Hog Fennel Primroses For the Breast Figs Liquoris lungwort Colts-foot Scabious For the Heart Root of Angelica holy Thistle Caltrops Herb Bennet Ground-Ivy Lavender Pimpernel Scordium the Root of Swallow wort For the Stomach Wormwood of all kinds cheifly the common wormwood pills of Oranges and Citrons Seeds or Mints For the Liver wormwood Agrimony For the Spleen Ceterach Epithime Fumitory the rind and Root of Capparis and Tamarisk For the Matrix Mug-wort Maiden-Hair Calamint Feaverfew Pennyroyall Savin For the Reins and Bladder Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsley Knee-holm For the whole Body Cinquefoil Tormentil Oxymel rich Metheglin Of these Syrups may be made or Decoctions in the Broth of a Pullet or sweet Wine to which it were good to add Oxymel from one ounce to two ounces Decoctions are unprofitable for the Stomach and Intestines because they pass so soon from the affected part Therefore Oxymel only is good to two ounces or a Syrup made of the foresaid Herbs To which may be added to discuss winds an Emulsion of the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges to two ounces or thereabouts in fresh Broth. Or after the Custom of the Antients Oxymel may be given wherein the tops of Wormwood have been soaked all night If Flegm be too thick and clammy we must never leave out Oxymel which must be added to Decoctions convenient wherein must be boyled some of these cutting Herbs and scouring namely Hysop Horehound Poley Savory wild Time Time Goats Marjoram If you would make an Oxymel suddenly which may be like Oxymel of Squils for its cutting and scouring Faculties it may be such a one to free the Obstructions of the Bowels Take Leaves of Bettony Agrimony Wormwood Fumitory Cink foyl of each one handfull Hysop Horehound and Time of each one handful and an half Roots of Sparagus Fennel Parsley of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound Honey two pound Let them boyl at a very soft fire til the Honey be clarified perfectly then strain them and add of the best Vineger one pound Annis Seeds two drams Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram Boyl al at a gentle fire to a Syrup then strain al again through a wide Cloth Preparatives for Melancholly If Melancholly be not adust Borrage Bugloss Dodder stone fern Maiden-hair Liquoris Hops Balm Fumitory Harts tongue sweet Prunes are convenient and to their Decoctions Oxymel is profitably added by reason of the Vineger that cuts the thickness of the Humors If the Humor be adust things that prepare thick Choller are to be used and moreover the Juyce of sweet Apples which hath a peculiar prerogative here Also it may be mixed from one to two ounces with the Decoctions of the said Herbs Also a Syrup may be made of it taking one part of clarified Honey and two parts of Juyce of good Apples clarified and so boyl them to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup to the consumption of one third part Medicaments that allay Acrimony Those things allay Acrimony which either temper it with a pleasant moisture and water the matter or else do anoint it with an Oyly clammy substance whereof there is excellent use in cutting the pains of the heart and bloody-flux These water and temper it Fountain Water or River Water sweet Almonds Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds husked Barley Water and the Cream of Ptisan made thereof Jujubes Lettice all Milk especially of Heifers and Cows Whey Liquoris sweet Prunes and Apples Water Lillies Purslain Sow-thistles the Fruit of Winter Cherries Nightshade both Housleeks Venus Navil Of the Herbs Decoctions or Syrups are made which are made more sweet and fit to temper the Humor if you take Wine in place of Honey and boyl it with an equal part of the Juyce of the Herbs to a due consistence Of these also are compounded Medicaments that are proper for some parts For pain of the Eyes from sharp Defluxions a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in Milk is good and laid warm to the Eye For the heat of Urine the Decoction of Liquoris is singular either alone or with the Fruit of Winter Cherries taken dayly six ounces in the first repast when the Stomach is empty For the Gripings of the Guts the Decoction of great Housleek in Rain Water or two ounces of the Juyce of it in the Broth of a Chicken To these add Lead only for outward uses to anoint with Oyls being beaten in a Mortar of Lead till they become thick The white and water also of an Egg are very unctious so is white Starch in meats new Butter the fat Broth of the Entrals and the head of a Kid Calf also of the feet of Hogs and Calves old Oyl chiefly boyled with Fountain Water till the moisture be consumed Amongst Herbs are Mallows Marsh-mallows Roots of Borrage and great Consound for the Decoctions of these herbs are mucilagenous It is held for a Secret for the heat of the Urine to drink the white of an Eg with the like quantity of Juyce of Lemmons For the bloody flux the Decoction of Marsh-mallows altogether Hitherto appertains the feet of Partridg broyled the Pouder whereof given to one dram in Water of Coriander if a feaver be present or if there be no feaver in black Wine will cure an old Dysentery in three daies For painful Ulcers and Clouds that are joyned with Ophthalmia or redness of the Eyes the Balsom of Sugar dissolved in the white of an Eg that is hard boyled and it is made excellent after this fashion Put poudered Sugar into a glass that is first wel washed with strong Vineger then boyl it upon the Embers to a perfect redness after that dissolve it by Deliquium in an Egg boyled hard and the yolk taken out For outward Remedies are profitably added Goats and Deers Suet fresh Hogs Grease Kids fat whereof with Apples is made the common Pomatum the Marrow of four-footed Beasts Wax especially white Wax and the Mucilages of Lin-seed Foenugreek Flea-seed Quinces the Roots of Marsh mallows Mallows of all which there is a peculiar use in healing the choppings of the skin yet the Mucilage of flea-seeds and Quinces is given inwardly with inward Medicaments for pains of the Heart Scouring Medicaments Scouring Remedies seem to be contrary to such as allay and temper because they wipe away the clamminess and what is fast to the Parts they scour off of which kind are all salt nitrous sharp bitter things which are good for al foulness of the Skin foul Ulcers and Obstructions But because the matter of these is manifold to avoid all confusion in so great variety we shal principally lay down here such scouring Medicaments as are proper for the foulness of the Skin and others that take away Obstructions and purge Ulcers may be sought for in the Title of things that open obstructions and breed flesh in Wounds of which afterwards in the mustering up of Medicaments that respect Diseases These clense the Skin weakly Bitter Almonds Peach Kernels Juyce
