water or a dram of the powder In like manner being drunk it helpeth infants that are troubled with the falling-sickness The decoction taken in wine doth mitigate the pain of the guts and reines and other griefs of the belly it provoketh sweat it killeth the worms and is good against other diseases of the womb The Herb it self as well green as dried both drunk and laid outwardly to the grief doth heal ulcers On such exraordinary occasions it is mingled with the drink made of Guacum wine and water for the French Pox. Thus much Mathiolus Learned Writers affirm that it taketh away the stoppings of the inward bowels it provoketh urine breaketh the stone and helpeth them that are stung of venomous beasts They say also that they are not to be infected that take it in their meat or drink before they come into the evil air that it helpeth them much that are already infected Moreover most agree that it iâ— a remedy against the bitings of Serpents Finally to conclude late writers say That it cureth the pains of the head taketh away giddiness recovereth the memory being taken in meat or drink Also it helpeth festering sores especially of the Paps and Teats if the powder thereof be laid upon it Thus much Fuchsius By this we may in part understand with how great vertue God hath indued and as I may say blessed this herb To sum up all it helpeth the body inwardly and outwardly it strengthens almost all the principall members of the body as the brain the heart the stomach the liver lungs and kidneys I may say it is a preservative against all diseases for it provoketh sweat by which the body is purged of much corruption which breedeth disease It expelleth the venom of infection it consumes ill blood and all naughty humours whereof diseases are ingendred Therefore giving God thanks for his goodness which hath given us this Herb and all other things for the benefit of our health it will in the next place be convenient to consider how to make use of it in the application How Carduus Benedictus may be taken It is to be observed that we may use this herb and enjoy the vertues thereof four wayes First in the green leaf Secondly in the powder Thirdly in the juice And fourthly in the distillation The green leaf may be taken with bread and butter as we use to take Sage and Parsley in a morning to breakfast And if it be too bitter it may be taken with honey instead of butter It may be taken in pottage boiled among other herbs and being shred small it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine It is sometims given in Beer with aqua composita and that without harm when the stomach of the patient is weak and he not troubled with any hot disease The juice of it is either outwardly applied the leaf powder and water of it is received in the mouth It may be taken in Pottage also in the green leaf or with Wine which if it be burned and drunk hot it is the better If you please you may boil it with Wine and honey or suger to make it sweet and then drink it very warm The powder may be taken with honey upon a knives point or with bread and honey if you please or else it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine The distilled water may be drunk by it self alone or else with white Wine before meat or with Sack after meat especially if the stomach be weak and cold The liquor or broth in the which this herb is boiled may be made thus Take a quart of running water seethe it and scum it then put into it a good handful of the herb and let it boil until the better part of the liquor be consumed then drink it with wine or if you think fit with honey or suger to make it more pleasant in the taste Or else make a Potion thus Take a good handfull of the leaves with a handfull of Raisins of the Sun washed and stoned and some Sugarcandy and Licorice sliced small boil them all together in a quart of Water Ale or Wine If it be too bitter it may be made sweet as is aforesaid It is also to be observed that the Powder and Water of the Herb is most to be regarded and specially the water For they may be long preserved so that one may have them alwayes in a readiness to use as need shall require when aâ— the juice cannot be had nor the green leaf And the Water which onely is void of bitterness may be drunk by it self alone for the stomach and taste will bear it and like of it as well as of Rose-water Notwithstandig if the seed be sown as soon as it is ripe one may have the Herb both winter and summer from the time that it beginneth to grow until the seed wax ripe again Therefore I councel all them that have Gardens to nourish it that they may have it alwayes for their own use and the use of their Neighbours that stand in need of it Of the time and quantity to be observed in taking of Carduus Benedictus Here perhaps some will ask a question of the time and quantity which things are to be considered in taking of medicines As touching the time if it be taken for a preservative it is good to take it in the morning or in the evening before one goes to bed because that is a convenient time to sweat for one that feeleth not himself greatly diseased But if a man take it to expel any ill humours it is good to take it whensoever any grief is felt in the body immediately to go to bed and sweat As touching the quantity one needs not be so careful in taking this Herb as in taking those medicines that do purge vehemently by â—gestion as some term it or by vomit For â—n taking them if great discretion be not used â—n considering the time the quantity and the state of a mans body they may cause present death or otherwise they may much weaken the Patient This I counsel all that use it that when they or any of theirs are diseased they defer not the time but take it presently as soon as it may be had and that they do not think it sufficient to take it once but that they take it three or four times at the least Of the Sovereign Vertues of ANGELICA NOw I have written what is sufficient of Carduus Benedictus I will adde unto it anothe◠〈◊〉 much like it in the vertue called Angelica that if the one be wanting the other may be taken As â—â—uching the name the latest writers in my judgement most to be credited in this matter finde no other name for it neither in English nor in Latine Howsoever I know that some much to be commended for their learning anâ— also for the publishing of the same to the benefit of their countrey have given it other nameâ— but I think erroneously If we
them well and beat them into powder and give a little of the powder inwardly with Muskadel this is a gallant remedy for Children that will not endure any ill-tasted Medicine 30. For a looseness and Diabetes The Pizzle of an Hare dried and beaten into powder and the powder drunk in Wine at night going to bed you may give a dram at a time to a man half a dram is enough for a childe you shall finde it an excellent remedy not onely for a Looseness but also for the Diabetes 31. For the Diabetes The best remedy for a Diabetes that I know is this Take the Bladder of a Goat which I suppose to be best because it is a Beast of Saturn If you cannot get a Goats Bladder get a Bullocks or Sheeps Bladder dry it very well and beat it into powder and take a dram of the powder first in the morning and last at night 32. Caution to the former Receipt In my opinion it were very fitting in the fore-going Medicine that the Sphinater Muscle of the Bladder were by all meanes carefully dried and administred as before 33. Flux The Maw of a young Hare dried and beaten into powder and made up into Troches with juyce of Plantane and a little Gum Tragacanth is an excellent remedy to keep by you for the Flux and it also strengthens the Stomach exceedingly 34. To stop a Flux Take Plantane-seed and beat it to powder and give a drachm of the powder in red Wine to a childe that is troubled with the Flux and it will stop it 35. For a Flux Take the dung of a Stone-horse that is kept in a Stable and fry it in Muskadel and apply it being so fried to the Navel and it will stop any Flux of the belly whatsoever 36. For one that cannot go to stool Take Salt and Sope and mix them well together and apply them plaisterwise to the belly of one that cannot go to stool and it will move him to stool in a short time 37. Bloody Flux Take the Jaw-bones of a Pike or Jack beat them to powder and take half a drachm of the powder in red Wine morning and evening this hath been known to have helped the Bloody Flux when nothing else could do it 38. For the Bloody Flux Take red Beans and boil them in red Wine till it be thick and let the Patient eat of this morning and evening and in a short time it will help the Bloody Flux be it never so violent 39. For the Flux Take an old Apple cut off the top and pick out the coar then put into the hole a ball of Virgins-wax put on the top again and roast it in the embers mash it all together and take it inwardly as a Medicine for the Flux 40. To break the Stone The Urine of a Boar taken and drunk inwardly is an admirable remedy to break the Stone 41. Another to break the Stone Take the blood of a Fox and anoint the Region of the Bladder near to that place where the Stone lies and it will break the Stone 42. Another to break the Stone Also it is an excellent remedy to break the Stone to drink the blood of a Fox either alone by it self or mixed with white Wine And to make the truth of this appear clearly Caution take a Pebble-stone and put it into the blood of a Fox and it will dissolve it yet in my opinion and my opinion is grounded upon reason if the Stone lie in the Reins it is best to drink the blood of a Fox but for the Stone in the Bladder it is best to inject it with a Siringe 43. To break the Stone Bees dried stings and all and beaten into powder and a drachm of the powder given in white Wine is an excellent remedy for to break the Stone 44. To break the greatest Stone that is Take the green Weed that cometh from the Sea amongst the Oyster washed clean then dry it and beat it into powder drink two drachms of this with Muskadel in the morning fasting an hour after it it will break the greatest Stone that is 45. For the Stone Take Oyl of Christal drawn by the art of the Alchymist let him that is troubled with the Stone take a dram of it at a time in a good draught either of White or Rhennish Wine and it will break the Stone For proof of this take a stone and lay it in the urine of him that hath drunk this Medicine and in twelve hours it will be dissolved 46. Green Wounds The same Oyl of Chrystal is an excellent cure for any green wound 47. Stone Take a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting but you must be sure not to give him meat nor water in the night then put him into a great tub full of holes at the bottom and feed him with nothing but Cammomile Parsley Gromwel Celandine Saxifrage Hawthorn-berries or flowers give him Salt to lick and nothing but white Wine to drink save his water that runs through the holes of the tub into which water put Holly-berries Ivy-berries Hawthorn-berries Juniper-berries Parsley-seed Fennel-seed Gromwel-seed Smallage-seed the roots of Radishes and Nettles Knee-holly and Sparragas leaves of Water-cresses infuse all these warm in the Urine in a limbeck close stopped then distil it off this Water is held to be the most effectual for the Stone that is for three ounces of it taken at a time breaks the Stone and brings it away without pain 48. Sciatica For the Sciatica take a gallon of urine I suppose it were best of the party that is diseased boil it and scum it well till it be clear then put to it a quart of black Snails suâ—â— as you shall finde in the Meddows without sheâ—â—â— boil them together till it be thick like a Poltiss 〈◊〉 then spread it upon a cloath and apply it to the grieved place 49. Piles Take a quart of Linseed-Oyl and put as many live Crawfish into it as it will hold boil them in it a quarter of an hour then strain them out and bruise them well shells and all boil them well again in the Oyl then strain them out and keep the Oyl for an admirable remedy for the Piles you may use it by moistening a little cotten in it and binding it closs to the place with a truss 50. For the Piles Take Scabious and boil it well in water and let the party sit over the steem of the water that is troubled with the Piles and it will help him 51. For the Piles The Herb Pilewort either applied to the place in an Oyntment or taken inwardly is an approved remedy for the Piles 52. Many other remedies are used by Authours as namely to boil Elder-tops in white Wine and wash the place witâ— the decoction 53. Also to drink the juyce of Dandelion and Dazies in a cup of Ale every morning 54. An excellent remedy for the Piles Another remedy the conceit of which pleases me very well is this Take
