bruise it or cut it small and put it into two pound of fine sallad oyl or oyl of Olives that hath been first washed oftentimes in the distilled water of Elder-flowers let them boyl gently a good while together and afterwards strain forth the oyl pressing it very hard Set this oyl on the fire again and put thereto four ounces of the young branches and leavs of the Elder-tree and as much new Wax let them boyl to the consumption of the juice after which being taken from the fire put presently thereunto two ounces of liquid vernish such as Joiners use c. and afterwards of Olibanum in fine powder four ounces and the whites of two eggs being first well beaten by themselvs all these being well stirred and mixed together put it up into a clean pot and keep it to use when occasion serveth The young buds and leaves of the Elder and asmuch of the roots of plantain beaten together and boyled in old Hogs-grease and laid warm upon the place pained with the Gout Gout giveth present ease if you put some of the flowers of Elder into a bag letting it hang in a Vessel of Wine when it is new made and beginneth to work the bag being a little pressed every evening for a sennight together giveth to the Wine a very good relish and a smell like Muscadine the like may be tried with a Vessel of Ale or Beer new Tunned up and set to work together the leaves of Elder boyled tender and applied warm to the fundament easeth the the pains of Piles Piles Vlcers if they be once or twice renewed as they grow cold The foul inflamed or old Ulcers inflamed blood and sores of the Legs Sore Legs hot being often washed with the water of the leaves or of the flowers distilled in the middle of the Moneth of May doth heal them in a short space Fistulous Vlcers The distilled water of the flowers taketh away the heat and inflamation of the Eyes and helpeth them when they are bloud-shotten shotten Eyes The hands being washed Morning and Evening with the same water of the flowers doth much help and ease them that have the Palsie Palsy hands in them and cannot keep them from shaking shaking the pith in the middle of the Elder stalks being dryed and put into the Cavernous holes of Fistulous Ulcers Fistulous Vlcers that are ready to close openeth and dilateth the Orifice whereby injections may be used and other remedies applied for the cure of them It is reported that if you gently strike a Horse that cannot pisse with a stick of this Elder and bind some of the leaves to his Belly Mizaldus it will make him pisse presently it is also said and some persons of good credit have told me but I did never make any experiment of it that if one ride with two little sticks of this Elder in his pockets he shall not fret nor gaul let the Horse go never so hard The Mushrooms or Excrescences of the Elder-tree called in English Jews Eares usually Auriculae Judae and Fungus Sambucinus are of much use being dried to be boyled in Ale or Milk or some other proper decoction with Columbine leaves for sore Throats Sore Throats pallat of the Mouth Head-ach and with a little Pepper and pellitory of Spain in powder to put up the Vvula or pallat of the mouth being down the dryed Jews Eares steeped in Rose-water and applied to the Temples and forehead easeth the pains of the Head or Head-ach as saith Mathiolus The Mountain or red berried Elder hath the same properties that the common Elder hath but much weaker in all things and the berries hereof are accounted to be cold and to procure sleep Sleep but the frequent use hereof is hurtful it hath been said that if a stick or branch of this Elder be put into the passage or Cavern that a Mole Moles hath made it will either drive them forth or kill them in their holes The marsh Elder is of the same purging quality with the former or common Elder especially the berries or the juice of them Hens and Birds do feed upon them willingly in the Winter The Danewort Walwort or Dwarff-Elder is in operation more forceable or powerful than the Elder in all the diseases and for all the purposes whereunto it is applied but more especially wherein the Elder is little or nothing available the Dwarff-Elder serveth to these uses The young and tender branches and leaves thereof taken with Wine helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone Stone and Gravel Stone Gravel and is a speedy and quick help for hardness and swelling of a Mans Stones Stones swelled or hard being laid warm thereupon the juice of the root of Walwort applied to the Throat helpeth the Quinsie Quinzy Kings-Evil and Kings-Evill the juice thereof put into the fundament helpeth the falling down thereof Falling of the Fundament Courses Dropsie the same also put up with a little wooll into the Matrix bringeth down Womens courses the same juice of the root strongly purgeth watry humors and is held most effectual for the Dropsie of all other herbs whatsoever the dried berries or the seeds beaten to powder and taken in-Wine fasting worketh the like effect the powder of the seed taken in the decoction of Chamaepetis or grownd-Pine and a little Cinnamon to the quantity of a dram at a time is an approved remedy both for the Gout Gout Joint-aches Joint-aches and Sciatica Sciatica as also for the French-Pox French-Pox for it draweth the humors from the place affected whereby it easeth the pains and draweth forth those humors that are fluent peccant and offensive the powder of the root worketh in the like manner and to the same effect the root hereof steeped in Wine all night and a draught thereof given before the accesse or coming will either break off the fit or abate the violence thereof Agues and at the second taking seldome faileth to drive it quite away an oyntment made of the green leaves May butter made in the Month of May is accounted a soveraign remedy for all outward pains Outward pains Aches or Cramps in the Nerves Aches in Nerves Joints or Sinews Joints Sinews for Lameness Lamenesse or stiffness by cold or other casualties and in general to comfort warm and strengthen all the outward parts ill affected as also to mollifie the hardness and open the obstructions Obstructions of the Spleen hardnesse Spleen the greived parts being anointed therewith The leaves laid to steep in water and sprinkled in any chamber of the house killeth Fleas Flies Fleas Flies and Waspes Wasps Cold as is said Tragus saith that the tender branches boiled in Wine whereunto some hony is put and drunk for some daies together is profitable for a Cold and dry Cough Cough Breast cureth the diseases of the Breast
doth cause Sweat if one sit over it The Wall or Yellow-Gillow-flower Names THe Yellow-Gillow-flower is reputed amongst the kinds of Violets It is a little shrub or bush and is called in Latine Leucoia Lutea and by the Apothecaries Keyri in English Yellow-Gillow-flowers and Wall-Gillow-flowers Descript The Yellow-Wall-Gillow-flower is a little shrub that is green both Winter and Summer the stalks thereof are hard and of a woody substance and full of branches the leaves are thick set thereupon long narrow and green at the tops of the stalk do grow the flowers which are of a very fair yellow colour a strong but pleasant smell every flower divided into four small leaves after the flowers are fallen away there succeed long Cods or husks wherein is contained large flat and yellow-seed Place The Yellow-Gillow-flower plentifully groweth upon the old ruined Stones of the walls of Monasteries Castles and such old buildings it is likewise very frequently planted in Gardens where it usually grows very full set with double flowers but those which grow naturally upon the old walls have onely single flowers Time The Yellow-Gillow-flower usually flowers in March April and May. Government and Vertues The Yellow Violets or Wall-Gillow-flowers are hot and dry plants of the Sun whose influence they are subject unto and are of subtill parts Wall-flowers dryed and boyled in water provoke Urine Vrine and drive down Womens Terms Terms it helpeth the Scirrhus or hard Imposthumes of the Matrix Matrix when the same is fomented therewith a plaister made of the same flowers with oyle and Wax do heal chops of the Fundament and falling down thereof and closeth up old Sores Fundament old Sores the same flour mingled with hony cureth Ulcers and Sores of the Mouth two drams of the seed hereof drunk in Wine driveth down the Terms Secondine Secondine and Dead child Dead-Child a pessary made of the same and put up into the Matrix worketh the same effects the juice of this Gillow-flower dropped into the Eyes Eyes taketh away Spots and dimness of the same and the root stamped with Vinegar applied to the Spleen Spleen helpeth the hardness therof The Gall-Oake Descript THe strong or Gall-Oak so called because it beareth Gauls groweth not so great or high as other Oaks but shorter and more crooked with fair spreading branches and long leaves very much cut in on the edges and hoary underneath this tree also floureth and beareth Acorns and besides those it beareth also a round woody substance which is called a Gaul the wood or Timber hereof is hardly to be bored of this kind there be divers sorts some growing much lower then others some having their leaves lesse cut in or jagged on the edge some bearing more store of Gauls and others no Acorns at all some bear great Gauls others smaller some knobbed or bunched others smooth and of colour some white-some red others yellow and some small and green which is the Omphacitis Place These Oaks grow frequently in Italy Spain and other hot Countries Time They put forth their long Catkins or bloomings early in the Spring which fall away for the most part before the leaves do come forth the Acorns are not ripe until October Government and Vertues My intention here is to declare the temperament use and virtues of the Gauls of these forreign trees their Acorns being like those of our English Oaks The small Gaul called Omphacitis is dry in the third degree and cold in the second Saturnine of a soure harsh nature Weak it it fit to draw together and fasten faint and loose Loose parts Parts as the overgrowing of the flesh it expelleth and drieth up rheums Rheums and other fluxes Fluxes especially those that fall upon the Gums Gums Almonds of the Throat Throat and other places of the Mouth Mouth The other whiter Gaul doth also bind and dry but not so much as the former having a lesser quantity of sower harshness in it and is good against the dysentery Dysentery or bloody Flux Flux The decoction of them in water is of a mean astriction but in Wine is stronger and in harsh or red Wine strongest this decoction being warm is good for Women to sit in that are troubled with the falling down of the Mother Mother the Gauls themselvs after the boyling being bruised and applied to the Fundament Fundament that is fallen down or hath any hot Swelling Swelling or inflamation doth wonderfully help them the coals of them when they are burned and quenched in Wine or Vinegar is good to be applied to stanch bleeding Bleeding in any place They dye the hairs black and with them is made our writing Ink and they are used by dyers for a black dye The Oak-Apple is much of the nature of the Gaul yet much inferior thereunto but may be used for want of Gauls for Rheums fluxes and other such distempers Sweet Gaul Names IT is called also Sweet Willow Rhus Silvestris in Latine and Myrtus Anglica English Myrtle Descript It is a small low shrub or woody bush not above a yard in height having spreading slender branches with many brown yellowish green leaves somewhat long narrow thick and fattish round-pointed resembling both box and Myrtle-leaves in some sort having a strong sweet smell the flowers are yellow and stand upon short stalks coming forth at the joints with the leaves in small tufts many set together which being past the said stalks are plentifully stored with cornered yellow seeds bedewed with a clammy moisture of a very bitter tast but a strong sweet sâ—ent the root is hard and woody Place It groweth in boggy moorish grounds in lower Danmoore at Hailshot in Hampshire and at Bramsil in a boggy Moore of William Turners which they call Gold-Moore Time It blossomes about August and the seed is ripe in September or thereabouts Government and Vertues Saturn ownes this plant the nature of it is by the bitterness and harshness found to be drying and diâ—cussing and is very effectual to kill Worms in the Belly or Stomach Worms Belly Stomack head It mightily affecteth the Brain causing first perturbations and then stupifying the senses It is much used to be laid in Wardrobes Chests Presses and the like to keep Moths from Cloaths and to give them a good scent Ginger Names Description and Place THe Latine appellâ—tion is Zinbiber Ginger groweth in all Countries of the East Indies and many parts of the West as in Barâ—adoes It is planted either by the root or sown of seed we have two sorts of Ginger brought unto us differing in the substâ—nce and colour of the roots but not in the form saving that the one is more slender which is the blacker than the white for the one is white within and cutteth soft which is the Ginger which is wholly â—sed with us both in Meats and Medicins the other is hard and
only planted in Gardens Time The Lupines do flower in July and August and the seed is ripe soon after Government and Vertues Lupines are under the dominion of Mars and have an opening cleansing dissolving and digestive property but if they be steeped in water untill they have lost their bitterness they may be eaten but they are very hard to digest and breed grosse humors and passe slowly through the belly yet do not stop any flux If they be so steeped Appetite Stomack Liver Spleen Vrine Terms Dead-Child Scabbs Morphew cankers Tetters Sores and afterwards dryed and taken with Vinegar they provoke Appetite and help the loathing of the Stomack to meat The decoction of Lupines taken with hony opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provokes Urine and the Terms and expelleth the Dead-child if it be taken with Myrrhe The decoction of them cleanseth the body of Scabs Morphew Cankers Tetters and soul running Ulcers or Sores It also cleanseth the Face and taketh away the marks or pits which the Pox leaves behind it and cleareth the skin of Marks and black and blew Spots An oyntment of Lupines to beautifie and make the Face Amiable is made after this manner Take the meal of Lupines the gaul of a Goat or Sheep juice of Lemons and a little Alumen Saccharimum mingle them into the form of a soft oyntment The meal of Lupines being boyled in Vinegar and applied taketh away knobs and kernels or pimples The smoak of the shells being burned drives away gnats and flyes which annoy many houses in Summer Madder great and small BEsides the Garden and Wild Madder there are many other kinds hereof sound out Parkinson makes six kinds of the Rubia major or greater Madder and eight sorts of the Rubia minor or little small Madder Rubia Tinctorum is the general name of the manured Madder in Shops not onely so called from the colour of the root but also from its propety to dye a red colour The names of the other kinds follow in their Descriptions Descript 1. Culpepper hath described the Garden or manured Madder therefore I say no more of it Descript 2. Rubia sylvestris wild Madder is very like unto the manured but the stalks are smaller and not so spreading neither are they so rough or hairy the leaves are lesse the flowers are white the root groweth greater but not so red as the Garden-kind Descript 3. Wild Madder with long leaves called Rubia sylvestris longioribus foliis hath divers round jointed stalks two or three foot long or thereabout not so rough as the other wild sort the leaves that stand at the joints are somewhat rough narrower and longer than the other seaven or eight at a distance the flowers are white and stand at the tops of the stalks having four leaves apeece which turn into small round seed like the other the root is red as the former but smaller Descript 4. Smooth-leaved-Madder Rubia levis Taurinensium hath divers round smooth stalks two or three foot long whereon stand leaves not rough at all but smooth larger broader than garden Madder towards the tops of the branches and at the joints with the leaves standing round about the stalks come white flowers consisting of five or six small leaves apeece the roots are smaller then the other and run not far into the ground Descript 5. The 〈◊〉 smooth Candy-Madder called Rubia levis arborescens Cretica It hath a thick short stalk about the thickness of one's singer from whence spring many straight smooth branches with small short leaves standing at distances like the former sorts at the tops of the branches shoot out two or three slender sprigs which bear whitish flowers like those of the ordinary Madder the root is long and reddish and of a bitter harsh tast Descript 6. Sea-Madder Rubia marina hath many square hard and somewhat rough stalks full of joints and spreading round about the root upon the ground the leaves are somewhat rough small and long broadest at the bottom and pointed at the end growing lesser towards the tops the flowers are of a star-like fashion and whitish the root is more red on the outside then within more wooddy and harder then the other Place The first is manured in Gardens and large fields for the profit that is made of it for dyers as well as medicinal uses the second groweth by hedge-sides in many places of Germany and so doth the third which groweth also in many places of our own Land the fourth is found by Turin on the hills of Piemont according as Pena and Lobel say the fift in Candy and the sixt by the Sea-side in Provence and neer Mompelier Time They flower towards the latter end of Summer and the seed of some of them is ripe shortly-after Government and Vertues All the Madders are plants of Mars our Antient and modern writers have controverted each other about the properties of Madder whether it be of an opening or binding quality Galen and Dioscorides say that the root doth open and cleanse the body of thick and tough Flegm Vrine Terms Dead-Child After-Birth Yellow Jaundice Liver Spleen Melancholy Palsie Sciatica that it provoketh Urine bringeth down Womens Courses and expelleth the Dead-child and afterbirth but Dodoneus affirmeth that it is dry and astringent and hath no opening faculty at all but it is sound to have both an opening and an astringent quality even as Rhubarb hath which first opens and then binds and strengthens it turneth the Urine into a red colour as Rhubarb doth colour it yellow it is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundies opening obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cleanseth those parts it abates Melancholy humor it is effectual for those that have the Palsey and Scitica the roots boyled in Ale drunk is good for those that have received any hurts by bruises or falls and for all these purposes the root may be boyled in Wine Ale or Water and some hony or Sugar put thereunto afterwards The seed taken with Vinegar and hony helps swellings and hardness of the Spleen Spleen Freckels Deformity of the skin the decoction of the leaves and branches is good so Women to sit over to drive down their Courses The leaves and roots bâ—â—â—sed and applied cleanse and take away Freckles Morphew white Scurff or any deformity of the skin Small or little Madder Descript 1. Candy-Madder with a spikey head and larger leaves called in Latine Rubia spicata Cretica latiore folio It hath divers square rough slender stalks full of joints from which shoot many branches with four or five small rough leaves compassing them the top-branches end in small long spiked four square heads with many short rough husks set close one above another which send forth small whitish green flowers scarce to be seen after which come small greenish Seed The root is fibrous and wooddy but dyeth every Winter Descript 2. Spiked-Madder with small leaves Rubia spicata angusti-folia This differeth from the former in that
with salt causeth a sweet breath The Roots stamped with oyle and applied taketh away black and blew marks that come of bruses or stripes Bruises cureth and dissolveth the Kings Evil and all hard swellings and botches Kings-Evill Botches the parts being anointed or plastered therewith The same root made into powder and made into a plaister with the oyle of Ireos and wax doth asswage and cure the Sciatica or hip-Gout Sciatica the same boyled with pomgranat-pills and vinegar doth cure the hemorroids and taketh away warts and superfluities about the fundamentor elswhere Warts They also mundifie and cleanse the breast dissolve and ripen tough flegm Flegm and are profitable against an old cough coming of cold Cough being taken with honey in manner of an Electuary or Lohoch They provoke Urine Vrine clense the Kidneys and bladder break and drive forth the stone Stone provoke womens flowers Flowers and expulse the secondine and dead child Secondine Being chewed in the mouth they abate the tooth-ach Toothach and draw superfluous humors from the brain The liquor or Gum of Laserpitium especially of Cyrene which is called in our shops Gummi Benzni or Benzoin dissolved in water drunk driveth away hoarsness Hoarsness that cometh suddenly being supt up with a rear egg it cureth the Cough Cough taken in some broth is good against the Pleurisie Pleurisie It is good against Cramps and shrinking of the sinewes Cramp Sinews to be taken the quantity of a scruple and taken with Pepper and mirrhe it provoketh the Terms Terms and driveth forth the afterbirth and dead fruit afterbirth to be taken with hony vinegar or surrup of vinegar it is good against the falling sicknes Falling-Sickness it is good against the flux of the belly Flux coming from weakness of the stomack being taken with raisins It driveth away the shaking fits of Agues being drunken with wine pepper and Frankincense ther is an electuary made thereof with pepper Ginger and the leaves of Rue pounded together with hony which is called Antidotum ex succo Cyreniaco which is a singular medecine against Quartain Agues Agues It is good against the bitings of Venemous beasts Venemous bittings poisonous shots of darts or Arrows Shots bitings of mad dogs being taken inwardly and applied outwardly upon the wounds It quickneth the sight and taketh away the haw or web in the Eyes web in the Eyes at the first coming if it be applied upon them with hony being wrapped with Frankincense in a fine linnen Cloth and holden upon the Tâ—eth it cureth the Ach of the same Toothach the decoction thereof with figs and hysop boyled together in water and holden or kept in the mouth worketh the same effect Being applied with hony it stayeth the Vvula falling down Vvula and with hydromel or mede it cureth the Squinance being gargled with it It breaketh pestilential Impostums and Carbuncles Carbuncle being laid thereto with Rue Nitre and hony after the same manner it takes away Corns Corns being applied with Coperass and Verdigrease it cureth the disease in the Nostrills called Polypus Polypus and all scurvy manginess Manginess Against kybed heeles Kibed heeles first bath the heeles with wine and then anoint the kibes with this gum boyled in oyle The stinking gum call Assa foetida is good for all the purposes aforesaid but it is not so good as the Laser of Cyrene but it is very good to smell unto or to be laid upon the Navel against the choking or rising up of the Mother Benzoin is used for all the purposes aforesaid instead of the sweet Laser but it is supposed not to be the true Laser Cyreniacum but the gum of a certain tree to us unknown B. Balsom-tree or the true Balsome Names THe Arabians call it Balessau The Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines Balsamum the liquor they call Opobalsamum the berries or fruit of the tree Carpobalsamum and the sprigs or young branches therof Xylobalsamum Descript The balsome or balm tree in the most natural places where it groweth is never very great seldome about eight or nine foot high and in some places much lower with divers small and straight slender branches issuing from thence of a brownish red colour especially the younger twigs covered with a double bark the red outermost and a green one under it which are of a very fragrant smell and of an Aromatical quick taste somewhat Astringent and gummy cleaving to the fingers the wood under the bark is white and as insipid as any other wood on these branches come forth sparsedly without order many stalks of winged leaves somwhat like unto those of the Mastick-tree the lowest and those that first come forth consisting but of three leaves others of five or seaven leaves and seldome above which are set by couples the lowest smallest the next bigger the end-one largest of all of a pale green colour smelling and tasting somwhat like the bark of the branches somewhat clammy also and abide on the bushes all the year the flowers are many and small standing by three together on small stalks at the ends of the branches made of six small white leaves a peece after which follow small brownish hard berries little bigger than Juniper-berries small at both ends crested on the sides and very like unto the berries of the Turpentine tree of a very sharp sent having a yellow hony-like substance in them somwhat bitter but Aromatical in tast and biting on the tongue like the Opobalsamum from the body hereof being cut there issueth forth a liquor which sometimes floweth without scarifying of a thick whitish colour at the first which afterwards groweth cleer and is somewhat thicker than oyle in Summer of so sharp a peircing sent that it will pierce the Nostrills of those that smell thereunto almost like unto oyle of spike but as it groweth older so it groweth thicker and not so quick in the smell and in the colour becoming yellow like honey or brown thick Turpentine as it groweth old Place and Time The most reputed natural places where this tree hath been known to grow both in these and former dayes are Arabia Foelix about Mecha and Medina and a small village neer them called Bedrumia the hills valleys and sandy grounds about them and the Country of the Sabeans adjoyning next thereunto and from thence transplanted into India and Aegypt It likewise grew on the hills of Gilead And it is reported that the Queen of Sheba brought of the Balsome-trees to Solomon as the richest of her Presents who caused them to be planted in Orchards in the Valley of Jericho where they flourished and were tended and yearly pruned untill they together with the Vineyards in that Country were destroyed by that monster of mankind the savage Bestial Turk It flowereth in the spring and