Catharticks and Purgatives The Belly is loosned by Physicks taken at the Mouth or cast in by Clysters or else by Suppositories Those that are taken at the Mouth are of two sorts for some of them do strongly purge the Belly and bring forth the Excrements others work more weakly which are principally to be used to keep the Belly loos that the Natural Excrements of the first Concoction may not too long be retained Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Whey Clarified and so drank from three pound to eight pound within one hour space but it wil be more effectual if in the first Cup you dissolve one dram of common Salt Un-huld Barly Water drank within the time of half an hour from two pound to six pounds especially if it be boyld with Raisons and Prunes The fresh Juyce of the purple Violet from one ounce to two ounces with one cup of Barley or fountain Water The Juyce of Damask Roses drank the same way The Juyce of the Garden Gourd gently boyled with a fourth part of Hoâ—ey and a little common Salt drank from three ounces to five ounces All these must be corrected by steeping of Wormwood in them if a weak stomach chance to abound with choller The Juyce of Succory clarified from Three ounces to five or six ounces Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moysture be consumed drank alone from four ounces to six ounces especially in the pain of the Heart The fresh Flowers of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree one smal handful eaten in a Sallet Musk Roses in number four Eaten in a Sallet especially if they be yet moyst with Dew Twelve sweet Prunes gently boyl'd in Honey Water You may also prepare from Prunes a * What Rob or Sapa is and how to mak several sorts thereof and the several uses of them you may easily learn in my last edition of the London Dispensatory in English Rob like to Sapa of smal Charge and very pleasant such as here followeth Take sweet Prunes one pound sweet Cods sliced three ounces Fountain Water or sweetish white Wine three pound boyl them at a gentle fire til the Matter grow thick then strayn it through a Hair Sive then boyl it again to the consistence of a Sapa of which for a Sufficient Purge give one ounce and half either by it self or with a smal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker like an Electuary for such as wil take it only in a Bolus but you must add a fourth part of Honey that it may last some time uncorrupted and you may give one ounce of it or one ounce and half Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Take red Sugar one ounce in the broth of a Pullet or Water of Coriander Also take fine Sugar from one ounce and half to two ounces the same way Good Metheglin not boyled taken from eight ounces to about one pound But the windinss of it must be corrected with seeds of Annis Fennel or Coriander Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces adding also the sweet Seeds that it may not stretch out the Belly The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey or else alone with Salt from four ounces to six ounces The Herb Mercury eaten like Pot-hearbs seasoned with Salt and Oyl So also is the Decoction of it good from four to six ounces adding Salt to it The pouder of both Hysops from two drams to four drams with Oxymel or about one measure of the Decoction of it given alone or else with Oxymel The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in Cock-Broth or Honey and Water or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley Rosin of the Larch Tree unwashed from three drams to five for those that are in years but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectual Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls common Wormwood one handful Honey one pound Fountain Water three pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey then ad Hysop and Poley of each one handful the best Vineger half a pound boyl them again to the consistence of Oxymel and then strain them the dose is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth. Also there are Pills easy to get and of smal cost Made of washt Aloes which may be given from one scruple to two drams or thereabouts And Garzias ab horto writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled with a little Salt the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loosen the Belly without any harm four or five times Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the shade about three drams in Water and Honey Or Take the fresh Juyce of the same Herb from two ounces and half to four ounces or there abouts in Clarified Whey or Broth of a Pullet So the Decoction of one handful of it is good especially with Raisons and a little Salt Tartar used as was said before The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams in Broth or some other Liquor Of Tartar and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria to stimulate it a very effectual Pouder is made and it is very pleasant It is thus made Take the best crude Tartar one dram or Cream of Tartar one dram half Leaves of Senna one scruple seeds of annis or fennel or cinnamon half a scruple fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder for one Dose Medicaments that Soften the Belly We must use these remedies that do not Purge strongly rather to hinder the retention of the Excrements of the first Concoction than for any other necessary and quick Evacuations and such are these Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cause These following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs and their Decoctions are profitable namely Sorrel Atriplex Blites Lettice al kind of Sorrel Mallows and the stalks thereof Spinach These Herbs soften more if they be boyled with Raisons in fat Broth or seasoned with Oyl and a little Salt Sweet Cherries boyled especially with their broth and sprinckled with Sugar Also Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey from one spoonful to two spoonfuls either taken alone or with Broth. Peaches byoled and sprinkled with Sugar Sweet Apples byold Corinths without stones and al of that kind either taken alone or steeped in Clarified Whey til they swel or boyled in White Wine or Broth and sprinkled with Sugar taken one ounce or two ounces at a time Sweet Prunes raw their outward skin being pulled off or boyled in Wine and sprinkled with Sugar The Juyce of Ptisan especially made of husked Barley Barley Bread Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals The cheif use of al these as of those that follow is at the first
