To dry and heal Take Comfrey Plantane Shepheards-purse Horstail Ceterach Jews herb each a handful Agrimody and five-leav'd Grass each half a handful Galls Cypress Nuts Pomegranate flowers each an ounce red Roses Barley each a pugil boyl them and to two pints of the straining add Frankincense Mastich Sarcocol each two drams Honey of Roses three ounces Or Take
Clyster You may leave out the Purgers in the Decoction and dissolve Hiera or benedicta Laxativa half an ounce Juyce of Mercury and Flower-de-luce one ounce and an half Here also you may use altering Medicines which we said were good in Dropsies in divers forms choosing those that expell wind most or adding them You may make this Pouder Take of Valerian roots one dram Orrice roots Germander Mints each half a dram Cummin seed prepared in Vinegar Fennel and Caraway each one dram the ashes of the Guts of Hens or Wolves or of Earth-worms half a dram make a pouder Or this Electuary Take of the Conserve of the roots of Succory and Valerian each one ounce Conserve of Marjoram and candid Ginger each half an ounce Pouder of Diacyminum and Diacurcuma each one dram of the ashes of Hens or Wolves gutts half a dram with the syrup of the opening roots make an Electuary You may apply outwardly things mentioned in Ascites to the Belly because they discuss Wind as wel as Water choosing those that are most proper against Wind or mixing such things Emplasters of Dungs mentioned are the best if they have many things in them that expel wind The Emplaster of Bay-berries is excellent alone or with others against the Ascites and expels wind made as I shewed in the weakness of the Stomach The Diet must be the same with that of Ascites and they must avoid all things that breed wind In the third kind of Tympany which comes from wind that gets out of the Stomach and Guts into the Cavity of the Belly and swels it The Cure of a simple Tympany which is seldom there is more danger than in the rest and is thought the worst kind of Dropsie because it comes from the same cause which the first kind of Tympany a total obstruction and convolution of the Guts and a thinness of the same extenuation and stretching and also because wind can hardly be discussed out of the Belly And the Disease wil be greater and incurable if the Stomach be very weak and cause these winds because new wil breed from thence continually as also if there be a solution in the Guts which makes way for wind into the Belly and cannot be cured If this come from Costiveness of the Belly it must be cured as is mentioned in the first kind of Tympany if it come from great weakness of the stomach you must chiefly regard that and the expelling of wind for which we have writ medicines at large in the weakness of the Stomach And give Purges of crude humors which are gathered by reason of the weakness of the Stomach and are the cause of Wind and expellers of Wind such were prescribed in the cure of a weak Stomach We may use this following Decoction Take of Fennel and Parsley roots each one ounce of Orrice and Elecampane roots each half an ounce Wormwood two drams Mints Marporam each one dram Rosemary Lavender flowers each one pugil Aunise and Fennel seeds each three drams Caraway seed two drams Carthamus seed bruised and Senna of each six drams boyl them in Water and Wine adding in the end Rhubarb and Agarick each three drams Cinnamon one dram Spike one scruple dissolve Sugar when it is strained and let it be for divers doses or let all these be infused in Wine and let it be somtimes taken Another Potion Take Rhubarb four scruples Spiknard one scruple Agarick two scruples Ginger one scruple steep them in white Wine end Fennel water strain it and add Diacarthamum and Diaphaenicon one dram The Clysters mentioned in weakness of the Stomach and in the Collick to expell wind are good here also Or this made for the purpose Take of Rue two handfuls Chamomel flowers two pugils Juniper or Bay berries one pugil Cummin or Caraway seed six drams Fennel seed half an ounce boyl them in water and wine dissolve Honey Oyl of Nuts each two ounces Oyl of Spike six drops Or Take six ounces of Spanish wine water of Chamomel flowers four ounces Or Take Rue water distilled as much as is fit with half an â—â—ee of the spirit of wine make an Injection Or Take Juniper berry water or of Caraway seeds Cummin Fennel or Anise seeds it is very excellent to expell wind To these Wines and Waters for Glysters you may add Juyce of Rue Oyl of Rue chamomil Dillor Lillies two or three ounces with Honey Or make this of Oyl only Take Oyl of Rue four ounces Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies each two ounces Oyl of Spike Caraway or Cummin distilled six or seven drops Altering Medicines to help the first concoction and to hinder breeding of wind and if bred to discuss it such as were mentioned in the weakness of the Stomach are here also good of which the chief is Fennel or Anise seed wine or of the barks of Fennel roots broath made with Bay-berries or with caraway seeds castor drunk with wine among the compound Pouders the fifth and the tenth and that for after Meat made of Seeds Lozenges made with Oyl of Anise seeds and Fennel seeds That Electuary which is chiefly for wind and the like there set down A Pouder for the same Cummin seed infused in wine and dried again two drams Fennel seed one dram Mints and dryed Marjoram each half a dram Ginger one scruple give one dram for a dose and if one scruple of Castor be added it will be excellent Or this Electuary Take Conserve of Mints and Marjoram each one ounce Conserve of Rosemary Lavender and candied Ginger each half an ounce of Anise and Fennel seeds each one dram Caraway and Cummin seeds each half a dram or instead of the seeds the species Dianisi or Diacumini three daams Cinnamon one dram with syrup of Wormwood make an Electuary You must apply things to strengthen the Stomach and especially to the Belly to expel wind such as are mentioned in the weakness of the Stomach as the simple and compound Oyls and the Oyntment prescribed against the Swelling of the Belly cataplasmes of Bread and Seeds Fomentations of Penny-royal and Organ c. baggs to expel wind of Galangal and Mints of Bran and Milium To these may be added this Oyntment Take Oyl of Rue two ounces Oyl of Lillies Mints or Marjoram each one ounce Juyce of Rue Fennel and Aqua vitae each one ounce and an half boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces and add the Pouder of Cummin and Bay-berries each two drams Wax as much as will make an Oyntment It wil be excellent if you leave out the Pouders and put in one scruple of the Oyl of Cummin Caraway or Spike and better with half a dram of Castor dissolved in Aqua vitae Make a Cataplasme of cow or Goats dung boiled in strong Wine Urin and Lye with Pouder of Cummin caraway Smallage seed Bay-berries Bean flowers and Rue and Salt and the like Or Take Rue Hysop Wormwood and Figgs boyl them in Wine or Vrin and Vinegar beat
them adding Bean flowers and Bay-berries one pugil and with a little Niter make a cataplasm It is good to foment the belly with these things following boyled in wine as Orris roots Elicampane Rue Mints Marjoram Rosemary chamomil flowers Dill Bay-berries and Juniper berries the hot Seeds and the like Or let the Fume of these be sent to the belly under the cloaths in the Bed Make a bag for to lay upon the belly of these Take of Millium seeds two pugils Cummin seeds and Caraway each half a pugil Bay-berries and Bran each one pugil Melilot Chamomil Dill Centaury and Rosemary flowers each one pugil of burnt Salt half a pugil fry them in a Pan sprinkling wine and Vinegar and make a bag you may add Rue seeds Nigella Sesili and Spices with Brimstone Great Cupping-glasses that draw forth wind and are thence called Ventoses applied to the Navel do powerfully draw wind forth or apply many about the belly There must be a good Diet to prevent crudities and wind for quantity and quality and the motions of the Body and Mind must be ordered as we shewed in the weakness of the Stomach When the whol Body is swelled with wind which is seldom The Cure of the general Swelling of the whol Body as that called Anasarca which comes of crude Juyce in regard it comes of a violent cause or great Disease it must be regarded and if the cause be taken away as when it is from poyson by Antidotes the Swelling will cease Or if it be a deadly Disease which appears by the Tumor it ends in Death with the Disease But to remove it if it continue the cause must be taken away by Evacuations made by sweat and insensible Transpiration and the wind expelled with Treacle and other Opiates if it come from poyson which resist it and provoke sweat also you may discuss wind and take away Swelling with Stoves and hot Fumes such as were mentioned in the Tympany If Pneumatocele come from wind and water in the Codds The Cure of Pneumatocele or windy Rupture first there must be a general way to hinder the comming of wind and water and then outward Medicines must be applied such as were mentioned in the Tympany joyned with Ascites and those mentioned in the Water-rupture called Hydrocele for that which consumes water doth also discuss wind or if need be you may open the part with a Lancet and let out both wind and water But in a simple windy Rupture the general Medicines to prevent wind and discuss and particulars applied to the Codds mentioned in the Tympany may be good and the Emplaster of Dungs is most excellent with half an ounce of Brimstone Or this Take Bean flower half a pound Bay-berry flower three ounces Cummin seeds one ounce pouder of Rue two drams Niter one dram Brimstone three drams boyl them in strong Wine with Aqua vitae one ounce make a Cataplasm Fomentations Bags Fumes and Oyntments prescribed in the Tympany are good here to the Codds Or this Oyntment Take Oyl of Rue three ounces Oyl of Castor and Pepper each one ounce Oyl of Spike one scruple Soap six drams Aqua vitae one ounce and an half Gentian Hermodactyls of each one dram and an half Pellitory and Sowbread roots each one dram Seeds of Cummin and Staphsagre each half a dram pouder of Earth-worms one scruple Turpentine as much as will make an Unguent Or make a Plaister thereof with Mastick and Frankincense In all the kinds of Ruptures as in this if that Herb of Gesners called Numularia or Money-wort green or dried be steept in Spirit of Wine with a little Horse-tayl and clouts dipped therein and applied it is excellent Some commend highly Water Bettony or the Clowns Wound-wort beaten with Roots and boiled and applyed in this and in the beginning of other Ruptures and if used as the Former it will be of more force In other Swellings from the Colick or Straines The Cure of the Inflammation of the Codds when both Codds are distempered in regard they quickly go away there is no other care to be taken but to prevent them hereafter which is by taking away the cause least it being often repeated it brings a windy Rupture therefore at the first appearance apply external Medicines such as we have declared for the cure of a windy Rupture and hindering wind from comming into the Codds Bronchocele which is a Swelling of the Throat The Cure of Bronchocele or Throat rupture if not quickly taken in hand before it comes to the full growth can scarce be cured but continues all the life with hindrance and Deformity bringing hoarsness and shortness of wind very dangerous The cure although it for the most part consists in purging of crude Humors which are thought to be brought thither from the Head and taking them from the swollen part yet we because we say it comes from wind which is gotten in by the relaxing or tearing of a Membrane with the skin from the parts underneath suppose that the chief care is to be taken in expelling wind and what moisture is there gathered and to restore the relaxation and separation which is hard to be done as we shewed in other Ruptures besides astringent things which should do this being applied to the Throat and stopping the Passages especially if before there be difficulty of breathing will hinder breathing Therefore this is harder to be cured then other Ruptures in the Codds and Groins because also if we should cut which is the last refuge we cannot make so good a Ligature Nevertheless at the first before the Tumor is grown to the extremity and before there is shortness of breathing you may apply some astringents stronger or weaker with such things as consume wind and moisture Therefore we may use the Emplaster for Ruptures that is ordinary or that of our prescription with as much of the Emplaster of Bay-berries or other Seeds that discuss wind as cummin and the like Or cataplasmes prescribed in Hydrocele to astringe and discuss as that of Dung and Bole and the other of Bran and Galls for the same end and to unite the separation of the membranes if possible you may use some of those which were prescribed in Ruptures And it is found by Experience that the Pouder of burnt Allum often given hath done good by binding and drying it may be given alone with wine half a dram in weight at a time or with other discussing and drying Pouders Or thus Take of Orris roots and Galangal each one dram and an half of Penny-royal Savory Rupture-wort each half a dram of Fennel and Anise seeds each one dram of Parsley seed half a dram of long Pepper Spikenard Nutmeg and Cinnamon each two drams Myrrh half a dram burnt Allum half an ounce Sugar of Roses as much as all the rest give one dram and an half in Wine When this Tumor is confirmed we must only mind the expelling of wind and water and
the least sweat It happeneth in many imperfected Crises of sharp Diseases The want of sweat which in time of sickness is necessary and in some lingring diseases that no sweat can be procured by Art or Nature which should expel the cause thereof and this is a defect of Sweat requisite in the time of Sickness The Causes As is the Serum or watry humor so is the Sweat and Urin The cause of want of Sweat is when the moisture decaieth or is turn'd another way for it causeth both and when there is little Urin there is little Sweat And when the Serum is not carried to the habit of the body but otherwaies as by much Urin Seege or the like then there is a defect of Sweat Wherefore in Diseases when Nature endeavors evacuation by sweat it is hindered by other passages Moreover it may happen by obstructions that the passage of the Serum may be so hindered that there may be great difficulty in Sweating and Pissing wherefore men in Dropsies piss little and sweat with difficulty though it be necessary for them Also the thickness and sliminess of the serum may hinder both Pissing and Swearing as in phlegmatick persons and in sharp Diseases there is no sweat til the humor is concocted and made thin therefore attenuating medicines do provoke Sweat as we shewed in the defect of Pissing The usual cause of want of Sweating is the not drawing of the Serum to the habit of the body The cause of want of Sweat is because the serum goes not to the habit of the body which is done by external heat which being abrent Nature cannot sweat without great Violence especially if the pores are astringed or stopt by cold external for only closing of the pores cannot hinder sweat except there be external cold The Cure If any want serum or natural moisture it is in vain to provoke them to sweat The Cure of want of Sweat also when it is plentiful and turned another way except it be against natures intention for if nature incline to sweat we must not use other evacuations but hinder them Also in Obstructions and crudities if we intend to evacuate by sweat they must first be opened and the matter prepared But if there be abundance of excrementitious moisture in the Veins and habit of the body we must use this evacuation for the preventing and curing of Diseases and it must be attenuated and concocted from its thickness and crudity and first we must remove external causes which may hinder sweat and then give Sudorificks or medicines to cause sweat such as follow Among Sudorisicks Sudorificks or medicines to cause Sweat some are such as cause sweat by a great quantity of Liquor taken in when there is external heat to further it hence it is that when we drink fasting and warm in bed in any quantity sweat wil follow And this is caused by cold drink as well as by hot for the entrals being suddenly cooled the heat external sooner draws the serum to it And this is soonest done by things that are piercing and sharp and these are called Sudorificks Among which distilled waters by reason of their thinness are the best as for example of hot herbs Cherfoyl and Carduus of cold plants Fumitory and Lemmons Many Decoctions are made for this purpose as of Guajacum Sarsaparilla China and other Woods Roots and Herbs boyld in much water Or Horstail or the lesser Polygonum or the like boyled in Wine This following is commended Take Millium or Pannicum hulled one pugil boyl it in Water to four ounces of the Water strained add two ounces of white Wine for one Draught this is called St. Ambrose his Syrup Or this Take Hysop and Marjoram boyl them in Chicken Broath and ad thereto two drams of the Emulsion of Hemp-seed This is excellent Take Nep and Citron seed each one dram and an half Water of Carduus and Sorrel each one ounce and an half or two ounces make an Emulsion add Syrup of Carduus or of Sorrel six drams of Roses two drams let it be given at bed-time some give the root of Asarabacca two darms in pouder in three ounces