body You may safely give of that infusion ℥ ss or ʒ vi nay in a strong body you may give the whole ounce prescribed so the liquor be cleared from the powder Compounds are stibiated tablets eaten to ʒ i. or dissolved in a fit liquor as baume water c. also this following infusion ℞ the roots of Briony and Sowbread ana ℥ iii. of white Hellebore ℥ vi diligently cleansed powdred and dryed in the aire pour to them aq vitae to the eminency of two fingers breadth above the powder let them infuse some few dayes in B.M. then distill them and let that which remaines in the bottome be again dryed and powdred pouring to it again the former water do this three times dip the tip of a feather in this liquor and then slice it about in a glass of wine and give it to drink it provokes vomit suddainely DIURETICKS Those are called Diureticks which evacuate the watrish humours of the body by Urines and they are two fold some properly so called others improperly Those which are properly Diureticks are for the most part hot and dry in the third degree of thin parts and which easily penetrate to the veines and there melt and dissolve the blood and seperate the watrish part from the thicker much like the turning of milk when it curdleth from whence that which is grosser returneth to it selfe with the rest of the blood but that which is serous is drawn by the proper faculty of the reines Such are Rootes of Smallage Asarum Calamus aromaticus all the thistles of Ciperus or English Galangal of Dancus of town cress sennel cammock parsly radish madder kneeholm saxifrage valerian Leaves of Wormwood Smallage Betony Mountain Calamint Dittany of Creet Bayes Cresses Parsly Penny royall Savory mother of Time Flowres of Chamomill and broome Barkes the middle bark of broom bayes radishes Seedes of Anise Smallage Cardamomes Chervill red Cicers or Italian pease Cubebs Daucus Fennel Juniper berryes of Lovage Groomwell Parsly Paliurus of some called Christs thorne silver mountain seed and nettle seed Fruites bitter almonds figs. Spices Cassia Lignea Cinamon Rozins Turpentine both of Firre and Larch that is both Venice Turpentine and common Liquors White Wine Animals Cantharides to gr ii or iii. but with these conditions that they be given 1 after all other things have been tryed 2 they are to be given whole ex 11 simplic 3 never to be given alone but with some fat broath altered with mallowes Marsh-mallowes Locusts or Grashoppers given to ℈ ii Goatesblood Officinall waters as of fennel smallage and the herbs aforesaid Syrrups of the five roots of the two roots of radishes compound Species as Lithontribon of Nicolaus Conserves of the flowres of broome bettony wormwood Those are called improperly Diureticks not which melt the blood but those which by a certain tenuity of parts drive the wheyish part of it to the wayes of the Urine and so provoke it and have either a remisse temperate heat or else incline to cooling and these we use in hot affections where we may feare least the hot Diureticks by too much drying the blood should rather stay the Urine or else are such as only lenify the passages of the Urine as Marsh mallows mallowes liquerish and such like lenifiers which are very improperly called Diureticks Of the former sort are the Roots of Sparagus Sorrell Eringo strawberries grasse narrow docks Leaves of Sorrell tops of Sparagus Maidenhaire Rupturewort Pellitory of the wall Seedes The four greater cold seedes seedes of sorrell Alkekengie or winter cherries barly Fruites Strawberries Cherry kernels Medler stones Lemons Pompions Cowcumbers Goards Juyces Of Lemons Pellitory Gums Camphere This may better be referred to those properly called Diureticks before Officinall things as Waters Of Sorrell grass barly pellitory Syrups Of the juyce of Sorrell Maiden haire Lemons Troschiscks Of Camphere of Alkekengie of Saunders Chymicall things Sal prunellae from ʒ ss to ʒ i. with water adding some pleasant syrrup as of violets Out of those Diureticks divers formes of remedies both inward and outward may be composed SUDORIFICKS They are so called which evacuate the whole body by sweating of the Greeks they are called Hydroticks the nature of these is very agreeable with the Diureticks for heat being thin and subtle insinuates it selfe far into the body and humours which it attenuates and dissolves into evaporations but they also open the pores of the body from whence the vapours of their owne accord breath out and are condensed into a sweat The same matter doth after move both sweat and Urine Urine if the raines be hot and the skin thick sweat if the raines be cold and the skin thin such are these Rootes Of Smallage Angelica Burdock China Fennel Hops Parsley Burnet Cinquefoyle Salsa parilla Tormentill or Setwell Zedoary Woodes Box Guaicum Ginger Sasafras Leaves Carduus benedictus Maiden haire Germander Celandine the greater Chervill Fumitary Burnet Scabiosse Damesviolet Flowres Of Camomell Seedes Barly Millet Lentiles Juyces Rob. of Elder berryes and Danewort Earths Terra sigillata especially in the plague and infectious diseases Parts of animals Harts horn Bezar stone Chymicall things Salt of Wormwood Ash Scabiosse to gr x. xii rather to ℈ i. with water of Carduus benedictus and Scabiosse Antimonium diaphoreticum to gr iv or vi with a fit conserve Compounds Out of those divers things may be composed but potions especially those made of decoctions are preferred before all or else of infusions or of sudorificall things dissolved in a fit liquor and although they should be taken in a bole or other forme yet it is best to drink downe a potion after it hither is referred the syrrup called of St. Ambrose which consists of millet boyled in two parts of water and one of wine Officinall things are the waters of Carduus benedictus Chervill Fumitory Elder flowres also Treacle Mithridate and others as electuary de ovo and such like THE FIRST BOOK THE FIRST PART THE THIRD SECTION Of Medicaments respecting the cause that offends in motion The Type of the Section Medicaments respecting the morbificall cause offending in motion are in regard of the matter that is flowing Thickeners of the part receiving Repellers to which you may add Emplasticks of the wayes by which it flows Intercepters of the wayes by which it flows Binders Thickeners by the Latines Incrassantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which render thin and fluxible humours thicker and so less apt to flow such as are those which in the active qualities are cooling or temperate without any acrimony of a grosse and earthy substance by the commixture of which the thinner sort of humours acquire a thicker substance by much as water by the mixture of durt becomes clay as to the matter of Thickners because they agree in quality with the Repellers Binders Emplasticks gluing and scar breeding or wound closing medicines and with the thickeners of choller before mentioned therefore they
practice from this foundation because every Apozem is likely prescribed for four doses the purgers must be taken in such a quantity as may suffice for these four that is four several doses of them are to be put into the decoction as alwaies these three Senna Polyooâ—y and Carthamus after the usual manner which you must appoint for the basis as for example to purge Phlegme four times together to one ounce or one ounce and a half of Senna and as much Polypody and although you have prescribed also as much Carthamus yet shal you add a fourth as Agarick to half an ounce or six drams and you wil have your aim but if besides Agarick you desire other phlegmagogues as Turbith or Hermodactils then either the dose of this or the others is to be diminished or at least a less proportion of these stronger is to be prescribed and this is a general rule safe every where yet you may prescribe a less quantity in respect of the sex age and time of the Year c. The Montpelier Physitians out of custom do usually prescribe a greater quantity as was before noted in the Composition so that against the common rules of others they take of the gentlest purgers to a sixfold or eight-fold proportion of the more vehement as Turbith to a four-fold quantity but although the Montpeliers do this other circumstances being seen to securely yet is it not to be followed in all places nor the dose so indifferently to be prescribed but rather relie on the common practice before mentioned or else search out the several doses of the simples in the substance by comparing of which you wil readily find out the several doses for the decoctions this only is to be 〈◊〉 ted that though Tamarinds by this rule of proportion might be boiled to eight ounces which is the four-fold proportion because they are given in substance to two ounces yet we seldom in the decoction transcend the dose in which they are given in substance because being viscid they make the decoction clammy and grosâ— hard to be clarified Myroâ—tilans also though they 〈…〉 purge yet are they never to be prescribed in the â—eattr but alwaies in the less dose at most to half an ounce or 6 drams because they make the decoction too much astringent contrary to the intention of the Physitian therefore also are they to be only lightly boiled in an Apozem purely purging but rather to be infused as by the counsel of Mesues is rightly admonished against the vulgar practice 4. But the ingredients of either Apozem are not to be prescribed promiscuously in any order but in a certain manner according to the nature of the things that are to be boiled according to that order which the Apothecary observes in preparing decoctions by the rules of art as first roots 2ly Leaves c. and so they add the rest severally to be boiled as is above set down yet although this be so the root of Liquorice because for its tenuitie of substance it is boiled in the rank with the flowers it may also be prescribed with them so if sweet Woods or Aromatical barks as Cinamom be set down with the number of Roots yet because they ought to be boyled last for their spirits which are easily vanishing therefore ought they to be prescribed last either with or immediatly before the flowers Seeds should be added after the Leaves yet the four greater cold Seeds especially of Melons and Gourds are prescribed just before the leaves so your red soicers are to be prescribed either with or just before the leaves and Barley is seldom set among the seeds but with the leaves for this is chiefly to be boyled but Mucilaginous seeds are to be added but just before the flowers as the seeds of Mallows Marsh Mallows c. lest by too long boyling they make the Decoction too thick and troubled I have before said that Catharticks are to be prescribed before the flowers yet Polypody of the Oak is most usually added amongst the roots but Epithymum usually among the Flowers and often in their quantity viz. by the Pugil correctives are to be placed immediatly after the purgers 5. Concerning the Liquor this is to be noted that Wine is usually added to Apozems or Decoctions in cold affections obstructions when gross humors are to be attenuated or when the force of the Medicine is to be conveyed far into the body but not so conveniently prescribed when they say in equal parts of Wine and Water because t is without commodity for if by a most gentle heat nay warmth the spirit of Wine from whence Wine hath his acuteness and energie and without which Wine is but water without life in distillation doth ascend and be elevated into the air the vessel being opened in the boyling what can we hope for but the whole loss of it by such boiling hence we must conclude that Wine is much more profitably added at the last after boiling Here is to be noted that the opening roots are usually macerated in Vinegar with a good Proviso but they do ill-which after pour out the Vinegar and boyl roots only robbed of their virtue for the virtue of them is passed into it which by this means is pour'd away for any sharp Liquors do effectually draw forth the force and essence of things as we may see in Extracts the Liquor therefore should not be poured away for it serves to dissolve the things decocted 6. It is to be noted that the limits of the decoction is ambiguously defined only in general the ingredients should be boyled til they have left all their virtue in the Liquor which in special some note by the change in the colour and alteration of the appearance of things viz. that the hard things should be softned others wasted Galen appoints to the Thirds sometimes to half Mesue to almost half modern Writers are various but that truth may be found both the faculties and nature of the Medicaments are to be considered for they whose virtues are easily dissolved are to be boyled the less time as to the consumption of the third or fourth part lest the efficacy of the simples consisting in a thin substance should vanish but they whose virtues will hardly exhale may be boyled to the wasting of two thirds they whose virtues are of a middle temper may be boyled to halves And that which is correspondent those things that are boyld in four times their quantity of Water to the thirds they which are boyld in 6 times their quantity til half be wasted as for the most part are all Apozems and Decoctions from whence this may be gathered that simples of a solid close hord substance as Roots Woods and Barks that are without smel should be boyld in eight times their quantity of water those which are of a rare thin soft subtile substance as Flowers Spices Purgers in four times their quantity those of a middle substance between these as Leaves Seeds and
is chosen it may also be a Hen and that either alone or else one Partridg may be added or a shank of veal as also if this distilled Liquor be prepared to restore one that is either hectical or phthysical there may be prescribed the flesh of a tortoise that lives in the woods either one or two so the things of froggs are also prescribed This nutritive matter is boyled in s q. of water and according to the medicinal quality required divers parts of plants as they also use to do in altering broths as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers c. and for the most part those that are the most grateful in smel and taste and which do most respect the affection it self the cause of that dissipation of the strength and that neer the quantity they are prescribed for the altering Apozem or somewhat less by which means you see to the restoring of the strength and the alteration that is to be made both together When all things are boyled to pap so that the flesh fals from the bones the broth is strained and the relicks strongly pressed forth and when 't is cooled the fat that is congealed in the top of it is to be taken away And this broth the neer matter of the future distilled Liquor which is to be prepared of three or four pints of it and eight or tenounces of some fit cordial waters with which afterwards are mixed four five or six ounces of conserves or fit Preserves and sometimes confections are taken as Alchermes in the greatest weakness and also treacle when there is malignity to three drams or half an ounce or the powders of cordial simples or officinal electuaries as Diamargariton frigidum to half an ounce or an ounce where 't is less pretious and this is to be constantly noted that Pearls fragments of pretious hones bole Armoniack terra sigillata and leaves of gold are added in vain because this gentle sort of distillation by Balneo Mariae can draw no virtue or spiritual essence from them seeing they wil scarce part with any for a greater heat and that in a dry stil though they have been diligently prepared for it The aforesaid things mixed are put into your glass body are afterwards distil'd in that manner which they cal Balneo Mariae Note also that if you desire the virtue of Ambergreece or Musk these to gr 5 6 or half a scruple may be tied up in a thin linen ragg and so tyed to the snout of the almebick that the Liquor as it distils may pass thorow them and take their virtues along with it which in this manner are more certainly extracted than if you mixed them with the other things the distilled Liquor is to be kept in a glass bottle in a cool place Things to be DISSOLVED though seldom used are sometimes prescribed and are fit cordial juyces as Juyce of Limons Juyce of sowre Pomgranats and that profitably to three ounces four ounces according to the quantity of distilled liquor although they may also be mixed with the broth and waters before distillation The VSE as to the manner this sort of distilled liquor is either used alone of it self out of a spoon or dissolved with other broths Panadaes As to the quantity one two or three ounces may be taken As to the time when you please and that 3 or 4 times a day or oftner The FORM is â„ž the flesh of one of the best Capons or Hens or with other flesh as is said slit in halves and taken from the bones or onely from the fat put it into a pot glazed with s q. of water boyl them towards the end adding the roots c. i. e. the alterers when all are boyled to a pap strain them and press them hard then having taken off the fat as aforesaid take of this broth four pints or five to which add c. viz. the conserves c. distil all in B. M. let the Liquor distilled be kept in a glass bottle in a cold place of which let him take c. by it self out of a spoon â— The UTILITY is the same with other Analepticks or restoratives viz. suddenly to restore and as it were patch up the strength and spirits exhausted either by the length of the disease famine or over much evacuation to recreate the languishing condition of the principal parts much used in many affections both of the heart and other parts not onely in the hoâ— but also cold epidemical malignant and continual fevers hâ—cticks and consumptions of the Lungs In fine 't is useful when the vigour of the parts extreamly languishing can digest no stronger forme of nourishment and yet ought necessarily to be refected from hence we conclude that these distill'd restoratives are rather to recruit the strength spirits than firmly to nourish the body CHAP. XVII OF Brothes BROTHS are also often prescribed by Physitians to this end that by altering we may also nourish and that the virtue of the Medicinal things might be the more eagerly received by the parts themselves under the form of nourishment and thereby might be the less trouble som to them And these are either altering or restorative Altering broths are made diversly according to the scope of the Physitian most frequently with a chick As at Moutpelier they usually prescribe the broth of a Chick alter'd with heoatical leaves and roots and also with cooling things in fevers 'T is not particularly prescribed by Physitians only commanded let them use the broth of a Chick alter'd with such leaves c. either 2 3 or 4 in the morning or else also in the evening and this is most usual in hot diseases Restorative broths prepared to restore lost strength which are otherwise from this manner of working and from the consumption wherein they are much used called Consumption broths these are made of a fat Hen or Capon the bowels taken out out in pieces boiled in a glazed pot or an alembeck close stopped lest any thing breath forth to a perfect pap these are all strained and the juyce pressed forth Lastly when it is cold the fat taken clear off and this Liquor is kept in a glass bottle for your use in a cold place in this broth sometimes other things are dissolved viz in each pound of it three ounces of white-Wine if your scope require it or other cordial liquor two ounces of Sugar one dram of Cinnamom and confection Alchermes lot them warm til the suuar be dissolved then strain them and keep them for your use They labour in vain which only for vainâ—glory add to these Consumption broths the leaves of gold for they do no good The USE is the same with the distilled restorative And the UTILITY is also the same only these Consumption broths are great nourishers and restore and nourish the solid substance of the body THE SECOND SECTION Of the First Book OF THE SOFT FORMS OF MEDICINES CHAP. I. Of a Bole ABOLE is a form of
kings fishers burnt 3 Dioscorid the stones found in the gall of an Ox. Stones Lincis Nephriticus of sponges judaicus cristall prepared ¶ Irish clat Sea things Amber Earths Ochre Minerals the ashes of glasse burnt Juyces Vinegar allayed with water naturall vitriolated waters juyce of sowr oranges ¶ and lemons winter cherryes of yarrow of fennell Distilled waters Pellitory Mallowes marsh-mallowes broom flowres bean stalks restharrow or chammock saxifrage sparagus parsly fennel toad flax then which these following are more effectuall water parsnep of Cratena sampier radishes Ivy berries winter cherries chamomill vervain peach kernels larch turpentine Oyles of â—eech kernels cherry kernels of bitter almons by expression given to â„¥ i. oyl of vitriol Alimentary things Radishes eaten with vinegar sea radish bruised with almons for a confection roots of parsly boyled the tops of sparowgusse and hops water parsnep ladismocks and water-cresses eaten in a sallet with vinegar sampler pickled lemons hips boyled with wine and made into a confection or conserve haires flesh red sparrowes especially the wagging rump Cystick medicines called by the Latines vesicae appropriata by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are such medicines as are appropriated to the bladder now the same things that are good in the affections of the reines are also profitable for the bladder only the situation of the blader as being more distant requires the stronger sort of them least their vertues should be dissipated before they could penetrate so far But more especially in its hot distemper or the heat of the urine see for those things which cool the liver and lenifie the reines because the Urine is made sharp either by the hot distemper of the liver or the reines INCREASERS of SEED called by the Latines Semen generantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose things increase seed properly that are either nourishments of good juyce or medicines temperate in heat and moysture and those improperly which affect it by stimulating the seed or exciting venerall thoughts of which in its place such are those things that are sharp and flatulent Rootes of Eringoes slatirions turneps all eatable bulbous rootes of sparagus rocket potatoes galingall green ginger navew ¶ Parsneps Skirrets Leaves of rocket clary cresses crowgarlick ¶ The sprouts of Sparagus ¶ Seedes of red vetches beanes rocket navew nettles kidney beane ash seed linseed Fruites Pine nuts fistick nuts kernels of Indian or Coconuts Artichoakes both the bottom and stalkes Animals The pisle of a bull or red deere scincis musk civâ—t cocks stones sparrows bâ—ines oysters ¶ Egges especially those of the goose pheasant and partridg emets or pismires especially made into aqua magnanimitatis distilled with honey spice and wine Spices Saffron pepper nutmeg cloves Sea things Amber greece taken in a rear egge Condites the roots of satirions eringoeâ— meates condited the confection diasatirion taken to Ê’ i. or Ê’ ii in muskadine after supper Note that many things that are hot may be referred to this Classis as also salt things which provoke lust by making the seed the thinner not by increasing it hither may be referred the use of cantharides which provoke it even to decoction of blood and exulceration Extinguishers of seed or allayers of blood called by the Latines Semen extinguentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are either very cooling or discussing of the first sort are water Lillies Lettice Camphere but this may better be referred to the latter as hath been before hinted at for it heats dryes attenuates rarifies and discusseth ¶ purslane hemlock c. the latter sort are agnus castus rue mints dill-seed and the seed of agnus castus frankincense syrrup of Nimphea ¶ of agnus castus the troschisck of agnus castus externally oyle of rue water lillies anointed outwardly on perineum allay the too much turgency of the instrument Histericall medicines called by the Latines Histerica by the Greekes idem usually Womb medicines THese Medicines so called from the intention or end they are directed to some are emptiers of the womb viz. those which move the courses expell the birth and afterbith and cleanse the womb from all dreggy humours Others are binders staying the immoderate flux of the courses and lastly others are strengthners which preserve its own proper temper and naturall heat The use of which is in helping the actions of the womb viz. conception or the child from whence they are called helpers of conception and preservers of the child hither also are reduced those which bind or else in curing the symptomes which disturb the actions of the womb or of the whole body viz. in appeasing fits of the mother Movers of the Courses called by the Latines Menses moventia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are called Movers of the Courses either properly or improperly they are properly movers of the courses which open the obstruction of the veines of the womb and bring blood to it they are hot either in the second or third degree and dry in the first or second almost 〈…〉 height not absolutely of a thin substance but moderatly grosse least their vertue should be dissipated in the passage among which sort those are the most effectuall which have a bitternesse mixed with sharpnesse Those that improperly move the courses are the Diureticks which attenuate and melt a grosse blood that at the time of the courses it may flow the more plentifully but these ought not to be used alone because by the drawing away of the watrishnesse of the blood the blood afterwards becomes grosser by which meanes the courses stop but used with the appropriated things This following discourse shall be only of them that properly move the courses the stronger of which do a so expell the birth and after birth the matter of them is this following Roots of Cocco pits Birthwort Asarum Briony Bilinguis Ciperus Sowbread Centanry the lesse Dittany Gentian of yellow flags Ireos Bayes Lillies Pionies siivermontan Valeri Leaves of Mugwort Souchernwood I fear it rather stayes them Garden Daysies Maiden haire Motherwort a spoonfull of the powder provokes the birth Lillies Feaverfew Wood bine Marjerome baume Wild mints Mercury Bazill wild Marjerome mountan polly horehound yellow Maiden haire Savin Clary Scordium water-parsnep for the birth Sage Rue sweet trefoile Seeds of Agnus Castus Amomum Bishopsweed Bazill Nigella Pyony Rue Flowers of Southernwood Marygolds Centaury the lesse St. John's wort wall flowres dryed Saffron for the after-birth Cadings of a walnut-Tree viz the long flowry tassels of the wallnut-Tree given in powder to Ê’ i. is a famous remedy for the fits of the mother of Feaverfew Spikenard ¶ Chamomill Gums Assa fetida Bdellium Galbanum myrh Opopanax Sagapene Storax calamita All Spices Especially Saffron and Cinamon Animals Hawkes or Faulkons dung given to Ê’ i. with wine powder of horse stones cut in slices washed in wine and dryed given to Ê’ i. in hippocrasse a turtle dove rosted the belly stuffed with