of Herbs with sharp wine adding some Allum to them The Juyce of the fruit of Guajacum of Padua when it is half ripe pressed forth through a Linnen Cloth or received by a Spunge stayeth the most desperate flowing of the Hemorrhoids therefore it may be thickned with Allum and be kept for use Also Goats-dung beaten with Vineger and laid on stops all fluxes of Blood The Leaves of common Nettles beaten til the Juyce come forth and put into the Nostrills like a Tent stayeth bleeding at the Nose be it never so Violent But in a hot cause these bind a little Rain water steeled water water of Mineralls of Iron such as is the water of Padua of the Mountain Ortho. Vineger Posca Root of Succory Leaves of the Cypress Tree dried Strawberry Leaves Barley torrefied of which a Ptisan may be made with steeled water steeled Milk Tree Moss Mirtills Purslain the Clot Burr spotted Ars-mart Pear Tree of the Orchards four Prunes the Leaves of Sloes Pond-weed the flowers of Roses especially the red the Seed Down Cups and Root the flowers and Leaves of Willows Housleek Mullen the Leaves and Tendrells of Vines Venus Navil Of these may be provided chiefly Decoctions amonst which against inveterate defluxions the Decoction of the Roots of Roses in some of the foresaid waters is excellent Also this drink by certain experience stayeth in one day every hot excrementitious Bloody Flux of the Belly Take the Juyce of the greater housleek and spotted Ars-mart of each three ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part and give it in drink Outwardly may be prepared Fomentations Baths Emplaisters Epithems and other forms of Medicaments as need requires These bind moderately the Juyce of Oranges Citrons Lemmons not ripe wilding Leaves Leaves of wild Pomegranates Barberries Sheppards purse the inward Rinds of Chestnuts Cistus Dog Tree and the fruit of it the fruit of the Cypress Tree green or not yet ripe flower of the Sun Acorns and their Cups Herb-trinity Hypocistis the flowers of the wild Vine the flowers of the purple water Willow all the Sea Lavenders the common Blood-stone sour Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Nose-Bleed unripe Mulberries Leaves of the Olive Tree Adders Tongue Plantain wild Pear Tree the fruit of the bastard Corinths the Leaves of Brambles unripe Mulberries Sow-wort Iron-wort Yarrow all Medicinal earths the Elm Golden Rod and all these almost may be found in most places The dry Pouders of these may be given to one dram in Bolus or drink or some convenient liquor Decoctions may be made of the Herbs but the Juyces are more effectual the Dose whereof is from one ounce to two ounces These are held for secrets to stop all fluxes of Blood the flowers of purple Loose-strife to one dram given several times in sharp Red Wine Also this Syrup Take the Water of Knot Grassor Yarrow five ounces Let the Blood-stone be so long in this Liquor til the Liquor be of a colour like Blood then add to it the Syrup of Quinces or Pomegranates one ounce mingle them for a drink or in the place of a Syrup put a little Sugar to make it Penetrate and some Juyce of Lemmons or sharp Pears or some other that is of a pleasant tast To stop the Laskes of the Belly and vomiting make a great hollow in a Quince or some sour Garden fruit Apples of an Iron colour are best and fill it with white Wax put it into a Paper and roast it in the Embers give a peice or two of this strewed with the Pouder of unripe Mulberries a little before meat For to stay Pissing of Blood Take the Decoction of Golden-Rod in Rain or steeled water four ounces the water of the whites of Eggs two ounces Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Mingle this to drink For outward Remedies Oyls are made suddenly of the Decoction of Quinces Cypress Nuts and of the Pine-tree and other Herbs adding Posca to it let them be Boyled til the moisture be consumed the use of these is for Oyntments or Unguents with which Litharge Boyled in Vineger may well be mingled Epithems may be made with Posca and whites of Eggs. Fomentations and Insessions of the Decoctions of Herbs Defensatives for wounds are made of Bole-Armoniack or any other Medicinable Earth and the common Blood-stone being mingled and stirred with the whites of Eggs to the consistence of a Liniment the Sediment of a Wâ—â—et-Stone affords matter for a Plaister to stay al fluxes Rulandus doth frequently extol a Plaister of Potters Clay burnt and Boyled with Vineger laid hot to the part to stop Blood that forcibly runs out of any part For the Stomach a Plaister is profitable made of a Quince Boyled in four Red Wine or adding some Crums of bread to it softned in Vineger These bind strongly amongst the most common Remedies Grape stones the Kernells of the Pomegranate dryed the flowers of purple flower-gentle the inward Skin of wood Nuts Chervil and the Root great Comfrey middle Comfrey or the great Daisey Horstail Galls especially unripe Rupture-wort the Root of the Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce the true Blood-stone common Hares-Foot wild Apples unripe Medlars the Rind of the Root of Mulberries money wort Verjuyce Juyce of Sloes Knot-grass the Root and Leaves of the Oak the Bark that is between the Tree and the outward Rind unripe Services Sumach male Sanicle dead Nettles Bloody-rod of Mathiolus or female Dog Tree Of these some are peculiarly commended for some fluxes though all of them may be used generally where there is need of great astriction For the overflowing of the Terms these are accounted approved the shel of the Root of the Mulberry the Root of the dead Nettle Grape stones and Pomegranate Kernells the Pouders of all these are given severally to one dram with Red Wine or some Liquor that is fit for it For Spitting of Blood the Blood-stone taken with Sugar of Roses to one dram or laid in astringent potions til it look like the colour of Blood or put into a Bag and beat into very smal Pouder and so strain Wine often through it or any other ordinary drink Against vomiting and any immoderate and inveterate fluxes of the Belly these two Electuaries are the principle The first Take of the Roots of Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce Boyled in Rain Water and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part Make an Electuary according to art the Dose is from half an ounce to one ounce In the palce of Sugar of Roses let the Poor take half so much Clarified Honey Boyled in rain water or steeled water wherein the youngest Leaves of the Oak have Boyled some time The other Take the Roots of great Comfrey Boyled in the Decoction of the Root of Garden Dropwort and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part or parts alike Mingle them make an Electuary the Dose is the same with the former If it be provided for Hepatick fluxes and
