above declared in the form of the sudorifical diet-drink otherwise it is to be prescribed and prepared of fresh ingredients one ounce or two ounces of the same or some other sudorifick being added over and above let all be infused twelve hours in twelve pints of water as above solet them be boyled onely to the consumption of a third or fourth part let them be strained thorow an Hippocras bagg and rellish it with half a pound or a pound of sugar or else season it to your palate and aromatize it with three drams or half an ounce of Cinnamom so make a secondary Decoction or a â—ochete to be kept in glass bottles for your ordinary drink Or else 't is made for present use either in regard no diet-drink hath been prescribed before out of whose residence this may be prepared or because perhaps it was composed of other simples both alterers and purgeâ—e whose virtues are not needful in this kinde of ordinary drink then is it to be prepared of some one or more of the suborificks prescribed to two ounces or two ounces and a half after the same manner as is above-said so make a Bochete to be used as is said The USE FORM and UTILITY are already sufficiently declared CHAP. XV. Of Cock-Broth THe reason of the name is plain this was the invention of the Antients and is much confirmed by the use and practise of late Physitians But this DECOCTION of a Cock is a broth prepared either to alter or purge of an old Cock together with some certain sudorificks and also alterers and sometimes also purgers From hence this sort of decoction is two-fold altering and purging The altering Cock-borth IN the altering broth are considered chiefly the matter and the Licuor and in both of them the quality and quantity As to the matter in respect of its quality an old COCK is taken as it were for the basis Then either his belly is filled with these following things or else they are added neer the end of the decoction and they are usually these sudorificks as China Salsaparilla Sassafras either alone or mixed in the Asthma and Hypochondriacal melancholy they are chiefly prescribed as also to them alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits more or less As to the quantity Sudorificks are prescribed to two ounces but the alterers much like their quantity in the altering Apozem or somewhat less The LIQUOR as to the quality is alwayes fair water As to the quantity q. s The USE as to the quantity the dose is six or eight ounces As to the time 't is to be taken in the morning continuing the use of if fifteen dayes or the space of a moneth And this is the FORM â„ž an old decrepit red Cock or of four or five years old that hath been tired with coursing and beating pul off his feathers whiles he is alive then strangle him and take out his bowels let his belly be filled with the Sudorificks fruits and seeds as aforesaid then sew it up and boyl him in a glazed pot with a sufficient quantity of water til the flesh be consumed and wholly fal from the bones but when the broth is scum'd at first add the roots c. and towards the end of the decoction add the leaves and flowers c. boyl them til there remains about three pints of broth straine it and presse it out strongly and keep the decoction in a glass bottle in a cold place taking off all the fat when it is cold Take of this broth from one pint to eight ounces in the morning adding if you wil especially in the affections of the breast sugar or some fit syrup to an ounce continuing it fifteen dayes or the space of one moneth The UTILTY of it is much in stubborn obstructions hence it is that it is generally prescribed in the hypochondriacal melancholy for which purpose there is usually prescribed for this sort of broth the â—â—ots of Parsley Succory Grass Sparagus the leaves of Ceterach Baume Bugloss Burnet Agrimony Frâ—its as Corans and sometimes China and Sassâ—fras wood it is also used in any other durable obstructions of the intrals as also in the affections of the breast especially the Asthma to which China is added with fruits â—dedicated to the breast and in arthritical pains with wood of Sassasras and for paleness of the face c. The purging Cock-broth IT differs not from the former except that beside the aforesaid ingredients there are also added purgers and for the most part these of Senna Polypody Carthamus and two ounces or two ounces and a half Agarick one ounce as much Epithymum which are shut up in the belly of the duck and is prescribed to be made a decoction to two pints in which dissolve if you wil four ounces of sugar and to be aromatized c. for 4 morning doses thus to be used every moneth And the hypochondriacal melancholy obstructions of the bowels Gout and Cholick but 't is very seldom used for the Asthma or difficulty of breath CHAP. XVI Of the Restorative distilled liquor WHere the sick are extreamly weakned either by the violence or length of the disease or some extreame evacuation they very hardly digest any meat to repair their lost spirits or else through nauseousness they refuse all yet ought the strength both to be preserved and restored wherefore the late Writers have invented a way to preserve them by liquors distilled out offlesh that hath both good and much nourishment This from the effect is called the distilled Restorative as also sometimes from the matter 't is made of they call it Capon-water This DISTILLED RESTORATIVE distilled water or Liquor thus drawn by a still imbued with the nourishing virtue of the flesh chiefly of Capons and with the Medicinal virtues of divers conserves powders waters and Juyces is chiefly prepared to restore lost and decaying strength And in this three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things chiefly the matter of which 't is made and the things 〈◊〉 be dissolved in it As to the MATTER 't is commonly the flesh of a Capon or Hen or else of two Partridges cut in the middle cleansed from the fat bones washed in some Cordial Liquor as Rose-water white Wine c. to this they take mingle with it â—ivers Conserves Preserves Cordial powders to little purpose leaves of Gold c. and sprinkle all with a convenient Liquor and distil it in balneo Mariae but because by this means the nourishing quality of the flesh is very smal or none in the distilled water and this manner also is reproved the thing is to be more accurately performed which wil be done if you boyl the aforesaid flesh to a perfect pap and thence strain forth the broth and with it mix the aforesaid things and distil them The matter of this sort of distillation is twofold nourishing and Medicinal the nourishing matter as to the quality usually one Capon
the grasse benerth The Election That is to be chosen that is white new not more then a year old for that which is red or brown is too old round whose grains being broken are not spnngy nor ash'coloured but solid and white The Qualities According to Avicen and Mesue 't is temperate to Averrhoes 't is hot and moist it opens mollifiers smooths gently moves the belly draws forth choler and purgeth watrish humors chiefly dedicated to the wind-pipe and breast hence it is profitably used in hectical Fevers and to quench thirst 't is lesse useful in burning Fevers for its sweetness for which reason it easily turneth into choler 't is safely given both to Women with child and children The Correctors Because it is flatulent 't is corrected with a little Cinnamon Ginger or Aniseed and because 't is slow of operation 't is usually quickened with syrup of Roses solutive or some gently purging decoction some add two three or four grains of Diagridium The Dose Is from an ounce to two or three ounces but commonly to an ounce and a half and to children one ounce Mesues appoints from six drams to fifteen but perhaps he meant the best sort of Masticine Manna The form of giving it 'T is given iâ— the form of a potion dissolved in the broth of a Chicken in which 't is scarcely perceived or in VVhey or in some decoction or in a convenient water In the Cholick with oyl of sweet Almonds to which a little Malmsey should be added sometimes t is prescribed to be eaten down TAMARINDS The Kind T Is a fruit of a certain kind of Indian tree which the Arabians have referred to the kind of dates as if it were the fruit of a wild Datetree because t is called the Indian date for Tamar in their language signifies Date But they have not properly called this fruit Dates as if the tree were of the kinds of Dates or like a Date tree but more respecting the similitude of the fruit which also contain little stones in them as Dates do then which they had found no fitter name but the pulp of this Fruit onely is in use the stones being to be cast away The Election Those Tamarinds are the best that are fat and pulpy brown sharp and soft from whence they were called Oxyphaenica The Qualities They are cold and dry in the second degree as Mesues writes and that to the height as Brassavolus and as Avicen saith in the third they mitigate humours too much burnt especially choler they move the belly and purge choler therefore are profitably used in vomitings to quench thirst in madness and for those that are obstructed hydropical sick of the Jaundies and Spleen-sick they also prevent all exulcerations of the skin hapning through too much torrifying of the blood as the Scabs Leprosie Frâ—ckles and Ring-worms The Correction They hurt by their coldness a cold stomack and are of slow operation and are therefore corrected with Mace Mastick Cinnamon and Spiâ—enard and are quickened with whey of Goats milk Juice of Fumitory or Hops Manna or Cassia The Dose Is from one ounce to two and three ounces which varies according to the manner of giving them The manner of giving them They are given either in the form of a bole or potion if in the form of a bole then the masse of them is first to be washed with a pestle after driven through a hair sieve placed over steeming hot water and afterwards adding correctors to the proportion as is said in the Cassia with Sugar make a bole But for the most part Tamarinds are not given alone but to half an ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds is added one ounce of Cassia then adding Correctors as is said in Cassia make a bole the form of a potion is used either in an infusion or a decoction The infusion is made thus they are steeped in Endive water three hours afterwards make an expression and give the strained Liquor with Sugar The decoction is made thus â„ž of Tamarinds one ounce boyl in it ten ounces of VVhey or some other broth altered with Hops or Fumitory til two ounces be wasted strain them thorow a thick cloth take of the strained Liquor two five or six ounces with Sugar make a potion The Dose of the decoction and infusion is the same viz. from â„¥ ii to â„¥ v. or â„¥ vi JUYCE of ROSES Roses used in the Shops are white red damask either common or musked The Kind This is the juyce drawne forth of the damask Roses or else from the musked white ones not the common ones wherewith rose Gardens abound but either of the damask or musked Election The juyce of the musked Roses and damask Roses is to be preferred before the juyce of other pale Roses and the juyce of Roses full blowne is better then that of the buds The Qualities This juyce is hot and dry in the first degree though Roses themselves be cold in the first and dry in the second degree the reason according to Mesues is because the juyce is here separated from the earthy and cold substance It discusseth cleanseth opens purgeth choler and yellow watrish humors and moves the courses gently therefore not to be given to women with child 'T is good for the liver and heart and is used in obstructions of the liver and pantings of the heart as also in cholerick Feavers for it purgeth humours that cause these diseases it strengthens the bowels by purging them and there is no malignity in it The Dose and manner of giving it 'T is given from â„¥ i. to â„¥ ii with sugred water or according to Mesues with whey or honey giving â„¥ i. of the juyce of Roses with â„¥ ii or â„¥ iii. of whey but now with us is prepared an infusion of damask Roses and of that is made syrup of Roses solutive simple called Muchard and compound also honey of Roses solutive and out of the juyce is prepared Electuary of the juyce of Roses but this is of red Roses RUBARB The Kind 'T is called Rubarb by an Antonomasia figuratively and is a famous root of a barbarous people in the East Indies or of some Province of Barbary called the Trogloditick but very ill so esteemed For as Garcias ab horte Lib. 1. c. 37. and Linscot Par. 4. Ind. Orient Cap. 29. there is no Rubarb in India but onely in China where it growes from whence it is carried to Ormur through Tartary and thence into India and againe by the Westerne Tartars into Turkey and so to Venice from whence the other Kingdomes of Europe are stored with it This Root was unknown to Galen and Dioscorides and therefore diverse think amisse that this is the Rhapontick of Dioscorides and Galen and so confound that with our Rubarb For the Rheum of Dioscorides hath no purging quality and besides wants the markes of the true Rubarb for Rubarb is in substance compact weighty and brittle bitter in tast and sharp in smell of a