nine drops of the strongest spirit given in any convenient liquor is an admirable remedy for the Convulsions With this I cured a childe lately that was not above a moneth old it had but one fit after the first taking of it then it sneezed much and recovered 14. A Caution And here give me leave to be a little critical against another vulgar custome and that is no Misleto must be used but what grows upon an Oak forsooth and I have proved by experience that it is all of a like vertue as being generated by the beams of the Sun upon what Tree soever Is an Apple ever the worse for being grafted upon a sower Crab-tree 15. Caution Yet this Caution let me give you have a care it touch not the ground for that good Philosophers hold takes away its vertue whether the reason be because it is appropriated to the head of a Man or because the Earth is Saturnline and therefore hinders the vertues of Sol I will not here dispute 16. For the bite of a mad Dog Let him that is bitten with a mad Dog drink either the juyce or decoction of Vervine every morning till the next new and full Moon be past 17. An Observation Observe this for a general rule all Creatures that are bitten with a mad Dog near the new Moon fall mad at the full and those that are bitten at full Moon fall mad at the new 18. To cure the biting of a mad Dog Take Vervine Agrimony and Plantane of each equal quantities bruise them and boil them in good white wine and let him that is bitten of a mad Dog drink a draught of the decoction every morning then take the Herbs and bruise them with Bay-salt and apply them to the wound 19. Ring-worm Take Featherfew and bruise it and rub any Tetter or Ring-worm with the juyce of it and it will kill it 20. Wen. An excellent way to cure a Wen is this take forty Snails and boil them in a pint of running water till half be consumed then let them stand and cool then take some Wool and dip it in the fattiness of the water and apply it to the Wen this will consume it insensibly in a short time especially if you take inwardly the following medicine 21. Take fine Jeat and beat it to powder and take half a dram inwardly in a little Ale or Pottage once in three or four mornings 22. Biting of an Adder The best way that I know for the biting of an Adder is this Catch the same Adder that bit you as she is easily caught cut her open and take out her heart and swallow it down whole 23. For the same Also cut off the head of the Adder and bruise it and apply it to the Wound both these together would give a cure to admiration 24. To expel an Adder being crept into the body If an Adder be crept into a mans body which is a thing though it happens but seldom yet it may happen therefore the cure is not amiss this do Take a handful of Rue and bruise it and boil it in the urine of the party and let him drink the decoction and it will make the Beast make more haste out then it did in 25. For the same If such a one be crept into the body of a Beast boil Rue in the urine of the Beast and force him to drink it 26. Winde in the Stomach Take Cummin-seeds two drams Galanga one dram make it up into Troches with Musfilage of Gum Tragacanth so have you an excellent remedy for Winde in the Stomach when you have occasion to use them take half a dram in powder in white wine in the morning fasting an hour after it 27. For the Plague Take of green Walnuts before they have shels of Rue and the inner rinds of Ash-tree of each equal quantities bruise them and infuse them well in white wine distil off the spirit in an alembick so have you a most sovereign remedy for the Plague 28. To draw the Venom out of a Plague Sore Take a Cock chicken pull off the feathers till the Rump be bare then hold the bare Fundament of the Chicken to a Plague Sore and it will attract the Venom to it from all parts of the body and dye when he is dead take another and use likewise you may perceive when all the Venom is drawn out for you shall see the Chicken no longer pant nor gape for breath the party sick will instantly recover 29. How to apply the foresaid Remedy to any part of the body I know no reason but why this may be very well used in the disease though there appear no rising at all it is an easie matter by the Symptoms to judge which of the principal parts is most afflicted then consider the purging places of the Liver are the Groins the purging places of the Heart are the Arm-pits the purging places of the Brain are behinde his Ears 30. Then take a live Pigeon if you cannot get a live Pigeon take a Chicken cut him asunder in the middle and clap the pieces hot to the purging places of the principal part afflicted 31. For a Rupture An excellent remedy for a Rupture is to take Oyl of Nep and dip well in it and binde it on to the place 32. To recover a new-born childe that hath any life in it When a childe is still-born if you perceive any life be in it when you cut the Navel string squeâ—ze out six or seven drops of blood into a spoon and give it to it inwardly and it will instantly fetch life in it again 34. I suppose the Arterial bood to be far better then the Venal blood in this case you may easily know the Artery in the Navel-string from the Vein because it looks whiter 35. Against the stopping of the Tearms in Women newly delivered Many times the Tearms stop in women so soon as they be delivered which costeth many women their lives in such cases take a dozen Peony-seeds and beat them into powder and let her drink them up in a draught of Carduus posset-drink and sweat after it if this do not the deed the first time give her as much more about three hours after 36. For the same The decoction of Vervine and stinking Arrash work the like effect 37. For a Felon Take a Snail out of his shell and chop it very small and binde it on to a Felon and it will instantly cure it 38. Foâ—â—he Sciatica An odd remedy for the Sciatica is this Take a handful of Nettles and sting all the place so far as the pain goeth till it be all blistered to the purpose and so let him go to bed and sleep if he can and the next day he will be well there have been those known to have been cured with this onely medicine that have been so bad they have not been able to stir out of their beds in five or six weeks 39. For the Convulsion A decoction of Clary drunk
The distilled water of Night-shade is excellent good to wash hollow Ulcers but in my opinion the Spirit of the Herb is ten times better CHAP. 19. Of the Leprosie TAke an adder cut off the Head and Tail and cleanse him of his Skin and Entrails then boyl him in Wine and make him into Troches with a few crumbs of bread of which let the Patient take a drachm every morning in a quarter of a pint of the Wine wherein he was boyled if this begin to make his body swell take him to a Hot-house and let him sweat and after sweating let his whole body be anointed with the liquor wherein the Adder was boiled and you shall finde the whole flesh and skin will be renewed and the Patient perfectly cured 2. Viper Wine if it be well made must needs also be very good in this case 3. Make a strong Decoction of Adders in water then let Corn lie in steep in the water certain dayes and feed Hens with the same Corn let them eat no other meat nor drink no other drink but the water it was steeped in and in few dayes you shall see their Feathers will fall off when all their feathers are off then kill them and boil them and let the Leoprous person eat them and drink the water wherein they were sodden and bathe his body in it or at least wise so much of it as is troubled with the Leprosie 4 Take a Snake and roste her with salt afterwards burn her in a pot well closed while she may be all brought into powder of which we may give a drachm at a time in any convenient Liquor to him that hath the Leprosie CHAP. 20. Of Warts THough Warts themselves be no terrible disease yet are they but an ill savoured Ornament to the hands and a worse to the face 2. Put the feet of Hens in hot Embers till the scales thereof be separated and shrunk from her Legs and with the same scales while they be warm rub your warts and in three or four dayes so doing it will drive them away 3. The rinde of a Willow-tree burnt and the ashes tempered with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise to the warts takes them away 4 Agrimony stamped with Vinegar and applied to them doth the like 5. Purslane rubbed upon Warts hath this property that it will pluck them up by the roots 6. Take a red Snail and cut her overthwart the back and save the liquor that cometh from her the which blend with a little Bay-salt being first dryed and beaten into powder and apply it to the Warts and it will instantly kill them 7. The Milk of a Fig-tree if a little of it be put upon Warts it takes them away by the Roots without any pain at all CHAP. 21. To draw any Thorn or Splinter out of the Body SOuthernwood made into an Oyntment with Hogs-grease of its own property draweth out any Splinter or thorn or Iron out of the body of man 2. Goose-dung mingled with the Juyce of Betony doth the like 3. The ashes of burnt Swallows mixed with Vinegar and applied hath the like operation 4. Polipodium stamped with Hogs-grease and applyed to the grief is very good also 5. The root of Gladen being stamped and applied to the place is good in the same operation for it draweth out not onely Thorns and Splinters but also pieces of broken Bones 6. Also if it he drunk inwardly it is exceeding good in all manner of bruises 7. Betony being made into an Oyntment with Hogs-grease is excellent good to draw out pieces of broken bones especially in the head 8. Stamp the Root of Elecampany with the grease of a Hedge-hog and a little Honey and apply it to the place it draweth out Thorns or any thing else that is fastened in the body of man 9. Snails bruised and applyed to the place is a remedy inferiour to none The Expert LAPIDARY OR A Physical Treatise OF THE SECRET VERTUES OF STONES BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. THE Expert Lapidary OR A Physicall Treatise of the secret Vertues of Stones 1. Jacinth OF these there are two kindes red which is the best the other like a Carbuncle which is presently changed by the fire and of a small bigness This Stone being carried about a man preserveth a man from hurt by lightning and preserveth him from the plague if it be brought near to any that hath the plague it loseth its lustre splendor and brightness so it doth being brought near to any poison being beaten into powder and so taken inwardly or born whole about a man it provoketh sleep and encreaseth honour and wisedom Authors for this Cardanus and Wicker 2. Saphire THis being born about one helps all diseases of the skin as Morphew Itch Scabs Ring-worms c. keeps back sweating makes men chaste causeth strength and a good colour takes away vain fears helps Necromancy and troubles by Necromantick Apparitions by divine gift it makes the minde quiet godly and safe being drunk inwardly it helps such as are bit by venomous Beasts and Scorpions inward Ulcers Poyson and Pestilence flesh growing in the Eyes strengthneth and maketh glad the heart being mixed with other Medicines for the same purpose it asswageth Carbuncles by being touched with it being worn it defends from the Pestilence inwardly taken it helps Ulcers in the inner parts and burstness Authors for this Albertus magnus Garcias Cardanus Dioscorides and Gallen 3. Emerald OF Emeralds there are three sorts the best comes from Scilicia and is the softest the next from Peru which is harder and not so deep a colour but more perspicuous and glistering the third which is the worst comes from the West Indies and is of a dull colour scarce to be seen through scarce any that come from Peru are without spots They rejoyce most in their own light and are of more force by night then by day no Stone more safe to carry about one then this the Saphire and Jacinth This Stone stayeth lust and according to Cardanus and Albertus magnus they will break if they be about a man when he deflours a Virgin Being born about one it stayes the Vertigo or dizziness in the head strengthens the memory stayes inordinate passions and affections helps the sight causeth love of Study encreaseth riches being held under the tongue it is good to divine with it causeth eloquence Being taken inwardly it cureth the Falling-sickness bloody Flux it resisteth Poison and helps vain fears as of Fairies Night-Hags Devils c. it helps folly and anger and brings a good condition Cardanus Albertus Magnus Garcias and Aristotle 4. Ruby RUby is a red Stone shining like fire it restraineth lust being born about one but most of all being taken inwardly it resisteth the Pestilence preserveth the body sound strengthens the vital spirits thereby taking away evil thoughts and making the man nimble-witted
