Mouth and in case thou perceivest any such thing take Wood-sorrel and the abovesaid rind of Hawthorn make a Decoction of it and put in it a little Allom and often gargarise with it Clean thy Teeth from the slime with Water well sharpened with Vitriol The common Inflammation of the Mouth may be cured with frequent washing of the Mouth taking a gargarism made of House-leek Lettice Night-shade or Self-heal Water mixing a little Honey of Roses and Mul-berry-juyce with it Of this gargarism the Patient is also to swallow a little thereby to moisten the Throat Some take House-leek and beat it and put to a pound of it half an ounce of Sal-armoniack mixing it well together And so they put it for some days in an earthen pot glased under ground then they distill of it a Water in Balneo or in Sand Which is excellent both to drink and to gargarise though the Sal-armoniack make it a little unpleasant But there is nothing better to allay this Inflammation than Niter which is so well known amongst Souldiers that they are wont to give one another Gunpowder to drink which Powder performs this effect not upon the account of the Coals or Brimstone but the Saltpeter For this cause Experienced Physitians and Chirurgions endeavour to purifie Niter for this use that it may have the greater effect and this they do in manner following They take of the purest Niter they can get as much as they think fit they beat it to a fine powder and melt it in a large Crucible and whilst it boils up and foameth they pour into it a little powdered Sulphur and so let it boil together till the blew Sulphur-flame ceaseth then they cast in more fresh Sulphur Which they repeat often and then pour out the Niter into an earthen vessel glased making Lozenges of it of which they put one pulverised into a quart of limpid water and so give the Patient to drink of it as much as he needs to quench his thirst Or they give of this purified Niter to their Patients labouring under this Inflammation the quantity of a ducat or half a ducat weight in Broath or in Ptisan till they find the Tongue cleared of its slime The use of Salt-peter thus prepared removeth also the Inflammation of the Heart especially if it be melted upon Lead and then proceeded with as before For Lead is a considerable cooler of which cooling quality the Niter whilst it is melting upon it taketh in not a little Let then your Lead melt and when 't is melted dissolve the Niter upon it and then to purifie it cast some Brimstone into it as was said above till it be cleansed from all impurity and then give of it to thy Patient two or three times a day according as need shall require Otherwise take live Crafishes and fresh House-leek beat them together in a mortar squeeze out the Juyce with it mix a little Sal-armoniack or a pretty deal of thy prepared Niter make a Potion of it and give of it even cold to thy Patient repeating this several times every eight or ten hours once according as you shall see occasion Or take fresh Lard if it be salted draw it through hot water to unsalt it and cut a slice of it two fingers large and of the thickness of a knives back put this into the Mouth of thy Patient it is an excellent remedy against this Inflammation of which I shall give the reason hereafter I have seen wonders done with it But if thy Patient do rave then fasten this slice of Lard with a thred and needle to his shirt or doublet lest he swallow it Or take fresh Butter and put it in cold water and of it give thy Patient at a time the quantity of a hasel-nut to hold it upon his Tongue and let it melt there which will keep the Tongue always moist And if thou work among this Butter some of thy prepared Niter it hath a wonderful effect though the taste be not pleasant I promised above to explain the Reason of the Cure of these Inflammations When you take a gargarism of the Waters of Night-shade Wood-sorrel Knot-grass Endive House-leek and the like mingled with Vinegar you do well but this is not enough the reason is If you wet a piece of Leather you make it indeed limber but when it comes to be dry it grows hard and shrinks except you grease it over with some fatty matter and then it will remain smooth So it is with the Tongue though it be made clean with gargarisms yet will it become again rough and untoward unless some fatness be used For which cause I have directed to use Lard or Butter mixt with Niter If the Almonds be swelled thou must abstain from all sowr things and prepare a gargarism of Figgs St. Johns Bread Mallows-flowers Liquorice Elder-canes mixing with it some Rose-honey or Juyce of Walnuts or the Rob Diamorom gargling often with it seeing that this symptom is a dangerous thing for when the Throat swells of it few Patients do escape death especially if it be a Pestilential Squinancy And in case there appear any Tumour outwardly take fine Flower Milk and Saffron making a Pulse of it and to keep it from growing hard mix with it Althea-salve or Houndstongue-salve the Oyl of blew Violets Mullein white Lillies Camomile or the like adding a little Oyl of Scorpions to it and applying this outwardly Make also a Scraper of Alder-wood if it may be had if not other wood will serve though Alder be best Throw it into cold water and let it lye there using it as often as there is need yet take heed of making thy Tongue sore or raw CHAP. VI. Of Fevers Belly-aches Tumors of the Belly Yellow Jaundise and Distempers of the Liver IN Camps there is nothing more frequent than Fevers of the Stomach arising from ill dyet which Souldiers are often put to for want of better eating what they can get Cheese Herbs Flesh half boiled stale and musty Bread and the like Hence is gather'd a morbifick matter in the Stomack which causeth putrefaction and consequently Stomack-feavers In this case thou art first to purge And for that purpose make use of the Pulvis solutivus de tribus recommended above taking the weight of a ducat or a ducat and an half in warm broath and fasting two or three hours after it Or fetch from the Apothecary of the Tabulatum Diaturbith cum Rhubarbaro or the Diaphoenicon in tabulis taking half an ounce at a time and keeping thy Chamber Or infuse Sena-leaves in Wormwood-wine and drink a small glass-full of it an hour before thy break-fast This will also serve very well especially if some Carduus benedictus have also been fermented in the Wormwood-wine If thou art troubled with Gripings or Inflation of the Belly take of Zedoar or Angelica-roots or Orange-peels cut them small and take at a time the weight of a ducat in hot broath If the Inflation be much