Of Almond Milk THis differs not much in colour and taste from an Emulsion only 't is usually thicker than it This is two-fold one more liquid being a milky substance drawn out of Almonds like the Emulsion as aforesaid another thicker made thick with boyling of which at present And this is a restorative Medicine somewhat thinner of substance than syrup much like Milk hence 't is called Almond Cream Almond milk drawn and sweetned with Sugar prepared both to alter and nourish CHAP. IX Of Barly Cream THat which we from the matter it is made of call Barly cream the Antients from the manner of preparing called Ptisan which was a meat made of barly huld and baked for the Greek word signifies to hull and bark and water usually we cal this barly cream but our ptisan is a drink And though it be seldom prescribed yet 't is COMPOUNDED either after the grosser manner of barly cleansed and boyled which is given together with the broth adding sugar as you list but this is only convenient for sound people Or else that which is truly barly cream of huld barley two ounces let it boyle in fair water over a gentle fire then cast away the water and boyl it is a new water four or five houres with a gentle fire then pulp the barly thorow a strainer sweeten it with one ounce or ounce and a half or two ounces of sugar and after let them be a little boyled The VSE anciently it was wont to be the meat of feverish people but now a dayes 't is given for the most part neer sleeping time and then if they are troubled with over-watching there is added to it little of the emulsion prepared with white poppy seeds The UTILITY of it is much in fevers in which it is an alimentory medicine cooling cleansing nourishing much breeding good juyce it moystens and is best for affections of the breast hecticks CHAP. X. Of Milk and the whey of Milk MIlk also happens to be prescribed but chiefly in the phthyfick and disentery and that with some caution both in the sort of milk and also in the dose and manner of giving it Asses milk is chiefly commended in the hectick because it restores radical moysture and is of good juice Cows milk is the fattest and fullest of butter sheeps milk is fullest of cheese Goats milk moderate between all best for persons extenuated As to the USE DOSE and manner of PRESCRIBING 't is this â„ž of Asses milk when you would cool cleanse but Goats milk when you would nourish four ounces of sugar or honey left it corrupt or grow sowr in the stomack one ounce and this for the first dose for the second dose increasing one ounce to five ounces so proceeding til you come to ten ounces or twelve ounces and then decreasing again by the same degrees til you are returned to the same quantity let it be taken 4 hours before meat neither sleeping nor moving the body violenly after the taking of it But the use of milk is never to be begun til the body be very wel cleansed The UTILITY 't is chiefly prescribed for those that are hectical for it fattens restores in the use of it we must have a care that the body be not impure for in a cold stomack it sowres in a hot it turns to a nidorousness from whence comes Head-ach it is not therefore profitable for them that are Feverish or have their short rib-region puft up but 't is very commodious in the dysentery both to lenifie and also cleanse and heal the Ulcer especially if it be chalibeated and you give a good quantity of it morning and evening with one scruple of Terra sigillata four hours before any meat The WHEY OF MILK is not nourishing but medicinal and evacuates both serous and adust humors if it be liberally taken it cools and is good in those that are Feverish and in the heat of the Liver and Reins in summer time but most profitable in Melancholy and affections proceeding from it as the Leprosie Scabbiness c. especially if Fumitory be steeped in it This is the USE and manner of PRESCRIBING â„ž VVhey of Milk let it be strained boyled both because it is windy as also that any thing of curdiness in it may be separated and settled then steep in two pound of it for one night one handful of Fumitory of Succory m. ss when 't is strained add to it an ounce or an ounce and half of Sugar but the second day two ounces are to be added more so every day increasing til you come to three pound afterwards on the contrary decreasing til you come to one pound Otherwise let one pound serve every day for a moneth together steeping in it the same quantity of Fumitory adding to it when 't is strained one ounce of Sugar and in Melancholy people as much of the Cider or juice of pippins Otherwise 't is used for fevers and heats to eight ounces with sorrel steeped in it and that in the morning four hours before meat that they more hang in it tyed in a ragg 2 drams or more of yest or Leven and add to it half a dram or two scruples of spices to every pound and so according to the quantity of Hony The USE and UTILITY it is prescribed for the ordinary drink in cold affections and especially the phlegmatick and where the abstaining from VVine is advantagious or where the use of it is hurtful as in the Palsey or when we desire effectual virtues powerful both to alter cold humors and strengthen the natural heat it also wonderfully preserves from putrefaction But as it is convenient for them that are of cold complexion and for old men so is it hurtful for those that are feverish cholerick or hot of temper because it soon turns into choler and grows bitter as we may finde in boyling it over-much or by keeping it too long therefore Hippocrates forbiâ—s it to them that are very cholerick or that have great spleens in which it is too suddenly drawn into the body from hence it is that it is the cause of crudities and incredible windiness of the intrals it is also according to Hippocrates diuretica wonderfully cleansing and driving forth sand 〈◊〉 or gravel The Winish performs this more sorcibly and like Malmsey powerfully concocts cold humours expectorates â—â—enâ—thens the stomack and concoction discusseth windiness concocts crudities as also doth the commoner sort according to Galen it wonderfully loosens humors in the breast and is good for them that be asthmatick The Medicinal Mead is easily prepared of the simple by boyling dryed simples in it respecting the part to which it is destined and of those such as are most pleasant let them be boyled after it is clear scum'd let them be for example four handfuls of Herbs boyl them and strain the LIquor from them in which infuse for two or three hours half an ounce or six drams of spices
the sight discussing and rarifying and that in white wine often in water sometimes the urine of a boy Childe being added to two ounces The VSE and FORM of the decoction â„ž c. make a decoction in c. for a suffumigation let him receive the vapor or fume of this to his eye either through a narrow-mouthed Pot or a Tunnel other vents being closed morning and night long from meat for so many days as there is need afterwards let the eyes be fomented with a spunge dipped in the decoction or with little bags filled with the ingredients which let be applied warm by turns for a quarter or half an hour The VTILITY is expressed it may also be made to binde as in the dilation of the apple or pupil of the eye of convenient things and in the running of the tears but the first use is most frequent These for a vaporous Collyrium The LIQVID one is absolutely called a Collyrium though antiently Collyriums were properly dry in the forms of Troschischs which they dissolved in a fit liquor at the time of using them But t is COMPOVNDED diversly 1. Either of a distilled water alone simple or compound The simple may be prescribed either one two or more to four ounces make a Collyrium The Compound which is magisterial and chiefly addicted to digest discuss cleanse sharpen the sight and take away suffusions and is to be prescribed by the Physitians and is made in relation to its quality of things that sharpen the sight leaves seeds as also Cephalical heating things as leaves seeds spices as Ginger Pepper sometimes adding Gall the Vrine of a Young Boy White Wine Honey c. As to the quantity let there be of sight sharpning leaves M. six or M. eight seeds one ounce a half or 2. ounc Cephalical leaves M. 2. spices half an ounce six drams Gall two ounces Urine lib. half or lib. 1 2. Honey lib. half Wine lib. 2. The FORM â„ž c. Let them steep eight days in a glass vessel in a warm place or horse dung afterwards distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water in a glass bottle and keep it for your use which is as that of others 2. Of Juices onely and chiefly of Leaves clarified and infused into the eyes or applyed with linnen raggs wet in them 3. Or of a Decoction onely of Leaves Seeds Flowers fit for the purpose to be prescribed in the quantity of a potion for four ounces wil suffice for a Collyrium 4 Or of an infusion onely of metalline things as of Antimony 1 dram in 4 ounces of water which is admirable to clarifie the sight so also gr 1.2.3 of Vitriol in Rose or Fennel water is admirable against the redness and pain of the eyes Or else made of proper vegetables infused either in a distilled water Juices or a decoction c. to 4. or 6 ounces the Liquor afterwards being strained and filtrated is to be kept in a glass for use 5. Or of a distilled water Juice Infusion Decoction 2 3 or all of these together mixed according to your intention to 3 or 4 ounces 6. Or other liquors are used alone according to your scope as VVine VVater whites of Egges in paines c. 7. Or some convenient powder made of proper eye medicines added to the aforesaid Liquor several or mixed As to the quantity of the powder 1.2 or 3 drams is to be the most those that are strong should not exceed 1 dram so with 4 5 or 6 oun of Liquor make a Collyr um Note also 't is best to strain a Collyrium for the roughness of the powders unless it be to scoure The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Collyrium a few drops of which 2 or 3 is to be dropped into the greater corner of the eye or and besides which seems best to me apply a Linnen cloth dipped in the same Liquor to the eyes and change them often so let it be as it were a fomentation or an Epitheme Or when the Liquors are gentler let the Patient lie forward and apply the Collyrium in a cup fitted to the eye so that it may as it were bath the whole eye The VTILITY of the liquid moist one chiefly is to cool and quench the burnings of the eyes to drive away paines and inflammations in the beginning afterwards to discuss them also to repel and stay rhewms to dry and consume teares to cleanse off any filth from them to sharpen the sight and discuss gross humors Thus much for the liquid Collyrium Here follows The COLLYRIUM like Honey 't is so called because 't is of the consistence of Honey and that three-fold in the form of a Liniment a Pultis and a Cataplasme The Liniment fashion Collyrium is made 1. Either of the powder of some fit things made into an Alcohol and a fit thing to embody it withal which is various according to the scope as a fit Muscilage honey butter oyntment of Roses c. according to your indications As to the quantity let the whole composition be an ounce viz. of powders 2 or 3 drams and half a ounce or six drams of that with which they are imbodied 2. Or without a powder of the muscilage of fit seeds as of Quinces c. but the former way is the more usual The Cataplasm and Pultis is for the most part made onely to ease paines and that of two ounces of the crumbs of white bread soaked in q. s of milk to which is added sometimes the muscilage of Fleawort to half an ounce Opium gr 2 c. 2. Or of onely the pulp of a Pippin softened at the fire or boyled in Milk to two ounces 3. Or of both together 4. Or to repel of the pulp of Quinces boyled to two ounces 5. Orchiefly to discuss after the manner of cataplasmes of the muscilage made of the residence of the sight-sharpening decoction bruised and driven through the strainer see the vaporous Collyrium The VSE and FORM of the Liniment â„ž c. Make it like a Liniment with which anoint the corners of the eyes that it may leisurely penetrate to the inward parts Or else it may be applied with a pencil to the eye-lids at the place affected Of the Cataplasm â„ž make it like a Pultis or a Cataplasme lay it on a fit linnen cloth wet in a fit liquor and apply it The VTILITY of the Liniment is special where we would help the affection of the eye-lids or cleanse to which purpose t is most usefull and also to dry it may profitably be used to discusse and for pains but then it is better in the form of a Pultis Collyriums are made in this form that by this means the powders sticking the longer may work more effectually on the part and if there be any sharp medicines they are thus allayd The Cataplasm and Pultis are used only to ease pain they may nevertheless be applied to discuss and repel as aforesaid Thus far of