manner Take of the middle bark of the Elder of Peony-roots each 6 drams of dried Elder-leaves and buds of Linden tree-flowers of each one handful of the seeds of Rue two drams of the berries of herb Paris Number 20. of Jews-Ears numb 6. This being cut and pounded put asmuch of the Spirit of Elder-flowers thereon as will be a hand broad high above them let them stand eight days in a hot place and in a vessel close stopped distill them in glasse Vessels in Balneo Mariae till they be dry with them mix the distilled Spirits the salt drawn out of its dregs and keep it for the Anti-Epileptick Spirit of the Elder whereof you may give a spoonful to the patient in the time of his fit afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon to dissipate the Epileptick corruption by sweating or insensible transpiration and to strengthen the brain with this same in the time of the fit rub the nostrills Gums and Palate adding thereto a grain or two of Castor The Water of the flowers drawn up into the Nose prevails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo in the same affects the Eyes and Face are to be washed often with this water in the time of the Fit anoint gently the contracted members with the oyle of the flowers of the first description the oyl of the second sort is much commended to anoint the palms of the Hands and Soles of Feet the Temples and nape of the Neck Of the Apoplexy and Palsie The salt of the Spirit of Elder is much commended as a preservative against these grievous diseases if it be mixed with a third part of the volatile Spirit of Amber and given in the time of the new Moon or full Moon in a convenient liquor in the weight of a scruple or half a dram the salt of the Elder must be first excellently crystaliz'd in the water of Sage Oximel Sambuci is likewise useful in these cold distempers of the Brain whereof give often in Sage water a little before purging for the cutting and preparing that grosse matter The Spirit likewise distilled from the Berries is excellent if once a week or at least each Quarter of the Moon a spoonfull thereof be taken mixt with crums of Wheat-bread and a little Sugar or you may prepare it new in what quantity you please Thus. Take Sage Marjoram Ivy of each two drams Cowslip-flowers Lilly of the Valley-flowers of each one dram and an half of Rocket-seeds two drams which being cut and grossely powdered infuse them in a sufficient quantity of the Spirit of Elder and after eight dayes distil them in Balneo dissolve a little Castoreum in it and strain it of this give the Patient a spoonful in the time of the Fit and with the same rub the Crown of the Head Temples Nape of the Neck and Nostrills But if the Apoplexy end in a Palsey of the sides or other Members as usually it doth or in death 't is necessary to provoke sweat which may be done with two drams of the spirit before mentioned or two drams of the Rob of the berries in Sage water or of the extract of the rob of the Elder five drams and an half of which every morning give to the patient being exactly mixed one dram in two or three ounces of the decoction of the great Burdock and keep him warm to sweat in his bed for half an hour Of Catharrs In this the Wine prepared of the flowers and berries is much commended drink a cupful in the morning after you have taken a litle broth For diseases of the Eares and Hearing For to ease and mitigate pains of the Eares use Fomentations of Elder and Camomile-flowers and anoint the place with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of Elder To take away the tingling sounding and other noises of the Eares drop in a drop or two of the oyl of the flowers and stop the Eares with Bombace dipped therein and with the decoction of the roots and leaves of the Elder with some Originanum let the Eares be often washed therein and receive the hot sume thereof Of the defects of the Nose and Smelling Water of Elder-flowers often snuffed up into the Nose helpeth the Smelling when it is lost or diminished by any great Cold or sickness and if you wash the Face often with the distilled water of the leaves and flower of the Elder it cleanseth and dryeth up all pimples and pustules of the Face For diseases of the Throat and Mouth The expressed juice of the leaves mixed with Simple or Elder hony doth cleanse and dry very much all the Ulcers of the Gums and Throat they being gargled therewith and outwardly anoint them with the oyl of Elder-flowers by infusion For Hoarseness The new Rob of the Elder-berries which is liquid is with good successe given to Coughing and unquiet Children for older people a Lohoch of the oyl of Elder-Sugar is profitable but where there is much matter and corruption feared this medicament following is profitable Take of fresh Elder-leaves a little dryed in the shadow one handful boyl them in a quart of Fountain water to the Consumption of a third part strain it and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy or clarified hony of which every day morning and evening drink a draught warm To make the Voice clear Take of Elder-flowers dryed in the Sun and pulverized of which drink a little every morning in white Wine fasting if the Cough and Hoarseness proceed from heat in Feavers the syrrup made of the juice of Elder-berries with equal parts of the syrrup of violets is an excellent remedy Or you may make Elder-Sugar in imitation of violet Sugar-Candy Cinnamon or Rose Sugar of which in these pectorall diseases hold some still to be dissolved in your mouth that it may gradatim descend into the Wind-pipe 't is thus made Take of the best Sugar 6 pound let it dissolve and boyle in the fragrant water of the flowers till it come to a fit thickness to be made into tablets then infuse the fresh juice made from the berries well clarified or the frequent infusion of the flowers as you please to have the colour on a soft fire boyl to the consistency of a syrrup then in a glasse or earthen pot put sticks in order two fingers breadth asâ—under and pour the Liquor hot thereon and in a warmed shop the vessel being bound up in a thick Cotton-cloth let it stand to congeal For Swooning and Faintness The Vinegar of Elder-berries imbibed in a Sponge recovers those as it were from death that are subject to Swoonings and Faintings it excellently refresheth the vital Spirits in this also dip Linnen cloaths and apply them to the pulses of the Temples Wrists and near the Ankles Of Agues and Feavers As soon as any one finds a Feaver at first begin to approach let them take of the Rob of the Elder in the Vinegar Spirit or water of the flowers thereof and so in their beds being well covered
Correction of Spurge Laurel Lay the leaves or berries in steep in Vinegar a whole day then dry it and make it into powder adding to it Annise or Fennel seed gum Tragant and Mastick and so give it together with some cooling water as of Endive Succory or Orenges it will perform its operation without troubling or inflaming the Throat nor the inward parts Indian-leaf Names IT is called by the Indians Cadegi Indi that is Folium Indum It is called also Malabathrum and of the East-Indians Tamala patra Descript They are broad leaves with three ribs onely in them a little pointed at the ends which have been brought unto us but in small quantity and amongst them some leaves on their branches two usually at a joint tasting somewhat hot like unto bay-leaves and the bark of the branches hath the same tast amongst these leaves sometimes hath been found a small fruit like unto an Acorn in the cup which is probably the fruit of the tree and gathered with the leaves Government and Vertues It is Solar The vertues are to provoke Urine to warm and strengthen the Stomack and it maketh the Breath sweet It is good to be put into Cordial and Stomachical compositions It resisteth poison and Venome and the infusion thereof in Wine warm helpeth inflamations and redness of the Eyes being bathed therewith Lentills Kinds and Names THey are called Lens and Lenticula in Latine In some Countries of England where they sow them for meat for their Cattel they call them Tills There are found three sorts hereof 1. Lens Major the greater Lentill 2. Lens Minor the lesser Lentil And 3. Lens Maculata the spotted Lentil Descript 1. The greater Lentil groweth about two foot long with many hard yet slender and weak branches from whence at several places shoot forth long stalks of small winged leaves many on each side of a middle rib which middle rib endeth in a small clasper between the leaves and the stalks come the flowers which are small of a sad reddish purplish colour almost like the flowers of Vetches they stand for the most part two at the end of a long footstalk after the flowers are gone there succeed small short flat Cods wherein is flat round smooth seed of a pale yellowish Ash-colour the root is fibrous and dyeth every winter 2. The lesser lentill differeth from the former onely in this that the stalks leaves and seed is lesser the flowers are more pale and the seeds are whiter The third differs not much from the last but the seed which is blackish is spotted with blacker spots Place and Time The two first in parts beyond the Seas are sown in manured Fields and so they are in some Countries in England especially the smaller sort The greater doth seldome come to maturity with us if the season be not very mild and dry the spotted kind hath been growing wild in Portugal Government and Virtues They are under the dominion of Saturn of a mean temperature between heat and cold yet they are dry in the second degree according to Galen they are somewhat astringent and bind the body especially the outer skin It is of contrary qualities for the decoction thereof doth not bind but loosen the body therfore those that would have it bind let them cast away the first water and use the second which stoppeth Lasks and strengtheneth the Stomack Lasks Stomack and inward parts Lentils husked lose the strength of binding but nourish more than those that are not husked but Galen saith that to cat much of the broth of Lentils breedeth Cankers and Leprosie being grosse and thick meat It breedes the Melancholy humor but is good for moist and watry bodies but forbidden to those that are of a dry constitution It is also hurtful to the fight but is convenient for Women that have their Courses in too much abundance the decoction thereof applied with Wheat flower easeth the Gout Terms Gout and used with hony it closeth up the Lips of Wounds and cleanseth foul sores being boyled with Vinegar it dissolveth knots Sores knots and kernels Kernels and a decoction made thereof with Quinces Melilot and a little rose-Rose-water put thereto it helpeth the Inflamation of the Eyes and Fundament But for the chaps of the Fundament let it be boyled with dryed Roses and Pomgranate rindes adding a little hony unto it And so it is good for creeping Cankers adding some Sea water unto it and for Wheals and running watry sores St. Anthonies-fire Kibes and for the curdling of Milk in Womens Breasts And a decoction there of with Rose leaves and Quinces is a good lotion for Ulcers in the Mouth Privy parts or Fundament Cankers Kibes St. Anthonies-fire Mouth Privy parts Fundament Lentisk or Mastick-tree Names IT is called in Latine Lentiscus and the gum or Rozen resina Lentiscina and Mastiche and Mastix in English Mastick Descript The Mastick or Lentisk-tree groweth like a tree if it be suffered to grow up and often it riseth but as a shrub the body and branches are of a reddish colour tough and gentle having their ends bending somewhat downwards whereon do grow winged dark green leaves consisting of four couples standing one against another of the bigness of the large Myrtle leaf with a reddish Circle about their edges and somewhat reddish veins on the underside smelling sweet and always continuing green the flowers grow in clusters at the joints with the leaves being small and of a pale purplish green colour after them come small blackish berries of the bigness of a Pepper-corn with a hard black shell under the outer skin and a white kernel within it beareth also certain hornes with a cleer liquor in them which turneth into small flies that fly away It yeeldeth also a clear white gum in small drops when the stocks are cut in sundry places which is carefully gathered and preserved Place The Lentisk-tree groweth in Provence of France and also in divers places of Italy and Candy and in many places of Greece but yeeldeth little gum there But especially in the Isle of Chio now called Sio Time It floureth in April and the berries are ripe in September It is pruned and manured with as great care and pains as others do their Vines it goeth beyond them in the profit of the Gum. Government and Vertues The Lentisk-tree is under the influence of Jupiter It is of temperature moderately hot but both root and branch bark leaf fruit and Gum are of a binding quality and do stop all Fluxes Fluxes and spitting of Blood Blood strengthens a weak Stomack Stomack and helps falling down of the Mother Mother or Fundament The decoction healeth up hollow sores Fundament sores sodereth broken bones Bones fasteneth loose Teeth Loose-teeth Itch and stayeth creeping Sores they being fomented therewith The oyl that is pressed out of the berries helpeth the Itch Leprosie Leprosie and Scabbs Scabbs both in Men and Beasts
fluxes from the head and braine Fluxes Head Brain Rheum Catarrhes cold Stomaks Wind Mother French-disease Aches sinews Joints Sores Swellings tetters ringworms Rheums and Catarrhes as also in all cold griefs of the stomack and expelleth wind very powerfully from the stomack and mother It helpeth not only the French disease but all manner of Aches in the Sinews or Joynts all running sores in the legs all flegmatick swellings Tetters or Ringworms and all manner of spots Spots in the Skin and foulness of the skin It is not proper to be given to those whose Livers are over-hot or to such as have Agues The manner of using it is and hath been divers in former times it was used beaten to powder and so drank others used to boyle it so long until it became tender which being beaten or broken was afterwards strained into the decoction making a kinde of thick drink like cream Some others and that most usually boyled it in water to the half or the consumption of the third part as they would have it stronger or weaker and that either by it self or with other things proper for the disease it was intended for and others also put it amongst other things into drink either Beer or Ale new tunned up to drink after it hath stood three or four dayes for Physick-drink for the remedy of those griefs it is conducible unto as aforesaid A dyet-drink with Sarsaparilla for the French-disease Aches pains or any the diseases before mentioned Take Lignum Vitae which is Guiacum nine ounces bark of the same two ounces Sassafras one ounce Sarsaparilla four ounces Juniper-berries one ounce Boyl them in two ounces of fountain-water to the Consumption of half add to the strained liquor Coriander-seeds four drams Cinamon Liquorish each two drams for an ordinary drink Saracens Consound Descript and Names There have several plants been mistaken and set forth for the true Saracens Consound The true is called Solidago Saracenica vera Salices Folia the true Saracens Consound with willow leaves This groweth very high sometimes with Brownish stalks and sometimes with green and hollow to a mans height having many long and narrow green Leaves snipt about the edges set thereon somewhat like unto those of the Almond or Peach-tree or Willow-leaves but not of such a white Green-colour The tops of the stalks are furnished with many pale yellow star-like-flowers which stand in â—green-heads which when they are fallen and the seed ripe which is somewhat long small and of a yellowish brown-colour wrapped in down is therewith carryed away with the winde the root is composed of many strings or fibres set together at the head which perish not in winter but abide though the stalks dry away and no leafe appeareth in winter the taste hereof is strong and unpleasant and so is the leaf also Place and Time It groweth in moist and wet Grounds by woods sides and sometimes in the moist-places of the shaddowy-Groves as also by water-sides It is rare to be found in England Gerrard saith it groweth by the high-way sides in Essex I have sought many wayes there but could never yet find it In July it is in flower and the seed is soon ripe and carried away with the wind Government and Vertues This singular Wound herb is a Plant of Mars so that he can sure aswell as kill It is of temperature hot and dry almost in the third degree and somewhat binding In Germany it is preferred before all other Wound-herbs being boyled in wine and drunk it helpeth the indisposition of the Liver and freeth the gall from obstructions Liver Gall obstructed Yellow Jaundise Dropsie Vlcers of the Reins Wounds and bruises and for the dropsie in the beginning thereof as also in all inward Ulcers of the Reins or elsewhere and inward wounds or bruises and being steeped in wine and then distilled the water thereof drunk is singular good to ease all gnawing in the stomach or any other pains or torments in the body as also the pains of the Mother Gnawings on the stomach Pains Mother Agues green wounds Old Sores Vlcers Sores Mouth and throat privy parts and being in wine and drunk it helpeth continual Agues This said water or the simple water of the herb distilled or the juice or decoction are all very effectual to heal any green wound or old Sore or Ulcer whatsoever both cleansing them from any corruption is in them and healing them up quickly afterwards the same also is no less effectual for the Ulcers of the mouth or throat be they never so foul or stinking by washing and gargling the mouth and throat therewith and likewise for such Sores as happen in the privy parts of man or woman and is as effectual to all the purposes as are Bugle or Sanicle Sassafras or Ague-tree Descript Names THis Indian tree is called by some Ind ans Pavame of some Winanke but its general name amongst the French Spaniards and all other Nations is Sassafras The tree groweth great and tall bare of branches unto a reasonable height covered with a greyish brown bark somewhat thick in taste hotter and quicker than the wood or root towards the top it doth spread forth many Armes and branches into a round compass or form having large dark green leaves growing thereon one at a place standing on the contrary side each to other tasting like the root but more weakly some cut into three Divisions somewhat resembling Fig-tree leaves but lesser by the half for the most part with a middle rib running through each Division and two others to the inner cuts with veins besides and some with little or no division at all upon them smooth also and not dented about the edges the flowers are small and yellow made of threads very like to the male Cornel-tree and the fruit small blackish berries set in small cups upon long footstalks many clustring together The roots are not very great neither do they grow deep but are covered with the like brownish bark that the trunk and branches are but somewhat redder which are most in use being of more force and efficacy than any other part of the tree and of a spicy taste Place This is brought unto us from the parts near Florida and other places of the West-Indies Government and Virtues This is a solar plant of temperature hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree the decoction is very useful in all cold diseases of the liver and spleen as also in cold rheums and defluxions of the head Liver Spleen cold Rheums on the teeth defluxions on the teeth eyes or Lungs eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts It is available in coughs Coughs Breast Stomach and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs restrains castings and helpeth digestion Castings Digestion wind gravel Kidneys Vrine Terms Agues breaketh and expelleth wind the gravel and stone in the kidneys and provoketh Urine and womens
thereof for his ordinary drink till he be well If he chance to be burnt with Gun-powder then presently take common salt half an ounce Juice of onyons four ounces mix them together and anoynt the Patient therewith but where the skin is burnt off then use this following oyntment Take two pound of Linseed oyl one pound and a half of oyl of Roses Violet-leaves Mallows Water-Lillies of the Bark of the green Alder-tree House-leek each one handful Porks greese first well washed in waters of Roses and Nightshade as much as is sufficient Infuse all these for the space of six days then boyl them over a gentle fire till the vertue of the herbs be drawn out then strain them and add thereunto white wax as much as is sufficient to make them into an oyntment and if in the boyling you put in one pound of Shoomakers peece greese it will be the better But if the eyes chance to be burnt apply this Remedy red rose-Rose-water four ounces Womens milk if to be had two ounces two whites of eggs and a little Sugar-candy mix them together apply it to the eye or anoynt the Eyelids with this excellent oyntment Take four ounces of Oyl of Roses one ounce of Cerus wash'd in red Rose-water two whites of Eggs one ounce of white wax one dram of Camphire mix them for use But beware in any case you apply not Soap or any such like medicines to any part where the skin is off and if there follow any swelling then apply this Pultis following made of two handfuls of Mallows and two handfuls of Violet-leaves Camomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each one handful boyl these in new milk or Barley-water till they be soft then stamp them in a Mortar and add thereto the oyntment of Roses and Unguentum Populeum or oyntment of Poplar-buds of each one ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs two ounces of Barley-meal the roots of Marsh-mallows and the seeds of Flea-bane of each half an ounce sometimes you may put in the pulps of these of each two ounces and half an ounce of oyl of Roses with the Crums of white bread You are in the mean time to have regard the Patients body be in good order either naturally or by Art if not naturally administer this Glyster or the like as often as you see occasion Take of Mallows Violet-leaves Pellitory Beets and Mercury Camomile-flowers of each one handful half an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two drams of Linseed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water to a pint in which dissolve one ounce or six drams or half an ounce according to the nature of your Patient of Diaphenicon or lenitive Electuary or Diacatholicon with butter or oyls with about a dram of common salt Bloud-letting is not to be forgotten you may likewise make the Patient a drink after this manner taking of Egrimony Mugwort Angelica St. Johns wort Mouse-ears of each two handfull Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Bettony Buglos Comfrey the greater and lesser roots and all her Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanacle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Barbery and Oak of each a handful take of all these herbs mixed together three handful boyl them in two quarts of water and a quart of white-wine gently till the third part or one half be consumed strain it and add one pound of Honey being scummed and let the Patient drink of it or you may sweeten it to make it pleasant with boyling Reasons of the Sun stoned pruans or the like with Sugar Now when you meet with any wounded in the head apply a playster of the white of an Egg Bolarmonack and Aloes next day dress it with Arceus his Lineament and lay upon it Emplastrum de Janua or else de Gratia Dei which will perfectly heal the wound But if it be deep you may apply either the above-mentioned or this medicin following which will bring the wound to run with good matter which is made with Venus Turpentine the yolk of an egg oyl of Roses and a little Saffron afterwards you must add honey of Roses and Barley-flower to the former medicine till the wound be perfectly cured But if you find the former medicines not to answer your expectation then make use of this that follows viz. Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Syrrup of Roses Powder of Myrrhe and Mastich of each half a dram mix them together for your use Lastly wholly to close and dry up the wound use this following powder which is made of Burnt Allum and the rindes of Pomgranates burnt of each one dram mix them apply it either alone or mixed with Unguentum desiccativum rubrum But if the wound be very large stich it up first washing the wound with some warm wine then dressing it with Venice Turpentine mixed with a little Aqua vitae dissolving therein some sanguis Draconis i. e. Dragons-bloud Mastich and Aloes let not your stiches be too streight or close together for fear of pain and Inflammations which may happen till the wound comes to maturity or suppuration but only to keep out the air and put somewhat a broad-like tent into the lowest part of the wound that the Matter may have passage forth then apply this following Cataplasm above the other dressing Take Barley and Bean-meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three drams as much vinegar as will serve to make it a Pultis which doth cool dry repell or drive back and mitigate and asswage pain and inflammation and stayes bleeding If you suspect or fear that the Patient have a feaver let bloud forthwith according to the strength and ability of your Patient daily administring cooling glysters made of Barley-water wherein may be boyled Violet-leaves Mallows and Mercury and such like dissolving syrrup of Violets and Roses pulp of Cassia and such like therein or you may give him a gentle Purge of Electuarium Diacatholicon Electuarium lenitivum or the like an ounce more or less for a Dose according to the strength of your Patient or if he like Pills rather give him Pillulae Cochiae and Pillulae Ruffi of each half a dram mix'd well together let the Patient take three over night and three the next morning if he have a foul body and you see need you may continue them every other day for a week or more as you see cause likewise you may administer suppositories made of honey boyl'd to a due hardness with common salt But if you meet with only a bruised head without a wound then the head is to be shaved applying this following Oyl of Myrtle and the powder of the same of each one ounce the white of an Egg mix it and apply it Or this Pultis instead thereof consisting of flower of Barley and Beans with vinegar and oyl of Roses Dress it twice a day till the part comes to its former temperature if you were not at the beginning then first anoynting it with oyl of wax lay on