The matter out of which the vertues are to be drawn 2. The Liquor into which it is to be conveyed and the ingredients to be put thereinto 3. The decoction both in boyling and after 4. What things are to be dissolved in it 5. The clarifying of it 6. The aromatizing or seasoning it with spices c. to make it grateful In the Matter these three things are to be regarded 1. The Quality 2. The Quantity 3. The reason and order in the prescription Concerning the quality the matter or ingredients prescribed in Apozems or other decoctions are chiefly roots barks woods leaves seeds fruits flowers spices The quantity or Dose in which the aforesaid things are prescribed are thus to be moderated Roots are not to exceed 4 ounces or six at the most Barks if they go into the compâ—sition one ounce oâ— 2 ounces at most Woods in the same quantity Leaves are to be not above 8 large handfuls or 10 at most Seeds to one ounce or an ounce and half seldom to 2 ounces Fruits are either the lesser sort as Raisins c. which are prescribed two several wayes either in weight as from one ounce to two ounces or else in number and that usually by pairs as to 4.6.10.20 pair Or the greater then they are prescribed only in number either even or odd if they be of the greatest sort as Apples sliced c. then 1 2 3 c. but if they are less as Figgs c. they are prescribed by pairs a ♃ ficuum ping-paria 20 c. Flowers from Pugil 4 to 6. Spices are better added in the seasoning then in the boyling yet if it seem requisite in purging Apozems you may prescribe them from two drams to half an ounce at most Concerning the order of the prescription as they are to be prepared by the Apothecary so ought they to be prescribed by the Physitian viz first roots then barks and woods if any be added 2 Leaves 3 Seeds 4 Fruits 5. Flowers and with them the spices last of all The Liquor in which these are to be boyled is to be considered either in quality or quantity In relation to the quality it is varied according to the intention of the physitian but generally fountain or the best wel water is prescribed to the decoction of most Apozems Yet oftentimes when the intention is to cool and cleanse as in cholerick affections they prescribe barly water but if to attenuate cut and cleanse and heat as in phlegmatick affections then the smaller sort of Mead in Melancholick distempers Whey and sometimes in obstructions of the Intrals chalibeated water and sometimes the decoctions are prescribed by Physitians to be made in Wine and Water of each like quantities but it is better to add wine only in the latter end The Quantity of the Liquor is seldom prescribed by the Physitian onely by q. s. or as much as is sufficient yet it vvere to be lookt to that by adding too much Liquor the things might not be over-boyled to reduce it to a reasonable proportion or by taking too little the vertues not sufficiently extracted c. DECOCTION The ingredients being recited and ordered how to be managed are prescribed to be made into a decoction by a fiat Decoct c. to wit in the Liquor afore mentioned which is commonly singly set down without determining to what quantity the Liquor ought to be wasted yet usually it is prescribed to vvhat quantity it should be consum'd as fiat decoct c. to one pint or one pint and a half c either way is allowable so that the Decoction being finished it be prescribed to take of the decoction strained a pint or a pint and a half c. for Apozems are usually intended for four Doses and if you take one pint and a half there wil be for every Dose about 4 ounces and a half more or less but if you intend it for five Doses prescribe 20 ounces and no more for else it is apt to corrupt or mould before it be spent Things to be dissolved in these Decoctions are either to help them to keep the longer or to give them the better relish or to add strength and efficacy to them and in all these we must consider both quality and quantity In respect of their quality either it is 1. some syrup only and that such as is proper both for the disease and part affected and this should always be added both because it helps to sweeten the decoction and imparts its own virtues to it by which means are also helped the defects of the Apozem it self and other faults which may arise either by the carelesnes covetousness or malice of the Apothecary are much prevented 2. Sugar alone in some affections and humors as wel hot as cold 3. Syrup and Sugar together 4ly Or Honey which is profitable in all cold affections of the Head and breast and in the vvinter and this is used either simply or Medicated i e altered by the infusion of some simples or other as honey of Roses honey of Rosemary flowers c. in affections of the head proceeding from abundance of slimy flegm 5ly Besides these sweetners one or two of which are alwayes to be mixt with every apozem there are oftentimes very commodiously to make it the more effectual mixed with them Either the juyces of divers herbs according to the several intentions of the Physician as the juyces of Fumitory and Hops in Melancholy of Borage and Bugloss if choler be mixed with it as also the juyces of Sorrel or Mercury in divers affections of the Womb and suppression of the Termes c. Or the juyces of fruits and those for the most part acid as the juyce of Limons in cholerick the juyce of Pippins in Melancholick and of Pomegranats in cholerick distempers where Urine is also to be provoked Or juyces in more vulgar use as 1 Vinegar in hoâ— and cholerick affections which powerfully extinguisheth heat or else to open obstructions though cold ones and also to cut and make thin gross humors yet because it is hurtful to the Womb in Women you must abstain from the use of it 2. Wine in cold affections and tempers in gross and clammy humors obstructions or when you would have the vertue of the Medicine penetrate far into the body 3. Aqua vitae c. to the same intention that Wine is added Note that when juyces or other Liquors are to be dissolved in your Apozems then sugar alone is usually chosen to sweeten it very seldom syrups The quantity of things to be dissolved differs according to the nature of them Sweetners are usually dissolved from 4 ounces to six ounces at most so that every dose of the Apozem may have between an ounce and an ounce and half in every Dose which is the common quantity for doses But where syrup and sugar are mixed together the quantity of the syrup is for the most part about three ounces and the sugar
compleat the whole dose taking the greater quantity of this or that or equal parts as you see fit The USE is for 1 dose only according to the present necessity at any time of the day or the disease And this is the usual FORM of RESCRIBING ℞ c. viz. the Liquor in which dissolve c. so make a potion to be taken at such or such an hour Mark this that because some Cordials are dissolved in the potion they may be prescribed in the said form or else without the straining after dissolution 't is usual to prescribe all the ingredients adding only Make a potion The UTILITY 'T is very effectual against divers affections of the heart as Swooning panting c. malignant affections poysons and when it is to be strengthened being made weak by the violence of diseases as also when the virtues of it and al other principal parts are dejected they are through the continuance of the whole disease to be assisted and restored being weakned to be strengthened and confirmed being exhausted to be recruited An altering Potion THat is to be called an altering Potion which is under a Liquid form not allotted either to purge hurtful humors or comfort the strength of the body oppressed so it be to alter any way or evacuate so it do it not by purging as in expelling the stone of the Reines c. prescribed for one onely dose to be taken by the mouth at one time The COMPOSITION of it is the same as of the corroborating potion viz. of a Liquor fitted for your present intention either a distill'd water only or else some Juyce or decoction being added to it and some convenient powder to be altered according to the variety of your indications and a proper syrup serving to the intention of the Physitian al which are prescribed in the dose after the same manner as the strengthening potion as you may perceive by one or two examples following A somniferous potion restoring and corroborating the strength exhausted by over-watchings ℞ Water of red Poppyes water Lilles and Lettuce of each two ounces syrup of white Poppy one ounce syrup of Violets half an ounce Consectio Alkermes half a dram Make a potion to be taken at the time of going to sleep A Potion for the Worms and also Cordial Take the water of Purslane and grass of each two ounces Confection of Hyacinth half a dram powder of Earthworms dryed one scruple Coralin and the shavings of Hartshorn of each one scruple syrup of Lemons one ounce So make a potion A potion to hasten delivery of a Child Take Hypocras made by the infusion of Cinnamon and Dittany in white Wine four ounces or five ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce Corfectio Alchermes one dram Saffron half a scruple syrup of Mugwort one cunce So make a potion CHAP. IV. Of Syrups DIvers simples there are Herbs Roots Seeds Fruits Flowers and others or the Juyces of them which cannot be had alwayes when need requires them especially in winter and autumn that decoctions infusions or other Medicines may be prepared of them for a present use or else they cannot be preserved sound without loss of their virtues so long a time or if they may yet the urgency of the affection or other inconveniencies do not alwayes allow such leisure as to attend the preparing of Medicines of them in divers forms or til the virtues of them may be sufficiently extracted from hence appears the necessity of syrups for the divers virtues of Plants thus kept and preserved by the benefit of Sugar or Honey in the form of a syrup are alwayes ready for use in every pressing necessity to serve for the various scope of the Physitian and are preserved sound without any depravation having joyned with them a grateful taste so that syrups are as it were a certain preserving of a medicinal Liquor Juyce decoction or infusion in which is retained the efficacy of the Medicines But a syrup is the invention of the Arabians and was scarce known to the antient Greeks we read of only mention made of Oximel and cute in Galen and Hypocrates after whose example the Mauritanians have a lorned their pharmacentick art with a various collection of syrups the modern Greeks as Actuarius cals it Scrapium Some derive this name from the Greek others from the Arabick but this is little considerable Whatsoever it is though at this time it be taken either properly for that which I shal describe and for that which is extant in the shops or improperly for a decoction preparing humors or an Apozem as Rondeletius and Jeubertus have written as an altering Julep for the Italians at this day cal a Julep Serapium perhaps because a syrup is the basis of a Julep yet at Montpelier A SYRUP is a fluid form of a Medicine made of a decoction Juyces or an infusion preserved with Sugar or Honey boyled to such a consistence that a drop on a marble or plate may not spread abroad prepared either to alter or purge It is of two sorts an altering syrup as was the syrup of the Antients and this hath been revived by our latest Physitians and a purging syrup The altering Syrup The definition of an altering syrup is to be sought among those things which we have said before in the altering Apozem as also the differences there set down But for the clearer method use and prescription sake it is two-fold Officinal and Magisterial The officinal or usual is that which is publickly extant 〈…〉 in the Apothecarys shops of which I 〈…〉 in the use of it and in respect of the prescribing of it many things occur necessary to be known hereafter to be rehearsed And this diversly divided as wel in relation to its virtues as its composition The differences taken from the virtues are considered either in general hot cold moist dry temperate Or in special in respect of the humors and other parts of the body In relation to the humors it alters either in the first qualities to which belong according to the diversity of the humor that which alters concocts digests prepares either choler phlegm melancholy or blood or in the second qualities in which number are contained those which cut attenuate incrassat cleanse binde or in the third qualities hither are referd those which cause easy coughing lenifie expectorate provoke Urine break the Stone provoke the courses condense the parts expel poyson and corroborate In regard of the parts which they properly respect some are Cephalical others Cordial c. which you may seek among the store of Physical remedies here I shal only propound the division of the Officinal syrups according to their composition and faculties onely considered generally because other things more appertain to the physical magazeen withal intending to give a Catalogue of the more usual sort because some are here in use which in other places are grown obsolete and so on the contrary neither is there the same number in use every where
her endeavour the more easie by these means which we often do also without giving a vomit by thrusting the finger down the throat or a feather dipt in oyl But those which work only by their quantity and move the excretive faculty by their warm moisture fatness are not profitable when that that is to be vomited up either is not in the stomack but in the adjacent parts or else are contained in the more remote parts or if in it are fixed in the tunicles of it or are not prepared so that they cannot be shaken out without a greater and more violent motion for then 't is better to use the compounds In the COMPOUND Vomitory two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which 't is made 2. The things to be dissolved in it The MATTER of a Vomitory is two-fold Liquid and solid The liquid matter or liquor with which I defined a Vomitory and which is for the most part used either provokes vomit or doth not provoke it That Liquor which doth provoke vomit is either a decoction or an infusion or sometimes water or a distiâ—led Liquor As to the VOMITING DECOCTION in it three things are to be regarded 1. The matter or ingredients whereby it becomes a vomitory 2. The Liquor in which these things are boyled In either of these we must see to the quality and quantity The matter or ingredients as to their quality are diverse parts of vomitive simples and those moderate for the strongest sort seldom are put into decoctions as Roots Barks Leaves and sometimes Seeds and Flowers of which 2 3 or four should be prescribed together As to their quantity those moderate vomitories are prescribed almost as those of Potions that is that they make in all one ounce two ounces or three ounces at most but particularly if one or 2 of these following be added with others or should be prescribed of themselves it should usually be in these following doses The root of Asarum to one dram two drams or three drams The middle Bark of a Walnut-Tree to 1 dram or two drams The roots of Pompions dryed to two drams and half an ounce The flowers of Broom to two drams or three drams or so many pugils As to the quality of the Liquor in which they are boyled you may take very commodiously fair water or where the humors are also to be cleansed from the stomack Barly water or some decoction where they be dry sharp and hot or Mead where gross clammy humors are to be attenuated cut and cleansed or Oxymel made with water in either case or fat and lenifying broth where the acrimony is to be temper'd whether it be of the humors-or poysons taken or of sharp violent vomits so also water and oyl in the aforesaid case which are therefore chiefly convenient because they are reckoned among the gentler vomitories The quantity of the liquor is usually let to the judgment of the Apothecary yet you may prescribe it having regard to what is said before in the Apozem and potion only observe that because for the most part they take eight ounces of Liquor for a vomiting potion those moderate vomitories should be prescribed to double the quantity A Vomiting Infusion in relation to the quality of the things to be infused is most commonly prepared of the strongest sort of vomitories which are more rightly infused then given in substance or decoction as those two most famous for their vehemency in working white Hellebor of the Antients and Antimony of modern practicers and although to the same purpose we may take also the moderate vomitories as Asarum Radishes Pompion roots dryed the middle bark of Walnuts c. yet because there cometh no danger from them either given insubstance or decoction they are to be prescribed onely in decoction but in these stronger 't is better only to give the infusion which communicates onely its spiritual virtue without any quantity of the substance which might make the operation last the longer or irritate the excretive faculty too much Therefore two things chiefly serve to prepare an infusion of white Hellebor of old most famous not only in rebellious and desperate affections but also in the sleighter sort but now scarcely used in the greatest and then with caution which being prudently had you may infuse it from half a dram to one dram and a dram and half in broth adding withal one scruple of Cordials for correctors In the place of this you may give an Apple made hollow a little then filled with the root of white Hellebore and roasted afterwards the Hellebor being taken out give it to eat So also the root of a Radish stuck thorow with slices of it then roasted and eaten But in the place of Hellebor as it is now generally used take Antimony the other growing out of date neither let it trouble you that it hath hitherto been rejected by the unexperienc'd for 't is far safer than the other and finisheth its operation without any manner of suffocation convulsion or danger of other vehement symptomes to the same purpose some use Antimony crude some its Vitrum and some the regulas of it but 't is better to chuse that preparation of Antimony which they cal Crocus Metallorum because so prepared 't is spoiled of its fetid sulfur which otherwise may be the cause of great symptoms To the same end take Antimony so prepared to 1 scruple or half a dram or rather half a scruple or gr 12 infuse it in three ounces or 4 ounces of white Wine over hot embers strain the liquor thorow a brown paper and give it Of the same Crocus is made that water commonly called Aqua benedicta instead of the aforesaid Crocus you may infuse the vitrum to one scruple or rather to gr 12. in any fit Liquor As to the quantity of the things to be infused what is said before wil. serves or these stronger if you would use them which are moderate you may prescribe The root of Asarum from one dram and a half to three drams and half an ounce The roots of Pompion dryed from one dram to three drams Nettle seed from one dram to half an ounce The bark of Walnut to 3 drams and half an ounce But 't is better to use the Antimony before spoken of As to the DISTILLED Liquor it is seldom prescribed by a Physitian except distilled Vinegar of late by the vulgar brought into Physical use which being most violent in workings is to be used with caution and that in strong people only and it is prescribed two wayes either distill'd alone out of a leaden stil or else as it is in use by the Women of Montpelier they take a Loaf hot out of the Oven infuse it in two or three pound of Vinegar and so distil it the use of this Liquor as also of the former is to give three ounces or four ounces in Fevers and chiefly Agues that are of long continuance either before or in the