Pills or seeds of Citrons or Orenges or with spike These Purge Violently The yong sprouts of Bryony half a handful Boyled as Pot-Herbs and taken The Juyce of the yong sprouts of the same taken in Wine or Broth or the Decoction of Hysop Origanum or Calamint from one dram to two drams Little Cakes of Wormwood fryed in Oyl that is distilled from the sprouts of Bryony do the same The Root of Bryony dried and Boyled from one dram to three drams or thereabout or the substance from one scruple to one dram or thereabouts may be taken in Wine or Broth being corrected with Wormwood or some thing to strengthen the Stomach The pulp of the wild Gourd is steeped from five to twenty grains decocted from ten grains or thereabouts to twenty four grains it is corrected with some Stomach strengthner and that by the slipperiness of it can make the Decoction sooner as Mallows Feâ—â—greek and Citron Seeds tops of Wormwood or Cinnamon To this belongs also strong Wine as wormwood wine that for one night hath been wasted in a hollow wild-Gourd The gourd that is Pear-fashion doth the same but some-thing weaker and therefore the Dose is all most double Chamelaea especialy the Leaves of it are Boyled from half a dram to one dram in substance they are taken from ten grains to one scruple it is corrected with Wormwood and Barley Thymelaea doth the same the same way given Laureola the Male which Mathiolus cals Chamaedaphne and the Foemal which he calls Daphnoides do the same but not so strongly it is Boyled from one dram to three drams but given in substance from fifteen grains to one scruple or to two scruples and is corrected the same way All the Tithymals except that with Broad Leaves which doth Vioently Purge Watery Humors are given many wayes the Milk of it is given from five to twelve grains the smal Branches and Leaves are given in substance from half a dram to four scruples the Rind of the Root is given in substance from one scruple to one dram but infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabout Of these sundry remedies may be compounded and be used presently or be reserved for use for Example A Drink Take prepared Agarick four scruples infuse it in three ounces of the Decoction of Hysop for ten hours then strain it and add Oxymel one ounce and an half mingle it for a draught Or. Take the Roots of Esula prepared two drams the Leaves of Laureola being fresh one ounce Leaves of Myrtles and Hysop of each one handful Fragrant White Wine two pound and an half Clarified Honey one pound Boyled all at a gentle fire to a mean consistence then add Annis Seed one dram Coriander Seed prepared half a dram Cinnamon one dram Boyl them again to a Syrup strain it and keep it for use The Dose is one ounce and an half to four ounces A most pleasing Pouder Take Hermodactills cleansed from their outward Skin one dram Tartar crude or prepared one scruple Ginger six grains fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder to be given in Wine * what Bolus is the way of making them you may see in my English Dispensatory Or the end of my Practice of Physick in Folio A Bolus Take agarick prepared two scruples Tartar half a dram Cinnamon five grains the pulp of Figs or Raysons cleansed from their stones half an ounce mingle these for a Bolus Pills Take Hermodactils and Agarick prepared of each one scruple and half Ginger six grains make a Pouder and with Honey or Oxymel form it into Pills When Melancholly predominates these will Purge gently Dodder Boyled from six drams to one ounce and an half for one Dose and it is thus corrected with Wormwood Take Herb Dodder one ounce topps of common Wormwood two Pugils or two drams common Water ten ounces let al be Boyled to the consumption of half add to them about the end Seeds of Annis or Fennel grossely bruised half a dram strain it for one draught if you Boyl under half an ounce it opens only but purgeth not Epithyme of Greece for there it grows naturally may be used in substance to half an ounce in clarified Whey or Milk or some such cooler in Decoction from six drams to one ounce and an half but it must be Boyled moderately The slow purging quality it hath is corrected with tart things as Pepper or Ginger In the place of it Time may be used which hath the same force and must be so prepared but in Europe the Black Time is most commonly used That which is white and grows in Syria is more effectual but it is better in the Decoction of it to use other Melancholy purgatives than to use it alone because it Purges slowly The Root of Polypode in substance is given from one dram to four drams in Cock-broth or Cream of Barley it is Boyled from six drams to ten drams it is corrected with such things as discuss Windiness and such as are a little astringent for the Stomach as Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds or Corriander Seeds or Spik of Italy The great and smal Leaves of Senna are used in substance from one dram to two drams they are infused from two drams to six but they endure not Boyling they are corrected with sweet Seeds and other things that dispel Wind. By infusion is made Senna Wine of which half a Cup may be given observing the former proportion for a just Purge But if it be only to loosen the belly then every Dose of Wine must contain no more then one ounce of Senna infused but one night These Purge strongly Consiligo of Mathiolus which Tragus thinks to be Black Hellebore and Dodonaeus thinks that it is Buphthalmus hath the same vertue but somthing Weaker as hath Black Hellebore of the Apothecaries and it must be prepared the same way Foemale Sannicle of Fuchsius the Root of it is of the same force and needs the same preparation These Purge Violently Purgative Antimony and it is made so by being thrice Calcined with the double weight of Salt Peeter at a fire not too Violent and stirring the matter continually with an Iron that it burn not It is given in substance for Children from four grains to nine grains and to those that are of ripe years from six grains to twelve grains and to them that are hardly purged from twelve to sixteen grains give it in any Liquor or in a spoonful of a Panatella or Ptisan it will work the more easely if you add some Grains of cremor Tartar The Root of Black Hellebore prepared there are divers preparations of it whereby this Medicament maybe made as gentle as Senna commonly the rind of the Root is infused in the strongest Vineger and then is dried in the shade for use It is given in substance from one scruple to about two scruples in Decoction from one dram to about two drams in infusion from half a dram to