any happens to come under your hands is this Let the Mate Assistant or some other body hold the tongue very firmly in his hand with a soft Linnen cloath lest it should slip from between his fingers whilst the other stitch it together which when he hath done let him cut off the thread as near the knot as he can lest it be tangled by the teeth as he eats or otherwise and so put the Patient to pain by pulling and tearing the stitches wherewith the part was sewed The parts of the neck which happen to be wounded are the Wind-pipe and Gullet veins of the throat called the jugular veins sleepy arteries called also the soporal arteries and the recurrent Nerves A transverse or overthwart wound of the Trachea Arteria called the Wind-pipe is dangerous by reason of a feaver Gangreen or often following thereon If the wound be between the rings it is cureable if holding a Candle before it whilst the Patient speaks it be either blown out or moved then it is wounded quite through if not stitch it up as neatly as you can dressing it with Arceus's Linement and Oyl of St. Johns wort compound and let not the Patient swallow any hard solid thing but liquid broaths Gellies and such like when you shall have occasion to use Gargarismes then this and the following may be used with profit to the Patient Take a handful of French barley a pugil of Rosemary flowers Raisins of the Sun stoned Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice let them be boyled all together adding thereto when you have strained them honey of Roses and Julep of Roses of each two ounces The other is this take three spoonfuls of French barley one pugil of the flowers of red Roses Sumach Pomgranate-flowers of each two drams Raisins of the Sun stoned and Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice boyl these together according to art in three pintes of running water to the consumption of half strain them to which add honey of Roses and syrrup of myrtles of each two ounces for a Gargarism either of these moisten the mouth and throat will mitigate the harshness of the part asswage pain cleanse and agglutinate and cause a more free and easie breathing If the veins of the throat or Jugular veins sleepy or soporal arteries be deeply wounded 't is mortal if not first stanch the bloud which is done by several means as with Pledgets dipt in a medicine made of the white of an egg vinegar and water being well mixt together and applyed or by astringent powders whereof you have had choice often before which you may apply thus Touch the vessels with your finger then wipe away the bloud with lint or a sponge dipt in red wine then put some powder with your fingers to the vessel after that apply the same medicine upon Pledgets to the place where your fingers were and keeping them close down fill the wound with pledgets armed with the same and last of all a four-doubled cloath wet in Red wine or some astringent liquor as of the decoction of the roots of Lungwort Ciniquefoil the leaves of Knot-grass Burnet Hors-tail Plantane and the like either boyled in water or red wine and water or red wine alone In other places where you may use rowling you must rowl below the wound upward and when you come to the wound rowl three or four times about but if you cannot make use of rolling the part then if you can come at the mouth of the vessel with your finger or thumb press it so long till the bloud shall be so thick as a clot about it and so stop its passage or use this powder following Take two drams of Frankincense Aloes Dragons bloud Cobwebs Mastich Sarcocol Vmber of each one dram and make them into a fine powder if this prevail not notnigh a noble part some add sublimate and auripigmentum of each half a dram to two drams of these powders If you fear an Aneurisma known by the beating of the Arterie apply this following Take of the leaves of Nightshade Henbane Mandrakes bruised of each one handfull as much Barley-flower as will serve to make it a Poultis without boyling if it be deep To incarn use this Take of oyl of St. Johns wort four ounces three ounces of Gum-elemy half a pound of Venus Turpentine melt them all together and strain them when they begin to be cold add to it Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud of each one ounce Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich of each one dram with two ounces of Aqua vitae mix them and apply them warm and over them a Diapalma-Plaister moistned with Oyl of Roses to hinder Inflammation so dressing till the end of the cure as in other wounds If the Gullet be wounded and wholly divided or over-thwart it is then incureable if not it is to be stitched leaving a passage in the lowermost part and cure as in the Cure of the Wind-pipe aforesaid using the Gargarisms as aforesaid outwardly use this Take half an ounce of the Syrrup of dryed Roses one dram of Bolarmanack Gum Mastich and Dragons bloud of each one scruple half the yolk of an egg with as much Cyprus Turpentine as is sufficient incorporate them if wounds do not pierce to the Wind-pipe veins of the throat soporal Arteries and be not very deep they are to be cured after the manner of ordinary wounds If the recurrent Nerves be wounded without hurt of any other notable vessel it is easily cured dressing it with a sufficient quantity of Venus Turpentine with Boll Armanack or the Balsome mentioned in the cure of wounds of the veins and arteries In wounds of the nerves to hinder pain and Inflamation Bleeding and purging are to be used or suppositories and glysters outwardly Embrocate with oyl of earth-worms Dill and Roses to the wound it self apply with Lint Wax Colophony of each one ounce Gum-Elemy and Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earthworms Oyl of sweet Almonds and the oyl of the yolks of eggs oyl of Roses of each two drams with one dram of Saffron make therewith an oyntment according to art If you take the yolk of one egg and put two ounces of this unguent it will be the more anodyne i. e. ease pain the better and if to the aforesaid oyntment you shall add of each a dram of myrrhe and Sarcocol it will be a good sarcotick medicine i. e. procure good flesh to grow in the wound If you have occasion to use tents take heed they touch not the Nerve if you see it necessary and convenient lay this Poultis or Cataplasm upon the part Take half an ounce of Marsh-mallow roots Camomile-flowers Melilot and Bettony of each one ounce of the powder of Linseed and Fenugreek of each one ounce and a half Bean-flower one ounce boyl them in Lixivium i. e. Washing-lee or water and salt then put to them Oyl of Earthworms and Roses of each one ounce two
then the Patient shall lie low with his head down and his buttocks raised higher putting a pillow under him If the Cawl fall out of the wound it is to be put into his place as soon as may be because it is subject to putrefie but if it be putrified before it can be restored to its place which is when it looks black and is cold then bind it near the warm and sound parts and cut off that which is corrupt leaving the string hanging out if the colour of it be not altered and it be warm put it in and stitch up the wound after this manner putting your needle first through the skin and muscles to the Peritoneum not touching it on that side and then putting the needle from within outwards on the other-side thrust through all and after tye it an inch further make another stitch contrary to the former and remember that you leave an Orifice for a Tent For more security you may strengthen it if you please with a dry stitch to the wound it self use Arceus his Liniment with oyl of St. Johns wort compound or some artificial Balsom and the like before often prescribed In summer lay over all the Diapalma plaister moystned in oyl of Roses in the winter Paracelsus anointing the part if it be painful with this following Oyle of Roses and Mirtles of each half an ounce oyl of Lillies and Earthworms of each one ounce oyl of Cammomil and Dill of each six ounces oyntment of Marsh-mallows and poplar buds of each three drams mix them and make a Liniment according to Art Those wounds which pierce into the Belly onely require to be joyned together and so to be cured as simple wounds If the stomach be wounded there follows vomiting of Choler and Hickets sometimes meat and drink comes forth as it is taken If the wound be quite through the stomach or near the mouth of the stomach or if in the bottom of the stomach and very great then no hopes if not if the Patient be full bodyed then let him be let blood making him wound-drinks as before prescribed if the wound be large stitch it up leaving only a place in the depending part for a tent to be applyed with Balsomes of which you have several laid down before in the cure of wounds let the Region of the stomach be annointed with the oyles of Mint Mirtles Roses and Quinces giving them first cleansing glisters afterwards nourishing ones likewise Broths wherein wound-herbs have been boyled You may know the Liver is wounded if the wound be on the right side and there hath followed a flux of blood sometimes he vomits Choler sometimes casting forth blood by stool and urine and his face grow pale and wan If the wounds of this part be not very great having not bled much but little they are curable as one says if a peece be cut off For cure inwardly Take Troches of spodium or burnt Ivory in Plantaine water or the decoction of Red Rose leaves To which add syrup of dryed Roses and Mirtles two scruples of the powder of red Roses is very good if blood fall down into the cavity of the Belly and clots dissolve it by medicines before mentioned in wounds of the Breasts if you perceive that Nature hath a mind to cast out the matter by urine assist it by boyling Smallidg Parsley Fennel and Radish in his Drinks or Broths If the wound be on the left side and blackish blood issues out there and he be very thirsty then the Spleen is wounded if the wound be small it is Cureable if deep deadly and it is Cured as in wounds of the Liver If the small Guts be wounded there ensues Vomiting of Choler pain joyned with a Feaver and meat and drink and Chile comes forth the flanks will swell and be hard and the patient will be troubled with Hickets and ringing pains in the Belly apt to have some cold-sweats and the outward-parts wax cold These wounds are very difficultly Cured especially if in the Gut called Jejunum in English the empty Gut by reason many vessels which run to it are in danger and it self is of a Nervy substance they are to be stitcht with a Glovers stitch after put them up fomenting them first with red Wine then upon them apply this powder Mastick Sarcocol of each one dram Borax and Myrrhe of each half a dram make a powder of them for use then stitch up the outward parts For inward means you have several medicines prescribed before Mastick is good to be taken in all things especially in the wounds of the stomach Difficulty of making water or it is altogether stopt in those that are wounded in the Kidneys pissing blood with his urine paine stretched about the groines if the wound be but slight and superficial and in the fleshy part then much blood flows and his water is stopt if it pass to the cavity or hollowness of the Kidneys then blood passeth with the urine If Urine be stopt anoynt the Pecten with the oyle of Scorpions and bitter Almonds apply a pultis made of Pellitory Mallows and Saxifrage for Injections use Trochisces of Amber called Trochisci de Carabe dissolved in Horsetailer Plantain-water When the bladder is wounded there comes but little urine and that bloody if the wound be in the bottom of the bladder the urine will fal in the lower part of the Belly and as if there were a seeming dropsie pain will reach as farr as the Groin and Stones in men For help let him use this following inwardly Shumack Mirtle-berries of each three ounces red-Rose leaves dryed one pugil Pomgranate-flowers half an ounce boyl them in six quarts of Rain running or fountain-fountain-water strain it and therein dissolve syrup of dryed Roses and honey of Roses of each six ounces syrup of Myrtles three ounces gum dragon half an ounce drink of this decoction ten days if you cut in four Quinces it will be the better outwardly use some Anoâ—ine unguent as before or else Turpentine with oyle of St. Johns-wort with the yolk of an egg and a little Saffron powdered mixed together and applyed inebricating the part with oyl of Roses Lillies and Scorpions Wounds of the Limbs as Arms Thighs Leggs if they peirce the great Vesâ—els within-side sometimes cause death or else are very difficult to cure if they peirce not the vessels they are to be cured as other ordinary wounds For the wounds of the long Tendon which goes near the Heel suffer not your Patient to goe except with Crutches for it is very requisite that he rest as much as possible may be for fear if he go too much upon it before the Cicatrize and Scar of the wound be drawn very hard the wound break out again Likewise you are to take notice that great and deep wounds in the Limbs require often bleeding and purging especially if it be near the joynts and then you are to apply fit and convenient Bolsters for the purpose The most Material
Seamen or others is chiefly or almost the very same used to those troubled with Hypochondriack melancholy so that you are first to begin the Cure with general evacuations as Bloud-letting Purging and sutable to the nature of the disease strength and constitution of the Patient for Bloud-letting you must do it in the Liver-vein little and often that you cool not the body too much at once the next thing to be looked after is good dyet which because often wanting at Sea in long Voyages they are to carry with them some such comfortable things as may be useful as Wine Sugar c. Then you are to administer Glisters or Suppositories such as formerly has been spoken of in the Cure of Wounds and afterwards such a Bolus or Morsel as this following Take of Diacatholicon and lenitive Electuary of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar half a dram with three or four drops of Spirit of Viteral make a Bolus to be taken in the morning fasting you may if you see the Patient weak open the Hemrod-veins with Leeches you may repeat Bloud-letting in the Arm if you see occasion the gentle purges are the best often given such as common Pills of Ruffus called Pillulae Ruffi communes Pillulae Macri Mercurii dulcis one scruple two scruples or a dram are enough for a dose Barley-water is good the juice or syrrup of Lemmons to which you may if you will add some few drops of Cinnamon-water or Oyl of Viteral and Sugar then you may make use of specifical medicines which are such as have a peculiar faculty against the Scurvy such as Dutch or Sea-scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses Worm-wood Fumitory Turnips Lemmons juice or syrrup of Oranges Limes Tamarinds those which have not so great force against the Scurvy are these that follow viz. Agrimony Maiden-hair Betony Borrage Bugloss Ceterach Elecampane Germander Hysop Polypody of the Oak the Bark of Ash Capers and Tamarisk the flowers of Alder dodder of Time and Tamarisks but alwayes observe that if the Patient be feaverish or inclining to a Feaver you must be sparing of the hotter things and give them in a smaller quantity adding to them Endive Succory Sorrel c. with some few drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Of all which you may make several sorts of medicines as Decoctions Apozems Syrrups c. Or else this following Take the juice of Scurvey-grass and Brook-lime of each three pound two pound of powdered Sugar boyl them together till they come to the consistence of a Syrrup Or thus Take two pound of the juice of Scurvy-grass one pound and three quarters of the juice of Lemons and three-quarters of a pint of the spirit of Wine or Brandy to which adding a sufficient quantity of Sugar is made a syrup of which you may take three or four spoonfulls fasting two hours after To your juice of Lemmons alone you may add a spoonful of Aquavitae As much spirit of Vitriol as will sharpen a cup of Beer water or wine is very good also Diatrium piperium taken from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor as Wine Beer or Ale first and last is good Theriaca Diatessaron from half a dram to two and Theriaca Londinensis two drams taken in the morning are good so are conserve of Roses Conserve of Wormwood with a few drops of the spirit of Viteral Likewise green Ginger Rosa-Solis and Wormwood water also it will not be amiss to sweat after purging which you may do by giving him a dram of Venice Treacle or Mithridate or half a dram of Antimonium diafreticum more or less as you find the constitution of your Patient There is commonly accompanying the Scurvy swellings and putrefaction of the gums for which you may take Bistert and Tormentil-roots boyled in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half to which add some drops of Vitriol to make it sharp or else take this following of Roman or white Viteral two ounces one pint of water and two spoonfuls of Honey being boyled to the consumption of the third part add to it half an ounce of Salâ—prunella for your use To conclude when you come to any place on shore you may make use of these following Receipts Take a pint of the decoction of Barley four ounces of white-wine Horse-raddish root but thin and bruised two ounces three handfuls of Scurvy-grass leaves strain them through a Cloth mingle them and take a spoonful of this morning and evening Or else take of Wormwood and Juniper-Berries bruised of each one handful Goats-milk if to be had or in want of it Cows-milk or Sheeps-milk two quarts Boyl them till the third part be consumed strain them and to the straining put one dram of Saffron in powder let them boyle a walm or two then strain it again give of this morning noon and evening Or Take three pints of white-wine a quart of small Ale four ounces of the juice of Scabies Brook-lime and water-Cresses of each two ounces half a handfull of Rosa solis boyl them to the Consumption of one pint to which add half a pint of the juice of Scurvy-grass let them boyl a little in a pint of this steep three spoonfuls of Horse-dung let them stand all night strain them in the morning and let the Patient take half a pint thereof being sweetned with Sugar-Candy For a Beer to drink constantly of Take a pound of Scurvy-grass a little dryed Brooklime and water-Cresses of each four handfuls a handful of Sage an ounce of Saxifrage six ounces of Sarsaparilla six drams of Nutmegs Let the Herbs Roots and Spice be bruised a part then mix them hang them in a bag in four gallons of beer after it hath stood nine days the Patient may drink thereof Half a pint of this following-drink every morning for fourteen dayes hath been often tryed and approved and hath cured divers Take Scurvy-grass stamp it and strain it with posset-drink made of thin skim-milk turned with just as much white-wine Vinegar as will serve to turn it during all the time of your cure you must forbear salt meat strong-drink fruits and old Cheese drinking whey at your Meals if you can get it if not instead thereof small Ale and you must chew Brook-lime for three mornings together if your teeth be loose In Voyages at Sea there happen to Sea-men the disease Called the Callenture It is a kind of contagious Fever sometimes with fits sometimes without the Patients being often possessed with a Frenzy for they oft think the Sea to be a Meddow and so make an offer to go into it on some the fits are very violent which are hot and cold in some This Disease happens through great obstructions caused by ill dyet and intemperature of the Climate which aire being somewhat Contagious causeth an ill habit of the Body For the Cure of this Distemper you are first to begin with Cordials which strengthen and defend the faculties from the venemous quality of the
of temperature hot and dry in the third degree the white or inward pith or pulpe of the Apple taken about the waight of a scruple openeth the belly mightily and purgeth grosse Flegm and Cholerick humors Flegm Choler Slime Guts Pains gripings Apoplexy Falling-sicknesse Meagrim Breath Cholick Sinews pain and noise in the Eares and cleanseth the Guts of slimy filthiness and stinking corruption which oftentimes sticketh amongst them and causeth those greivous pains Gripings and wamblings of the belly and if taken in too great quantity it causeth blood to come forth like vertue it hath if it be boyled or laid to soke in honied water or any other liquor and after given to be drunken it profiteth much against all cold dangerous sicknesses Giddiness of the head pain to fetch breath the Cholick looseness of the Sinews and places out of joynt for all the same purposes it may be put into clisters and suppositories that are put into the fundament the oyl wherein Coloquintida hath been boyled being dropped into the Eares easeth the pain and singing thereof Coloquintida if administred by an unskilful hand is very dangerous and hurtful to the Stomack and Liver and troubleth the Bowells and entrails for remedy yee must put to the pulpe or pith of Coloquintida Gum-tragant and Mastick and after make it into trochis or balls with hony The Cornel-tree Names IT is called of some long Cherry or long Cherry-tree Descript The Cornel-tree sometimes groweth up to a reasonable bignesse like other trees and sometimes it is but low and groweth like to a shrub or hedge-bush as divers other small trees do the wood or timber of this tree is very hard the flowers are of a faint yellowish colour the fruit is very red and somewhat long almost like an Olive but smaller with a long little stone or kernel inclosed therein like the stone of an Olive-berry Place The Cornel-tree is in this Country to be found no where but in Gardens and Orchards where it is planted Time The Cornel-tree floureth betimes in March and afterward bringeth forth his leaves the fruit is ripe in August Government and Vertues The fruit of the Cornel-tree are cold dry and astringent under the dominion of Saturn the fruit eaten is good against the Lask and and bloody Flux Lask Bloody Flux Stomack and do strengthen weak and hot Stomacâ—s Wild-Cucumber Names IT is called also spirting Cucumber and the dryed juice of the root Elaterium Descript Wild Cucumber hath leaves somewhat round and rough but lesser and rougher then those of the Garden Cucumber the stalks be round and rough creeping along the ground without any claspers or holders upon which out of the hollowness of the branches or wings among the leaves grow short stems bearing a flower of a faint yellow colour after the flowers there come little rough Cucumbers of the bigness and length of ones thumb full of sap with a brown kernel which being ripe skippeth forth as soon as one touch the Cucumbers the root is white thick and great with many other small roots hanging to it the whole plant is of a very bitter tast but especially the fruit whereof the juice is dryed to be used in medicine and is called Elaterium Place It is in this Country found in Gardens only where it is planted but where it is once sown it cometh easily again every year Time These Cucumbers do flower in August and their fruit is ripe in September Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Mars the juice thereof is hot and dry in the second degree and of a resolving and cleansing nature the root is of the same nature but not so strong as the juice Elaterium taken in quantity of half a scruple driveth forth gross Flegm Flegm Choler Waterish humors Dropsie Breath Eyes Brain Head-ach Courses Squinancy Cholerick and especially all waterish humors so that it is singular good against the Dropsie and for them that are troubled with shortness of Breath the same allayed with sweet milk and snuffed up into the nose cleanseth the Eyes from the evil colour which remaineth after the Jaundise asswageâ—h head-ach and cleanseth the brain the same boyled in honied Wine and applied to the Matrix driveth down the Courses and Dead-birth Elaterium being outwardly applied with oyle or hony or the Gaul of an Ox helpeth the Squinancy and the swellings of the Throat the juice of the bark and root of wild Cucumber doth also purge Flegm and cholerick and waterish humors and is good for such as have or are inclinable to the Dropsie Dropsie but is not so strong in operation as the Elaterium the root of Wild Cucumber made soft or soked in Vinegar and laid to the place greived asswageth the pain and taketh away the swelling of the Gout Gout Tooth-ach Cold Tumors Imposthumes Scurffe Tetters Wheals Scars the Vinegar wherein it hath been boyled holden in the mouth easeth the pain in the Teeth the same laid to with parched Barly-meal dissolveth cold Tumors and applied with Turpentine it doth ripen break and open imposthumes the same made into powder and laid to with honey cleanseth scoureth and taketh away foul Scurviness spreading Tetters Manginess Pushes or Wheals red spots and all blemishes and Scars of the body the juice of the leaves dropped into the Eares takes away the pain of the same Danger If Elaterium be taken into the body in too great quantity unadvisedly or crude and uncorrected it much hurteth the inward parts and Gripes much the Belly in the time of its operation Remedy To correct it and take away it 's griping quality that it may do no hurt let it be given with Mede or sweet milk a little Salt and Anniseed or give it in powder with a little Anniseed Gum-tragacanth and Salt Cypress-tree Names IT hath no other name in English but this tree is called Cupressus in Latine and the Nuts or fruit thereof Nuces Cupressi in English Cypres-nuts Descript The Cypresse-tree hath a thick straight long stem upon which grow many slender branches the which do not spread abroad but grow up in length towards the top so that the Cypress tree is not broad but narrow growing to a great height the bark of the Cypress-tree is brown the timber yellowish hard thick and close and when it is dry of a pleasant smell especially if it be set near the fire the Cypress-tree hath no particular leaves but the branches instead of leaves bring forth short twigs green and small divided again into other small twigs the which be cut and snipt in many places as if they were set about with many small leaves the fruit is round almost as big as a prune or plum which being ripe doth open in divers places and hath in it a flat grayish seed Place The Cypress-tree delights in dry Hilly and mountanous places in hot Countries Time The Cypress-tree is alwayes green the fruit is ripe in September at the beginning of winter Government
Calefar and in some place Chanque Government and Virtues The Cloves are under the solar influence of temperature hot dry in the third degree they comfort the Head â—nd Heart Head Heart Liver stomack Wind Vrine strengthen the Liver and Stomack and all â—nward parts that want heat they help digestion â—reak Wind and provoke Urine the Portugal Women use to distill the Cloves while they are fresh which make a sweet and delicate water profitable for â—ll passions of the Heart and weakness of the Stomack China-root Descript THe root called China-root is like to the root of a great Reed some flattish others round not smooth but bunched and knotty reddish for the most part on the outside and whitish and sometimes a little reddish in the inside the best is solid and firm and somewhat waighty fresh and not worm-eaten and without any tast but as it were drying the plant of the root groweth up with many prickly branches like unto Sarsaparilla or the prickly Bind-weed winding it self about trees and hath many leavs growing on them like broad Plantain leavs the roots grow sometimes many together and while they are fresh the Indians eat them as we do Turneps or Carrots Place This plant groweth not only in China but also in Mallabar Cochin and divers other places there Government and Vertues It is a plant of Jupiter and the properties therof are many and of great use with us in divers cases in diet drinks for the French-Pox French-pox it is profitable in all Agues Agues Heckticks Quotidian Intermittent or pestilential Heckticks and Consumptions Consumptions it helps the evil disposition of the Liver pains of Head Head and Stomack Stomack and strengthneth it It dryes up the defluxions of Rheums helps the Jaundies Jaundies and burstings Burstings in Children or others by drying up the humor which is the cause therof It also helps the Palsie Palsie Gout and all other diseases of the joints and bladder the Gout Sciatica Sciatica Nods Pocky-nods and Ulcers of the Yard Yard Lust and is good in all cold and Melancholy diseases It stirreth up Venery it may be taken several wayes as being boyled first slic'd thin and steeped a good while in water onely or with Wine and water some boyl it in the broth of a chicken tyed up in Linnen cloth and to take from a quarter to half an ounce or more at a time as the quantity of drink oâ— broth is or as the party can bear Cinnamon and Cassia Lignea Descript THe Cinnamon-tree is described to be a great Tree about the bigness of the Olive-tree with many straight branches without knots covered with a double bark like the Cork whose inner rind is to Cinnamon and is so barked every third year and being cut in long peeces oâ— if it were the bark of the whole tree is cast on the ground wherein dry it it is rouled together as we see it and is better or worse blacker or betteâ— coloured by the greater or lesser heat of the Sun the leaves are of a fresâ— green colour like those of the Cittron-tree the flowers are white and the fruit black and round like hasel-nuts or small Olives the best groweth in Zeland having leaves like Willowes and fruit like unto bay-berries whereof there is made an oyl As concerning the Cassia several Authors do write that Cinnamon and Cassia is one and the same tree and that the variety and difference of the Soyl where they grow makes the difference onely but we daily see that the Cassia which cometh to us is the bark of a tree and either roul'd together like Cinnamon or not roul'd but in small or great smooth peeces and therefore may be conceived to be a sort of Cinnamon yet the tast being Glutinous lesse sharp and quick and more stiptick then Cinnamon argueth it to be the bark of another sort of tree although of the same kind and nature Pliny lib. 12 cap. 29. saith that Cassia which groweth where Cinnamon doth is a shrub of three cubits high but on the hills whose thick branches have their bark unto leather which must be emptied or hollowed in a contrary manner unto that of Cinnamon for being cut into sticks of two cubits long they are sewed into fresh beasts skins that the worms may eat out the wood and leave the bark whole by reason of the sharpness and bitterness the three sorts of colour therein sheweth their goodness That which is white for a foot high next the ground is the worst the next thereunto for half a foot is reddish which is next in goodness from thence upward which is blackish and the best and is to be chosen fresh of a mild scent and of a very sharp tast rather than biting of a purplish colour light in waight and with a short pipe not easily broken so that we may see plainly that Cassia differeth not much from Cinnamon and yet that it is differing from it Government and Virtues Cinnamon is under the dominion of Jupiter it is of temperature hot and dry in the second degree of very subtile parts and very Aromatical it is very Cordial it comforteth the Heart and strengthneth a weak Stomack Heart stomack it easeth the pains of the Cholick Cholick Vrine especially the distilled water of it the stopping of Urine and it stayes the superabounding flux of Womens Courses Terms Face it causeth a good colour in the Face makes a sweet breath Breath Poison and good against the poison of venemous beasts it is much used to stay looseness Looseness and binde the body the distilled water thereof is most effectual but the Chymical oyle thereof is much more hot and piercing Cocculus Indus Names Description and Vertues THe Italians call these berries or round seed Cocco di levante and the French call them so likewise they are of a blackish Ash-colour on the outside having a thick white kernel within them of a hot tast drawing water into the mouth and grow many together like Ivy-berries yet each by it self on a stalk some thinking them to grow upon a kind of night shade others on a kind of Tithymal or Spurge they are used either to make bates to catch fish with things for that purpose or the powder thereof used to kill Lice and Vermine in in Childrens Heads Costus THere are to be had in our Druggists and Apothecaries Shops two sorts of Costus far differing the one from the other both in form and substance the vertues of the true Costus are these It provokes Urine Vrine Courses and Womens Courses and helps diseases of the Mother Mother Convulsions aswel by bathing as suming two ounces thereof being drunk helpeth the biting of Vipers and is good against pains of the Breast Convulsions or the windy Stirches Stitches Stomack swellings in the Stomack Sides or Body being taken in Wormwood-Wine sciatica sinews and being taken with sweet Wine