Of Almond Milk THis differs not much in colour and taste from an Emulsion only 't is usually thicker than it This is two-fold one more liquid being a milky substance drawn out of Almonds like the Emulsion as aforesaid another thicker made thick with boyling of which at present And this is a restorative Medicine somewhat thinner of substance than syrup much like Milk hence 't is called Almond Cream Almond milk drawn and sweetned with Sugar prepared both to alter and nourish CHAP. IX Of Barly Cream THat which we from the matter it is made of call Barly cream the Antients from the manner of preparing called Ptisan which was a meat made of barly huld and baked for the Greek word signifies to hull and bark and water usually we cal this barly cream but our ptisan is a drink And though it be seldom prescribed yet 't is COMPOUNDED either after the grosser manner of barly cleansed and boyled which is given together with the broth adding sugar as you list but this is only convenient for sound people Or else that which is truly barly cream of huld barley two ounces let it boyle in fair water over a gentle fire then cast away the water and boyl it is a new water four or five houres with a gentle fire then pulp the barly thorow a strainer sweeten it with one ounce or ounce and a half or two ounces of sugar and after let them be a little boyled The VSE anciently it was wont to be the meat of feverish people but now a dayes 't is given for the most part neer sleeping time and then if they are troubled with over-watching there is added to it little of the emulsion prepared with white poppy seeds The UTILITY of it is much in fevers in which it is an alimentory medicine cooling cleansing nourishing much breeding good juyce it moystens and is best for affections of the breast hecticks CHAP. X. Of Milk and the whey of Milk MIlk also happens to be prescribed but chiefly in the phthyfick and disentery and that with some caution both in the sort of milk and also in the dose and manner of giving it Asses milk is chiefly commended in the hectick because it restores radical moysture and is of good juice Cows milk is the fattest and fullest of butter sheeps milk is fullest of cheese Goats milk moderate between all best for persons extenuated As to the USE DOSE and manner of PRESCRIBING 't is this â„ž of Asses milk when you would cool cleanse but Goats milk when you would nourish four ounces of sugar or honey left it corrupt or grow sowr in the stomack one ounce and this for the first dose for the second dose increasing one ounce to five ounces so proceeding til you come to ten ounces or twelve ounces and then decreasing again by the same degrees til you are returned to the same quantity let it be taken 4 hours before meat neither sleeping nor moving the body violenly after the taking of it But the use of milk is never to be begun til the body be very wel cleansed The UTILITY 't is chiefly prescribed for those that are hectical for it fattens restores in the use of it we must have a care that the body be not impure for in a cold stomack it sowres in a hot it turns to a nidorousness from whence comes Head-ach it is not therefore profitable for them that are Feverish or have their short rib-region puft up but 't is very commodious in the dysentery both to lenifie and also cleanse and heal the Ulcer especially if it be chalibeated and you give a good quantity of it morning and evening with one scruple of Terra sigillata four hours before any meat The WHEY OF MILK is not nourishing but medicinal and evacuates both serous and adust humors if it be liberally taken it cools and is good in those that are Feverish and in the heat of the Liver and Reins in summer time but most profitable in Melancholy and affections proceeding from it as the Leprosie Scabbiness c. especially if Fumitory be steeped in it This is the USE and manner of PRESCRIBING â„ž VVhey of Milk let it be strained boyled both because it is windy as also that any thing of curdiness in it may be separated and settled then steep in two pound of it for one night one handful of Fumitory of Succory m. ss when 't is strained add to it an ounce or an ounce and half of Sugar but the second day two ounces are to be added more so every day increasing til you come to three pound afterwards on the contrary decreasing til you come to one pound Otherwise let one pound serve every day for a moneth together steeping in it the same quantity of Fumitory adding to it when 't is strained one ounce of Sugar and in Melancholy people as much of the Cider or juice of pippins Otherwise 't is used for fevers and heats to eight ounces with sorrel steeped in it and that in the morning four hours before meat that they more hang in it tyed in a ragg 2 drams or more of yest or Leven and add to it half a dram or two scruples of spices to every pound and so according to the quantity of Hony The USE and UTILITY it is prescribed for the ordinary drink in cold affections and especially the phlegmatick and where the abstaining from VVine is advantagious or where the use of it is hurtful as in the Palsey or when we desire effectual virtues powerful both to alter cold humors and strengthen the natural heat it also wonderfully preserves from putrefaction But as it is convenient for them that are of cold complexion and for old men so is it hurtful for those that are feverish cholerick or hot of temper because it soon turns into choler and grows bitter as we may finde in boyling it over-much or by keeping it too long therefore Hippocrates forbiâ—s it to them that are very cholerick or that have great spleens in which it is too suddenly drawn into the body from hence it is that it is the cause of crudities and incredible windiness of the intrals it is also according to Hippocrates diuretica wonderfully cleansing and driving forth sand 〈◊〉 or gravel The Winish performs this more sorcibly and like Malmsey powerfully concocts cold humours expectorates â—â—enâ—thens the stomack and concoction discusseth windiness concocts crudities as also doth the commoner sort according to Galen it wonderfully loosens humors in the breast and is good for them that be asthmatick The Medicinal Mead is easily prepared of the simple by boyling dryed simples in it respecting the part to which it is destined and of those such as are most pleasant let them be boyled after it is clear scum'd let them be for example four handfuls of Herbs boyl them and strain the LIquor from them in which infuse for two or three hours half an ounce or six drams of spices
The Vtility is great and the virtue of it specifical besides what is afore-said in taking away diseases especially cold ones and those of long continuance as the Palsey c. CHAP. XII Of Sugred Water and Barly Water SUGRED WATER is a more sweet and pleasing drink than Mead and is almost as effectual in those in whom we abstain from the use of Mead for fear of heat and is chiefly convenient for them that are abstemious It is made of Fountain water clarified at the fire 12 parts and sugar one part more or less to your palate You may aromatize it with Cinnamom or in fevers with Saunders to 3 drams or half an ounce so let them use it for their ordinary drink PTISAN was a meat of the Antients which we now call barly Cream Our ptisan is a drink fit broth for the healthy and Feverish and when heat is either present or imminent and where Wine is forbidden And this is made divers wayes according to the desire of them that take it Either it is made simply of whole Barley and fountain-water to one part of Barly ten fifteen or which is better twenty parts of water as 't is generally made in the shops which is to be boyled to the consumption of five parts and til the barly swel much Nicholaus therefore directs ill to boyl it to the consumption of fifteen parts unless it be for meat and such like is vulgarly ealled in the shops Barley water and decoction of Barley Or else Liquorice Raisins of the Sun the roots of Grass or Sorrel and other things according to the palate of him that takes it are boyled in it though in smal quantity but 't is seldom now a dayes prescribed by the Physitian The UTILITY it moistens cools cleanses yeilds little nourishment but such as is fit for cholerick and sanguine people and for them that are in fevers or have hot affections of the Liver Stomack or Reins Note that Barly water or that which we now cal Ptisan consists of whole barly one part of water twenty parts boyled til the barly swel and the cream of Barly til it be bursted but that which we cal Barly cleansed and boyled is boyled til it go into a pulp represents the Ptisan of the Antients and if it be pulped thorow a hair strainer 't is called the juyce of Barly CHAP. XIII Of Dyet-drink BY this name of Diet we do not so much understand the regulating of the six things not natural as divers decoctions made of usual sweating Medicines through the whole use of which because an exact and accurate way of living temperately is to be observed from hence it is that these have been absolutely called by the name of Diet. But that which we understand by the name Diet is a decoction of one of the usual sudorifical Medicines or more made in a fit Liquor prepared either to alter simply or evacuate insensibly by transpiration or sensibly by sweat Therefore a Diet-drink is to be accounted two-fold altering and evacuating The altering Diet-drink ALthough these four usual sweating Medicines seem to be destined only for provoking sweat yet are they often prescribed with very good success in divers affections without sweating hence it is that I cal it an altering Diet-drink In this three things are to be considered the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION three things also the matter of which 't is made the Liquor and the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality is two-fold 1. Some of the common Sudorificks as Guaiacum China Sassafras and Salsaparilla 2. Divers alterers as roots leaves seeds flowers c. respecting the affection the humor offending and part affected But in special that matter is chosen diversly according to the variety of the parts in which the affections that are to be removed are inherent For in altering and removing powerfully phlegmatick and inveterate affections we usually take Guaiacum China or Salsaparilla either alone or mixed together with fit alterers as aforesaid But in affections of the breast as the stuffing Ulcer and putrefaction of the Lunâ—s in which now a dayes such an altering diet is usually prescribed and is every where called the pectoral decoction we chuse either China alone or else there is sometimes added to it Salsaparilla or Sassafras together with alterers appropriated to the breast So that from what is said before an altering Diet drink may be reckoned two-fold 1. Not pectoral insensibly consuming the phlegmatick affections of divers parts 2. Pectorel viz. a decoction of China sometimes Salâ—apâ—rilla being added prepared of pectoral seeds and fruits such is only now a dayes prescribed As to the quantity those sudorificks in a diet-drink not pectoral are prescribed either alone or mixed to six ounces more or less according as the time age and region shal further require but alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers either all or some of them are to be added to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem aforesaid But in a pectoral Diet-drink whose basis is China this if alone is added to one ounce if other things aforesaid be joyned to it then to two drams or three drams of these they usually take six drams of China Of alterers pectoral fruits are added to an ounce and a half or two ounces pectoral seeds to an ounce or an ounce and a half and if as sometimes in the Phthysis the flesh of Craw-fish or tortoises be added 't is to an ounce or two ounces The LIQUOR in relation to its quality in an altering Diet drink not pectoral is common water or some other fit liquor as before in the Apozem chiefly Mead because these sorts of decoctions for the most part respect cold affections and humors In a pectoral Diet-drink also either common water or decoction of Barly is taken but with this proviso that the China be infused in this Liquor for some hours then let it be put up together with the pectoral fruits and seeds in the belly of a chick or hen then let them boyl in the aforesaid Liquor til all be boyled to pieces As to its quantity take 10 or 12 pints or q. s as is required to boyl it throughly Things to be dissolved as to their quality in a diet-drink not pectoral are sometimes syrup or sugar and are prescribed to be dissolved together with the aromaticks as in an altering Apozem In a pectoral drink sugar of Roses is generally prescribed yet it may be also some fit syrup As to their quantity they are dissolved to an ounce or an ounce and a half in every dose The USE in it mark three things the manner the quantity and the time The decoction not pectoral as to the manner indrinking is to be taken without sweating As to the united quantity or dose it is to be taken to four ounces or six ounces as to the divided quantity it is to be used ten or fifteen dayes As to the time this
sort of alterer ought to be taken in the morning The pectoral drink also as to the manner is taken without sweat As to the dose six ounces also and is to be continued also for fifteen dayes The Time also is the morning And this is the FORM of PRESCRIBING In a decoction not pectoral â„ž c. make a decoction keep it in a glazed vessel for four or five morning doses which the body being first purged let him continue for ten or fifteen dayes in the mean time observing a moderate and drying diet and for his ordinary drink let him use the second decoction of the aforesaid ingredients which is called a Bochette But in a pectoral one â„ž China or other thing infuse them in c. of water then put them in the belly of a chick together with the fruits c. boyl it til it be all to pieces adding at the latter end of the decoction the leaves c. viz. the preparers straine all with a gentle pressure in one pound of the strained liquor dissolve c. for two doses to be given in the morning keeping his bed two or three hours after without sweating let him continue this fifteen or 20 or 30 dayes the body being first purged with Manna which is to be repeated once in fifteen dayes in the mean time living temperatly and using the second decoction of China or small mead for his ordinary drink The Utility is remarkeable in all long-lasting affections when your scope requires the attenuating resolving or otherwise insensibly consuming that collection offilthy humors that foments this sort of chronical affections as also to rarifie the wayes and passages by which they are to be digested and to prepare them powerfully for expurgation neither is it safe to use them with sweat as in the Asthma and Phthysis especially in which now a dayes this sort of diet is onely prescribed in which affections 't is pernitious to use either purgers or Sudorificks Neither can we consume or evacuate those humors that are the fomenters of such affections any other way An evacuating Diet drink SVch as is now a dayes for the most part only prescribed is here understood which consumes and empties the morbifical causes by sweat And this is two-fold one only sweating the other is also purgative The sweating decoction is now only properly called a Diet-drink and is as I said before that which visibly consumes the Antecedent and conjunct causes of diseases by sweatings In this three things are to be marked the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which this sort of decoctions are made 2. The Liquor in which they are boyled And in either of them both the quality and the quantity The matter in respect of the quality is either sudorifical or also altering both at once sometimes As to the sudorificks 't is compounded either of Guaiacum and its barkonly or only China seldom of Salsaparâ—lla alone and hardly ever of Sassafras alone Either of Guaiacum as the basis with sometimes one sometimes two of the others mixed with it according to the divers intentions of the Physitian or else that the too much heat of Guaiacum might be allayed yet retaining the same benefit of sweating Or of China as the basis with Salsaparilla or Sassafras where the scope is to heat less yet it dries as much and consumes vitious humors equally As to the alterers it is most profitable with the aforesaid to add divers altering simples towards the end of the decoction that may be appropriated to the humor and part affected whereby the Diet-drink becomes famous or else they are added to this end only to correct allay the heating and drying quality of the Guaiacum lest it too much inflame the Liver and for this are used Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits Flowers either more or less As to the quantity sudorificks prescribed alone or mixt should be allotted to one ounce or an ounce and a half for every dose and because a sweating diet-drink is usually prescribed for 4 doses only four ounces or six ounces ought to be prescribed which quantity may be lessened or augmented according to the variety of the tempers age strength time of the year constitution of the disease Country c. But the alterers when they are added to them should be prescribed to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem and as to their order they should be set after the sudorificks this is every where to be observed that in the decoction of Guaiacum you are to add Liquorice and Raisins of the Sun ana an ounce or one ounce and a half The LIQUOR in relation to its quality is prescribed to be fountain-water As to the quantity although by the precepts of art in the decoction of Roots and Woods it ought to be eight times so much as of the things to be boyled yet because in the decoction of these sweating drinks much of the Liquor useth to be wasted it ought to be twelve times their quantity so that to one ounce of Sudorificks should be one pint of water and then to be boyled til half be wasted which is the most usual manner it may also be prescribed to a pint and half and then boyled til two thirds be wasted The USE as to the quantity eight cuâ—ces of this sort of decoction may be given As to the manner let it be drank warm covering the body with many clothes more than is wont As to the time 't is best in the morning sometimes though seldom 't is repeated at evening in very strong and phlegmatick bodies abounding with excrementiâ—ious humours The FORM OF PRESCRIBING is after this example of Guaiacum â„ž the shavings of the wood of Guaiacum four ounces the bark of the same two ounces let them be infused in six or nine pints of fountain water twenty four hours over warm embers the Vessel being close stopped then boil them with a gentle fire of fresh charcoal without smoak till half be wasted afterwards run them throrow an hypocras bag but if you desire the decoction the stronger presse them out gently sweeten the decoction with three ounces or four ounces of Sugar and aromatize it with a dram and a half or two drams of Cinnamom but this sweetning and aromatizing may better be omitted in those that are lesse curious palated so keep it in a glazed vessel for your use let him take of this decoction eight ounces warm in the morning covering him warmer than usually and let him sweat as he can reasonably endure it Note that when Alterers are prescribed wiâ—h the sudorificks it may be appointed in the form thus towards the end of the decoction adde such things c. â„ž the remainders of the decoction aforesaid viz. when no other simples are added to it add if you wil an ounce of some of the aforesaid sudorificks fresh infuse them in 12 pints of founta in water eight or twelve
above declared in the form of the sudorifical diet-drink otherwise it is to be prescribed and prepared of fresh ingredients one ounce or two ounces of the same or some other sudorifick being added over and above let all be infused twelve hours in twelve pints of water as above solet them be boyled onely to the consumption of a third or fourth part let them be strained thorow an Hippocras bagg and rellish it with half a pound or a pound of sugar or else season it to your palate and aromatize it with three drams or half an ounce of Cinnamom so make a secondary Decoction or a â—ochete to be kept in glass bottles for your ordinary drink Or else 't is made for present use either in regard no diet-drink hath been prescribed before out of whose residence this may be prepared or because perhaps it was composed of other simples both alterers and purgeâ—e whose virtues are not needful in this kinde of ordinary drink then is it to be prepared of some one or more of the suborificks prescribed to two ounces or two ounces and a half after the same manner as is above-said so make a Bochete to be used as is said The USE FORM and UTILITY are already sufficiently declared CHAP. XV. Of Cock-Broth THe reason of the name is plain this was the invention of the Antients and is much confirmed by the use and practise of late Physitians But this DECOCTION of a Cock is a broth prepared either to alter or purge of an old Cock together with some certain sudorificks and also alterers and sometimes also purgers From hence this sort of decoction is two-fold altering and purging The altering Cock-borth IN the altering broth are considered chiefly the matter and the Licuor and in both of them the quality and quantity As to the matter in respect of its quality an old COCK is taken as it were for the basis Then either his belly is filled with these following things or else they are added neer the end of the decoction and they are usually these sudorificks as China Salsaparilla Sassafras either alone or mixed in the Asthma and Hypochondriacal melancholy they are chiefly prescribed as also to them alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits more or less As to the quantity Sudorificks are prescribed to two ounces but the alterers much like their quantity in the altering Apozem or somewhat less The LIQUOR as to the quality is alwayes fair water As to the quantity q. s The USE as to the quantity the dose is six or eight ounces As to the time 't is to be taken in the morning continuing the use of if fifteen dayes or the space of a moneth And this is the FORM â„ž an old decrepit red Cock or of four or five years old that hath been tired with coursing and beating pul off his feathers whiles he is alive then strangle him and take out his bowels let his belly be filled with the Sudorificks fruits and seeds as aforesaid then sew it up and boyl him in a glazed pot with a sufficient quantity of water til the flesh be consumed and wholly fal from the bones but when the broth is scum'd at first add the roots c. and towards the end of the decoction add the leaves and flowers c. boyl them til there remains about three pints of broth straine it and presse it out strongly and keep the decoction in a glass bottle in a cold place taking off all the fat when it is cold Take of this broth from one pint to eight ounces in the morning adding if you wil especially in the affections of the breast sugar or some fit syrup to an ounce continuing it fifteen dayes or the space of one moneth The UTILTY of it is much in stubborn obstructions hence it is that it is generally prescribed in the hypochondriacal melancholy for which purpose there is usually prescribed for this sort of broth the â—â—ots of Parsley Succory Grass Sparagus the leaves of Ceterach Baume Bugloss Burnet Agrimony Frâ—its as Corans and sometimes China and Sassâ—fras wood it is also used in any other durable obstructions of the intrals as also in the affections of the breast especially the Asthma to which China is added with fruits â—dedicated to the breast and in arthritical pains with wood of Sassasras and for paleness of the face c. The purging Cock-broth IT differs not from the former except that beside the aforesaid ingredients there are also added purgers and for the most part these of Senna Polypody Carthamus and two ounces or two ounces and a half Agarick one ounce as much Epithymum which are shut up in the belly of the duck and is prescribed to be made a decoction to two pints in which dissolve if you wil four ounces of sugar and to be aromatized c. for 4 morning doses thus to be used every moneth And the hypochondriacal melancholy obstructions of the bowels Gout and Cholick but 't is very seldom used for the Asthma or difficulty of breath CHAP. XVI Of the Restorative distilled liquor WHere the sick are extreamly weakned either by the violence or length of the disease or some extreame evacuation they very hardly digest any meat to repair their lost spirits or else through nauseousness they refuse all yet ought the strength both to be preserved and restored wherefore the late Writers have invented a way to preserve them by liquors distilled out offlesh that hath both good and much nourishment This from the effect is called the distilled Restorative as also sometimes from the matter 't is made of they call it Capon-water This DISTILLED RESTORATIVE distilled water or Liquor thus drawn by a still imbued with the nourishing virtue of the flesh chiefly of Capons and with the Medicinal virtues of divers conserves powders waters and Juyces is chiefly prepared to restore lost and decaying strength And in this three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things chiefly the matter of which 't is made and the things 〈◊〉 be dissolved in it As to the MATTER 't is commonly the flesh of a Capon or Hen or else of two Partridges cut in the middle cleansed from the fat bones washed in some Cordial Liquor as Rose-water white Wine c. to this they take mingle with it â—ivers Conserves Preserves Cordial powders to little purpose leaves of Gold c. and sprinkle all with a convenient Liquor and distil it in balneo Mariae but because by this means the nourishing quality of the flesh is very smal or none in the distilled water and this manner also is reproved the thing is to be more accurately performed which wil be done if you boyl the aforesaid flesh to a perfect pap and thence strain forth the broth and with it mix the aforesaid things and distil them The matter of this sort of distillation is twofold nourishing and Medicinal the nourishing matter as to the quality usually one Capon