practice from this foundation because every Apozem is likely prescribed for four doses the purgers must be taken in such a quantity as may suffice for these four that is four several doses of them are to be put into the decoction as alwaies these three Senna Polyooâ—y and Carthamus after the usual manner which you must appoint for the basis as for example to purge Phlegme four times together to one ounce or one ounce and a half of Senna and as much Polypody and although you have prescribed also as much Carthamus yet shal you add a fourth as Agarick to half an ounce or six drams and you wil have your aim but if besides Agarick you desire other phlegmagogues as Turbith or Hermodactils then either the dose of this or the others is to be diminished or at least a less proportion of these stronger is to be prescribed and this is a general rule safe every where yet you may prescribe a less quantity in respect of the sex age and time of the Year c. The Montpelier Physitians out of custom do usually prescribe a greater quantity as was before noted in the Composition so that against the common rules of others they take of the gentlest purgers to a sixfold or eight-fold proportion of the more vehement as Turbith to a four-fold quantity but although the Montpeliers do this other circumstances being seen to securely yet is it not to be followed in all places nor the dose so indifferently to be prescribed but rather relie on the common practice before mentioned or else search out the several doses of the simples in the substance by comparing of which you wil readily find out the several doses for the decoctions this only is to be 〈◊〉 ted that though Tamarinds by this rule of proportion might be boiled to eight ounces which is the four-fold proportion because they are given in substance to two ounces yet we seldom in the decoction transcend the dose in which they are given in substance because being viscid they make the decoction clammy and grosâ— hard to be clarified Myroâ—tilans also though they 〈…〉 purge yet are they never to be prescribed in the â—eattr but alwaies in the less dose at most to half an ounce or 6 drams because they make the decoction too much astringent contrary to the intention of the Physitian therefore also are they to be only lightly boiled in an Apozem purely purging but rather to be infused as by the counsel of Mesues is rightly admonished against the vulgar practice 4. But the ingredients of either Apozem are not to be prescribed promiscuously in any order but in a certain manner according to the nature of the things that are to be boiled according to that order which the Apothecary observes in preparing decoctions by the rules of art as first roots 2ly Leaves c. and so they add the rest severally to be boiled as is above set down yet although this be so the root of Liquorice because for its tenuitie of substance it is boiled in the rank with the flowers it may also be prescribed with them so if sweet Woods or Aromatical barks as Cinamom be set down with the number of Roots yet because they ought to be boyled last for their spirits which are easily vanishing therefore ought they to be prescribed last either with or immediatly before the flowers Seeds should be added after the Leaves yet the four greater cold Seeds especially of Melons and Gourds are prescribed just before the leaves so your red soicers are to be prescribed either with or just before the leaves and Barley is seldom set among the seeds but with the leaves for this is chiefly to be boyled but Mucilaginous seeds are to be added but just before the flowers as the seeds of Mallows Marsh Mallows c. lest by too long boyling they make the Decoction too thick and troubled I have before said that Catharticks are to be prescribed before the flowers yet Polypody of the Oak is most usually added amongst the roots but Epithymum usually among the Flowers and often in their quantity viz. by the Pugil correctives are to be placed immediatly after the purgers 5. Concerning the Liquor this is to be noted that Wine is usually added to Apozems or Decoctions in cold affections obstructions when gross humors are to be attenuated or when the force of the Medicine is to be conveyed far into the body but not so conveniently prescribed when they say in equal parts of Wine and Water because t is without commodity for if by a most gentle heat nay warmth the spirit of Wine from whence Wine hath his acuteness and energie and without which Wine is but water without life in distillation doth ascend and be elevated into the air the vessel being opened in the boyling what can we hope for but the whole loss of it by such boiling hence we must conclude that Wine is much more profitably added at the last after boiling Here is to be noted that the opening roots are usually macerated in Vinegar with a good Proviso but they do ill-which after pour out the Vinegar and boyl roots only robbed of their virtue for the virtue of them is passed into it which by this means is pour'd away for any sharp Liquors do effectually draw forth the force and essence of things as we may see in Extracts the Liquor therefore should not be poured away for it serves to dissolve the things decocted 6. It is to be noted that the limits of the decoction is ambiguously defined only in general the ingredients should be boyled til they have left all their virtue in the Liquor which in special some note by the change in the colour and alteration of the appearance of things viz. that the hard things should be softned others wasted Galen appoints to the Thirds sometimes to half Mesue to almost half modern Writers are various but that truth may be found both the faculties and nature of the Medicaments are to be considered for they whose virtues are easily dissolved are to be boyled the less time as to the consumption of the third or fourth part lest the efficacy of the simples consisting in a thin substance should vanish but they whose virtues will hardly exhale may be boyled to the wasting of two thirds they whose virtues are of a middle temper may be boyled to halves And that which is correspondent those things that are boyld in four times their quantity of Water to the thirds they which are boyld in 6 times their quantity til half be wasted as for the most part are all Apozems and Decoctions from whence this may be gathered that simples of a solid close hord substance as Roots Woods and Barks that are without smel should be boyld in eight times their quantity of water those which are of a rare thin soft subtile substance as Flowers Spices Purgers in four times their quantity those of a middle substance between these as Leaves Seeds and
are best taken at the time of going to sleep these to expectorate in the morning those to quench thirst when they are dry any others as neer as may be when the stomack is empty As to the magisterial syrup the use of it is either by it self or else diluted with some fit water or other Liquor simple or compound broth and is taken after the same rules as the officinal And this is the USUAL FORM of PRESCRIBING 1. If it be made of a decoction â„ž c. viz the ingredients of an altering Apozem make a decoction in c. take of the strained Liquor c in which dissolve c. make a syrup wel boyled clarified and aromatized with c. keep it in a glass safe let him take of it one ounce an ounce and half or two ounces by it self or with c. at such an hour so often in a day c. see more above 2. If of a Juyce without any other mixture â„ž of the Juyce of such a thing bruised newly pressed out wel clarified c. in which dissolve c. So make a syrup 3. If of a Juyce in which other things are boyled or infused â„ž of the Juyce newly pressed out and clarified of c. in which dissolve c. So make a Syrup 4. If of an infusion â„ž c. let them be infused in c. of such a Liquor take of the liquor strained and gently pressed out c. dissolve c. The Utility of a syrup in general is sufficiently declared above whether officinal or magisterial for it is instituted to conserve divers virtues of plants with which decoctions Juyces expressed and infusions prepared of them are plentifully fraught that they may be the readier at hand and fit for use without loss of their natural efficaâ—y The efficinal also more specially serves for the making up of divers forms of Medicines so is it added to Apozems Juleps and Potions for taste sake anâ— also to add to their virtues so also is it â—â—ken to make up opiats pils preserves Lohochs Troscischs into a convenient form or consistence and for the uniting of a compound Medicine and preserving of it But the magisterial syrup as of old so at this day and hath been chiefly in request of late to prepare both humors and the body and is very necessary to precede a prosperous purgation of which see in the altering Apozem and is very useful also to alter the body or parts of it divers ways both by correcting the distempers of them and tempering the peccant humours of this see also in the altering Apozem In summ against al internal affections or causes that ingender them and to alter and strengthen the parts afflicted by them any proper and specifical Medicines suggested by the indicantia or things from whence you take directions what is to be done may be reduced into the form of a Syrup so that the utility of it is of large extent against any affections dropsie plague c. but 't is fittest to be prescribed when you would continue your altering for some time or must cherish the strength continually when otherwise that labor must be fain to be renued often with the trouble of a new prescription of some Apozem Julep or potion hence it is most profitable in long diseases and affections and chronical distempers of the parts which have taken such rooting that there must be a continual alteration to remedy them yet because some usual syrup is to be had that hath the same virtue unless you think its virtue less effectual or decayed or that it consists not of those things which your specifical indications require or that you hope to compose one more powerful prescribe them but seldom A Purging Syrup YOu must seek the definition and division of a purging syrup according to the variety of the humors in the chapter of the Apozem A Syrup is two-sold officinal and Magisterial The officinal is here chiefly divided both in respect of the composition the chiefest of their virtues as you may see in the following table The ofâ—â—cinal purging syrup is compounded either of A decoction made A juyce and purgeth Melancholy as Syrup of Fumitory compound Water purgeth Melancholy as Syrup de Epithymo Water purgeth Choler as of Succory compound Water purgeth Mixt humours as Diasereat A juyce purgeth Melancholy as syrup de Pomis Regis Sabor Infusion in Water purgeth Choler As Syrup of Roses solut Syrup of Violets each made with 9 infusions sy rup of Peach flow Phlegm As Honey of Roses strained The definition and division of a