Austria and in some dark Woods in Italy some curious Herbarists plant it in their Gardens Time The seed hereof is ripe in September Government and Vertues Double-tongue or tongue blade is good to asswage pain as Galen saith the Laurel of Alexandria is hot and dry of temperature Double-tongue is an herb of Venus the leaves-and roots thereof are much commended against Swellings Swellings of the Throat Throat Vvula the Vvula and kernels under the tongue and against Ulcers and Sores of the same being taken in a Gargarism Marcellus saith that in Italy they use to hang this herb about childrens necks that are sick in the Vvula Vrine Terms and Dioscorides writeth that if it be worn upon the bare Head it is good for the Head-ach Headach Mother this herb is good for diseases of the Mother and a spoonful of the leaves of Double-tongue given causeth the strangled Matrix to descend down to its natural place The root of Laurel of Alexandria boyled in Wine and drunken helpeth the Strangury Strangury provoketh Urine Vrine and Womens natural sickness procures Easie-delivery Easy-delivery expelleth the Secondine and all corruption of the Matrix Garden Dragons Dragon-wort and Water Dragons Kinds and Names THere be three kinds the first is called the great Dragon Dracunculus Major of some Serpentaria and Colubrina in shops Serpentaria Major The second kind is called Dracunculus Minor in Latine the lesser Dragon and of some Aron maculatum in English small Dragon-wort and speckled Aron The third kind is called in Latine Dracunculus palustris sine aquatilis in English Water-Dragon or Marsh-Dragon in low dutch Water-Draken-wortel Descript The first kind called the great Dragon or Serpentary beareth an upright stalk of a cubit long or more thick round-smooth and speckled with divers colours and spots like to an Adder or Snakes skin the leavs be great and large compact or made of six seaven or more leaves whereof each single leaf is long and like to a sorrel or Dock-leaf and are very smooth and plain at the top of the stalk groweth a long hose or husk like to the hose or Cod of Cuckow-pintle or Wake-robin of a greenish colour without and of a dark red or purple colour within and so is the clapper or pestle that groweth up within the said husk which is long and thick and shart-pointed peeked like to a horn whose fruit by increase waxeth so as it stretcheth and at length breaketh out of a certain skin or Film and appeareth like to a bunch or cluster of Grapes which at the first are green but afterwards become very red these berries or Grapes are full of juice or liquor in which is a certain small hard seed the root of this Dragon is lasting thick and white and groweth like to a Bulbous Onion covered with a thin skin and of the quantity of a middle-siz'd apple and bearded with divers little white hairs or strings and oftentimes there is joyning to it other small roots which spring out of it whereby it is multiplied 2. The smaller Dragon in his leaves husk or Cod pestil or clapper berry and Grape is like unto Aron or Cuckow-pintle saving that his leaves are not marked with black but with white spots neither do they perish so soon as Cuckow-pintle but they grow together with their berries until Winter Their berries also are not fully so red but of a certain yellowish red the root is not much unlike the root of Aron white and round like an Onion and hath certain hairy threds hanging by it with some small roots or buds of new plants 3. Water-Dragon hath not a round Bulbous root like the other Dragons but it is a long creeping root full of joints and of a good thickness out of which joints springeth up the stalks of the leaves which are smooth without and spongy within but downwards towards the ground the said roots send out of their said joints certain small hairy or threddy roots the fruit groweth alone upon a short stem and cometh forth with one of the leaves compassed about with white small thrommes or threds at the first which is the blowing and afterward it groweth forth into a cluster which is green at first and waxeth red when it is ripe smaller then Grapes or cluster of Cuckow-pintle berries but as sharp or biting the leaves be large green fine smooth fashioned like Ivy leaves yet smaller than the leaves of Cuckow-pintle but that leaf wherein the cluster of berries groweth is smallest of all and on the upper part or side next the fruit it is white Place The first or great Dragon-wort groweth in shadowy places in this Country it is planted in Gardens 2. The second kind or lesser Dragon-wort delighteth also in shadowy places it groweth not in England but it is found plentifully in the Islands called Majorca and Minorca 3. The third kind groweth in moist watry places in the brinks of ditches and also in floating waters and also along the running streams and Rivers Time They flower in July and the fruit is ripe in August Government and Virtues All these herbs are under the dominion of Mars and are all especially their roots and fruits hot and dry in the third degree The roots of these plants either boyled or rosted and mingled with honey Short-Breath and taken as a Lohoc is good for them that cannot fetch their breath for those who are troubled with dangerous Coughs Coughs Catharrs and Catharrs that is the distillation and falling down of humors from the Brain to the Breast and against Convulsions Convulsions or Cramps Cramps they divide ripen and consume all grosse and tough humors and scoure off and cleanse the inward parts They have the like power when they are three or four times boyled untill they have lost their Acrimony or sharpness to be afterwards eaten with meats as Galen saith The roots dried and mingled with hony scoureth malignant fretting Ulcers Vlcers Spots that are hard to cure especially if it he mingled with the root of Briony and it taketh away all white Spots and Scurviness from any part of the body that is rubbed therewith the juice of the root putteth away all Webbs Manginess Web and Spots from the Eyes and it is good to be put into Collyries and medicines made for the Eyes the same dropped into the Eares with Oyl taketh away the pain Eyes Pained-Eares and grief of the same The fruit or berries of Dragons cureth virulent and malignant Malignant Ulcers Vlcers Polypus and consumeth and eateth away the superfluous flesh called Polypus which groweth in the nose and it is good to be laid unto Cankers Cankers and such fretting and consuming Ulcers Some write as Pliny amongst the rest of his Romantick fancies that those who carry about them the leaves or roots of great Dragon-worts cannot be bitten or hurt of Vipers or Serpents Dunch-down Names IT is called Dunch-down
four foot high sometimes more and sometimes less the winged leaves are somewhat narrower than those of the Elder but else very like it the flowers are white with a dash of purple standing in Vmbells like those of the Elder but more sweet in smell after which come small blackish berries full of juice while they are fresh wherein there lie small hard kernels or seed the root doth creep under the upper crust of the ground springing a fresh in divers places about the bigness of ones finger Jagged Dwarff-Elder Descript 8. THis is called in Latine Ebulus foliis laciniatis there can be known no difference between this and the other save onely in the leaves which do so deform the whole face of the plant that none almost would think it should belong to the former the flowers fruit and smell onely leading us to Judge of the Species the leaves are almost Jagged as much as the jagged Elder wherein consists the only difference in this from the former The Place and Time Common Elder groweth very frequently in hedges and in many places it is planted to serve for hedges and partitions for grounds and Gardens especially about London where the Gardeners plant it not onely to serve in their grounds but for the annual profit it yeeldeth both for the green buds flowers and fruit and it is planted likewise in many places where Coneys breed for shadow every stick or branch being thrust into the ground will easily take root and grow The second it is said was first found by Tragus in the Woods of Germany The third is found wild on Hills in watry Woods The fourth is only found planted in the Gardens of the Curious The fifth is found by watersides and Moorish places in Germany France England Italy and Peidmont in Savoy as Pena saith The sixt is nursed up onely in Gardens but best delighteth in moist Grounds The seventh groweth Wild in many places of England where if it be once gotten into a Ground it will so creep and spread it self under the upper crust of the earth that is will hardly be gotten out again The last is as yet a stranger in England The Time The common Elder shoots forth his buds early in the year-in the beginning of January if the weather be mild all or most of the Elders flower in June but the Danewort somewhat late as his fruit likewise is later ripe even not untill September but the others are ripe for the most part at the middle or latter end of August Government and Vertues In the judgement of Culpepper about the planetary dominion of these plants he much mistakes himself saying that both Elder and Walwort were under Venus but they are numbred amongst the violent purgers and of a heating and drying quality quite contrary to the nature of Venus as also their rank smell demonstrates I do therefore attribute them to the dominion of Mars in Scorpio both Galen and also Dioscorides do attribute to the Walwort aswell as to the common Elder for they account their properties both one a hot and dry temperature purging watry humors abundantly but not without trouble to the Stomack the first shoots of the common Elder boyled like unto Sparagus and the young leaves and stalks boyled in fat broth draweth forth mightily Choler and tough Flegm Choler Flegm the tender leaves also eaten with oyl and salt doth the same the middle or inner bark boyled in Water and given to drink worketh much more violently and the berries also either green or dry expell the same humors and is often given with good successe to help the Dropsie by evacuating great plenty of watrish humors Watry humors the bark of the root also boyled or the juice therof drunk worketh the same effects but more powerfully than do either the leaves or fruit the juice of the root taken provoketh Vomiting Vomit Dropsie mightily and purgeth the watry humors of the Dropsie the same decoction of the root cureth the biting of the Viper Viper Adder or Adder as also of a Mad-dog Mad-dog Mother and mollifieth the hardness of the Mother if Women sit therein and openeth the Veins and bringeth down their Courses Courses Hair made black Eyes inflamed Burning the berries boyled in Wine perform the same effects the hair of the Head or other parts washed therewith is made black the juice of the green leaves applied to hot inflamations of the Eyes asswageth them the leaves boyled until they be tender and then beaten and mixed with Barly-meal and applied to hot inflamations asswageth them and helpeth Burning Burning Scalding Sealding Fistula's Vlcers cureth Fistula's Ulcers being laid thereupon and easeth the pains of the Gout Gout Brain being beaten and boyled with tallow of a Bull or a Goat laid theron the juice of the leave snuffed up into the nostrills purgeth the Tunicles of the Brain the juice of the berries boyled with a little hony and dropped into the Eares Eares pained easeth the pains of them the decoction of the berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine Provoke Vrine to make lean the powder of the seeds first prepared in Vinegar and then taken in Wine Wind Chollick half a dram at a time for certain daies together is a means to abate fat and keep the body lean the berries so prepared and asmuch white Tartar and a few Anniseeds put unto them a dram of this powder given in Wine cureth the Dropsy humor Dropsie humors very gently purging the dry flowers are very often used in the decoctions of Glisters to expell Wind and easeth the Chollick for they lose their purgeing quality which they have being green and retain an attenuating and digesting property being dried The distilled water of the flowers is of much use to clear the skin from Sunburning Sunburning Freckles Freckles Morphew Morphew or the like and saith Mathiolus the Head being bathed therewith it taketh away all manner of Head-ach Head-ach that cometh of a cold cause The Vinegar made of the flowers of Elder by maceration and insolation is grateful to the Stomack Stomack and of great power and effect to quicken the Appetite and helpeth to cut grosse or tough Flegm Flegm hot in the chest a sirrup of Vinegar made thereof will work more effectually for these purposes the leaves boyled and laid hot upon any hot and painful Aposthumes Aposthumes especially in the more remote and sinewy parts doth both cool the heat and inflamation of them and ease the pains the distilled water of the inner bark of the tree or of the root is very powerful to purge the watry humors of the Dropsie Dropsie Tympany Burning or Tympany taking it fasting and two hours before Supper Mathiolus prescribeth a Receipt hereof to help any Burning or Scalding Scalding which is made in this manner viz. Take saith he one pound of the inner bark of the Elder
with clothes dispose themselves for sweating But this is onely to be done in the beginnings of Feavers and in such bodies as are not full of grosse and corrupt humors otherwise it is more safe to open the passages of the whole body by Emeticks and Catharticks The purified oyl expressed out of the kernels of the berries is commended in strong and lusty bodies one dram or a dram and an half thereof being taken in the broth of flesh for it gently moveth Vomiting and loosneth the Belly The oyl made of the infused flowers and bark of the Elder from one ounce to three provokes Vomit and purgeth the Belly the same alone or in a decoction may be given in a Glister In young ones the syrrup of the juice of the berries of the buds or bark sufficeth There are some which testifie and call experience to witness that if the middle bark of Elder be pulled downward from the tree it purgeth the body downwards but if they be pulled upward it worketh by Vomit In such Feavers which are lengthened from the stopping or fullness of the Meseraick Veins and from the grosseness and toughness of the humor Oxymel Sambucinum dissolved in the distilled water of the flowers or Barly-water and dayly on the intermitting dayes drank an hour or two before supper is commended the Crystallized salt of the Elder taken from half a scruple to a whole one is profitable also six drops of the Spirit of the fame taken in the broth of flesh all these do powerfully open obstructions and cut asunder the grossenesse and roughnesse of the humor they cleanse the Bowells and Vessels and both by Urine and Sweat dissipate the Feaverish matter In the time of the Fit give the patient a spoonful or a dram and a half of the oyle pressed out of the berries-kernells in warm Ale the rob of Elder in greatness of a Walnut being mixed with half a dram of the powder of Carduus benedictus and swallowed and drinking Vinegar above it and afterwards provoking sweat in bed is a very good medicine In continual and hot burning Feavers where the heat is more intense and great drought tormenteth the Patient make this Julap Take of Fountain or River-water three pounds of Elder Vinegar three ounces of the finest Sugar two ounces let them boyl together a little in a fit Vessel unto which being warm add an ounce of Cinnamon in powder let them cool of themselves in a close Vessel and strain them for a Julap of which give the Patient oft in a day it extinguisheth the Feaverish heat cuts the grosse and tough matter cleanseth the thin and Bilous opens obstructions it purgeth the peccant humors and by its acidity sharpneth the appetite and refresheth the strength Of Worms The Crystalline salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from Worms it robs them of their nourishment kills them and purgeth them out the dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or two scruples for those of riper years you may prepare in the Spring time a dish made of Elder-buds freed from their bitter nauseous tast by the infusion of boyling water with Oyl Salt and Vinegar which is to be used as a sallad before supper That this sallad may be the more pleasant you may add some tender leaves of Sorrel Briefly whatsoever I have here said in relating the properties of the Elder the Dwarff-Elder doth more strongly effect in opening and purging Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout the Piles and Womens diseases it coloureth the hair black helpeth inflamations in the Eyes and pains in the Eares the biting or stinging of Venemous creatures or a mad Dog the Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water the Wind Chollick the Chollick and Stone difficulty of Urine the cure of old sores and Fistulous Ulcers the Dropsie and Gout and all the other griefs before specified Eglantine Name IT is also called Sweet-bryar Descript Eglantine or Sweet-bryar is much like the Wild Rose plant having very sharp prickles shutes springes and rough branches the leaves also be not much unlike but larger and of a pleasant smell the flowers be single smaller than the flowers of the Wild Rose most commonly white and sometimes red after which there come also little knaps or long red berries like as in the other Roses wherein the seed is contained Place The Eglantine aswell as the manured Roses is planted in Gardens if it be set against a wall under a Window it will cast a most pleasant smell into the room and so will the branches thereof being set in flower-pots in Windows and Chimneys in the Summer Months Time Eglantine flowers in May and June about the time the Garden-Roses doe Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the fruit is of an astringent quality It stoppeth the Lask Lask and all other issues of blood Bloody-Issues being eaten There is a rough Spongeous ball or Excrescence that groweth on the Wild Rose bush and also on the Eglantine which is of great efficacy and virtue against the Stone Stone and Strangury strangury It bringeth forth the Gravel and Stone and provoketh Urine Vrine White Ellebore Names IT is also called Hellebore and Neese-wort Veratrum album in Latine and Helleborus albus Descript The White Ellebore hath great broad leaves with ribs or Sinews like the leaves of the great Plantain or Gentian the stalk is round two or three foot high at the uppermost part whereof grow along and round about the top the flowers one above another pale of colour divided into six little leaves the which have a green line overthwart the flowers being passed away there cometh in their places small husks wherin the seed is contained the root is round as thick as a mans finger or thumb white both within and without having many threddy strings appending unto it Place White Ellebore or Hellebore groweth in Anticyra neer about the Mountain Octa and in Cappodocia and Syria but the best groweth in Cyrene in this Country the Herbarists plant it in their Gardens Time White Ellebore flowereth in June and July Government and Virtues The root of White Ellebore is hot and dry in the third degree a plant of Mars The root causeth one to Vomit up mightily and with great force all superfluous slimy Venemous and naughty humors Slimy-humors likewise it is good against the Falling-sickness Falling-sickness Frenzies Frenzy Head-ach Melancholy old pains in the Head Melancholy the Gout Gout Sciatica and Sciatica all sorts of Dropsies Poison and against all cold diseases that he hard to cure and will not yield to any medicine But it ought not to be given to any body to be taken inwardly but from a skilful hand and with good advice and due preparation and correcting Galen adviseth not to give of this root in any medicine to be taken into the body but to be used only in outward applications Therefore Outwardly it is good
of each equal parts mix them well together and put it into the middle of a loaf and bake it well then take of the inner crum of that loaf and make small pills thereof which be singular good against Weakness and debility caused by the French-Pox French-Pox and all pains of the Limbs 3. Another way is Take Euphorbium and Mastick of each equall partâ— and make pills thereof with the juice of Citrons or Orenges which pills are much commended against the Pestilence Pestilence Euphorbium being well corrected and prepared purgeth downward tough cold and slimy Flegm Flegm Choler drawing the same unto it self from the remote parts of the body and also purgeth Choler it is very good against the old and continual Headach Head-ach Palsie the Palsie Cramp weakness that followes after the French-Pox Pain of the Sinews Cramp French-Pox Sinews and extream parts and is good against the Pestilence and such like contagious diseases A plaister made of Euphorbium with oyl and wax is singular good against all Aches and pains of the Joints Lameness Aches Lameness Palsies Cramps and shrinking of Sinews Palsie Sinews the same being mingled with oyl of Bayes and Bears-grease cureth Scurff and Scabbs of the Head Baldness Scurff Scald-Head Baldness and causeth the Hair to grow again and it will also cause the Beard to grow if the Chin be anointed therewith The same mingled with Oyl and stroked or laid upon the Temples is good against Drowsiness and doth awaken and quicken the Spirits of such as are subject to the Lethargy Lethargy Apoplexies Speech-lost Leprosie and if it be applied to the Nape of the Neck it restoreth the speech again to such as have lost it by reason of the Apoplexy or other sickness and being mingled with Vinegar and applied it takes away foul and ill favored spots of the body the Leprosie Leprosie scurff and skoles of the skin Fenugreek Names IT is called in shops in Latin Foenum Graecum which is as much as to say Greek-hay Descript Fenugreek groweth up with tender stalks round blackish hollow and full of branches the leaves are devided into three parts like the leaves of Trefoil or the three-leaved grasse the flowers be pale whitish and like the flowers of Lupines but smaller after the flowers are faded or fallen away there follow after them long Cods or husks crooked and sharp pointed wherein is a yellow seed the root is full of small hanging hairs Place It groweth not in this Country but in the Gardens of some Herbarists Time It flowereth in July and the seed is ripe in August Government and Virtues Fenugreek-seed is hot in the second degree and dry in the first under the influence of the planet Mercury the seed which is to be had at our Druggists and Apothecaries shops is only used in medicines The decoction or broth of the seed drunk with a little Vinegar Ill-humors expelleth and purgeth forth all evill and superfluous humors which cleave or stick fast to the Bowells The same decoction first made with Dates and afterwards made into the substance of a syrrup with hony doth mundifie and cleanse the Breast Breast Chest Chest and Lungs Lungs and is good for all griefs and diseases of the Breast so that the Patient be not troubled with a Feaver or the Head-ach for such a syrrup is hurtful to the Head and to them that have Agues Fenugreek is of a softning and dissolving nature and therefore the Meal thereof being boyled in Mede or honied water doth consume soften and dissolve hard Swellings Swellings and Imposthumes Imposthumes and a paste made thereof with Salt-Peeter and Vinegar doth soften and wast the hardness and Swelling of the Spleen It is good for Women that have either Imposthume Ulcer or stopping in the Matrix Spleen Matrix to bathe and sit in the decoction thereof and a suppository made of the juice thereof and put up into the neck of the Matrix doth mollifie and soften all hardness thereof or in the natural place of Conception the decoction of Fenugreek is good to wash the head withall to take away the scurffe thereof Scales Nits and dandriffe Dandriffe Scurffe Scales Nits The same applied with Brimstone and Hony drives away Pushes pimples wheales and spots in the Face heales all Manginess and Itch Pushes Pimples Itch. and helpeth the rank and stinking smell of the Arm-pits The seed of Fenugreek being prepared as the Lupines may be eaten and then they loose the belly gently The Fig-tree Kinds and Names OF these there is the wild Fig-tree and the Garden Fig-tree The Garden Fig-tree is called in Latine Ficus Sativa and the fruit Ficus or a Fig The wild Fig-tree is called Ficus Silvestris and Caprificus the dry Fig is called in Latin Carica the fruit of the Fig-tree which never cometh to ripeness is called in Latin grossus and of some Erineus Descript The Garden Fig-tree groweth with many branches full of pith within like the stalks of Elder covered over with a smooth plain bark or rind the leaves be great and large of a blackish green and for the most part divided into five parts at the top of the branches grow the fruit the which is round and long fashioned like Pears sweet and full of small kernells or graines Before the fruit be ripe if it be hurt or scarified there cometh a sap or juice like milk but being through-ripe the juice is like to Hony Place The Fig-trees are plentifull in Spain and Italy In this Country they are planted in Gardens but they must be set in warm places that stand well in the Sun and defended from the North and North-East Winds Time The Fig-trees in this Country are late before they put forth their leaves it being in May the fruit is ripe about the end of Summer Government and Vertues Figs are under the Government of Jupiter the green Figs new gathered are a little warm somewhat moist the dry Figs are hot almost in the second degree and of subtil parts the milky juice of Figs is hot and dry almost in the third degree and also sharp and biting the leaves have also some sharpness with an opening power but not so strong as the juice The new gathered Figs nourish more than the other fruits and they loose the belly gently but they ingender Windiness Belly Windiness heat Thirst they abate heat and quench thirst but eaten in too great a quantity hurt and weaken the Stomack the dry Figs do nourish better then the green or new Figs yet they ingender no very good blood those that feed much upon Figs become Lousie thereby as some say Figs eaten before meat do loose the Belly and are good for the Kidneys Kidneys for they drive forth Gravel and Vrine Gravel Urine they provoke sweat Sweat and by the same means they send forth Corrupt Corrupt and stinking humors