other things are joyned with it either chiefly to make it penetrate or give it the more efficacy and this is most commonly white wine for the heart Vinegar for the Liver so also for its greater virtues there are usually added the juyces of Fruits as of Limons or else of Leaves proper for the affection Sometimes the Liquor is a very liquid decoction of appropriate things but seldom As to the quantity 't is usually prescribed to one pint or 15 ounces therefore if water be prescribed it should be to such a quantity but if other liquid things be added let this be the proportion of water 8 ounces of Juyces from two ounces to three of Wine or Vinegar from half an ounce to an ounce The Powder as to its quality is either simple of Cordial or Hepatical woods barks chiefly also of flowers seeds c. or compound of strengthening electuaries and sometimes aromatical troschischs As to the quantity to every ounce of liquor one scruple or half a dram of powder wil suffice so that to the whole proportion half an ounce or 6 drams may be prescribed so that not above a dram or two of the species of Electuaries may be taken The things of mean consistence in relation to their quality there is sometimes besides the liquor and powder of which an Epithe me alwayes consists a strengthening Opiate or cordial confection as Alchermes prescribed to one dram or two drams The VSE as to the manner it is applyed with a scarlet cloth or some soft linnen dipped in it gently pressed forth and applyed warm and when it either grows cold or dry 't is to be renewed several times and continued thus a quarter or half an hour twice a day No quantity for each time is set down The time is in the morning and evening if the affection be cold or it be in winter otherwise it is to be used 4 times a day if hot or it be summer and note this diligently that if the strength be extream weak after the use of a liquid one the solid one should be prescribed The FORM of prescribing â„ž c. Make a liquid Epitheme to be kept in a glass at the time of using it take a scarlet cloth c. The VTILITY 't is generally used to corroborate and also to cool seldom to heat for this purpose the solid form is more effectual it is prescribed against the hot distempers of the heart and Liver as also to strengthen and resist malignity if there be any suspition of it their use is chiefest in Fevers in the Summer time Note that liquid Epithemes may be applyed to the whole breast profitably in burning and hectick severs composed of moyst and cooling waters or decoctions prescribed in a greater quantity as also in the burnings of the head Phrensie c. see Rose-vinegar They are also sometimes applyed to the testicles in extream heats for by their communication with the whole body the very habit of the body and the blood is cooled therefore it is most profitable in the bleeding at nose or otherwise and to this purpose they use a mixture of vinegar and water to the same end sometimes cooling things are applyed to the hand-wrists against the heat and fervency of the heart so also to the fieriness of the face c. in summ every thing comprehended under the name of an Epitheme may be used to any part inflamed or beset with a hot affection though the word Epitheme be properly understood of a thing in relation to the heart or Liver The solid Epitheme That is called so that is not fluid like water though they are prescribed of a diverse consistence as wel a soft as otherwise In it note three things Composition the Vse and Vtility As to the COMPOSITION 't is made divers wayes 1. Either and this is most usual in the form of an Opiate made of conserves of flowers powders of electuaries but seldom of a simple powder and of Confections as aforesaid with a fit Liquor distilled water simple or compound an appropriate juyce c. As to the quantity in general it scarce exceeds four ounces but in special let there be of conserves three ounces confections three drams powders one dram or two at most 2. Or else in form of a liniment especially in hot affections of the heart as also in cold they may also be used in affections of the Liver of oyntment of Roses ceratum santalinum c. two ounces fit conserves half an ounce six drams to cordial powders half a dram or two scruples 3. Or of See what Pipio signifies for it is not a Pippin a Pippin cut in two in the middle and is most usual which let bestrewed with one dram of the powder of some cordial Electuary or two drams of the powder of ordinary Epithemes Hither may be referred Puppies and Kittens cut in halves to be applyed to the head chiefly in the declination of Phrensies sprinkled with a digesting and strengthening powder of the flowers of Roses Chamomil berries of kermes and such like to half an ounce The VSE as to the manner let the solid one in the form of an Opiate be extended on a scarlet cloth wet in a convenient Liquor and gently pressed and then be applyed warm to the region of the heart and that either after the use of the liquid one or otherwise also The time is indifferent it may be renewed twice or thrice a day The FORM appears out of the composition â„ž c. make an Epitheme c. The utility of a solid form like an Opiate is chiefly to strengthen and heat as also that in form of a Liniment and that made with a Pipio see before they may also be made to cool of Conserves in the form of a Liniment but that form is chiefly used and most profitable for the Liver In general they are made to alter strengthen where the strength is much wasted CHAP. II. Of Lotions THe reason and definition of the name is clear for it is as it were a particular kinde of Bathe dedicated chiefly to the head and feet hence I account it two-fold Cephalical and for the feet The Cephalical Lotion Is COMPOVNDED of a decoction of Cephalical simples in which two things are to be considered the matter and the Liquor in these the quality and quantity The MATTER in relation both to quality and quantity there is taken of roots to two ounces or three ounces of Leaves from four handfuls to eight seeds from one ounce to two flowers pug 4. Note that sometimes spices are added to half an ounce or six drams and when you would dry powerfully unmelted brimstone half an ounce and when the head is to be particularly purged after general means you may add Senna leaves to one ounce white Agarick half an ounce The Liquor as to the quality is either a Lye made of Vine ashes or the ordinary Lye of Barbers adding white wine if you wil or to the wine
things as the finest flower and binding things as bole Sanguis Draconis Acacia mixed with Vinegar and the white of an Egge and applyed to the forehead against bleeding at nose or to stop the course of humours flowing to the eyes In our usual Frontal we consider three things Composition Vse and Vtility 'T is COMPOUNDED 1. in a dry form which is properly a Frontal as to its quality 't is usually of the flowers of Violets Roses water Lillies white Poppy seed and Lettice seed As to their quantity the flowers use to be prescribed to 3 or 4 pug the seeds to half an ounce Note that sometimes to these are added to strengthen and discuss flowers of Cammomil and Melilot ana p. half the seeds of Coriander and Dil ana half a dram Note also that sometimes these Frontals are made onely of the leaves of Lettice and Henbane to 2 or 3 handfuls bruised and sprinkled with oyl of Violets and Vinegar or sometimes one handful of these are added to the former 2. Or else in a moister form and that 1. in the form of a Liniment of Vnguentum Populeon or of Roses to 6 drams oyls of Violets c. half an ounce or of Unguentum Populeon only 2. In the form of a Cataplasm of Leaves Flowers Seeds as aforesaid adding a little oyl and Vinegar to it The USE and Form of the dryer sort is â„ž c. bruise them and fold them up in a thin linnen cloth make a Frontal which either moistened with the vapor of Vinegar and sprinkled with it is to be applyed to the forehead and temples at the hour of sleep That of the Liniment is â„ž c. Let them be anointed on the forehead and temples at the houre of sleep and after four or five hours let it be wiped off and renewed That of the Cataplasm â„ž c. Make it like a Cataplasm which foulded between a doubled Linnen cloth let it be applyed to the forehead and temples The UTILITY is chiefly to cool against the burnings of the head as in Fevers and the Frensie to procure sleep in long wakefulness which in those affections do much prey on the strength and trouble the minde also to repress vapours in Fevers sometimes to repel and for paines of the head c. CHAP. II. Of an Oxirrhodine SOme refer this to the Epithemes some to the Embrocations taking its name from Vinegar and Oyl of Roses yet seeing 't is a form of Medicine which seems wholly dedicated to the head I wil adjoyn it for the liquid Frontall 'T is Compounded 1. Either more simply of four parts of Oyl of Roses and one of Vinegar beaten wel together so that the whole composition do not exceed 8 ounces or lib 1. at most 2. Or more compound of oyl of Roses and other cephalical oyls with Rose vinegar and cooling cephalical waters to this proportion of oyls 4 or 6 ounces Vinegar 2 or 3 ounces Waters 4 ounces let them be beaten wel together 3. Or instead of waters with Juyces of the same things prescribed in the same quantity The Vse and Form c. beat all wel together let Linnen clothes dipped and wet with this mixture be applyed to the head forehead and temples changing them often The VTILITY 'T is excellent in the frensie and diliniums or ilness of head to repel thin humours and vapours from the head and in burning Fevers where you fear an alienation of the mind CHAP. III. Of a quilt Cap. THis is dedicated to the cold and moist affections of the head 'T is Compounded in relation to its quality of cephalical simples wel sented either roots dryed leaves flowers woods spices as Cloves and Cinnamon c. seldom of seeds and of gums as Benzoin and sometimes Styrax because easily powdered Musk and Ambergreese may be added for the richer sort And this is their usual proportion of roots one ounce dryed Leaves two or three handfuls which may also be prescribed by weight to half an ounce 6 drams flowers to p. 2 3 which may also be appointed by weight to two or three drams or half an ounce gums to one or two drams Musk half a scruple or a scruple c. so that the whole composition do not exceed three or four ounces Note that some wil add those sweet powders which we cal Violet powder and Cyprus powder to half an ounce The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make a powder which mix with fine cotton or sleivesilk so bast it and quilt it between two silks and make a quilt to be worn on the head or sewed to the inside of the Cap sometimes two are prescribed and then the quantity of the powder is to be doubled and 't is said make two Caps of which let him wear one in the night and the other sowed to his cap for the day and when they grow fatty with sweat c. let them be left off and new ones made The VTILITY is famous in cold affections of the brain moist ones also from whence spring divers diseases of the nether parts but they are chiefly prescribed after general purgings to draw a way the relicks of the morbifical matter for cold and lasting affections of the head it self for Catarrhs to retain consume and stop all defluxions to cherish the animal spirits and to strengthen the head and brain therefore they ought to be medicaments of thin parts that they may the easier penetrate the skul least it should either receive or ingender new impurities c. CHAP. IV. Of a Collyrium IT is a topical eye-Medicine addicted particularly to the affections of the eyes called a Collyrium by the Greeks from its virtue to stop rhewmes And it is two-fold the moist which is now onely called a Collyrium and the dry properly called Seife by the Arabians The moyst Collyrium This is twofold the Liquid which in form of a Liquor is dropped into the eyes and the grosser which is anointed on of the consistency of honey or a Liniment But vapors are not said to be any of the sorts of a Collyrium which seeing they are nevertheless prescribed in affections of the eyes I will first speak of them so that I shall aecount a moist Collyrium threefold one like vapors another as liquor the last like honey The vaporous is not so much a form of a Collyrium as of a Medicine preparing the humors and eyes that the vertues of other things may be received to the better purpose as in suffusions spots c. It is also prescribed by it self to discuss which is altogether the best way as also when the sight is to be cleared c. T is COMPOSED or made 1. of the breath of ones self or another as of a boy having washed his mouth and chewed fennel seed c. breathed into the eyes which is often to be done and continued sometime as need requires 2 Or else may be prescribed a decoction to the quantity of a Clister made of leaves seeds flowers sharpening
the sight discussing and rarifying and that in white wine often in water sometimes the urine of a boy Childe being added to two ounces The VSE and FORM of the decoction â„ž c. make a decoction in c. for a suffumigation let him receive the vapor or fume of this to his eye either through a narrow-mouthed Pot or a Tunnel other vents being closed morning and night long from meat for so many days as there is need afterwards let the eyes be fomented with a spunge dipped in the decoction or with little bags filled with the ingredients which let be applied warm by turns for a quarter or half an hour The VTILITY is expressed it may also be made to binde as in the dilation of the apple or pupil of the eye of convenient things and in the running of the tears but the first use is most frequent These for a vaporous Collyrium The LIQVID one is absolutely called a Collyrium though antiently Collyriums were properly dry in the forms of Troschischs which they dissolved in a fit liquor at the time of using them But t is COMPOVNDED diversly 1. Either of a distilled water alone simple or compound The simple may be prescribed either one two or more to four ounces make a Collyrium The Compound which is magisterial and chiefly addicted to digest discuss cleanse sharpen the sight and take away suffusions and is to be prescribed by the Physitians and is made in relation to its quality of things that sharpen the sight leaves seeds as also Cephalical heating things as leaves seeds spices as Ginger Pepper sometimes adding Gall the Vrine of a Young Boy White Wine Honey c. As to the quantity let there be of sight sharpning leaves M. six or M. eight seeds one ounce a half or 2. ounc Cephalical leaves M. 2. spices half an ounce six drams Gall two ounces Urine lib. half or lib. 1 2. Honey lib. half Wine lib. 2. The FORM â„ž c. Let them steep eight days in a glass vessel in a warm place or horse dung afterwards distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water in a glass bottle and keep it for your use which is as that of others 2. Of Juices onely and chiefly of Leaves clarified and infused into the eyes or applyed with linnen raggs wet in them 3. Or of a Decoction onely of Leaves Seeds Flowers fit for the purpose to be prescribed in the quantity of a potion for four ounces wil suffice for a Collyrium 4 Or of an infusion onely of metalline things as of Antimony 1 dram in 4 ounces of water which is admirable to clarifie the sight so also gr 1.2.3 of Vitriol in Rose or Fennel water is admirable against the redness and pain of the eyes Or else made of proper vegetables infused either in a distilled water Juices or a decoction c. to 4. or 6 ounces the Liquor afterwards being strained and filtrated is to be kept in a glass for use 5. Or of a distilled water Juice Infusion Decoction 2 3 or all of these together mixed according to your intention to 3 or 4 ounces 6. Or other liquors are used alone according to your scope as VVine VVater whites of Egges in paines c. 7. Or some convenient powder made of proper eye medicines added to the aforesaid Liquor several or mixed As to the quantity of the powder 1.2 or 3 drams is to be the most those that are strong should not exceed 1 dram so with 4 5 or 6 oun of Liquor make a Collyr um Note also 't is best to strain a Collyrium for the roughness of the powders unless it be to scoure The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Collyrium a few drops of which 2 or 3 is to be dropped into the greater corner of the eye or and besides which seems best to me apply a Linnen cloth dipped in the same Liquor to the eyes and change them often so let it be as it were a fomentation or an Epitheme Or when the Liquors are gentler let the Patient lie forward and apply the Collyrium in a cup fitted to the eye so that it may as it were bath the whole eye The VTILITY of the liquid moist one chiefly is to cool and quench the burnings of the eyes to drive away paines and inflammations in the beginning afterwards to discuss them also to repel and stay rhewms to dry and consume teares to cleanse off any filth from them to sharpen the sight and discuss gross humors Thus much for the liquid Collyrium Here follows The COLLYRIUM like Honey 't is so called because 't is of the consistence of Honey and that three-fold in the form of a Liniment a Pultis and a Cataplasme The Liniment fashion Collyrium is made 1. Either of the powder of some fit things made into an Alcohol and a fit thing to embody it withal which is various according to the scope as a fit Muscilage honey butter oyntment of Roses c. according to your indications As to the quantity let the whole composition be an ounce viz. of powders 2 or 3 drams and half a ounce or six drams of that with which they are imbodied 2. Or without a powder of the muscilage of fit seeds as of Quinces c. but the former way is the more usual The Cataplasm and Pultis is for the most part made onely to ease paines and that of two ounces of the crumbs of white bread soaked in q. s of milk to which is added sometimes the muscilage of Fleawort to half an ounce Opium gr 2 c. 2. Or of onely the pulp of a Pippin softened at the fire or boyled in Milk to two ounces 3. Or of both together 4. Or to repel of the pulp of Quinces boyled to two ounces 5. Orchiefly to discuss after the manner of cataplasmes of the muscilage made of the residence of the sight-sharpening decoction bruised and driven through the strainer see the vaporous Collyrium The VSE and FORM of the Liniment â„ž c. Make it like a Liniment with which anoint the corners of the eyes that it may leisurely penetrate to the inward parts Or else it may be applied with a pencil to the eye-lids at the place affected Of the Cataplasm â„ž make it like a Pultis or a Cataplasme lay it on a fit linnen cloth wet in a fit liquor and apply it The VTILITY of the Liniment is special where we would help the affection of the eye-lids or cleanse to which purpose t is most usefull and also to dry it may profitably be used to discusse and for pains but then it is better in the form of a Pultis Collyriums are made in this form that by this means the powders sticking the longer may work more effectually on the part and if there be any sharp medicines they are thus allayd The Cataplasm and Pultis are used only to ease pain they may nevertheless be applied to discuss and repel as aforesaid Thus far of
cotton c. and apply it But of the Troschischs ℞ c. Make Troschischs see before The VTILITY is as is said either to strengthen or alter diversly usually to dry the brain and consume Catarrhs strengthen for Phlegm contained in the breast in divers affections to dry the ulcers of the lungs of Tobacco Coltsfoot Brimstone c. to provoke or stop the courses of fit things as also to stay the Fluxes of the belly as the dysentery against fits of the mother of ill-scented things to the superior and sweet scented things to the inferior parts to dry and strengthen the womb and help conception for Ulcers of the ears nose mouth lungs womb c. for the French Pox of Cinnaber as is usual whose fume received in a close place cures that filthy disease by a spetting Flux and all affections depending thereon as Ulcers pains And t is usually made in the form of a powder or Troschisch as ℞ Cinnaber one ounce and a half Gum balf an ounce four dram of a strengthening powder two drams three drams make a powder or else with turpentine make Troschischs The MOYST Suffiment is otherwise properly called a vapor and is made of a liquor fit for the purpose sending forth a vapor by the help of boyling it T is COMPOSED 1. Either of a simple liquor as vinegar wine Aqua vitae or Rose water c. Note that sometimes red hot flints are quenched in the vinegar for the discussing of hard Oedematous swellings as also red hot tyles to be quenched in vinegar and the vapor received as is usual in the time of the pestilence 2. Or of the decoction of fit simples to be prescribed in the quantity of the fomentation or according to the ampleness of the part Therefore in affections of the ears a third part of that will suffice The VSE and FORM ℞ c. make a decoction whose vapor let them receive in affections of the womb and others also thorow a hollow stool and a leaden Pipe or Tunnel see the Insession in affections of the ears by a Pipe or Tunnel which they vulgarly call an EMBOIE The UTILITY is great especially in affections of the Womb in staying or provoking the courses of mollifiers and attenuators in the dysentery of binders in divers affections of the Anus or Fundament in stopping and easing the Hemorrhoids they are also prescribed for affections of the ears and eyes In general they may be used to dry binde relax mollifie discuss open c. CHAP. X. Of Odoraments or Perfumes THey are prescribed partly for delight partly for health but chiefly to alter the brain refresh the animal spirits to put away ill sents and infectious ayre for the increasing the vigour and spirits of the heart also the sent of them being attracted with the breath into the Lungs and thence to the heart They are made of sweet smelling things and are either dry or moist Dry Perfumes These are Compounded 1 In the forme of a powder see the suffiments but the quantity of this is to be limited according to the manner of using it if it be for the greater baggs 't is best to use the Violet or Cipreos powder but for the lesser sort two or three ounces wil serve yet so that the quantity of the gums be diminished see above which in a box bored ful of holes or otherwise you may hold to the nose in a little knot or bagg of silk 2. Or in the form of a Pomander of the powder aforesaid in Suffiment for pleasure to one ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces adding Musk Ambergreese Civet to grains 6. half a scruple or a scruple as you please And 't is made up either with Gum tragant dissolved in Rose water so make two Pomanders to be carried in the hands or which is better let them be incorporated with Ladanum dissolved so make a Pomander which anoint with some sweet oyl Note also that t is better for your Musk Ambergreese Civet not to go into the Composition but to wipe the outside of it over with them dissolved as also with oyl of Cinnamom Cloves c. alone or mixt and to renew them often 3. Or in the form of Globulets or beads made of the same masse as the powders are but the proportion of it must be according to the quantity you intend to make to which the Apothecaries to increase the quantity of them add willow charcole finely powdered 4. Or in the form of a perfumed sope for the washing of the hands and head of Venice sope or other white sope to 4 ounces sweet powder six drams and if you wil Musk or Ambergreece gr 3 4 c. with a sufficient quantity of Rose water incorporate and make bals great or little The VSE let the sent of them be often snuffed up but the scope is onely to cleanse the hands and head from filthiness c. The VTILITY is expressed at first Moist Perfumes They are Compounded 1. in the form of sweet water and this is either simple as orange-Orange-flower water to 3 ounces of which you may add of Musk or Ambergreese gr 2 or 3 The Compound is made of Odoriferous things liquid as rose-Rose-water orange-Orange-flower water c. 4 ounces Cinnamon water one ounce and dry things as of sweet powders to 2 3 or 4 drams and if you wil some few grains of Musk and Ambergreese 2. Or in the Form of a Liniment which now adayes they cal sweet balsam of white wax often washed and melted one ounce of some convenient chymical oyls one dram and if you wil Musk Civet Ambergreese some few grains or more coursly of half an ounce of sweet powder wax 3 drams oyl of Ben or of sweet Almonds q. s so maken Liniment adding Musk Ambergreese c. to some few grains The VSE of the water is to wash the hands beard and hair of the head chiefly The use of the Balsam and its utility is the same as that of the dry perfume the hand also may be lightly smeared and the inside of the nostrils to avoid stenches to comfort the brain and heart and the spirits of both CHAP. XI Of the Scute IT is in general a topical Medicine for the stomack made in the form of a Scutcheon which seeing it is usually made both of plaisters and baggs custome hath so far prevailed the strengthening bagg is often used for the Scute 'T is COMPOVNDED therefore 1. in the form of a bagg of the powders of heating stomachical stomachical things observing these rules in every thing that are set down for your Quilt Caps from whose Form it onely differs in the use so that 〈◊〉 the proportion of the powder be also two ounces 2. Or in the form of a Plaister of the mass of some stomachical plaister as Empl. de Mastiche 2 ounces and of some stomachical powder to half an ounce to which also are sometimes added wel sented gums to 2 drams and are all made up with