magisterial purging syrup may appear out of what is aforesaid In it three things are to be considered Composition Use and Utility In the Composition four things 1. The matter whereby 't is made purgative 2 The things that are to be dissolved in it 3. Clarification 4. Aroma ization The matter of which 't is made is either remote and this in regard of its quality are the purging simples with their correctives either boyled or insused or neer and thus the matter is two-sold either a purging decoction or a purging in usion A purging Decoction is nothing else then the decoction of a purging Apozem made of the same things both alterers and purgers varied according to the intention of the Physitian to be prescribed after the same manner and order and upon the same conditions as is before specified This only is to be marked concerning the dose or purging Medicines that the Montpelier Physitians for a syrup do usually double the quantities of purgers prescribed for Apozems but 't wil suffice if you take onely the same quantity or if I might perswade you the double quantity 〈◊〉 it matters not if it be the treble for so it wil be contracted into the lesser dose and be taken with the less nauseousness to the patient so that you exactly finde out the true dose and not measure it according to the usual proportion see the use It is also to be noted that when fit juyces are to be used the purgers may be boyled in 4 ounces or 5 or 6 with their correctors How a purging infusion is to be prepared is said before in a purging potion and from thence easie to be collected but how to prefer'd before a decoction see in the animadversions Things that are to be dissolved in the decoction or infusion are also considered in quality and quantity Concerning the quality there is dissolved either sugar or sometimes Honey or else together with the sugar some officinal syrup and that either altering or purging Besides those sweetners that are perpetually dissolved for its preservation there are frequently to the aforesaid purpose dissolved 1. Some fit Juyce and that either altering as of Leaves Fruits c. according to the indication see in the Apozem or purging as the juyce of Roses especially in the Spring time against choler of Fumitory or Hops for Melancholy 2. The compleat
The Vtility is great and the virtue of it specifical besides what is afore-said in taking away diseases especially cold ones and those of long continuance as the Palsey c. CHAP. XII Of Sugred Water and Barly Water SUGRED WATER is a more sweet and pleasing drink than Mead and is almost as effectual in those in whom we abstain from the use of Mead for fear of heat and is chiefly convenient for them that are abstemious It is made of Fountain water clarified at the fire 12 parts and sugar one part more or less to your palate You may aromatize it with Cinnamom or in fevers with Saunders to 3 drams or half an ounce so let them use it for their ordinary drink PTISAN was a meat of the Antients which we now call barly Cream Our ptisan is a drink fit broth for the healthy and Feverish and when heat is either present or imminent and where Wine is forbidden And this is made divers wayes according to the desire of them that take it Either it is made simply of whole Barley and fountain-water to one part of Barly ten fifteen or which is better twenty parts of water as 't is generally made in the shops which is to be boyled to the consumption of five parts and til the barly swel much Nicholaus therefore directs ill to boyl it to the consumption of fifteen parts unless it be for meat and such like is vulgarly ealled in the shops Barley water and decoction of Barley Or else Liquorice Raisins of the Sun the roots of Grass or Sorrel and other things according to the palate of him that takes it are boyled in it though in smal quantity but 't is seldom now a dayes prescribed by the Physitian The UTILITY it moistens cools cleanses yeilds little nourishment but such as is fit for cholerick and sanguine people and for them that are in fevers or have hot affections of the Liver Stomack or Reins Note that Barly water or that which we now cal Ptisan consists of whole barly one part of water twenty parts boyled til the barly swel and the cream of Barly til it be bursted but that which we cal Barly cleansed and boyled is boyled til it go into a pulp represents the Ptisan of the Antients and if it be pulped thorow a hair strainer 't is called the juyce of Barly CHAP. XIII Of Dyet-drink BY this name of Diet we do not so much understand the regulating of the six things not natural as divers decoctions made of usual sweating Medicines through the whole use of which because an exact and accurate way of living temperately is to be observed from hence it is that these have been absolutely called by the name of Diet. But that which we understand by the name Diet is a decoction of one of the usual sudorifical Medicines or more made in a fit Liquor prepared either to alter simply or evacuate insensibly by transpiration or sensibly by sweat Therefore a Diet-drink is to be accounted two-fold altering and evacuating The altering Diet-drink ALthough these four usual sweating Medicines seem to be destined only for provoking sweat yet are they often prescribed with very good success in divers affections without sweating hence it is that I cal it an altering Diet-drink In this three things are to be considered the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION three things also the matter of which 't is made the Liquor and the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality is two-fold 1. Some of the common Sudorificks as Guaiacum China Sassafras and Salsaparilla 2. Divers alterers as roots leaves seeds flowers c. respecting the affection the humor offending and part affected But in special that matter is chosen diversly according to the variety of the parts in which the affections that are to be removed are inherent For in altering and removing powerfully phlegmatick and inveterate affections we usually take Guaiacum China or Salsaparilla either alone or mixed together with fit alterers as aforesaid But in affections of the breast as the stuffing Ulcer and putrefaction of the Lunâ—s in which now a dayes such an altering diet is usually prescribed and is every where called the pectoral decoction we chuse either China alone or else there is sometimes added to it Salsaparilla or Sassafras together with alterers appropriated to the breast So that from what is said before an altering Diet drink may be reckoned two-fold 1. Not pectoral insensibly consuming the phlegmatick affections of divers parts 2. Pectorel viz. a decoction of China sometimes Salâ—apâ—rilla being added prepared of pectoral seeds and fruits such is only now a dayes prescribed As to the quantity those sudorificks in a diet-drink not pectoral are prescribed either alone or mixed to six ounces more or less according as the time age and region shal further require but alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers either all or some of them are to be added to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem aforesaid But in a pectoral Diet-drink whose basis is China this if alone is added to one ounce if other things aforesaid be joyned to it then to two drams or three drams of these they usually take six drams of China Of alterers pectoral fruits are added to an ounce and a half or two ounces pectoral seeds to an ounce or an ounce and a half and if as sometimes in the Phthysis the flesh of Craw-fish or tortoises be added 't is to an ounce or two ounces The LIQUOR in relation to its quality in an altering Diet drink not pectoral is common water or some other fit liquor as before in the Apozem chiefly Mead because these sorts of decoctions for the most part respect cold affections and humors In a pectoral Diet-drink also either common water or decoction of Barly is taken but with this proviso that the China be infused in this Liquor for some hours then let it be put up together with the pectoral fruits and seeds in the belly of a chick or hen then let them boyl in the aforesaid Liquor til all be boyled to pieces As to its quantity take 10 or 12 pints or q. s as is required to boyl it throughly Things to be dissolved as to their quality in a diet-drink not pectoral are sometimes syrup or sugar and are prescribed to be dissolved together with the aromaticks as in an altering Apozem In a pectoral drink sugar of Roses is generally prescribed yet it may be also some fit syrup As to their quantity they are dissolved to an ounce or an ounce and a half in every dose The USE in it mark three things the manner the quantity and the time The decoction not pectoral as to the manner indrinking is to be taken without sweating As to the united quantity or dose it is to be taken to four ounces or six ounces as to the divided quantity it is to be used ten or fifteen dayes As to the time this
sort of alterer ought to be taken in the morning The pectoral drink also as to the manner is taken without sweat As to the dose six ounces also and is to be continued also for fifteen dayes The Time also is the morning And this is the FORM of PRESCRIBING In a decoction not pectoral â„ž c. make a decoction keep it in a glazed vessel for four or five morning doses which the body being first purged let him continue for ten or fifteen dayes in the mean time observing a moderate and drying diet and for his ordinary drink let him use the second decoction of the aforesaid ingredients which is called a Bochette But in a pectoral one â„ž China or other thing infuse them in c. of water then put them in the belly of a chick together with the fruits c. boyl it til it be all to pieces adding at the latter end of the decoction the leaves c. viz. the preparers straine all with a gentle pressure in one pound of the strained liquor dissolve c. for two doses to be given in the morning keeping his bed two or three hours after without sweating let him continue this fifteen or 20 or 30 dayes the body being first purged with Manna which is to be repeated once in fifteen dayes in the mean time living temperatly and using the second decoction of China or small mead for his ordinary drink The Utility is remarkeable in all long-lasting affections when your scope requires the attenuating resolving or otherwise insensibly consuming that collection offilthy humors that foments this sort of chronical affections as also to rarifie the wayes and passages by which they are to be digested and to prepare them powerfully for expurgation neither is it safe to use them with sweat as in the Asthma and Phthysis especially in which now a dayes this sort of diet is onely prescribed in which affections 't is pernitious to use either purgers or Sudorificks Neither can we consume or evacuate those humors that are the fomenters of such affections any other way An evacuating Diet drink SVch as is now a dayes for the most part only prescribed is here understood which consumes and empties the morbifical causes by sweat And this is two-fold one only sweating the other is also purgative The sweating decoction is now only properly called a Diet-drink and is as I said before that which visibly consumes the Antecedent and conjunct causes of diseases by sweatings In this three things are to be marked the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which this sort of decoctions are made 2. The Liquor in which they are boyled And in either of them both the quality and the quantity The matter in respect of the quality is either sudorifical or also altering both at once sometimes As to the sudorificks 't is compounded either of Guaiacum and its barkonly or only China seldom of Salsaparâ—lla alone and hardly ever of Sassafras alone Either of Guaiacum as the basis with sometimes one sometimes two of the others mixed with it according to the divers intentions of the Physitian or else that the too much heat of Guaiacum might be allayed yet retaining the same benefit of sweating Or of China as the basis with Salsaparilla or Sassafras where the scope is to heat less yet it dries as much and consumes vitious humors equally As to the alterers it is most profitable with the aforesaid to add divers altering simples towards the end of the decoction that may be appropriated to the humor and part affected whereby the Diet-drink