of Carduus water which is a good Sudorifick Treacle and other sleeping medicines are given dissolved to provoke Sweat for in a deep sleep Sweat doth easily come forth Also the juyce of Elder or Danewort given with distilled waters or in a Decoction doth the same Or Take Saffron one scruple Ginger half a dram give them in Pouder with Almond Milk Or Take one dram of Brimstone with the Yolk of an Egg. The Chymists give Salts Oyls and Spirits as Spirit of Vitriol with convenient Liquors Their Bezoardine Mineral Diaphoretick Sol and Luna Diaphoretick Antimony the Sulphur of Antimony Spirit of Tartar and the Treacle water of Crollius the secret of Carduus and the like All things that outwardly heat the body so that the blood may be carried thither and the serum with it and open the pores do cause Sweat And they may be greater or less as the humor aboundeth and the Constition requireth as follow As many Cloaths and Coverings Skins and Feathers Hot Air caused by the Sun or Fire which outwardly inflames the body Hot Water either natural or Artificial Oyntments for the Back and great Veins which gently heat with Oyl of Lillies Pellitory and the like Also Violent motion And the passions of the mind which inslame the spirits and humors as Anger Joy or such as shake the spirits produce Sweat as Terror Fear CHAP. XVI Of want of Milk The Kinds ALthough the natural excretion of Milk or giving Suck which ought to be from the Birth to the moderate growth of the Child is not so necessary that the defect thereof should prejudice the Woman for we see many Women which for preserving of their Breasts near give no suck and receive 〈◊〉 hurt thereby except it be through plethory or foulness or Inflammation of their Breasts for want of giving suck yet because it is an inconveniency to the Mother or Nurse and also to the Child which must be nourished with Milk it is called a Defect And it is divers Sucking hindred either when the sucking is hindred or cannot be or when there is want of Milk wholly Want of Milk or in part and this is called the want of Milk The Causes This Defect comes from want of Blood in the Veins of the Breasts Want of blood Foulness or thickness of blood is the cause of want of Milk which is the matter of which Milk is made And this comes from divers Causes as we shewed in the want of Courses chiefly in Women with Child who through squemishness eat little or that which is not nourishing from the Disease called Pica Or when they have too many of their courses after Child-bearing or when they flow in time of giving suck which they ought not to do especially violently and beyond their strength Or
of heat and Inflammation of the Nose to be cured as we shewed in the greifes that come from diseases in the superficies of the body Ulcers of the Nose The Cure of ulcers of the Nose internal and simple without matter or stink are cured with strong dryers because the part is very moist But matter must be first cleansed as it abounds Or is stinking or as the flesh grows rank which is hard to be cured Somtimes they are incurable and leave deformity Before these topicks purge Excrements if they produce these Ulcers or nourish them If they come from evil and Malignant humors you must use divers Evacuations of the whol body as in Elephantiasis especially by sweat in the French Pox as shall be declared These are put into the Nose snuffings or oyntments with Cotton or Suppositories or Fumes or Pouders blown up And if you will not have them fall into the mouth through the Nostrils hold cold water in the mouth when you take them Other gentle clensers are made of Whey with Honey or red Sugar or Wine and Honey or Oxymel Lixivium and Urin cleanse more especially if you add a little Allum or if you keep them in a brass basin to gather Rust or Verdigreese The Decoction of Gujacum in a Lixivium with Honey will clense more but astringent Wine will dry more especially in the French Pox. The juyce of Ivy clenseth filleth in the Nose and is approved by Dioscorides A clensing and drying Errhine Take juyce of Pomegranates and Plantane each two ounces Honey and Wine each an ounce with Allum and Vitriol mix them Another Oyntment Take juyce of Ivy and Plantane each two ounces Pomegranate wine Vinegar and Honey of Roses each an ounce Oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each an ounce and an half boyl them add green Wax made with Verdugreese Aegyptiacum if used in foul Ulcers alone when you must clense much and when the flesh is foul You may with wariness apply Aqua Fortis or Sublimate or Spirit of Vitriol with a quil to the Ulcer Or water of Lime quenched in it Make a dry and heating Errhine Thus Take Plantane Horse-tail Agrimony Brambles Solomans seal or Rupture wort of each a handful Pomegranate peels an ounce Galls Comfrey roots each half an ounce boyl them in Water and red Wine and a little Vinegar and Honey Or thus when the Gristle of the Nose begins to be corroded and the Nose bend Take juyce of Plantane Agrimony Mouse-ear Burnet Roses and Smallage each an ounce Vinegar and Honey of each an ounce Allum two drams Frankincense and Myrrh each a dram Chalcitis a scruple mix them for an Errhine to be snuft up An Oyntment for the same Take Litharge and Ceruss washt in Plantane water of each half an ounce Tutty prepared and Lead burnt and washt each two drams Myrrh and barke of Fraukincense each a dram round Birth-wort half a dram with juyce of Plantane and Oyl of Roses mix them Or thus Take roots of round Birth-wort Pomgranate pecels or flowers of each two drams barke of Frankincense Myrrh Aloes Labdanum Dragons blood Gum Traganth a little parcht of each a dram Lime often slaked two drams Allum and Chalcitis each half a dram Oyl half an ounce Mucilage of Ising-glass infused in Plantane water an ounce with Oyl of Roses and red Wax and Cinnabar prepared make a Liniment or thick Oyntment or a Mass to put into the Nose A Pouder Take Tutty prepared Coral burnt and washed of each a dram barke of Frankincense roots of Birthwort each half a dram make a Pouder and snuff Many Medicines mentioned in the Ulcers of Eyes and Ears are good in the Nose Smoak which comes best at an Ulcer when profound or deep doth well to dry and to burn if they be vehement and Malignant hold the breath while they are applied and remove them till breath be fetcht Thus they are made Take Frankincense Mastick Labdanum each two drams Storax Benzoin Gum of Juniper each a dram and an half Sanders a dram wood Aloes half a dram make a pouder sprinkle it upon live coals for to smoak In the worst Ulcers Take the pouder afore said add Myrrh a dram Marcasites red Orpiment Cinnabar in the French pox each half a dram make pouder for a smoak or fume make Balls of them with Turpentine or Gum. The smoake of Cinnabar with which the whol body is fumed in the French pox coming to the Nose doth not only Cure this disease but other diseases of the Nose of the like sort if the Head be a little held therein There is a Candle made of red Wax and Cinnaber which if lighted and put out will smoake to the Nose Or thus Wax as much as a Nut add some of the first or second mentioned pouder make it with your hands into a Candle with a wick use it as the former Another that maketh much black smoake Take Pitch and Rosin each equal parts with a little Brim-stone dissolve them at the fire and with a wick make a Candle let it be lighted and the smoake pass through a funnel to the Nose and be presently removed If there be crusts in the Nose that stick fast to the Ulcer take them of with Butter or Mucilage If there be proud Flesh Cure it as I shewed in Polypus The wounds in the Nostrils are cured with the same means The Cure of wounds in the Nostrils as they in the Ears with things put in that stop blood then dry and heal if they ulcerate Cure them as others Ulcers CHAP. VII Of Griefs or Pain of the Mouth The Kinds THe Griefs of the fleshy parts of the Mouth as the Tongue Gums Cheeks and Palate in any or all of them come somtimes to the Jaws of which we shall speak hereafter they are distinguished as they have sense of roughness or heat or burning or pricking or are ulcerated There is molestation in the mouth and tongue Roughness of Mouth and Tongue only with sense of roughness because the taste and Speech are offended we speak thereof in the hurt of Speech and Tast I have seen some that have had burning and pricking in the sides and tip of the Tongue many years without any appearent disease Pricking and burning of the Tongue when no Disease appeareth Somtimes in this part only somtimes in the tips and other parts of the body as we shall shew in pains of the habit of the body Somtimes the tongue is troubled only with heat A heat alone or with Tumor and burning and somtimes with clefts and pustles of the Tongue and parts of the Mouth somtimes with burning also and a manifest disease And then it is not exactly red as other parts that are white but yellow and swels and is inflamed and is somtimes also very dry and rough and is cleft and hath pimples somtimes which so molest the Patient that he cannot speak without pain and stammerring and the part near and the jaws
Leaves of Ivy Sage Hysop each a handful red Roses Lâ—ntiles each a pugil white Poppy seeds two drams long Pepper a dram boyl them in Wine Or thus Take Sage Hysop Vervain each a handful boyl them in a pint of Wine add two drams of Allum Or Take Galls Snakeweed roots each two drams Orris roots a dram Hysop a handful Frankincense Sandarach each two drams Juniper berries an ounce boyl them in red Wine Or Take Mastich an ounce Sage Hysop each a handful boyl them in equal parts in Wine and Vinegar Or this Pouder Take Snakeweed roots a dram Allum and Pellitory each a scruple make a Pouder apply it or rub therewith When we wil heat chiefly hold these Decoctions in the Mouth so hot as may be and take it in again as fast as it cooleth The Vulgar use roots of Pellitory or Pepper or Ginger boyled in Wine Another Take Calamints Organ Pennyroyal Hysop Sage each a handful Marjoram Bay leaves each half a handful Juniper berries half a pugil boyl them in Wine Or this which hath often profited Take wild Time ' Sage Rosemary each a handful Ginger a dram Caraway seeds half an ounce red Pease Salt each a pugil boyl them in white Wine Or this Take Pellitory roots half an ounce Angelica roots each two drams add Garlick and Radish Hysop Savory Sage Marjoram Pennyroyal wild Time Rosemary flowers and red Roses each a dram or a handful if they be fresh long and black Pepper Cubebs grains of Paradise Cloves Mustard seed Gith and Stavesacre each half a dram Salt or Niter each two drams bruise and boyl them in Wine or infuse them and use the strained Liquor The Decoction of Coloquintida in Wine is bitter but very profitable Sage and Rosemary distilled in Wine is also good Also Aqua vitae or Spirit of Wine or Juniper berries applied do work quickly and strongly Or this Take Pepper Ginger grains of Paradise each a dram Cloves two drams Cinnamon half on ounce add white Wine steep and distil them Or thus Take Pellitory long and black Pepper each two drams Mustardseed Water-cresses and Gith seed each a dram pouder them and with Aqua vitae use it as the other Or of the simples in the hot Decoction mentioned dried and poudered make an Infusion and Distillation The Oyl of Juniper berries or Spike or Spices distilled and dipt in Cotton and put into the tooth doth well Somtimes we use Bags to the teeth to be bitten by the tooth affected thus made Take Sage leaves and bruise them and with a little Salt and Pepper make a Bagg Or thus Take Pellitory Pepper Mustard seed Salt each equal parts pouder them for a Bag dip it in hot Vinegar and apply it to the teeth Or thus Take Pellitory long Pepper Stavesacre each equal parts make a pouder and apply it in a Bag sprinkled with Aqua vitae Somtimes we give things that inflame the Jaws as bark of Laurel taking of the outward rind that is hard also the roots of Spurge and Crow-foot according to Dioscorides these are put between the teeth lest they should burn the Jaws by touching them but if you boyl them in white Wine they they are milder This latter Decoction is so used made of Solomons seal roots and white Hellebore and bark of Laurel in Wine and Vinegar The Anodynes following are alwaies to be used when the Defluxion ceaseth especially because they work by propriety Hot Milk Butter and common Oyl or Oyl of sweet Almonds are good to be held in the mouth Also Bread chewed and applied as a Cataplasm between the teeth and Cheeks Also warm Broath and the Decoction of Marsh-mallow roots Bread and Lineseed in Milk Another that draws forth water Take rooots of Marshmallows and Liquorish each an ounce Sage a handful Figs twelve Faenugreek seeds an ounce boyl them in Water A Decoction of Guajacum and Salt is commended Or Leaven applied with Vinegar in the Decoction thereof held in the Cheeks Or this Take Sandarach or Varnish half an ounce Wine or Vinegar or both four ounces or six boyl them to the consumption of the third part and hold it in the mouth or dissolve Sandarach in Vinegar and apply it Gum Galbanum Ammoniacum Sagapenum alone or foftened with Aqua vitae and Vinegar put into a hollow tooth or spread and laid as a Plaster to the teeth cures the tooth-ach Or this Take Camphire half a dram Aqua vitae an ounce boyl it til the Camphire be consumed and apply it or with Wine and Vinegar Also Camphire and Oyl of Cloves or of sweet Almonds or Oyl of Camphire The pouder of Camphire with the pouder of Henbane root equal parts suddenly taketh away the tooth-ach the seeds of Henbane may be used for the root and they wil be stronger A Snakes Skin also boyled in Wine and Vinegar or dried in an Oven or burnt to pouder and mixt with Oyl to anoynt the teeth is commended or the Skin of a Toad used the same way is an excellent medicine Dioscorides writes that the prick in the tail of the Fish Pastinaca applied to the tooth takes awy pain In great pain we use Stupefactives with caution that they be not swallowed As the Opiate Antidotes fresh made as Philonium Romanum Treacle Mithridate to rub the teeth to a dram of which a scruple of Pellitory and Nigella or Gith seed and a grain of Opium may be added A small pil of Opium alone put into the tooth presently takes away the pain and it is good to add a little Wax that it may not fall out Or this Take Opium and Henbane seed each four grains Smallage seed two grains with Aqua vitae make Pils Or thus Take Camphire a scruple boyl it in an ounce of Aqua vitae til it dissolve then add Opium three or four grains dip a little Cotton therein and thrust it into the tooth Or thus Take of spirit of Wine two or thre ounces add Camphire two drams set it in the Sun til the Camphire dissolve then distil it apply this spirit as the other Other Stupefactives are made of Henbane seeds Pepper roots of Pellitory and burnt Allum equal parts made up with Aqua vitae into a Mass Or thus Take Henbane seed half a dram Pellitory and Ginger each two drams Smallage seeds a dram Mastich three drams Roses a pugil boyl them in Wine and Vinegar to wash the Mouth Or Take roots of Mandrake a dram Henbane seed half a dragm Pepper Cubebs and Stavesacre each a dragm Pellitory two dragms bark of the root of Mulbery and Capars three dragms Boyl them in red Wine Or Take Henbane roots a dragm white wine half a pint boyl them Or use fumes with a Funnel to the teeth made of wormwood Savory and the like hot herbs in wine and water and take the vapor hot add leek seed to make it stronger Also a fume of Sandarake cast upon live coals or leek or onion seed mixt with pitch and