Pessary is others will have it signifie a node or pencil 't is invented for Virgins sake who for shame or modesty refuse a Pessary or for Women who cannot admit them as when they have Vlcers Whatsoever is the reason they are COMPOVNDED in the manner of a Node or Pencil and are very soft of fine locks of cotton or wool moistened either with some fit juyce or oyntment or other things aforesaid the quantity of which is scarce limited generally a flock of VVool is prescribed to be imbued with q. s of such a thing Such are made for fits of the Mother a flock of cotton being sleightly rubbed with Givet or Musk dissolved in nard oyl as above The VSE is as of Pessaries The VTILITT in Virgins is the same as of the other in VVomen they are made for Ulcers in the neck of the womb and paines of it CHAP. XIII Of a Suppository T Is a topical Medicine used to the fundament or anus three or four inches in length slender and round like a smal candle of old in the form of an acorn from whence they were called of the Greeks Balanoi at this day t is commonly called a Suppository chiefly to move the belly to stool and for some other afsections And 't is either simple or compound The Simple This is made either of the stalk or root of Beets Colewort or Marshmallows the outward rind peeled of to which is added sometimes salt to augment the provocative virtue rubbed on the outside so smoothed over with oyl they are put up also of the stalk of a Leek anointed with butter or white sope sharpned like a suppository also honey alone boyled to a hard consistence for so it becomes more sharp The Compound This is made of Honey as the basis boyled til it wil not stick to the fingers then adding powders to it neer this proportion as to one ounce you may add one dram or 4 scruples of powder at the most according as the powder is lighter in weight or stronger in operation which quantity wil serve for two or three suppositories But the Honey is boyled by it self or with fit juyces to irritate or for other purposes of which let there be an ounce or an ounce and a half The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make suppositories one of which let be put up first being anointed with oyl or butter when need requires so that if they be purgative once or twice a day wil suffice if onely to alter they may be used oftener if they consist of Narcoticks for paines let them not stay too long lest they induce a Palsie and therefore thy use to be fastened to a thread that they may be drawn forth at pleasure neither ought they often to be used The UTILITY in general is two-fold either to provoke the expulsive Faculty to stool oâ— else for the proper affections of the Anus and streight gut The Belly is to be moved with a suppository either when the age of the Patient wil not receive a clyster as in sucking children or in humorous people whose custom and waywardness wil not admit of one as usually in Virgins also when clysters put up work not as in the cholick is seen or when purging Medicines taken down do not move as they should or when the dung staies in the belly only for want of irritating or when it is so hardened in the streight gut that you cannot put up a clyster And lastly when the expulsive Faculty is unmindful of his office and sluggish Also to revel or withdraw when humours tend wholly up to the head and midrise or otherwise when for revulsion sake they are to be drawn down or purged forth as generally in cold and sleepy affections of the head in which the expulsive faculty benummed is by this means excited or also when Clysters offend the sick c. And bsides this scope of purging they are made for the proper affections of anus and streight gut of honey as the basis and other matter serving to the intention after the manner aforesaid so to open the hemorrhoids with sharp things to stop them with other fit things also for Tenesmus Ascarides Ulcers the Relaxation and Palsie of the Sphincter and pains with appropriated powders mixed with honey in the aforesaid proportion And mark that concerning the matter of laxative Suppositories some are gentler as the simples afore recited for infants others stronger which consist of Salt Mouse-dung purging powders simple as Aloes Agarick Senna or compound as usually Hiera Piera and also other strong things the use of which is chiefly in the sleepy affections as Sal Gem Sal Ammoniack Salt Peeter and Purgers simple as Coloquintis or compound as Hiera diacoloquintida to half a scruple or one scruple also if for pains opium be admitted t is to be done warily for fear of a Palsie and you should scarce ascend to half a scruple CHAP. XIV Of a Clister IT signifies a washing from the Greek word Elyzo and in Greek is called Clyster and from its being injected Enema from Eniemi to inject in general it signifies any Lotion or Injection into any part but particularly that which is injected by the fundament And this may be accounted threefold purging altering and strengthening A Purging Clister Is COMPOVNDED of a fit liquor in which together with honey sugar and oyl are dissolved divers purgers and therefore so many things are to be considered in the composition but chiefly two the liquor of which t is made and the things to be dissolved in it The Liquor as to its quality is either the common decoction for Clisters usual in the shops or a Magisterial decoction prescribed according to the urgent occasion and intention of the Physitian of convenient things and is either Altering or Purging The Altering which is most usual is composed of fit mollifying things heating or cooling according to the intention of roots leaves seeds fruits flowers neer this proportion as of roots two or three ounces leaves four handfuls seeds six drams or one oune or an ounce and a half at most fruits pa. eight flowers pugil three If you would make it purgative you may do it by adding for phlegme of Carthamus seed bruised 6 drams or one ounce Agarick tied up like a node in a ragg 3 drams Elect-Turbith 2 drams for Melancholy 1 ounce or 6 drams of Senna Polipody an ounce which is very rare all which are to be added after the roots and are prescribed to be boyled after the seeds also all these are boyled in a convenient liquor or in water only But this is rare to boyl in purgers because purgers are afterwards dissolved in it which wil be sufficient As to the quantity of the Liquor it varies according to the age of the party very much for 3 ounces wil serve for a child of 4 or 5 moneths old if one bigger 5 or 6 drams for people of ripe age usually lib. 1. for great men lib. one and a half But
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine Detergentia IN general they are so called which by their joyning with humours that are either tough and clammy sticking to the body or fixed as it were in it do scour them away and in their passage take them with them they may be in nature hot or else cold in the actives but the hot are the most effectual in the passives they are dry and something of thick parts by which meanes they make some stay and consequently by tugging and as it were shaving off the tough humors til they yeild they afterwards take them with them and carry them forth But in special according to Galen 5 Simpl. 12 these cleansers are two-fold cleansers or scoures and unstoppers the first cleanse the parts of the skin and are of a certain kinde of nitrous and thin substance the last free the internal cavities from stoppages and as shal be said in its proper place do not differ from the preparers of humours in which place also they are to be sought for Here therefore I wil onely propound the matter of the cleansers the use of which is to purge and cleanse the superficies both of the skin and cavities and also Ulcers from filth that is apt to grow in them Roots of Smallage both sorts of Birthworts Cuckoopits wild Cowcumbers Dragons Ireos Gentian Plantain Solomons seal Leaves Of Wormwood Smallage Pimpernel male and female Agrimony Germander Centaury the lesse Celandine Beets Horehound Plantaine Seeds Of Nettle Plantane Smalage Orach Flower Of Linseed Fenugreek seed red Vetches Lupines Barly bitter Vetches Beanes hither also may be referd Bran. Juices Sugar Aloes Wine Tartar all Lyes and Lac Virginis Excrements of Animals Urine Gal whey of Milk Honey Rosins Turpentine Frankinsence Myrrh Minerals Alom Vitriol Verdegrease white Vitriol Tutty salt Peter Orpment brass burnt Spodium of the Greeks Borax both natural and factitious Oyls Of bitter Almonds Turpentine Tartar Oyntments Ung. Apostolorum Egyptiacum sope especially the black Of Allayers of Acrimony Grae. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine acrimoniam retundentia These are those which abate the acrimony of the humours and the exasperated sense of the part either by their emplastick quality or by their temperate moisture of the Emplasticks in their proper place the Epicerasticks or Allayers simply spoken are these Roots Of Marsh-mallows Mallows Licorice Leaves Of Mallows water Lillies Housleek Purslane Lettice Seeds Of Barley huld white Henbane Lettice Flax white Poppy Rice Fruits Jujubes Raistns sweet Apples sweet Prunes Sebestens sweet Almonds Pine nuts Juices and Liquors Almond milk Starch Barly water fat broth Milk of Sowthistles Creame of Barley juices of the leaves of Nightshade and winter Cherries Excrements of Animals Whites of Eggs Butter all Milk whey of Milk Parts of Animals Calves head and foot also Lambs head and the broth Muscilages Of the seed of Fleawort Quince kernels of the seeds and roots of Marshmallows of Linseed Mallows seed and of the roots of Borage Oyls Of Olives violets sweet Almonds of the seeds of gourds by expression of white Henbane and white Poppy seed oyl of Lead Oyntments of Roses Album camphoratum Syrups Of Violets of Apples of Marshmallows according to Fernel Syr. of Liquorice Jujubes Poppyes Purslane Divers officinal things Pulp of Cassia Diacodium Diapenidium sugar-candy of Violets Julep of Violets Honey of Violets Of Alexipharmacal Medicaments Grae. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lat. Venenis Resistentia Of these some are common which resist all poysons generally others proper which onely oppose some peculiar sort of poyson of the common sort in this place to which for the most part we have recourse especially if the sort of poyson taken be unknown of which in respect of the diversity of the poyson not of their use some are internal which have a peculiar use in the plague malignant Fevers and poysons taken inwardly Others external which cure the bitings and stingings of venemous creatures Internal Roots Angelica Anthora Snakeweed Cresswort or Gentian the less white Dittany Elecampane both sorts of Eringoes viz. common and sea greater Gentian Masterwort Lovage Burnet Saxifrage Vipers grass Sentinel or Tormentil Swallow-wort Barks and woods Lignum aloes all the Saunders Barks of Citrons Leaves Of Wormwood Dittany Cinquefoil viz. the greater creeping Cinquefoil garden Rue Goats rue Scabious Scordium or water Germander greater Valerian Mede sweet Pauls bettony Seeds Of Annise Sorrel Carduus Benedictus Citrons Corianders Juniper berries Grains of Chermes seeds of St. Johnswort Turneps Basil Pimpernel Saxifrage Purslane Flowers Of Borage Bugloss Clove-July flowers the flowers and tufts of heath Diascorid flowers of Marigolds Cetaury the less St. Johns wort water Lillies Rosemary red Roses Violets Fruits Oak Acorns Walnuts Citrons Oranges Spices Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmeggs Cardomomes all sorts of Pepper especially the long Zedoary Juices Citrons Oranges Rosins and Gums Myrrh Camphire Benzoin Parts and excrements of Animals Flesh of Pheasants Castor curd in the read of a young Hare Mummy Musk Unicorns horn Ivory bone of a Staggs heart new budding Harts-horns Bezar-stone Earths True bole Armonack true terra sigillata Precious stones Corals Pearls Rubies Emeralds Jacinths Saphires Topaz Things of the sea Ambergreese Amber Confections Treacle Mithridate Confect de Hyacintho Alchermes Elect. de ovo Lon. Treacle Compound waters VVater of Angelica the greater composition Bezoar water cold cordial water of Saxony Gilberts water water of Petasitis compound aq Protheriacalis water of Scordium compound Treacle water both that distild and that by infusion Condited things Barks of Citrons Myrobalans Insuper the roots and stalks of Angelica the roots of Burnet and Zedoary walnuts green Nutmeggs Eringo-roots Conserves Of the flowers of Borage Bugloss Violets red Roses water Lillies Rosemary Marigolds of the flowers of Oranges Clovegilly flowers Sage flowers Scabious flowers of the tops of Carduus benedicius Balm leaves of Rue c. Species or powders Aromaticum Rosatum de Gemmis Diambrae Triasentalinum Dianthos Diamoscum Diascordium red Pannonick powder of Saxony Powder of Crabs claws compound Magisterial cordial powder Magisterial Bezar powder Species of Confectio liberantis temperate cordial powder Troschischs Trosch alexiterii c. Out of which may be prepared divers magisterial antidotes waters extracts candied Confections Tablets powders c. READER TAke notice that these additions where you see these two Commaes at the head of the line were not in the Latine wherefore seeing it defective most in this head where it should have been most large I added them but shal not exceed the limit of the Latine book hereafter External As those which are used for venemous bitings c. and are either given inwardly 1. The aforesaid Alexipharmacal things mixed with Cordials 2. The powder of Vipers which is prepared of the flesh of the Viper the heart and liver being left out washed in white wine and dryed gently in an oven til it may be powdered then mixing it with other alexiterial things the dose is half a dram or thereabouts in
fragrant wine 3. For the biting of a mad dogg the Antidote of Galen of one part of Frankinsense 5 parts of Gentian and 10 parts of the ashes ofa Crawfish the dosefs from half a dram to a dram or two drams in wine Or else outwardly 1. The Alexipharmacal things mixed with things that draw to the skin 2. The flesh of any venemous creature applyed to the sting or the bite The Second SECTION OF THE FIRST PART OF The First Book OF MEDICINES respecting the Causes offending in quantity A Type of this Section Medicaments respecting the morbifical cause offending in quantity are either Preparers Of the humors otherwise called Digestives Of the body called otherwise Openers Or Universal Evacuaters as Purgers viz. those thaâ— are properly so called Vomitories Diureticks Sudorificks Preparers of the Humors or Digestives THese are those digestives that correct the fulness of the humors either in first or second qualities that any way hinder concoction by contrary qualities and by this meanes do as it were prepare them partly to help nature in the concoction partly to procure the more commodious evacuation by the succeeding purge and of this preparation is meant that Aphorisme 22. Sect. 1. These are threefold for some prepare Choler some Phlegme others Melancholy Preparers of Choler CHoler in respect of the first qualities because it is hot and dry requires those things that are cold and moist but in relation to the second qualities because some is very thin as that which is yellow other of it thick and gross either by adustion or by mixing with gross humours as the Vitelline Leek-colourd Aeruginous and azure colourd the first sort is to be thickned this last to be attenuated therefore alterers of Choler are two-fold some thickeners others attenuaters Concerning which note this that although all of them are not moist yet because they are cooling they abate the heat and prevent any farther driness and so by accident do moisten Thickners of Choler The Roots of Bugloss Plantain Leaves of Purslane Plantain Lettice Garden Nightshade great Housleek Seeds of Quinces Lettice Mallows white Poppies Plantain Fleawort Flowers of water Lillies Violets red Poppies Roses Mallows Fruits Jujubes Quinces Pomgranates Peares sweet Apples Sebestens Gums Tragant Arabick Juices of the leaves and fruits before rehearsed in this table starch Waters of the leaves and flowers aforesaid Syrups of the leaves flowers and fruits aforesaid usual in the shops as also the syrup of white Poppy seed Conserves of the flowers of water Lillies violets red Roses Mallows Species or Powders of Diatragacanthum Frigidum Diamargaritum Frigidum Diapenidium Pulvis Haly. Elect. Diacidonium without spices Rob. As of English Corans Cherries Sloes c. Attenuators of Choler Roots of Sparagus Sorrel Succory Grass Leaves of Sorrel all the capillary herbs viz. black or common Maydeehair yellow Maydenhaire wall Rue or white Maydenhair Cetrach Endive Succory Sowthistle wild Endive Dandelion gum Succory Liverwort wood Sorrel Harts-tongue Seeds Of Sorrel Endive Barley the four great cold seeds Flowers Of Succory Endive Fruits Oranges Limons Citrons Melons Pompions soure Prunes soure Cherries Corans Barberries Gums Camphere Clarified juyces of the Leaves and fruits before rehearsed also verjuyce Waters Of the Herbs aforesaid whatsoever you can have Syrups Also of the Leaves and Fruits aforesaid which are extant in the shops Conserves Of Succory Sorrel Citron Species Diatrion-Santalon Preparers of Phlegm PHlegm in relation to its first qualities is either cold and moist as the insipid sour and glassie and these are to be corrected with heaters and dryers or is heating and drying as the salt phlegme and that is prepared as choler mixing with the others those things also which respect phlegme but in relation to the second qualities all phlegme is gross rough and glutinous therefore to be corrected by attenuaters cutters and cleansers Roots The five opening roots viz. the roots of Sparagus Parsley Fennel Smallage Kneeholm Acorus Angelica Birthwort Ciperas or English Galangale Calamus Aromaticus Elecampane China Galingale blew Flower de luce Masterwort Liquorice Piony Salsaparilla Valerian Zedoary Leaves of Wormwood Agrimony Betony Calamint Germander field Cipres Fennel Hysop St. Johnswort Bayes Marjoram white Horehound Mints Balm wild Marjoram Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Sage Savory mother of Time Time Seeds the four greater and lesser hot seeds and of Carduus benedictus Corianders Citrons Lovage Pyony Silver-mountain Nettles Mustard Fruits Barberies Juniper berries Nutmeggs Figgs Flowers of Rosemary Lavender Centaury the lesse St. Johnswort Lavender Lilly of the vallies Sage French Lavender Barks and woods of Guajacum Sassafras barks of Citrons Oranges Spices all in general Rosins Myrrh Mastick Storax Frankinsense Things taken from animals Hony Musk Castor Things of the sea Ambergreese Amber Waters of the aforesaid things which you can find ready at the shops Aqua vitae Aqua coelestis Imperialis Theriacalis or Treacle-water Syrups of Wormwood Byzantinus Maydenhair syrup of the preserving of the roots Acorus and Citron peels condited and of Condite Ginger syrup of Hysop Mints Hony of Roses Oxymel simple and of Squils syrup of Horehound of the two or five opening roots syrup of Lavender cotton Preserves and Condites the Roots of Acorus Elecampane Ginger Emblick Myrobolanes Nutmeggs Walnuts barks of Citrons Oranges Olives pickled Conserves of the flowers of Rosemary Lavender cotton Sage Wormwood Powders Aromaticum Rosatum Caryophillatum Dianthos Diambrae Diamoscam dulce Diarrhodon abbatis Confections Aurea Alexandrina Treacle Mithridate Troschischs of Wormwood Gallia and Alipta moschata of Maudlim Distill'd oyls of Anniseed Cinnamon Cummins Cloves Orange peels Fennel-seed Nutmeggs Rosemary Marjoram Amber Preparers of Melancholy MElancholy is two-fold either adust which because 't is very hot dry and gross requires coolers moisteners and attenuaters therefore we must here have recourse to the table of the attenuaters of choler but chiefly the juice of fragrant apples as Pippins and Pearmains c. incommended of which may be made a syrup or else not adust and is called the melancholy juice which by nature is cold dry and grosse and therefore is to be prepared with things that moderately heat moisten and attenuate The matter of these follows where note that if any among them be dryer then is fitting such things are to be temper'd with moisteners Roots of Coocoo-pits prepard Bugloss Elecampane Ferne Polipody of the Oak Satyrions the 5 opening roots Liquorish which is always to be prescribed to temper the drinesse of others Barks of Citrons the roots of Capers the middle barks of Ash Tamarisk Elder Leaves of Borage Bugloss Brooklime Dodder Centaury the less Maydenhair Fumitory Hops Balm Cresses Harts tongue Time Seeds the four greater hot seeds of Smallage Agnus Castus Basil Carduus Benedictus Citrons Dodder Cresses Parsley Flowers the four Cordial Flowers see the premonitions flowers of water Lillies to temper the dryer medicines of Marigolds Broom Walflowers Tamarisk Elder Saffron Fruits Capers Raisins of the Sun Corans Gums Ammoniack Lack. From Animals the shel