the Palsie and Vertigo of the Head Chap. 28. A Precious Water for the Head Brain and Memory c. THis following Water was found out by a learned German it is an excellent and noble Water of Life having many egregious operations to comfort and preserve the whole body from Diseases especially the Head Brain and all the inward parts of the Head to expel and dissolve all infirmities proceeding from coldness and moisture to exhilerate the Instruments of the Soul and quicken the five Senses for it marvellously comforts the four pincipal Members with the Reins and Intestines It procures also the best digestion in the Stomach gives great comfort to the outward Members by its onely odour by taking one part of this Water and two parts of the Water of of Sage Lavander and Rosemary mixed together and wet a spunge therein and foment the Members therewith morning and evening and let it dry in of it self Or if you drink three or four drops thereof in a glass of Wine a little before dinner or supper it comforts the Stomach It is good also to comfort the Head take of this Water one dram with half an ounce of Betony-Water and drink it morning and evening or dip a Crust of Bread in that Water and eat it every morning fasting For the Brain and Memory take of this Water one dram Waters of Rosemary and Marjoram of each half an ounce and use it in like manner as he last For the Breast take of this Water one dram Water of Hysop and Maiden-hair each two drams use it in like manner For the Heart take of this Water one dram of Borage and Bugloss Water each two drams take it as the former For the Stomach take of this Water one dram of Mint and Wormwood-water each two drams use it in manner aforesaid For the Lungs take of this Water one dram adde to it Cycory-Water one ounce and use it as the former For the Spleen take of this Water one dram Waters of Tamarisk and Scolopendrie of each one ounce use it in like manner To comfort all the Members of the Body use one part of this Water in four parts of Wine The way to make this Water is thus Take pul Diamargarit frigid Diarrhodon Abbatis species Diambrae Dianthos laetificans Galleni an two drams Cassiae fistulae noviter extract Zacchari candidi an half an ounce Syrup de Liqueritiâ one ounce Syrup Stechados half an ounce florum R rismarini one dram Moschi Alexandrini one scruple Upon these Species pour two pound of simple Aqua vitae well rectified by a treble distillation in Balneg Mariae distil them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire so that you may tell six or seven between every drop the Musk ought to be tied in a piece of Silk and put into the vial with the distilled water and is not to be distilled with the rest Some putrifie with the aforesaid Species Bugloss-water one pound Balm-water half a pound Rosemary-water two ounces and afterwards distil it in Balneo Mariae Chap. 29. To make a Celestial Precious Water called the Secret of Secrets WE come now to declare unto you the Secret of Secrets a most precious Water called Celestial by the Philosophers because of its heavenly operation the way to make it is thus Take Salviae cum floribus suis Rorismarini Darseni Zinzib albi Garioph Nucis Muscatae gran Paradisi Galangae Calami Aromatici Macro-pip Zedoar an half an ounce Macis Cardamoni Cubeb fol. Rutae fol. Majoranae flor Lavendulae Ros Rub. an two drams Theriac Andromachi Mithridat an a dram and a half Ol. Laurini cort Citri florum Buglossae Borraginis Rorismarini Angelicae Rapentici gran Juniperi Mentastri Menthae Matricariae an a dram and a half Castorei verbeciae cum flor suis Betonicae Ligni Aloes Spicae Indicae gran Peoniae seminis Feniculi Ceori an half a dram Ambrae Moschi an half a scruple Let all these things following be put to digest with Aqua vitae in Balneo Maria four dayes and as many nights viz. Sage Rosemary Rue Marjoram Lavander Roses Mithridate Treacle Oyl of Bayes Bugloss Borrage Angelica Rapontick Juniper-berries Mint Calamint Mother-wort Vervain Betony Castoreum And when they are putrified distil them in a Limbeck in ashes with a gentle fire so that you may number one two three between every drop when these are distilled take the other things viz. Cinamon Mace Nutmegs Grains of paradise Galangal Calamus Aromat Pepper Zedory Cubebs Cardamomi Lignum Aloes Citron Pills Spikenard Piony-roots and seeds Coriander prepared pulverize all these grosly and put them into the distilled water and let them digest together fourten dayes then distil them again by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae afterwards adde the Camphire Rhubarb Saffron Amber and Musk. If you would have the water yet better and more costly adde Pul. Diamargarit Nicholai Diapliris cum moscho Nicholai Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamoschi Mesnae Spec. Diambrae Letificans Galeni pul Dialigni Aloes an half a dram adde twenty leaves of Gold white Sugar half a pound let them stand three dayes in Balneo Mariae keeping the water of the Bath warm afterwards distil it by filter in glass Retorts let one glass stand somewhat higher then the other cut small forms of a filter and hang therein and by them the matter will be distilled let the glass be well luted that no Air may evapâ—rate and this is the most excellent way of distillation of all others There are some Physicians who to comfort the Stomach have invented a green water which they use with the Aqua viae above prescribed or with the Claret following The green water is made on this manner Take Aqua vitae four times distilled by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae four pound Balm dryed three ounces Balsamint two ounces infuse the Herbs in the Aqua vitae eight dayes and then use thereof Note that the Herbs are not to be dryed in the Sun for then the water will be obscure but in the shade and the water will be of a fair green colour and pleasant to the drinker The Claret is made in this manner Take of the best white Wine four pound fine hard Sugar four ounces Cinamon one ounce Coryander prepared three drams Cloves two drams Grains of Paradise and white Ginger of each one dram and a half black Pepper two scruples Zedory half a dram Make them all into powder and afterwards use it as you make Hypocras This some use to take with the Water before prescribed The Vertues of this Water are these IT is good for the memory taking every day half an ounce mixed with Rosemary-water half an ounce water of Marjoram and Balm of each two drams For madness or grief in the brain proceeding from cold take of this water half an ounce Betony-water two drams dip a Linnen cloth therein and apply it to the head For the Vertigo of the head take hereof half an ounce water of
yet declareth the patching that the medicine is rather by force constrained then naturally yieldeth it self to the remedy and so of it self unmeet Wherefore as well the matter thereof is to be changed as the medicine it self And if those corrections need also correction what then I will not say that all simples need their correctours although it be avouched of some and such as carry great authority for their skill in Physick Thus have I gentle Reader for thy benefit I hope made a way to the greater use of our home medicines wherein if I have said freely my minde against strange drugs thou mayest understand that otherwise the way were stopped to our English medicines â—nd blame me not if I say as much for ours as the strangers say for theirs And if as yet by custom â—t seem hard to alter the common course let each practicer look to that I set no laws to any onely â— crave liberty in this point both pleasant and profitable to English men Wherein I have examples of excellent Philosophers and learned Physicians neither broach I any idle conceits of my own Of this minde is Plinius Secundus Fuchsius Rulandus Symphorianus Campegius Octavianus Horatianus Physician to Valentinian the Emperour that all Countreys have sufficient medicines for all diseases I know much more might be said of this point but this I thought sufficient The End The Sovereign Vertues of Carduus Benedictus In English The Blessed Thistle which for the Operation and great Efficacy that God hath given unto it may be rightly so named As also of the rare Vertues of ANGELICA It is excellent for the Head and the parts thereof THis Herb eaten or the Powder or Juice of it drunk keepeth a man from the Head-ache and Megrum it also driveth it away Being taken in meat or drink it is good against Dizziness and the swiming giddiness of the Head It comforteth Brain sharpneth the Wit strengthneth the Memory it is a singular remedy against Deafness for it amendeth the thickness of the Hearing and provokes Sleep The juyce of it laid to the Eyes quickneth the Sight Also the water in the which the Powder or Herb dryed is steeped hath the same effect if the eyes be washed therewith The Herb eaten is good for the the same purpose The Water or Juyce dropped into the eyes cureth the redness bloud-shotten and itching of them Some write that it doth strengthen the Teeth they being washed and rubbed with a cloth dipped in the water or juyce thereof The pouder stauncheth bloud that floweth out of the Nose being applyed to the place It Comforteth the Stomach The Broth of the Herb otherwise called the decoction drunk in wine is good for an evil stomach it helpeth a weak stomach and causeth an appetite to meat Also the wine wherein it hath been boiled doth cleanse and mundifie the infected stomack The powder thereof eaten with Honey or drunk in Wine doth ripe and digest cold Phlegme purgeth and bringeth up that which is in the breast scouring the same of gross humours and causeth to breathe more easily The Herb chewed in the mouth healeth the stench of the breath It helpeth the Heart The powder being taken before a man is infected preserveth him from the Pestilence And a dram of it or a walnut-shell full taken immediately after a man feeleth himself infected expelleth the venom of the Pestilent infection from the heart so that if man sweat afterward he may be preserved The same effect hath the herb boiled in wine or in the urine of a healthful man-childe drunk I mean the decoction or liquor from the which the herb is strained after that it hath been boiled therein The leaves powder juice or water of the herb drunk the patient well covered with clothes sweating three hours expelleth poison taken in at the mouth and other corruption or infection that may hurt and annoy the Heart It helpeth the Liver Lungs and other parts of the body This herb boiled in wine and drunk hot about a quarter of an hour before the fit and the patient afterward well covered in the bed driveth away the Ague The powder and water of this herb drunk with wine hath the same effect The juice drunk with wine is good against shortness of Breath and the diseases of the Lungs It strengthneth the members and is good against the ache of the body This herb boiled in the urine of a healthful manchilde and drunk doth help the Dropsie breaketh all Aposthumes mastereth the Falling-sickness The powder eaten or drunk helpeth against the stitches in the side It is also good for them that begin to have the Consumption called the Ptysick The herb eaten doth strengthen the trembling and Palsie members The powder ministred in a Glyster helpeth the Cholick and other diseases of the guts The water drunk hath the same effect The juice drunk with wine or the herb boiled in wine and drunk hot breaketh the stone and driveth out gravel being sodden in water and the patient sitting over it so that the hot vapour may come unto the diseased place it helpeth against the same infirmity After the same manner being used it is good against the Green sickness Also it healeth the griping pains of the belly it openeth the stopping of the members pierceth and causeth urine The leaves boiled in wine and drunk as is aforesaid provoke sweats consumes the evil blood and ingenders good Also the wine or water in the which this herb is boiled being drunk consumeth the evil humours and preserveth the good It is excellent for one that is bruised with a fall or otherwise The leaves juice broth powder and water of the herb is very good to heal the canker and old rotten festered sores The leaves bruised or pounded and laid to are good against burnings hot swellings carbuncles and sores that are hard to be cured especially for them of the Pestilence and also they are good to heal the bitings of venomous worms and serpents or creeping beasts Finally the doun coming of the flowers thereof when the seed is ripe doth heal cuts and new wounds without pain Thus much of Carduus Benedictus gathered out of the Herbals of divers learned men which although it may be sufficient yet I have thought good here to set down that which two painful and skilful Physicians Matthiolus and Fuchsius have written hereof in Latine whose words as perhaps they may bring some credit to that which is already written so in them something more may be learned or at the least something â—s uttered for the better understanding of that â—foresaid Their words in English are as folâ—oweth Carduus Benedictus is a Plant of great vertue especially against the Pestilence and also against deadly poysons aswel taken inwardly or laid outwardly to the stingings and bitings of venemous Beasts They are healed with this Herb that are sick of a Quarten or other Agues that come with a cold and that by the drinking of the decoction or stilled