take in the morning the quantity of a hasel-nut of Mithridate fasting an hour after it and if the pains of thy Belly prevail make a Decoction of Wormwood in Wine and drink of it as hot as thou canst this will allay the pains and give thee some stools Mean time abstain from raw Fruit and Beer Milk Herbs and such like If thou art swollen take half a drachm of Rubarb and about the same quantity or a little less of Mechocan reduce it to powder and take it in Wormwood-wine or warm broath in the morning fasting and eat nothing within an hour or two after Be careful to take down some Treacle in the morning fasting but you are first to be purged Otherwise make a Decoction of the Roots of Elecampane and Pimpernel or Swallow-wort in Wine and drink a warm draught of it mornings it will provoke Urine If thou canst bear amongst it Wormwood Carduus benedictus or Centory add them in the Decoction and it is a good potion for the Liver An Herb call'd by the Latins Eupatoriam Avicennae in English I think Common Hemp-Agrimony hath a great operation in swelled People drinking of the Decoction thereof made in Wine Besides use in this case Parsley and Smallage-roots in thy meat Boil Horse-radish and drink of the Decoction warm in the morning Thy ordinary drink is to be a water in which hath been boiled a good quantity of Cummin Annis or Fennel You may also now and then drink a little Wine swelled People having no great heat in them From these obstructions of the Liver and Mesaraic Veins comes difficulty of Breathing and a dry Cough which occasions the Inflation of the Belly and helps to entertain the crudities and indigestions Mean time there useth to follow upon this the Yellow Jaundise For this take the Roots of Cyclamen or Sow-bread reduce them to powder and take the weight of half a ducat in Meath or Wine mixt with a little Honey sweating upon it and you shall find your sheets discoloured of a yellowish colour In the same manner make use of the Seed of Aquileja or Columbine I have reduced these three to powder and mixt them together and given of it the weight of a ducat to sweat which hath proved very successful Orange-peels used in like manner do also much good in this case The bitter Centory boiled in Meath and a good draught drank of it warm in the morning is also very good Likewise a Decoction of the white Horehound and Cichory-roots is also used to good purpose in this case These things expel also Worms if any do lodge within thee for which may also be used the Souldiers Pills of Aloe called Marocostinae In this case Vineger of Squills is also an excellent remedy taking of it in the morning early a spoonful two or three and exercising after it It will open the Breast and make you expectorate phlegm and slime in abundance If you be troubled with Wind and Gripings of the Guts be careful to have your Body soluble Boil Calamus cut small in broath drink of it hot putting a little Angelica or Masterwort Do this mornings and evenings and beware of drinking cold and abstain from all Milk keeping your self very warm especially about the Feet which you will do well to bath with a Decoction made of Asarabacca Camomile wild Trefoil wild Marierom wild Thyme putting a little Salt into it For your drink boil Cummin Annis or Fennel in water and now and then a glass of wine may do well These Gripings may also be cured with drinking very bitter Wormwood-wine as hot as you can endure it This is also opening If you boil Elecampane and Orange-peels with the Wormwood it will have the greater effect And if you add to it Allium Sylvestre Crow-Garlick you have an excellent Medicine for this purpose This I have used my self and found present relief from it when in a very hard Winter upon a Journey I was taken with these Gripings 'T is indeed a very unpleasant potion exceeding bitter especially being to be drunk hot but the good effects will make amends for that If the pains should not cease after all this mix with it the quantity of a hasel-nut of Treacle or Mithridate and so drink it off together If you can get Malvasy mix a little Oyl of Olives with it and drink of it warm Oyl of sweet Almonds would be better one half of that and the other of Malvasy though these things perhaps will not so easily be had in a Camp Fresh Butter may serve instead of Oyl Else make a Decoction of Juniper-berries or Laurel-berries and Elecampane in strong Wine and drink a good draught of it mornings and evenings Or reduce the Herb Carduus benedictus to powder and drink its weight of a ducat in warm Malvasy or other strong Wine it will remove the Gripings especially if you mix with it a little Zedoary pulverised For your Meat take Larks if they chance to be in season draw them and fill their bellies with Garlick and so rost and eat them Make a Decoction of Burnet or of Master-wort and Laurel-berries in Beer strain it and melt a little Butter in it adding a little Pepper and so drink of it hot For an outward Application take the Oyl of Rue and