humors wherefore they may very well be given to young Children that are sick of the Small-pox Small-Pox and Wheals or Measels Measells for they bring them quickly forth without any danger they be good also for the Throat Throat Lungs Lungs and Cough Cough and those that are short Winded they ripen Flegm Flegm and cause the same to be easily spit out whether they be eaten raw or rosted or sodden with Hysop and Licoris and the decoction drunk The decoction of Figs in water is good to be drunk of those that have taken hurt by squats or bruises Bruises of or by falls Falls from high they disperse and scatter clotted Clotted and congealed blood bloud and asswage or slake the pain An Electuary made with Figs Salt Rue and Walnuts is an Antidote against all Poison and corruption of the Air. This was the preservative which Mithridates King of Pontus used against the Plague Plague Pestilence and against all Poison Poison Venome Venome The decoction of Figs gargariz'd or holden in the mouth is good against the sharpness and hoarseness Hoarseness of the Throat and also against Swellings swellings and Impostumations Imposthumes of the Mouth Throat Almonds of the Throat and Jawes and Swelling of the Tongue Figs are also good to be kept in the Mouth against Swellings and Ach and pain of the Teeth Teeth Gums Gums and Jawes Jaws being outwardly applied with Wheaten-Meal they do soften and ripen boiles Boiles Imposthumes and Phlegmons that is hot and angry Swellings Swellings and Tumors Tumors behind the Eares especially if there be put to it Linsâ—ed and Fenugreek and if Lilly roots be mixed with it and applied pultis-wise it will ripen and break Plague-Sores Plague Sores Imposthumes Buboes Buboes and Botches Botches Figs sodden in Wormwood Wine with Barly-meal is good to be applied as a Pultis or Plaister upon the Bellies of those that have the Dropsie Dropsie Figs and Mustard-seed being pounded very well together and outwardly applied amend the Hearing Hearing help Deafness and take away the ringing noise Noise or sound in the Eares Eares the dry Figs have power to dissolve consume and make subtill and may very well be used both inwardly and outwardly the leaves of the Fig-tree do wast and consume way the Kings-Evill Kings-Evil or Swelling kernels in the Throat and mollisie and wast all other Tumors being beaten small and applied thereunto The milky juice of Figs is good against all roughness of the skin Skin Leprosies Leprosie spreading Sores Sores Tetters Tetters Small-pox Measells Pushes Freckles Lentiles and other such like spots Spots and Scurviness both of the body and Face being laid thereto with parched Barly-meal and being mixed with sat or grease it taketh away Warts Warts if they be anointed therewith It cureth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach if you dip a little Cotton in the said Milk and lay it to the Tooth or make a pellet thereof and put it into the Tooth if it be hollow It openeth the Veins of the Hemerrhoids Hemerrhoids and looseth the Belly being laid to the fundament the leaves have the same vertue being used for a suppository being mixed with the Meal of Fenugreek and Vinegar it giveth ease in the hot Gout the same juice is good to pour into Wounds made by the biting of Mad-dogs Mad-dog the Ashes of the Fig-tree mixed with oyle of Roses and Wax cureth burnings Burnings and the Lye that is made of the ashes of the fig healeth festred and foul fretting Sores Sores if they be washed therewith Fistick-Nuts Names THese Nuts are called in shops Pistacia Pistacies Fistici and Fistick-nuts Descript The Tree that heareth the Fistick-nuts hath long great leaves spread abroad consisting of five seven or more leaves growing one against another all along a reddish rib or sinew whereof the last which is alone at the top of the leaf is the greatest and largest the fruit of this tree is much like to small Hazel-nuts and like the kernells of the Pine-apple in which lyeth the kernel or nut Place This tree is a stranger in this Country it groweth in Syria and other hot Eastern Countries Government and Virtues Fistick-nuts are under the influence of Jupiter they are of a mean or temperate heat and somewhat astringent Fisticks are good to open stoppings and obstructions of the Liver and also they strengthen the same they he also good for the Stomack they also open the pipes of the Lungs Liver Lungs and Breast Breast stomack and are good against shortness of Breath Lungs Breath the Tissick Tissick and painful fetching of Breath to be eaten either alone or with Sugar Dioscorides saith that Fistick nuts given in Wine are a good medecine against the bitings or stingings of Venemous beasts Flax. Names IT is called Linum in Latine by which name it is well known in shops it is called also Lin whence the Cloth that is made thereof is called Linnen-cloth and the seed is called Linseed the oyl which is pressed out of the same seed is called Linseed-oyle Descript Flax hath a tender stalk covered with sharp narrow leaves parted at the top into small short branches the which bringeth forth fair blew flowers when the flowers are fallen away there cometh in their stead round knaps or buttons in which is contained a blackish seed large fat and shining Place Flax is sown in this Couuntry in fat and fine Ground and in low moist fields it delights to grow in Time Flax floureth in May and June and is ripe soon after Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the seed of Flax which is onely used in medecine is of temperature hot in the first degree and temperate in moisture and driness The seed called Linseed being boyled in water and applied in manner of a pultis or plaister asswageth all pains softneth cold Tumors or Swellings the Imposthumes of the Eares and Neck and of other parts of the body Linseed pounded with Figs doth ripen and break Imposthumes and boyles Pains Imposthumes swelling Eares Boyles being laid thereon and draweth forth thorns and all other things that stick fast in the body iâ— it be mingled with the root of Wild Cucumer The same seed mingled with hony and Cresses and laid unto rough rugged and il-favored Nailes aswell of the hands as the Feet cleanseth them that be corrupt and cureth the party Nailes Spots in the Face Old Sores Vlcers Sight Belly Gripings Bowells Matrix Cough Heckick Feavers the same seed being pounded and laid to the Face cleanseth and taketh away all Spots and Freckles thereof The Wine wherein Linseed hath been boyled preserveth old Sores and Ulcers from corruption if they be washed therewith and from festering and inward rankling the water wherein Linseed hath been
coldness therof if the Belly be bathed therewith the same root made into powder closeth up and healeth old running Sores Sores of the Mouth and secret parts Secret parts although they eat and wast the flesh if it be strowed thereon or laid thereupon with Wine It is also a very good ingredient to be put into hot oyntments and maturative plaisters Pliny saith that the seeds of Galangal drunk with water stoppeth the Flux of the Belly Belly the overflowings or immoderat Flux of Womens Flowers Flowers but if it be taken in too great â— quantity it causeth Head-ach Galbanum Names THe plant out of which the Gum Galbanum cometh is called by Pliny Stagonitis Descript Galbanum is a gum or liquor drawn forth of a plant in Syria called Metopium the best is gristly between hard and soft very pure fat close and firm without any stalks and splinters of wood amongst it saving a few seeds of a strong savor not too moist nor too dry Place The plant out of which Galbanum cometh doth grow upon the Mountain called Amanus in Syria Government and Vertues Gum-Galbanum is hot almost in the third degree and dry almost in the second a plant of Jupiter Galbanum is good against an old Cough Cough and for such as are Tissical Tyssick or short-Winded and cannot easily draw their Breath Breath but are subject to panting it is very good for those that are bruised Bruises inwardly and against Cramps Cramps and shrinking of Sinews Sinews-shrunk the same drunken with Wine and Myrrhe is a very good counter-Poison against any Venome taken into the body or shot received by poisoned Poison Darts or Arrows to be taken in the same manner it provokes the Terms Terms and driveth forth the Dead-birth Dead-birth it hath the same vertue if it be conveyed as a Peâ—ary into the secret Parts Secret parts or the fume thereof received up into the Matrix and the quantity of a Nut thereof given in a glass of Wine helpeth the painful travail of Women and causeth easie Delivery Eâ—sie Delivery The perfume of Galbanum doth help Women that are troubled with rising suffocation or Strangling of the Mother and them that have the Falling-sickness and being laid to the Navel it causeth the Matrix that is removed to settle in its proper place Galbanum doâ—h mollifie and soften and draweth forth thorâ—es Thorns Splinters Splinters or slivers and discusseth and disperseth cold humors and is very good to be laid upon cold Tumors Cold Tumors and Swellings Swellings and is a proper substitute in all oyntments oyles and plaisters that have power or vertue to warm digest and dissolve to ripen and break Boyls and Imposthums Boyls Imposthumes and to draw out Thorns and Splinters It is good to be laid upon the side Sides against pains thereof and against hardness and Stoppings of the Spleen Spleen the same mixed with Nitre and Vinegar and applied is very good to take away Spots Spots and Freckles Freckles of the Face or any scurff or Morphew or other discolourings of the skin It is good to stop an hollow Tooth Tooth-ach to take away Ake and pain of the same It is also good to cleanse the Eares Eares of corrupt filth and running Running matter being mixed with oyle of Roses and dropped therein There is likewise by the Antients a more than ordinary yea a miraculous vertue ascribed to this Galbanum as may be found amongst the stupendious wonders of Pliny and the imaginary miracles of Mizaldus Albertus Magnus and many more that is to say that wheresoever this Gum is burned all manner of Serpents noisome and Venemons Creatures will presently fly away and dare not come with in the seent thereof and that no Venemous Creature whether it be a flying Insect creeping Serpent or Poisonous Beast whatsoever that is any wayes inimical to mankind have any power to hurt such as be anointed with this Galbanum And that those Venemous beasts or Serpents as be but touched with Galbanum mingled with oyle and the seed or root of Spondilium or Angelica it will cause them presently to dye The same is truly reported of the New-England and Virginia Snake-weed that it will kill those Rattle-Snakes if touched therewith or come within the scent of it and it is probable that the Galbanum in the Country where is groweth naturally those parts being much subject to be infested with those Venemous Creatures it may there work the same effects upon them Stock-Gillow-flowers Kinds and Names THere are found two kinds of these Gillow-flowers the one is great and called the Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower which may be kept both Winter and Summer the other is not so big and is called the small Stock-Gillow-flower which must be sown newly every Spring and bringeth forth his flower and seed the same year they are called Leucoion and Violae albae or white violets because the leaves be white but the leaves of the flowers for they be of divers colours late writers do call them violae matronâ—les or Dames Violets Descript These two kinds of Gillow-flowers are not much unlike Wall-flowers but that their leaves are whiter and softer The great Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower his leaves be hard and straight at the height of two or three foot with long narrow and soft leaves like Molleyn far greater longer and larger then the leaves of Wall-flowers or Yellow-Gillow-flowers the flowers be of a fragrant or pleasant smell much like to those of Harts-ease or Wall-flowers but much larger of colour sometimes white and sometimes Ash-câ—lour Carnation and sometimes inclining to Scarlet and sometimes purple or violet colour after which flowers there come long husks or Cods wherein the seed is contained being flat and large The small Stock-Gillow-flower is like to the great in his stalks and whitish woolly soft leaves also in the sweet smell and fragrant savor of his flowers in the diversity of colours in his Cods and seed saving that it is smaller in all respects not exceeding the length of a mans foot in height and perisheth every year after his seed is ripe Place These kinds of Gillow-flowers are sown and planted in Gardens in this Country they are hardly sound els-where Time The great Castel Gillow-flower floureth in March and Aprill the second year after it is sown but the smaller Stock-Gillow-flower yeeldeth its flowers in July and August the same year in which it is first sown Government and Virtues The Stock-Gillow-flowers are of temperature hot and dry and of nature somewhat like unto the Yellow-Gillow-flowers or Wall-flowers they are plants of Mercury The flower of the Stock-Gillow-flower boyled in water and drunk is good against difficulty of breathing and the Cough Difficulty of breathing Cough Courses sweat these flowers do likewise drive down Womens Courses and provoke Urine and a bath made of the decoction thereof
afterwards turn into small soft Cones like to Cypresse Nuts while they are close but longer than they made of many fine scales lying one upon another standing on a short stalk having seed in the inside of every scale formed like a small bird with two wings and a small sweet kernel within them like the Pine kernel the wood is very firm hard and close long in growing and long lasting It yieldeth forth a liquid Rozen being bored veâ—y clear and white which is called Venice Turpentine There is also found upon the bodies and great boughs thereof a kind of hard and dry Mushroom called Agarick Place and Time It groweth plentifully in the Woods by Trent and in many other places of Germany and between Germany and Italy It shooteth forth leaves in the Spring and the blossomes presently after and the fruit is ripe towards the latter end of Summer The Turpentine is gathered in the hottest time of the Summer but the Agarick about November and December Governments and Vertues The Larix-tree is under the dominion of Venus the leaves bark and fruit are of the same temperature as those of the Pine-tree the Turpentine thereof taken to the quantity of an ounce will gently open the belly provoke Urine and cleanse the Reines Kidneys Reines Kidneys and Bladder and helps to dissolve the Stone Bladder Stone and drive forth the Gravel and gives ease to those that have the Gout Gravel Gout if it be rouled up in Sugar and taken it helps the running of the Reins But pills most excellent for the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins may be made thereof in this manner Turpentine Pills for the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Take Turpentine-and wash it in Plaintain and rose-Rose-water then with the powder of white Amber red Corral Mastick and a little Camphire make it into Pills which are to be taken morning and Evening for certain dayes together It is good also for the Tissick and Consumption of the Lungs Tissick Lungs being taken with hony in an Electuary it expectorates tough flegm and helps those that are troubled with a continual Cough it is of excellent use also outwardly to be used as an ingredient amongst salves It doth both draw cleanse and heal all sores or Ulcers whether new or old and green Wounds the Chymical oyl drawn from Turpentine is more drying and consolidating than the Turpentine it self so that it is singular good to be used in Wounds Wounds Vlâ—ers and to warm and ease paines in the joints and sinews caused with cold and being mixed with oyl of St. Johns-wort it is singular good against Sprains Pains Sprains Wrinches and outward Bruises Bruises-freckles caused by falls or otherwise the parts being fomented This oyl being drank the quantity of twenty drops at a time in Ale or white Wine provokes Urine cleanseth and cureth all Ulcers and Sores in the Kidney Kidneys or Bladder Bladder or Uretory passages The water that is distilled with the oyl is good for freckles and spots in the Face A scruple in weight of that water taken in white Wine procureth a Vomit and giveth much ease to those whose Stomacks are overcharged with Flegm Agarick which is the Tuberous substance which groweth upon this tree is a good purging medicine and often used by it self but more commonly is mixed with other medicines of a purging quality to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen Liver Spleen and entrails it purgteh all vitious humors which offend the body It is usually corrected wich Ginger and given with Oxymel that is a sirrup made with Vinegar and Hony otherwise of it self it is apt to trouble the Stomack and cause Vomiting It purgeth thin and rotten tough flegm both yellow hard and black burnt Choller Flegm Choler from the Head and Brain Breast Lungs Head Lungs stomack Liver Stomack Liver and Spleen Spleen Gout and from the Reins joints Sinews and Muscles whereby it helpeth such as are troubled with the Gout Dropsie Falling-sickness Jaundise Chollick Dropsie Chollick Sciatica shortness of Breath Cough Consumption of the Lungs spitting of Blood paines of the Womb Blood Womb sharpness of Urine and the Wormes It is also helpful to cure all sorts of Agues Agues to ease griping pains of the Stomack and Belly and such as have had Falls and Bruises or are bursten-Bellied Half a dram or two scruples being taken in Wine either by the infusion or in powder is good against all poisons and bitings of Serpents The most usual way of preparing it for the other diseases before mentioned is to slice a dram and put it into a gentle purging decoction or an Infusion If it be boyled in Lye with other Cephalicks and the head washed therewith it comforteth the Brain Memory Brain Memory and giddinessof the Head and stayes Rhumes and Catarrhs and cleanseth it from scurff Rhumes Scurff and Dandriff Spurge-Laurel Names IT is also called Wild Laurel and in Latine Laureola Descript The Spurge Laurel springeth up usually but with one stem but sometimes with more very tough and pliant having a whitish thick tough bark branching forth into divers parts towards the tops whereon grow many long thick somewhat broad and shining dark green leaves longer smoother and softer than Bay-leaves and without any veins therein the flowers come forth towards the tops of the stalks and branches and at the joints with the leaves many set together which are somewhat long and hollow having four small leaves of a whitish yellow green colour after which come small round and somewhat long black berries when they are ripe wherein is contained a white kernell the root groweth deep into the ground and spreadeth with long white strings and is somewhat wooddy The leaves flower bark and root are very hot in tast burning the mouth and Throat of any that shall tast them the leaves continue green all the Winter Place Spurge Laurel groweth Wild in many places of this land particularly in Cobham Park in Kent Time It floureth very early as about January if the Winter be mild and the berries are ripe about June Government and Vertues Mars rules this plant both leaves and berries hereof are violent purges of a heating burning quality so that they inflame the throat and Stomack of whosoever shall take thereof yet being given advisedly and prepared by a skilful hand it cleanseth the Stomack of Flegm Flegm Terms both by purge and Vomit it driveth down Womens Courses and being chewed in the Mouth it draweth down much corrupt matter from the Head and brain if the leavs and berries when they are fresh be boyled in oyl and the oyle strained forth this oyle looseneth the belly and helpeth the Chollick the belly being anointed therewith it provokes Urine and helpeth the Piles some give the powder of the leaves in a little broth to ease the pains of the Chollick and purge forth watry humors in the Dropsie The
many growing close together each hanging on a long foot-stalk by it self with a notch or clift at the head or end thereof The wood hereof is harder more knotty and yellower then the Female Descript 2. Tilia foemina major The greater Female Line-tree groweth to be a larger tree then the former especially if it happen to be planted in good ground covered with a dark coloured bark the next thereunto being very pliable to bend and bind having some other thin rindes within it the leaves are fair broad greener smoother gentler rounder than Elm-leaves and with a longer end dented about the edges and of a reasonable good scent at the end of the branches oftentimes and at the foot of the leaves shoot forth long and narrow whitish leaves along the middle rib whereof springeth out a slender long stalk with divers white flowers thereon smelling very sweet after which follow small berries wherein is contained black round seed the wood is whitish smooth and light Descript 3. Tilia foemina minor The lesser Linden-tree is like the last in all things saving that it groweth smaller in body leaves and flowers the leaves are of a darker green colour and beareth no fruit after the flowers Place and Time The greater Female-kind is planted in many places in this land in pleasant Walks it making a large sweet shadow and usually flowreth in May. The other are great strangers and scarce to be seen any where in this land Government and Vertues There is no medicinal use made of the Male Linden The Female is under the dominion of Venus of a moderate temperature and somewhat drying and astringent the decoction of the leaves being sod in water is a pood Lotion to wash the sore Mouthes Sore mouths of young Children or any sore Mouths that have Ulcers blisters Vlcers blisters or Cankers in them The leaves being pounded or bruised after the boyling and applied to the Legs or Feet cankers swelled Feet that are swelled with falling down of humors doth help them the hark is also effectual for the same purpose The flowers of the Line-tree and of Lilly Convally distilled together the water thereof is good against the Falling-sickness so likewise is the distilled water of the bark and is good against those fretting humors that cause the bloody Flux and griping in the Guts the water wherein the inner bark hath been steeped till the water become thick and muscilaginous and applied with clothes wet therein helps burnings and scaldings Liquid Amber Descript and Place LIquid Amber is a thick Rozen like gum droping by incision from certain great trees in the West-Indies which trees are full of branches covered with a thick Ash-coloured bark the leaves are like unto Ivy leaves and the Gum which issueth from the tree is of a strong and sweet smell and is somewhat like unto Liquid Storax and may passe instead thereof for the same uses but there is a coarse sort which is the scum of the uppermost fatness that is made by boyling the branches and is supposed to be that Storax liquida sold by Druggists and Apothecaries out of the first sort while it is fresh and laid in the Sun there droppeth a certain clear reddish oyl called oyle of Liquid Amber and of some Liquid Amber it self Government and Virtues Both Tree and Gum are under the influence of Jupiter of a moderately hot and moist temperature and is useful either of it self or mixed with other things to comfort and warm a cold moist braine Brain Stomack Digestion Apetite Mother Tumors being used as an oyntment and easeth all pains proceeding from a cold cause being applied thereunto It comforts and strengtheneth a weak Stomack helps digestion and procures an Appetite But more effectually if a plaister be made thereof with some Storax Musk and Amber and applied to the Stomack it is also profitably used in all cold griefs of the the Mother it warms mollifies and dissolves Tumors and opens obstructions and stoppings of the Terms Lung-flower or Autumn Gentian Kinds and Names THere are several sorts of these plants are generally called Autumn small Gentians Gentianellae Autumnales and of some Pneumonanthe Descript 1. The greater Autumn Gentian Pneumonanthe dicta riseth up according to the richness of the ground higher or lower sometimes two foot high and sometimes not above a foot and sometimes with many and sometimes with fewer stalks of a brownish green colour with many long and narrow dark green leaves set by couples upon them up to the topsâ— which seldom branch forth but bear every one a large hollow flower in most of them of a deep blewish purple colour but in some a little paler ending in five points the roots are many small and long growing deep into the ground and abiding all the Winter Descript 2. Gentianella Autumnalis simbriato flore Antumn-Geatian of Naples This doth creep up like Couch-grasse from a long yellowish small root shooting forth a few long and narrow leavs likâ— those of Flax but shorter but those that grow up to the middle of the stalk are larger and lesser again from the middle to the top two set at every joint all along and striped from every one of the joints on both sides to the top of the stalk which is green and about a foot high at the top commeth a purplish green husk which hath four large pointed leaves and encloseth the flower which is long and writhed before it be blown and of a pale blew colour but when it is blown open is of a deeper blew colour having four leaves somewhat long and as it were purfled about the edges with a little hairiness at them and a small leaf at the bottom of each flower with a few yellow threds in the middle standing about a head which groweth to be the seed-vessel forked into two parts at the head being greater there then below and containeth in it very small black seed when it is ripe Descript 3. Autumn-Gentian with small Centory-leaves called in Latine Gentianella Autumnalis Centaureae minoris folio This riseth up with sundry stalks scarce a foot high parted into many small branches whereon do stand two leaves together very like those of the lesser Centaury not so long as either of the former but a little broader and of a whiter green colour at the tops of the stalks and branches grow divers blew flowers set in small long husks half way rising above the tops of them the seed is small and groweth in long horned vessels the root is small and fibrous Descript 4. There is another sort with small Centory-like flowers which is more spreading small but hath larger leaves and flowers than Centory and of the same colour as are the flowers of Centory yet having many more and lasteth longer the root abideth not the Winter Descript 5. Another smaller Gentian with Centaury-leaves is very like unto the last but smaller and the stalks much lower not above three inches high having