beaten into powder of them every morning fasting in white wine to one that is bursten and let him fast an hour after and if that cure hâ—â— not give him nine more 34. Knotgrass is an herb of the 〈◊〉 Mizaldus and cures diseases of the heart and back stone-cholick burstness and resisteth the pestilence 35. The paring of an Apple cut sâ—mewhat thick and the inside laid to eyes troubled with a hot Rheum and bound on at night when they go to bed gives speedy help contrary to expectation 36. They say Piece-grease such as is fried out of Shoe-makers Leather is an excellent remedy for the Gout 37. Shell-snails dryed in an oven and a drachm of the powder of them taken at a time doth in nine or ten dayes cure the black Jaundies It must be taken in Ale in the morning fasting 38. Butter Aqua vitae and Beasts Gall of each a like quantity mixed together cures any Ache or Stitch being anointed with it every morning and evening 39. Galen Gesner The powder of mans bones cure the Falling-sickness according to Galen but Gesner avoucheth he hath done it often with the * Cranium humanum Scull of a man not buried which is the most probable although the other may be true 40. The powder of Stone-pitch given in small Beer two or three mornings together is a notable remedy for such as are bruised and cheap enough too 41. The root of Vervine hanged about the neck of one that hath the Kings-evil gives a strange and unhoped for cure The reason of it is because Vervine is the herb of Venus and Taurus is her house For the time of gathering this and other Herbs I refer you to other Treatises where the matter is particularly handled 42. The tender horns of Bucks Cribonius largus whilest they be covered with a thin hairy skin being sliced and put into a new pot well covered and so dryed in an oven that they may be beaten into powder and some of it given in wine with pepper and mirrhe gives speedy ease for the Chollick 43. Pains of the Bladder and Cods as also the Chollick will be cured if you apply to it once or twice Pellitory of the wall bruised 44. A Hedge-sparrow is of a notable vertue Aetius Egeneta Mizaldus and Experience for the guts detracted and the feathers taken off and so either kept in Salt or converted into Mummy and eaten the Birds I mean not the guts nor feathers it will break the stone either in the Reins or Bladder and bring it forth 45. The Roots of white Lillies boiled in water â—nd the Face washed with the water takes away â—he redness thereof 46. Mizaldus Galen A green jasper hung about the neck of one that hath a weak stomach so that it touch the skin near the region of the mouth of the stomach doth wonderfully strengthen it 47. If you stamp Hariff a little and lay it in soak in spring-water four and twenty hours and then wash any scald or scabby place with it quickly heals it 48. If you boil Parsley and Time well in white wine and in a draught of it put a spoonful of white Sope I suppose Castle sope scraped small and this being drunk up causeth one speedily to make water and is a precious medicine for the Stone 49. Arnoldus Carduus Benedictus stamped and boiled with Barrows-grease Wine and Wheat-flour to an Ointment this is so sovereign that it cures all Ulcers Fistula's and Sores yea though the very Bones be bare 50. Mizaldus A handful of Mugwort stamped and boiled in sweet Sallet-oyl till the juyce be consumed makes an oyl which gives speedy ease to the Gout 51. If your nose bleed on the right side crush the little finger of the right hand Mizaldus if on the leâ—â— side of the left hand and it will cease 52. If you give ten grains of red Corrall in â—owder to a Childe in Breast-Milk for the â—rst sustenance it takes Arnoldus de villâ novâ and it will never â—e troubled with the Falling Sicknesse It â—ems by this it mightily strengthens the â—rain 53. There is an Herb called Speregrass Cupton stamp 〈◊〉 and fill a Walnut-shell full of it and â—pply it to the place pained with the Gout â—nde it on and within six or eight hours it â—ill draw a Blister which cut and let out the â—ater and keep a Colewort-leaf to it till the â—alady be remedied this hath been known to â—re such as have been troubled with this disease â—enty years 54. Boyl the Lees of Oyl till half be consumed G. Vâ—rrâ— Caâ—o â—th which anoint the bottom-corners and feet 〈◊〉 a Chest or Press you put clothes in and 〈◊〉 Moths will trouble them but you had â—t let it be dry before you put your clothes 55. Take a handfull of green Rue gathered in hour of Sol he being strong ten Figs as â—ny Walnuts an ounce of Juniper-berries â—t all these well together with a little Bayâ— and take the quantity of a Hazel-nut â—ry morning it defends the body from â—ilence Poison or any Sickness even â—xtream old age Mithridates Mithreâ—ates was the Authour of it and therefore let him have the credit of it besides with this onely and the blessing of God upon it have I cured such of the Ptysick or Consumption of the Lungs that have been so weak they could not walk about a chamber without leading 56. Some men are so gross and fat that they can hardly walk or do any business let such eat three or four cloves of Garlick every morning with Bread and Butter and fast two hours after it and let their drink be water wherein Fennel hath been boiled it will in a very small time ease them 57. That which is shorn from Scarlet being well died and dried in an oven or otherwise that it may be beaten into powder and half a spoonful of the powder given at a time in red wine will quickly cure the Bloody-Flux 58. If you anoint your temples where the Arteries pass Simeon Sethi once a moneth with the gall of a Partridge it mightily strengthens the memory 59. Rhazis Albertus A Saphire tyed about the neck so as it toucâ— the Region of the heart preserves the beare from poison and the plague and abateth thâ— heat in Feavers and Agues 60. Petrus Hispanus The soles of the Feet rubbed with gooâ— Mustard helps forgetfulness and quickens tâ— motion A man might draw from hence that forgetful persons are usually dull 61. Seethe Ivy-berries in Vinegar and supyour mouth full of it as hot as you can and when it is cold spit it out again and take another sup and do likewise a few such sups will cure the pain of the Teeth 62. Also if you put a little Spirit of Vitriol into the pained tooth Which you may get done by a little Lint tyed to the top of a Bodkin or Wire it works the
honey 100. Syrup of Borage and Buggloss resist Melancholly and cause light Hearts taking away grief and passions thereof Fragmenta aurea The second Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. Mizaldus THe Roots of Sorrel hung about their necks that have the Swine Pocks doth wonderfully help them 2. Briony Roots boiled in water and the water drunk helps the Dropsie 3. Eyebright is an herb of the Sun and is a wonderful strengthner of the eyes used any way either outwardly or inwardly both the leaves stalks and flowers for it is an herb appropriated to them 4. You may easily know whether a Dropsie be hot or cold thus If it begin below and swell upwards it is hot because the nature of heat is to ascend but if it swell downwards it is cold because the nature of cold is to descend 5. Dry a bullocks sheeps or goats Bladder Galen and beat it into powder and give a dram of it in water vinegar or any convenient liquor to such as cannot hold their water or use to piss in bed and it will help them give it at night or morning according as you see cause 6. Rub a green Marigold leaf between your fingers and put it up into your nose and it will draw away abundance of humours and help Rheum anoying the head 7. The Roots of Elder-trees sod in water and the decoction drunk for common drink cures the Dropsie 8. Garlike and Housleek of each a like quantity stamped and applied plaister-wise to the place will help the Gout be it hot or cold 9. White wine Benenius wherein the ends of a pair of tongs have been quenched being before red hot six or seven times being drunk divers times doth help such as have grieved swelled or diseased Spleens 10. Mizaldus It is a signe of health in a sickness when the Gods begin to itch but take heed then of Venerious acts lest you pay for your pleasure 11. The decoction of Walwort either in wine or water doth admirably by being drunk cure the Dropsie 12. Arnoldus de villa nova Coriander-seed being beaten into powder and mixed with Honey and applied Plaister-wise either to Carbuncles or Sores helps them 13. Mizaldus The Berries of winter Cherries stamped and the Juyce pressed out and dryed helps both the Stone and Dropsie 14. Elder-leaves made hot between two Tile-stones and applied to the Forehead and Temples ease the pains of the Head 15. Take the buds leaves or inner-rind of an Elder-tree beat it and drop a drop or two of the juice thereof into the Ear it cures not onely Imposthumes there but also Deafness 16. Mizaldus The Brain of a Weazel dried and drunk in Vinegar cures the Falling-sickness 17. Many men are troubled with watry Stomachs much thin fresh water comming out of their mouthes towards morning it usually comes with a proneness to vomit the vulgar call it water-springs for such or any other Rheum whatsoever that molesteth your body take this most excellent though cheap Medicine Take a little stick and tye some old Oken-leaves about the end of it and cut them pretty round then put them into your mouth as far as you can well suffer them and hold the stick fast between your teeth and abundance of Rheum will come out of your mouth hold your mouth over a porringer and you may see how much Then wash the leaves in water and put them in your mouth again do so as often as you think fit If you do so before meat it will help your digestion 18. Earth-worms slit and washed well in white wine and dried and beaten into powder and a spoonful taken of them in any liquor in the morning fasting in a little time cureth the black Jaundies 19. Olibanum mixed with as much Barows-grease beat the Olibanum first into powder and boiled together make an Ointment which will kill the Lice in Childrens heads and such as are subject to breed them will never breed them after A medicine cheap safe and sure which breeds no anoyance to the brain 20. Tormentil boiled in wine Petrus Hisp and the wine drunk for ordinary drink and the Herb it self that was boiled being applied Plaister-wise to the eyes at night helpeth such as are so blinde they cannot see at all 21. Andr. Mathiolus Briony roots boiled in white Wine and a draught of the Wine drunk every night going to bed helps such as have the fits of the Mother 22. The juyce of Coleworts snuffed up the nose purgeth the head marvellously and taketh away the pains thereof though of never so long continuance 23. Mizaldus The Gums of young children being often rubbed with the brains of a Hare or Cunney their teeth will cut easily 24. Pet. Hisp Fine Aloes boiled well with the juyce of Coleworts and made into pills a scruple being taken at a time at night going to bed doth gallantly purge the head and ease the pains thereof 25. Take a good handful of Arsemart wrap it up in a Bur-leaf and take it up being so wrapped first in cold ashes then cover those cold ashes with hot embers those hot embers with hot coles and let it roast and apply it being well roasted to the place grieved with the Gout change it morning and evening and in three dayes you shall see the most wonderfull effects of it 26. If you beat a plate of Gold very thin when â—ol is in Leo Hermes Arnoldus de villa nova Jupiter and Luna in good Aspect â—nd Fortunate it will do wonders for being â—id to the seam of the Head it strengthens the â—rain and helps the infirmities thereof being â—anged against the region of the Heart it helps â—he diseases thereof faintings sownings c. â—nd causeth gladness being hanged to the Back it cools and strengthens them and helps pains in the back 27. Take all the Urine the party makes at one time that hath the Quartain Ague Mizaldus and knead flour and make a cake with it and when it is baked give it to a Dog of the house do so twice or thrice and in so doing the party will be well and the Dog sick Chuse a Dog for a Man but a Bitch for a Woman 28. To swallow down three grains of Mastich every night when one goes to bed Emp. Ben. Vict. delivereth from the pains of the stomach 29. Mark where a Swine rubs himself then cut off a piece of the wood and rub any swoln place with it and it will help it with this proviso that where the Hog rubs his head it helps the swellings of the head and where the neck those of the neck c. If you cannot apply a part of the thing the Hog rubbed against to the grieved place you must apply the grieved place to that 30. The rinde of an Ash-tree boiled in wine anâ— a draught of the wine drunk six or seven mornings together easeth the Spleen 31.