family by drinking the diuretick Wine in the Blasine-street voided often stones of half a dram in weight and hath shewed to me many of them which came forth with a little pain Hollerius teacheth us that the same may be done by much cold water when the body is hot and dry from the pain and it is better with Vinegar also the spaw-Waters that are sharp are drank many dayes together against the stone Or an ounce of juice of Limons alone or with Sugar or with three ounces of Wine also juyce of Oranges and the like Or the juice of winter Cherries and Yarrow or the Water of a Beet stalk taken often in the same quantity according to Mathiolus Or Take Juice of Fennel and Purslane each half an ounce white Wine an ounce Drink it with sugar or make a syrup thereof Or this Potion Take Juyce of Pellitory clarified an ounce and half of Chamomile Bettony Honey or Sugar each an ounce drink it with Pease Broath or the like or make a syrup thereof Another Take a Horse-Raddish bruise it add the best Wine to make it three ounces or four strain it and add Blood of a Goat prepared a dram this is highly commended to which other Juyces and Pouders may be added The Urine of a Goat of four yeers old or of a rock-Goat is highly commended Also distilled waters which pierce to the Reins in a good quantity as Pellitory water a pint or Mallow or Marsh-Mallow water or of Broomflowers or Bean flowers Rest-Harrow Asparagus Saxifrage Parsley Fenel Osyris or that of wild Parsley sea Fennel Raddish Ivy berries or winter Cherries or that of Flixweed called Osyris or of Oak leavs and Leavs and Roots of Brambles and of Dogs tongue also of ceterach Vervaine Chamomile or that of Peach kernells or that of Turpentine which is oily Mathiolus commends the Water of Mans Dung or Pigeons Dung The spirit of Wine which is thin breaks the Stone These all may be given alone or with sugar or with other Pouders or distilled of divers simples mixed together Or thus Take the Roots Herbs Seeds of which we make the Wine by Infusion all dryed and bruised and so much Wine as it may be like a Pultes and four ounces of Turpertine draw a water by distillation from it give it as the other Or add to the dryed simples that will keep their Virtue Roots of Spargus Smallage Parsley each halfe an ounce roots of Asarum Maddir Valerian each two drams Pellitory of the wall St. Iohns-wort Chamomile and Broom flowers each two drams Smallage Lovage Sparagus and Raddish seeds each a dram distill a water with Turpentine as before All these are better distilled in Aqua vitae Or Thus Take Peach or Cherry kernells two ounces Berries of Brambles Strawberries Winter Cherries Ivy each an ounce Hors-Raddish three ounces green Beans with the shales Pellitory each an handfull wild Parsly Sea Fennell each a pugil bruise and distill them Or this Take of Peach kernells four ounces Sebesten and Jujubes each five pair four great coldseeds six drams Winter Cherries half an ounce Gith and Smallage seed each two drams Hors-Raddish half a pound bruise them add Turpentine and Honey each a pound distill a Water give three ounces alone or with other Breakstone-Medicines Or distill this Water of Juyces Take Juyce of Raddishes Lovage each six ounces Juyce of Winter Cherries two ounces white Wine Vinegar two ounces distill them give half an ounce This is an admirable Water Take juyce of Radishes a pint and half of Restharrow and wild Tansey Saxifrage Winter-cherries Pellitory Burnet Bettony Marsh-mallows Gromwel each half a pint Roots of Fennel Parsley Eryngus Restharrow Orris Elicampane each two ounces Basil Gromwel Burdock and Parsley-seeds each half an ounce Juniper berries bruised half a pound infuse them and stir them often two dayes add a pound of Honey and a pound and half of Turpentine white Vinegar two ounces distil them in Balneo give two ounces or two and an half with as much syrup of Violets It is good to drink Oyls for we may see them swim after upon the Urin and therefore know that they pass through and supple the Ureters Therefore in great Pains when the stone is stopped in the passages give Sallet-oyl or Oyl of sweet Almonds or Linseed new drawn or well washt alone or in Broaths or Cream Some commend an ounce of Sallet-oyl with Wine wherein Flints have been often quenched But some Oyls are proper for the stone alone given or with other remedies as Oyl of Peach or Cherry-kernels or of bitter Almonds or of Scorpions or that of Citron-seeds or Dock-seeds or of chymical Oyls given by drops with others as that of Turpentine or the fat Liquors of Calcanthium or Vitriol called Spirit of Vitriol Or this compounded Take Juniper-berries four ounces bark of the Roots of Ash three ounces beat them add Turpentine two ounces Honey an ounce steep them and ad Water and so distil an Oyl Give six or seven drops with any convenient Liquor Some Simples are good taken in substance Raddish and Salt in Sallets Horse-raddish beaten with sweet Almonds Roots of Lovage boyled or raw eaten in a good quantity before bathing Roots of Fennel Parsley tops of Sparagus Hops Coleworts Purslane wild Parsley and Water-cresses in Sallets Sea-fennel pickled called Samphire also Lemmons Raisons Figs or kernels of Peaches bitter Almonds Cherries eaten with sugar or made into Comfits Also the Fruit of sweet Briar called Hepps Hares flesh especially the kidneys or Sparrows or Wag-tayls roasted or Goats blood boyled or five or six ounces of Fox blood with wine and sugar which is highly commended Some Simples of a Rosin quality pierce and cleanse the Reins and make the Urin sweet as a Violet and expel the stone and gravel in time of the fit by provoking Urin as the best Turpentine alone not washed two drams and half in a Wafer or with Liquorish Pouder or Sugar and it is better dissolved with the Yolk of an Eg and given with convenient Liquor or boyled till it may be poudered two drams There are many other Simples for the same given in Pouder in Wine or the Waters mentioned as Dittany-roots Bayes Knotgrass Rupturewort Buphleurus called the Hares-ears the seeds of Paliurus Gromwel Broom Xanthium Winter-cherries and Ivy-berries And pouder of Goats blood thus prepared Take the blood of a young Goat fed with Herbs good against the stone neither that which comes first or last but in the middle of the bleeding preserve it from putrefaction by a gentle fire or by the sun and give a dram in pouder with Wine The blood of a Hare is as good Or the ashes of a whole Hare-skin and all a spoonful in Wine Or the ashes of a Wag-tayl Or these stronger Pouders of scorpions sows or hog-lice pouder of Earth-worms or ashes which are very strong and must be given warily and in a small quantity or of Grass-hoppers Beetles pouder or rather ashes of Spanish-flies or of
abate pain And you must use stronge and very hot drawers when the Bubo or Parotis are Pestilential these things being applied at the first you must then mix things to resolve the Humor gathered or to ripen it mixing in Pestilential causes things that attract poyson and abate its force and work by a certain propriety Also in the pestilence to draw poyson out of the Body we use Scarifications and burning And when there is an impostum you must cure it being broken as an Ulcer As for the remedies if the pain be first to be cured use the Anodynes mentioned in phlegmon and the Narcoticks which also dissolve as I shewed as Herbs Narcotick Aqua vitae and Lees of Wine As for other remedies to Relax Attract Dissolve Ripen Open and Correct and Resist malignity by potential or actual propriety They are as followeth The greasie wooll of Sheep that hath Oesypus may be applied to the Bubo Parotis behind the Ears which repels by its filth and so not only abateth pain in Inflammations but repels and relaxeth especially if it be first dipt in relaxing Oyls A common relaxing Oyl to ease pain Take common Oyl or Oyl of sweet Almonds and fresh Butter two ounces Hons or Hogs grease an ounce mucilage of Fleabane Lineseed or Althaea half an ounce with the yolk of an Egg. Another to digest also is made of Oyl of Chamomil Melilot Dill Elder Wall-flowers Lillies Orris Jesamin bitter Almonds with Hens Duck or Goose grease with Mucilage of Fenugrek and Saffron Or make a Relaxing Attracting Digesting Fomentation of the Decoction of Mallows Lillies Camomil flowers and Melilot as the Inflammation of the Papps and Stones Also you may apply often a hot Spunge boyled in Wine and Water Or Althaea Mallows Pellitory Lillies Chamomil Melilot to relax and dissolve the Bubo and Parotis or the Roots of Daffodil Swordgrass Rue Bulbus and Personata or Aster Atticus which is called Bubonium or Inguinalis because it is proper for Buboes Or Scabious which is siugular in the pestilential Bubo Or Moulin roots and and all Maidenhair Plantane Arage Brooklime Elder Yarrow Haresfoot Sclarea Southernwood Galiopsis Acinos Isatis or Wood Coriander Onobrychis Conyza Pycnocomum leaves of wild Olive or the Flowers of Panax asclepias And when you will dissolve and attract more Rocket and yellow Crowfoot and Leaves of Consiligo Nut-tree bark and black Briony bruised and boyled in Water or Wine or Oyl and Water with Vinegar Honey or Oyl of Roses Chamomil or Fat 's Dioscorides applies it beaten with Salt or with Treacle or Mithridate when the Bubo is pestilential Or with Meal of Barley Pease Lineseed Foenugreek Lupins Darnel made to a Cataplasin Or the Brans alone with the Liquors mentioned with Oyls and Honey often applied warm Or make Cataplasms of Onions Lillies Althaea and Briony roots and Orris with Butter Grease or Oyl and with Figgs Foenugreek and Lineseed Or in the Plague with Treacle Mithridate and other Antidotes or cut the top off from an Onion and fill it therewith then cover it and roaste it and bruise it and lay it on with Vinegar Juyce of Citrons or Pomegranates Oyl of Scorpions St. Johns-wort and Saffron Raddish is good in the plague if it be sliced and laid on after with a hole in the middle to let out the Venom Or apply green Crab-apples in the plague Or a Pomegranate sliced and boyled in Vinegar adding Juyce of Scabious or Sorrel or the distilled Waters thereof The Yolk of an Eg and Salt draws and dissolves the Juyce of Scabious And if the Bubo be pestilent with Antidotes or salt Bacon Or black Soap with Lye and Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar to discuss a Phyma In the venereal Bubo drink and wash with Water of Celandine A Cataplasm to attract dissolve and ripen Take Lillies Onions Althaea roots Raddish all peeled and cleansed four ounces Mallows and Scabious each a handful and an half Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Figgs five pair boyl and stamp them add Foenugreek meal two ounces Gum Ammoniack and Galbanum each six drams dissolve them in Wine and with Oyl of Lillies and Grease make a Cataplasm It will be stronger if you add Mustard seed pigeons dung This is an admirable Cataplasm in the plague Take a great Onion and make it hollow and fill it with Treacle roast it in the Embers take off the outward Skins and bruise it with Meal of Secalis Honey Yolk of an Eg Goose dung and a little Turpentine apply it hot Emplasters to attract and then dissolve that must be cut in the middle to let out the Vapors are Diachylon magnum and Ireatum or Melilot or Althaea with Rosin Galbanum and Ammoniack Or apply Galbanum alone to the Groyns when the pockey Bubo appears and then vanisheth to draw the Venom to the part Or Take Galbanum Ammoniacum Bdellium Opopanax dissolved in Vinegar of Squills or Aqua vitae and with Oyl of Lillies and half an ounce of pouder of Orris to four ounces thereof and two drams of Scabious or a dram of Euphorbium or Cantharides if you will have it stronger Or Treacle with spirit of Sulphur and Oyl of Juniper is good to draw out Venom Another proper for a Phyma Take Labdanum Bdellium Ammoniacum dissolved in old Oyl with an ounce of Proplis or other dissolver Turpentine half an ounce Honey and Hogs grease of each an ounce with Pitch and wax make a Plaster At the first in the Plague especially use these to draw out venom A Cock Hen or Cicken or a Puppy or a Frog or Toad which is best divided or Sheeps lungs hot and bloody often applied The Chymists in the plague take Toads and make a hole in their Heads and hang them in the Air to dry and keep the dry being beaten flat These they lay upon the Bubo to suck out the venom for they will swel being laid on as if they would break See Paracelsus in his Book of the plague Or take a Cock Hen or Pidgeon make the rump bare and cast Salt thereon and hold the bill fast that as the vulgar suppose they may suck the poyson in backwards A Cupping-glass with great slame is good also to attract poyson applied upon the part or about it Or Housleeks to suck out venemous blood Somtimes we scarifie or cut a pestilent Bubo to make way for the poyson or use an actual or potential Cautery Some cut it clean off These are dangerous remedies to be used with deliberation for they draw not much out of the body and endanger the patient especially if there be Inflammation If Tumors be in the Breasts and Stones without a true inflammation The Cure of Inflammation of the Paps and Stones from abundance of Milk there is rather a distention with pain in the Breasts this is to be refer'd to magnitude increased or when the Stones swel without Inflammation as in the Colick it ceaseth with the Colick But if there be a Tumor in them
but before you must cure the Cachexy thus If there be aboundance of Excrements you must purge Choller especially with Rhubarb and things that inflame not the Liver choosing those things which are mentioned in the first causes of a Cachexy For Alteration they boyl in Broath Endive Divels bit Succory Lettice sow thistle or let them be eaten boiled in salets let them eat sharp Fruits boiled or season them in Meate with the Juyce as Juyce of Pomegranates which after working is called Pomegranate wine or the Juyce of currance Barberries Grapes Lemmons Citrons c. Let the ordinary Drink be thin white Wine dashed with boiled water or if there be great thirst let them drink water in which Vinegar or sharpe Juyce is mixed The Decoction of Succory roots is used instead of Drink either alone or mixed with wine as also the Decoction of the Roots of sorrel Fern and Grass by themselves or with wine which if they are made sharpe with a little spirit of Vitriol or salt will be more pleasant and effectual This Julep is to be taken sometimes Take of sharpe Juyces one or more one quarter of a pint Juyce of Endive two ounces Vinegar one ounce rose-Rose-water two ounces sugar as much as is sufficient boil it into the form of a Julep some add a little Camphire which doth good rather by penetration then refrigeration A Physical Decoction is thus made Take of Endive one handful of sorrel Lettice Maiden-hair each half an handful Tamarinds one ounce of sharp Prunes twelve of the seeds of Purslan Endive and Dodder each one dram of the four great cold seeds two drams of Barbery seeds one dram and an half of Roses and Violets each one pugil boil them in water adding two ounces of Rose Vinegar and when it is strained put to it some syrup of the aforesaid Herbs and as much sugar as is sufficient and when you will make the Body loose put Manna or Rhubarb thereunto The usual syrups are of Endive and succory simple and compound and sharpe syrups of Vinegar which were prescribed in the Cure of the former cachexy to which for cooling you may add the syrup of the Juyce of Citrons of Lemmons Pomegranates and the like as the Violets Purslain Water-lillies and other of the Juyce of Currance Barberries and other sharp Juyces Waters must be mixed with the syrups as of Endive succory Liver-wort Dodder with which to strengthen the bowels we mix water of Agrimony and Wormwood Pouders of species which are given by themselves or in Troches Lozenges Electuaries Pills may be used as followeth of which this is excellent to open Obstructions Take of red and white sanders each one dram of yellow sanders half a dram of red Rose leaves two drams of Violets half a dram of the four great cold seeds one dram and an half of Purslain and Endive seed each half a dram of Antispodium of Ivoryshavings two drams make a pouder and with Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose-water or Juyce of Barberries make Troches If you add Rhubarb and Camphire it will be like Diatriansantalon Nicolai which hath besides the things herein Juyce of Liquorish Gum Arabich and starch and somtimes the Rhubarb is double in quantity and this usual composition may be used for the former There is another Composition of more Vertue called Diarhodon Abbatis Nicolai used against Obstructions which is less hot it hath in it sanders Roses Violets the four great and little cold seeds burnt Ivory Gum arabick and Traganth Juyce of Liquorish Rhubarb and Camphire as Diatriansantalon and besides Asarum Bar-berries Anise seeds Fennel Basil seeds Poppy-seeds Mastich Saffron Spike Cardamoms Lignum Aloes Cloves Cinnamon Musk Pearl the Bone in in the Heart of a Hart or stag The Troches of Diarhodon Nicolai of Roses sanders burnt Ivory saffron and Camphire are not so large as the former And the Troches of the sanders which are more binding they have sanders Roses the great cold seeds Purslain seeds Bar-berries burnt Ivory Camphire and Bole Armenick Or other astringents as the Troches of Bar-berries instead of which we may use these less binding Take of the three sanders add Roses each one dram of Rhubarb one dram and an half of spodium of Ivory one dram of Endive Purslain and sorrel each half a dram of Melon seeds one dram and an half Camphire one scruple Sugar and Manna two drams Make a Pouder with the infusion of Gum Traganth in Endive waters Make Troches The Pouder of the leaves of Endive and Succory taken often in Wine with the feed of Hatch-vetch and a little Cinnamon to make it pleasant is approved Also Lozenges made of these ordinary pouders Diatrionsantalon and Diarhodon and of other things with the conserve of Succory flowers We make of the Juyce of Bar-berries pleasant Lozenges which allay the Heat as Take of the Juyce of ripe Bar-berries three ounces of Sugar one pound as much water of Endive or Roses as will boil them into a consistence for Lozenges Thus are made the Lozenges of the Juyce of currance Pomegranates Lemmons citrons and they are as good as the former Of these conserves and Pouders may divers Electuaries be made as Take of the Conserve of Succory flowers and the candied roots of Succory each one ounce and an half of Conserve of Violets Maiden-hair and Bugloss each half an ounce of Melon seeds one dram and an half of Trionsantalon one dram with syrup of Sorrel make a moist Electuary or make it thicker with sugar of Roses Some give Opiats to cool the Liver but to no purpose being hot things are therein as Philonium Vitriol waters drunk for some weeks as we shewed in the cure of the former cachexy besides other benefits there mentioned do cool the Liver if they be taken in time before the Dropsie be great and while the water is only in the Belly and Feet but when it gets out of the Veins it wil increase it especially as is usually if they make little Urine and Drink much therefore it is better for those Drinkers who by their continual thirst shew the heat of their Liver before the cachexy grow great to mix their wine with water The heat of the Bowels and especially of the Liver and the dryness also is cured by outward things that cool and moisten adding alwaies those things that are astringent as these following A cooling and moistning Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets Lillies Guords or of Osiers washed in Vinegar or Juyce of Endive two ounces Oyl of Quinces Roses Myrtles or Mastich each one ounce of the lesser cold seeds and of Sorrel and Rose leaves each half a dram of al the sanders one dram of spike one scruple camphire half a scruple Wax as much as will make an Unguent These are more proper for the Liver Take of Oyl of Roses and Violets each one ounce and an half of Oyls of Water-lillies and Wormwood each one ounce of the juyce of Endive one ounce and an half of the Juyce of