Wormwood dip Cotton into it and put it warm to thy Navil Or beat Onions and fry them in Dill or Camomile-Oyl wrap it up in a linnen Cloth and apply it to thy Belly where the pain is most violent refreshing it often The Oyl of Laurel-berries mixing a little Juniper-berry-oyl or Nutmeg-oyl with it may be used with great benefit anointing the Navil therewith and afterwards put to the Navil a warm dry bag filled with Bran and Camomile-blossoms Or fry Cow-dung in the Oyl of Dill or of Camomile or of white Lillies and apply it thus to thy Navil keeping thy self and especially thy Leggs very warm If you perceive any Hydropical Distemper in you make a Decoction of Wormwood and Juniper-berries in Wine drink every morning a warm draught of it fasting You may also to very good purpose boil with it Swallow-wort Burnet or Succory roots adding also to it some Annis or Fennel-seed But it will be requisite first of all to purge with Mechoacan and Rhubarb and now and then to repeat this purgation Abstain from Milk Beer Fruit and all raw and obstructing food If you knew how to use Elder you would have an excellent Purge to free your Body from the Hydropical water because the Juyce of the Roots of Elder purgeth Hydropical Persons exceedingly But 't is not so safe to use it unless you do it with great caution because a very little of it taken inwardly purgeth both by stool and vomit like Antimony Half a nutshel full may suffice The like effect you 'l find in Elder-buds boiled and then dressed with Oyl and Vineger like a Salad eating a very little of it But I advise you not to use too much of
it else it will cast you into great faintness The Juyce of the Roots of blew Lillies hath the like vertue but is likewise to be used with great discretion Otherwise take Earth-worms and having wash'd them clean in Wine reduce them to powder and take of it for some mornings the weight of half a drachm in warm Broath or Wine mixing a little Rhubarb with it The Swelling of your Leggs may be removed by heating some Tiles and sprinkling them with Wine and clapping them about your Leggs to make them sweat For a swelled Groin take warm Milk wherein Calamus Aromaticus hath been boiled and sweeten it well with Sugar and apply it CHAP. VII Of all sorts of Fluxes as also the Tenasmus or vain endeavour of going to stool and the Hemorrhoid or Riles and Marisca's or sore Fundaments IN Wars and Camps Bloody and other Fluxes are very frequent caused by an irregular and ill dyet and these Distempers especially the Bloody Flux carry away abundance of Men. Where it is to be noted that the Bloody Flux is infectious and very catching Common Fluxes and Loosenesses may easily be cured Amongst other Remedies take burnt Harts-horn and take it often in Broath or pulverise Medlar-kernels and take of the powder in Broath likewise Also an Electuary made of Quinces and Sloes will cure them The same does Nutmeg and the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed or the Roots of Cinquefoil baked in Eggs and eaten Likewise the Seed of Dock broad Plantain item Terra Sigillata or Bolus Armenus and Wheaten-bread coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red Wine and eaten Again Mastick pulverised and put into Almon-milk red Wine or Broath the weight of a drachm is good for such a Looseness especially as comes from indigestion adding a little Nutmeg or Galingal to it Oaken-leaves also or the Rinds of Pear-trees with a little Mace boiled in Wine and drunk cureth common Fluxes Again Bursa Pastoris Shepherds-Purse boiled in steel-Steel-water with a little Coriander and drunk is also very good and so are Crafishes boiled in Vinegar and the scales beaten to powder taking a drachm of it mornings and evenings either in red Wine or in Broath wherein red-hot Steel hath been several times quenched Hawes also boiled and made into a thick Electuary and strained is beneficial if taken in the morning fasting and an hour or so before supper the quantity of a Walnut Besides take new Milk with its Cream on it quench therein divers times red-hot Pebble-stones so that the Milk may grow hot of it then mix with it two or three well-beaten Yolks of Eggs two ounces of Sugar melting in it an ounce and an halt of the Suet of a Deer or Stagg and about half an ounce of Album-graecum using it for a Clyster which cleanseth and healeth the Guts and allays the sharpness of the Blood and other corrosive humors that annoy the Bowels But take heed of not stopping too suddenly the Bloody Flux or any other Laske for if you do the annoyance will remain in the Body and cause Impostumes Difficulty of breathing and other dangerous Distempers Wherefore consult with thy strength and if that be considerable make not too much hast yet keep a bridle upon it so as to be able to stop it when there is need Mean time if it be without a Fever or heat you may do much with new Milk drinking it also mornings and evenings warm some red-hot Stones having been quenched therein and some Sugar mixed with it to prevent curdling in your Stomach This Medicine was known to the famous Grecian Physitians Aetius Alexander Trallianus and Galenus himself l. 10. de Simpl. Med. facult If you add a little Album-graecum to it 't will be the better I have my self done much good with thus prepared Milk but then there must be no Fever which if there be you 'l easily perceive it by a great thirst quick pulse hot hands and little sleep c. For Bloody Fluxes are not wont to be accompanied with shaking Fevers but only with hot fits which spend more of the Patients strength in an hour than shaking Agues in several days which is to be well heeded Eggs boiled hard in Vineger and given to the Patient that is troubled either with the Bloody or any other Flux it will be stopped The Roots of Tormentil or