blatta bone of a Staggs heart Honey Silk VVaters of the leaves and flowers aforesaid that are used in the shops Syrups of Fumitory Bugloss barks of Citrons the 5 opening roots Maydenhair Byzantinus Confections Alchermes Treacle Conserves of the flowers of Bugloss Borage Elecampane Maydenhair Condites or preserves Citron-peels condite Myrobolanes green Ginger Spices or powders Diamoscu dulcis Diambre degemmis Laetificans Galen Troschischs of Wormwood of Capers Gallia Moscata of gum lack of Maudlins Distill'd oyls of Aniseed Fennel seed Salts of Wormwood Ash Tamarisk Preparers of the Body PReparers and Openers of the body are those things which remove any thing that may hinder in easie purgation viz. the grossenesse of the humors or obstructions of the passages of which it is to be understood Aphor. 9. Sect. 2. Such are Attenuaters Cutters and Cleansers They are in general called Anastomaticks which word may signifie any thing that opens any passage whatsoever And Openers also Ecphracticks or unstoppers because they open the passages and free them from obstructions Neither do they in substance differ from Preparers of the humours but only in the subject they work on for sometimes it happens that humours that are not crude or are already prepared cannot be expeld because other grosse humours are in the way stopping the passages by which the peccant humor is to passe hence appears the necessity of this preparation which Galen 1 Aph. Com. 24. requires also in acute diseases when the causes are turgent or moving if there be any quantity of clammy crude humours But in special Openers are two-fold hot fitted for phlegmatick humours and natural melancholy or cold dedicated to prepare grosse choler and adust melancholy the hot are to be sought in the Table of the preparers of Phlegm and natural melancholy and the cold out of the Table of the preparers of grosse choler and adust melancholy Of those that are properly called Purgers PUrging Medicines are so called either properly or improperly these are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lenientia Lenitives the others specially Catharticks The Lenitives are of a four-fold difference some loosen the belly by making it slippery as whatsoever by its own fat moistening substance doth smooth the inside of the guts which otherwise is perhaps dryer and rougher then it should be so that by this meanes the excrements cannot stick to them such are oyl of sweet Almonds Butter fat broth of flesh Others are called Washers or Cleansers which by their abundance of moisture dissolve the dung and cleanse the internal superficies of the intrals such are fair water Whey Milk Beets Pellitory of the wal Coleworts Spinach and the broths of these Others may be termed Compressers which by contracting together the intrals presse forth that which is below them and by this reason Quinces taken last at meat loosen the belly so also uncleansed Wines and things very sowr purge some folks which can be by no other quality then their binding faculty Lastly others are Fretters which stir up the expulsive faculty by their biting quality of which sort are all hot and sharp things and besides they are of thin parts and some of them salt And in this manner a certain Carter cured diverse people troubled with a lasting Fever by giving them a draught of wine in which was dissolved a handful of Salt for they which took it were immediately purged both by vomit and stool very violently In this manner also meats much salted or aromatized loosen the belly by stimulating nature and by the same reason also happen those purgings which sometimes nature moves of her self also those things which purge being applyed to the Navil as the Ointment of Sowbread commonly called Vnguentum de Arihanita And all these are improperly called Purgers which purge any humour that comes in this way without a peculiar choice But those which are properly called Purgers are those which by choice purge some particular humor of which I now intend to treat There are four several Classes of those properly called Purgers Cholagogues Phlegmagogues Hydragogues and Melanagogues The Cholagogues or purgers of Choler are Cassia Manna Tamarinds Juice of Roses Aloes Reubarb Myrobolanes Scammony The Phlegmagogues are Carthamus Agarick Turbith Hermodactils Mechoacan Jalap Coloquintis Opopanax Sagapenum Euphorbium The Melanagogues are these following Senna Polipody of the Oak Epithymum black Hellebore Lapis armenius washed Lapis lazuli And lastly the Hydragogues or purgers of watrish humours are the seed bark and juice both of Danewort and Elder Soldanella or sea Colewort the juice of Ireos Elaterium Spurge called Esula prepared Mechoacan â—hâ— root Jalap and of late the berries of blackthorn or Khamnus to which may be numbred divers others quite out of use rather to be refer'd to those improperly called purgers or preparers of humours also compounds as Syrups Electuaaries purging pils c. which are all mentioned in the foregoing treatise of prescribing the forms of remedies And in all these aforesaid purgers severally I shal consider these six heads 1. The Kind 2. The Election or the marks how to know the true from the adulterated purger 3. The Qualities as wel the first viz. their temperature as the second third in which I comprehend the parts for whom they are good and the affections which they oppose also the sex and age for which they are most convenient 4. Correctors 5. The Dose both least meane and greatest 6. The Form in which they are most conveniently given although this last rather belong to the method of compounding The First Classis of PURGERS In which are handled the Cholagogues or purgers of CHOLER CASSIA The Kind CAssia meant here is the fruit of a certain Indian tree of the bigness of a Pear-tree having leaves like the Peach-tree flowers like broom yellow smelling like Cloves this Fruit is a long Codd round somewhat black outwardly inwardly replenisht with much black pulp and many seeds round plain and flat resembling the form of a heart divided from one another by certain woodish membranes set tranverse or crosse the Cane and is called Cassia of the Arabians from the Inventor by Actuarius Cassia nigra or the black by others Cassia of the Canes also Lenitive Cassia to make a difference from the Cassia of the Greeks and the Cassia of the Poets For the Cassia of the Greeks is nothing else but the Cinnamon of the shops commonly called Canea and for difference sake woody Cassia and sweet smelling Cassia The Cassia of the Poets is a certain coronary herb which The ophrastus calleth Cneoron whose sigure is set forth by Matthiolus The pulp onely of our Cassia is in use which they cal Flower or pulp of Cassia and Cassia newly drawn although Fallopius and Manardus affirm that the cane and seeds powdered have also a purging quality and that greater then the pulp which sentence of theirs is not approved by Anton. Musa nor Garcias ab Horto The Election The greatest canes are rather to be chosen
Aloes washed in the juyce of roses â„¥ i. of agarick troschisated Ê’ iii. Mastich Ê’ ii of the species of diamoscum dulce Ê’ s with Malmsey wine s q make a masse But if it be of the laâ—â— preparations then Pils may be made either of that alone or with some liquor if need require so out of Ê’ i of Aloes rosata with wine may be made as many Pils as you see fit or else over and above may be added some juyce thickned or other liquor with correcters or directers and Pils may be made whose dose is from ℈ i going forwards to Ê’ i oâ— more so are prepared the Pils called the angelicall Pils MYROBALANS The Kind Myrobalanes are a certain kind of Plums which the interpreter of Avicen and Serapio without any reason translated Myrobalans for Myrobalanus signifies a nut or fatty Acorne out of which oyle is pressed for precious oyntments of which Dioscorides lib. 4. cap. 254. but our Myrobalanes neither bear the shape of an Acorne nor smell like a precious oyntment There are of them in the shops five kinds produced by divers Trees viz. Citrine or yellow Chebules Indian or black Emblicks Bellericks whose bark only is in use The Citrine are so called from their citron colour they have a small and thin bark and a great stone Chebules are the greatest and longest of all rugged full of corners having a small stone the Indian are small but very black the Emblicks are rather peices then whole plums the Bellericks are round like gals having both a thick bark and stone The Election Those Citrine Myrobalanes are commended which are of colour between green and yellow which are heavy as being well replenished with a firme and much of their fleshy part which are gummy and if broken have a little stone those Chebules are the best which are the biggest of a darke somewhat purplish colour and which being cast into water suddenly sinke to the bottome The Indian Myrobalanes are the best which are the blackest most weighty and have no stone within and which when they are broken seem all as one thing Those Emblicks excell which are in the greatest thickest firmest and most weighty peices and which have lesse of the stone than of the pulpye part The Bellericks are to be chosen which are great and by reason of their thick fleshy part weighty and which have a thick barke The Qualities All Myrobalanes are cold in the first and dry in the second degree except the Emblicks which Mesues saith are cold dry in the first degree only but understand it in the height Therefore as to the second qualities all of them together with their purging bind therefore are they used in all fluxes and help the hemorrhoids they are addicted to the stomack heart and liver but in perticular the citrine purge choler the Indians melancholy and make men merry the Chebuls and Emblicks purge phlegme the Bellericks effect all that the others can The Correction The astriction of them is corrected by adding those things which open and provoke Urine as any sweet seeds or else if while they be broken and powdred they be anointed with oyle of sweet Almonds or butter The Dose In powder Ê’ ii in infusion or decoction from â„¥ s to Ê’ vi c. The manner of giving them They are given either condited or else in infusion or decoction The condited are given when you would strengthen giving one of them every day after meat diverse dayes together But in infusion or decoction when you would evacuate they are boyled or infused in water broath whey or wine to Ê’ vi by themselves or to â„¥ s with other things adding correcters Then in the strained liquor other things are added as is said in Rubarb SCAMMONY The Kind It is a thickned juyce of a Plant of the same name which is gathered from the root being cut which is full of a milky juyce of which there are diverse differences according to their native places as Dioscorides Pliny and Mesues write yet that of Antioch is the best The Election The marks of the best Scammony are taken from the substance weight colour smell and tast in substance it is smooth porous like a sponge friable and tender easy to be powdred and soon melting In weight it should be very light as Pliny will have it In colour it should be glistening and shining like gum transparent like glew when it is broken yellow iubbed on the tongue or melted in water of a milky colour In smell not loathsome though not pleasant In tast insipid nor much heating the tongue which if it do it is a signe of the mixture of Spurge with it The Qualities Scammony is of temperature hot and dry and that in the third degree as Mâ—sues saith and therefore hurtfull for them of a bot and dry nature neverthelesse I must dissent from this opinion for if it be true Scammony not adulterated with the juyce of Spurge it is rather to be accounted hot and dry moderately for it is neither sharp in tast nor bitter as Mesues hath mistaken but rather insipid it purgeth from the remote parts thin choler and yellow watrish humors for it hath a strong drawing faculty and therefore if it be taken in too great a quantity the thin sharp humors being too much drawne into the intrals do cause most violent symptomes for by their acrimony they corrode the guts from whence comes gripings the dysentery and tenesmus they also open the orifices of the veines immoderately from whence come fluxes of the belly sometimes with blood besides they send forth certain sharp fumes whereby the heart liver and rest of the intrals are disturbed and the stomack is so tired and hurt with it that it breeds nauseousnesse to them that take it and lastly by their acrimony they inflame the spirits of the body and so easily occasion feavers all which things both Mesues and others ascribe to the proper nature of Scammony when they rather proceed from the corroding humours which by a proper quality it attracts to it for pure and legitimate Scammony hath no such nature as they attribute to it The Correction Scammony is corrected because it was thought to occasion those symptomes by its owne nature with binders coolers lenifiers and things that strengthen the heart liver and stomack of which there are divers ways of preparing Scammony as you may see in Mesues But the most usuall is that correction that is done with the juyce of Quinces Barks of Citrone Myrobalanes and Mastich of which according to art are made troschisks as to lib. i. of choyce Scammony are taken of the Barks of Myrobalanes and Mastick ana â„¥ s of the juyce of Quinces l. s and â„¥ s Make troschiscks or else Scammony powdred is put into a Quince made hollow and wrapped in past and so is roasted either in an Oven or under the Embers then is the Scammony taken out of the Quince being first cold and kept for
stomachicall things as Cinamon Aniseed Fennel seed c. The Dose In substance is from gr xv to Ê’ s ℈ ii Mesues gives to Ê’ i. In infusion it is given from Ê’ ii to Ê’ ii s Some give it to â„¥ s but then they ascend by degrees from Ê’ i first so likewise in the decoction The manner It is given either in substance infusion or decoction The substance is given 1 in form of powder taking black Hellebore to ℈ ii Ginger Mastick red Roses Cinamon Aniseed ana gr iv mingle it and use it in broth for children take but ℈ i. 2 In the form of pils making pils of the aforesaid powder with a convenient syrrup 3 In the form of Lozonges as is said in Senna and Rubarb 4 In form of a Marmelade as is said in Rubarb The infusion The infusion of Hellebore is made 1 The common way with some fit liquor decoction meade or barly water c. as hath been often said 2 In form of an extract where is to be noted that for the Menstruum or liquor for extraction some will take Aniseed water adding the due correctors some will take only rain water without correctors because they have found that its purging quality is acuated and made stronger by the admixtion of them The Dose of this extract is from ℈ i to Ê’ s The Decoction is also made two wayes 1 And commonly in a convenient liquor as other purgers 2 In a Helleborated apple an apple is stuck full with the sprigs of the root of black Hellebore and some cloves then wrap it up in a paper wet with cold water and so it is roasted under the ashes then drawing forth the hellebore and cloves the apple it selfe is to be eaten with sugaâ— LAPIS ARMENUS The Kind This is not only brought out of Armenia but is also found plentifully in the silver mines of Germany of which is made the coâ—ouâ— for Painters The Election That is best which is between sky colour and green not sandy yet friable The Qualities It is hot and dry in the second degree it purgeth melancholy and cureth the same affections that black Hellebore doth The Correction It is corrected being finely powdred by often washing in cordiall waters as borage roses buglosse c. iterated so often that the water thence receives no more either colour or tast The Dose Of that which is washed is from Ê’ s to Ê’ i. and Ê’ i s of the unwashed to Ê’ i. 'T is taken all the same wayes that Lapis Lazuli is LAPIS LAZULI The Kind Lapis Lazuli Lyaneus or Cerulcus which we call azure hath so great an affinity with the Armenian aforesaid both in their originall and faculties that one may easily be used for the other The Election That Lapis Lazuli is chiefly to be chosen which is distinguished by its golden spots or in the breakings and flaws of which appear little glitterings of gold and therefore it was called by Mesues Lapis Stellatus or the starry stone The Qualities It is hot in the second and dry in the third degree and hath the same virtues as the Armenian stone but something weaker It is Corrected as that also The Dose Is from Ê’ s to Ê’ i and Ê’ i s Mesues saith from Ê’ ii to Ê’ ii s The manner of using it 'T is Vsed 1 In the form of Pils as â„ž ℈ ii or Ê’ i of Lopis Lazuli prepared and with Cinamon Ginger Camphere ana gr vi with some convenient juyce or syrrup make Pâ—â—s 2 In form of a powder by taking the powder of this finely ground and with some certain spices give it either in broath or other liquor 3 In form of a bole mixing the aforesaid powder with conserves of Borage 4 In the form of Cakes and Lozonges but then the stone is to be ground to an alcool least the powder being coarse grate in the teeth 5 In form of a potion taking the powder in sweet wine 6 In any convenient break-fast meat Note it is alwayes to be reduced to a very fine powder THE FOVRTH CLASSIS OF PURGERS IN WHICH ARE HANDLED THE HYDRAGOGVES OR PURGERS of WATRISH HUMOURS ELDER and DANEWORT The Kind DAnewort and Elder are alike in the leafe flower and fruit of the plant and differ according to Dioscorides only in the bignesse of it for Danewort is a smaler elder or chameacle i.e. field elder commonly dwarse elder but Elder it selfe is a Tree of either of these the middle bark and seed and the juyce of the roots and leaves are in use to purge watrish humours The Dose Of the seeds of their berries is Ê’ i. of the barke Ê’ ii of the juyce â„¥ s or Ê’ vi they are corrected with Cinamon The Vse The seed is used in powder given in strong wine or wormwood wine or in the decoction of Chamepitis or field Cipres in gouty affections the bark is steeped or boyled in wine to Ê’ iii but its purging quality decayes in the boyling according to Dioscorides the juyce is taken to â„¥ i. in broth altered with wormwood as also the juyce thickned with hony fometimes Cinamon water is added but for the most part it is not given by Practicians alone but mixed with other things SOLDANELLA This is the Sea Colewort Dioscorid whose leavs and juyce are in use The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the second degree some say the third it is an admirable remedy to purge watrish humours yet so that there be always some choler mixed with it But because it is offensive to the stomack it is to be corrected with Cinamon Ginger c. The Dose is from Ê’ i to Ê’ i s Ê’ ii of the juyce â„¥ 〈◊〉 The leavs are Vsed 1 In a pickle of vinegar and salt six mouthfuls or bits of which do wonderfully purge waters in the Dropsie sometimes also it is boyled in broath like garden Cabbage 2 In powder adding if you think fit Rubarb and Cubebs which is given either in broath or some other breakfast or else is made into Lozenges for hydropicall children 3 In decoction as other things adding fit correctors 4 In Pils but then a lesse quantity of this is to be taken and other quickeners added least through the lightnesse of the powder the Pils be too many in number But the juyce is given with Rubarb in form of an infusion which purgeth watrish humours profiâ—ably The Juyce of IREOS This juyce is pressed out of the root of the Ireos or Flowrdeluce of our climate but most usually out of that which beares the blew or purple flowr and it is hot and dry in the third degree and purgeth yellowish waters powerfully but is not safe for children old folks or women with child for in these it moves the courses for the others it is too strong 'T is corrected wâ—th Cinamon The Dose is from â„¥ s to Ê’ vi and â„¥ i. 'T is used to be taken first in a little wine with some Cinamon or else in
rehearsed as Sarcoticks are not to be thought so simply but are withall either glutinative or closing or else cleansing or procuring suppuration and therefore are to be temperd by the mixture of others But these following are properly called such of which note that the dryer sort are to be used to dry bodies and those that are least drying are to be applyed to moyst bodies Rootes of Cumfrey Ireos Birthwort Leaves of St. Johns wort Juyces Aloes Flowrye parts of barly vetches orobus and ervus and of senugreek â—osins Frankinsense Burgundy pitch Mastick rosin of the pine and of the sir tree pitch turpentine myrrhe Gums Tragant Sanguis draconis Sacrocall Minera's As Cadmia Cerusse Tutty both white and gray called Pompholix Lytharge lead burnt and washed Vnguents Aureum rubrum desuccativum Emplasters de betonica de gratia dei Epuloticks or skinning medicines but more properly Cicatrizers by the Latines Cicatrizantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that skin an Ulcer or wound after it is filled with flesh they should be in the passive qualities very drying that they may not only consume the moysture that flowes to the part but also that that remaines in the flesh of the Ulcer they are also of a grosse substance that they may bind and contract or draw together In the active qualities they should rather be cooling then heating and altogether without biting though there be many things numbred amongst the Cicafrizers that dry with biting yet such are convenient only for the hardest sort of bodies The Vse is plain The Matter followes Rootes of round Birthwort Tormentill Leaves of Plantaine Myrtle Pomegranates horse taile mony wort Barkes of Pomegranates Acorne cups Ashes and things burnt as wool linnen or cotten burnt spunges burnt a hares haire burnt tiles burnt to dust Gums and juyces Sanguis draconis Acacia Fruites of the Cipresse tree unripe gals Flowres Balaustines red roses Earths Terra Iemnia bole armenack chalke Stones Blood stone calaminaris plaster of Paris Metalline things Scalings of Iron burnt Alum lead burnt and washed powder of lead of which see Fernelius lib. 6. M.M. cap. 16. brasse burnt ceruse litharge Calcitis or white vitrioll Cadmia washed pompholix or white tutty brimstone aurpment vitriol pompholix and spodia are both sorts of tutty why he sets tutty here by it selfe I know not see Screderus in his pharmacopia lib. 3. cap. xix tutty burnt and washed antimony burnt lime washed spodium or grey tutty Animals Hearts horne burnt scutle bone Ivory burnt oyster shels burnt Sea things Corall Oyntments Ung. album Rhazis Nutritum or oyntment of Litharge oyntment of Cerusse of tutty or red lead and rubrum desiccativum Things that take away Sears which for brevity sake may be called Scar Curers Fat 's and marrowes of men asses harts the fat of the fish Thymallus Oyles of Myrrh yeolkes of egges campher orientall balsame Flowre of beanes Juyce of Ivy. Seedes of rocket mustard Minerals borax salt peeter Waters of Lilly flowres beane flowres out of which things are made divers compositions oyntments and liniments Things breeding a Calleus or hardnesse in joyning broken bones may properly be called Call-breeders by the Latines callum generantia be the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called not because they properly breed a Calleus for that is the work of nature but because they assist nature in that work such are in the active qualities moderatly hot lest they should dissolve and consume that juyce of which the Calleus is ingendred in the passives they should be drying as to the second qualities they thicken harden and bind and are either Internall as the juyce of primroses the rootes juyce or powder of Agrimony and especially the stone Osteocalla or bone glew given to Ê’ i. in cumfrey water Externall things as Aloes Acacia bole armenack Mill dust Osteocalla or bone glew nuts of Cipresse Frank in sence Gum tragant THE THIRD PART OF THE FIRST BOOK Of Medicaments respecting the most common and most urgent Symptomes The Type Symptomes that are the most frequent are these following together with their opposite remedies Paine to which are opposite anodine things and Narcoticks watching Hypnoticks flux of blood stenchers of blood swounding refreshers of the spirits Anodynes by the Latines dolorem mitigantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which ease paine without stupisying the senses though the cause of it remain such medicines should be temperate in the active qualities much agreeable to our naturall heat but in the passives moyst either watrish or ayery of thin substance voyd of all astriction for these by their mild and gentle heat foster the heat of the part and by their tenuity of substance penetrate into the parts and by their gentle moysture relax them by which meanes the cause contained in the part by transpiration may be the easier discussed and evacuated The Matter is this which is for the most parâ— externall and topicall or applyable to the very place Rootes of Marsh-mallowes mallowes lillyes Leaves of Elder mallowes violets dill Seedes of Flax fenugreek wheat barly and the meale Flowres of Chamomill mellilot mullen saffron Animals their parts and excrements Warm milke new butter unsalted Oesipus yeolkes of egges flesh of animals whilest it is warme lungs of animals new killed the kell of animals also Marrowes All that are kept in the shops Fat 's and greases Hogs fat gooses hens man's Oyles Sweet oyle Olive of earthworms chamon ill sweet almonds sillies linseed yeolks of egges of dill jasimine wall flowres of sesamus water and oyle mixt together Wheat bread new baked whilst it is yet hot Crumbs of white bread Mucilages of the seeds of Mallowes fleawort marsh-mallowes fenugreek Suets of a Hart of Goates Oyntments Pectoral oyntments Dialthea unguent anodynum resumptivum oyntment of the opening juyces Narcoticks by the Latines Stupefacientia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are Medicines which take away or stupifie the sense of the part that it cannot be sensible of that which manes the paine The Vse of these is in the most vehement paines and they are all extreamly cold but do not stupifie so much by their coldnesse as by an occult quality they possesse Roots of Mandrake Henbane Leaves of Henbane Mandrake Poppies sleepy nightshade Tobacco Hemlock Flowres of Henbane Poppy Seedes of white and black Poppy Henbane Darnell Thickned juyces of Mandrake Henbane Opium Syrups of white and red poppy diacodium Oyles of Mandrake white poppy seed Opiates New Treacle requies Nicholai Philonium romanum persicum Philon Magistrale Pils of Cynoglosse of Styrax Laudanum and nepenthes opiatum to gr iii. iv v. Sleeping Medicines by the Latines Somnifera by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that procure sleep by sending mild vapors up to the head to temper the hot dry and sharp fumes that are in the brain whose Vse is chiefly when overwatchings are caused by sharp fumes such are