the wounded part above the rest Also by stuffing it if deep we stop or restrain it this is done with soft Lint And if things be added that will also stanch blood it will be the better as these following Spiders webs thrust into small wounds of the skin because being light and thin they get into every part and stop the blood not so much by drying as by filling the part and glutinating the Lips by help of the blood which grows hard and these are better with Mill-dust The Down of Flowers and Fruits and Cotton or Lint with Hares hair are good with Plaisters that stanch blood but without well cleansed if put into small wounds The round Mush-room or Fuzball being very light laid upon the vein or thrust into the wound sticks close and keeps the Blood from flowing especially mixed with other Pouders or Plaisters The spungy skin in old Trees between the Bark or Touch-wood laid upon small wounds is also good Also a Spunge laid on or thrust in if the wound be large And if the Artery be dilated as in an Aneurism opened and bleed because it requires large stuffing a Spunge is good yet the flux was so great and the Orifice so large that the Spunge would do no good to one Man but he bled to Death of an Aneurisin opened There are divers things laid upon the part first such as dry bind and glew as the Pouders alone or with Lint or the like or with Glew like a Plaister either laid upon the Vein or Artery or upon the wounds or put in when it is deep and bound on for divers dayes till the fear of bleeding is over and then after gentle moistning taken off Also if the wounds be deep a Plaister is put in And when it is after cutting off an Arm or Legg let the pouders be put into a Bladder and laid on and the Bladder tyed fast about Those Plaisters were mentioned in the Cure of Wounds and they are to be applied at first to stop the flux and heal the wound As that of three parts of Bole and Frankincense c. to glew the lips of the wound and to heal them as that with Frankincense and Myrrh or that of Galen which is one part Aloes two parts Frankincense with the White of an Egg and Hairs of an Hare and others there mentioned beginning thus Take Galls c. Or Take Colophony c. Some that are mentioned against Fluxes in the Eyes are good here as that which begins thus Take Mastick Frankincense c. Or Take Bole half an ounce Sanguis Draconis c. without Oyl of Roses Also Pouders of burnt things ashes of Froggs Worms Asses or Horses dung Eg-shells Spunge Rags Cotton Paper Nettles Also Soote burnt Blood Rosin poudered Gum Arabick and Traganth parched Also Blood-stone Stibium burnt Lead Also other fat Earths besides Bole. And Downs mentioned of Flowers and Fruits as that in the shells of Chesnuts or Cotton Down or Lint All which mixed with the Pouders mentioned for Plaisters and incorporated with the things mentioned may be applied like a Plaister Or you may apply the pouders with the Juyce of Plants as of Plantane Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse or Blood made into a past with some Glew or Rosin to make it stick There are other Fumes as that which we saw stopped presently the blood of a Theif that had both his Hands cut off It was thus made The Wife of the Executioner put the wrist where the hand was cut off into a Hen in which she had made a large Orifice about the Rump and tyed her with the feathers to the part and so he lived till he was brought to Execution without any great loss of blood And this Course have I taken often with good success when fingers have been cut off This remedy may be used in other parts by tying it fast upon the part when it is cut or slit in the middle whether it be Hen or Chickin or the Lungs of a Sheep bleeding or other fresh Entrals such as we prescribed for the Cure of a Phrensie Also Mans blood or other blood hot and mixed with Bran to a past may do the same A Linnen-clout three or four times doubled and dipped in Frogs-spawn when squeesed will surely stop blood and it is usual to keep Clouts dipp'd in the Spawn of Froggs at the time of the year for the same purpose The last remedies are Causticks which cause an Eschar and stop the Blood Burnt Vitriol is the best or Copperas what Colour soever it is of or burnt upon a hot Iron till it be red which the Chymists call Colcothar with burnt Allum and burnt Tartar or Wine-Lyes Or if you will have it burn more a little Arsenick or Sublimate which you may apply with the White of an Egg and a little Lint Quick-lime poudered doth the same which you may make of more force with the other Somtimes we add other astringents which allay their violence and by straitning the part stop the blood as that pouder for healing Plaisters for Wounds which begins thus Take burnt Bones c. also Vitriol and burnt Allum Also things which are used to take down proud flesh which begins thus Take burnt Allum three drams Pomegranate-flowers c. Or Take Vitriol half an ounce Allum c. especially the corroding pouder there mentioned The Spirit of Vitriol dipp'd in Cotton and applied to the Vein doth astringe and somwhat burn which if it ly deep must be stopped in as you do for an hollow tooth Aqua fortis doth it more powerfully so applied and burns more Of which sprinkled upon filings of Iron you may make Crocus Martis from the yellow Colour so called which you may use for the same Clouts wet in Vinegar or Steel-water wherein the Physical Stone hath been quenched and dryed Or in Aqua fortis or Oyl of Vitriol often dryed and wet will do the same The actual Cautery is the last which will presently stop Blood if you can touch the Veins or Arteries This is done with a hot Iron proportioned to the wound either small pointed or flat or with a round bottom for great wounds such as are used in Disinembring But this is done with small success especially when the amputation or cutting off is in a thick fleshy part because the burning reacheth not to the Veins but only to the flesh And by this lingering before the Plaister is put on there is a great loss of Blood and the new pain which comes after the pain of amputation doth much weaken the Patient If you thrust the remaining part of a finger cut off into melted Pitch and presently pull it out it will stop Blood not only by the burnining of the wound but by the sticking of the Pitch thereon which will grow hard and stop the Veins And this you may do in other parts If you lay Cotton upon the wound and set it on fire it will by the flame insinuating into the wound stop wonderfully and
a waterish humor abound the Head must be purged by times by particular Evacuations called Head purges as Masticatories Gargarismes Errhines as it hath been said in its proper place As concerning things Alterative all those things which strengthen the Head and stir up its innate heat being applied inwardly and outwardly may do good amongst which those that act potentially ought to be most hot in this moist constitution of the Brain whereas this is so imprinted and the temperament of the Brain so changed are hardly reduced and therefore require stronger means that so their operation may better reach to the Brain neither can things taken inwardly too much inflame the Brain being a part far distant nor things outwardly applied by reason of the thickness of the Head The rest found out by experience are thought to restore the Memory by a certain propriety Those things therefore which are taken chiefly to restore the Memory in a moist cause as was said are as follow In the form of a Pouder this is cried up to be excellent to preserve the Memory Take of Male Frankincense or Olibanum half a scruple Make a Pouder Let him take it often by it self or with Wine or some convenient Water If both round and long Pepper be added t is a most commendable remedy thus prepared Take Male Frankincense fifteen drams Pepper five drams Make a Pouder give one dram every morning for forty daies Ginger condite in Syrup or dry as t is wont to be prepared taken in the morning is approved of also the conditure of the true Acorus that is the Aromatick Cane Also the Root of Pellitory of Spain whiles it is new candid eaten like Ginger is highly esteemed whose Decoction Paracelsus approves of against forgetfulness The Confection Anacardine was chiefly invented to repair the Memory especially if it be prepared without Castor by reason of its ungratefulness as Gordonius teacheth of which half an ounce or an ounce or more may be given according to Gordonius with some convenient water as of Fennel or Smallage which if it heat the body too much may be prepared thus Take of Confection Anacardine one dram Conserve of Marjoram Rosemary of each half an ounce Let him take once or twice a week a dram for a dose Compounds of the aforementioned and other things convenient for the Head and appropriate to the memory impaired as Myrobolans Cyperus root the Skul of a Man and the like are thus made for the strengthning of the Brain Take of confection anacardine one dram Frankincense two drams Pepper Ginger each half a dram Sugar dissolved in Cinnamon and Marjoram water twelve ounces make Tables give one every morning or every other morning Others more efficacious are prepared thus Take of male Frankincense three drams Pepper Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon two scruples Corall one dram the shavings of Mans Skull two drams Harts-horn Ivory each half a dram ad of Sugar six ounces or the double quantity and make a pouder or dissolving the Sugar in Marjoram water make Tables or abate of the quantity of Sugar and with the Infusion of Gum Tragacanth in Rose-water make Lozenges and use them Electuaries also may be made for the same Use of things for the head after this manner Take of the conditures of Ginger the true Acorus Pellitory of Spain as was said each half an ounce of Chebul and Emblick Myrobalans each two of Marjoram Rosemary-fllowers Lavender or French Lavender Sage each six drams conserve of Roses Bugloss each three drams the Roots of Cyprus Galangall Cloves each half a dram Pepper two scruples Cubebs one scruple Olibanum one dram and an half pouder of Diamber and Diamoschum each half a dram Musk or Amber we may add of a Mans Skul if you please two drams of Honey anarcadine as much as is sufficient make an Electuary Let him take from one dram and an half to two drams going to Bed They commend also Treacle and Methridate which we would rather omit by reason of the Opium which makes al the senses more stupid or languid although the Composition be old whenas other things are not wanting and no pain here or Necessity requires it neither is there any malignity of the Humor If we must needs use things unpleasing it is best to give them in form of Pills Take of Frankincense two dram Pepper Ginger Cubebs each one dram Castor half a dram Musk Amber each six grains with the Confection or Honey anacardine make Pills give going to Bed two of them for many daies A Wine convenient for this may be made thus Take of the Roots of true Acorus Galangall each half an ounce Ginger a dram and an half the herbs Marjoram Sage the flowers of Lavender French Lavender Rosemary Roses each three drams Pepper Cloves Cubebs of each half a dram Infuse them bruised in Wine let him drink somtimes a draught in a morning when he takes broath Distilled Waters are approved the simple of Rosemary flowers or the like or compounded of divers pouring to them the Water of Wine which they call Aqua Vitae which they write also alone wil do good if in the morn the quantity of one spoonful be taken A Compound one may be made thus Take of the Materials above mentioned for the Wine bruised and pour to them Spirits of Wine or Malago wine that it may be above it one fingers breadth Confection Anacardine six drams Let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae and let him use it At meals many of this sort may be given especially the more grateful for Sauces as the Spices forementioned Pepper Ginger for stuffings Marjoram Sage and the like Also Mustard seed is a Junket with Honey as 't is wont to be presented to Tables or the same covered over with Sugar because this seed doth by a propriety whet the memory In Wine also the like Herbs may be infused and steeped The like External Remedies may be used which may stir up the heat and consume moistures as these are To rub the head in the morning with a Comb and usually with cloaths after sleep Somtimes to wash the head with a Lie but presently again to dry it with warm cloaths smoaked with Frankincense seeing Frankincense as 't is said by a peculiar vertue helps the memory but the Lye may be thus made Take of Agarick two drams the herbs Sage Betony Marjoram Celtick Spike Pennyroyal Bayes Rosemary flowers Spike Lavender Red Roses Chamomel of each one handful Bay and Juniper berries of each an ounce Pepper one dram Let them be bruised and boyled in a Barbers Lye made with water wherein Iron hath been quencht Not only the hinder region of the Brain is anointed in the memory hurt but also the whol Superficies of the head for the same as take of the Oyl of Mustard by expression anoint it It will be more effectual thus Take of the Oyl of Bean Elders of each one ounce Mustard seed long Pepper each one dram Euphorbium Castor
And somtimes also Scarification must be made in those places before the Cupping-glasses be applied and the Wounds made must be rubbed with Pickle Pulling of the Hairs about the Privities from under the the Armpits also vellications of the Beard and Hairs made up and down the Body and Prickings and Burnings will profit much A frying Pan or Shovell or some other Iron plate red hot so long applied to the Region of the Head till it heat it very much and as it were curle the Hair yet doth not burn the Head by egregiously drawing outwards hath oftentimes caused the Apoplecticall to come to themselves the use of which the Arabians brought up A Dropax also or Pication applied to the Region of the Head being first shaved and being often taken off whiles t is yet hot and renew'd doth help also by calling forth the Humors to the superficies both if it be simple and if it be Compounded the which also may be thus made more effectual by the addition of most hot things and it will raise blisters Take of Pitch half a pound Oyl of Rue as much as will suffice that it may melt perhaps to one ounce and an half add of the Root of Pellitory of Spain Mâ—stard seed Pepper of each one dram Euphorbium half a dram Mix them Sinapismes will do the same applied upon the Head and those both simple or thus Compounded Take of the Pulp of Figs extracted from a light Decoction of them Mustard seed of each one ounce and an half Pigeons or Swallows Dung which is found every where in their houses three drams Pepper Euphorbium of each half a dram Castor one dram Oyl of Spike six drops Mix them with the sharpest Vinegar The leaves of Nettles do as it were actually raise blisters which are rubbed on the Nape of the Neck and for revulsion on the Thighs Also Spearewort bruised doth do it most powerfully if it be laid to the hinder part of the Neck Also a Potential cautery applied to the Region of the Head or to the said part of the Neck although when necessity doth require as in an Apoplexy an actual one is more rightly applied whenas it works sooner and they do not feel it by which the Hairs of the Head may be burnt and the Skin also a little Things altering which ought to dissolve and discuss the Humor and strengthen the Brain are given by the Mouth rather in those that are sleepy then Apoplectical who swallow nothing almost the which notwithstanding if they be prepared in a very little quantity and yet eflctual may be by drops also poured into the Mouth of the Apoplectical when as being contained in the Mouth they exert their vertues the which notwithstanding falling into the rough Artery that they may not move coughing or suffocate them ought rather to be Liquid So stilled Waters are chiefly commended such as are especially that of Rose-mary Sage Rue Lavender which being dried and infused in Wine if they be distilled do yeild a more efficacious Water the distilled Water of cinnamon as it is pleasant and Odorous so t is highly effectual the water extracted from the flowers of the Lilly of the Vallies and of the Linden Tree whiles they are yet fresh in this case is highly esteemed amongst the vulgar Some also commended the water of Maâ—igold flowers and the water of the Herbs Celandine and Balm Those Compound are more effectual of which sort there are described innumerable we from the more choice and appropriate may prepare such a one As Take of Sage Rosemary Time Marjoram of each half an ounce Rue two drams Lavender flowers three drams French Lavender one dram Rocket seed one dram Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs two drams Cloves one dram and an