shortness of breath and taken with Sugar-candy it is a present remedy Alpinus further saith that the oyle thereof is so familiarly used by the Aegyptians in their meals as that they do seldom eat without it yet it breedeth many obstructions and the viscous nourishment of it turneth into Melancholy and other diseases It will not be improper here to add somewhat of the virtues of our Marsh-mallows both leaves seeds and roots wherein Culpepper falls too short It is the chiefest of all other Mallows and most effectual and is therefore called Dismalva being twice as good as any other The root being boyled in wine and drunk is good against the pain and grief of the Gravel and Stone Gravel Stone Bloody Flux Sciatica cough Tooth-ach the blood Flux the Sciatica the trembling and shaking of any member and for such as are troubled with Cramps and burstings Pliny writeth the same boyled in sweet new milk healeth the Cough and being boyled in some Vinegar and holden in the mouth it asswageth the pain in the Teeth The same being boyled in Wine or hony-hony-water and bruised or pounded very small Green Wounds Tumors Swellings Wens Kernels Impostumes chaps of the fundament doth cure and heal new Wounds and doth dissolve and consume cold Tumors and Swellings Wens and hard kernels and Imposthumes behind the Ears and is good for the burning Imposthume of the Paps It doth soften ripen digest breaketh and covereth with skin old Imposthumes blastings and Windy Swellings Mother it cureth rifts and chaps of the Fundament and trembling of the sinews and sinewy parts the same being so prepared pounded with hogs-grease goose-grease and a little Turpentine and a Pessary or Mother suppository made thereof and put up doth mollifie and asswage Imposthumes and sores of the Mother and openeth the stoppings of the same The leaves are likewise used instead of common Mallows to loosen the belly gently and are very effectual in decoctions for Glisters to ease all pains in the body Pains in the body Stone to open the straight passages and make them slippery whereby the stone may descend the more easily out of the Reins and Kidneys and the bladder and to ease the great and torturing pains that come thereby the roots being boyled very well in water and after they be strained out the decoction being boiled again with Sugar to a just consistence and troches rowls or Lozinges made thereof is effectual against the diseases of the Breast Chest and Lungs as Coughs Hoarseness Wheefings and shortness of Breath Coughs hoarseness shortness of Breath Guts Bloody flux the roots and seeds of the Marsh-mallow boyled in Wine and Water is very effectual to be used by such as have any excoriation in the Guts or bloody flux by qualifying the violence of the sharp Cholerick fretting humors which are the cause thereof and by sliminess easing the pains and healing the soreness and in some sort staying the further erruption of blood Ruptures cramps Convulsions Kings Evil Chin cough It is very profitable for them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the sinews and being boyled in White-wine it is profitable for the Impostumes of the Throat called the Kings-evill for kernels behind the Ears and swellings or Inflamations in Womens breast The dryed roots boyled in Milk and drunk are singularly good for the chin-Cough Hippocrates used to give the decoction of the roots or the juice thereof to drink to wounded persons who were ready to faint through loss of blood and applied the same mixed with Hony and Rozen unto the Wounds he gave also the decoction of the roots in Wine to those to drink that were hurt by bruises or Falls or by blows or stripes and to such who had any bone or member out of joint and to those who had any swelling pain or Ach in the muscles sinews or Arteries it is good also to be used in all Ulcers and sores that happen in any Cartilaginous place The muscilage of the roots and of Linseed and Fenegreek put together is of much use in pultisses oyntments and plaisters to mollifie hard tumors and the Inflamations of them and to ease pains in any part of the body The seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar cleanseth the skin of Morphew and other discolourings thereof being bathed therewith either in the Sun or in a Hot-house or Stove Mandrake Kinds and Names THere is described by Authors both a Male and Female Mandrake and two of the Males-Mandrak It is called Mandragoras both in Latine and Greek and Dioscorides saith in his time called Circaea because Circe the great Witch or enchantresse used it as is thought in love-matters Descript 1. The more ordinary Male Mandrake Mandragoras mas vulgatior sendeth forth from a somewhat great and downright root in some but with one in other two three or four twines or branches divided a little below the head or top and divers small fibres besides blackish on the out side and whitish within having many large leaves lying on the ground greater then any Beete-leaves from the middle whereof rise up sundry pale green flowers of five round leaves a peece each standing on a small slender footstalk within a green five-leaved husk wherein afterwards is set the fruit being of the bigness of a reasonable Pippin and as yellow as Gold when it is through ripe with divers round whitish flat seeds in it of a heady or strong stuffing scent This is the true Description of the plant without other shape of Mans or Womans parts although some Cheats have made counterfeit forms thereof and have exposed them to publick view both in our own and other Countries but they are utterly deceitfull forgeries to cheat people of their mony Descript 2. Mandragoras mas alter another Male-Mandrake whose leaves were of a more grayish green colour and somewhat folded together herein differing from the former This Mr. Parkinson saith he saw in the Lord Wottons Garden at Canterbury when John Tradescant had the keeping of it but that it had never born any fruit Descript 3. The Female Mandrake Mandragoras foemineus hath many leaves lying on the ground but smaller narrower more crumpled and of a darker green colour then the Male like those of Lettice as saith Dioscorides The flowers also rise from among the leaves each on a slender footstalk as the former but of a blewish purple colour the fruit is much lesse then those of the Male but round like them of a paler yellow colour when they are ripe and of a more pleasing and lesse heady-scent having in them such like seed as the Male but smaller and blacker the root is also like the former blackish without and white within neer unto the same form parted into sometimes more and sometimes fewer branches Place They grow in Woods and shadowy places and the Female by Rivers-sides in diverse Countries beyond the Alps but not naturally on this side thereof as in Greece Candy Isles
large but not so large as the first as sweet as the other and the flowers white like the rest and sweet likewise and the fruit black Descript 4. Strange narrow-leaved Myrtle Myrtus angusti-folia exotica This groweth in all parts like unto the second but that the leaf is smaller narrower small pointed and of a darker green colour the flowers are alike and so is the fruit but greater and rounder having crooked white seeds in them like the other Descript 5. The Spanish wild Myrtle Myrtus Boetica sylvestris This wild myrtle groweth not so high nor so thick with leaves as the former sorts but hath slender and brittle branches with broader leaves than the last set more thinly on both sides than the rest and of a dark green colour the flowers are like the rest and the fruit is round standing on long footstalks between the leaves green at first then whitish and blackish when they are ripe full of pleasant sweetish juice and with some astriction to the Taste Descript 6. Small white myrtle Myrtus domestica minutissimis foliis fructu albo This groweth reasonable tall with slender reddish branches thick bushing together and thick-set with very small leavs narrowest of any other and sharp-pointed and somewhat dark green also the flowers are white like the rest and so is the fruit but of a whitish colour tending to a little blush and so abide not turning blackish Descript 7. The small and pointed Myrtle Myrtus minor acuto folio This riseth not so high as the third or ordinary broad-leaved sort but groweth fuller of branches and thick-set with small fine and green and almost shining round leaves a little pointed at the ends abiding always green as all the sorts of myrtles doe which with the flowers are sweet and bear black berries but they never bear in our cold Countrey Descript 8. Box-leaved myrtle Myrtus minor rotundiore folio This groweth in all points like the last but that the leaves being as small and fresh green thick are rounder at the ends very like unto the small box-leaves and beareth flowers as sparingly Descript 9. Double-flowred myrtle Myrtus flore pleno Of the greater kind of Myrtle there hath been of late nursed up one in the Gardens of the Curious with as double flowers as the double Feaverfew coming forth of a round reddish husk continuing flowring at the least three months and each flower a fortnight and is not over-tender to be kept yet will not endure the frosts Place and Time Many sorts of myrtles are found generally upon all the Sea-Coasts of Spain and in divers other hot Countries but generally in hot Countreys they must be defended from the cold but in the warm Countreys they must have shadow also for they love both shadow from the heat and moisture in hot Countreys Government and Vertues The Myrtles are under the dominion of Mercury and is indued with contrary qualities as Galen saith for it hath a very cold quality in it and a certain thinne warm offence also and therefore it dryeth and bindeth powerfull The dryed leaves are more drying and binding than the fresh which being beaten and boyled in water is good to drink against Catarrhes falling to any part of the body and doth help Fluxes of the belly and stomach moist Ulcers Catarrhes Belly Stomach Vlcers Cods Swelled Arteries Broken bones fretting and creeping Sores Swellings and heat of the Cods Imposthumes of the Fundament and St. Anthonies fire The decoction of the leaves is good for the resolution of the Arteries and Joynts and their weakness to sit in as a Bath and helps to consolidate bones that be broken or out of joynt that will hardly be cured It helpeth the soreness of the nayls and the rising of the skin about them if the powder of the dryed leaves be layd thereon The juice of the leaves worketh the same effects whether taken out of the fresh leaves or from the dry by infusing them in red wine and is safely used where there is any need of binding medicines or to heal Ulcers of the mouth or privy parts The same also helps watring eyes and those that begin to have a film or skin to grow over them which will take away the sight Watry eyes Passion Heart Spitting blood Venemous Beasts stinking breath old Vlcers Blanes Wheals Matrix Piles The seed is good against trembling and passion of the heart spitting of bloud and the bloody Flux It stops the Terms and the Whites helpeth the stinging of Scorpions and biting of venemous Creatures and of the Spider called Phalangium and the danger of Mushrooms being drunk in wine it helps a stinking breath and being warmed with wine it helps old Ulcers that are hard to cure It provokes Urine helps diseases of the bladder binds the belly and stayes the Flux of humours Blanes Wheals and breakings out of the skin the decoction of them is good for women to sit over that are troubled with the falling down of the Matrix and for the falling down of the Fundament and the Piles The excrescence called Myrtidanum is of greater force to dry and bind than either leaf juice or seed Myrobolans Kinds Names THere are brought unto us five sorts of fruits of the Myrobolan well known in the Apothecaries Shops called Cytrine Chebul Bellericks Emblick Indian They are also called Indian purging Plums Descript 1. The yellow Myrobolan or purging Indian Plum Myrobolanus Citrina Is said to grow on a Tree as great as a Plum Tree having many branches and winged leaves like unto the leaves of the Service-tree The fruit is for the most part as big as an ordinary Plum somewhat long having many fair ridges on the outside especially when it is dryed shewing it to be five-square though round of a yellower colour on the outside than any of the rest The flesh or substance being of a reasonable thickness the stone is white thick and hard to break with ridges also therein and a very small long kernell in the middle of an astringent taste as the dryed fruit is but much more than it Descript 2. The purple Myrobolan or purging Indian plum Myrobolanus chebula This kind groweth in bigness and branches like a Plum-tree having leaves like unto Peach leaves the fruit thereof is the greatest and longest of all the five sorts of a blackish purple colour on the outside while it is fresh which it holdeth in the dry fruit which as saith Mathiolus is the best being five square as the former of a more thick and fleshy substance than any of the other and with the smallest stone in it not so hard to break as the former but with the smallest kernell therein Descript 3. The round Myrobolan or purging Indian plum Myrobolanus Bellerica This is like the rest for growth but hath leaves like the Bay tree but of a paler green colour the fruit is of a mean bigness round and smooth yet in many being as it were three square of a pale rushetish
Dropsie Swelling of the Spleen and the pricking pains of the Sides Spleen Sides it also stayeth the spitting of Blood coming aswel from the Lungs as any other part The powder taken with Cassia dissolved and a little Turpentine washed cleanseth and strengthneth the Reins and is effectual for the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reines It is also good for pains and Swellings in the Head and against Melancholy the Sciatica Reins Head-ach melancholy Sciatica and Gout and pains of the Cramp Gout Cramp for which purpose one dram or two of the Extract thereof made in this manner doth work effectually being given in Broth. Take a sufficient quantity of Rubarb and let it be steeped in cinnamon-Cinnamon-Water which being strongly pressed-forth let it be stilled in a glasse Limbeck in Balneo untill the Water be drawn forth and the substance remaining be of the thickness of Hony which keep in a close covered-pot or glasse for the use aforesaid The powder of Rubarb taken with a little Minnia and Madder-roots in some red Wine dissolveth congealed or clotted-Blood in the Body happening by any fall or Bruise and healeth Burstings and broken-parts aswell inward as outward the Oyl likewise wherein it hath been boyled worketh the same effect the part being anointed with it It helpeth also the Yexing Hiccop Yexing Hiccop and all Fluxes of the Belly if it be toasted or dryed a little by the fire but much more if it be roasted or half burnt and taken in Wine after this manner Take a pint of good Claret-Wine and burn it with some Sugar and a top or two of Rosemary into which put a dram and an half of Rubarb roasted as aforesaid and one dram of Chebol Merobalanes a little broken or bruised let these stand in the burnt Wine all night by the fire and strain it forth in the Morning giving this at two times fasting which will in three or four dayes stay any scouring or Lask Scouring Lask strengthning the Stomack and inward parts afterwards It is used to heal those Ulcers that happen in the Eyes Stomack Eyes or Eye-lids and to asswage the Tumors and allay the inflamations being steeped and strained and applyed with Hony or Cute that is to say any boyled Wine it taketh away any black and blew Spots or marks that happen therein This Rubarb is so gentle a medecine that it may be given to all Constitutions whether they be Children or Women with Child and that safely at all times of the year the whey of Milk but especeially of Goats Milk is the best and most proper liquor wherein it is to be steeped and taken or else in White-wine whereby it worketh more effectually in opening Obstructions and purging the Stomack and Liver from Choler and Flegm a little Indian Spikenard used therewith is the best Correcter thereof Rosemary Kinds and Names THere was formerly but one kind of Rosemary known to us which was the ordinary Rosemary but now we have discovered several sorts which shall follow with their Names before their Descriptions Descript 1. Ordinary Rosemary It is called in Latine Libanotis coronaria sive Rosmarinum vulgare This is no natural English plant yet in divers Gardens in this Land where it hath stood long aswel as in its naturall Soil it groweth in time to a great height with a great and Woody stem of a close firm substance and whitish within branching forth into many Arms from them again into many other smaller branches at the joints whereof are set at several distances many long and very narrow leaves green above and greyish underneath and with all along the stalks towards the tops divers small gapeing flowers of a pale bleak blewish colour standing in whitish husks the seed is small and reddish but seldom doth any that is sown in our Country endure the first Winter without Extraordinary care and therefore is usually increased by slipping The whole plant hath an Aromatical smell Descript 2. Gilded Rosemary Rosmarinum striatum sive Aureum is the Latine appellation This differeth not from the former in any thing but in the leaves which are edged or striped or pointed with with a fair Gold yellow colour which so continueth all the year yet fresher in Summer than Winter Descript 3. Broad-leafed Rosemary called in Latine Rosmarinum Latifolium This groweth like the former but not so great in our Country nor with such Woody branches and is more tender to keep the leaves are larger and of a more shining deep green colour on the upper side and little or nothing whitish underneath more thinly also or sparsedly set on the stalks the flowers differ nor from the former kinds Descript 4. Double flowred-Rosemary Rosmarinum flore duplici This differs from the former in this that it hath stronger stalks while it is young then the last or not so easie to break fairer also and larger leaves then the first and the flowers are double like those of the Larkes-heel or Larks-spur Descript 5. Whild-sweet Silesia Rosemary or Mathiolus his Wild Bohemian Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre Bohemicum Mathioli sive Laedum Silesiacum Clusii This riseth with Woody ash-coloured branches two foot high or more which shoot forth other branches of a purplish colour covered with a brownish-yellow hoariness on which are set many narrow long green leaves like unto those of Rosemary but covered with the like hoariness as the stalks are especially in their natural place but not so much being transplanted folding their sides so close together that they seem nothing but ribs or stalks of an excellent pleasant and sweet smell at the ends of the branches grow certain brownish and scaly leaves out of which spreadeth a tuft of many flowers consisting of five white leaves a peece with ten white chines or threeds in the middle and in some plants with six leaves and twelve threds or Chives after which follow five long square heads spotted with silver-like white spots while they are green but grow brownish when they are ripe and turn down their tops opening their husks at the stalks least the seed which is as small as dust should fall out the Root is Woody with short sprigs Descript 6. Unsavory Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This doth nearly resemble Rosemary but is not sweet like them It groweth above a foot high having divers reddish branches which divide themselves into others smaller of a whitish colour set confusedly with long and narrow leaves green on the upperside and hoary underneath like those of the Dwarffe-Willow of no pleasant scent at all but of an Astringent taste At the tops of the branches stand divers heads composed of many short scales out of which shoot forth sundry flowers standing on long foot-stalks made of five leaves a peece of a fine pale reddish or flesh colour after which rise short five-square heads with blunt points containing small pale coloured seed Descript 7. Our Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre minus
which inconveniences are taken away by putting those things into your decoctions that do cool and quench the heat thereof and such are the Muscilage of the seeds of Psyllium or Fleawort Prunes boyled or rather the pulp of them the juice or the julep or the water of Roses or Violets or if before the boyling thereof that is the Scamony you steep it in the oyl of Roses or Violets or in the juice of a Quince and mingle it with a little Sumach or Spodium A third is that having a strong opening and drawing faculty it causeth immoderate fluxes of the Belly by opening the mouth of the veins more than is fit This harm is also taken away by mixing restringent and restraining things with it such as Mastich is and especially yellow Myrobolans and Quinces or the juice of them Again it raseth the intrails and guts by reason of the sharp juice wherewith it doth abound and by which it procureth torments and pains therein Dysenteria or the Bloody flux and Tenasmus which is a disease when one desires to go often to the stool and can do nothing This danger is remedied if moist fat and slippery things be used with it as Gumtragacanth Bdellium and oyl of Almonds and Roses as also the pulp of prunes made up with Sugar the muscilage of Fleawort-seeds Mastich and Quinces taken afterwards and warm water last of all all which cause it to pass the quicklier from the stomach and bowels and thereby prevents its doing harm This fault is also helped if cold medicines aswell as hot be mixed together to be given thereby to yield help to the heart liver and stomach thus far Mesue Dioscorides saith that if the juice be applyed to the womb it destroyeth the birth Birth destroys Wheals Pimples pushes Leprosie headach being mixed with honey and Ox-gall and rubbed on wheals pimples and pushes takes them all away and boyled in vinegar and anointed takes away the Leprosie and outward marks in the skin being dissolved in Rosewater and vinegar and the head moistned therewith easeth the continual pains thereof A dram or two of the roots of Scamony purge in the same manner as the juice doth if some of the things that are appointed therewith be given in it The roots boyled in water and made into a Pultice with Barley meal easeth the Sciatica Sciatica Scurfs Scabs Imposthumes being layd thereon it taketh away Scurfs and scabs if they be washed with the Vinegar wherein the Roots have been boyled and also healeth Imposthumes The Scarlet Grain Descript Names THis is called in latine Chermes seu Coccus insectorius This grain or berry is a kind of Excrescence that nature thrusteth forth upon the holme-oaks while the branches are young and groweth all along the branches at the several joynts and footstalks of the leavs being as big as a pease of a reddish ash-colour before they be ripe but of the colour of the holly or Asparagus-berries when they are ripe or somewhat darker but are gathered for the most part before they be too ripe When as they will contain a clear juice of a crimson colour as deep as any pure fresh bloud which by the heat of the Sun breed small red worms little bigger than fleas at the first but being suffered to grow great consume the inward substance of the berry or grain creeping away and leaving the husk or shell empty They are gathered for the Apothecaries use to make the Soveraign Cordial-confection called Alkermes which is Cordi Amica and press forth the juice which being boyled up with a proportion of Sugar fit to preserve it from sowring is kept for a whole year after when they are somewhat more ripe they are gathered for the Dyers use to dye fine Scarlet withal and are brought into powder in this manner when these grains or berries are gathered in their fit time they cast them on a sheet or other such thing sprinkling them with some wine or vinegar born up from the ground by the sides or four Corners and dry them in the hot Sun some put them in a bag or Bolter and dry them in an oven Place and Time These trees grow in Spain Portugal Italy and France in Provence in Affrica also and Asia both greater and lesser the berries begin to appear in April and are gathered in May. Government and Vertues These berries are solar and are used to heal green wounds and sinews that are cut to be mixed with vinegar or Oxymel Green wounds Sinews cut Miscarriage and is much commended to be given to women with Child who are subject to miscarry with their Children but especially the Confection which is called Alkermes which is made of the juice of these berries is effectual for that purpose and is also a soveraign Cordial to revive the fainting spirits of the heart and to drive away melancholy This Confection also is used with good effect against the trembling and shaking of the heart Faintings heart Melancholy heart Trembling Swoonings Passions and against Swoonings it is used also against melancholy passions and sorrow proceeding of no evident cause and to procure mirth asmuch as physical means may effect Sebesten or the Assyrian Plum Descript Names THe Sebesten-tree groweth not so high as the Plumtree covered with a whitish bark the branches are green whereon grow rounder thicker and harder leaves than they The blossoms are white and consist of five leaves a peece growing many together on a long stalk which afterwards turn into small Berries rather than Plums of a blackish green colour when they are ripe every one standing in a little cup of a sweet taste and glutinous or clammy substance and a very thick skin within which lyeth a three-square hard stone with a thick shell and a small kernel these are gathered and layd in the Sun whereby they grow wrinkled and so they are kept and brought to us in Boxes The wild Sebesten Sebesten Sylvestris THe wild Sebesten is in all things like the other but that it groweth lower much like unto a Hedge-bush and with lesser and thinner leaves The flowers and fruit are alike but less In shops they have only the name of Sebesten but in Latine the Tree is called Myxos and Myxa and Myxaria for the fruit Place and Time The first groweth in Syria and is but planted in Aegypt from thence they were brought into Italy in Plinies time which were grafted in the Service-tree and do now grow in many places in their Orchards it is so tender that it will not endure the cold with us The wild kind as Alpinus saith is natural in Aegypt they flower in May and the fruit is ripe in September Government and Vertues This is a Plant of Venus the Arabians and Greeks hold that they open the body asmuch Open the Body Cool the stomach and Liver hot Agues Choler hoarsness roughness of the throat or rather more by reason of the muscilage in them than the damask prunes yet more while