four scruples it is corrected with sweet Seeds chiefly of Daucus and Nymphya which are the proper correcters of it If you would make it to Purge gently and would use it instead of gentle Purgatives before you dry it for your use let it Boyl a while in Vineger for so it loseth much of the force or when it is Boyled or infused as they ordinarily prepare it do but cast away the first Decoction or Infusion and Pour on new Liquor to the same Root for the second Infusion or Decoction to be administred Moreover of Hellebore they prepare a double extract one more effectual then the other First Take Roots of Black hellebore washt in white Wine and cleansed from their filth one pound slice them and infuse them twenty four hours in four pound of the best white Wine adding to it Flowers of the Water Lillies one handful Daucus Seed two drams or the Root of Daucus half an ounce about the end boyl them gently that the Roots may grow soft and swel then press them in a press let the Juyce be strained and purified and thickned sensibly by a gentle heate and when it is as thick as Honey add a fourth part of Mastick the dose is from half a scruple to one scruple in Pills or Bolus The second is the more ordinary Take Roots of black Hellebore be they green or dry so much as you please boyl them in eight times so much water til a third part remains then crush out the Roots most forcibly add the Expression to the Decoction and pressing both of them through a double strayner thicken them together to the consistence of Honey adding an eight part of Mastick when the Juyce is thick you may give it from sixteen grains to half a dram in Pills or Bolus Also of Hellebore is made a purging Apple if the smal Roots preserved and dried be stuck into an Apple and that Apple be roasted then pul out the roots and let the Patient eat the Apple or if the roots ly in the Apple for the space of a Natural day being stuck in then cast away the roots and eat the Apple raw Lastly of Hellebore is made an Oximel or any purging syrup if the roots be boyled in it but they endure great boyling there is almost the same purging faculty in black Hellebore you buy in the shops which Mathiolus cal's black Hellebore with a blew flower and black Hellebore that hath a greenish flower which Mathiolus calls bastard black Hellebore but the first purgeth with less trouble then the latter which therefore wants the better preparation and must be given in less quantity Of the foresaid things may be prepared a Syrup most profitable and pleasant for poor people to be kept to Purge the Melancholy Humors thus Take Roots of Black Hellebore prepared three ounces Borrage Bugloss Fumitory and Dodder of each one handful Pome Citrons cut into pieces half a pound Fountain Water five pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the wasting of three pound then cast away the Herbs add Juyce of sweet Apples half a pound Boyle them again til half be consumed then press all forth strongly strain them and clarify them add purified Honey one pound Boyl all to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose is one or two ounces But presently such Medicaments may be made as for Example a drink Take Leaves of Senna three drams Seeds of Fennel or Annis one dram infuse them twelve hours in the Decoction of hops four ounces or the Decoction of Raysons and make it Boyl once and then strain it add * What Oxymel Simplex is and how made with the vertuet thereof you may see in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the last Edition Oxymel Simplex namely to open the passages and to scour thick Humors one ounce mingle them make a Potion A Bolus may be made presently thus Take Leaves of Senna in pouder one dram Tartar Annis Seed or Cinnamon of each one scruple the pulp of Raisons purged from their Stones half an ounce mingle them and make a Bolus Pills may be made thus Take Leaves of Senna two scruples Root of Black Hellebore half a scruple Seeds of Daucus and Cinnamon of each fix grains pouder them and with Oxymel make Pills Such a pouder may be made Take of Purging Antimony eight grains Cream of Tartar one scruple Cinnamon and Sugar of each half a scruple mingle them make a pouder to be given in Wine or Broth. Or Take Leaves of Senna one dram Tartar and fine Sugar and Cinnamon of each one scruple mingle them and make a pouder for one When Watery Humors prevail these will Purge gently The Root of the white Thistle beaten to Pouder is taken from one dram in Wormwood Wine or Oxymel or in Decoction from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with sweet Seeds or Wormwood The Root of the wonderful Herb of Spain that carryes a diverse coloured flower is taken any way to two drams Wild Mercury in a Decoction one handful and an half or Boyled as Pot Herbs and seasoned with Oyl and Salt and eaten Garden flowerdeluce that bears a blew flower the Juyce of the Root newly pressed forth and purefied from two ounces to three ounces or thickned from two drams to half an ounce chiefly in Wormwood Wine The Root of Anthora Scraped from one scruple to two scruples taken in Wine or Broth it needs no correcter The Root of wild Cucumber dried given in substance from fifteen grains to about half a dram it is infused beaten grosly from two scruples to about five scruples it is Boyled from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with things that help the stomach But the best way to give it is to infuse it a night in Wormwood Wine Four Sprouts of Dwarf-elder that have four Leaves Boyled in Wine or Broth and eaten as Pot Herbs The Root of the same steeped in Wine from two drams to three drams The Juyce of the flowers and fruit of the same is given from five drams to one ounce in strong Wine or Broth corrected with Wormwood The pouder of the Seed of the same is given from half a dram to about one dram in the same Liquor The Juyce of the same thickned with Honey to the consistence of a Syrup is given from half an ounce to one ounce either alone or in wine or Broth. The Elder Tree doth the same prepared the same way only there is a greater purging Quality in the Rind of the Root then in other Parts The Juyce of the wild Lettice from three drams to about six drams with Honey or Oxymel or sweet Wine corrected with wormwood The Husked Seed of the common Ricinus the * What Emulsions are see my Translation of Riverius in the Physical Dictionary at the end thereof Emulsion of it is given from one dram to three drams with wine or fat Broth corrected with some Spice or infused or lightly bruised from
three drams to six drams Soldanella or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth from one handful to two handfuls also the yong shoots are eaten as Pliny saith or the yong Tendrels Boyled like Pot-Herbs They are corrected with stomack Corroboratiues Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for use and it is very pleasant if the Juyce of the Leaves be pressed out Clarified and thickned and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Mastick or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood the Dose will be from one dram to two drams or thereabouts The Root of the white Vine which Mathiolus makes to be the third Kind of Clematitis Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils These Purge Vehemently Ricinus of America it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain or the Seed is steeped all night in wine or else drink the emulsion of the Seed in Broth. Granum Dende of Avicennae which Mountebanks sel up and down for the Seed of Ricinus of America doth the same effect as Ricinus of America doth The Seeds of Cataputia if they be great are given from seven to ten but if smal from eight to fifteen Or else made into Pills or Bolus with Figs