Pains of the Spleen trouble a man most after meat 32. Egg-shells dried and beaten into powder and given in white wine break the stone 33. Mizaldus Mice-dung with the ashes of burnt Wasps and burnt Hazel-nuts made into an Ointment with vinegar of Roses do trimly deck a bald-â—ead with hairs being anointed with it 34. Six cloves of Garlike stamped and strained into a draught of Rhenish wine and drunk up is a present râ—medy for the stone strangury and chollick 35. Gather Elder-flowers on a Midsummer-day dry them and beat them into powder and take a spoonful of it in Borage-water every morning and evening it restores Youth and conserves it 36. Burn horsleaches into powder and mix them with vinegar and therewithal rub the place where you would have Hair grow no more and you shall have your desire 37. Drinking much Butter-milk makes one laxâ—â—ive 38. The stone of a Swallow beaten into powder Petrus Hispanus and given in drink to such as have the Falling-sickness cures them 39. Mingle two spoonfuls of water with one spoonful of clarified Honey and give it to a woman when she goeth to sleep if she feel gripings and pains in her belly she is conceived with childe else not 40. Green Nettles steeped in the urine of one that is sick twenty four hours Mizaldus if they remain green and fresh the sick will live else not 41. The berries of white Thorns taken in white Wine are of great force to break and expel the Stone 42. Plantane is given with good success to such as have the Plague 43. Wormwood stamped with the white of an egg and applied to the eyes by way of a Plaister is a notable way to take away the redness and bloodiness of them 44. A Garland made of Ivy-leaves Mizaldus laid to the breasts of women that hang flagging gathers them up together decently and makes them round the like will Ivy-leaves do if they be beaten and applied to them 45. Mizaldus If you wash wounds with Wine wherein Agrimony hath been sodden it cleanseth them of their filth and putrefaction 46. Also stamp Agrimony and apply it to wounds that are ill knit or joyned and it will open them again 47. Mizaldus The juyce of Rue mixed with clarified Honey and a drop dropped into the eye at a time takes away dimness of sight 48 A head of Garlick the skins being pulled off bruised and applied in equal parts to the foles of the feet where they are hollow helps them with speed that are pained with the Tooth-ache especially if it come of a cold cause and lie in the nether jaw 49. Mizaldus If you rub Warts with the leaves of a Fig-tree and bury the leaves in the earth the warts will insensibly consume away 50. Briony-berries dried and beaten into powder and drunk in the decoction of Water-cresses doth wonderfull help the Strangury 51. Benedictus Victorius Faventinus Emp. Take of venice Treacle one scruple of liquorice and Cinnamon in powder of each three grains of White Wine an ounce and an half mix all these together and make of them a Potion If a Woman take such a drink as this is every other morning about a fortnight or three weaks before her delivery it will make her labour very easie My Authour saith she will bring forth her childe without any pain at all 52. Take of Yarrow and Plantane of each a like quantity beat them and strain the juyce of them into red Wine a good draught of which being drunk morning and evening will stop a bloody Flux 53. If a Woman desire to know whether she be with childe or not Mizaldus let her make water in a clean copper or brazen vessel at night when she goes to bed and put a Nettle in it if the Nettle have red spots in it next morning she is with childe else not 54. Oxen Kine Bullocks or Horses Absertus will not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts-horn upon them 55. Put two or three of the seeds of Oculus Christi into your eye and within a while after you shall not feel them whereby you will think they are not there at last they will drop 〈◊〉 of themselves compassed about with slimy 〈◊〉 which doth hinder the sight If you 〈◊〉 this now and then it will clear your eyes wonderfully 56. Warts rubbed with a piece of raw Beef and the beef buried in the ground the warts will consume away as the beaf rots in the ground 57. Take the inner rinde of an Oak-tree and boil it well in fair water then bathe any sore with it whether new or old three or four times morning and evening and then anoint it with fresh butter and flour of brimstone well mixed and you shall see a speedy cure 58. Take a Bur-root the bigger the better and scrape it clean then put it in a Pot of new Ale and the Ale will boyl let it stand twenty four hours close stopped and then let one that hath the yellow Jaundies drink a good draught of it and in doing so two or three mornings he will be cured 59. Let him that hath the Strangury drink a draught of small Ale wherein the inner Rind of the young branches of a Hazel-tree hath been boiled first in the morning and last at night and it help him in few dayes 60. Lay a thin piece of raw beaf to the forehead of them that have lost their voices and remove it not all night and in two or three nights it will help them 61. Take the bones of Horses and wash them clean then dry them in the sun then break them and boil them in a Caldron of water a long time and save the fat which cometh from them which is an excellent Oyntment either for Gout or Palsie 62. The ashes of burnt Snails put into the eye take away the spots thereof 63. A piece of raw Beef of an indifferent thickness put in steep all day in good Aqua vitae and laid at night to the temples and let lie there all night stops the waterings of the eyes and all rheums that flow down from the head 64. Draw a coard through the tail of a Water-snake and hang her up Hollerius a vessel of water being under her into which she may gape and after a little time will she vomit up a stone which will drink up all the water this stone being tied to the navil in a piece of fine linnen of one that hath the Dropsie quickly draws out all the water 65. An Egg that is laid on a Thursday the white being emptied out and the empty place filled with salt and gently roasted by the fire without burning till it may be beaten into powder and cankered teeth being rubbed with it kills both canker and worms that eat the teeth 66. White Copperis the quantity of hâ—â—f an ounce dissolved in a pint of water kills all Tetters and ringworms that are washed with
through the back with a sharp knife pull out all the bowels and wipe him clean with a cloth break all the bones and put him into an Alimbeck and distil him with a pottle of Sack and as much red Cows Milk so will you have an excellent spirit for a Cough or Consumption of the Lungs if you take three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting 65. For heat in the Reins Let such as are troubled with heat in the Reins lay to the place a fine cloth dipped in Rose-water juyce of Plantane and the Milk of a Woman which brought forth a Girl 66. An excellent remedy for those that are subject to vomiting Take Wormwood Spearmints and red Rose-leaves of each a handful chop them small and boil them to a Poltiss with red rose-Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities thicken it with Rie-bread grated spread it upon a cloth and apply it to the Stomach of him that is subject to vomiting as hot as he can endure it 67. For an Ague of the Breast Let such Women as are troubled with that inflamation commonly called the Ague in the Breast apply to the place a fomentation made with Rosemary-tops boiled in their urine apply it hot for three or four hours and it will help it 68. For the running in the Reins The Marrow of an Oxes back being dried and beaten into powder and a dram of it taken in the morning in a little red Wine is an excellent remedy for the running of the Reins 69. To take away Freckles from the Hands or Face Such as are troubled with Freckles either upon their hands or face or Sun-burning may easily help themselves if they wash the place with a little juyce of Lemmons wherein Bay-salt hath been dissolved wash the place often and let it dry in of it self 70. Against any Swelling Take Cammomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each a like quantity boil them in white Wine to a Poltiss and apply it as hot as can be suffered to a swelling and it will presently ease the pain and asswage the swelling 71. Against Deafness Stop the ears of one that is deaf with good dried Sewet it many times gives help when nothing else will 72. To stop bleeding Take powder of Earth-worms and put upon a Wound that bleeds and it will instantly stop the bleeding 73. For the same Take the ear of a Hare dry it and beat it to powder and put that powder upon a Wound and it will do the like 74. For him that spits Blood Take the juyce of Betony and temper two spoonfuls of it with four spoonfuls of good Milk and let him that spits blood drink the same quantity four mornings together and by that time he will be whole 75. For a Flux Let him that is troubled with the Flux take the seeds of Trefoyl bruise them well and drink half a dram of them in the morning fasting in white Wine if he be curable it will cure him in three dayes if he be not curable he knows the worst of it it is but dying 76. To stop the bleeding of a Vein being cut If a Vein be cut and you cannot stop the bleeding take Rue and boil it in water then stamp it and apply it to the place and binde some wool over that which was never washed 77. For Veins that are sprung For Veins that are sprung take Beans and husk them then boil them in vinegar and bruise them and apply them Plaister-wise to the place 78. For those that piss Blood Take Garlike bruise it and boil it in water till the third part be consumed a little of this water being drunk presently helps them that piss Blood 79. To cause easie Delivery Let a woman that is with childe and near her time drink a decoction of Betony every morning and she shall be delivered without much pain 80. For the same and to expel the after-birth A decoction of Hyssop made with water and drunk very hot giveth speedy delivery to women in travel yea though the Childe be dead in her womb so soon as she is delivered of a dead childe if you suppose any of the After-birth be left behinde let her keep drinking the same decoction till her body be cleansed 81. For the same Savory used in like manner hath the same effects 82. For the same Also another good remedy to give speedy delivery to women in travel is this Take wilde Tansie or Silver-weed and bruise it and apply it to her nostrils 83. For the same Also another remedy is to take the Roots of Polypodium and stamp them and apply them to the soles of the feet Plaister-wise the childe will quickly come away be it alive or dead 84. For a Surfeit Take the bottom of a wheaten-loaf tost it very well till it be dry and hard then dip it in good Spirit of Wine and wrap it up in a single linen cloth and apply it to the Brest of one that hath surfeited and cannot digest his meat apply it warm and let it lie to the place all night and it will speedily help him and cause him either to vomit up or purge out the evil humors which the Surfeit hath contracted in his body 85. To cure hot Rhume in the Eyes Take twelve or sixteen woodlice some call them sows or slugs wash them clean then stamp them and put three or four spoonfuls of Ale to them and mix them well together in a morter then strain it and let him that is troubled with a hot Rhume in his eyes drink it in the morning fasting and as much at night going to bed and in a few times using it will cure him 86. An admirable Poltiss for any swelling Take Violet-leaves Groundsel Mallows and Chickweed of each a handful chop these small and boil them well in water to a Poltiss thicken it with Barley-meal adding a little rough sheeps suet to it to make it moist so have you an admirable Poltiss for any swelling or inflamation in a wound or ulcer 87. For scabby Heads of Children Take white Wine and Butter of each a like weight boil them together till they come to a salve and you shall finde it an excellent Oyntment for Childrens scabby heads 88. For the Falling-sickness or Convulsion Take the dung of a Peacock dry it and beat it into very fine powder and give the party troubled either with the Falling-sickness or Convulsion so much of it at a time in Succory-water as will well lye upon a shilling if it be a child half so much will serve the turn or less if the childe be very young 89. To cure Tetters or Ring-worms An excellent way to cure Tetters and Ring-worms is to wash the place often with Tanners Woofs 90. Against the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon of bacon set it an end in the middle of a Charcole fire and let it burn till it be as white as choak both in the outside and inside then take it and beat it to