of Snake-weed pulverised and this powder drunk in a convenient vehicle the weight of a drachm is one of the most approved remedies against these Fluxes Tormentil-roots being very powerful not only to stop them but also to take away their carching malignity The Moss that grows on wild Rose-shrubs reduced to powder and taken in Wine wherein have been boiled the husks of Acorns is an approved remedy in this case Scrape red Lead or Rudle such as Carpenters mark their lines with put it into Wine or Broath wherein hath been boil'd the broader kind of Plantain and Tormentil-roots or take it in an Egg. Hares-blood dried and taken inwardly is also a tried Medicine in this Distemper Item open a new-laid Egg take out the white and fill it up with Nutmeg or the pulverised root of Tormentil or of Snake-weed and give it the Patient to eat or put into it some pulverised Blood-stone and it will do good I have used with good success the Seed of the broader Plantain grosly beaten and rosted in an Egg against the Flux and I know it also to have been beneficially used against the Bloody Flux Take of Mummy a little Mastic Bol Armeniac Sanguis Draconis mix them together and make a powder of them and take of it in a convenient liquor the weight of a drachm once or twice a day Take Rye-biscuit and boil it in water with Coriander and the roots of Tormentil or of Cranes-bill quench some Steel in it once or twice and give of it to the Patient to drink Make a Decoction of Shepherds-purse and Meadow-sweet in water and wine and now and then drink of it Burn live Crasishes in an earthen Pipkin well-closed until they be so burnt as to be reduced to powder of which give to the Patient mornings and evenings a thimble-full or two in a convenient liquor A dried Liver of a sucking Lamb or of any other such Animal is very good in this case provided such a Liver before 't is dried be boiled in Vineger Let the Patient take a drachm of it twice a day Also the Blood of a Lamb or of a Hind both dried will have here a good effect Take a Pigeon Wood-cock or Partridge and having drawn any of them fill them with Mastic and a little Nutmeg and so rost them on a spit and whilst they are rosting baste them with red wine and so let them rost till they grow so hard as will make them pulverable then reduce them or any of them to powder and take a spoonful of it at a time in warm broath The highest Experiment in this case is Crocus Martis taken in the Juyce of
small pellets called by the Germans Quellmaisseln dipt in a Salve made for this purpose out of fresh Butter Yolks of Eggs and Turpentine well mixt together cold But it happens sometimes that such Bubo's by reason of the venomous matter do eat in or grow fistulous or make matter-baggs in which the matter settles In this case you must use the Unguentum fuscum Apostolicum or the Aegyptiacum Or make the following water to be squirted into such Sores namely of Celondine Scordium or Water-germander Carduus-benedictus Centory or the like Herbs together with Tormentil and Whitlow-grass all boiled in wine If the Sores be very ill you may boil with it some quick Brimstone and Myrrh and if need be mix with it a little fine Verdigrease Or take Honey four ounces and an half a quarter of an ounce of Aloes Epatica a drachm of Salt an ounce and a half of Scordium mix all well together and keep it for use and when you have occasion for any of it then dissolve it in wine and spirt it in Mean time enlarge the opening of the Boyls with the aforesaid pellets that so the matter may have vent enough and come away without any impediment The Unguent of Ulysses Aldrovandus is also very good for the clearing of such Sores and 't is made of Oyl of Roses the Juyce of broad Plantain sharp-pointed Dock Centory and Night-shade with a little Litharge burnt Lead and prepared Camphir Instead of the Juyce of Night-shade you may take that of Cumfry As for the Sores call'd Anthraces and those they call Carbuncles great care must be taken to break them soon and to heal them slowly that so the poisonous matter may all come away They ripen and break soonest by fatty but not hot Plaisters and Unguents especially such as are made of butter leaven yolks of Eggs and Honey or if you mix together Turpentine Unguentum Populeum or Rose-salve mixt with yolks of Eggs or the Unguentum Anodynum mixt with the Ointment of Hounds-tongue and laid on it It must be often refreshed because such hot Sores and Ulcers before they break do so draw waste and as 't were lick up those fatnesses that sometimes of the plaisters that have lain on them there remains nothing but the bare ragg The Emplastrum Basilicon or the common yellow drawing plaister is here the most useful You must also surround the Anthrax with good defensives for if it invade the neighbouring part never so little it will soon make a large halo or circle which will at length separate from the sound and fall away like an escarre For such defensives make use of Album Camphoratum or the Unguentum de Liquiritia known by our people under the name of Dr. Mindererus his Licorish-ointment Item the Unguentum de Lithargyro or the Unguentum Jovis prepared of fresh Butter with Thlaspiminus or Bowyers Mustard otherwise Narrow-leaved wild Cresses Cranes-bill Elder Poppy Vervain and some shaved Licorish Some take nothing but Vervain and the fresh leaves of Henbane beaten together and the Juyce strained and so used Of this Ointment you may make much with confidence for it will do you very good service in Inflammations especially in the case of the swelling of the groins Amongst the approved Medicines for this purpose may deservedly be reckoned the plaister made of Soot which is thus to be prepared Take of the finest Chimney-soot one ounce and a quarter of Leaven Turpentine and