half Cubebs one dram Pouder them infuse them in the most excellent Wine that it may be above them the space of two inches then distil them give one spoonful two or three according as he can swallow Castor may be mixed with the same Water being somtimes strained and so given neither is it to be mixt with the whol conposition as they are wont to do for it is better to reserve that which is grateful still for your use and when there is need to mix these ungateful things with some part of that and so give it they think that Mastick mixt with these stilled waters or infuston doth very much increase their vertue Also if you infuse the above mentioned Herbs in the spirit or most excellent stilled liquor of Wine and macerate them a long time in the Sun or some other heat or make it stronger by reiterated infusions you shall make a most excellent liquor for these uses or if out of every herb a part you make such an infusion every one shall be effectual for the same as also if you mix many of them so together then also you may so give a strong compound water amongst which the water which is made of the infusion or distillation of Rosemary is extold above the rest but though the spirit of Wine have some stupefying vertue yet because by the extream subtilty and heat with which it is endued it carries the vertue of other things strongly to the brain and casts forth flegm and stirs up the native heat and drowzied faculties by reason of these commodities the aforesaid simples commodiously infused in it do lay down their vertues in it dulling its narcotick vertue do make it a fit medicine for the cure of the foresaid affects the which spirit of Wine yet to give alone as some do advise we think is not good by reason of its stupefactive power as neither can we allow Treacle waters or others made of Opiates as neither the Electuaries themselves by any means by reason of the Opium which they contain which though they be old yet do in no wise leave their narcotick vertue which in a stupidity and sleepiness we ought by all means to shun Oyls extracted by the art of chymistry from the aforementioned things above all the rest do exert the greatest power given in the least drop and therefore in all those that are stupid are most profitable if one or two drops be powred into the mouth or dissolved in a convenient liquor be given to those that can swallow of which sort is the Oyl of of Marjoram Sage Lavender and that sweet Oyl of Cinnamon and of Cloves Hollerius extols the Spirit of Vitriol rather than which they call the Oyl which because it is sharp may cause watchings they attribute much also to the Oyl of Amber More solid Medicines may be given after the like manner infused and diluted as long as they hardly admit of medicaments and when they are to come to themselves that they can also take grosser things then as also in the whol process of the disease afterwards these may be given also in other forms The Confection Anacardine as 't is approved of in all cold diseases of the brain so here
Inflammation of the stomach and Midriff Some Diseases cause Hickets and other Diseases that hurt them cause the Hickets And also great Diseases of the parts adjacent Preternatural Tumors and Ulcers in the Chaps cause hoarsness Diseases are the cause of Hoarsness as we observe in the Leprosie and French Pox. It is commonly from the Birth The Tongue disordered in the cause of stammering and Wharling that the Tongue is so disordered that it cannot pronounce R. but like a double R. the Tongue is bent or otherwise The cause of stammering is shewed in the Defect of Respiration The Cure Some kinds need no Cure others are mentioned in other places If it come from strong motion The cure of Short-breathing there must be rest or by a contrary motion as when it comes from ascending to descend If it come from passion when that is past the motion of the heart is past If from outward heat cooling abates it c. In Feavers If it come from disturbance of the mind and be often it ceaseth with it Sighing Sighs shew the greatness of the Disease in the Mind Head or Madness In other Diseases when the mind is not disturbed often sighing declares Pusilanimity or strength lost If it come not from weariness or want of sleep which is natural and be often Concerning Yawning it foretels a Feaver or Ague as we shewed in Pandiculation which accompanieth it It is caused by Imagination easier in lazy people than in Active If Hickets be in acute Feavers and continue it threateneth Convulsion The cure of Hickets because the Midrif is greatly affected and death If it come from the Stomach much offended with Hellebore Poyson or corroding things or a great Disease oâ— Inflammation it foretels the same from other causes it is easily cured In the cure first remove the cause as the Inflammation in a malignant or sharp Feaver if from the stomach being pricked lenifie it And in all causes stop the inordinate motion of the Midrife which comes by the Hicket They are done by these following as the cause is sharp hot cholerick biting malignant or cold and flegmatick If the cause be in the Stomach Vomiting is best for the Midriffe in the Hicket helpeth the stomach to expel together with the Muscles of the breast The Vomit must be such as cleanseth and allayeth sharpness and heat thus Take syrup of Vinegar and Oxymel simple each six drams Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with Water of Nuts or Decoction of Raddishes give it It must be repeated if the Hicket cease not and stronger given such as are mentioned Also purge And if the Humor be tough prepare it with Cutters and Cleansers as Juleps Wormwood-wine which is good both in a cholerick and flegmatick Humor Stomach Purges are given for this as Hiera c. in the Diseases of the Stomach As in a hot Cause Take Wormwood one dram Senna three drams Rhubarb one dram Infuse them in Wine let them boyl and be strained In a cold Cause Take Agarick Turbith of each one dram Ginger half a dram Sal Gem six grains Hiera two drams Diagrydium one scruple with Oxymel make a Mass give one dram These may be repeated if the Disease return These following stop the Hickets cleanse the Humor and Lenifie the Stomach and after strengthen In a hot cause when the humor is sharp and burning or in a distemper or emptiness these following are good Broath in great quantity and often Ptisans cold or hot water in great quantity Oyl of sweet Almonds Or Take juyce of Pomegranats half an ounce Vineger two drams Mastick dried Mints of each half a dram Let him drink it Or other sharp Syrups In a cold Elegmatick Cause Take Galangal Ginger of each half a dram spanish Wine one ounce and an half Cinnamon water half an ounce Or thus Take Galangal three drams dried Wormwood and Mints of each two drams Spike Marjoram Dill and Carva seeds of each one dram Cinnamon Cloves of each half a dram Steep them in Wine Also Take Aqua vitae one ounce infuse Cinnamon and Galangal of each one dram shake it often Or this Electuary Take Acorus that is Calamus Aromaticus and Candied Ginger of each one ounce conserve of Marjoram half an ounce Pouder of Galangal one dram with syrup of Mints Or these Pills Take Castor half a dram Mumie one scruple Mastick half a scruple with Honey of squils make a Mass for two Doses We also allay the sense of the Stomach with Treacle Methridate pouder of Tormentil and if it come from Poyson they do good against the Hicket And other Antidotes You may give other Narcoticks if it hinder Sleep And Clysters to revel downwards and Suppositories that Nature may rather send downwards then upwards The smel of Dill boyled with Mastick staies the Hickets Neesing Cures Hickets because the matter offending is sent from the Stomach and Midrif by a greater force Wash the Mouth with cold Water and Gargle Apply things outwardly to the Stomach as this Fomentation Take roots of Elicampanc three drams Mints Wormwood Spike Dill Pennyroyal Calamints of each one handful Lavender Rosemary and Cammomel flowers each one pugil Cumin Carua Dill seeds of each one dram Bay and Juniper berries of each half an ounce Mastick two drams Boyl them in Wine to foment the Stomach before Also hot Ashes with Aqua vitae and Sack put in a bag or bladder and applied to the Stomach A Fomentation with Rose Vinegar and a Spunge is good in a hot cause Anoynt the Stomach before and behind with loosning Oyls and after with Astringents Or apply this Bag Take CArva seeds half an ounce Ammi and Dill seeds of each two drams Galangal Cloves of each one dram dried Mints two drams Mastick Frankincense of each one dram sprinkle them with Rose Vinegar Emplasters also in a hot cause the Cerot of Sanders Unguent of Roses of each one ounce Mastich half an ounce Citron peels and Quince of each one dram with juyce of Houseleek and Turpentine make two Emplaisters for the fore and hinder side of the Stomach It is good to wash or bath the Hands and Feet in hot water And to bind the outward parts Apply Cupping-glasses first to the Shoulders and Navel and then to the Stomach before and behind If you hold your breath it stops the motion of the Midrif and abates the Hicket Or Swallow down suddenly water or gulp divers times without it Or if you hollow and roar or runn it causeth more breathing and then the Muscles of the Breast with the Midrif help the Stomach to expel what is hurtful Also sudden passions of the mind by calling in the spirits take it away by frighting or noise or the like And chiefly by dashing the Face suddenly with Water Dioscorides Teacheth that Alysson held in the Hand stops it Neesing is somtimes a good sign and in sound people sends forth that which troubleth The cure of
Neesing and in the declining of a Disease shews recovery Somtimes it is a sign of a distillation coming or Epilepfie in those that are addicted to it None of these ought to be stopped But in bleeding at the Nose and in Ruptures because it provoketh the Gut down and in Diseases of the Eyes because it causeth tears and sends blood thither and other Diseases in which it increaseth pain it is to be stopped As also when it is so immoderate and continual that it causeth Head-ach and disperseth the spirits It is then stopped by things that purge Excrements from the Head if it come from the Flux of them into the Nose as shall be shewed in Coryza They say the Decoction of Basilicon stops it Palliate the Nostrils with the Vapor of warm water and anoynt them with Butter Milk Oyl Oyl of Gourds Poppies Henbane and with the white of an Egg and Mucilages All fresh The smel of Narcoticks as of Opium Oyl of Roses or Willows represeth the sharpness of the Humors As the smel of sharp things raiseth it Oyls as those of sweet Almonds Dill Chamomil Roses Willows Gourds and juyce of Basilicon are good to be put into the Ears And the Decoction of Basilicon to wash the Head And Chamomel flowers in the Pillow Foment the Breast to strengthen the Muscles with this Take Chamomel flowers two pugils Metilot and Basil flowers and Bran of each one pugil put a stupe into the Decoction and Foment the Breast with it Squeezed Use Frictions and Ligatures of the extream parts press and rub the Ears and Eyes and pul the Nose rub the Palate with the Finger and Comb the Head Holding of the breath as it Cure the Hickets so doth it Neefing if the Nose and Mouth be stopped Also frighting will Cure Neesing as soon as Hickets Strong drawing in of the breath doth stop Neesing which when the vulgar smel unto Bread they impute to the sent thereof Sleep also stops it And darkness as light increaseth it Therefore after a Cataract is couched they are kept a while in the dark and you may do so in other Diseases unto which Neesing is an enemy Let the Head be laid high If there be great Diseases with a Cough look for the Cure in them The cure of a Cough As in Dyspnaea and Asthma When blood or matter is spet see in Haemoptoica Passio Pleurisie Peripneumony Phthises And for the Cure of that which comes from the fault of Natural parts in other places But that Cough which is alone is to be judged by the diversity of the Causes and to be so Cured If it come from things fallen into the wind Pipe then if they be not choaked as we shewed in Dyspnaea the Cough ceaseth when they are cast out And if there be provocation in the jaws after use the Lenitives following If it come from cold only use actual and potential heat and Lenitives and they will easily Cure If it come from a thin Defluxion sharp and salt the Cough is troublesome provokes much and it is not voided by coughing but dispersed only neither doth it stop till the Catarrh is gone and the matter be thick and concocted and then it is easily voided and the Cough abates If it come from thick Flegm fallen down or otherwise it is hard to be cured if new matter stil come after the old is voided In the Cure of both Coughs that come from Excrementitious Humors we keep Humors from flowing and stop them And we study to expectorate that which is the conjunct Cause and Lyes in the Breast by thickning it if thin by cutting if it be thick by concocting both and a little blunting the exquisite sense And these chiefly correct this Symptom of Cough Thus give Juleps to prepare before evacuations and after to expectorate if the Humor be thin and sharp for three daies Take Syrup of Jujubies and Violets of each one ounce and an half Honey of Roses Syrup of Poppies of each half an ounce water of Coltsfoot and Violets of each four ounces Make a Julep Or this Decoction Take Jujubes Sebestens of each twenty Prunes ten Clean-barley half an ounce Liquorish one ounce Violets two pugils Roses one pugil boyl them add Penidyes one ounce for three doses If the Humor be thick and cold Take Syrup of Liquorish one ounce and an half of Hysop Oxymel simple each one ounce Water of Bettony Horehound Hysop each three ounces Make a Julep Or this Decoction Take Liquerish one ounce Elicampane two drams Raysons stone twenty pair Figs ten Dates five Anniseeds two drams Fennel seed one dram dried Hysop two drams Maiden hair Coltsfoot of each one dram Boyl them and add Honey two ounces for three or four Doses If the Cough come from a Desluxion give Purges but not too strong least you increase the Desluxion therefore mix Astringents If the Defluxion be thin and hot thus Take yellow Myrobalans two drams Rheubarb four scruples Agarick one dram Spike six grains Infuse them all in white Wine strain them and dissolve the Electuaries of the juyce of Roses one dram syrup of Roses solutive one ounce Or give half a dram of Aggregative Pills and one scruple of Pill Aureae Mixed with Wine In a cold thick Humor purge thus Take Agarick one dram Turbith half a dram Spike half a scruple Ginger one scruple Infuse them in Wine and Honey strain them and dissolve Diaphaenicon two drams Honey of Roses solutive one ounce and an half Or with Pills Take Pills of Agarick two scruples Cochy one scruple With Wine or Cinnamon water Make Pills If the Body needs more Purging give this Decoction three or four mornings Take Liquorish two ounces Orris one ounce Elicampane half an ounce Horehound Coltsfoot Hysop Betony of each one handful Annis Fennel seeds of each two drams Raysons twenty Figs ten Dates five Carthamus and Senna of each one ounce and an half Boyl them in Water and a little Wine infuse at the end Agarick three drams Turbith two drams strain them add Honey of Roses four ounces Boyl them a little and strain them and let him drink it Keep the Body loose and Purge somtimes This Electuary is the best Lenitive Take Raysons one ounce and an half Currans one ounce Sebestens fifteen Figs twelve Dates five Cassia new drawn one ounce and an half Tamarinds one ounce Steep them and Boyl them in white Wine make a Pulp and add to it Manna three ounces syrup of Violets and Roses solutive of each one ounce boyl them a little give a spoonful or two before Supper When we will gently Purge and stop the Catarrh also Take Agarick two drams Mastick and Frankincense of each half a dram with juyce of Hysop make a Body Take half a dram at night or take one scruple of Mastick Pills If you will have them stronger Take Pill Asajaret Agarick Rhubarb of each one dram Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple with syrup of
and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If