these following Leaves of Lettice Sengreen Dill. Seedes of Lettice the four greater cold seedes white Poppy seeds Fruites Sweet Almonds Peach kernels Waters of Violets water Lillies Lettice Purslane Nightshade Roses Syrups of Violets water Lillies Poppies Cowslips Conservâ—s of Violets water Lillies Cowslips Candied things Stalkes of Italian Lettice Candid Juyces of Lettice â„¥ iii. of the juyce of Lettice is a deadly draught therefore be wary water Lillies night shade Species Diamargariton frigidum powder of Haly diatrion santalon Tro chiscks Gordonii Oyles To anoynt the forehead remples and soles of the feet oyle of violets water Lillies sweet Almonds Dill Willowes Mandrake Frogs Poppyes Roses Marrowes of the thigh bones of calves harts Vnguents Populeon out of all which divers remedies to procure sleep both internall and externall may be prepared Stoppers of Blood by the Latines Sanguinem sistentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that stay or stanch blood flowing out of the veines or arteries whether opened by relaxation of the orificies or by corrosion or violent breaking or cut as in a wound and this other medicament can performe besides caustick medicines which stop it by inducing a crust or escara instead as it were of a stopple and that divers wayes viz. i. by an emplastick quality for such as are of a grosse and clammy substance they stop and fill up the orifices of the veines Secondly by a cooling binding drying vertue or lastly by some other propriety or occult quality The Matter of all which is this following Rootes of Cumfrey Cinquefoyle Rubarb torrefied nettles Barkes of Pomegranates Pine trees Leaves of Plantain knot grasse horsetaile periwinkle burnet both sorts â—ursan nettles willowes ducks meat lettice purslain night shade both the sengreens bramble buds Flowres Balaustines Citrines Fruites Quinces sowre peares services medlars bramble berries mulberries unripe of sumach unripe gals burnt gals that are suddainly quenched in vinegar or sowre wine Juyces and liquors Acacia Hypocistis Aloes vinegar vinegar with water called Posca verjuyce cold water juyce of gourds purslain sowr wine Rosins Frankinsence myrrh mastick rosin rubbed Fernel 5. M. M. 3. Gums Sanguis draconis Sea things Corall Amber Sponge burnt Animals their parts and excrements Glue Mummy both inward and outward white of an egge spicers web especially it it be such as is full of the fine flowr of mils or bakehouses clots of blood dryed Spodium mode of Ivory hens feathers burnt haire of horses and men burnt bones burnt to a fine powder Stones Bloodstone Schistus Jasper plaster of paris washed Earthes Common earth 8 Simpl. bole terra sigillata Flowre of wheat beanes starch Sootes Soot scraped from the oven mouth or off a brasse pot foot of Frankinsence or Mastick Minerals Litharge Cerusse white Tutty Vitriol Alum Refreshers of the spirits by the Latines spiritus reficientic by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I intend not to speak here of such things as remove the causes that oppresse the spirits or of them that by accident restore them nor of those which strengthen the heat of the heart for they are to be referd to the Cordials but only of such as with their gratefull sent or vapours suddainly restore the spirits whose Vse is in swounding and faintings such are the Rootes of the true Acorns Angelica Avens Ciperus blew flowre deluce of Florence Barkes and Woodes of Citrons Oranges lignum Aloes Saunders especially the yellow Leaves of mountain Calamint Hysop Lavender marjerome baume mints bazill rosemary penyroyall mother of time time Flowres of Oranges clove gilleflowers Citrons Jasimine Lilly of the vally limons all sorts of spike roses purple violets Berries of Juniper Bayes Fruites ripe Quinces fragrant apples Spices Cloves Cinamon Mace Rosins and Gums Styrax Camphere Excrements Musk Civet Waters and Vinegars Water of Cinamon Citron and Orange and Limon flowres of Lavender Jasemine and roses vinegar of strong wines of clove gilleflowers of roses Sweet Oyles as of Cinamon Costus Nutmegs Spike Camphere Jasemine Cloves oyl of Balsome of Citron peeles and such like Note that in women such fragrant things are not to be held to the nose least it should cause fits of the mother but rather ill sented things as Caster Rue c. THE SECOND BOOK Of the particular matter of Physick SECTION I. Of Remedies belonging to the head The Type of the Section Remedies dedicated to the head are either dedicated to the brain as Cephalicall things purgers of the head as Errhines Sternutatories Apophelegmatismes Eyes as opthalmicall things which are either sharpeners of the sight anodines or easers of pain repellers digesters cleansers Eares as Oticks ro ear medicines Teeth as teethish medicines Cephalicall medicines by the Latines Capitalia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are properly called cephalicall medicines that have a virtue to preserve or restore the naturall heat and vigor of the brain and which strengthen it being first cleansed from the anoying filth that molests it The Vse of which as also of all other strengthening medicines that have their denomination from the part is both before diseases beginning and in them and also after they are removed but most usually after generall purgations to restore strength to the parts from whence they have their name of strengtheners least they should againe heape more vitious humours and by that meanes occasion new affections or conduce to the return of the old And although the faculty of these strengtheners seeme something occult yet hath it either heat or coldnesse joyned with it by whose helpe the relicks of a cold or hot distemper are removed together with the other operation so that in speciall cephalicall things are twofold hot in cold affections of the brain cold in hot affections of the brain and also the dry as those things that are proper for mitigating deliriums The hot are these Internall Rootes of Birthwort which is famous in the falling sicknesse that proceeds from the womb calamus aromaticus Acorus and Galingale for winedinesse of Male pyony against the falling sicknesse and vaine feares also misle of the oake florentine â—reos English Galingale Zedoary Leaves of Betony Marjerome for windinesse narrow leaved sage Centaury the lesse to strengthen the nerves rosemary for the trembling and palsy bayes mirtles for catarrhes mountain calamint lavender primrose bazill savory hyssop baume wild marjerome Barkes and Woodes Barkes of Citrons guiacum â—asaphras lignum Aloes Seedes of Coriandeâ—â— Fennel silvermontan Berries of Juniper bayes mirtles graines of kermes seeds of Piony and Nigella Flowres of Sâ—aechas of Arabia which are as it were the life of the braine and nerves most sefull in the swimming of the head falling sicknesse and melancholy lillies of the vally cowslips line tree spikenard centaury the lesse betony of rosemary mellilote chamomill Fruites Anacardines but warily because they burn the blood Spices Nutmegs Cubebs gr v. swallowed every day Cardamomes Mace Cloves Cinamon Ginger and Pepper for a moyst brain Rosins Frankinsence
against forgetfulnesse Mastick Styrax Benzoin Animal things Castor which is famous Muske ashes of Swallowes dung of Peacocks in the falling sicknesse Sea things Amber Ambergreece Distilled waters of the aforesaid leaves aq vitae with Castor treacle water with the juyce of Betony imperial water aq caelestis cinamon water water of Piony compound spirit and water of lavender compound of Dr. Matthias spirit of castor Oyles Chymicall of Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon marjerome amber rosemary Syrups of slaechados of bettony chamepitios of Piony compound syrup of the infusion of Piony flowres of the juyce of sage Conserves of the slowres of rosemary betony sage french lavender and of the lintree flowres Candied things and preserved things Citron peels roots of Acorus Myrobalanes Nutmegs Walnuts Coriander candyed Confections Treacle old Methridate the confection aurea alexandrina and of anacardines but warily diacorum diacinnamomum Powders Those mentioned in the preparers of phlegme Treschiscks de carabe gallia moscata Externall heating things The Seedes of Nigella or Gith of Cummins torrified put in a bag and applyed to the mould of the head Oyles of * these are rather cooling mirtles * these are rather cooling roses bayes spikenard nutmeg by expression Plaisters de betonica de baccis lauri and in the long lasting pains Emplaister de Ranis or Plaister of Frogs of Vigo with Mercury Rue and wild Time for pains idle headednesse disturbance of mind and over-watchings and Vervain the same way Cold things internal Hearbs Sorrel Lettuce Purslain Violets Cowcumbers twinings of Vines called Capreoli Woods All the Saunders Flowers Roses Violets for sleep water Lillies Seeds The four greater cold seeds of Lettuce Fleawort white Poppy Juices Of Citrons Pomegranats Currans Vinegar Verjuice Opium have a care Gums Camphier Distilled Waters Of the Flowers and Leaves aforesaid black Cherry water Conserves Of the Flowers aforesaid Candied and Preserved things Lettuce stalks and the flesh of Gourds preserved Powders or Species Diamargariton frigidum Diatrium santalon Diatragacanthi frigidi Troschischs of Camphier of Saunders Cooling external things The aforesaid simples to which add the Leaves of Henbane Nightshade great Housleek Mandrake Willow Vine branches Oyls Of the the aforesaid Flowers and the seed of white Poppy Oyl of unripe Olives Oyl of the flowers of Willow for anointing of the Nostrils and Temples Vnguents As Oyntment of Roses Refrigerans Galeni Populeon Searcloth of Saunders Opposite to these Cephalical things are those which hurt the Head such are these following taken from Galen lib. 2. compos med sec loc cap. 1. neer the end The seed of Agnus castus juice of Wormwood Olives that are black and ripe the fruit of Arbutus or Strawberry tree Myrrh or Frankincense if it be drank when one is healthy as Diascorides will have it For according to Avicen they are good for the Memory the tops of Ivie also the berries of it Saffron Sulpherwort Sowbread dried and drank in Wine much Storax makes troublesom dreams but a little drives away sadnesse Lastly all things that are oderiserous induce troublesom sleeps and the Hag-riding or Night-mare because they fill the Head with vapors especially in those that are plethorick ¶ To these he might have numbred Coleworts Beans and all sort of pulse which cause troublesem heavy sleepinesse and fearfull Dreams Erthines or Snifting Medicines by the Latines Nasalia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are Medicines that are to be snifted up into the Nose to draw forth the Flegm that lurks about the Brain and tunicles of it either without any agitation of the Brain when the excrements come down of themselves or else with sneezing and then they are properly called Sternutatories they should be hot thin sharp and cleansing Among which some are to be chosen that are also Cephalical the Matter of these is either Simple or Compound The simple ones are either dry or moist Dry Ones Powder of Acorns Castor Saffron Cloves Elaterium but warily and dissolved with other liquid things Hellebore white and black Nutmeg white Pepper Pellitory of Spain Ginger Roots of Sow-bread and Beets cut like tents and put up into the Nose Leaves of Tobacco dried and put into the Nose this is the best Errhine Fumes of Marjoram Hysop Time Tobacco all taken through a pipe Moist Ones Juices of purple-flowred Pimpernel Beets Coleworts Bettony Celendine the greater Sowbread wild Cowcumber roots of Ireos of Tree-Ivie Hysop Marjoram Horehound Tobacco Nigella wild Marjoram Pennyryal Sage Savory Elder Ground-Ivie or Alehoof New Butter put up in the Nostrils Compounds Hony of Roses of Rosemary Oximel simple and Oximel of squils Syrup of Hysop Confections as Mustard Aurea Alexandrina Anacardina old Treacle and Methridate Oyls of Pepper Ireos Sternutatories or Sneezing things by the Latines Sternutatoria by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are the stronger thinner sharper sort of Errhines or snifting Medicines which stimulate the Expulsive faculty very strongly of which these following are the most usuall The Roots of Ireos white Hellebore Euphorbium then which nothing is quicker if you mix a little Castor with it Pellitory of Spain powder of Tobacco blown up out of which with other sharp Errhines finely powdered are made sneezing Powders to ʒ i. s or ʒ ii mixing Cephalical things with it in equal proportion with the rest of which gr i. or ii blown up into the Nostrils with a quill or if they be vehement let them be put in a brazen box and the box only held to the Nose or let a Nodulus or Knot be prepared of Pellitory of Spain ℈ s of black Hellebore ʒ i. Cresses ʒ s all powdered and tied up in a Lawn rag for a Nodulus which being steeped in Rose-water and held to the Nose provokes sneezing without trouble To these add Ptarmica or Sneeswort and Stavesacre Apophlegmatisms or Spitting Medicines by the Latines Pitissantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose Medicines are so called which either chewed gargarized or daubed on the Pallat like a liniment procure much spetting by drawing out a great deal of phlegm from the Head either by their heat or acrimony whereby they attenuate the matter contained in the Head and melt it as it were and withall irritate the Expulsive faculty of the Brain to cast it forth Such are these following Roots Of Acorns Angelica Ireos Costus English Galingale Gentian Galingale Masterwort Pellitory of Spain Valerian Ginger Barks Of the roots of Capers Oranges Spices Cubebs Nutmegs Cloves Pepper grains of Paradise Leaves Of Hysop Bayes Pepperwort Arsmart Marjoram Cresses Tobacco para The Leaves of Tobacho the stalks taken out being tied up as it were in a round pellet as big as a Nutmeg is an excellent one held in the mouth in the morning once or twice a moneth and is before all other It should be held half an hour let not the juice go down and if you can be early enough take a sleep after it Seeds Anniseed Fennel Mustard-seed of
Beets Maidenhair Leaves of Mirtles Mastick tree wild Olives Penniryall wild Marjoram Hysop Mints Sage Rosemary either several or many of them mixt burnt and reduced to ashes Of Animals Skuttle bone Crabs eyes all sorts of shels and the shels of Land snails Harts horn Of Stones Pumice stone Sponge stone Alablaster Chalk all of these most exactly powdered or if that cannot hand somly be let them be first burnt and then powdered Stones of Dates Mirobalanes Olives Cypres nuts Medlars burnt Sea things Coral Sea froth Amber Earthy juices Common salt salt Gemme Alum salt Peeter melted on a Tile-shard and burnt sal Alkali or the salt they make Glasse of and the fattinesse that swimmeth on the top when it is dissolved in water called Glasse grease Tartar of white Wine crusts of Bread burnt To these are to be added the powders of Spices as of Lignum aloes and other odoriferous Plants the root of Ireos Musk Amber greece and for the strengthning of the Gums Mastick Frankincense Mirrh ¶ And to those that will resolve to endure the taste there is no better thing then Aloes dissolved in Claret wine THE SECOND BOOK SECTION II. Of Remedies of the BREST The type of the Section Remedies of the Brest respect either the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Bechical or Expectorating Medicines Pneumonical or Medicines that alter the distemper of the Lungs Brest as Breeders of Milk Driers of Milk Cordials by the Latines Cordialia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that are either proper for strengthning the Heart resisting malignity or encreasing the Spirits such are all the Alexipharmacal internal medicines before rehearsed except that there the hot are confusedly mixed with the cold which in the use of them are to be distinguished but besides those these following are profitable which are not there cited The Hot Cordials Roots Of Doronicum or wholsom Wolfs-bane Zedoary Cinquefoil Avens Butterbur Barks Of Oranges and Citrons Leaves Of Carduus benedictus Sage mountain Calamint Motherworts ground Ivie Mints Bazil Rosemary Flowers Of Sage Lilly of the vally Spikenard Rozins Frankincense Storax Benzoin Animals Mummy Silk Sea things Amber Waters Of Carduus benedictus Balm scabiosse Sage Cinamon Treacle water ¶ Angelica water the greater composition Aqua Petasitis or water of Butterbur compound Bezoar water Gilberts water Scordium water compound Aqua Imperialis Aqua Mariae Oyls Of Cloves Cinamon Saffron Condited things Citron barks roots of Scorzonera or Spanish Vipers grasse Troschischs Of Gallia Moscata Alipta Moscara Trosch Alexiterii Species or Powders ¶ Bezoardicus Magistralis Cardiacus Magistralis temperate cordial Species Powder of Crabs claws compound Diamoscum Species of the Electuary Rosatae Novellae See the Alexipharmacal Medicines before Cooling Cordials Roots Of Sorrel Buglosse Leaves Of Sorrel wood Sorrel Borage Buglosse water Lillies Mirtles Seeds Of Quinces Plantain Fruits Sowr Cherries fragrant Apples Quinces sowr Pomegranats Flowers Of Willow ¶ The four cordial Flowers Clove Gilly flowers Juices Of Sorrel Roses and the Fruits aforesaid Stones Garnets Rubies Minerals and Sea things Gold Silver Coral Pearls mother of Pearls prepared Waters Of Roses Violets Buglosse water Lillies Sorrel Cheries Syrups Of Vinegar Pomegranats Limons Verjuice of the juice of Sorrel Violets Roses Quinces water Lillies Apples Currans Oxisaccarum Conserves Of Roses ¶ Borage and Buglosse flowers Clove Gilly flowers of wood Sorrel Condites Lemons preserved Barbaries Currans sowr Cherries preserved ¶ Quinces Pippins Oranges without the peels Borage roots Species Diamargariton frigidum Treschischs Of Spodium Camphier Vnguents Of Roses of Sanders Expectoraters by the Latines Expectorantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are such Medicines as render those things or Excrements contained in the Lungs fit to be purged out by coughing and are called Bechicks from their manner of evacuating by coughing for the Greek word Bex signifies a Cough from whence comes Bechicus They are otherwise called procurers of spetting and Anacatharticks as also from the part that is to be evacuated they are called Thoracicals and Expectoraters and they are of two sorts according to the variety of Excrements viz. attenuaters and thickeners the first expectorate by attenuating cutting and cleansing the grosse Humors the others by thickening and also lenifying Where is to be noted that if any thing among the attenuaters seems too sharp it is to be tempered with the lenifiers least the Cough be too much irritated or least the grosse Humor by too much using them be hardned The matter of the Attenuaters Roots Of both the Birthworts marsh Mallows Angelica Cuckoo-pits Enulacampain Ireos Squils Onions Ginger Leaves Of Maidenhair Calamint ground Ivie Hysop Tobacco both for a Syrup and suffumigation wild Marjoram Penniryal Jerusalem Cowslips Horehound Catsfoot or mountain Cudweed Scabiosse Sundew or Ros folis Coltsfoot Seeds Of Annise Coleworts Carthamus Fennel Cresses Massilian Seseli Silvermountain of Nettles Berries Of Bays Juniper Flowers Of Rosemary Camomile Scabiosse Saffron from ℈ s to * Never exceed ℈ s for it causeth faintnesse by over mollifying ℈ i. Fruits Bitter Almonds dried Figs Capers Rosins Myrrh Turpentine Animals Hony Fox-lungs prepared to ʒ s ʒ i. Chymical things Flowers of Brimstone made either into a Loach or Tablets oyl of Brimstone a few drops of which use to be mixed with the Lohochs Waters Of Carduus benedictus Hysop Coltsfoot Scabiosse Syrup of Maidenhair Hysop Horehound Coltsfoot of Catsfoot simple Oximel Oximel of squils ¶ Syrup de Erisimo botruos Conserves Of Enulacampain Maidenhair Rosemary Flowers of Coltsfoot Flowers Powders Dia Ireos Solomonis and simple Diacalamintha Lohochs Of Fox lungs ¶ Sanum expert Lohoch de Farfara or Coltsfoot de Passulis External things Oyls Of bitter Almonds Ireos Camomile Oyntments Resumtivum Dialthea Pectoral Plaisters Filii Zachariae The matter of the thickning lenifying things Roots Of Liquorice Holihocks Seeds The four greater cold feeds white Poppy Lettuce Mallows Barly Rice Flowers Of water Lillies Violets red Poppy Fruits Sweet Almonds Dates Jujubes Pine kernels Phistick nuts sweet Prunes Raisins Sebestens Juices Of Liquorice Starch Penidies Opium with caution Animals Butter Marrows new drawn Waters Of Violets red Poppy water Lillies Syrups Of Liquorice Jujubes water Lillies red Poppies Violets white Poppies Hony of Violets ¶ Diacodium simple and compound Syrup of the Muscilages Conserves Of Violets water Lillies Powders Of Diatragacanthum frigidum and Diapenidium Pneumonicks or altering Medicines for the Lungs THey are those that are used to correct the distemper of the Lungs the matter of which is the same with that of the Expectoraters among which to heat the Brest the most excellent is flower of Brimstone given to * Rather to ℈ i. ʒ i. in a soft dressed Egg also ʒ ii of Turpentine dissolved in ℥ ii of Oximel Outwardly the Sulpherous natural Baths But to cool the Brest the use of sowr things of Milk red Saunders in the beginning of a Consumption and to prevent the spetting of Blood will suffice Also Conserves of
Roses made sowr with a little oyl of Vitriol used often morning and evening at going to bed See for others amongst the Expectoraters Encreasers or Breeders of Milk THey are so called properly or unproperly they properly breed Milk that cause much and good Blood such are Meats of much and good nourishment and temperate Medicines for of such things Milk is the material effect They improperly breed Milk which are endued with a moderate cutting quality whereby they render the Blood fluid and move it to the Dugs that it may there be converted into Milk of which this present Discourse is Where note that some certain of them do force the Blood as it were to the Dugs Some are external some internal The Internal The Leaves of the true Macedonian Parsley of Dill Smallage water Parsnips Polley all of them must be green Poligalaor Milkwort Lettuce in hot tempers for in cold ones it diminisheth milk Green Seeds Of Annise Fennel Rocket Nigella Juices Of Gourd Dandelion blew Goats-beard Ptisane or thick Barley broth Powder Of Christal made very fine and given to Ê’ i. in a fit Liquor Lac Lunae given to the weight of Ê’ i. External things Mollifying simples as the Roots of marsh mallows the Leaves of Dill mallows Seed of Flax flowers of Camomile mixed with the aforesaid Leaves and Seeds for a Fomentation Also Rubifiers if other things will not avail See Rubifiers Things drying Milk THose things diminish Milk that either by their vehement coldnesse thicken the Blood or by their too much heat discusse and dry it up or else by a propriety of substance hinder the breeding it Such are either Internal and those either Hot as Bazil Rue Calamint Sage Agnus Castus or cold as Purslain Housleek Gourds * This should rather have been referred to the heaters for it resists Milk by drying and consuming and is withall hot as appears by its aerimony and small Camphier or external as a Cataplasm of the hot things aforesaid boiled in Oyl 2. Linnens dipped in Verjuice and applyed 3. Smallage stamped with Vinegar and applyed 4. A sponge dipped in the Decoction of Cummin or Coriander seed made with sharp Vinegar and applyed 't is the secret of some people ¶ I have seen this very succesfully and speedily done by a Midwife only first fomenting the Dug with Vinegar and afterwards applying a Plaister of Diachilon simple which was suffered to lye on two or three dayes this prevented any hardnesse that otherwise might have happened THE SECOND BOOK SECTION III. Of Remedies of the inferior Cavity viz. The BELLY The Type of the Section Remedies of the inferior Cavity or Belly are properly these viz. for the Stomack Stomachical things Intrals chiefly above other parts are used Discussers of windinesse Killers of Worms Liver Hepatical things Spleen Splenetical things Kidneys or reins Nephritical-things and those either lenifiers cleansers brekers of the Stone Bladder cistical things Testicles encreasers of Seed diminishers of Seed Womb Histerical things and those either strengthning the Womb. or moving staying the courses Stomachical Medicines THey are called Stomachicals which by a peculiar faculty alter those humors that are contained in the stomack and also help together with it the Concoction and other functions of the stomack and strengthen it of which some are hot some cold and both these must not be too much opening or diuretical but somewhat astringent The Hot. Roots Of Calamus aromaticus Cvpresse Galingale greater Gentian or Felwort Zedoary Barks Of Oranges Citrons Woods As Lignum Aloes Leaves Wormwood Betony Mint wild Marjoram Rosemary Sage Seeds Of Annise Citrons Cummin Fennel seeds of Chermes Flowers Of Bettony Sage Fruits Bitter Almonds Peach kernels Gums Mastick Ê’ s given with a little Ginger or Zedoary in a rear Egg. All Spices especially Ginger and Pepper swallowed whole Sea things Ambergreece Amber Waters Of the Leaves aforesaid of Cinamon Aqua vitae spirit of Anniseed ¶ Spirit and water of Wormwood the greater composition Aqua Mirabilis Imperialis Mint water distilled with Wine D. Steevens his Water Distilled Oyls Of Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon mace Cummin seed Amber ¶ Especially Oyl of citron and Orange Barks Syrups Of Wormwood mint Bettony ¶ Of citron peels of cinamon Conserves of the Flowers of Wormwood Bettony sage ¶ Of the tops of Mint and Balm of Roses with Mithridate Condites Citron peels Acorus Condite Nutmegs Walnuts Ginger condited Confections Alcherms mithridate Treacle ¶ Diacorum Diacinnamomum Electuary of Bayberries Electuary of Sasafras Species or Powders Aromaticum Rosatum Diagalanga Diacidonii cum speciebus ¶ This last had been fit among the confections not here To these add Aromat cariophillatum Species Elect. Rosatae novellae Diatrion Piperion Diaspoliticum Dianisum powder of the roots of Cuckoopits compound Troschischs Of Wormwood Rubarb Gallia moscata External are Oyls Of Wormwood mint mastick Nutmegs by expression of Nard ¶ Distilled Oyls of Wormwood Amber Nutmegs Mace Emplasters Of Bay berries stomachale Galeni stomachicum magistrale Cold things for the stomack Roots Of sorrel sâ—ccâ—ry Plantain Leavâ—s Of sorrel Endive sowthistle succory the five capillary Herbs Dandelion and the Leaves of mirtles Seeds The four greater and the four lesser cold seeds mirtleberries Barley Flowers Of succory red Roses Cytines or flowers of Pomegranats Woods All the saunders Fruits Barberries Quinces Pomegranats Cherries medlars services strawberries Citrons all the mirabolans especially ¶ Prunelles currans Raspes Juices Of the Leaves and Fruits aforesaid also Acacia Hypocistis Gums Camphier adding Binders with it ¶ Camphier taken in any considerable quantity offends the Stomack and Head especially if nothing be joyned with it Faculties of Camphier to allay that fumous acrimony wherewith it is fraught which is so searching and fiery that it rather dissolves Nature with the heat then cools otherwise then by accident being outwardly applyed Sea things Coral Waters Of Roses Plantain ¶ Of Quinces Brambleberries Succory Syrups Of Verjuice of the juice of sorrel of Quinces Pomegâ—anats mirtles rob of Quinces juice of Oâ—anges Preserves Cherries Quinces Currans Barberries sowr Grapes preserved ¶ Oranges and Lemons preserved without their peels Goos-berries Raspes Species Diatrion sanralon Diarrhodon abbatis Diamargariton frigidum Troschischs Of Camphier Spodium Maudlins ¶ Trosch of Saunders Barbaries External Coolers Oyl of Mastick wood of Quinces of Mirtles of Roses omphacine Oyntments Unguentum Rosatum Orange flower oyntment Unguentum sumach KILLERS of WORMS Called by the Latines Vermes necantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose are called Killers of Worms which the Worms abhor either for some manifest quality as sharpnesse bitternesse sowrnesse which tasts are loathsom to them or else such as by an occult quality are destructive to them Where note that without a Feaver we may use the hotter sort but in a Feaver them that are lesse hot i. e. sowr ones or else things mixed with such Roots Of Birthwort Swallow-wort Alkanet Snakeweed white Dittany Gentian the greater Crosswort Fearn male and female Carline Thistle