fresh Butter ana one ounce of Venetian Soap an ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs of Treacle and Mithridate ana a quarter of an ounce Beat all these together in a mortar and so reduce it to a paste and then use it plaister-wise When the Anthrax or the Carbuncle is broken you must then handle it very gently and discreetly using only the above described Egg-salve putting it into the opening and covering the Sore only with the common yellow drawing plaister or the plaister prepared of Oyl Wax and Rosin or Turpentine Let the matter work out well and when you are sure that 't is very clean and have a mind to consolidate it make only use of Triapharmâ—con iâ— vulgarly call'd the brown Diachylon you may besides put into it some of the Unguentum de Tutia and that of the Diapompholox and one of the plaisters of them upon it The Ulme-plaister also made of Oyl and Ceruse heals also very well But be very careful lest any of the matter remain lurking in the Ulcer If here and there any should be found yet remaining as often happens then make use of the Emplastrum Apostolorum But if you can prepare the Diapalma otherwise called Diacalcithros make use of that I am wont to call it the Fistula-plaister because it doth not easily suffer Fistula's to stink but keeps them clean and sweet Such a plaister is also that which is called Isis to be found in Galen and performing the same thing They are both to be found in the Augustan Dispensatory together with the way of preparing them Now what concerns Old Sores which many are troubled with in their Leggs especially because the humors of the body usually settle there you must above all things be careful to keep them clean and to that end wash them at least once a day with your own urine Or boil Carduus-benedictus Egrimony Plantain and roots of Tormentil in half small meath and half wine and wash the Ulcer with it as often as you dress it Among the common plaisters for such evils is the brawn Diachylum one of the best Else you may prepare this Ointment which follows Take the middle rind of Elder and St. Johns-wort boil them in oyl putting a little wine to it and so let it boil up till the wine be boiled away then take it off from the fire and let it cool this done stir a little Turpentine amongst it and a yolk or two of Eggs according as you make a greater or lesser quantity mixing with it a little Allum and Vitriol the white is the best stir all well together and apply it to the Ulcer and make a bandage and cover it as usually For a good Drawing-plaister take Rosin Bee-wax and Oyl-olive the quantity of the Rosin must be but the half of the Wax Let them melt together and stir amongst it some Tartar exquisitly powder'd Use not much of fatty things to such Ulcers I have had under my care such Ulcers that were to be healed with only dry things as with strewing in of Crocus Martis and the red Earth of Vitriol of which hereafter For this reason the antient Physitians and Chirurgions invented a dry Stone which they kept so secret that they called it Lapis Philosophorum which is easily made as followeth Take Allum Hungarian Vitriol of each one pound beat them to powder and mix them well together then put all into a glased earthen pot and pour upon it two quarts of water boil them together and stir them continually with a Spatula taking off the scurn When 't is boiled in put to it an ounce of Bolus Armenus an ounce and a half of
middle rinds Again Yolks of Eggs and Linseed-oyl equal quantities mixt together and spread over the burning is also very good Egg-oyl likewise used by it self and Vernice employed by Joyners do well also but the latter of these two if it be mixed with Oyl of Spicanard or Petroleum is to be mingled amongst Linseed-oyl Spread fresh Butter upon Cabbage-leaves having first fryed the Butter with some blossoms or the middle rind of Elder and so lay them to the burning Elder being a great resister of Inflammations and therefore very good to allay St. Antonies fire if you pull its mild green rinds from the stem and lay them on without moistening them Else they use against the said Fire Flower mixed with the powder of Licorice to be clapt on with a ragg done over with red Saunders My way is to take the shavings of some fresh and juycy Licorice and to fry them in new Butter then to strain the Butter from it and to fry the like fresh Licorice therein and to strain the Butter from that again repeating this five or six times Among this strained Butter I stir some pure and fine Cerusse Whites of Eggs and a little Camphire And with this Ointment I have by the assistance of God done much good in the said inflammation of St. Antonies fire and the common people do to this very day call this Ointment by no other name than that of Doctor Minderer's Licorice-ointment But to return to the quenching of Burnings If you can have Milk-cream mingle it with Cow-dung freshly made and so clap it on though fresh Cow-dung alone allays burning Crafishes pounded alive and fryed in fresh Butter or in common Suet the Butter strained herefrom is also a good Ointment against burnings Unsalted Lard melted by a Wax-candle or an hot Iron and dropp'd upon fresh cold water and then gather'd up from the water and carefully rubbed from the same hath the like operation Take one of the cooling Oyls above-named and fresh Butter boil the middle rind of Elder in it and with a sufficient quantity of Wax make of it a Salve and this also will cure burning You ought also to be provided with a fit apparatus Lints Swathing-clouts c. and to take Deer-suet Oyl of Roses or Elder and white Wax and melt them over the fire yet so as that you melt the Wax by it self and add of it no more to the rest than to make it a thin plaister Into this compound you must dip some fine lint