Serpent Dipsas such humors Galen saith may breed in the body and be turned into Poyson That it is no wonder that women with Child and Virgins that want their Terms should have the Pica Or others a depraved appetite from a Cacochymy or evil juyce The Cure Of the three kinds of evil Appetite if Hunger or Thirst cannot be satisfied The Cure of Bouimos or great Appetite of Thirst and Pica or if it be they are sick or pained at heart or Vomit or purge or if they be weak and faint for being satisfied this is to be cured And it is more easily done in Hunger than Thirst and great Hunger is easier taken away than satisfied When strange things are desired that must not be neglected because it signifieth a preternatural cause in the body as also because they delight in such things and think they cannot hurt which they find otherwise First be temperate in eating and drinking not too much nor too little especially after long fasting and sickness and then take a little and often such as is of good juyce and nourisheth wel and is easily concocted In other causes eat things that fil much and are solid and not soon digested yet in small quantity for as an evil custom maketh Gluttons and Drunkards that they are not well except ful so a good and decent custom takes away immoderate appetite and brings it into good order Vomiting is good if there be an evil humor that causeth it and if it come not of it self provoke it And in Dogs Appetite at the first before it is too violent provoke it to take away the cause In other cases vomiting increaseth it except it come from choler In which also thirst is raised which ceaseth when that is spent Purging is good in these cases mentioned both against Thirst and Hunger not in other except there be a Diarrhaea in which you must help nature to take away the cause with things that are gentle and astringe First preparing the Humor All these we choose by other observations than by the sharpness of flegm or melancholly And though purging cause thirst if it come from Choler they may be used If it come from Worms give bitter things to drive them down We use hot and dry things for the stomach when this Disease comes from humors after they are purged Which do not alter the coldness of the stomach but heat and dry it causing thirst which cureth hunger give meat actually and potentially hot spiced and sweetned which are best fasting And sweet Wine that is strong and spiced and Aqua vitae which the labouring people drink in the morning that they may better endure hunger Also hot medicines for the stomach as sweet sharp burning and wel scented Or anoynt foment or Plaister the stomach with hot things Or use exercise and Baths Things that loosen or are fat or viscous subvert the stomack and by greasing it take away the sense and Appetite as Butter Oyl Fat Glutinous as Calfes and Sheps Feet and if they be loathsom they are the better as they speak of roasted Dormice Things take away Appetite by propriety by their adverse force or loathsomness As Wine in which an Ele hath been drowned causeth men alwaies to loath Wine But this must do it by another quality if they that are ignorant of it are cured thereby Antidotes do the like if it come from venom Others stupifie the sense of the stomach as we shewed in the causes of dejected Appetite And Wine or spirit thereof taken fasting doth the same not by heating but stupifying And the infusion of nightshade roots in Wine Also Treacle and Mithridate with Wine are stupifying by reason of the Opium And other Opiates though no Antidotes abate Appetite but it will return again by taking Vinegar Cold and moist things Cure all sorts of thirst And Rhazis saith that cold or cold water hurts the actions of the Stomach largely taken and cold Air cures Hunger Drink doth this chiefly by wetting the dry Belly if it be actually cold and potentially also Water actually cold which we shewed to be potentially temperate is best either crude or boyled to take away the windines Or with sour Juyces or Vinegar or with Spirit of vitriol-Vitriol-waters cure Thirst Wine may be given to them that are used to it especially if small or mixed with Water Also Milk to young Children and such as use it and Whey But they are prohibited in Diseases in which they corrupt easily An Emulsion of sweet Almonds in water called Almond-milk is pleasant Or Decoctions as that of Barley-water or beaten Bread or of cold Seeds or of Prunes Cherries Raysons with Cinnamon Anise Fennel c. Broaths of Flesh-Capons let the Fat be taken off restore and quench Thirst Beere or Ptisan with Juyces As Take Water two quarts Juyce of Pomegranates or Grapes two ounces Sugar half an ounce boyl them a little Or of distilled Waters Take Sorrel and Endive water each two pints Juyce of Currance and Grapes or Pomegranates each three ounces Juyce of Lemmons or Apples boyl them and sweeten them a little Julep Alexandrinum Take Rose-water one pint Sugar half a pound boyl them to a consistance add Water boyled Or thus Take Water one pint Rose-water four ounces Juyces of Cherries or Grapes two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them Sharp Syrups as of Currance or Goos-berries Grapes Medlars Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Sorrel or Vinegar with Water or distilled Waters or Syrup of Violets The Juyce of ripe Anguriae or Pomegranates is good Other solid things to chew made of Sorrel or wood-sorrel Lettice Purslane Endive Succory Bugloss-flowers in Sallets Coleworts Rapes Apples boyled Bar-berries Medlars Peaches Apples Cherries Prunes Pomegranates Bar-berries Grapes Raisons green or dryed Liquorish chewed quencheth Thirst Also Sugar candy with Syrup of Violets held in the Mouth Manna Sugar of Roses and Conserves with Spirit of Vitriol Conserve of Violets candied Lettice Coleworts Guords Citrons Or Take Conserve of Roses two ounces of Sorrel one ounce of Violets Bugloss Water-lillies of each half an ounce of Currans as much as will make a sharp Electuary Take the Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seed Gum Traganth extracted with Rose water with Sugar or Syrup convenient Make a Linctus Take of the Mucilages mentioned one ounce Syrup of Grapes half an ounce with Sugar Make a Linctus Or put seeds of Fleabane and Quinces in a clout and add Sugar cool it in water and lay it upon the Tongue Take the four cold seeds of each one dram Purslane seed Search juyce of Liquorish of each half a dram with Gum Traganth make Troches to hold in the mouth Or Troches of Salt-peter that is Salprunella with Sanders and Suger and Gum Traganth It is good to cool the mouth with water and Vineger Candied Coleworts or with Rose water or Sorrel water c. or to hold Crystal or a Stone or Ice in the mouth and chang it often Some anoynt the Tongue with Mucilage of seeds and
in cold or distilled water in a good quantity You may give Conserves thus Take Conserve of Roses one ounce Conserve of Sorrel and Barberries each half an ounce Candied Citron peels half an ounce with Syrup of Barberries Or thus Take Conserve of Roses Sorrel Barberries if the Belly be loose each two drams Coral one dram red Sanders half a dram with Sugar of Roses make a Conserve We alter by external Remedies to the Heart Liver and Reins that are cold by consent of which parts all the body is cooled To the Heart with this Epithem Take Rose water three ounces Bugloss and Burrage water each two ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Juyce of sour Apples and Lemmons each two drams red Sanders a dram To the Liver with this Take Endive and Sorrel water each three ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Spikenard a scruple mix them We anoynt the Reins with Galens white Cerote or Oyntment of Sanders It is good to bath in sweet water in the declining of the fever to refresh and to discuss the Reliques if after you anoynt with Oyl the whol body or Back-bone Friction or Rubbing is also good in the declining of a fever to dissolve the Vapors raised from the hot blood if it be gentle with a hot Cloth and anoynt the body with Oyl of Chamaemel Sleep Refresheth takes away Thirst and provokes Sweat For correcting the accidents let the Diet be thin and nourishing to sustain strength as Barley-Cream Ptisans Almond milk boyled fruits with other Cordials to restore the Patient Let Head-ach Watching Doting Thirst Driness of Mouth Roughness of Tongue be amended as we shewed how But if the the former things be rightly administred they cease of themselves A Continual solitary fever though it hath divers kinds as a Continual Tertian The Cure of Constant putrid Fevers Quotidian Quartan and that called inordinate which is most usual and a putrid Synoch and Causon yet because their Cause is the same that is blood corrupted in the Veins though the species or kinds are different in respect of the place and blood we shal speak of the Cure of them altogether because most if not all the Remedies may be applied in part to every one As for the Prediction in regard Hippocrates saith the Judgment of acute Diseases meaning Fevers is uncertain we must not rashly pronounce Health or Death But we may declare danger or good hope by observing signs and accidents and chiefly the Critical daies and among them those called Indices or declaring daies to foretel what will be from the signs in those daies following good or bad from whence as the Ancients did so can we with wariness pronounce somthing all things diligently considered for if the Crisis ought to tend to the best which leads to health upon the directory day good must happen which is the seventh of the first week the fourteenth of the second and the twentieth not one and twentieth of the third And after in the same order the twenty seventh thirty fourth and fortieth These are indicated by the fourth the eleventh and seventeenth and the rest alwaies going before them three daies and therfore are called Indices If the Crisis or Judgment ought to be for the worst which brings Death the Directory fals upon an evil day which is the sixth or eighth or tenth or twelfth that is an uncertain Crisis in which the fever abates not at all and therefore called Imperfect or doubtful tending to good or evil at its return This is often the third fifth or ninth day But the Prognostick signs and accidents by which we judg of the event of fevers are these chiefly that follow The Urin is to be observed all the course of the fever because the matter is in the Veins and therfore it is much changed If it be Saffron-like or high as Gold it shews heat or purging of Choler by Urin. Black shews greater heat and danger except the melancholick humor sent forth by a critical evacuation cause it If it be thin of what color soever or crude it is worse than thick if it be perspicuous or to be seen through whether thin or thick it is good because it is neer to the natural Troubled Urin portends no ill if it come so from the cold Air external because that which is concocted is usually so if it be pissed so it is evil except it be critical or a natural discharge a sediment in the Urin is good if it stay at the bottom and together not dispersed equal white and thickish especially in a critical day That Urin which is otherwise is worse The pulse doth declare chiefly the heat and strength which the oftener and quicker it beats especially in the Diastole or dilatation shews greater Heat And as it is small or great declareth the strength An unequal intermitting creeping Pulse signifies no good Difficult Breathing small and strained is not good Sweat which the Patient liketh and wetteth the whol body and is hot is good If it stink and come in due time it is not hurtful Cold sweat is ill and a forerunner of Death Much Pissing is good and in a good Critical day takes away the Fever Bleeding at the Nose and Courses coming unseasonably do not ease but coming critically cures the fever A Loosness or Diarthaea following except it help to take away some of the cause weakneth and is dangerous And black stools shew malignity If the sharpness of the fever be constant and the body burning continually or if it be dayly or twice or thrice in fevers called inordinate and quotidians it is dangerous Tossing of the body restlessness casting off cloaths and going to the feet as Hippocrates saith shews the greatness of the fever and loss of strength If Sleep cause trouble it is an ill sign according to Hippocrates When the Temples fall the Nostrils are sharp the Tongue dry and black the outward parts cold they are evil signs And a sudden consumption of the body spoken of in a melting Causon Long and often Swounding Hiccupping Sighing continuing Convulsion and Carus are perverse and deadly accidents Though Nature cures continual putrid fevers The Cure of continual putrid Fevers which only doth it somtimes yet by the help of a Physitian shee doth it better and sooner If any part of the cause which maketh it or increaseth it be evacuated and the heat altered and the strength be preserved to the state and crisis Let us take away symptoms if they remain and be violent which is done by divers means Things that Evacuate the Cause which produced nourisheth and increaseth severs comprehend by blood-letting evacuation of Humors and Excrements by stool Urin and Sweat Bloodletting except hindered by fear of Swounding and weakness which appears in a swounding fever by the moving of the Choler in a Diarrhaea is the the chiefest means to abate the Cause and the Accident It wil take away the cause to open any apparent Vein in the Arm.
syrup of Roses make Pills The Antients gave Pills of Turpentine instead of Ruffi And we give Rosin of the Larch tree which purgeth very wel Thus Take Turpentine Rosin or Laricea boyled that it may be poudered Rhubarb sprinkled with Cinnamon water each two drams Turbith a dram Ginger half a scruple with pouder of Liquorish make a Mass give a dram or more as you desire to Purge A dram of Turpentine dissolved with the yolk of an Egg and Carduus water purgeth well Divers Potions also may be made for the same As Take Triphera Persica commended by Mesue from half an ounce to six drams with Scabious Carduus and Sorrel water mix it and give the same every fifth day You may give infants Manna in broath or Rhubarb thus Take the extract of Rhubarb with juyce of Roses and Sugar and Sorrel water make Lozenges Droetus makes candied Rhubarb for Children There are many Antidotes mixt with Rhubarb and Triphera In very foul bodies give stronge purgers of Diagridium Coloquintida roots of wild Cucumber Armenian Earth Stibium As this pouder Take the Troches of Alhandal Diagrydium Turbith each a dram Euphorbium a scruple Mastick half a dram Saffron a scruple Snake weed roots and Burnet each half a scruple make a Pouder take half a dram in convenient Liquor Or this Electuary Take wild Cucumber roots Smallage Coriander and Housleek with Honey and Pepper make an Electuary give as much as a smal Nut. This is highly commended of Honoratus Castellanus for preventing and curing the Plague As the true nature of venom of the plague is yet unfound so is the true Antidote but experience hath found out more then reason Therefore we give that which is good against poyson in general The chief and approved shall be set down Either as they are eaten chewed or applied to the pulses or Heart or used as Amulets Of Antidotes taken in they are either very hot or less hot or cold rather then temperate given with regard to the constitution and Age and the hottest are not to be given rashly as Euphorbium and Aqua vitae which prooves water of death somtimes to young people some are given in a liquid form to drink as this Decoction Take roots of Tormentil and Burnet each an ounce roots of Valerian half an ounce roots of Elicampane and Angelica of each two drams of Galega leaves called Goats Rue and Sanguisorba each a handful boyl them in Wine and Water add a little Vinegar and Saffron Or this infusion in Wine to take away ill tast Take roots of Tormentil Dittany Endive Burnet each an ounce and half Valerian Masterwort and Angelica roots each an ounce Snake weed and Gentian roots each half an ounce leavs of Carduus and Cortander seeds each a dram Cinnamon three drams slice and infuse them in sour Wine or white Wine and Vinegar drink every morning often hereof Sheeps Milk drunk fasting is an Antidote commended Presbyter Vesantinus Ydeleyus that often attended in Plague times in his book of the Plague highly commends the drinking of a mans own Piss in a morning fasting and instead thereof the Chymists have a Balsome of Urin more pleasant In Sawces and Sallats use sowre Herbs and Juyces as Vinegar Citron juyce Ribes green Grapes Peaches Cherries Prunes Apples Also the juyce of Clove-gelli-flowers or Vinegar thereof juyce of Goats Rue with Treacle according to Mathiolus juyce of Vervain with Wine or Broath and juyce of Onyons are given divers waies It is good to have things by that will last in time of Plague at hand As Inspissate juyces called Rob by the Arabians or extracts by us as of Carduus Vervain also the extract of Juniper is good and usual Infants may take it it is so pleasant And Syrups with Sugar thus Take Vervain Scabious Goats Rue each a handful Juniper berries a pugil boyl them in water and a little Vinegar and with Sugar make a Syrup Also Conserves or Preserves or dryed and candied with Sugar Honey Vinegar and Salt may be kept As Zedoary sliced and eaten in the morning or drunk with Wine Or CLoves steep'd in Vinegar Citrons or Oranges candied Or Vervain eaten in the morning Roots of Tormentil with Harts-horn and Vinegar or candied with Sugar and Burnet Also Sorrel Bugloss Borage and roots of Moulin are so prepared Also roots of Butter-bur steep'd in Vinegar and roots of Myrrhis and Juniper berries steeped in Vinegar Or thus mixed Take Rue Sage Plantane Bay-berries stamp them with Vinegar eat a spoonful every morning with a little Bole Armenick The Antidote of Nuts is thus made for the whol Family Take Nut kernels Rue leaves and juniper-berries stamp them with Vinegar Another commended made by Apolonius or by Mithridates Take four ounces of Nut kernels three ounces of Figs dried Rue two drams with Vinegar and Salt oâ— Honey if they have sweet things mix them A greater Composition thus Add to the former Tormentil and Burnet each half an ounce Bole Ammonick prepared six drams Saffron a scruple with Vinegar Salt and Honey You may add also some of the following Pouders and Mirrh We make divers confections of pouders and all the rest into Lozenges for Antidotes These are either temperate or more pleasant or unpleasant bitter and stupifying The temperate confections are for Infants Women with Child and dainty Persons they move not the body and hurt not by long use As Diamargariton frigid the cordial Electuary of Nuts and Angelica Confection of Hyacinth made by Falcon against the plague Also Bezoatrick pouders The Chymist extol the specifical Elixir pestilentiall of Crollius also the Gold spirit of Life made with Camphire Thus made Take of the best spirit of Wine a pint Camphire eight drams if chosen in Summer ten in Winter dissolve it in the spirit of Wiue and hang in it after Saffron half a scruple give a spoonful every morning This confection is also good against Worms Take of Bole Armenick prepared with juyce of Lemons two drams shaving of Harts horn half a dram Citron seeds peel'd a scruple Tormentil roots a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram Sugar dissolved in Sorrel and Purslane water make Lozenges or with Syrup or Honey an Electuary Another Composition Take Citron and Sorrel seeds each a dram Basil seed a scruple Tormentil roots a dram and an half Angelica roots half a dram Bole prepared two drams Coral half a dram Pearl a scruple shavings of Ivory a scruple Smaragds and Hyacinths each half a scruple Cinmon a dram all the Sanders half a dram Sugar six drams make a Pouder or dissolve the Sugar and make Lozenges or an Electuary I made in the year 1593. in the Plague time a stronger Pouder thus Take Bole prepared half an ounce Coral two drams Amber a dram and an half Ivory and Hearts horn each half a dram Tormentil roots a dram and an half roots of Dittany Carline Burnet Angelica Master-wort Myrrhis each a dram of round Birth-wort Zedoary Limon peels Cloves each half