Enulacampain Devilsbit Tormentil Zedoary Rubarb Madder Burdock Butterbur Barks Of the roots of Mulberries Capers Leaves Of Wormwood Pontic and sea wormwood Time Mints Rue Dandelion Polly Asarina of Matthiolus Savine Horehound Calamint Tansie Arsmart Peach leaves Carduus benedictus Goats rue Flowers Of Century the lesse Hops Hysop Seeds Wormseed Lupines of Coleworts Corianders prepared Purslane Citrons Oranges Grach Dill Hedisarum or French Honysuckle Pseudomelanthium or St Katherine flower Nigella or Fennel flower Cresses garden and wild Rocket of Turnips Lovage Hops Sorrel Hemp Leeks Barberries Gums Of Juniper or Vernish Myrrh which is a Rosin Animals Shavings of Harts horn and Ivory powder of earth Worms the cochal bone of an Ox Unicorns horn Earths Bole armoniack Terra sigillata Minerals Brimstone salt Peeter Quicksilver given to ℈ s ¶ Pewter filed small Sea things Coralline red Coral ¶ Amber Juices Of the aforesaid things of Limons Purslane Verjuice Waters Of Wormwood Gentian Grasse Purslane sea Radish Perwinkle Rue Mints of the flowers of Sloe tree Endive Succory Condites Orange and Citron peels Syrups Of Wormwood Endive Succory of the juices of Citrons Oranges Barberries Currans Sorrel Bizantinus ¶ Syrup of Succory with Rubarb Syrup of Peach flowers of the juice of St. Johns wort of wood Sorrel Syrup of Rubarb augustan Syrup of Reses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of the juice of Scordium Conserves Of Peach flowers Clovegilly flowers Orange and Citron flowers Oyls Of Olives bitter Almonds Peach kernels of Vitriol one two or three drops Confections Treacle Mithridate ¶ Treaclediatessaron London Treacle Diascordium confect de Hyacinth Elect. Amarum Magistrale utrumque Powders Diaspoliticum Diacalaminth compound Dialacca Purging powders Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro Warwick powder Mercurius dulcis Salts of Wormwood Centory Broom c. External things Oyls Of Wormwood Rue Coloquintis i. e. of Coloquitis infused in Oyl and boyled Oyl of Bayberries ¶ Oyl of Myrrh Savine Sicionium Oyntments Unguentum de Arthanita Oyntment for the Worms of the Augustan Physicians Gall applyed to the Navil or anointed on the Belly ¶ The Oyntment called in the London shops Vnguentum amarum or the bitter Oyntment is worth them all Note that the chymical Oyls of any of the aforesaid simples are used both inward and outward if there be no Feaver DISCUSSERS of WIND Called by the Latines Dicutientia and Sarminativa by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose simples are so called which are of the like nature with the Diaphoreticks before mentioned they differ not in faculty but in the intention and use The Vse of these is in pains of the Chollick and griefs of the Womb. Roots Of Angelica Galingale Masterwort Indian spikenard Barks Of Oranges speciall in curing and preserving from the Chollick Leaves Of Bayes Calamint wilde Marjoram Dill Majoram savory Rue Pennyrial Hysop mint Bazil Time wild Time Seeds Of Annise Fennel Carraways Cunimin Daucus Bishopsweed Parsley Agnus castus Angelica Oranges Citrons Flowers Of Camomile Centory the lesse for Wind in the short Ribs Region Fruits Bayberries appropriated to pains of the Cholick and Womb Junipeâ— berries Spices Mace saffron Cloves Ginger Cinamon Pepper Animals Castor ¶ Wolf guts dryed Waters Of Cinamon Aqua vitae and Waters of the Leaves aforesaid Distilled Oyls Of Anniseed Fâ—nnel seed Carraways and Camomile which is the best Electuaries Of Bayberries Treacle Treaclediatessaron to Ê’ i. in white Wine Species Diacumini Diagalingal of Rosata novella External things Oyls Of Wormwood Dill Rue Mints Bays oyl made by infusion of the seeds and flowers of Agnus castus this is admirable in the Collick Plaister of Mellilate Cataplasms and Bags made of the aforesaid Leaves seeds flowers are most profitable in the Collick A great Cupping glasse with much flame set upon the tumisied place and in the Collick applied to the Navil it easeth pain as it were an inchantment as Galen affirms Hepaticks or Medicines for the Liver called by the Latines and Greeks Hepatica THey are so called which correct the distemper of the Liver and hinder its obstructions to which 't is very apt or else which help it when 't is come to passe and withall do a little binde its substance that the spirit and heat of the Liver as of a principal part may be preserved Such are those that cut and cleanse without vehement heat and that are withall somewhat binding ¶ These also are either hot or cold internal or external The hot internal Roots Of Cypresse Enulacampain Calamus aromaticus Rubarb sulpherwort ¶ Sharpdock Roots Leaves Of Wormwood Agrimony Germander field Cypresse Fumitory Hops white Horehound Mints Bettony squinant Rosemary Seeds The four greater hot seeds Flowers Of Rosemary Century the lesse Spikenard Spices Cloves Ginger Nutmegs Fruits Fistick nuts Raisins Waters distilled of the aforesaid-Leaves and flowers Syrups Of Wormwood Agrimony Bettony Byzantinus of Fumitory Mints of the 2. and 5. Roots Condites Acorus Walnuts Nutmegs ¶ Eringo Roots stalks of Burdocks Confections Treacle Methridate Diacrocuma Conserves Of the flowers of Rosemary Sage Wormwood Enulacampain Species and Powders Aromaticum rosatum Diarrhodon abbatis Laetificans Galeni ¶ Dialacca Troschischs Of Wormwood Maudlins Dialacca rubarb External hot things Oyls Of Wormwood Spikenard Mastick Mints Nutmegs by expression ¶ Of Myrrh per deliquium of bitter Almonds Oyntments Dialthea Martiatum and of Mostick Cataplasms of the aforesaid Herbs and Seeds with Wine Cooling Hepatical Medicines All those things that are contained in the Table of the cooling stomachical things may also be reckoned of this number amongst the coolers of the Liver to which adde these following which are lesse agreeable to the stomack but very profitable for the Liver Roots Of Kneeholm Sparagrasse Leaves Of Agrimony Strawberries Ducks meat Grasse Seeds Of winter Cherries Flowers Violets Waters Of Agrimony Syrups Byzantinus of the 2. and 5. opening Roots where there be lasting Obstructions Externall Oyls Of Roses Omphacine or of unripe Olives of water Lillies Oyntments Unguentum Rosatum Refrigerans Galeni Ceratum santalinum Epithemes of the distilled Waters and Spices is most usual Splenetick things by the Latines Splenetica by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are of the same kind as the hepaticall medicines according to Galen only they are more powerfully attenuating and opening and lesse binding by reason of the grosenesse of the excrements of the spleen They are two fold hot for naturall melancholly and cold for the correcting of burnt choler The Hot. See the Table of the preparers of naturall melancholly to which adde these following Rootes of a both one thing see Seroderus Calamus Aromaticus Birthwort asarum bryony radishes the true a both one thing see Seroderus Acorus * these are two severall plants or * these are two severall plants galangall the greater Ireos squils hops Leaves of betony calamint St. John's wort Germander Rue Pennyroyall Seedes of Madder Ash keyes Fruites Ivv berrynes Spices Saffron Cinamon Minerals Steele prepared ¶ Chymicals Tartar vitriolated creame of Tartar Tartarus
chalibeatus Crocus martis ¶ Liquors Vinegar of squils ¶ spirit of wine tartarisated lye of the ashes of tamariske and broome ¶ Syrups Oxymel simple and of squils ¶ syrup of ammoniack of epithimum ¶ Conserves of the flowres of tamarisk of broom Condites The roots of Acorus condited Species Diacurcuma Dialacca Distilled oyles of Cummin Cinamon Vitriol ¶ of the barkes of citrons of tartar by deliquium The Externall are Oyles of Capers tamarisk wall flowres rue bitter almons Vnguents de Althea ¶ Vng splanchnicum and Vng splanchnicum magistrale oyntment of the juyces commonly called vng è succis Emplasters de mucilaginibus Diachilon cum gummis ¶ de ammoniaco and the compound plaster of Melilot ¶ And other magisteriall oyntments wherin gum ammoniack bdellium and the powders of Ireos Asarabeck and sowbread should be prescribed and divers other formes made for present use of the aforesaid things especially rue cresses nettles mustard centaury the lesse asarum and sowbread Cold splenetick things These are to be sought out of the Table of the attenuaters of choller which also are convenient for burnt choller gathered in the spleen to which add narrow leaved docks and these external topicall things Oyles of violets water lillies Vnguents refrigerans Galeni oyntment of roses cerecloath of saunders sharp vinegar ¶ juyce of hemlock vinegar of hemlock Animadversion Sweet things by themselves are hurtfull to the spleen but added with other things are good conveighers Pythagoras when he was scandald by a certain fellow recited this metaphorically sharp and bitter things help them that are splenetick but sweet things hurt them And this is now become a practicall rule Nephriticall things i. e. Medicines appropriated to the reines or kidneys by the Latines Nephritica id in etiam Greâ—è ut etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 NEphriticall medicines are three fold divided according to the structure office and peculiar affections of the reines to which they are subject 1 Lenifiers the use of which in the scalinesse and roughnesse of the reines as also in the heat and sharpnesse of the Urine 2 Cleansers the use of which is in the obstruction or suppression of the Urine either by the stone mucilaginons matter or sand these are comprehended under the Diureticks 3 Lithontripticks or breakers of the stone the use of which is in crumbling and diminishing the stone that it may the more easily be expelled The cleansers are to be sought in the Table of the Diureticks with which they agree only there they have a more generall use here a particular one wherefore I shall here only recite the lenifiers and the Lithontripticks The Lenifiers Rootes of marsh-mallows liquerish grasse sparagus eringoes Leaves of Plantain common maiden hair Pellitory sorrel lettice mallowes water lillies purslain sowthistle Seedes of marsh-mallowes cotton mallowes flax fenugreek four greater and four lesser cold seeds of plantain fleawort white poppy â—lowers of violets chamomill water lillies red poppyes Fruites Sweet almons jujubes sebestens fistick nuts raysins sweet prunes dry figs apples Gums Tragant of the bitter almon tree cherry tree camphere Animals Butter Milk Whey Juyces of Licorice almon milk barly creame Chymicall things * Sure these are not lenifiers spirit of vitriol sal * Sure these are not lenifiers prunellae Waters of the leaves in the table aforesaid Syrups of violets jujubes water lillies apples of marsh-mallowes by Fernelius ¶ syr de mucilaginibus of water lillies compound Conserves of violets water lillies ¶ mallow flowers ¶ Condited things Lettice stalkes condited the flesh of goards and melons condited Species of diatragacanthum frigidum dia penidiâ—m ¶ pulvis hali troschisch gordonii trosch of saunders trosch of camphere bechicinigri alkekengy Electuaries somewhat purging Diacatholicon Lenitive elect passularum pulp of Cassia altering Electuaries Diaspermaton antidotus analeptica ¶ Oyles of sweet almons camphere ¶ Vnguentum potabile Externall Lenifiers Oyles Violets water lillies ¶ of poplars oyle of wall flowres chamomill â—asmine ¶ Vnguents Oyntment of roses refrigerans Galeni ¶ of orange flowres anodynum dialthea resumptivum ¶ Lython tripticks oâ— breakers of the stone SOme medicines that break the stone doe it by a manifest quality of cutting and cleansing without any extraordinary heat as Galen lib. 5. simpl c. 13. doth affirme for such medicines doe easily passe through narrow exile passages very far and so by insinuating it selfe and peircing all the parts dissolve its continuity but too much beat doth the more concoct and harden the stone that is already gathered together Others doe by their asperity as it were shave and scale the superficies and by that meanes diminish the stone Others are thought to do the same by an occult property to which the Author of that treatise of the knowing and curing the affections of the reines gives little confidence but be they as they will I will here propound the matter of them all that are used by authors in breaking the stone except only those that are to be found among the Diureticks which are to be joyned with these following as the use of them shall require where note that those that are marked with a star are the most excellent Roots of Birthwort a By Pliny's description it is teasels by others it is englished corne marigold or chrysanthemum damasonium elecampain dropwort galingale acorus bastard rubard Ireos lovage saxifrage burnet pyony sea radish brambles nettles squils Leaves of southernwood hares eare the capillary herbs germander field cipres coleworts celtick hard Roman chamomil ground Ivy wild marjerome polly hyssop fluellen oake and willow leaves scordium all seed teasel golden rod dead nettle of Fuchsius for the stone in the bladder Barkes of Acorns the middle bark of hazell Flowres of larkespare Seedes of dill caâ—away cummins silver montan bishops weed macedonian parsly corianders sampier I think he meanes that by tretamarina kneeholm bazill radish St. John's wort ladyes thistle ash nigella cresses burnet lupines broome small burdock Fruites bay berryes peach kernels Ivy berries the spongy dog or wild rose ¶ Juniper berries Spices Ginger lignum aloes red saunders nutmegs mace cloves pâ—â—pe carpobalsamum or balsam berries cubebs spike squinant saffron which also add a gracefull relish to the medicines Gums of cherry-trees plum-trees wallnuts vinces arabick tragant elemi Olibanum bdellium Rosins of the Larch Tree Firre Tree true Turpentine Animals blood of a Goat prepared taken to Ê’ i. in wine hares blood Ashes of earthworms of hedge hogs of an asses liver feathers of wild pigeons of a whole hare burnt with the skin flesh and haire or else the skin of it daubed with its blood burnt reed sparrowes burnt ashes of scorpions cheese logges or wood-lice or monkes pease beetles hares kidnyes powders of a Man's skull of the warts and hoofes of horses of the cocall bones of a hare Ivory pikes jaw craw fish the stoppings of snailes shels in the winter egge shels crabs eyes mouse dung stones voyded by Urine from a man
the Book before the Index Here follows an Expository INDEX of such Words as I was fain to use in the translating for which our Language hath not so fit Expressions that are Intelligible as some might wish so that to satisfie them that might think I strove to speak strange Words as some Novices use to shew themselves more then they are I have given an Exposition to make every word that is innovated by Me and somewhat more intelligible if they have recourse to this TABLE as they read and find words not facile to them A ABbreviation A shortning Abscessus a parting away of an Humor after a disease converted into a Swelling or such like into some other place Absolete out of use Accumulated gathered together or heaped up Acquisite obtained by use or otherwise not natural Active qualities See Qualities Acuated made sharp or more violent in working Alchol a fine Powder Alexipharmacal Alexiterial both signifie Medicines resisting the Plague and Poisons Ana of each alike Alluminous having Alium in it Analepticks Restoratives Anastomaticks openers of the Orifices of the Veins Anodynes casing pain Antidote a Medicine against Poyson Anus the Fundament Appropriate convenient and particularly fit for Apozem See the other Index of the Leaves Aromatizing spicing or seasoning with spices Arthritical belonging to the Joints Ascarides Worms in the Fundament gut Asthma a difficulty of Breathing Astringent binding B B. M. Balnco Mariae or a distilling by setting the Still in water boiling Balaustines Flowers of the wild Pomegranate Basis a fundamental or chief thing in the composition that that giveth the ruling quality Bechical purging the brest by coughing Bituminous's having Bitumen in it which is a fat sulpherous substance arising out of the earth Bulbous knobby as any knobby Roots as Turnips Onions c. are buibaus Roots C Cacochymical full of ill Humours Carthamus See in the other Index Caruncles excrescences of flesh in sore parts Cathartick purging or a purger Chalibealed properly that hath steel quenched in it Cholagogne that purgeth Choler Chranical lasting long Citines the Flowers of manured Pomegranats Concrete grown together or hardned Concretion such a hardening Corroborate strengthen Coronary used in garlands Costice bound in belly Crust causing Medicines See the other Index in Escaroticks Cute Wine boiled to the thicknesse of Hony D Decocted boiled Digestives Medicines that reduce Humours or parts to a good condition either by concocting or discussing that which is noxious Diureticks provokers of Urine E Eminency in this book it signifies the height of liquor above the matter 't is poured to Emplasticks See the other Index Energy vigor vertue force Epicerasticks mitigaters of Acrimony Epicrasis it is a sort of gentle purging often repeated in weak bodies and that are full of Humours yet cannot suffer them to be purged out strongly Epuloticks Medicines that close and skin a Wound or join the scar Equivalent here it is often used for such things as may serve turn in stead of others that are harder to be gotten Any thing of like vertues and substance Eradicate to root out Erisipelas a fiery hot inflammation called S. Anthonies fire Expectorate to cough up any thing out of the Lungs F Factitious made by art Ferment any â—hing that setteth other mixtures a working together as Yest doth Beer Fermentation such a working together Feâ—id stinking ill sented Fraâ—ulent windy breeding windinesse Friability an aptnesse to break or beat to powder Function the same that Faculties G Gonorrhea a disease called the running of the Reins H Hectical inclining to or sick of a Hectick Feaver Hepatical appropriated or belonging to the Liver Hydragogue a purger of wartish Humours I i. e. that is to say Impregnated fraught with the vertues of any thing Imbibing drawing forth or drinking in the vertues of any Medicine Imminent near at hand ready to happen Incorpâ—rate to mix throughly those thingâ— that are to be mixed that they may seem as one body Indication that reason of the mind in the Physician that perswades him what is to be done in the curing of the sick You may call it a direct on taken either from the cause the Disease symptoms or circumstances about the sick Insipid without taste Ironed having Iron quenched or steeped in it or otherwise naturally infected with Iron L Lenifie sometimes 't is taken for to make smooth soft or gentle a part that is rough hard or stubborn sometimes to mitigate the sharpnesse of Humours and ease pains M Macerated steeped Magisterial a prescription of the Physician invented peculiarly for his present purpose any Composition that is not usually sold in the shops Materia Medica the latter of these Books so called sometimes also named in the first Book by the name of the Magazeen Physical Meâ—d a drink of Hony and water See the Index Melanugogue a purger of Melancholy Minorative those purges that are given before preparation of the Body are usually called a Minorative because it is given to diminish the Humours least being copious when attenuated by preparation they should be apt to move to some ill purpose or stir up an Hyper catharsis or excesse of the working of the Physick that is after prescribed Modern of late times Mollisie to soften or make gentle Morbifical encreasing or breeding the Disease Mucilage a Jelly stuffe as it were drawn out of some Seeds and Roots by much boyling but it should be such as are onely of a slimy nature Also the dissolving of Gum Tragant and Arabick is usually called a Mucâ—lagâ— Mucilaginous of such a slimy substance as a Macilâ—ge is or full of Mucilage Must new Wine before 't is purged at the time of Vintage N Narcoticks Medicines that have a stupifying benumming quality forcing violent sleep driving away pain not by mitigating the cause but by dulling the sense Nitrous full of salt Peeter or of such a like quality O Odontâ—cks Medicines appropriated to the Teeth Officinal belonging to the shops or usual in the Apothecaries shops Opthalmical appropriated to the Eye Otick things appropriated to the Ears P Panchimagogue a Medicine that purgeth all Humours together Passive Qualities See Qualities Pectoral appropriated to the Brest Perincum the distance ketween the Fundament and sitting place Phlegmagogue a purger of Elegm Phtisick the Consumption that cometh with Ulceration of the Lungs Phtisical inclining to or sick of such a Disease Pincolate a Marchâ—ane made of the kernels of Pine Nuts Premonitions admonitions or directions set at the beginning of any thing Pulse usually taken for any kind of Grain that grows in cods as Pease Beans Vetches c. Q q. s or s q. a sufficient quantity of any thing q. v. as much as you will Qualities are either First Second or Third Manifest or O cult Active or Passive Mention of all these is divers times used The first Qualities are counted those obvious ones that we call Heat Coldnesse Moisture Drinesse The second are Qualities arising from the former through a peculiar mixture of substances as