round ruggish root covered with a crested or as it were a joynted Bark come forth out of knots three or five broad leavs like unto those of the Maple or Plane-tree standing on small blackish long stalks and are divided in three or five parts full of veins dented about the edges and pointed at the ends Descript 3. Red Storax called in latine Styrax rubra This hath formerly by some been thought to be the bark of some kind of tree that went under that name of Storax But Serapio and Avicen divide Storax into liquida and sicca by liquida meaning the pure gum flowing from the tree and not that liquida which we have now adays by that name and by the sicca the feces of the expressed oyl from the fruit but Calumita is now taken of some to be red Storax Place and Time The first groweth in Provence of France in Italy Candy Greece and some hither parts of Turkey where it yieldeth not gum but in Syria Silicia Pamphylia Cyprus and those hotter countreys it groweth much It flowreth in the Spring yielding fruit in September Government and Virtues This is a solar Plant there is no part of this tree in use with us but the gum that issueth out of it It is of temperature hot in the second degree and dry in the first it heateth mollifieth and digesteth and is good for Coughs Catarrhes Coughs Catarrhes Rheums Courses Mothr Loosen the belly Afterbirth Ears cold Aches Lameness distillations of Rheums and hoarsness It provokes womens courses and mollifieth the hardness and contractions of the Mother Pills made with it and a little Turpentine and taken gently looseneth the belly it resisteth cold poysons used as a Pesâ—ary it draweth down the courses and Afterbirth dropped into the ears it helpeth the singings and noise in them applyed to the hips joynts or shoulders afflicted with cold Aches it resolveth and comforteth much and is good to be put into baths for lameness of the joynts and weariness by travail It is also good to be put with white Frankincense to perfume those that have Catarrhes Rheums and defluxions from the head to the nose eyes Rheums head Nose Eyes or other parts by casting it on quick coals and holding their heads over the smoak and to air their night-caps therewith It dissolveth hard Tumors in any part as them about the throat and the Kings-evil Tumors Kings-Evil Sumach Descript Names Sumach groweth like a bushy shrub about the height of a man bringing forth divers branches upon which grow long soft hairy or velvet leaves with a red stem or sinew in the middle the which upon every side hath six or seven little leaves standing one against another nipt about the edges like the leavs of Egrimony the flowers grow among the leaves upon long stems or footstalks clustring together like the Cats-tails or blowings of the Nut-tree of a white green colour the seed is flat and red growing in round berries clustring together like grapes This Plant is called in Latine Rhus and in English Sumach and Coriers Sumach The seed is called in Latine Rhus obsoniorum and in English Meat-Sumach and Sauce Sumach Place and Time It groweth in Spain and other hot Countreys It is seldome found in this countrey but in the gardens of diligent Herbarists where it flowers in July Government and Vertues This is a Saturnine Plant of temperature cold in the second degree and dry in the third of a strong binding faculty the leavs have the same power that Acacia hath they stop the Lask and womens flowers with all other issues of blood Lask-flowers Bloody Issues Bloody-Flux Watry Ears to be first boyled in water and wine and drunken the same decoction stoppeth the Lask and bloody flux to be used as a Glyster or to bathe in the decoction It also dryeth up the running water and filth of the ears when it is dropped into the same and maketh the hair black being washed therein The seed of Sumach being eaten in sawces with meat doth stop all Fluxes of the belly with the bloody-flux and the whites Bloody-Flux Whites The same layd upon new bruises and green wounds defendeth them from hurts inflamations Swellings and Exulcerations the same pounded with Oaken-coals and layd to the hemerrhoids healeth and dryeth up the same The decoction of the leaves worketh the same effect Swallow-wort Kinds Names OF this there are three kinds The usual latine names of Swallow-wort is Asclepias or Vnice toxicum their distinct names follow in their Descriptions Descript 1. Swallow-wort with white flowers Asclepias flore albo This Swallow-wort riseth up with divers slender weak stalks to be two or three foot long not easie to break scarce able to stand upright and therefore for the most part doth lean or lie down upon the ground if it find not any thing to sustain it and sometimes will twine themselues about it whereon are set two leaves at the joynts being somewhat broad and long-pointed at the end of a dark green colour and smooth at the edges At the joynts with the leavs towards the tops of the stalks and at the tops themselves come forth divers small white flowers consisting of five pointed leaves apeece of an heavy sweet scent after which come small long pods thick above and less and less to the point wherein lie small flat brown seed wrapped in a great deal of white silken down which when the pod is ripe it openeth of it self and sheddeth both seed and cotton upon the ground if it be not carefully gathered The roots are a great Bush of many strings fastned together at the head smelling somewhat strong while they are fresh and green but more pleasant when they are dryed both leavs and stalks perish every winter and rise anew in the spring of the year when the stalks at their first springing are blackish brown Descript 2. Swallow-wort with black flowers called in Latine Asclepias flore nigro This groweth in the same manner that the former doth having his long slender rough branches rise to a greater height than the other and twining themselves about whatsoever standeth next unto them having such like dark green leavs set by couples but somewhat smaller than they the flowers likewise stand in the same fashion but somewhat smaller also and of a dark purplish colour that it seemeth to be black and are scarce discerned unless one look very earnestly upon them after which come more plentifully than the other such like Cods with a white silver down and seeds in them as the former the roots hereof are not so bushy as the other neither smell so strong neither doth it give any milky but a watry juice when it is broken Descript 3. Swallow-wort of Candy Asclepias Cretica This riseth up in the same fashion that the former do with many slender flexible green branches with leavs set at the joynts on either side as the white kind hath and are very like unto them but somewhat of a
the back and Reins and stayeth the running of the Reins wiâ—h a little powder of Rubarb put thereto it provoketh Urine and helpeth to expel both stone and gravel it ripeneth Impostumes and helpeth to expel them and mightily dissolveth winde in the pains of the Chollick stomack or sides and is good also against the Gout Sciatica and all pains in the joints aswell to take it inwardly with Chamepitis Sage and Stoechas as to be made into a Cerecloth and applyed thereto It is a special ingredient in those Balsoms that are to heal any green wounds and is effectual in all wounds and fractures of the head all punctures in the head and sinews and all breakings out in the skin be it Itch or Scab Piles Pushes or wheals it draweth forth Splinters Piles Pushes Thorns Lips Hands Fundament thorns or the like out of the flesh and healeth the chaps of the lips hands fundament or other parts It is put into all salves oyls oyntments or plaisters that serve to cleanse Ulcers to draw or heal any sores and to warm and comfort any cold and weak parts the Chymical oyl of this Turpentine is very effectual in many of these diseases if it be carefully applyed it being of very subtil parts and therefore inwardly or outwardly it must be used as it were by drops Descript The Turmerick brought unto us is an Indian Root In which Countreys it springeth up and beareth larger and thinner leaves than Millet of a paler green colour a stalk full of leaves compassing one another to the top The Root is slender and yellow near unto the form of Ginger Government and Vertues It is a Plant of Mars and is of great use in the yellow Jaundise Jaundise Old diseases Dropsie either the powder or the decoction being taken for it doth open obstructions of the gall and other parts It is of very good use in old and inveterate griefs and sicknesses and the evil disposition of the body called Cachexia and is very profitable against the dropsie Turn-Sole Kinds and Names OF Turn-Sole there are several kinds whose names shall follow with their Descriptions Descript 1. The greater Turnsole called in Latine Heliotropium maius This riseth up with one upright stalk about a foot or more high dividing it self almost from the bottom into divers smaller branches of a hoary colour At each joynt of the stalk and branches grow two small broad leaves somewhat like unto those of Calamint or Basil somewhat white or hoary also at the tops of the stalks and branches stand in any small white flowers consisting of four and sometimes of five very small leaves set in order one above another upon a small very crooked spike which turneth inwards like a bowed finger opening by degrees as the flowers blow open after which in their places come small cornered seed four for the most part standing together the root is small and threddy perishing every year and the seed shedding it self riseth again the next spring Descript 2. The greater creeping Turnsole is in a manner but the same with the fomer greater Turnsole because it is in most things so like it yet differeth in these particulars That it hath more and slenderer stalks not standing upright as the other doth but leaning down to the ground the stalks and leaves are lesser but hoary in like manner the flowers are white and stand in crooked spiky heads bowing like a Scorpions tail as the other but the seed being smaller standing singly or but two together the roots are small and perish in like manner Descript 3. The smaller Turnsole Heliotropium minus this smaller Turnsole groweth very low lying almost with his slender weak branches upon the ground having thereon many small leaves like the other in form but three times less in substance neither stalks nor leaves white nor hairry but of a dark green colour the flowers are much smaller and yellowish not growing in long crooked or bowing heads like the former nor at the tops of the branches but standing at the joynts upon very small stalks some above the leaves and others under them which afterwards turn into small round heads or buttons like unto warts wherein is such like seed as the last but smaller and rounder Descript 4. The Colouring or dying Turnsole Heliotropium triconum This dying Turnsole that beareth berryes three alwayes set together riseth up with an upright stalk branching it self diversly to the height of half a yard or there-abouts whereon grow broader and softer leaves than on any of the former like unto those of the sleepy night-shade and whitish withall set without order at the joynts up to the tops yet lesser above than below at the ends of the branches come forth small mossy yellowish flowers which quickly perish and fall away without giving any seed herein like unto the Ricinus or Palma Christi called the great Spurge for in the same manner also at the joynts with the leaves come forth the fruit or berries standing three for the most part alwayes joyned together upon short footstalks which are of a blackish green colour and rough or rugged on the outside wherein is contained ash-coloured seed which if the heads be suffered to grow over-ripe and be dryed with the Sun will fall out of themselves upon the ground and spring again in their natural places the next year thereby renewing it self for the root is small and perisheth after it hath born seed But these berries when they are at their full maturity have within them that is between the outer skin and the inward kernel or seed a certain juice or moisture which being rubbed upon a paper or cloath at the first appeareth of a fresh and lively green colour but presently changeth into a kind of blewish purple upon the cloath or paper and the same cloath afterwards wet in water and wrung forth will colour the water into a Claret-wine colour And these are those rags of cloath called Turnsole in the Druggists and Grocers shops and with all other people and serveth to colour Jellies or other things Place and Time These doe grow in Italy France and Spain in divers places The two first are planted in gardens here with us and doe flower and seed well every year but the other two will scarce grow to shew any seed in our cold Climate Government and Vertues These are Solar Plants to whom they yield obedience the head of the flowers always facing the Sun a good handfull of the greater Turnsole boyled in water and drunk purgeth both Choler and phlegm and being boyled in wine it is good against the stinging of Scorpions Choller Phlegm Scorpions Stone Reins Kidneys Bladder Vrine Womens Courses Easie birth Worms Gout Joynts pained Warts Wens Kernels Excrescencies Face Eye-lids to be aswel drunk as layd upon the place that is stung The same also boyled with Cummin and drunk helpeth them that are troubled with the Stone in the Reins Kidneys or Bladder provoketh Urine and Womens Courses
two ounces Barley and Bean-flower of each one ounce Wormwood and Bettony of each half an ounce two drams of Commin-seeds powdered Boyl them all in a pinte of Red-wine to the thickness of a Pultis according to art then add oyl of Roses and Oyl of Camomile of each one ounce and two ounces of honey being mixt it is to be applyed morning and evening or Paracelsus plaister hath been applyed with good success but from the eleventh to the twentieth day apply this following plaister Take twelve ounces of fresh Porks greese of sweet oyl and red lead of each twenty ounces Calcit is burnt but not till it be red burnt Allum of each two ounces four ounces of Deer-suet Mastich and Olibanum finely powdered of each two ounces of these make a plaister according to art before you use it you must moisten it with oyl of Lillies then make use of Paracelsus his stiptik-plaister moistened in Oyl of Camomile to the end of the cure If there be a wound with the fracture in children dress it with a feather dipt in Arceus his Linement not taking away any part of the skul unles there be either a feaver Convulsion a vomiting or a Palsey then open as before and dress it according to art In older persons if in Summer make a Pultis called a Cataplasm of Barley-meal vinegar water apply it If it be in winter make it with wine adding thereto powder of Roses Mastich Myrtle-berries and oyl of Roses administring to the Patient this purge Take of the Electuary called Cariocostinum and of the Electuary of the juice of Roses of each one dram Syrrup of Chichory with Rhubarb one ounce with three ounces of the distilled water of Endive make thereof a Potion letting him bloud before and as often afterwards as you shall see it necessary and having given him a glyster or glysters or Suppositories as you thought good drop some Oyl of sweet Almonds into his ears and nose about the fourth day make him some Gargarisms made of the flowers of Rosemary and Roses Violets Cinamon and the like boyled in Barley-water to which you must add honey of Roses or honey and White-wine-vinegar and water boyled together called Oxymel simplex the seventh day use the same plaister you applyed to children from the eleventh to the twentieth day moistned with oyl of Roses but if you see any appearance of dangerous symptoms after the seventh day open the skul and cure it according to art For wounds of the brain and the other Membrans prevent what possible you can the entrance of the air for the first seven days use oyl of Roses and Turpentine Honey of Roses of each one ounce Aqua-vitae two ounces but honey of Roses and Spirit of wine are to be compared to none upon all which apply Paracelsus plaister When there is a moving of the brain from its natural place by reason of violent external causes such as blows falls from a high place and the Patient be astonished vomit and at length fall a Raving sometimes it is more gentle wherein no vessels are broken sometimes more violent wherein the vessels are broken and the brains shaken then follows speechlesness bleeding at the nose and ears vomiting the matter putrifying a feaver follows First begin the Cure in letting the Patient blood in the arm or the veinunder the tongue give him often cooling glysters such as before were mentioned if occasion be gently purge him then shave the head and anoynt it twice a day with oyl of Roses after apply this Pultis warm Take of Barley-meal three ounces powder of Bettony and Roses of each half an ounce Boyl them with the decoction of Bettony and a little Rose-water to the form of a Pultis adding towards the end half an ounce of oyl of Roses yolks of two eggs mix them and so apply it if there be a wound use this following Oyntment Take new wax and Collollony of each one ounce Gum-Elemie Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earth-worms Sweet Almonds and the yolks of eggs and of Roses of each two drams Saffron one dram mix it and therewith make an Oyntment if with two ounces of this you shall mix the yolk of one egg it will afford more ease to the Patient If there shall happen to grow a Tumor called a Mushroom from its likeness to the thing so called which is sometimes hard without bloud almost sensless sometimes it will be soft and tender and it will smell noisome being narrow beneath and broad above sometimes increased to the bigness of a Hens egg caused from a thick melancholy blood springing from the broken vessels as before and will partake of the nature of the part to which it grows which will prove dangerous if it happens from the flowing of vicious humours from the brain In the beginning of the cure use such glysters as this every day afterwards every third day take the roots and leaves of Marsh-mallows Mallows the herb Mercury flowers of Camomile Myrtle-flowers and leaves of Bettony of each half a handfull Linseed and Fenugreek Anniseeds of each half an ounce Boyl them in Spring or running-water till the third part be boyled away Strain it to one pinte of the straining add Benedict laxativum and Hiera picra compound of each three drams the yolk of one egg oyl of Camomile two ounces common salt one dram mix them and make a glyster use the following fomentation twice a day Take of the leaves and flowers of Bettony Sage Camomile Mellilot Roses tops of Sweet Margerum and Rosemary of each one handfull Anniseeds and Fenugreek of each one ounce cut them and bruise them then take as many of them as will fill a Bag which may cover almost half the head let it be quilted then boyl it in equal parts of Red wine and water and apply it hot Then cleanse the head with hot Linnen which done be sprinkle the Mushroom or fungus and the wound with this following powder Take of the root of Avens Angelica sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed of each half a dram of the root of round Birthwort Orrice and Lignum-vitae of each two drams flowers of Sage tops of Sweet margerum and Rosemary of each one pugil i. e. as much as you can take up betwixt your thumb and the two fore-fingers make all of them into a powder and use it as is before directed upon which apply the Basilick plaister the Receipt is as follows Take four ounces of the Bettony-plaister Gum-elemy dissolved in one ounce of Oyl of Roses Powder of Red Roses and Myrtles of each one dram Mastick Sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed Angelica Avens or Herb-Bennet of each half a dram as much wax as will serve to make it into a plaister But if it be grown to such a bigness as a Hens egg bind it with silk 〈◊〉 â—he root very fast and when it is fallen off use the former powders for a Swelling coming from wind use the same method Wounds of the
eye-lids if they be made overthwart-ways are to be stitched up and this following powder strewed upon them which hath a virtue to heal them speedily Take of Bolearmonack and sealed earth called terra sigillata of each two drams of Dragons bloud called sanguis Draconis and Sarcocol of each one dram mix them for your use or else use Arceus's Liniment or artificial Balsom Purging and bleeding must not be forgot if the wound be great wounds of the eyes are carefully to be handled if the eye and eye-lid be both wounded keep them from growing together and apply defensatives to the forehead and temples to hinder Inflamations and pain and so dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound Arceus's Liniment and the like with Paracelsus his plaister over the eye-lids But to cleanse the eyes from any filth use this medicine following Take Syrrup of dryed Roses one ounce the waters of Fennel and Rue of each two drams Aloes wash'd Olibanum the gum of each half an ounce mix them for your use or this Take one ounce of Barley-water three drams of clarified honey Aloes well wash'd in Plantane-water and Sugar Candy of each half an ounce mix them for use also this ensuing is good Take of the pulp called Muscilages of Olibanum Gum-Arabick Gum-dragant and Sarcocol of each three drams the pulp or muscilages must be drawn in Barley-water one dram of Aloes being thrice washed in Rose-water Cerus wash'd and prepared Tutty of each half a dram mix them for your use you may if you find occasion make use of Rhasis his white troches called Trochisci albi Rhasis cum vel sine Opio being made with or without Opium likewise at any time you may use those Troches dissolved in Plantane or Barly-water instead of Breast-milk Wounds in the Ears if altogether cut off are cured by applying the Powders of Gentian Orrice Dittany Aloes myrrhe Mastich Barley-flower Sarcocol of each equal quantities and the oyntment of red Lead laying over them Paracelsus plaister if they be divided and must be stitched take hold of the skin onely and dress them with Arceus his Linement if the division be but small then you may use the dry stitch to keep them joyned together the dry stitch is when peeces of cloath are dipt in such and the like glutinating oyntments Take Mastich Myrrhe Dragons bloud powder of Red Roses Gum-Dragon of each two drams powder them all very finely that done put to them the white of an egg and as much Rose-water as will make them of a glewy substance standing so all night The next day if the medicine be too thick put more Rose-water and Plantane-water to make it of a fit thickness the peeces of cloath are to be indented and applyed on each side the wound four hours before you stitch them this is done without pain and therefore may be used where-ever you can without stitching or needles Wounds in the nose if in the soft part only may be cured by dry stitch as before observing the same method if in the hard part it is either the bone or gristle otherwise called Cartilage if in the former broken restore it by putting up some Instrument or fit stick wrapt about with a soft linnen rag then with Pledgets dipt in this astringent medicine made of the white of an egg Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud applyed to the sides of the nose you shall endeavour to confirm the restored bones then put up small Pipes into the nostrils not exactly round but something flattish put them not up too high so fasten them with strings to a Cap lest they fall out by this means the bones will be kept in their place and you will make a passage both for the matter and breathing Remember the wound is to be brought together either by dry stitch or needle and Bol Armanack Mastich Dragons bloud Burnt-Allum mixt with the white of an egg is to be applyed using convenient binding which may not press the bones too much lest the nose become flat If in the gristle or Cartilage in stitching take hold only of the skin and to prevent the growing of proud flesh within use tents according to art In wounds of the Cheeks use the dry stitch with the aforesaid medicines The other manner of using the dry stitch is thus having spread the glutinative oyntment or Plaister set down before in wounds of the ears upon peeces of strong cloath or the cloath dipt in the glutinating oyntment apply on each side of the wound one peece of the same a singers breadth distance asunder or so let it ly on till it be well dryed to the skin then draw the edges of the cloaths together with your needle and thred and the flesh will follow and so come to joyn together If the wound be large use two or three needles as in manner of curing the Hair-lip shall presently be shown which you may fortifie with the dry stitch i. e. use the dry stitch upon the other Wounds of the lips are to be cured as other common wounds if they pierce not through but if they do they are to be cured as in the hair lip which is done by piercing through the lips of the wound with a needle or two if occasion be putting a thin piece of lead on both sides Lastly snip off the ends of the needle and cast the silk about the ends thereof as Taylors do when they fasten them to the skirt or sleeves this must be done in the middle but at the ends an ordinary stitch will serve especially in children the wound is to be dressed with Arceus his Linement if the inward part of the lips be wounded as happens by falls and the like then use within Honey of Roses Syrrup of dryed Roses c. Wounds of the tongue happen several manner of ways as by falls when it is bitten by the teeth c. If the wound of the tongue be great and deep then you must stitch it deep to hold it the stronger and surer cutting the thread close to the knot Then make use of this gargle called a Gargarism following Take of the leaves and flowers of Privet Plantane-leaves and red-Rose leaves of each one handful of the rindes and flowers of Pomgranates of each half an ounce boyl them in a quart of Smiths water or water wherein Gads of Steel have been often quenched let them boyl till the third part thereof be consumed then strain them and dissolve in the liquor two drams of Acacia or the juice of Sloes and two ounces of the syrrup of dryed Roses with which let the Patients often wash their tongues Moreover you must have and hold constantly almost in your mouth either Marmolet of Quinces preserved Cherries Rasberries or the syrrup of dryed Roses or syrrup of Quinces The Patient is to feed on liquid things as broath Almond-milks c. Or a Poatch'd egg at most c. Now the manner of stitching up wounds of the tongue whether long-ways or athwart when
Tisan or Barley-water or plantane-Plantane-water wherein you are to dissolve two ounces of brown sugar and an ounce of Honey of Roses mix them and inject them warm with a Syringe if you see symptoms continue you may put in a leaden Pipe till the wound runs little and good matter then take it out and cure it up the manner of dressing such Patients is this having warmed your medicine as before cast it in with a syringe which done let your Patient betake himself to that posture that it may all come forth again after put the Pipe into the wound and lay a sponge dipt in Aqua vitae on it which will keep forth the aire and draw out the matter contained in the wound Instead of the Sponge you may make use of this Take half a pound of the clear and best Rozin and two ounces of Gum-elemy melt them over a gentle fire till they be well mixed together then add to them Oyl of Bays and common Turpentine of each one ounce boyl them a little then strain them through a thick linnen cloath which spread upon leather lay it upon the Pipe which will powerfully draw matter out of the wound Renew it once a day if in winter and twice a day in Summer remembring always to snip your plaister in the middle that the mater may have passage to flow out With this and Artificial Balsom may wounds be cured which are piercing Forget not if you see occasion to bleed first on the contrary side of the wound and if need be and strength permit afterwards in the other arm To dissolve clotted bloud give this medicine inwardly made of half a dram of Rhubarb Madder and Mummy of each one scruple half a scruple of Sealed earth Scabious and Buglos-water and the juice of Lemmons of each one ounce To help difficulty of breathing and ease pain let the Patient take a quarter of a pinte of this Decoction following Four ounces of French barley three ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned three handfulls of Buglos roots two ounces of Liquorice scraped and bruised twenty Jujubes fifteen pruans and a handful of Parsley-roots Boyl all these in seven quarts of rain or running water to the consumption of the third part and to make it palate-able and pleasant for taste Boyl two or three drams of Cynamon in the straining dissolve three ounces of Pennids Syrup of Roses and Comfrey and of the two opening roots made without vinegar of each two ounces four ounces of Sugar Candy this nourisheth so much that he need no other food for three days unless he drink Tisan wherein you may boyl Fennel and Parsley-roots If the Patient find ease by spitting help him by the using of Vinegar water and sugar for his cough administer this Take Sugar-Candy and Pennids of each one ounce two ounces of Diatragacanthum frigidum syrup of Violets and Juiubs of each as much as is sufficient to make a Linctus or Lohoc which he is to use often with a Liquorish-stick if he spits thick matter then use syrup of Coltsfoot with Oxymel simplex or simple which is thus made Take four pound of the best honey clear water and white-wine vinegar of each one quart boyle the water and honey into a syrup afterwards add the Vinegar then boyl it to the consistance of a syrup scumming it with a wooden scummer But when the matter is coming to suppuration let the patient drink half a pint of this following in the morning which he may sleep after and the like quantity at four of the Clock in the afternoon Take Eupatorie Scabies Sanicle Clove-gilliflower Privets and Colts-foot of each one handful of the root of the greater Comfrey and Burridg of each one ounce boyl the roots first then the herbs according to Art in five quarts of water till one half be consumed afterwards put to it Sugar and Honey of each four ounces which being clarified with the whites of two eggs keep it for use which you may also use for an Injection if you please indeavouring to get out all again for what remains will be of a sharp quality and so may increase if not beget Symptoms A wound made in the lungs if it be on the skirts and without inflammation c. then giving your Patient things to hinder his coughing much and great breathing may be cured while the patient takes those Linctus's or others before described he is to lye on his back for so the medicine will fall by little and little upon the wind-pipe otherwise if they should fall down hastily or in great quantity it might cause the Patient to Cough Cows Asses or Goats-milk if they may be had with a little Honey that they corrupt not in the stomach are very good in these wounds or the mulcians of Almonds which is made by bruising the Almonds being first blanched in a stone-morter and pouring Barley-water upon them and stir them well and strain through a cloth doing this often and it will look like milk Sugar of Roses likewise is excellent in this case because it is of a cleansing and strengthening quality but when you shall think it time to close up the wound after you have cleansed it with the medicines before spoken of The Patient must use in Broths or Linctuses some sealed Earth Boll-Armonack Plantan Knot-grass Shumack Acasia or the Juice of Sloes and such like sharp and binding medicines which being mixed with Honey of Roses may carry away that filth which may hinder the closing up of the wound Wounds happen to divers parts of the Belly some whereof are piercing as you will see the Guts and Caule sometime come forth if the great Guts come out put them up again presently into the Belly But if they have been a good while out and so the cold Air hath injured them and they be full of wind and the like then they must be fomented with medicines that will discuss the wind such as is made of Thyme and Calemint Camomil Mellilot Penni-royal Origanum Wormwood and the like or else prick them with needles if after all this you cannot make it go up there is no other way but to enlarge the wound But if the Gut it self be wounded which you will know by perceiving the excrements come forth at the wound if it be wounded longwayes and little it is easily cured if overthwart-ways and great 't is difficultly cured if black 't is deadly then it must be sowed up so as Glovers use to stitch in making Gloves Then put upon it powder of Mastick Mirrhe Boll Armonack and the like after you have stitched it up you must not put up the Gut into its place all at once but by little and little the patient lying on the side opposite to the wound as if the wound be on the right side the patient shall lie on his left by which means you may more easily restore the Gut fallen down if the lower part of the guts being wounded fall through the wound