powder and let the sick of the bloody Flux take a drachm of it at a time in Milk thickned with flour 91. Against Heat in the Reins An approved remedy for the heat in the Reins which is a thing causeth hard labour and many times abortion to women is to take a fine linnen cloth and dip it in Housleek warm it and apply it to the Reins 92. To ease a woman of her After-pains Take Tar and Barrows-grease of each equal quantities boil them together and in boiling adde a little Pigeons-dung to it spread some of it upon a linen cloth and apply it to the back of a woman newly delivered that is troubled with After-pains and it will give her ease 93. For the same Give a Woman that is troubled with After-pains pains half a dram of Bay-berries beaten in powder and given her to drink in a little Muskadel 94. To cure the swelling of the Cods Stamp Rue and apply it to the Cods that be swelled and it will presently asswage it 95. Take the juyce of Valerian and wet a tent in it and put it into the Wound where any piece of Iron is broken in and stamp the said herb and lay at top of it and it will speedily not onely draw out the iron but also speedily cure the Wound 96. To cure the biting of a mad Dog So soon as a man feels himself bit with a mad Dog or any other venemous Beasts or at least so soon as he can possible get it let him take green Fig-leaves and press out the juyce of them three or four times into the wound if it be at such a time of the year when Fig-trees have no leaves take the rinde of the Fig-tree and bruise it and â—pply it to the Wound 97. For the same They say Mustard made with good Vinegar and applied to the wound works the same effect 98. For a Wound So soon as a man is wounded let him wash the blood clean out of the Wound either with white-Wine or with his own Piss and presently put the juyce of Thapsus Barbatus into it 99. A medicine to drive out the small Pox. Take of distilled Taragon water eight spoonfuls and put thereto six grains of Bezar or Unicorns horn or for want of those two put so much Saffron but the other is the better let it be warm double the portion as you see cause taking nothing an hour before nor an hour after it 100. To avoid Phlegm Take clarified Posset-drink and put thereto sweet Butter the yolk of an Egg and a little small Ginger Hysop red Mints and Sugar seâ— these seethe all together and drink thereof first and last as warm as you can suffer it The Garden Plat OR A very brief account of such Herbs c that excel and are some ofâ— them most useful in Physical and Chyrurgical Cures on emergent and sudden occasions HOundstongue stamped and bruised heals several wounds The Powder of Butter-bur alias Pestilent-wort the leaves in Summer and Roots in Winter expelleth the Plague by sweat drunk in Ale Beer or Wine Fumitory stamped and drink the juyce in Ale Beer or Wine purgeth Choller and doth cleanse the Blood Germander stamped and drunk doth purge womens flowers and helps the Green-sickness Celandine or Fig-wort or Tetter-wort or Pile-wort or Swallow-wort or Marsh-marigold these doth help Tetters Ring-worms Piles and Eye-sight Eye-bright the water helpeth the eyes washed therewith and the Powder eaten with â—hâ— yolk of an Egg and Mace restoreth 〈◊〉 sight The roots of Psillependula beaten and drunk cures the Stone Water-bittary alias Brown-wort stamped and laid to helps old and new sores Pellitory of the Wall steeped and drunk cures the Stone Egremony stamped and drunk helps Lunatick persons Saint-Johns-wort St. Peters-wort and Tutson-leaves stamped helps old sores Mercury the Herb stamped and drunk purgeth women and weak folks Shepherds-purse or Sinkfield stamped and drunk helps the Flux and so doth Plantane and Knotgrass Scabious stamped and drunken helpeth inward Imposthumes Divels-bit stamped and drunken helps the Ague Spown-wort alias Scurvey-grass stamped and drunken helps Dropsies and Scurvey Sanicle stamped and drunk inwardly helpeth Wounds and laid to outwardly Comfrey helpeth the Ruptures stamped and drunken and laid to outwardly it helps wounds and joyns them together Hyssop boiled bruised and drunken helps the Lungs Mints bruised and drunken comforteth the Heart so doth Sage White Horehound or Balm distilled or otherwise helps inward grief Rue expelleth the Plague Fennel Dill and Anniseed and Cummin breaks winde and helps the Stone Saxifrage stampt and drunken and seeds of Gromwel helps Winde and Stone above all others Betony helps the head and stomach Lovage restores the Lungs Pellitory of Spain expelleth the Plague Three Leaves of Arsarabacca stampt and drunken purgeth upward and downward English green Tobacco stampt and mixt with fresh Butter will heal a wound a sore or a scabbed or scald head Dragon-wort stampt and drunken expelleth the Plague or distilled and so doth Arone or Priests-Pintle Cuckow-pintle Centaury purgeth Choller by siege and so doth Rheubarb Elina Campany purgeth melancholly The seeds of Piony helps the falling evil Valerian or Setwal expelleth the Plague stampt and drunken English Galangal comforteth the heart Helleborus called neezing powder purgeth the head Aloe alias Sea-green purgeth Choller Laurel-leaves laid in Vinegar twenty four hours and dried the powder drunk purgeth Choller Phlegm and Melancholly The root of Elder or Danewort stamped and drunken helpeth Dropsies or swoln Legs or Limbs All Elder-leaves Plantane leaves Elm-leaves or all Oak or green leaves stamped and laid to will heal a green wound Ground-Ivy boiled in water and laid to a sore will heal it Wilde Bugloss alias Carpenter-work bruised and laid to healeth the green wound Maiden-hair boiled and drunken heals the Lungs and inward parts Oyl of white Poppy anointed upon the forehead will cause one to sleep The seed of Henbane mixed in a Wax-candle and the mouth holden over when it burneth will draw the Worms out of ones Teeth Sea-holm-roots candied with Sugar called Iringo-roots will restore nature And the powder of them will break Winde and Stone being drunken Yellow Dock-roots boiled and drunken purgeth by Urine and siege Water-cresses stamped or boiled and drunken is good for the Stone Dropsie and Scurvey Tamarisk the small or the rinde of the great Tamarisk boiled and drunken helps the Spleen Barberies in conserve or sirup doth stop the Flux and cool the body Licorice helps the Stone Stomach and Winde Oranges and Lemons helps a hot Stomach in the burning Ague Distilled Water of Oak-leaves stops the Flux Misletoe of the Oak stamped and drunk helps the falling evil Ash-tree â—â—â—ll suffer no Spider or venemous thing to coâ—â—nder the shadow the leaves steeped in Wine and drunk will make one lean An Elder-leaf laid unto a mans feet that is chaffed in going between the Toes or other places will heal it Costemary alias Balsum-mint stampt and bruised will heal a Wound as fast
drink in warme White Wine they wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys and bladder of Gravel and provoke Urine exceedingly 8 Take all the blood and the whole skin of a Hare put them into a new pot that hath a cover lute it up close and burn it in the fire to ashes the Hares skin and blood I mean and not the pot Give the Patient a small spoonful of these ashes in White Wine it mightily breaks and drives out the Stone 9 The Stone that hath been taken out of a man or the Gravel which men void being taken back again inwardly a drachm at a time doth wonderfully break and bring away the Stone and is indeed the most exquisite remedy that I know 10 A Tode-stone being beaten into powder and a little of the powder given to the Patient causeth the Stone incontinently to break and come away 11 Take Snails dry them to powder slime and shells and all you shall finde it a most exquisite remedy being taken inwardly to break the stone 12 Egg-shells dryed and beaten into powder is a good remedy and so is the Juyce of Mugwort if you drink the quantity of a quarter of a pint in the morning fasting 13 The Gum of Cherry-trees and also of all Plum-trees being dissolved in White Wine and drunk breaketh the Stone and cleanseth the Kidneys and Bladder of Gravel 14 Take of Goats Blood the Liver Lungs Reins Yard and Stones of the Goat make puddings thereof in the great Gut of the said Goat order them well and boyl them as you do Hogs puddings and let him that is troubled with the Stone eat them as meat not as Medicine their wonderful effects in breaking the Stone will be admirable in your eyes 15 Sometimes it is a difficult matter to know whether the Stone be in the Reins or in the Bladder in such a case thus do take a handful of Chickweed and boyl it well in water then strain it out and apply it to the neck of the Bladder if the grief increase the Stone is in the Bladder else not 16 Goats piss drunk breaketh and expelleth the Stone 17 Take two or three young Liverets drown them in Vinegar that they may dye there then put them into a new pot lute them up close and burn them in the fire to ashes these ashes taken inwardly is an excellent remedy for the Stone 18 If a man that is subject to the Stone would use himself to eat no other food but the flesh of Foxes and anoint the Region of his Bladder with the grease of the same beast it would in a short time cure him 19 A Hedge Sparrow the feathers pulled off and the guts pulled out and the body converted into Mummy or else salted and eaten raw is an excellent remedy for the Stone 20 It is an excellent good way to break the Stone often to anoint the Region of the Bladder with a strong Spirit of Camomile drawn in Allembick 21 Lignum Aphrituum cut in small pieces and infused in strong spirit of Wine the longer you infuse it the better make an excellent good drink for such as have the stone provided you drink it but moderately 22 But Lapis Nephriticus is far better being either born about one and beaten into powder and given inwardly whereby it appears that there is far more vertue in the Mineral kingdom then there is in the Vegitable the Stone is very scarce to be had in London if it be to be had at all because it is never used by the neglect of our Colledge of Physicians CHAP. 7. Of the Strangury IN the Strangury the Urine comes away by drops with much pain with a great desire to piss 2 Ox dung mixed with honey and applied warm to the neck of the Bladder is very good 3 The Decoction of English Galanga provoketh Urine much 4 The neck of the Bladder anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog is exceeding good to open the stoppage of Urine 5 And here by the way give me leave to quote one experience of my own though it be something out of course not a year before the writing of this I had a Patient who had layen a long time sick of the Stone I gave him the water of a Hedge-hog distilled in an Alembick so much of it as I had which was about a pint of which he took a quarter of a pint every morning during the time he took it the violence of his pain ceased and he avoided such an incredible deal of Gravel which was wonderful to behold but that being gone no more to be had nor to be procured by reason of the season of the year his pains returned and not long after followed his dissolution being open'd there was two great stones found in his body in each Kidney one 6 Apply Galbanum being spread upon a Plaister upon the Belly under the Navel My Author saith it causeth the Patient to make Urine presently any that please may try it I can give no reason for it 7 Raddish-roots scraped clean and sliced thin and infused all night in White Wine and stopped close and a quarter of a pinte taken the next morning is a mighty great provoker of Urine but it hath no very pleasing taste 8 Herbs that are held Medicinal for this disease are Fennel Parsley Gromwel and Saxifrage both Seeds Leaves and Roots the Leaves and Bark of Hazel and the Leaves of Plantane 9 Warm Eggs applied to the neck of the Bladder wonderfully provoke Urine 10 The Roots of Filupendula being dryed and beaten to powder and taken inwardly are excellent good for the Strangury It is called Drop-wort whether it be because it cures them that piss by drops or because the roots hang like drops by small strings it matters not the one is their vertue the other shews that it is so 11. The best remedy in the world against the Strangury is this to save all the water the diseased party maketh and let the diseased party drink it down back again and that in very few dayes will cure him CHAP. 8. Of Vlcers in the Yard THe causes are clearly sharp and gnawing humors 2. Make a decoction of Sage in white Wine and inject it often into the Yard 3. If the Yard be swelled anoint it with warm Oyl of Roses 4. The juyce of Plantane injected into the Yard helpeth the Ulcers thereof 5. If you boil the Milk of a Goat or of an Ass with its equal quantity of juyce of Plantane till you have clarified it well and now and then drink a spoonful of it it helps not onely Ulcers in the Yard but also in the Kidneys and Bladder 6. If much sharp humors resort to the place â—s usually there doth in such cases take of those Cakes called Trochisi albi Rhazis with Opium â—ne dram Plantane-water four ounces beat the â—roches into powder and mix them with the â—lantane-water and inject it into the Yard with â— syringe a little at a time not all at once CHAP.