or taken in Emulsion with Hydromel they are very troublesome to the Stomach therefore you must drink after them Broth altered with Wormwood and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges Tithymal with broad Leaves given according to all the parts of it in the quantity and manner aforesaid concerning the other Tithymals that Violently Purge fleam Of the foresaid may be prepared a pleasant and profitable Syrup to be kept for use As Take the Roots of ordinary Flower-de-luce fresh six ounces wild Cucumber dried in the shade two ounces Roman wormwood and Origanum of each one handful pleasant white Wine two pound and an half make infusion for five hours then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Consumption of a third part strain it then add clarified Honey one pound Boyl all again to the consistence of a thin Syrup add about the end Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams The Dose of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the most Presently compositions may be made thus For a Potion Take the Roots of wild Cucumber grossly bruised one dram tops of Roman wormwood one handful Seeds of Annis Fennel or Cinnamon one scruple the best Wine three ounces infuse them all night in the morning strain them to the straind Liquor add Oxymel Simple one ounce mingle them for a drink You may Leave out Oxymel if you please For a Bolus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram Annis Seed half a scruple Figs half an ounce mingle them for a Bolus Pills Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two scruples or the Roots of wild Cucumber one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Pouder them and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice Purging Clysters Purgatives that are given in Clysters are used for a two fold end namely either to stirr up the Faculty Expulsive that is very dul as is used to be done in * the Sleepy Diseases are most excellently treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English Sleepy Diseases as the Palsey and Dotings and they are therefore called Tart Clysters or else to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revulsion sake They are prepared the same way and in the same quantity as we sayd already of lenitive Clysters adding only to the Decoction for a common Clyster some purging Herbs as centaury the less or Gratiola in a Cholerick cause the sprouts of wild Saffron broom Leaves the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth the Roots of Esula or sow Bread in a Flegmatick Cause the Roots of Black Hellebore in case of Melancholy the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder or the Elder Tree in a watery Cause but that they may Purge and supply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth they must not be cast in beyond the quantity of eight ounces namely the same quantity that may be also taken at the Mouth and a Clyster to Purge the Entralls must go before for so a Purgative Clyster may be held in many Hours and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Intestines But the quantity of Medicaments to be taken at the Mouth must be doubled in Clysters because they are not so easely brought to action by the Intestines as they are by the Stomach As for Example to pul back and to Purge Flegm such a Clyster may be made Take Leaves of Mallows Beets Origanum Chamomel of each half an handful pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram Seeds of Carthamus two drams Fountain water one pound Boyl them to the Consumption of half to the straind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces make a Clyster Sharp Suppositories Purging Suppositories seem to have no purgative power of themselves that is to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Intestines but only to stir up the Belly when it is slow to expulsion by which stirring up sometimes by accident it fals out as it doth in purgatives that the excrements that ly in the Veins and distant Parts are thrust out by the Belly but not by the Medicament drawing them but only by the Expulsive Faculty awakened Whereupon sometimes sharp Clysters supply the room of a Purgative Medicine and are more safely given to any that are weak then Clysters are Sharp Suppositories are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida Scammony or of both Hellebors or of the Milk of Tithymals or Esula and some Sharp Salt as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre for Suppositories For Vomiting Medicaments There are two sorts of these also for some only Purge the Stomach being Void of all attractive vertue and these belong to the Rank of gentle Medicaments others again evacuate the superfluities they draw to the Stomach and are Purgatives The former of themselves hardly provoke one to Vomit unless they offend some Stomach that nauseats them very much but they need some outward help to stirr them as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat but the latter provok Vomit without any outward help These move Vomit gently In a hot cause Warm Water or Barley water fat Broth water and Oyl they are all given luke-warm from one pound to two pounds to those that are of ripe years but to Children from eight ounces to one pound In a cold cause that is thin the Decoction
of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth to one pound with two ounces of Oxymel The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves to one pound The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity aforesaid The Pouder of the Root of bettony from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel The Pouder of the Pompion Root from one scruple in the same Liquor The Decoction of Snails in hedges in water or Broth. In a cold cause and thick the Juyce of Radish from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel Nitre from one scruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth. Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey with which mingle one scruple of Ginger Hysop or Pepper Purging Vomits All those things that Purge by Vomit do also move the Belly and therefore they are then to be Chosen when nature is more enclined to Purge upwards they may be brought to three ranks as they were that Purge the Belly Some are gentle that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach and with smal trouble move the Stomach others are strong and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts and trouble the Stomach something more Some are violent which draw vehemently and Evacuate matter that is very thick or such as is contained in the remotest Parts and cause Vomit with great forcing of the Stomach When Choller predominates these are gentle The Yellow rind of the Black Alder when it iâ— fresh Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams The Seed of Garden Cresses Poudered drank in water from three drams to six drams Mountain dwarf-Cherry of Gesner which Tragus makes to be Sea-Purslain swallowed down from five to eight Cherries especially in water or warm Broth drank after them The Root of Asarum draweth all most equally Choller and Flegm it is infused from two drams to five drams the substance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams These are strong The Juyce of the Root of Mandragora from half a scruple to a whol scruple in Honey Wine and we must use it warily for it is not without danger Where Flegm predominates these Vomit gently Agarick unprepared from two scruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel The Seed of Bastard Senna with Bladders is given in substance from one dram to two drams and is infused from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with spiced Wine The Seed of Bastard Senna with Scorpion Cods doth the same The flowers of Garden Broom and the green branches steeped or Boyled from two drams to half an ounce in Broth. The Seed of Spargula poudered from two drams to four drams in sweet Wine or Broth with Oxymel These do strongly Void Flegm that is predominant The Seeds of Staves-acre about one dram an half in Pouder with plenty of sweet wine you must drink fat Broth upon it until you fal to Vomiting least if it stay too long the Stomach should be inflamed The fresh Leaves of any of the Tithymals Boyled with sweet Wine from one dram and an half to four drams The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth. These Void Flegm Violently The Seed of the Peascod-Tree poudered from half a dram to one dram the rind of the same dried and poudered doth the same but somthing more weakly Those Medicaments that are compounded of these are almost of the same Kind as for Example For Choller Take Barley Water one pound Oyl of Olives that were sufficiently ripe two ounces Root of Asarum in pouder one ounce mingle them for a drink For Flegm Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound Oxymel two ounces Juyce of Radish one ounce crude Agarick two scruples mingle them for a drink If you please to make a syrup for a Vomit it may be as this Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half bay Leaves Tobacco Leaves of each one handful Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Grosely poudred two drams Common Water two pounds let them Boyl until half be consumed strain them In the strained Liquor infuse for twelve hours of the Roots of Asarum and raw Agarick of each three drams strain them again and clarifie it and add to it of clarified Honey one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose of it is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water Of the same kind is this Electuary which is very effectual Take the Roots of Asarum and crude Agarick of each half an ounce Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams Cinnamon one dram Annis Seed half a dram Pouder them to very fine Pouder and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces and make an Electuary the Dose of it is from nine drams to almost twelve drams in any Liquor that is pleasant For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant None but strong and Violent Medicaments are convenient because the Humor being of its own nature the most heavy is something more hard to draw upwards than other Humors These cause Vomit strongly prepared Antimony the Flower the Calx and the Glass of Antimony are easily prepared but the Tincture is somthing more difficult and so is the Oyl which being precipitated into cold water passes into white Pouder not unlike to Flower All these are given in substance from three grains to six grains in a Panatella or Ptisan or some Stomach-Conserve or Aromatick Wine corrected with wormwood Rosemary and other a little astringent Stomach-remedies they are steeped from four grains to ten grains chiefly in strong Wine or wormwood Wine Of this is made a most pleasing Syrup Evacuating most easily both upwards and downwards beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments thus Take the Flowers or the Glass of Antimony one dram and an half the best white Wine one pound infuse it for two days natural strain it and add to it Honey clarified ten ounces Boyl them to a Syrup The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout taken by it self or in some pleasant drink These work Violently the prepared Root of white Hellebore or the pith pulled out and the Root steeped in Rose Vineger one day and dryed again in the shade for use in the place of Rose Vineger take Vineger of Quince which is better or some other that is altered with something that is a little astringent and cooling for the Stomach it is given from half a scruple to one scruple not in substance least the Mouth of the Stomach should suffer Convulsion but in infusion which is done two wayes the first is the way of the Antients who did stick the smal Roots of Hellebore into a Radish for one night the next day they crushed our the Juyce of
the Radish and gave one ounce of the Juyce in Ptisan or a thin Panatella may be used in the place of it for to moisten the Mouth of the Stomach that it fal not into Convulsions The second is better and more pleasant than the first As take half a scruple of the Root stick it into a piece of a Quince and Boyl it in the same then take out the Roots and give that for a Bolus to eat or the Juyce pressed out of the Quince may be put into Wine or fat Broth altered with the Seeds of Citrons and so drink it White Hellebore is made far more gentle if the Root with the pith pulled out after due infusion be Boyled in Vineger and be then dried and kept for use Where watery Humors are predominant these are accounted gentle the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder from one dram and an half to three drams in fat Broth altered with tops of Wormwood The Juyce of the Root of the Elder-Tree doth the same taken in the same Dose The Berries of Water-Elder taken to two drams drink fat Broth after them as we taught before Strong Vomiting Medicaments the Leaves of Spurge pulled upwards are given in the same Broth from one dram to one dram and an half Stronger Elaterium by reason of the bitterness taken in Pills or Bolus It is commonly mixed with some Aromatical Pills it may be mixed with the pulp of a Fig with a little Wormwood which is done by expression The fruit oâ— wild Cucumber is given from three grains to ten grains but that which drops out of the fruit only pricked is given from two grains to six Medicaments that Evacuate by Urin by which not only the ways of the reins and the Bladder but also the whole body is purged by the help of the Veins and Arteries They are made of Diuretick Medicaments whereof some are properly so hot and dry and sharp and of thin Parts others improperly so that have but remiss heat or enclining also to cold but yet are of thin parts which are to be used cheifly in Feavers or