becomes famous or else they are added to this end only to correct allay the heating and drying quality of the Guaiacum lest it too much inflame the Liver and for this are used Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits Flowers either more or less As to the quantity sudorificks prescribed alone or mixt should be allotted to one ounce or an ounce and a half for every dose and because a sweating diet-drink is usually prescribed for 4 doses only four ounces or six ounces ought to be prescribed which quantity may be lessened or augmented according to the variety of the tempers age strength time of the year constitution of the disease Country c. But the alterers when they are added to them should be prescribed to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem and as to their order they should be set after the sudorificks this is every where to be observed that in the decoction of Guaiacum you are to add Liquorice and Raisins of the Sun ana an ounce or one ounce and a half The LIQUOR in relation to its quality is prescribed to be fountain-water As to the quantity although by the precepts of art in the decoction of Roots and Woods it ought to be eight times so much as of the things to be boyled yet because in the decoction of these sweating drinks much of the Liquor useth to be wasted it ought to be twelve times their quantity so that to one ounce of Sudorificks should be one pint of water and then to be boyled til half be wasted which is the most usual manner it may also be prescribed to a pint and half and then boyled til two thirds be wasted The USE as to the quantity eight cuâ—ces of this sort of decoction may be given As to the manner let it be drank warm covering the body with many clothes more than is wont As to the time 't is best in the morning sometimes though seldom 't is repeated at evening in very strong and phlegmatick bodies abounding with excrementiâ—ious humours The FORM OF PRESCRIBING is after this example of Guaiacum â„ž the shavings of the wood of Guaiacum four ounces the bark of the same two ounces let them be infused in six or nine pints of fountain water twenty four hours over warm embers the Vessel being close stopped then boil them with a gentle fire of fresh charcoal without smoak till half be wasted afterwards run them throrow an hypocras bag but if you desire the decoction the stronger presse them out gently sweeten the decoction with three ounces or four ounces of Sugar and aromatize it with a dram and a half or two drams of Cinnamom but this sweetning and aromatizing may better be omitted in those that are lesse curious palated so keep it in a glazed vessel for your use let him take of this decoction eight ounces warm in the morning covering him warmer than usually and let him sweat as he can reasonably endure it Note that when Alterers are prescribed wiâ—h the sudorificks it may be appointed in the form thus towards the end of the decoction adde such things c. â„ž the remainders of the decoction aforesaid viz. when no other simples are added to it add if you wil an ounce of some of the aforesaid sudorificks fresh infuse them in 12 pints of founta in water eight or twelve
is chosen it may also be a Hen and that either alone or else one Partridg may be added or a shank of veal as also if this distilled Liquor be prepared to restore one that is either hectical or phthysical there may be prescribed the flesh of a tortoise that lives in the woods either one or two so the things of froggs are also prescribed This nutritive matter is boyled in s q. of water and according to the medicinal quality required divers parts of plants as they also use to do in altering broths as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers c. and for the most part those that are the most grateful in smel and taste and which do most respect the affection it self the cause of that dissipation of the strength and that neer the quantity they are prescribed for the altering Apozem or somewhat less by which means you see to the restoring of the strength and the alteration that is to be made both together When all things are boyled to pap so that the flesh fals from the bones the broth is strained and the relicks strongly pressed forth and when 't is cooled the fat that is congealed in the top of it is to be taken away And this broth the neer matter of the future distilled Liquor which is to be prepared of three or four pints of it and eight or tenounces of some fit cordial waters with which afterwards are mixed four five or six ounces of conserves or fit Preserves and sometimes confections are taken as Alchermes in the greatest weakness and also treacle when there is malignity to three drams or half an ounce or the powders of cordial simples or officinal electuaries as Diamargariton frigidum to half an ounce or an ounce where 't is less pretious and this is to be constantly noted that Pearls fragments of pretious hones bole Armoniack terra sigillata and leaves of gold are added in vain because this gentle sort of distillation by Balneo Mariae can draw no virtue or spiritual essence from them seeing they wil scarce part with any for a greater heat and that in a dry stil though they have been diligently prepared for it The aforesaid things mixed are put into your glass body are afterwards distil'd in that manner which they cal Balneo Mariae Note also that if you desire the virtue of Ambergreece or Musk these to gr 5 6 or half a scruple may be tied up in a thin linen ragg and so tyed to the snout of the almebick that the Liquor as it distils may pass thorow them and take their virtues along with it which in this manner are more certainly extracted than if you mixed them with the other things the distilled Liquor is to be kept in a glass bottle in a cool place Things to be DISSOLVED though seldom used are sometimes prescribed and are fit cordial juyces as Juyce of Limons Juyce of sowre Pomgranats and that profitably to three ounces four ounces according to the quantity of distilled liquor although they may also be mixed with the broth and waters before distillation The VSE as to the manner this sort of distilled liquor is either used alone of it self out of a spoon or dissolved with other broths Panadaes As to the quantity one two or three ounces may be taken As to the time when you please and that 3 or 4 times a day or oftner The FORM is â„ž the flesh of one of the best Capons or Hens or with other flesh as is said slit in halves and taken from the bones or onely from the fat put it into a pot glazed with s q. of water boyl them towards the end adding the roots c. i. e. the alterers when all are boyled to a pap strain them and press them hard then having taken off the fat as aforesaid take of this broth four pints or five to which add c. viz. the conserves c. distil all in B. M. let the Liquor distilled be kept in a glass bottle in a cold place of which let him take c. by it self out of a spoon â— The UTILITY is the same with other Analepticks or restoratives viz. suddenly to restore and as it were patch up the strength and spirits exhausted either by the length of the disease famine or over much evacuation to recreate the languishing condition of the principal parts much used in many affections both of the heart and other parts not onely in the hoâ— but also cold epidemical malignant and continual fevers hâ—cticks and consumptions of the Lungs In fine 't is useful when the vigour of the parts extreamly languishing can digest no stronger forme of nourishment and yet ought necessarily to be refected from hence we conclude that these distill'd restoratives are rather to recruit the strength spirits than firmly to nourish the body CHAP. XVII OF Brothes BROTHS are also often prescribed by Physitians to this end that by altering we may also nourish and that the virtue of the Medicinal things might be the more eagerly received by the parts themselves under the form of nourishment and thereby might be the less trouble som to them And these are either altering or restorative Altering broths are made diversly according to the scope of the Physitian most frequently with a chick As at Moutpelier they usually prescribe the broth of a Chick alter'd with heoatical leaves and roots and also with cooling things in fevers 'T is not particularly prescribed by Physitians only commanded let them use the broth of a Chick alter'd with such leaves c. either 2 3 or 4 in the morning or else also in the evening and this is most usual in hot diseases Restorative broths prepared to restore lost strength which are otherwise from this manner of working and from the consumption wherein they are much used called Consumption broths these are made of a fat Hen or Capon the bowels taken out out in pieces boiled in a glazed pot or an alembeck close stopped lest any thing breath forth to a perfect pap these are all strained and the juyce pressed forth Lastly when it is cold the fat taken clear off and this Liquor is kept in a glass bottle for your use in a cold place in this broth sometimes other things are dissolved viz in each pound of it three ounces of white-Wine if your scope require it or other cordial liquor two ounces of Sugar one dram of Cinnamom and confection Alchermes lot them warm til the suuar be dissolved then strain them and keep them for your use They labour in vain which only for vainâ—glory add to these Consumption broths the leaves of gold for they do no good The USE is the same with the distilled restorative And the UTILITY is also the same only these Consumption broths are great nourishers and restore and nourish the solid substance of the body THE SECOND SECTION Of the First Book OF THE SOFT FORMS OF MEDICINES CHAP. I. Of a Bole ABOLE is a form of
quantity 't is taken to a spoonful or a spoonful and an half or two As to the time if it be for strengthening the animal faculty 't is best after meat or at going to sleep if for the vital at any time when need requires for the natural either before with or after meat The Vtility is to preserve the vigor of the principal parts to restore the strength wasted by diseases Hence it is that the use of these candied confections is wholly restorative rather helping nature and the strength than regarding the disease which neverthelesse is not to be neglected therefore these candied confections are made heating cooling binding c. the use of them is frequent in the hypochondriacal affection panting of the heart consumption of the lungs weaknesse of the stomack and liver c. THE THIRD SECTION Of the First Book OF THE SOLID FORMES OF MEDICINES CHAP. I. Of Paste-royal and morsels THere is also an invention of modern Writers which in consistence resembles Pineolates or Paste of Pine kernels made of divers things wrought together like paste from whence its name and of sugar dissolved in some convenient liquor and boiled to the height of Tabulets this is made into boles or morsels like Conserves of Roses dried hence it is called morsels which being leisurely dried are kept for use and are somtimes gilded and this is called Paste-Royal for the Soveraign virtues it hath in affections of the brest lungs and in extenuated bodies In this also three things are to be noted Composition Vse and Vtility As to the Composition 't is made two wayes 1. Either without the flesh of living creatures as shall be said of bechical fruits and seeds only and sugar These fruits are for the most part blanched Almonds washed soaked and bruised the kernels of Pistaches and pine nuts washed also in a fit water as of violets or roses They are usually prescribed to the quantity of four ounces The seeds are the four greater cold seeds usually huld and bruised to which when sleep is to be provoked the seeds of white poppy and lettice are added Let these be prescribed to the quantity of two ounces or two ounces and an half The sugar is to be chosen white dissolved in a fit liquor the quantity of it is usually set down q s yet it should usually be double the proportion of the rest 2. Or else this paste is made restorative with the flesh of the tortoses of the wood washed and boyl'd in barley water the head and tail being left out and this is afterwards called Testudinate paste or paste of Tortoses or with the flesh of Crawfish Capons and Partridges or else to these are added the fruits aforesaid seeds and powders mentioned