of Solomons-seal to come much behinde it 5. Make a Pessary or Goats-dung and the juice of Shepheards purse or Ribwort or Plantane and Yarrow and Pomgranate-flowers it helps mightily in this case 6. Make a bathe of Plantane Ribwort Teazle Shepheards-purse Pomegranate flowers the rinde of an Oak put it in a Close-stool and let the diseased Woman sit over it 7 As many Grains as a Woman doth drink of Corriander-seed so many dayes shall the tearms be stopped saith my author I set it down rather for the oddness of the conceit rather then to perswade any one of the truth of it 8. Red Corral being drunk stops the tearms 9. The ashes of burnt A corns cast up the 〈◊〉 trix stops the tearms and rids the Womb of all filthy noysom humors 10. The Decoction of Ribwort drunk is a most excellent remedy to stop the tearms 11. The water that is found in a hollow Oak is very good being drunk to stop the tearms 12. Dried Acorns beaten into powder and Acorn Cups and Comfry Roots and the Roots of Solomons-seal of Bistort Tormentil and Cinkfoyl are very good to take inwardly 13. The herb St. Johns-wort being beaten into powder and drunk doth stop both White and Red Flux 14. Also Dragons blood is much commended for it 15. The Flowers of Red Archangel or dead Nettles stop the Red Flux the Flowers of White the Whites 16. Many times this Flux comes upon women in Labour especially such as fall in Labour before their time and then it is exceeding dangerous in such a case the speediest cure for there must be no dallying is to force away the conception 17. If you can save them and dry them and give them her down back again it may do wonders CHAP. 14. For the fits of the Mother THe cause is cleerly windy vapors ascending from the Womb upwards 2. Stamp nettles and apply them to the matrix is very good 3. Apply a plaister of Galbanum to the Navel it is a most admirable remedy to restrain those noysom vapours I never yet knâ—w it fail 4. It is a strange thing that many that lie sick of this infirmity though their speech be even taken away yet their pulse gives no indication of any sickness at all 5. Therefore if you finde any Woman in that case especially if they fetch their breath short do not say they counterfeit but judge the disease to be the fits of the Mother 6. Let her receive stinking Vapors at her Nose and sweet vapors at her Privities for the Womb draws to all sweet things and flies from all stinking 7. Nettle-feed beaten into powder and drunk in Wine doth asswage all pains of the Womb and takes away the windiness thereof 8. Take of extract of Arrach half an ounce Assa-foetida two drachms make them up into Pills with powder of Arrach and let the diseased Woman take a scruple morning and evening 9. The Leaves of Burs draw the Womb which way you please therefore in this disease apply them to the soles of the feet but in falling out of the Womb apply them to the crown of the head 10. Bur-seeds do the like CHAP. 15. Of swellings of the Breasts and Nipples THe cause may be either cold taken at the Breasts which causeth inflamations there such as women call the Ague in the breast 2. Or else the curdling of the Milk there when it is turned into a substance like Cheese 3. Sometimes the nipples are so swelled through superfluity of Milk that the childe cannot draw them 4. In such a case take Bean flowers and mix it with the white of an Egg and apply unto them 5. Nettles boiled in Vinegar and applied to them instantly helps them 6. Crumbs of Bread mixed with the juyce of Smallage and applied unto the Breasts helps them when the Milk is curdled in them 7. If there be any hollow Ulcer in the Breast Goats-dung mixed with Honey soon easily and gently cleanseth out all the filth and healeth it 8. A Poltiss made of Mallows Chickweed Malt-flour and Sheeps-suet takes away the Ague in the Breast without breaking 9. Goats-dung mixed with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise dissolves the curdled Milk 10. The ashes made of a Dogs Head helps cankrous Ulcers of the Breast 11. Pigeons-dung mixed with Honey is of great efficacy in knotted Breasts 12. Knot-grass being carried about the person takes away the swelling of the Nipples incontinently 13. The Breasts anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog helps the curdling of Milk and opens the Pores exceedingly also if the Nipples be swelled anoint them with it it instantly helps them 14. The shells of Partridges Eggs stamped and mingled with Tar helps the Nipples when they are so chapped that they are ready to fall off Crab-claws taken inwardly are very good in all diseases of the Breast yet my opinion at present is that the whole Crab converted into Mummy and taken a drachm at a time is better CHAP. 16. Of Childe-birth DAte stones beaten into powder and given in Wine doth give most wonderful ease to women in labour 2. Dip a linen cloth in the juyce of Parsley and put it up the Privities it causeth the deliverance of the dead childe 3. The same being drunk brings away the After-birth 4. It is also it very good thing being taken inwardly to cleanse the Womb of ill humors and therefore a syrup of it ought to be kept alwayes in the House it furthers conception much 5. Polipodium stamped well and applied to the feet of a woman in travel bringeth away the childe whether it be alive or dead 6. Castorium or the spirit of it taken inwardly is held to be very good 7. The ashes of an Asses-hoof mixed with Oyl and the Privitives anointed with it is a very good and easie remedy 8. Also give unto a Woman in this case another Womans Milk to drink it causeth speedy delivery 9. The decoction or rather the juyce of Vervine given to drink to a woman in travel causeth speedy deliverance also 10. A dram of Myrrh given in powder to drink in any convenient liquor bringeth the childe away whether it be alive or dead 11. Boil Mugwort in water till it be a Poltis and apply it hot to the Thighs of a woman labouring with childe it causeth both birth to come away and if you let it tarry long there it will bring the Womb away also 12. Dittony in powder given a dram at a time to a woman labouring with a dead childe bringeth it away 13. Take Peony-seed in powder mix it with so much Oyl that you may make it into a Plaister and apply to the small of the back of a woman in labour according to the opinion of my Authour it causeth delivery without pain 14. A suffumigation made of the Horns and Hooss of a Goat being put in a Close-stool the woman sitting over it wonderfully moveth the Womb to deliverance 15. Betony is held to be a precious herb to be taken
inwardly in this case 16. It is reported but whether it be true or no I know not that if there be any Pears in the room where a woman is in labour they wonderfully hinder delivery 17. Juniper-berries eaten or rather the distilled spirit of them drunk causeth delivery both of the childe and after-burthen 18. Dissolve a Swallows-nest in water strain it and let the woman labouring with child drink the water a good draught of it at a time it causeth the birth of the childe to be very easie CHAP. 17. Of the Gout TOwn cresses stamped and made in a Poltiss adding a little Sheeps-suet to it to keep it moist and applied to the place is a very good remedy 2. The place being anointed continually with Rape-seed-oyl will in time help the disease without any other remedy 3. The root of a Hollyhock or else of a Marsh-mallow being stamped and mixed with the grease of an old Dog and applied to the place will help the Gout in three dayes time 4. The seed of Plantane being beaten into powder and mixed with Hogs-grease and applied to the place is a great help against the Gout Take Mustard seed Figs and Honey a little Bread and a little Vinegar beat them all together and binde them to the grief Take the flesh of a fat Cat the grease of a Goose of a Badger and of a Fox Ivy-berries Sage Rue Virgins-wax Frankincense the Yolks of rosted Eggs and snails put all these in an earthen pot that hath a hole made in the bottom for the purpose lute the top of it close with paste that no Air may go out nor in and put the bottom of this pot into the mouth of another whole pot that is fit to receive it and lute them close together then dig a hole in the earth fit to receive the undermost pot and cover it up close with earth then make a fire about the uppermost and there will distill out of it a most excellent Oyntment to cure the Gout 7. Take six Bats or Flittermice boyl them in rain-rain-water with a few sprigs of Willow it makes an excellent Bath to cure the Gout 8. The Gouty place being anointed with Oyl of Henbane takes away the pain 9. Take Snails and bruise them and apply them to the place is a most admirable remedy 10. Kill a puppy dog that is not thirty dayes old and anoint the grieved place with its blood 11. Take a whelp of the age aforesaid and roste him and when he is half rosted cut him through the midst and apply him hot to the grieved place 12. Henbane heat hot between two Tile-sherds and applied to the place helps the disease 13. Make a plaister with Opium Saffron and the Yolks of Eggs and apply to the place 14. Make an Oyntment with Emmets and their Eggs and Hogs-grease adding a little Bay-salt to it and anoint the grieved place with it 15. The distilled Spirit of Misletoe the grieved place being bathed with it is as excellent a remedy for the Gout as most is 16. The ashes of burnt Time mingled with the White of an Egg and plaistered upon the place helpeth the Gout 17. A Bath made with Water wherein Emmets and their Eggs being first bruised have been boyled doth quickly help the oldest Gout that is 18. A most admirable remedy for the Gout but that is very difficult to be gotten in these parts is to anoint the place with the grease of a Lion 19. Gallen saith that the ashes of Coleworts being mixed with Hogs-grease will help the Gout in three dayes time if it be anointed with it 20. The dung of a Stork mixed with Hogs-grease helpeth the Gout though of long continuance 21. An Oyntment made of Rosa Solis and Hogs-grease is an excellent remedy 22. Hermodactils beaten into powder and made with an Oyntment in to Hogs-grease is very good 23. Pigeons-dung boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed and used as a plaister helpeth the Gout 24. Take a pound of wax five pound of good Oyl a pound of good Wine boyl them together till the Wine be consumed afterwards mingle therewith two drachms of Euphorbium in powder make an Oyntment thereof the effects thereof hath been proved in Gouts of all sorts 25. A drachm of the Juyce of the rinde of a Popplar-tree being drunk every morning is an excellent remedy if you cannot get a drachm of the Juyce bruise the Bark and make a strong Decoction of it and of that you may drink a quarter of a pint CHAP. 18. For the Fistula and other hollow Vlcers MIngle the Milk of Spurge with Hogs-grease and boyl them together till they be well incorporated then put a little powder of Myrrh to them anoint the tent with this Oyntment and put it into the hole of the Fistula and it will cleanse it of all manner of filth 2. Take of Plantane Ribwort Primrose-Leaves and Dazies dry them and beat them into powder and let him that hath a Fistula take three drachms of this powder in a day inward in any convenient Liquor viz. one in the morning another at noon and the third at night it is a sovereign cure for all sorts of Fistula's and hollow Ulcers if they be cureable if not my Author saith the Patient will vomit up the Medicine again 3. The ashes made of a Dogs-head being burnt in a new pot helpeth any Fistula or Canker and cleanseth the hollow Uâ—cer of all his filthiness 4. If the Fistula have many holes or if there be but one and that one be so straight that it will not admit of a Tent as many times it happens by reason of hardness of the lips in such a case there is no better remedy then this take Goats-dung and boyl it well with Honey then strain it when it is hot and drop a little of it warm into the hole it taketh away the Swelling and draweth out the Filth and Corruption purgeth away the rotteness and healeth up the Fistula 5. If the Fistula be outwards put thereto the Juyce of Doves-foot and it will heal it if it be inward drink it inwardly and it will do the like 6. Let such as are troubled with Fistula's take a drachm of Myrobalans in powder every morning if the cause come of Melancholly let him take the powder of Indian Myrobalans but if it proceed of Choller use Citron Myrobaâ—ans 7. If it be a woman that have the Fistula drop into it the Juyce of a Cows turd but if it be a man that hath it let it be Juyce of a Bulls â—urd 8. The Juyce of Plantane put into the holâ—owness of the Fistula will help it 9. The Juyce of Ribwort and the Juyce of Pimpernel will do the like 10. If the Fistula be clean a Tent made of Lead being put into it will cure it you may pull 〈◊〉 out now and then if you please and put it in â—gain 11. Let such as are troubled with Ulcers or Fistula's use Avens in their ordinary drink 12.