and you 'l find it very useful for any angry part as also when one limb presses or otherwise incommodes another as happens in hydropical and other swollen people whose belly so sinks down that the thighs suffer by it in which case such lints are to be put between the parts to keep them from immediately touching and pressing one another A Gangrene is cured with Sal-armoniac boiled in Urine especially in that of the Patient and clapping such Urine upon the part affected The quantity of the Sal-armoniac may be six drachms For frozen Feet take Gander-suet and Deer-suet dissolve them together and pour them into a white excavated Turnip and expose this for a while to the Air Rain Wind Hoar-frost Snow according as the season shall be Then mince the Turnip and fry it in the same Suet which you had poured into it that done squeese it out and let the fat fall upon cold water and being there brought to consistence take it off and bring it over the helm from burned Wine and decant this carefully from it again and 't is duely prepared You may also recover frozen Feet with white rotten Turnips beaten with Butter or Tallow and so clapt on CHAP. X. Of several promiscuous Medical Practises for the Service of the honest Souldier THis Chapter I have annexed to the former as an Appendix for the ease and good of Souldiers wherein some things will occurr not inferiour to those that have preceded But herein I have kept no order but set them down promiscuously yet faithfully to supply what may have been omitted before If you be troubled with the Tooth-ach coming from the cold in winter take the root of Pyrethrum Pellitory of Spain and boil it in Vineger and hold this Vineger warm in your mouth and it will draw out the phlegm that causes the pain Or take the root of Elder boil it in half Wine and half Water and hold it warm upon the Teeth But what you take of this Decoction must be often spit out and other fresh taken into your mouth of which I have found wonderful Effects The root of Heath boiled together with the same herb in wine and laid on is esteem'd to be powerful in drawing out thorns and splinters You may make a good Ointment against the Itch and Scabbs of Savin stale Fat Brimstone and Juniper-berries Oyl If your Limbs after a long sickness be weak boil Valerian-roots in Camomil-oyl and anoint such Limbs therewith Also the Oyl of Lillies in the valley and that of yellow Violets is good for the same purpose For worms in the Fingers bruise Persicaria Arsmart and lay it on or take of a Piggs Bladder of Gall and put it on the affected Finger like a Thimble If you have any coagulated or congealed blood in your Breast make a Decoction of Scabious Chervil and Germander in two parts of wine and one part of water strain it and drink of it mornings and evenings Against the putrefaction of the Mouth make a Decoction of Privet in water adding afterwards a little Allum to it and use it for a gargarism Also a Decoction of the middle rind of Hawthorn with a little Allum is of great effect in the same case Cabbage and Colewort-leaves burnt to ashes and a Lixivium made of it and clapp'd on cureth a Gangrene and the wild Fire especially if you mingle a little Oyl of Elder therewith If you can have no Elder-blossoms for this Oyl take the green middle rind of Elder and boil it in Oyl Olive and then strain the Oyl which done take fresh rind of Elder and proceed with it as before repeating it three or four times to make the Oyl the stronger You may add a little wine to it whilst 't is boiling but that must all boil away and so long till the Oyl cracks no more in the fire Southern-wood stamped with grease and laid on draweth out splinters If you have the Itch or are scabby and can light upon some water standing in the hollowness of a Beech-tree wash your self with it Or make a Decoction of the brown rind of Alder which is under the gray in Butter and anoint your self with it mixing if you will a little Brimstone therewith If you be troubled with the Ring-worm or any running Scab infuse Litharge in Vineger and let it stand a night infused or make a Decoction of the same in Vineger But your pan or vessel must be of brass This Vineger mingle with Oyl of Elder or of Roses
drink a good draught of Wormwood-wine Juniper-berry-wine Rosemary Sage or Zedoar-wine which may keep thee from many dangers But remember not to drink more of it than will chear thee up and revive thy Spirits At least drink a little Wine with Camphir and Vinegar kindling the Camphir and letting it burn in the Wine so as to let it sink into it for if it burn on the top it will there remain swimming And if the Wine be skinned over with it kindle it again till it be quite burnt out Take of Camphir for one draught the quantity of a pease but if thou be subject to the Head-ach then Camphir will not agree with thee In case that any come to be infected he is forthwith to be separated from the sound and to be laid to bed so as his head and shoulders may lye somewhat high by which means he will be less subject to faintness Then let him presently take some sudorifick Medicine to make him sweat for if the poyson be not speedily driven from the heart the Patient is lost You are also to take great care that this Distemper prevail not and to endeavour to discover it before the Patient be quite disabled For as soon as any begins to droop grows melancholy faint and feeble in his limbs so as that he is hardly able to hold up his head drawing his breath with difficulty letting his head fall to and fro losing his stomach growing yellowish about his eyes with the apples of his eyes standing out finding head-ach interrupted heats and colds as soon I say as these symptoms appear in times of the Plague Spotted Feavers Hungarian Disease c. you may then look to it by