in the Candies and sugar dissolved in Rosewater usually in this proportion Of flesh three or four ounces Fruits three ounces Seeds one ounce an ounce and half And let one dram of powders answer to every ounce of the rest and of those that are precious a lesse quantity Sugar is mentioned q. s Somtimes Ambergreece and Musk are added in small quantity to some few grains somtimes also the paste is covered over with leaf gold The VSE the manner is either by it self or in broth The Dose or united quantity is to half an ounce or an ounce the morsels in numb one or two The divided quantity 't is to be taken often with meat and in your meals The time is expressed The FORME â„ž c. make a confection in morsels and somtimes 't is added like pineolate so let it be used The VTILITY the paste that is not nourishing is good for divers affections of the lungs and brest to incrassate lenifie cleanse or expectorate c but the restorative paste both in the same and the consumption for them that are extenuated and weakened by the ulcer of the lungs it nourisheth drieth and thickneth rheumes therefore the use is wholly restorative regarding also the affections from whence that lack of nourishment and dejection of the strength proceeds CHAP. II. Of a Pandaleon THis invention of the Arabians and latter Physitians is a medicine dedicated to the brest and lungs made of pleasant ingredients agreeing with the Lohoch to the same purpose differing only in form in which it resembles Tablets From them also it differs in this because they are made up in a certain shape but this when the sugar is sufficiently boiled and the ingredients mixed with it is poured into a box and there suffered to harden and at the time of using it a bit is taken out with a knife or spoon c. Therefore it is a medicine solid like Tablets kept in a box like a cake made of powders bechical conserves and sugar dissolved and made into a Tablet consistence appointed for the same uses as Lohochs are And in it three things are to be noted Composition Vse and Vtility The COMPOSITION is two wayes 1. Either of bechical powders simple or compound several or mixed and sugar dissolved in a fit liquor boiled in or neer this proportion that to half an ounce of the powder there may be four ounces of sugar dissolved or else q. s 2. Or of thoracical fruits and seeds powders of electuaries sugar dissolved after these proportions Of fruits two drams seeds an ounce powders three drams sugar q. s Note that conserves may somtimes be added to three drams or half an ounce The VSE the manner is to contain it in the mouth that it may leisurely melt and may gently be swallowed down and used frequently The quantity let a bit of this be taken from a spoon or the point of a knife The time is the same with that of the Lohochs The FORM â„ž c. make a Pandalcon in a convenient box of which c. The VTILITY is the same with that of the Lohochs from which this differs only in form and that this for the most part consists of the pleasantest things CHAP. III. Of Marchpane and Pineolates MArchpane is a most pleasant confection of latter writers nourishing much convenient for people that are leane and for affections of the lungs instead of sweet meats 'T is compounded of blanched Almonds three ounces Pistaches cleansed one ounce stamped in a marble mortar with a little rose-water adding half a pound of white sugar make a paste which make into little cakes to be baked gently in an oven till they begin to be coloured yellow and are a little hardened other pleasant things may also be added as Cinamom c. A PINEOLATE is made to the same end of equal parts of pinekernels and sugar dissolved of which are made morsels adding musk for the better grace if you will but this is to be injoyned by the Physitian not else to be usually prescribed CHAP. IV. Of Tablets THat which they were wont to call the solid electuary is otherwise called from its flat shape a Tablet and because the sugar of which they are made when it is boiled and flatted
add water to 4 ounces As to the quantity 't is said of wine s q. or of each a like quantity The VSE as to the manner the head is wet with it in the sun-shine in a clear day and if you can a quiet warm place afterwards the head is to be throughly dryed with sponges soaked in Aqua vitae and lastly 't is to be covered diligently with dryed locks of hemp wel fumed with suffumigations The time let it be washed in the morning two hours before dinner the belly being first evacuated The Form â„ž c. Make a decoction wash the head c. The VTILITY is great after purging where the relicks of the matter imparted is to be dissipated consumed as also where the head is to be strengthened and they are for the most part addicted onely to the cold distempers of the head and brain they may also be prepared for other uses as for outward affections of the head as tetters dandruff lice filth made of the sharpest sort of cleansers with urine and lye alwayes adding cephalical-herbs The lotion for the feet Is compounded of the decoction of simples hot or cold made either in water or Lye as is fittest for the purpose the ingredients of the decoction should be in the same dose as for the cephalical lotion But note that as to the quality of the ingredients because this is usually instituted to provoke sleep the cooling cephalical simples are to be chosen and that the heads of white Poppy in number 4 may wel be added Note also that where you would dry heat and strengthen and in the swelling oedematous or phlegmatick affections of the leggs Salt and Allum may be profitably mingled with it to four ounces and Quicksulfure to two ounces The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a lotion for the feet morning or evening before meat or before sleep if it be to procure it The VTILITY is either to mend their own proper affections trembling of them to cal down the humours from the higher parts if they are made of heating cephalical medicines also to ease weariness or which is most generally the use of them to provoke sleep in the raging heat of Fevers and fervency of the brain CHAP. III. Of a Fomentation IT is called a Fomentation because it doth foment and cherish the parts to which it is applyed by the heat it is applyed withall for all Fomentations are in action hot seldom any cold And it is two-fold moist and dry The moyst Fomentation The moyst one is a Liquor fit to be applyed to divers parts by the help of Limons sisters Sponges serving to diuers intentions And this is again two-fold simple and more compound The SIMPLE Liquor that is wont to be prescribed for a Fomentation as to its quality is either hot or warm water when we would relax in pains that come from over-much fulness or Wine when we would discusse and strengthen or wine and water together where we would do both at once or either temperately or milk in great paines or oyl common or other where we would mollifie in relation to the paine and digest as to the scope or water and oyl Vinegar and water or Vinegar of Roses in hot affections or Lee of Vine-ashes in cold affections if we should digest and dry strongly As to the quantity that is to be defined by the long continuance of the use of it and the bigness of the part to be fomented so for the eye 4 ounces wil suffice for the stomack one pint or a pint and a half for the short rib-region and belly as is usual in obstructions three pints The Compound is made of the decoction of various kindes of simples parts of plants and a convenient Liquor in which we must consider quality and quantity As to the quality of the matter there are prescribed roots leaves fruits seeds flowers sometimes all together where a greater quantity is to be prepared sometimes some few only As to the quantity it is various according to the diversity of the parts As for example for the eyes it may be prescribed to the dose of a potion or the fourth part of the Apozem for four ounces wil suffice or six at most for the stomack half the proportion of an Apozem or something more for the whole belly the whole dose of the Apozem The Liquor in which the decoction is to be made is simple water or water and wine together sometimes milk where you would lenisie Lye where you would digest Smiths water where binde c. according to the scope as to the quantity t is prescribed q. s Note that sometimes the decoction being made and strained divers things may be added as white wine in obstructions of the bowels to one pint or a pint and a half sometimes Vinegar in affections of the spleen to 6 7 or 8 ounces for penetration sake Aqua vitae for the stomack to two or three ounces and to strengthen also or appropriate oyls to 4 ounces half a pint c. and it is generally the use in practice to prescribe them after the use of the Apozem in obstructions of the bowels as â„ž of the decoction prescribed for the Apozem three or four pints add to it of wine c. make a somentation for the belly The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a fomentation with which let the part affected be fomented with a doubled linnen cloth shreds or a sponge wet in it and a little wrung out again or else use a hoggs bladder half ful of the Liquor morning and evening so as it cools apply another by turns Note that in the fomentation of the belly under the short ribs 't is usually said let the short-ribregion be fomented in the morning 2 or 3 hours before dinner or else before supper for three or four dayes changing often the fomentation lest it cool too much and it is usually prescribed after the fomentation to be anointed with such an oyl liniment or unguent hot The Use is after general purgations otherwise whe need requires The UTILITY is large so that there is hardly any part which as it may be fomented shal not receive very much benefit from it it is used to the eyes affected both for the pain and inflammation of them c. Also against obstructions of the spleen and bowels c. against the pains of divers parts to provoke the courses for the cholerick affections of the reins inflammations of the reins it rarifies the skin that the humours contained may be the better digested attenuated dissolved when they are thin and when hard mollified it turns things to vapours and helps much by its gentle heat hence it is used in pains to relax mollifie digest dry binde strengthen heat and also sometimes to cool but then there is rather to be used an Epithem as in cholerick inflammations The dry Fomentation So I cal from the effect that fomentation and baggs which are
that wants cooling and moistening or heating and moistening together CHAP. VI. Of a Stoveer Sudatory IT is otherwise called a Laconic because the Laconians were wont to use it as the Romans to bath others call it a vaporary In this the sick party is not dipped in the Liquor but onely warmed with either a hot and dry or a hot and moist vapor and caused to sweat Therefore a stove is two-fold a moist and a dry The moist Is made by the vapour of some decoction whereby the aire under the Canopye grows hot It is COMPOSED of a Canopy with a Bath erected and placed over the sick on which are layed sheets or blankets to keep in the vapour And this is heated diversly by the vapour 1. Either by stoves fiery hot so placed underneath that the Decoction to be used being cast cast on them the vapour ascends to the aforesaid purpose 2. Or else the Decoction is first poured in yet so that it touch not the sick and then into it the stones are dropped fiery hot 3. Or which is more commodious the decoction is prepared in two Cauldrons which are heated by turns and poured into the under tub as each other cools This Decoction is prepared of proper Roots Leaves Flowers for the most part hot cephalical wel sented of thin parts and in quantity as the highest proportion of the Apozems and to be prescribed with water q. s The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction whose vapor let the sick receive under a Canopy close shut so let him sweat at his pleasure let him use it twice a day long after meat the belly being first emptied and that for two dayes let his stay in it be according to his strength when he comes forth wipe off the sweat and let him rest in his bed c. the use of this is most convenient in the winter and spring as of the bath in summer The dry Stove That is so called which onely is heated with the heat of the fire This is