BEer is made of Malt of Hops and Water It is a natural drink for a Dutch-man and of late it is much used in England to the detriment of many English men especially it killeth them which are troubled with the Collick and the Stone and the Strangullion for the drink is a cold drink and doth inflate the Belly as it doth appear by the Dutch-mens Faces and Bellies if the Beer be well served and be fined and not new it doth qualifie the heat of the Liver Of Cider CIder is made of the Juyce of Pears or the Juyce of Apples sometimes of both but the Best Cider is made of clean Pears which are Dulcet it is not praised in Physick for Cider is cold of operation and full of ventosity it ingenders evil humors and doth asswage too much the natural heat hinders digestion and hurts the Stomach except it be to those which are constantly used to it it is most in request in Harvest time Of Mead. MEad is made of Honey and Water boiled together if it be fined and pure it preserveth health but it is not good for them which have the Chollick Of Metheglin MEtheglin is made of Honey Water and Herbs boiled and sod together if it be fined and stale it is better then Mead. Of Whey WHey if it be well ordered especially that Whey the which doth come of Butter is a temperate drink and moist and it doth nourish and cleanse the breast purgeth red colour of the face clarified as it ought to be it purges moderately and cannot be sufficiently commended Posset Ale POsset Ale is made with hot Milk and cold Ale it is a temperate drink and is good for a hot Liver and for hot Feavers especially if cold Herbs are sod in it Of Coit COit is a drink made of water in the which is laid a sowre and a salt Leaven three or four hours then it is fit to drink it is usually drunk in Picardy in Flanders in Holland and in Brabant Of Honey HOney as well in meat as in drink is of admirable efficacy for it not onely cleanseth and nourisheth but it also for a long time preserveth that incorrupted which is put into it this excellent matter is most wonderfully wrought and gathered by the little Bee Mead which is made on part of Honey and four times so much of pure water boiled till no skin doth remain Galen highly commends as an excellent drink to preserve health There are many rare qualities in Honey which I intend hereafter particularly to write of Of Bread A Vicen saith that bread made of Wheat causeth fat especially when the bread is of new Wheat Bread made of fine flour without Leaven is slow of digestion but it doth nourish if it be truly ordered and well bak't when it is Leavened it is soon digested as some old Authors affirm But bread having too much brand in it is not laudible In Rome and other high countries their Loaves of bread are little bigger then a Walnut and many little Loaves joyned together which do serve for great men and are saffroned I praise it not I do love Manchet bread and great Loaves which are well moulded and thorow bak't the brand abstracted Bread made of Mestling or of Rye MEstling-bread is made half of Wheat and half of Rye and there is also Mestling made half of Rye and half of Barley Some strange people will put Wheat and Barley together Bread made of these aforesaid grain or corns thus potched together may satisfie the belly but will never do good to man no more then horse-bread or bread made of Beans and Pease Howsoever this matter doth go much by the education or the bringing up of the people which have been used to such bread Barley doth ingender cold humors Pease and Beans and the substance coming from them are windy 〈◊〉 but if one have an appetite to eat and drink of 〈◊〉 grain besides Malt or Barley let him drink of what may be made of Oats for Haver-cakes in Scotland are many a good Lierd and Lierds Dish and if it will make good Haver-cakes consequently it will make good drink Good bread doth comfort confirm and stablish a mans heart Hot Bread is unwholesome for any one foâ— it doth lie in the stomach like a spunge exhausting undecocted humors yet the smell of new Bread is comfortable to the Head and to the Heart Simnels and Cracknels and Bread bak't on a stone or on iron and Bread that Saffron is in is not so wholesome Burnt Bread hard Crusts and pasty Crusts do ingender Choller adust and Melancholly humors Wherefore chip the upper Crusts of your Bread and whoso doth use to eat the second Crust after meat it maketh him lean and so doth Wheaten Bread the which is full of Bran. Bread which is nutritive and praised in Physick should have these properties First it must not be new but a day and a night old it is not good when it is past four or five dayes old except the Loaves be great it must not be mouldy nor musty well molded it must be thorow bak't it must not be heavy temperately salted Old Bread or stale doth dry up the blood or natural moisture of man and it doth ingender evil humors and hinders digestion wherefore there is no Surfeit worse then the eating of bad bread occasions Of Broaths in general ALl manner of liquid things as Pottage and other Broaths do repleat one that eats them with ventosity Pottage is not so much used in all Christendom as in England Pottage is made of the liquor in the which flesh is sod with putting to chopped Herbs and Oatmeal and Salt The Herbs with the which Pottage is made withal if they be pure good and clean not worm-eaten nor infected with the corrupt air desending on them they comfort notwithstanding their ventosity But for as much as divers times many parts of England are infected with the Pestilence through the corruption of the air which doth infect the Herbs in such times it is not good to make Pottage nor to eat them Of Furmity FUrmity is made of Wheat and Milk for it is hard of digestion But when it is digested it doth nourish and strengthen Of Pease Pottage and Bean Pottage PEase Pottage and Bear Pottage doth repleat with ventosity Pease Pottage is better then Bean Pottage for it is sooner digested lesse windy they are both absâ—â—â—ine and do cleanse the body Bean Pottage encrease gross humors Of Almond Milk and Rice Pottage ALmond Milk and Rice Pottage Almonds are hot and moist it doth comfort the Breast and it doth mollifie the Belly and provokes Urine Rice Pottage made with Almond Milk doth restore and comfort Nature Alebrues Caudles and Cullesses ALebrues Caudles and Cullesses are for weak men which cannot eat sollid meat Caudles made with Hemp-seed and Cullesses made of Shrimps do warm the blood and comfort Nature Honey Sops and other Broaths HOney Sops and other Broaths of what kinde or substance
Lavender and Sage an three drams and take every morning fasting Diapliris cum moscho Nicholai For deafness drop of this water every morning and evening into the ear and rest upon that ear that it may go out again For Worms in the ears take of this water half an ounce Juyce of Rue two drams or if you cannot get the Juyce take the distilled water thereof adding a little Aloes Epatick subtilly powdred And of this distil a little into the ear morning and evening lying upon the other side and after a little time turn and lie upon that side where the Wormes are and they will come forth and dye For the eyes take of the aforesaid water half an ounce Fennel-water and water of Valerian of each one dram drop thereof into the eyes For filth of the mouth or nose give every day half an ounce thereof with white Wine in which Mints and Roses have been boiled For the Epilepsie drink thereof every day half an ounce with peony-Peony-water one ounce or thus Take the Root and seeds of Peony Viscus Quercinus of each equal parts boil them in white Wine and give them to the Patient with the said water For the Palsie foment all the members with this water and drink thereof every morning one ounce For lost speech take of the said water half an ounce waters of Lavander Peony Sage of each two drams drink it and take of Mithridate one dram with Wine wherein Castoreum hath been boyled Against Melancholly take of the aforesaid water half an ounce with the waters of Bugloss and Balm each two drams waters of Harts-tongue and Borrage each one dram mix them together and drink it three hours before dinner Against the Dropsie take of the said water one part water of Elder-flowers two parts Fennel water three parts mix them together and take for a Dose half an ounce For the Stone take of this water one part Saxifrage-water Wintercherry-water Aqua Millii solis Rhadish-water of each two parts Against Sterrility take of this water two drams of white Wine water of Rosemary and Mother-wort each two drams drink it morning and evening and twice or thrice in a week take Diamargarit sem Avicenna Many other excellent vertues hath this celestial water which I omit here for brevities sake leaving them to manifest themselves by experience FINIS The Table to the several Treatises of the whole Book The English Apothecary The transcendent sufficiency of English Herbs being fundamental Reasons PRoving our Medicines to be most congruent with our bodies and the great prejudice we daily receive by the use of forreign Drugs as also by their sophistication to which Fuchsius Martino Rulandus c. agree page 35 The correcting of Scamony of its malignity page 19 Of Mechoaca and Opium and the prejudice we receive thereby unless well corrected page 21 Of Rhubarb and its properties page 24 The inconveniency of drinking Wine and that of Honey may be made a better and more wholesome drink page 31 Of Milk and its vertues page 41 The cure of Poysons by venomous beasts with Peniroyal Treyfoil c. page 42 The cure of the Prench-Pox not onely with Sarsaparilla but with the essence of Primroses and Cowslips page 43 The rare vertue of Cink-foyl Worms Wood-lice or Sowes Lichenes c. For the cure of Tertian-Agues Falling-sickness Tooth-ach c. page 44 To cure the bitings of venomous beasts by the decoction of Frogs page 44 53 To cure Cankers by the juyce of Nightshade page 49 To cure the Leprosie with Plantane and its vertues page 50 To cure the Falling-sickness with Misleto Peony-root a mans skull c. page 50 The cure of Poysons in particular page 51 52 The cure of the Pestilence page 52 The cure of hot diseases by contrariety page 54 The cure of cold diseases by contrariety ib. The cure of moist diseases page 55 The cure of dry diseases ib. Rules to be observed in cures page 55 56 Of purgations and their manner both by vomit and stool page 56 Preparatives for the Humors before evacuation c. page 60 The cure of Wounds and the broken Bones by Herbs c. page 61 Of Anodines Causticks Emmolients c. page 62 63 The occult properties of sundry Herbs being appropriated to the Head Heart Liver Spleen Stomach Lungs c. ib. That the Brain is comforted by Herbs as well as by Spices page 68 The sovereign vertues of Carduus Benedictus with its use or manner of taking it page 71 Of the sovereign vertues of Angelica with its temperature and use page 79 A discourse shewing what members of the body are governed by the twelve Signs page 82 Of the members of the body and how they are governed by the seven Planets page 184 A brief accompt of some simples appropriated to the Heart page 186 The Chyrurgeons guide or the errors of unskilful Chyrurgeons page 195 The first error of their curing the Lues venerea or French-Pox page 195 The second error when the disease cometh to suppuration page 198 The third error is concerning Wounds in the Breast page 201 4. Of their applications of Trepans Terribelles for fractures of the head page 203 5. Touching the punctures of Nerves page 204 6. Of the abuse by Runners or Cutters of the Stone and Ruptures page 205 Of the eight kinds of Hernies or Ruptures page 207 Of the Hernie Intestinale page 208 Of the Hernie Zirbale page 209 Of the relaxation of the Peretoneum called Herni Inquinale page 210 Of the kinds of Hernies which be by similitudes or improperly called page 211 Of Hernie Verequose page 212 Of the Herni Ventose ib. Of the Hernie Humorale page 213 Phlebotomy Displayed or perfect Rules for letting of Blood page 214 With Physical cautions for Blood-letting page 219 Vrinal conjectures or brief observations upon the sick Patients staie or water page 222 Of Vomits page 225 Of the Excrements page 226 The Treasury of health or Salves for every sore with their cures page 227 For the falling out of the Fundament page 229 For the Liver page 231 For the Dropsie page 231 For the Spleen page 333 For the Yellow-Jaundies page 235 For the Stone page 236 For the Strangury page 239 For the Vlcers in the Yard page 241 For the Diabetes page 242 For the Swelling of the Gods page 243 For the Pleurisie page 244 For to provoke the Tearms page 244 For to stop the Tearms page 247 For the Fits of the Mother page 248 For the Swelling of the Breasts page 249 For Child-birth page 251 For the Gout page 453 Foa the Fistula or Vlcer page 256 For the Leprosie page 258 For the Warts page 259 For Thorns Splinters c. page 260 The expert Lapidary or a Physical Treatise of the vertues of Stones page 265 Of Jacinth and its vertues 265. The Saphir 264 Emrald ibid. The Ruby 265 Granat 266. Sardine ibid. Diamond 266 Amethist 267. Bezoar ibid. Topaz 268. Snakes-Stone ibid. Toads-stone 269 Alectorius ibid.