points or else cut them quite off if there be many Splinters after you have restored them try to knit them together with a medicine made of Wheat-flower Dragons-blood Bol-armonack Frankinsence all made into powder mixt with the white of Eggs and ther apply it putting splints thereupon covered with soft linnen rags armed with the same Medicine and then lay a bolster dipt in the same upon each side and one thicker then the other upon the place that is broken and bunches out to keep it so then roll the part with the roller of a hands breadth and two els and a half long cross wayes filling his Arm-pits especially that next to the broken-bone In rolling drawing his arm somewhat backwards and do not unroll until the seventh day unless necessity urge The Shoulder-blade may be broken either in the ridge thereof which may be perceived by an unequality being compared to the other sound part or else may be broken on each side and then there is a Cavity or Hollowness to be perceived or else it may be broken in that part where the shoulder is knit and joyned together to it here if the splints or fragments stick to the bone and doe not prick the flesh they are to be restored to their former state and place and so kept with the glutinating Medicines and such as beget the substance called a Callus as hath been before mentioned and rollers and bolsters fit for the purpose But if the fragments doe not stick fast to the bone and prick the fleshy parts about them and so cause ill symptoms then cut open the flesh and with your Forceps or Crows-beak or such like instrument and so take them out yet they are not to be taken out though you may move them up and down if they stick fast to the membran Concerning the bone called Periostium and the Ligaments prick not the Muscles so cause not pain for it may come to pass that they may grow to the bones adjoyning But if they be wholly parted and stick not to the Periostium then they must be plucked away unless you conceive that Nature will be strong enough to drive them forth of it self those fractures that happen in the neck of the shoulder-blade or joining of it to the shoulder are seldom recoverable by reason of the many large Vessels as the Axillary-vein and Arterie and Nerves about this place which are subject to Inflammation and putrifaction whence grievous symptoms and oftentimes death it self insues by reason of the neerness and communication of the heart and other principal parts these bones usually knit together within four and twenty dayes space The Breast-bone is sometimes broken sometimes prest-in onely without being broken if you perceive an inequality by your feeling the bones crackling at the thrust of the finger it shews the bone is broken but a manifest hollowness in the part as spitting of blood Cough difficulty of breathing argue the depression of the bone only sometimes both for restoring of this Bone whether it be broken or depressed or thrust in onely without being broken you must order such Patient after the same manner as in fractures of the Coller-bone pressing the Ribs on both sides and so set the bone with your hand to the part apply formerly described fitting Medicines to asswage pain with bolsters fastned thereto with a Ligature made cross-waies above the shoulder being not too straight lest it hinder the Patient from breathing The Ribs may be broken either inwardly or outwardly the first is deadly the latter is discerned as well by uneveness of the part as noise in touching to restore which those which are inward let the Patient lye upon his sound-side apply this following plaister to the broken part Take one ounce of wheat-flower half an ounce of Ising-glass being dissolved in Scabies and Poppy-water powder of Mastick Frankinsence Dragons-blood Gypsum and Farena Volatil as much as will serve to make a plaister being boyled to a good substance in red-poppy-Red-poppy-water apply this hot spread upon a strong cloth with two strings fastned in the middle pull it off quickly and with great force after it hath laid on a good while so that the Rib with your plucking may come to its former place this is to be done so often till he find himself better and breathe freely and with more ease then anointing with oyl of Roses apply that Pultis till the eighth day spoken of at the beginning of the cure of Fractures if there happen a swelling it must not be neglected but resolved with such fit Medicines as this and the like Take Barley and Bean-flower of each two ounces the flower of Cammomil Mellilot Elder of each one ounce boyl them in sufficient quantity of water when they are boyled enough put to them oyle of Cammomil and Roses of each one ounce if the swelling cannot be made to vannish with this or the like medicine but it shall come to apostumate then it must be speedily opened lest the matter contained within the Aposthume rot the bone afterwards cure it according to art But if the pricking continue and so cause pain and inflamation cut open the flesh as before and take out the fragments and cure up the wound as you have heard often before The Back-bones are sometimes broken sometimes bruised or strained on the inside whence it comes to pass that the membrans which encompass the marrow of the Back-bone and sometime the marrow it self being oppressed there follow many malign symptoms as Palsie numness of the Arms Legs Fundament and bladder which quite take away or else diminish the faculty of feeling or moving so that their urine and excrements come from them without their knowledge or will or else they are wholly stop'd which when it happens because the marrow of the Back-bone is hurt you may fore-know that death is at hand After you have so prognosticated you may cut open the flesh to take out the splinters of the rack bones of the back which if you cannot do you shall at leastwise apply such medicines as are sit for asswaging pain and hindring Inflamation then put the broken bones into their places and so keep them by applying two pieces of wood of four fingers long and one fingers thickness more or less wrapt in linnen cloaths one on each side of the broken rack bones of the back and so with your hands press them against the broken bones till you put them again into their proper places if the processes or bunchings out of the rack-bone of the Back be only broken you shall put the fragments into their places unless they be quite parted from their periostium or membran that covers them If they be open the skin and take them forth then heal the wound according to art After the same manner are fractures of the Os sacrum or holy bone to be ordered Fractures of the Rump-bones are to be put in their places by putting your finger into the Patients Fundament
Disease and so may either be said to Preserve or Cure therefore you are to adminster them before evacuating Medicines for a Cordial take this for an example made of one scruple of Mithridate half a dram of London-Treacle or that called Diatessaron one ounce of Syrup of Lemons three ounces Of Plantane or Rose-water and six drops of Spirit of Viâ—riol for one dose about three hours after give an other dose Or this following Take of Confectio Alchermes burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples syrup of Lemons one ounce as much spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste after this first administer a Suppositer or Glister of which you have several examples before then after they have done working let him blood plentifully if he be of a strong and gross body as you see occasion his dyet is to be but thin broth water-grewel ponadoes or such like two or three dayes together for purges give him about a scruple of Mercurius dulcis or else this Take six drams or an ounce of Lenitive Electuary two scruples of the Cream of Tarter and one scruple of Confectio Alchermes with Sugar make it into a boll for a dose if it should be convenient to give them a Vomit then give him six drams one ounce or ten drams more or less as you see occasion of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum if sweating be to be procured give him from a scruple to half a dram of Antimonium Di afreticum in a little London or Venice Treacle or Mithridate if he want rest give him from two grains to four of Laudanum Opiatum or else Syrup of wild Poppy six drams of Frogs-spawn and poppy-water of each one ounce and a half with three drams of Treacle make a potion and give the Patient at night to cause him to rest let his ordinary drink be either a decoction of Barley with Liquorish or else this following Take three quarts of fountain-water put an ounce of Harts-horn burnt and prepared into it let it boyl to the consumption of the third part then take it from the fire and put to it four ounces of Rose-water two ounces of syrup of Lemons as much Sugar as will serve to sweeten it and as much spâ—rit of Vitriol as will make it sharp this is an excellent drink in all feavors and for all sorts of persons Remember too much purging bleeding and thin dyet is dangerous in all diseases at Sea and will bring your Patient into the Scurvy which is usually the end of most diseases at Sea and then if your Patient be too much weakned the Scurvy discharging it self by a flux is often mortal If you shall have occasion to be concerned with Armies by Land or in Garrisons there will sometimes a continual malign and contagious Fever called the Camp-Disease seize upon the Souldiers which will be seconded by a great pain in the head and his stomach will be clogged with many foul humours sometimes there will follow swooning and often faintings the Patient grows very weak without manifest cause his pulse will be sometimes weak but quick and sometimes strong there will appear oftentimes many large spots of several colours he complains of a pain in his stomach and joints little or no appetite oft-times troubled with vomiting and sometimes difficulty of breathing and singing in the ears all which proceeds from putrefaction or corruption of the humours in the veins or from contagion the corruption or putrefaction of the humours comes from ill dyet ill vapours arising from the earth corrupted naughty air dirty foul apparrel and such like for the cure if there be an inclination to vomit which you may perceive by pain and fulness of the stomach then provoke it with this made of six drams of the infusion of the glass of Antimony two ounces of Barly-water Oxymel of squils and syrup of the 5 opening-Roots of each six drams mix it and give the Patient The manner of infusing your Antimony is this Take two drams of the glass of Antimony put it into a pint of white-wine Cloves and Ginger of each one dram infuse all these together when you have occasion administer it from two drams to an ounce after that you have used all the wine you may put more to the ingredients adding to them the same quantity of fresh ingredients as before after you may bleed if the Patient be not very weak or if you see your Patient of a strong constitution you may begin with blood-letting not forgetting glysters or suppositories with cordials made of the Carduus benedictus Scabious Sorrel Angelica-waters with Venice or London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn Mithridate Dioscordium confection of Alchermes bezoar root of contrayervae as for example Take of the wild Poppies and Sorrel-water of each one ounce and a half London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples one scruple of Mithridate one dram of Dioscordium and three drams of Treacle-water with some syrup of Lemons and as many drops of the spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste make a potion and give it at one dose or take two scruples of Dioscordium and one scruple of burnt Harts-horn mix them and dissolve them in Mace-ale a little Sack or in Beer and Ale wherein Harts-horn and Marigold flowers have been boyled to cause him to sleep Take syrup of Dioscordium and syrup of wild-poppies of each half an ounce of Angelica and wild-poppy-wild-poppy-water of each one ounce and an half and a dram of Diascordium mix them and give it going to sleep Take notice that Cordials are to be given often For purges they must be somewhat strong as one dram of Pulvis astrictionis one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Diaphrenicon Electuarii three drams dissolve all in three ounces of Endive-water For bleeding in this Disease if the veins be full and stretching out and be burthensom to nature let it then be plentiful for the blood is corrupted in all putrid Feavers it is very safe to let blood which may be done til the fourth day and if your occasion require till the seventh day though spots appear As for vomiting that removes nauseousness pain bitterness and sadness by freeing the stomach from the abundance of naughty humors Vesicatories or blisters may be good applyed to the wrists any time but on a Critical day The form of a blister-plaister may be this Take half an ounce of Cantharides call'd Spanish-flies two drams of Turpentine Olibanum Myrrhe Mastick and Camphire of each half a dram oyl of Roses and Bees-wax as much as will be sufficient to make it to the consistence of a Plaister The Patient is to keep a spare dyet not to eat any flesh but brothes wherein is boyled the shavings of Harts-horn the opening roots with Sorrel and Borrage and Panadoes water-grewel c. And posset-drink with Harts-horn boyld in it dropping a little spirit of Vitriol into it and burnt Harts-horn boild in the Calenture is good to which you may add the syrup
Plantane given alone is excellent Now to conclude I thought it convenient to give you a Catalogue of the most necessary Instruments and Medicines both simple and compound which a young Chirurgion ought to carry with him to Sea or have in readiness by Land First a case of good Lancets for his plaister-box that must be furnished with these Instruments following a pair of Scissars a Spatula with a Capital Instrument and two small Probes a pair of Forceps a Director an Incision-knife stiching quils with three or four Chirurgions Needles or as many as you will a Fleme a small Rasier a Levatory Uvula spoon and Spatula Linguae Next for his Salvatory it must alwayes have these Unguents in it Arceus his Liniment Basilicon Vnguentum Aureum or the golden oyntment Vnguentum Apostolorum or oyntment of the Apostles Vnguenttum de minio or oyntment of Red-Lead Desiccativum Rubrum or the red drying and skinning oyntment Then besides these Instruments and Unguents in his Plaister-box and Salvatory he must have alwayes in readiness by him these medicines and Instruments following Viz for Emplaisters Diapalma de minio and the Diachilon-simple plaisters of one of which he is to put some ready spread upon cloth or paper into his Plaister-box Paracelsus-plaister Oxycrotium Diachilon with gums and the Mellilotplaister For Unguents Aegyptia cum Vnguentum Albium or the white oyntment Vnguentum Laâ—â—inum or common oyl of Bayes Vnguentum Nicotianae Peti or Oyntment of Tabacco Vnguentum Nutritum Vnguentum Opthalmicum or Oyntment for Inflamation of the Eyes Vnguentum Populion For Oyles Take Oleum Catulorum oyl of Camomil Lillies oyle of Exeter oyle of Saint John wort compound of Foxes Turpentine Roses Earth-worms Elder-Flowers Linseed Vitriol and Sulphur Likewise you must have these distilled waters with you water of Mint Plantain Burridg Bugloss Suckery Endif Lettice Purslane Poppy Roses Carduus Benedictus or the holy thistle these for simple waters Then for Compound you must have Anniseed Cinamon Aqua-Coelestis or the heavenly-water Doctor Stephens water Aqua-mirabilis Aquae-Menthe or mint-Mint-water treacle-Treacle-water Spirit of wine Brandy or Aquavitae wormwood-Wormwood-water Likewise you must have with you strong Lee white-wine Vinegar Vinegar of Roses For Syrups you must have syrup of Wormwood Vinegar Simple or Compound of Lemons Sloes Diamoron or syrup of Mulberries Violets honey of Roses Oximel Simplex Simple or Compound Oximel Scilliticum or Oximel of Squils Then for Conserves c. Electuaries the Conserve of Red-Roses Barberries Quinces Wood-Sorrel and Slowes London and Venice-Treacle Diascordium Mithridate Confectio Alchermes for Purging Electuaries the Lenitive Diacatholicon Confectio Hamet Diaprunes Solutive For Pills you must have Pil-Ruffi Communes Pil-Choche Pil-Hiera Comagarico Extractum Rudii Pil-Alofangine For Lohoâ—ks you must have Lohoch de farfara or Lohoch of Colts-foot Lohoch of Poppies Lohoch of Pine-nuts Lohoch of Pursley Lohoch of Fox-Lungs and Lohoch Sanum expertum For Troches you must have Trochisci Albi Rhacis with and without Trochischi Gordonii Trochischi Alchakengi or Troches of Winter-Cherries Pectoral Rolls white and black Troches of Barberies Troches of Camphire Troches of Saunders and Rubarb Troches de terra Lemnia or earth of Lemons For powders you must have alwayes in readiness powder to stay flux of blood and eat away proud-flesh of which you had receipts before Aromaticum Rosarum Diamagaritum Frigidum diapenidion Diarodon Abbatis Diatragacanthum Frigidum Diatrion Santalon Pulvis Haly for purging Powders you must have Diacenne Pulvis Sanctus or the holy powder For Simples you must have these roots following Birthwort long and round Aron-root Smallidg Bistort China Turmarick Dittany Elecampane Gentian Liquorish Heirodactils Orrace Lillies Polypodie Rubarb and Monks Rubarb Madder and Sarsaparilla Squils Turmentile Turbith Ginger Jollap Guiacum Liquorish For Herbs Wormwood Mallows Muâ—sh-mallows Beers Bettony Carduus Benedictus Centory â—notgrass Fumitory Broom St. Johns-wort Hyssop Baulin Mint Plantine Rosemary Rue Sage Elder-leaves and buds Savery Senna Stechas Coltsfoot Golden-rod For flowers Rosemary-flowers Orange Pomgranat Camomil Marigold Bean Broom Cowslip Mellilot Baume white black and red Poppies Roses white damask and red Elder Violet Saffron For Fruits Winter-Cherries Almonds bitter and sweet Barberries Figs Cassia fistularis Chestnuts Quinces Dates Jujubes Ivie Juniper and Bay-berries Lemons Oranges Cytrons Sebestins Cubebs Medlers Mulberries all the Mirabolans Mirtle-berries Olives Nutmegs Peaches Apricocks Mellons Damask-pruens Capers Cloves and Mace Cherries black and red Sloes Pears Damosens Services Pine-nuts Raisins of the Sun and Currants Tamerins Elder-berries Sebestines For Seeds Annis Cowcumbers Cumin Fenegreek Lettis Grumuel Lupines Pursley French-barley Linseed Fennel Coriander Carua Beanmeal Barly-meal wheat-flower wheat-Bran Mil-dust and White-starch For Gums c. Aloes Sugar Camphire Balsom Galbanum Ammoniacum Arabicum Trachanthum Manna Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Opium Pitch Rosin Turpentine Dragons-Blood Scammony Frankinsence Storax oyl of Olives new and old Agarick Jews-ears Cantharides or Spanish-flies Goose Duks Geese Dogs Cats Mans Fox Badgers Bears-grease Deer and Goats-Suet Album-Graecum Virgins-wax white and black Harts-Horn Ising-glass the marrow of an Ox Deer Calf and Lamb Roman and Virgin-honey Musk and Mummy the Hairs of a Hare Spermaceti Allum For Mettals and Minerals you must have Verdigreese Allum Litharg of gold and silver Quick-silver all kinds of Arsenicks Bolarmanack Lime-stones Vitriol white Roman and green Sinclere Choak Redlead Terra lemnia Brimstone and flower of Brimstone Troches of red-Lead praecipitat For Instruments let these be allways in readiness Crows-bills Catch-bullets strait and crooked and the Terra bellum a dismembring-knife and sharp dismembring-saw Cauterizing-Iron head-saw and Trafine Speculum-Oris and Speculum forceps and a punch for Teeth small wax-candles syringes Catheter cupping-glasses glister-pot dyet-pot morter and pestle spatulas spl nters spunges juncks clouts rollers thred needle tape toâ— weights and scales serces and strainers and blood-poringers FINIS
boyled doth quicken and clear the sight if it be often dropped into the Eyes the seed used in glisters asswageth the griping pains of the Belly and of the Matrix or Mother and cureth the Wounds of the Bowels and Matrix Linseed mingled with hony and taken as an electuary oâ— lohoch cleanseth the Breast and appeaseth the Cough and taken with Raisins is good for such as are fallen into Consumption or Hecktick-feavers The seed of Lin taken into the body alone or in too great quantity is bad for the Stomack ingenders much Wind and hinders digestion of meats Flea-bane Names IT is called in Latine Psyllium by which name it is known in shops it is also Herba pulicaris and in English Fleabane and Flea-wort Descript Fleabane hath long narrow hairy leaves amongst which spring up round and tender branches set full of like leaves but smaller and garnished at the top with little long round spiked knops like Eares with greenish flowers or blossoms which do afterwards change into brown or shining seeds in proportion colour and quantity like unto Flea's Place Dioscorides saith It groweth in fields and desart places In this Country it groweth not but in some Gardens where it is sown and where it is once sown it groweth continually afterwards of its own sowing or shedding of seed Time It floureth and seedeth in July and August Government and Vertues Flea-wort is a Saturnine plant the seed therof which is chiefly used in medicine is cold in the second degree and temperate in moisture and dryness as Galen and Serapio write The seed of Fleabane steeped in water and boyled and the decoction thereof being drunken purgeth downwards addust and Cholerick humors It asswageth pain and stacketh the inflamation and heat of the entrails or Bowels and is good against hot Feavers or burning Agues Choler inflamed Bowels Fevers Agues and in all inward heats and against Drought and Thirst The same seed grossely bruised but not broken being parched at the fire is good against the Bloudy-Flux Bloudy Flux vehement Lask especially when they proceed of taking strong and violent medicines the Fleabane-seed mingled with oyle of Roses and Vinegar or water is good to be applied unto hot griefs of the joints Aposthumes or swelling behind the Ears and other hot Swellings Hot pains Ears Swellings Also it is good against the Head-ach Head-ach the same applied pultis-wise with Vinegar is good against the going out of the Navel and the bursting Navel bursting of young Children The water wherein the seed hath been steeped is good to be laid on the burning heat called St. Anthonies-fire St. Anthonies fire and to all hot Swellings Some are of opinion that if this plant when in it is green be strowed in any House it driveth away Fleas so that they will not come near it Too much of Fleabane-seed taken inwardly is very hurtful to the body and ingendereth coldness and stiffness dulness of the Spirits and heaviness of the heart If any one find himself distempered by taking of it a speedy remedy is to provoke Vomiting and afterwards drink of the best old Wine that can be gotten either by it self or boyled in Wormwood or Wine mingled with a little hony Firre-tree Names THis Tree is called in Latine Abies and the Dutch call it Mastboom because of the usefulness of the Timber in serving to make Masts for Ships the liquid or clear Rozen that runneth out of the bark of the young trees is called Terebinthina Veneta and in English Venice Turpentine Descript The Firre-tree is great high and long and continueth always green it groweth much higher than the Pine and Pitch-trees The stem is very even and straight plain beneath and without joints but upwards it groweth with joints and knops upon which joints grow the branches bearing leaves almost like Ewe but smaller longer and sharper at the points or ends of a blewish green colour the fruit is like to the Pine-apple but smaller and narrower not hanging down as the Pine-apples do but growing straight upward from out of the bark of the young Firre-tree is gathered a fair liquid Rozen clear and shining which in tast is bitter and Aromatical in tast almost like to Citron pills or Lemon pills condited There is also found upon this tree a Rozen or white Gum like as there is found upon the Pine and Pitch-trees which is sold for the right Frankincense and so is vulgarly esteemed Place The Firre-tree groweth upon high Mountains in Greece Italy Spain and France But in divers places of Germany and most in Norway from whence the Timber thereof is plentifully brought hither and is very serviceable in building Government and Vertues The Firre-tree is under the rule of Mars The bark and dry Gum or Rozen of this Tree are in temperature and vertues like the bark and Rozen of the Pine-tree but these of the Firre-tree are of a more Acrimonious and cleansing quality The liquid or clear Rozen is hot and dry in the second degree having a sharpe quality and is of a digestive or cleansing nature the liquid Rozen of the Firre-tree taken about the waight of half an ounce looseth the Belly driveth forth hot and Cholerick humors it doth cleanse and mundifie the Kidneys Choler Kidneys and Bladder provoketh Urine Bladder Vrine driveth forth the Stone and Gravel Stone Gravel and is good to be taken oftentimes of such as are troubled with the Gout the same taken with Nutmeg and Sugar to the quantity of a Nut helpeth the Strangury Gout strangury and is very good against excoriations or going off of the skin or Flux of the Secret parts Secret parts It is also very excellent for all fresh and green Wounds especially Wounds of the Head Wounds Head for it cleanseth and healeth very much Galangall Names IT is called in Latine Cyperus Descript This plant hath long hard and narrow leaves the stalk is triangled about a foot and an half long at the top whereof grow little leaves among which are spiky tops and white seed the root is long interlaced one within another having many threds of a brown colour and sweet savor Place Galangall as Dioscorides writeth groweth in low and moist grounds but is not common in this Country but as it is planted in some Gardens Time This herb bringeth forth his spikey top and seed with leaves in June and July Government and Vertues It is a plant of Mars the root is hot and dry in the thrid degree The roots of Galangal boyled and the decoction drunk provoketh Urine Vrine bringeth down Womens Flowers driveth forth the Stone Stone and is good for those who are troubled with the Dropsie Terms the same is also good against the Cough Cough the stingings of Scorpions Scorpions and bitings of Venemous beasts being taken after the same manner It is also good against the hardness of the Mother Mother remedieth Stoppings and