made 1. Either in the manner of an Oven as in Ger. many is usually called a hot house or laconic 2. Or else fiery flints are layed under the Canopy on plates of iron and so give a heat 3. Or at this day for the French disease 't is made of a frame of wood like the cover of a burial bear and with this the sick are covered and sheds laid over it under it are placed little red hot stones til the sweat follow plentiful the party having first drank a draught of the Decoction of Guajack or some other sudorifick The USE is as the other the stay in them according to their strength which are thus much wasted so that they can hardly indure one quarter or half an hour The UTILITY it warms the matter of the disease spread over all the body and attenuates it loosens the skin and empties it it is very effectual in cold and moist affections loosenesse of humors the dropsie Leucophlegmatia for it powerfully dissolves the humours and consumes them by sweat very profitable for them that are fat especially those who are cacochymical if the foulness of humours be either in the habit of the body or in the veins In the French Pox 't is generally used dry and is not to be used at all unlesse the body be first emptied for then the relicks are by this way easily quite rooted out CHAP. VII Of Embrocation IT is not properly a certain Form of Medicine but only a manner of using it when we pour on any part some liquor or oyl and that either pouring it from high or only rubbing it gently in for Practisers use the name of Embrocation either way and usually confound it with irrigation for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to rain water or dip but be it as it will here for distinction sake we will distribute it into Irrigation and Embrocation Irrigation It is a pouring of Liquor from high like rain on any part but chiefly the head making it distill out of a snowted vessel and differs from a Fomentation only in form of using it It is PREPARED divers ways 1. Either of the decoction of divers parts of Plants hot or cold according to the scope in the quantity as for a Lotion made in water or wine as your indication requires boyled to the consumption of the third part in which being strained to one pound may be sometimes added vinegar wine aqua vitae according as the affections be cold or hot two or three drams c. 2. Or of Oyl only plentifully powred but this is better applyed as an Embrocation with linnen rags dipped in it especially in convulsions and affections of the nerves 3. Or of oyl distilled water and vinegar in hot affections of the head see the Oxirrodinum The VSE and FORM â„ž c. of the decoctior lib. one two or three make an Irrigation from high with a stream on the part affected c. See the Lotions The VTILITY t is chiefly dedicated to hot affections especially of the head the inflammations of the brain and membranes of it and that on the forepart of the head as also in provoking sleep in hot affections and great watchings though of late the Lotions of the feet be used in its stead t is very usefull in Feavers where there is a delirium and for hot affections of the head for it cools much because falling from high it pierceth the deeper and because still a fresh Liquor comes on it and the part so cooled is thereby the more tempered It may also be used profitably to its cold affections but most of all to the hot to which it chiefly belongs and when we would most of all cool in the beginning of inflammations we do it either with a cooling decoction Oxirrodinum or Oxicratum in the Erisipelas In cold affections though these may be used we rather use the Fomentation as also in dissolving an inflammation in Fractures and Luxations where t is not safe to unty the Ligâ—tures when pain is urgent this may be used with oyl of violets or to repel oyl of roses Oyls are suspected in Fractures and Luxations Note that the dripping of bath waters may be referred to this place Embrocation It is not taken here for watring a thing from on high but as it is at this day used or for a gentle rubbing of the part with oyl or for the applying of wool or linnen dipped in oyl or other convenient liquor for Embrecho in Greek signifies both to dip rain or water a thing It is COMPOVNDED and prescribed 1. Either of Wool or Lints which others call bolstrings dipped from whence its name in oyl only or in some other convenient Liquor applyed to the part after the manner of an Epitheme to be often renewed This Liquor is either oyl alone or some juices only or distilled waters only or else all together in this proportion Oyl Juices Water ana four ounces 2. Or as at
cotton c. and apply it But of the Troschischs ℞ c. Make Troschischs see before The VTILITY is as is said either to strengthen or alter diversly usually to dry the brain and consume Catarrhs strengthen for Phlegm contained in the breast in divers affections to dry the ulcers of the lungs of Tobacco Coltsfoot Brimstone c. to provoke or stop the courses of fit things as also to stay the Fluxes of the belly as the dysentery against fits of the mother of ill-scented things to the superior and sweet scented things to the inferior parts to dry and strengthen the womb and help conception for Ulcers of the ears nose mouth lungs womb c. for the French Pox of Cinnaber as is usual whose fume received in a close place cures that filthy disease by a spetting Flux and all affections depending thereon as Ulcers pains And t is usually made in the form of a powder or Troschisch as ℞ Cinnaber one ounce and a half Gum balf an ounce four dram of a strengthening powder two drams three drams make a powder or else with turpentine make Troschischs The MOYST Suffiment is otherwise properly called a vapor and is made of a liquor fit for the purpose sending forth a vapor by the help of boyling it T is COMPOSED 1. Either of a simple liquor as vinegar wine Aqua vitae or Rose water c. Note that sometimes red hot flints are quenched in the vinegar for the discussing of hard Oedematous swellings as also red hot tyles to be quenched in vinegar and the vapor received as is usual in the time of the pestilence 2. Or of the decoction of fit simples to be prescribed in the quantity of the fomentation or according to the ampleness of the part Therefore in affections of the ears a third part of that will suffice The VSE and FORM ℞ c. make a decoction whose vapor let them receive in affections of the womb and others also thorow a hollow stool and a leaden Pipe or Tunnel see the Insession in affections of the ears by a Pipe or Tunnel which they vulgarly call an EMBOIE The UTILITY is great especially in affections of the Womb in staying or provoking the courses of mollifiers and attenuators in the dysentery of binders in divers affections of the Anus or Fundament in stopping and easing the Hemorrhoids they are also prescribed for affections of the ears and eyes In general they may be used to dry binde relax mollifie discuss open c. CHAP. X. Of Odoraments or Perfumes THey are prescribed partly for delight partly for health but chiefly to alter the brain refresh the animal spirits to put away ill sents and infectious ayre for the increasing the vigour and spirits of the heart also the sent of them being attracted with the breath into the Lungs and thence to the heart They are made of sweet smelling things and are either dry or moist Dry Perfumes These are Compounded 1 In the forme of a powder see the suffiments but the quantity of this is to be limited according to the manner of using it if it be for the greater baggs 't is best to use the Violet or Cipreos powder but for the lesser sort two or three ounces wil serve yet so that the quantity of the gums be diminished see above which in a box bored ful of holes or otherwise you may hold to the nose in a little knot or bagg of silk 2. Or in the form of a Pomander of the powder aforesaid in Suffiment for pleasure to one ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces adding Musk Ambergreese Civet to grains 6. half a scruple or a scruple as you please And 't is made up either with Gum tragant dissolved in Rose water so make two Pomanders to be carried in the hands or which is better let them be incorporated with Ladanum dissolved so make a Pomander which anoint with some sweet oyl Note also that t is better for your Musk Ambergreese Civet not to go into the Composition but to wipe the outside of it over with them dissolved as also with oyl of Cinnamom Cloves c. alone or mixt and to renew them often 3. Or in the form of Globulets or beads made of the same masse as the powders are but the proportion of it must be according to the quantity you intend to make to which the Apothecaries to increase the quantity of them add willow charcole finely powdered 4. Or in the form of a perfumed sope for the washing of the hands and head of Venice sope or other white sope to 4 ounces sweet powder six drams and if you wil Musk or Ambergreece gr 3 4 c. with a sufficient quantity of Rose water incorporate and make bals great or little The VSE let the sent of them be often snuffed up but the scope is onely to cleanse the hands and head from filthiness c. The VTILITY is expressed at first Moist Perfumes They are Compounded 1. in the form of sweet water and this is either simple as Orange-flower water to 3 ounces of which you may add of Musk or Ambergreese gr 2 or 3 The Compound is made of Odoriferous things liquid as Rose-water Orange-flower water c. 4 ounces Cinnamon water one ounce and dry things as of sweet powders to 2 3 or 4 drams and if you wil some few grains of Musk and Ambergreese 2. Or in the Form of a Liniment which now adayes they cal sweet balsam of white wax often washed and melted one ounce of some convenient chymical oyls one dram and if you wil Musk Civet Ambergreese some few grains or more coursly of half an ounce of sweet powder wax 3 drams oyl of Ben or of sweet Almonds q. s so maken Liniment adding Musk Ambergreese c. to some few grains The VSE of the water is to wash the hands beard and hair of the head chiefly The use of the Balsam and its utility is the same as that of the dry perfume the hand also may be lightly smeared and the inside of the nostrils to avoid stenches to comfort the brain and heart and the spirits of both CHAP. XI Of the Scute IT is in general a topical Medicine for the stomack made in the form of a Scutcheon which seeing it is usually made both of plaisters and baggs custome hath so far prevailed the strengthening bagg is often used for the Scute 'T is COMPOVNDED therefore 1. in the form of a bagg of the powders of heating stomachical stomachical things observing these rules in every thing that are set down for your Quilt Caps from whose Form it onely differs in the use so that 〈◊〉 the proportion of the powder be also two ounces 2. Or in the form of a Plaister of the mass of some stomachical plaister as Empl. de Mastiche 2 ounces and of some stomachical powder to half an ounce to which also are sometimes added wel sented gums to 2 drams and are all made up with