times forasmuch as such Patients that are already infected go often about until the sixth or eighth day as I have known my self until the lurking poyson of the heart has got the prevalency and then the poor Patient is quite cast down and often dyes in very few days and even in a few hours Wherefore thou art not to stay till the swellings and boils appear behind the ears under the arms c. or till the Carbuncles Bubo's and the like break out but thou art immediately to make use of the best Medicines thou canst be Master of to drive out the poyson if thou wilt save thy life I never found any thing that was considerable done in the Plague by means of Purging and Bleeding but rather on the contrary all those that had Spots if they were purged or let blood soon after died However I will prescribe nothing magisterially to any man let every one endeavour to do what he can give a good account of I have together with my Collegues treated many hundreds in our Hospitals infected with the Plague without ever opening a vein and yet we have by Gods blessing recovered near 600 persons besides those that by the same mercy we have cured in their several Houses Now to procure sweat in the very beginning take the quantity of two hasel-nuts of Treacle dissolve it in common Vinegar but if thou canst have a cordial Acetum made of Rosemary Lavender Elder-blossoms Rue Roses or Elder-berries use it much rather and give it the Patient to sweat Or take the roots of Celondine boyl them in Vinegar and dissolve some Treacle in it Or take Carduus benedictus Rue Petasites or Butter-burr a little Angelica Zedoaria or Saxifrage-roots boyl them together in half White-wine and half Vinegar or only Water dissolve a little Treacle or Mithridate in it and let the Patient take it warm to make him sweat Mithridate hath the like virtue with Treacle yet neither of them are safe to take for Women with Child old Persons and young Children You may also make use to good purpose of the Saxon-powder taking of it the weight of a Ducat in Carduus benedictus Scabius or sorrel-Sorrel-water which Powder is thus to be prepared Take Valerian half an ounce Celondine or Nettel-roots of each one ounce Polypody Althaea or March-mallow wild Angelica of each two ounces of garden Angelica four ounces of the rind of Laurcola or Lowry an ounce and an half These roots are to be dug up in their best strength viz. between the middle of August and the middle of September and being cleansed they are to be cut small and then put in a glazed pot pouring a sharp Vinegar upon it so as to cover it two inches high Then lute on the cover with a lute made of whites of Eggs and Flower let all be boiled upon a gentle fire then pour off the liquor and dry the roots and reduce them to powder mixing with it some 26 berries of Herbe Paris or One-Berrie which look like Pepper-corns very good against poison and thus the powder is made This herb grows in shadowed and moderately moist places I have found of it several times in Koshinger-wood near Ingolstad It hath four leaves on one stalk and one berry on the top An herb belonging to the family of Solanum's or Night-shades whence the leaves of it do very much cool Inflammations especially those of the Eyes when laid upon them Take notice of Sorrel bruise some of it and pour Vinegar on 't the Rue-acetum is the best and strain the juice through a cloth put into it a little powder of Angelica about the weight of half a Ducat or of the root of Dictam or of Butter-burr or a little Treacle or Mithridate and give it to sweat On this occasion of mentioning Dictam I must add that in our Countrey there grows only the white Dictam which is among others an excellent Antidote but you must take of it the double quantity and weight to that of Creta You may boil of the root of half an ounce in half White-wine and half Vinegar or instead of the Wine in Carduus-benedictus water and drink of the Decoction warm and put your self to sweat or take of the powder of it a drachm and an half in warm broth with a little Vinegar for the same purpose The Dictam of Creta hath hairy leaves and purpureous blossoms and is used in the preparation of Treacle This herb by its odour drives away Serpents The wild Goats being hurt by any Arrows eat this herb and 't is said that by this means the Arrows fall out of the wound This perhaps hath no other ground than that of the Poet Virgil affirming that Venus with this herb healed her Son Aeneas when wounded in the War His words are Aeneid 12. Hîc Venus indigno nati concussa dolore Dictamnum genitrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida Puberibus caulem foliis flore comantem Purpureo non illa feris incognita Capris Gramina cùm tergo volucres haesêre sagittae About this time came in the Hungarian Infection which was a Disease that bred such a putrefaction in the bodies of Men that even when they were near death they fell a vomiting but that with such a stench that no body could endure it Here those