Hedg Hysop and if wine be used instead of water or mixed therewith it wil pierce the more Or if you bind the Ashes aforesaid in a knot of Linnen and steep it in wine it will cure especially if the Ashes are made of Plants not throughly burnt but dried to ashes in an oven I did much for one in a Dropsie with this Lye when his Codds and Yard were swollen Take of the Ashes of Vine and Bean stalks and of Bitter-sweet and Holly bark and Juniper all burnt in an Oven without flame each one handful pour a pottle of water thereon and let it run through till it grow a Lye and then boil it with Sugar and skum it and when it is cold give it a relish with one ounce of Cinnamon water let him drink thereof in the morning and one hour before or after Supper three or four ounces The Chymists like the Salts made from thence better as of Wormwood Juniper Hedg Hysop and Dwarse-elder If one drink their own Urin or that of a young Boy it will provoke urine Dioscorides commends the urine of a Goat drunk every day with Spikenard distilled waters penetrat much if drunk often four ounces with wine Simple waters are of Elder or Dwarse-elder roots and Flowers or Berries of Orris roots and flowers and of great Celandine also of white Lillies of Raddish French beans and Dodder and of other opening and diuretick Herbs and Roots among which the water of Sea Fennel is best some commend a water distilled of Mans dung and Tobacco water The Compound waters are made of the aforesaid with Juyce of Flower-de luce some add Cantharides cinnamon Spike and Schaenanth The Chymist make some stronger waters which they give by spoonfulls adding to the aforesaid as celandine Elder c. Tartar and Vitriol calcined and a little Spirit of wine or of Tartar and Vitriol alone with Flints burnt and poudered they make a water which they after distil and account a secret Dioscorides gives the Juyce of Lazerpitium or Benjamin with Figs the Juyce of Brooklime with wine some commend the Juyce of Tobacco some the Extract of Juniper The Oyl of bastard Saffron and the Oyls of the Salts aforesaid are mixed with the former by the Chymists Those Compositions mentioned in a cachexy from weakness of Bowels Obstructions and Hardness are good because they provoke Urine Also Juleps and the milky Potion made of Turpentine Also Electuaries especially that we mentioned in a cachexy when a Dropsie is feared as that made of the Juyce of Elder and Dwarse-elder and Dialacca and Diacurcuma Of the Compounds we may give the two last best and of Simples the Pouder of the Tops of the lesser centaury and of Sea wormwood Also Pouder of Dill with Wormwood or Horehoundwine Also the Pouder of a Wolfes Liver or Guts or the Pouder or Ashes of Hens Guts the Liver of a Cuckow and Spleen of an Ass or of a Colt when the Spleen is affected the Flesh of an Hedghog the Body of a Bat with the Head taken off Earth-worms all dried and poudered or burnt to ashes given alone or with other Pouders in wine syrup or water convenient are thought proper for these Bowels distempered Spanish Flies also or Grass-hoppers or Crickets baked to a Pouder and one scruple given with water or convenient Syrup or Milk provoketh Urine powerfully also you may add cherry-tree or Plum-tree Gum to hinder their ulcerating Some commend burnt Brass and Pouder of Load-stone Also the Pills mentioned in a cachexy are good against the Dropsie that comes from thence And these following are most powerful to provoke Urine Take of Cantharides without the thin wings half a scruple Mastick six grains Rhubarb half a dram pouder them finely and make them up with Turpentine or Fir-tree Rosin two drams adding the Infusion of Gum Traganth made in Violet water and fresh Butter each half a dram make them up with Sugar candy into Pills give one dram at the first to try the strength of them Also we endeavor to consume water in the Belly and the parts below with outward Applications such as draw it forth and digest or dry it into a Vapor You may make Fomentations and Baths for the belly and swollen Legs and Codds of Sea-water or salted water or Suphur nitrous or bituminous Waters Artificiall or Natural Or of a strong Lye especially for the Feet by straining water or wine through the ashes of Vines Oak Beech Beans Cole-worts Bones or the like with Allum and Salt if you will have it stronger with which you may wet clout and lay them upon the Legs Or you may make Fomentations and Baths of a Decoction of Wine Bean water or the like chiefly of the roots and Leaves of Dwarse-elder also of Orris Nettle Celandine Sowbread the Bark of the Root of an Elm and Fern Centaury Mezereon or Mountain-peper Rue Calaminth Organ red Coleworts chamomil flowers Elder and the other Dryers with Brimstone Salt or Allum sometimes Scales of Iron and three drams of the Pouder of Grass-Hoppers or cantharides to provoke Urin also Or make this Fomentation Take of common Lye ten pints Vinegar one pint Salt or Allum three ounces boil them with drying Plants and foment the parts with a Spunge A Stove or dry Bath doth more dry and draw out the humors by sweat from the inferior parts and the more violently if you quench Flints in the bath to raise the fume some have with good success used Laurel boiled therein Also a Fume raised by Iron Flints or Marchasits quenched in Vinegar or by Vinegar powered upon them or upon a Mil-stone is good and the rather if Dwarse-elder be boiled first in the Vinegar Or jet quenched in Vinegar Cover the lower parts of the body with hot Sand the Sea-sand is best by reason of the salt which is drying therefore Dioscorides bid it be done at the Sea shore other sand will do the same with salt and ashes This may be done also with ashes alone which are best when made of drying Herbs and Woods The same may be done in a heap of Corn Malt Bran or trodden Grapes being hot Fill baggs with warm Sand ashes and parched Salt and apply them to the Belly and Feet to which you may add drying Herbs and the great or less hot Seeds In the Dropsie Ascites sweat provoked with Dane-wort as followeth takes down the Tumor Take a good quantity of Dane-wort fried without Water and not burnt lay it upon a Quilt or Blanket upon which let the Patient lie and sweat while he is able refreshing himself with Cordials that he may continue the longer in it There are also divers Plasters Cataplasms and Oyntments for swollen Bellies and Feet and Codds when full with water to consume it with things proper for the bowels thus Of Simples Raddish roots or Acorus Pepper-wort bruised raw or boiled in strong Vinegar which with Water-cresses and Mustard seed they are stronger Also Onions beaten with Honey and Pepper and applied
of Roses in the morning as it stops the running of the reins so doth it the burning of troubled urin from the reins and bladder ulcerated To these Pouders you may add Opium as in the Troches of Winter-cherries Or other Narcoticks as in scalding urin which I have observed a hundred times and more being taken every night in this and other painful Diseases hath allayed the pain and refreshed the Patient that he hath lived though without it he could not for pain Healing and narcotick Pills Take Frankincense and Mastick each one dram Myrrh Storax and Gum Traganth each half a dram the Barks of Mandraks one dram Henbane seed half a dram Opium and Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Wine each one dram with Syrup of Poppies make Pills give one or more as you shall think fit Injections are not for the Kidneys but for Ulcers of the Bladder to which they scarce reach in men by reason of the bending and length of the Yard but return again though not in women and if the Instrument be thrust to the neck of the bladder it will hurt the ulcer yet they are to be used for necessity For making whereof take Cleansers and that also dry which is hard by reason of the constant moisture and things that abate heat of urin as those Anodine Injections there mentioned They are made of Milk which asswageth pain cleanseth and healeth Womens and Cows Milk asswage pain best or Goats with Sugar or Honey Water and Whey when you will heal use Sheeps milk or other boyled and mixed with Sugar or Honey Also the Decoction of Barley with Bean shales Sugar and Honey Wine is good to cleanse if white and thin with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Also Whey and some drops of Spirit of Vitriol injected with a Syringe doth cleanse A Decoction for an Injection to cure ulcers Take the Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half the dryed barkes or skins of Pompions one ounce Horstayl Plantane Nightshade each one handful Rosemary and St. Johns wort flowers each one pugil the four great cold Seeds six drams boyl them in Barley-water in a pint where of dissolve four ounces of Sugar or Honey If you must dry more add Mousear Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse Ceterach Bettony Herb Robert Dassodil roots which glew well also plantane and purslaneseeds Adding also the Juyce of Plantane Horstayl Shepheards rod also Starch Also the Waters of those Plants are good especially plantane or Myrtles Brambles or Olive tops Roses Centaury of St. Johns-wort Also steeled Water or wherein Iron is quenched or melted Lead hath been often infused There are glewing mixtures for Injections As Take Sarcocol steeped in Milk one dram the Infusion of Gum Arabick or Traganth half a dram made in an ounce and an half of Plantane-water Ceruss half a dram Dragons blood one scruple dissolve them in Milk or a Decoction or stilled Waters This oyly Injection heals ulcers Take Hens dung fry it in a pan with Butter or Oyl omphacine then put them in cold Water preserve the Oyl that swims at the top Mix with these somtimes things that asswage pain as the Decoction of white poppy seeds Rinds of Mandraks or Mucilages the white of an Eg and Opium in case of great pain In obstinate Ulcers the Decoction of Litharge is good two ounces in plantane or Rose-water four ounces Or mix with the Injections mentioned Bole Cadmia or Brass ore called Lapis Calaminaris Tutty Ceruss Lead burnt and washed Antimony and the Juyce from the grinding of a Bloodstone And in filthy ulcers a little Myrrh The troches of Alkekengi and Gordonius are good to be taken at the mouth and those of Amber sealed Earth Spodium dissolved in the Liquors aforesaid Some drying Collyriums for the Eyes are good here as that white one and the yellow one and that of Frankincense of Rhasis also of Tutty and the like of Ceruss Sarcocol Frankincense Gum Traganth Arabick Starch which asswage pain with Opium A little Aegyptiacum is good when ulcers are very foul The Chymists commend the spirit of Mercurius dulcis with plantane or horstayl-Horstayl-water injected to cure ulcers in the Yard and Bladder cool Oyntments for the reins are good to cool the urin As we shewed in burning urin You must anoint the privities and perinaeum or seam with Oyl of Roses or Violets with Oyl of Myrtles Quinces and a little Vinegar if the pain threaten Inflammation To these Unguents are added Ceruss Litharge Juyce of plantano and Horstayl to dry the ulcer yet they do little outward and because by astringing outwardly they will stop the passage of urin it is better to use relaxing Oyntments to open as Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil which also stay pain You may make Fomentations of the same for the pecten or perinaeum as of Mallows Chamomil Melilot with Coolers if there be heat as Water-lilly roots and flowers Violets c. The Diet must be as in the Cure of scalding Urin without an ulcer and glutinous Meats that cover the ulcer to keep it from sharpness Fat things soul ulcers and are not here good Other thick pissings as of matter The Cure of turbulent pissing from the Reins or of milkie white from the Reins not yet ulcerated come from a filth that is bred there and mixed with the urin because they cause heat in pissing and by continuance also excoriation of the bladder that causeth an ulcer must be cured This is done by purging the Body from foul excrements and humors which cause the filth to grow to the reins and is turned into matter then by cleansing the reins with things mentioned in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Kidneys Among which Turpentine is excellent and Milk and the like with Lenitives which take away heat mentioned in Heat of Urin which allay the acrimony of urin and of this matter also As for the Pissing of Matter which comes from Imposthumes in the Liver or other parts The Cure of pissing of matter from the Liver and other parts besides the Reins and Bladder or from an Empyema a Pleurisie or Peripnumony In these you must help Nature in her motion and not stop with things that cleanse the filth of the blood by urin mentioned in Feavers and for the rest go to the Disease rather then the Symptom If Pissing of Blood come from a stone which grateth upon the Loins The Cure of pissing blood from the stone through motion because there is then but little blood mixed with urin and it continueth not but when motion ceaseth the urin comes to its colour again it requires no other Cure but that of the Stone which is the cause thereof As we shewed in the Cure of the Stone But if Pissing of Blood come from the Kidneys The Cure of pissing of blood from Anastomosis or hurt of the Reins being too full of blood which Nature sends forth with the urin being impure or too thin it must be cured if it contiune And