Stavesacre Treacle-mustard Sesely Silvermontan Fruits Figs Raisins bitter Almonds Juniper berries Bay-berries Gums Mastick Ammoniack Myrrh Animal things Castor These Simples as to their use are either chewed as is usually the roots of Pellitory of Spain steeped all night in Vinegar to ℥ i. or else a powder made of the aforesaid things to ʒ iii. or ℥ s is taken with s q. of wax and made up into Troschischs as big as Lupines one of which is chewed in the mouth and so rolled up and down a reasonable while Opthalmicks or Eye-Medicines called by by the Latines and Greeks Opthalmica THey are called so in general which are used to heal diverse affections of the Eyes and are divided chiefly into three Classes The first contains the Oxidorcicks or Medicines that sharpen the sight The second contains those Medicaments that are for the inflāmation of them either in the beginning as Repellers and Anodynes or easers of pain or else in the state and declination as Digesters or Discussers the third includes the Cleansers that are used in the Ulcers Spots Suffusions and such like affections of the Eyes Oxidorcicks or Sharpners of the Sight Internal Roots Of Fennel Celendine the greater Avens Valerian Leaves Of Eye-bright Celendine Fumitory Fennel Vervain Rue Clary Seeds Silvermountain seed Rape seed Radish seed Fennel Carraway seed Clarified Juices Of Fennel Vervain Eyebright Marjoram Rue Distilled Waters Of Eyebright Vervain Celandine Fennel Rue Wine Of Eyebright On the contrary these hurt the Sight Radishes Garlick Onions Mustard and Cresses Externall Oxidorcicks or Quickeners of Sight Water of Hony if the dimnesse proceed from the thicknesse of the tunicles distilled Waters of the aforesaid sight-sharpning simples mixt together adding Gall and the Urine of a Boy under age white Wine and Hony Antimony to ʒ i. infused in ℥ iv of Water The Juices aforesaid dropped into the Eye the Juice of Rocket and of flowring Willow that which drops out at a cut in the Bark Anodynes or Easers of Pain Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort of white Poppy seeds where you would also Lenifie of Quince seed where you would also bind Waters Of Roses of pickings of Roses of Plantain Nightshade Housleek Purslain Womens milk white of an Egg beaten with water Sweet Apples roasted under the Embers or boiled in Milk juice of Apples Crums of Bread steeped and boiled in Milk adding a little Saffron to gr iv or v. White Troschises of Rhazis where there is great pain And in vehement pain Opium to gr ii in liquid Colliriums Repellers Waters Of Roses Mirtles Plantains Violets Purslain Nightshade Juices O◠Quinces sowr Apples Pomegranates white of an Egg. Muscilage Of Quince seed pulp of Quinces boiled in some binding Water as in the Water of stalks or pickings of Roses Discussers Decoctions Of Fenngreek Camomile Melilot Fomentations and Vapors Of the same things together with the Oxidorcicks before named Waters Of Eyebright Aqua vitae ¶ Of Fennel Celendine Rue with a little white Vitriol or salt peeter in it Animals their parts and Excrements Womans milk the blood of Pigeons and turtle Doves the feathers of young Pigeons that are full of blood drawn forth and pressed into the Eyes the gall of Fishes Gums Sarcocal fed with milk Rosins Myrrh and Frankincense Juices Aloes Verjuice where there is also a burning joined with the others And lastly Saffron Cleansers Some are gentle without biting the use of which is in the declination of Inflammations as Sugar-candy Hony juice of red Roses Antimony washed Cadmia Pompholix or white Tutty gray Tutty Skuttle-bone Pumice-stone Lead burnt and washt Others are stronger and joined with a biting the Vse of which is chiefly in Suffusions Skins and sometimes in Ulcers as gals of Fishes which are the gentler of four-footed Beasts which are moderate and of Birds which are the strongest to which add the gall of Vipers and Serpents Note that the gall of Partridges is the strongest of all and that of Hens is the gentlest Juices Of Fennel Quinces Celendine blew flowred Pimpernel Urine water of Hony compounded with the Oxidorcicks Others are the strongest of all as Vitriol burnt Verdigrease white Vitriol a liquor of which made with the whites of Eggs is excellent in the inflammation Itch and rednesse of the Eyes crude Antimony Oticks or Ear-Medicines by the Latines Auricularia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are Remedies that help the Hearing and are two-fold Internal and External The Internal are the Cephalical Medicines before rehearsed which alter consume or discusse the Humor contained in the inward cavity of the Ear whether they be hot if the Malady come from cold and grosse Humors or cold if the cause of the Deafnesse proceeds from hot Humors which useth to happen in acute Diseases after the Crisis the matter of the Disease being sent to the Ears External also are two-fold Hot and Cold. The Hot are these following Waters Aqua vitae simple or compounded with some of the other Cephalical things made in white Wine this cuts cleanseth digests any slimy Humor And to this purpose there are infused the roots of Radish Leeks Onions Sowbread white Hellebore Castor Saffron salt Peeter Cows gall besides the Cephalical things ¶ Crato commends Carduus benedictus infused in Spirit of Wine and then distilled for a singular Experiment See Crato Ep. 59. Decoctions made of the same things in Aqua vitae simple Vinegar or Vinegar of squils Juices Of Onions Leeks Radishes Rue Ash Common Oyls As of bitter Almonds Spikenard Distilled Oyls These following besides the Cephalical Oyls aforesaid of Sage Rue Cummin seed Carraways Fennel seed Bay berries Spike Animols The fat of an Eele that drops from it whilest it is roasting dropped into the Ear for is mollifies and relaxeth by reason of its fat substance attenuates and discusseth partly by the quality it obtains from the fire but chiefly by that it gets from Bay leaves wherewith it should be stuck full when it is laid down ¶ To these may be added the fat of an Hedgehog prepared after the same manner and Woodlice which some call Monks pease others Cheeslogs powdered and mixed with somu auricular Oyl and dropped into the Ear. Suffumigations made of the like things as are before spoken of Musk wrapped up in wool or cotten and put into the Ear. ¶ Civet is much more forcible especially if you add to it a drop or two of Oyl of Cinamon or Cloves The Cold are these Oyls Of Water-lillies Roses Violets Womens milk warm from the brest Juice or liquor of Vines which distils from the branches cut in the Spring Decoctions of Cooling things as Roses Mallows Violets Willow Lettuce Water-lillies ¶ Plantain Endive Straw-berries Purslain Odonticks or Teeth-Medicines THey are so called that strengthen the Teeth and by cleansing them from the filth whiten them these are a fit matter for Dentifrices and they are these following Of Plants the stalks of Burnet Pellitory of the wall
hours boil them till a third part or a quarter onely be wasted strain them through an hypocras bag sweeten it with s q of Sâ—gar and aromatize it with a dram and a half or two drams of Cinnamom so make it for a second decoction or a bochet for your ordinary drink Observe that this manner of diet should be continued for fifteen twenty or thirty dayes unlesse the strength fails then may it be now and then intermitted three or four days space in which space let him rather use rost meats then boiled as mountain and field-birds stuck thorow with Cinnamom and cloves as also hens and capons bisket-bread baked with anniseed and raisms of the Sun torrified Almonds and in the last course at table coriander and anniseed comfits let him use the second decoction strained and aromatized with sugar and Cinnamom q. s for his ordinary drink but if his belly be bound let a common glyster be now then administred or which is best every six or eight dayes renew the use of pills potions or other purgers prescribed that the more grosse matter wch the thinner parts being consumed otherwise useth to remain behinde in the bowels may also be expelled on which day let him abstain from the use of the decoction And as they ought to be purged well before the use of the decoction so ought they also every eleventh or twelfth day There useth also in the prescribing these diet-drinks of digesting head-herbs the hair being first shaved off two bags to be applied to the head reasonable hot for a quarter of an hour til the sweat burst forth of the face as soon as the drink is taken down to provoke sweat and also after sweat is wiped off especially in affections of the head as well todigest as consume the offensive cause and when these are taken away the head is to be wrapped in warmed locks of Hempe fumed with the ordinary fume The UTILITY is eminent and plentifull not onely in externall but also in the internall affections especially the contumacious whose causes have taken deeprooting and could not be removed by ordinary purgers and alterers so that they need these sorts of medicines which by their subtilty and tenuity of parts may either insensibly dissolve them or visibly expell them by sweat and discusse the reliques of vitious humours so also is it used against inveterate defluxions from the head and catarrbes of long continuance the ill habit dropsy and other affections of like sort proceeding from abundance of phlegmatick humours and also aganst the French Pox Thus much concerning the sweating diet-drink But the PURGING-SWEATING diet drink is a decoction which in the aforesaid diet moves both sweating and to the stool together an invention of the Modern Physitians and not used till within these few years neither was it invented without great hope of a happy successe seeing that by the help of this both the inner parts of the humours are expell'd by sweat and grosser reliques which otherwife use to stick very firmly to the intralls and other parts are by this means profitably eradicated together nor matters is all what some may object concerning the contrary motions for the natural heat that instrument of the expulsive faculty together with the faculty it self is ready indifferently for any motion so that where there is a way made by the stimulation or attraction of the mediâ—ine it indifferently stirs up it self for the expulsion of the morbificall cause especially since it is approved and confirmed by experience it self this discovereth the reason of the name and definition In this three things are considered the composition the use and the Vtility In the COMPOSITION chiefly two things The Matter or Ingredients and the Liquer in either of them the Quality and the Quantity As to the MATTER in regard of its quality you may take the aforesaid decoction consisting as is aforesaid of onely sudorificks or else also of altering simples joyned with them from whence it hath the name of sweating To this matter that the decoction may be also purgative those things are added which are spoken of in the purging Apozem as those purgers appointed there for the basis Senna Car. thamum and Polypody as also other purgers that chiefly are appropriated to the phlegmatick humour turbith hermodactills rheubarb and agarick together with their correctors more or lesse as is for your purpose As to the quantity concerning Sudorificks and alterers see before but purgers are to be added near the quantity they are prescribed in for the purging Apozem or something lesse viz. by a quarter because the strength can not bear such copious evacuations both by stool and sweating together Of the Liquor both touching its quality and quantity see before The USE as to the quantity 't is given to four ounces or five ounces as to the time in the morning and that for four dayes usually in the beginning of these sort of diets for in the rest of the dayes following the simpler sweating diet drink is to be used without the purgers As to the FORM 't is this â„ž c. i e the things aforesaid oâ— the sudorifical decoction in the end of the decoction add the purgers aforesaid or else with them the alterers let them be strained c. see before This purging decoction being ended and the four morning doses being finished let them use the same decoction excepting the purgers 15 or 20 dayes c. The UTILITY this sort of Diet-drink is most usual our late Physitians in bodies that are very soul and also strong which require that double evacuation to expel hose morbifical humors residing in the first second and third region that both the gross with the thin might by one labour be cast forth but this as it is most profitable so most usual in the ordering and curing the French Pox. ANIMADVERSIONS THis is to be noted about Sudorisicks in the forms of Prescribing and specifically Of the Wood Guaiacum it is said â„ž of the resinous Lignum sanctum i. e. Guaiacum Of the Wood Sassafras â„ž of the wood Sassafras newly brought over together with his bark cut or shaved into thin slices And Of the Root China â„ž of the weightiest root of China not worm eaten or rotten cut in thin slices c.. and of the root SALSAPARILLA â„ž of Salsaparilla cut in slices together with his hairy strings This also is to be noted that the decoction of China is to be kept in a warm place otherwise 't wil grow sowre and the decoction of the Wood Sassafras if kept wil ose his grateful smel CHAP. XIV Of a Bochete ABOCHET is the most profitable of the aforesaid diet Drinks otherwise useful in affections in which Wine is not safely given or where your scope is to dry leisurely and consume the dreggs of humors And it is briefly compounded in diets of the residencie of your sudorifical decoction so that no alterers or purgers have been boyled with it as hath been