or the like and it will become a fine gray Salve curing such running Scabs as aforesaid and cooling also Inflammations If your Body be bound take Sage pulverised and mix it with grease and anoint your Navil with the quantity of a hasel-nut of it This I have with very good success advised to women in childbed that were thus bound and obstructed If you will have it stronger mix with it the Gall of a Fish or of any Animal whatsoever but then you must not give it to a woman in childbed Gromel by the Latins call'd Milium Solis pulverised and the weight of half a ducat of it taken in wine or broath provoketh urine yet must the belly be open'd first The same doth Linaria or Toad-flax boiled in wine or broath Likewise distilled water of Radishes repeating the distillation several times from other fresh Radishes Which will have the better effect if the Patient bath his lower parts in a bath made of Marsh-mallows Melilot and the like Gromel above-mention'd taken in warm broath expels the birth And so do the blossoms or buds of Walnut-trees Crabs-eyes also pulverised and taken in warm broath likewise Issop boiled in wine and drank warm This I have inserted for the sake of poor Souldiers-wives who amongst us often follow the Camp If they have any great After-pains let them bath their lower parts in a Bath made of Dill and Camomil-flowers And the yolks of hard Eggs beaten together with some convenient Oyl Nut-oyl is the best and a Plaister made of it and laid to the belly is also very good If they have too great a profusion of blood let them take a drachm of burnt Harts-horn and burnt Ivory in a convenient Vehicle In case of a mortal wound take of pure Turpentine four ounces wash it with fresh limpid water and then dissolve it over a mild fire which done mix with it two ounces or two ounces and an half of white Wax dissolved apart To this add about three ounces of Womans-milk which is sucked by a Boy The Turpentine and Wax being somewhat cooled together must be well stirr'd and then powred on cold Vineger whence when 't is brought to a consistence it is to be taken off and made into a Plaister and so laid on Horse-tail in Latin Equisetum heals the wounds in the urinary parts the powder of it being taken in broath or Speedwel-water or the Decoction thereof being drank Gummi Ammoniac is a good discutient of hard Tumors and Knobs Tacamahaca appeaseth pain proceeding from cold being laid on the part affected To make the pellets used to be put in wounds that are to be kept open which here in Germany we call Quell-maissel take a Spunge of the finest sort put it in Whites of Eggs well beaten and mixed with Rose-water to make the said Spunge imbibe this moisture Which done bind it close together with thred and let it well dry in the Air and so convey of it into the wound that is to be kept open where it will swell again and so distend the wound If you be troubled with the Gonorrhoea take House-leek growing on old walls call'd by the Latins Semper vivum minus put it into your shoes and go bare-foot upon it anoint your loyns and privy parts with Henbane-oyl and take mornings the quantity of two big hasel-nuts of well washed Turpentine for some days together avoiding all aromatic hard and salt meat An old Experimenter hath noted That whosoever shall wash his head twice a week with a Lixivium made of Juniper-ashes his sight shall never fail him but remain good to his end nor shall that person be troubled with any vermin upon his head nor with any head-ach nor suffer any change of his hair For my part I never tryed it but it being a very plain and safe thing I thought good here to insert it Against the biting of a Mad-dog lay Assa fatida with Garlick upon the bite it will draw out the venom To free your self from the Gravel make a Decoction of Ash-wood in wine and drink of it warm once or twice a day upon an empty stomach using withall good baths Vervin also the leaves and roots beaten together and drank is very good in this case If you have a strong breath proceeding from a foul stomach infuse Wormwood and Carduus benedictus together with some Citron-peels in wine and let them boil a little therein and then drink a good draught of it mornings Chew also and swallow sometimes a little Myrrh and take now and then three or four Aloes-pills I could add many other things if my leisure would permit These which I have set down you will take in good part and though I have not tryed them all my self yet you may rest assured that such as have not been experimented by my self have been tryed by my honoured Collegues and other honest persons and approv'd FINIS INDEX A. AIr what to be observed of it in the Campy 9. Preservatives against the corruption of the Air 21 c. Animals their blood of what efficacy 45. Antonies fire how to be allayed 140 141. B. BElly the cure of the Aches and Tumors and Gripings thereof 65 66. Beer new beer causes the Strangury 12. Blood how to cure casting up of blood 54. And the bleeding of the Nose ibid. Blood coagulated how to be helped 133 145. Boyls pestilential and their cure 92 seq Brick well burnt good against a Tenasmus 87. Brimstone a good Medicine in infectious cases 41. Bread wheaten-bred coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red wine very good against Fluxes 75. The same duely prepared good in pestilential Sores 94. Bones broken how to be order'd 131. Bran good for wrenching of Limbs 131. Burning how to be healed 137. C. CArbuncles pestilential and their cure 92. Carlina good against faintness 6. Chirurgions of an Army and their qualities 14. Cold Nights how to provide against 8. Corns of the Feet how to be cured 4. Cough and its cure 54. Crafishes burnt alive good against the Bloody-flux 80. Crafishes after a certain way prepared of great use for drawing out of the body thorns small-shot c. 135. The same fried in fresh butter allays burning 141. Crocus Martis a high Remedy against the Bloody-flux 81. Clysters and their use in the field 83. Chearfulness good in pestilential times 31. D. DAisie and its excellency 13. Diseases in an Army and their cure 18 c. Diet to be well observed in the Camp 20. Drinks how to provide in the field 7. The excess of it to be avoided 12. The danger of drinking whilst one is hot and the care to be taken in that case 12 13. Drinks in cold weather 25. Drawing out of thorns splinters c. how to be effected 135. 145. Dropsie and its cure 72. Drought how to be remedied 85. E. EGg-oyl good for Burnings 140. Elder-flowers good in the plague 24. 48. Elder-vineger good to apply to the Heart in the plague 48. Elder-roots