Pouder with Wine Dioscorides commends Beans boyled in Vinegar and water others commend Lentils Also Eggs poached in Vinegar or fryed till hard with one dram of new wax to which may be added pouder of Sumach Plantane seeds or Hemp. The Blood of a Goat or Dear fryed is commended by Dioscorides And chiefly that of an Hare with Barley-meal also a roasted Turtle stuffed with Myrtle-berries and new Wax each two drams or two drams of Frankincense and one dram of dryed Pigeons blood and other Astringents as Plantane seed Roses Sumach and Cinnamon Among Fruits Quinces Pears and Apples that are sharp roasted or boyled are the best Also sweet Meats made thereof Or roast a Pear or Quince with Wax and let him eat it Also Medlars Services Cornil-berries Cherries and sharp Plums before they are ripe are astringent Also Goos-berries are astringent and Bramble-berries And Mulberries but they cause pain and therefore are to be used warily Dioscorides commends the Berries of the Lote-tree and Bar-berries and the Huskes of Beans Also roasted Chesnuts and Acorns with Almonds not roasted but these will clog a weak Stomach Purslane is the best pot-herb for a Dysentery it takes away the sharpness There are divers Pouders which dry and bind or have a secret quality given alone or mixed from one dram to one dram and an half commonly with sharp red Wine or with steeled Water Broath or Milk Plantane water or the like with Sugar Honey or proper Syrups The Pouder of the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed are not ill-tasted Water-lilly roots do wonders in Dysenteries Also Comfrey roots wild Sage and Avens roots Dioscorides commends the Pouder of Yarrow Fleabane Scordium and the tops of Tragus also Mousear Cudwort Sun-flower with the Roots the middle of the root of Mullein Horstayl Balsamine or the like mentioned for Decoctions Flowers of Ivy Cistus Palma Christi Flower gentle and Pomegranate flowers Also red Rose cakes Also the Fruit of the Rose with its down and seeds and Bar-berries Roast a Pomegranate and give it in Pouder Also Seeds of red Roses Pomegranates Raisons Grapes Seeds of Water-cresses alone or with others is counted an excellent Remedy against a Dysentery and because they are sharp and burning they are first parched Also Tamarisk seed The Seeds also of Docks and Bloodwort or Sorrel The Pouder of roasted Acorns doth wonders Also of Chesnuts or of Beech mast The Down of Chesnuts within the shell as also of Acorns and Hazel-nuts is good in pouder Frankincense Mastick Myrrh Traganth swallowed or drunk in pouder The pizle of a Dear also poudered and drunk in wine Also burnt Harts horn or unburnt and the pouder of Ox shanks The Runnet also of a Hare or Kid or Mare is commended by Dioscorides He also prescribeth Goats suet with Barley-flower and Roses Also Hares Dogs or Swins dung is given with Milk that hath had Steel quenched therein Also Bole or other fat Earth as that of Lemnos red Coral Crystal Pearl Sapphyres Smarag'ds The Chymists commend the tincture of Smaragds as specifical in a Dysentery It is thus made Let the sparkes or pieces of Smaragds be ground finely upon a Marble with the Urin of a Boy or distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons and the tincture drawn out at the fire And then let it be evaporated till it be a grey pouder then draw out the green tincture with spirit of wine and then evaporate the spirit of wine and let it be brought to an Essence at the bottom two or five tops of this they say taken with plantane-Plantane-water cureth Dysenteries miraculously Some give Allum with an Eg. And Dioscorides gives Salt with red Rose seeds for sauce with Meat There are divers Pouders compound of these to be given in the like quantity or with Sugar in a greater quantity with a Sop in Wine The first is Take Roots of Tormentil two drams Snakeweed one dram Seeds of Docks and Sorrel each one dram and an half red Coral half a dram Another Take half of this Pouder that is three drams Seeds of red Roses and Myrtles each one dram Pomegranate flowers burnt Harts horn or Ivory each half a dram Pearl half a scruple The third Pouder more astringent Take with the former Galls one dram Sanguis Draconis or Acacia half a dram Bole or Terra Lemnia one dram and half a dram of Bloodstone which is stronger A Pouder of Acorns which bindeth and healeth wonderfully Take roasted Acorn kernels one ounce Coriander seed prepared one dram and an half Purslane and Fleabane-seed each half a dram you may add roasted Chesnuts If you will heal more mix Starch one dram and half Gum Traganth a little parched one dram And if you will dry and astringe more mix it with a dram or two of the former Pouders Ashes also are highly commended as of a quick Hare burnt in an earthen pot well stopped Land-turtles or Snails also burnt with their shells Also Pouder of Mans bones or ashes in red wine or steeled wine These may be mixed with other Pouders as Bole Dragons blood and Mummy with pouder of Turtles or pouder of Galls with ashes of a Turtle and a little white Pepper Also these Ashes following Dip a hempen Cloath in two parts of Plantane-water and one of Rose-vinegar in which a little Allum and Bole are dissolved then dry it and burn it to ashes Also the Troches of Amber burnt Ivory or sealed Earth with Sorrel seeds Ramich half a dram taken every day Give in pouder with red Wine or other proper Liquor Sugar of Roses or convenient Syrups or with old Conserve of Roses or Syrup of Myrtles make Pills or a Bolus These Electuaries following are made of Conserves and Candyes Take old Conserve of Roses and Marmulate of Quinces each one ounce Conserve of Comfrey roots half an ounce Coral two drams Troches of sealed Earth or the like simple or compound one dram parched Nutmeg and Cinnamon each half a dram Sugar of Roses as much as will make a Mixture Or Take the Conserves and Candyes mentioned with those of Services Cornils Roses Medlars and other Astringents Pouder of Rhubarb parched one dram mix them with syrup of Quinces or Juyces or Syrups mentioned Micleta Nicolai of Myrobalans Mastick Gum Arabick Sumach Pomegranate flowers burnt Ivory Water-cress-seeds and others that expel wind is good in Dysenteries and other Fluxes Two drams of Watercreess-seeds parched and poudered boyled in Syrup of Quinces till they be thick and three spoonfuls given at once is excellent Another that lenifieth and healeth Take Mucilage of Quince seeds Comfrey roots Infusion of Gum Traganth all made with Rose-water one ounce Starch one dram red Coral two drams Bole one dram Pomegranate flowers half a dram Juyce of Services Cornil-berries or Marmalade of Quinces two ounces Sugar of Roses one ounce make an Electuarie give two drams Narcoticks as we said in Clysters asswage pain and stop Fluxes and they do better taken at the Mouth causing rest and sleep which the Dysentery hindereth
each one scruple wax a little Make a Liniment There are some who anoint the head with Confection Anacardine dissolved in spirits of wine Quilts and Caps also are worne night and day of things that strengthen the head of which in their place Amulets also do help if not by their own virtue at least waies by imagination as the tongue of a Lapwing hanged about one is thought by Rhases to take away forgetfulness The Amethist stone worne about one doth quicken all the senses as one writes and also that the Berill stone worne doth cause a good understanding In a dry constitution of the brain The Cure of Memoryimpaired by the driness of the Brain whence they say the memory is impaired if the body be foul it must be purged as was said of Melancholy whenas in pure bodies medicines applyed do more rightly operate Let it be moistned with meats of good-juyce such as are described in the Hectick and Melancholical Let him abstain from all drying things and immoderate evacuations especially Venery then which nothing is more hurtful He may use this Electuary at times Take of the Conserves of the flowers or Roots of Succory Bugloss Borrage Violets Maidenhair Betony each one ounce and an half Of the pouder of Diatragacantum frigidum and Triasantalum each half a dram with syrup of Violets make an Electuary Let him take the quantity of a Chesnut or one dram and an half Or let him use these kind of Tables Take of the Flowers of Bugloss Burrage Violets of each one scruple the leaves of Marjoram half a dram male frankincense one dram the Skul of a man burnt half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Violet and Rose Water make Tablets The Topicks mentioned in melancholly must be applied to the head especially this Lotion of the head and feet is very profitable Take of the Decoction of the Head and Feet of a Weather as much as is sufficient adding the herbs Bugloss Burrage Violets with their flowers if they may be had flowers of Roses Betony for hot things must be mixt with cold when we moisten as was said in melancholy each one handful Boyl them This following also is good Take of the roots of Marshmallows half a pound the herbs Betony Marjoram each one handful flowers of Violets Roses Chamomel Melilot Lavender each one pugil Boyl them in milk to wash the Head Also such an Unction is commended especially after the Lotion Take Oyl of sweet Almonds Roses each one ounce the fat of a Drake half an ounce one white of an Eg Milk half an ounce stir them together for a Liniment Chap. 2. Of a Consternation of the mind The Kinds VVE cal that a Consternation of the mind when the Senses either only opprest or almost wholly taken away either they sleep after a non-natural manner or are Stupid and that either with a languishing and resolution of the body or with an Agitation or Convulsion of it or with a Rigidity or Stiffness which four are the chief and highest Kinds of Consternation of mind particularly here to be explained That is a preternatural sleep which lasts longer then a natural and then 't is called immoderate and which doth more lull the Senses and therefore 't is called profound somtimes too great a propension to sleep or a very proprofound sleep happens to them that are well at other times it befals them in Diseases and somtimes without somtimes with a Fever somtimes also it invadeth with Ravings or with Stupidity Too great a propension to sleep in those otherwise well is a frequent fault in some men Immoderate sleep not when this befals certain natures by reason of their Age as in Infants and old folks 't is accustomary and good or by reason of the Country in which 't is natural for some to sleep night and day but when it proceeds from a cause that ought not to be whence not onely too long indulging to sleep by night they rise late in the morning but also by day time especially presently after taking of meat and chiefly in a hot place or season they are so forced to sleep that it is altogether necessary for them to sleep to which some are so prone that though they do no waies at all compose themselves to it but do somwhat to shake it off Profound sleep yet notwithstanding they fall asleep in that very work and I have seen one of them even when he drank at Table and moved the cup to his mouth in that posture fallen asleep or doing somwhat else he was wont to sleep in that form of body Profound sleep somtimes doth steal upon sound men after drinking of Wine in Drunkards or some other Narcotick taken which is not lasting if the use of them hath been gentle but if more vehement 't is turned into a Stupidity as shal be said there In a Disease heavy sleep is called Caros Coma Cataphora Lethargus Veternus Subeth in which as in that naturall they sleep with their Eyes shut and Body prostrate but in that that the internall Sences and by consequence the externall do not only rest as in a naturall sleep but are as it were overwhelm'd they are more or less dulled so that they can scarce or never be roused up and being wakned they complain of no Pain onely that they feel their Head heavy and weighty and so fall asleep again The motion also of the body is more languid yet not abolisht as in the Apoplecticall with a resolution of the Limbs neither is their breathing hindred as in them but free and easie unless in some it be depraved with yawning and noise their pulse also although it be weaker yet it doth not cease as in a Syncope Sometimes a Fever is joyned with Sleep which if it begin together with this Sleepiness with a Fever is a Lethargie it hath obtained the name of a Lethargie which notwithstanding is common to the rest also in which besides the signs of sleep a preternatural heat of the body a quick pulse a deep dyed Urin declare a Fever present but also a Caros somtimes following a Fever and is its Symptome Besides these Species of Sleep there is one also found in which though there be the greatest propension to sleep Sleep with Deliration and they express the same by lying down with their Eyes shut notwithstanding they watch and divers shapes and apparitions are presented to them or if they do sleep they are troubled with divers horrible dreams which afterwards when they awake they declare who being forced do hardly lift up their Eyes and look upon him that toucheth them but know him not and though they do feel and are moved yet they cannot rise out of the bed and do the work of one awake this they call a Cataphora or a sleepless Coma Some cal it a Typhomania as it were an astonisht madness neither may it unfitly be called a Raving sleep and be refer'd to Delirations or a heavy
Disease is moistening and cooling because they are hot and dry But because the heat is not alwaies the same in every kind of Fever and the causes divers the Cure must be divers The chief kinds are solitary or alone Fevers without another Disease and these are simple or compound or accompanied with another Disease The Cure differs according to the Cause of these three kinds of Fevers They are simple solitary Fevers which are of one kind under which are divers sorts in respect of the divers Causes for which the Cure is different When they come from a simple or single heat they are pure and single called Ephemeral and Synochs when from a putrid heat they are Putrid Continual and Intermitting When from a malignant heat they are Putrid Malignant Pestilential and Venemous When from a fixed heat they are Hecticks To these eight kinds we shal prescribe particular Cures An Ephemeral Fever Pure Single or Alone The Cure of an Ephemeral Fever ends of it self many times the first day before twenty four hours pass and brings no danger If it continue longer by some error or greatness of the Cause it turns to a Synoch seldom to a Hectick To prevent which they must be thus ordered by Altering and Evacuating means For the Evacuation of the matter which is thin and and sooty and dissolves and breaks forth by heat increased by the pores insensibly or Sweat we shal help Nature those waies for shee wil of her self do it if shee be not hindred By keeping the body warm lest the Vapor be struk in By giving no meat before the Fever decline lest we hinder Natures motion or very little and that when the body is weak By giving to drink sometimes such things as help transpiration or sweat as we shal shew in the Synoch accompanied If the Belly be loose there is less danger of its turning into a Synoch this is better done by Clysters and Suppositories than by other means If the Fever come from a Surfet or Wine especially a Vomit wil not be amiss Altering things in regard the heat is small are not many If the Air be too hot in the Chamber it must not be too much cooled but qualified lest we increase the Fever by sudden sending the heat to the Heart or by stopping transpiration or sweating And we refresh them with moderate drinking if they thirst by which they wil sweat better A simple pure Synoch if it be alone The Cure of a Synoch not putrid although the heat be great if it be wel ordered departs the third or fourth day at the farthest without hurt either by transpiration or Sweat If not it turns to a Putrid or a Hectick But usually when some blood gets out of the Veins it produceth Erysipelas Bubo or inward Inflammations as we shal shew in treating of Synoch accompanied To prevent these betimes while the the Fever is solitary especially lest Inflammations should arise which are very dangerous we study speedily to quench the blood and keep it from going out of the Veins and discuss whatsoever is turned into Vapors and to correct the greatest accidents By the things following observing the constitution whether it be sanguine or cholerick Blood-letting is the first thing to cool that Inflammation and to draw it from falling into noble parts and causing dangerous Inflammations Fontanonus therefore saith it must be done quickly and by so saying he affirms my Opinion that these Inflammations go not before but follow a Synoch Therefore in plethorick persons it must be done speedily if it were omitted the first day expecting an Ephemera the next because the Fever remaining concludes it to be a Synoch And a general Vein opened and a great quantity taken away even to swounding in strong plethorick persons as Galen saith Or which is safest it must be done often In cholerick and yong persons it must be used sparingly if there be danger of Inflammation I fear not to open a Vein in a Child of ten yeers old Purging is to no purpose because it takes away none of the Cause and only inflames the body But before blood-letting it is good to loose the Belly By a Clyster is the quickest way and it also cooleth Thus Take of the four emollient Herbs each one handful Lettice half a handful Barly a pugil boyl them add Cassia one ounce or juyce of Beets and Lettice each half an ounce Honey Butter each an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster And this may be given again after bleeding if the body be bound Or give two ounces of Syrup of Violets or Roses with water or simple Diaprunes or other gentle Electuaries by which the Cacochymie or evil juyce is diminished If Nature be accustomed to it and tend that way a Vomit may be allowed especially if the Fever come from a Surfet of Wine or Eating or the like And if Choler be hot and troublesome in the Stomach it will help much We give also things to quench the heat of the blood or allay it and to thicken it that it may not get out of the Veins easily these are actually or potentially cold and such as keep away putrefaction which blood inflamed is easily turn'd into to prevent a Putrid Synoch They are sharp or four things which do both cool and hinder Putrefaction and are excellent when Choler is much inflamed Also they take away the bitterness of the Mouth and Thirst These are in divers formes Drinking of cold water is good to allay the heat of Blood This done in abundance to satiety and blood-letting till they faint was accounted sufficient for the Cure But custom and constitution must regulate the quantity of these Crude or boyled Water with Barley a little Vinegar or Juyce of Pomegranates Lemmons or the like to sharpen it is good to be given instead of Drink Also distilled Waters of Purslane and Sorrel with the Decoction of Barley or the Decoction of Lentiles which is best when an Erysipelas appears to send the matter forth Also Juleps of Syrup of Currants Pomegranats Lemmons Sorrel Citrons or Jujubes are good mixed with Waters to thicken the blood as those usual of Roses Violets Maidenhair If the Belly be bound Thus. Take Syrup or Julep of Violets the one is made of the Juyce the other of the Water of Violets each one ounce and an half Syrup of Ribes or Currans one ounce Barley water six ounces Bugloss and Sorrel water each two ounces make a Julep with a little Cinnamon or Galangal to sweeten it If the Belly be too loose Take the Alexandrine Julep or Julep of Roses which by reason of the Rose water astringeth the Syrup loosen two ounces the Decoction of Barley four ounces drink often You may give a spoonful or two of the syrups aforesaid Put Oyl of Vitriol some drops in Water to make it sharp for a Julep And the Chymists commend in these fevers the Spirit of Niter and the Salt called Lapis Prunella or Crystal Mineral