when the Reins or Liver are over heat unless perhaps there be present some corrupt Venemous matter in the veins that requires speedy Evacuations which is better and sooner performed with proper and hot Diureticks the cheif and the most Obvious in both kinds are these Proper * what Diureticks are see â—â—y Translation of Riverius and the Dictionary at the end thereof Diureticks Asparagus principally the Root Smallage Seed or the common Sesely the Root and the Seed of Carduus the Root of Cucumbers and the seed common Seed the Roots of al sorts of Eringos the Roots and Seeds of Fennel the Seeds of both Rochets the Leaves and berries of the Bay Tree also the Roots and the Rind wild Mints Turnep Seed the Root of Prickly Rest-Harrow Penniroyal all the parts of common Parsley the Roots of both kinds of Radish Madder Roots the yong sprouts of Kneeholme the Tendrells and the Roots Savory wild Time the Seeds are given in Pouder from half a dram to one dram the same must be understood of Medicaments that are Diureticks improperly some are Boyled in Wine or Water but best of all in Broth of Chich Pease yet the pouder of the Roots is given also especially of those that are of a woody substance as of Rest-Harrow and the Bay Tree Of these some may be Compounded presently This Pouder is most effectual Take the Roots of Rest-Harrow two drams the Seeds of Rochet and Bay Berries of each one dram Cinnamon half a dram mingle them make a Pouder give one dram in Wine or warm Broth of Chich Pease It is more pleasant if it be infused all night then give it one Boyl and strain it cast away the Dregs and then drink it It will be made a more effectual remedy yet if you put in some drops of the Liquor which comes from Salt put into a hole in a Radish kept in a moist place til it melt To Anoint the Privities such an Oyl is made presently which help the Voiding of the Urin. Take Bay Leaves Hors-Mints wild Time Pennyroyal of each one handful Chamomel one handful and an half Radish Roots half an ounce Cummin Seed two drams common Oyl one pound and an half white Wine one pound make an infusion for four hours then Boyl all til the moisture be consumed and then press all out and strain it again A Plaister also may be made of a Radish cut and Boyled with Leaves of Parsley and Smallage and Penny-royal then bruise them all and lay them to the Privities Improper Diureticks Seeds of Gourds Cucumbers Citruls and Melones make Emulsions of them of Mallows Gromwel Seed Alkekengi Kernels of Cherries Stones of Medlers Shels of Filbird Nuts the Juyce of ripe Lemmons the Leaves and stalks of Straw-Berries Maiden Hair the Roots of both kinds of Brambles of Grass especially Reed Grass of Liquoris Câ—nkfoyl and Radish the Rind peeled off also the Broth of red Chich Pease is profitably administred with a fourth part of Juyce of Lemmons this drink is held for a secret Take the Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall three ounces the Proth of Chich Pease four ounces mingle them for to drink This also is supposed to be of the same kind Take Liquoris half an ounce common Water half a pound Boyl them at a gentle fire til half be consumed strain it and add to it Juyce of Lemmons one ounce mingle them Also for a speedy remedy may be given with great profit two ounces of the Juyce of Radish in strong Wine that is hot Outwardly may be laid a common and excellent Plaister of the Leaves of Pellitory either alone or pounded with a Radish and so fried in a frying Pan with Butter and Oyl and laid hot to the Privities if you can get Oyl of Dill or Camomel it is better than common Oyl Medicaments that Evacuate by sweat These also are of two sorts some are properly to cause sweat which Melt the matter and turn it into Vapours others are improperly so which make the matter easily convertible and so by accident cause sweat and these are very convenient for the smal Pox at the beginning and for hot affects of the Skin and hot Feavers when the motion of Nature is outwardly inclined toward the Skin Proper for sweat are the Decoction of Garlick of Box Wood with which the French Pox is as easily cured as with Guaiacum of Germander great Celondine Carduus Benedictus Juniper Wood and Bays and of sweet Chervil they are given from four ounces to eight ounces or thereabouts and they are made more effectual being Boyled in Water and Honey and white Wine The same Decoction purified and thickned with a gentle heat afford plain extracts that may be given to one dram or thereabout or els mingled with good Wine or the Decoction of some improper sweating Medicaments or made into Bolus or Pills and to drink after them
three ounces or thereabouts of the Decoction For example In the Diseases of the nerves and Joynts from a cold Defluxion make such a Decoction Take Wood of the Bay-Tree and Box Tree of each one ounce and an half cut them smal and infuse them one day in five pound of common water add Leaves of Betony Germander and Ivy of each one handful let them Boyl at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed strain it to be drank at five Times Improper Medicaments to move sweat The Decoction of Camomel Chervil Fumitory unhulled Barley Millet Lintils lightly BoyIed Roots of Hops Cynkfoil Tormentil Leaves of common Pimpernel Scabious and Winter Gelliflowers Of these is made a common Syrup called the Syrup of St. Ambrose of one part Wine and two parts of the Decoction of Millet Other Medicaments may be suddenly made as for example in a Cutaneous effect make such a Decoction Take the Leaves of Scabious and Fumitory dry of each one handful Roots of Hops half an ounce Barley Water one pound and an half Boyl all at a gentle fire to the Consumption of almost the half and strain it out for one draught When the smal Pox appear Take Leaves of Pimpernel one handful Scabious half a handful of the first Decoction of Lintels one pound Boyl them til a third part be consumed strain it out to drink at one draught The Decoctions of these are given in greater quantity than are the Decoctions of those that are properly to cause sweat Namely from about eight ounces to two pound And you must know that sweat can hardly be procured by the help of these Medicaments unless the force of them be derived outwardly to the Skin by attracting Medicaments by the benefit whereof the pores of the Skin also are loosned and prepared for sweat therefore about an hour and an half after the taking of a potion to sweat the Body must either be put into a dry Bath or some hot natural or artificial Bath or els must be wel covered with Garments or els hot Tiles must be applyed to him or vessels ful of hot Water or the Skin must be gently rubbed or Cupping Glasses without Scarification must be applied on divers Parts as necessity shall most require Medicaments that Evacuate by Spittle Those things that unloose the Stuffing from the ways of breathing are called from their office Expectorating Medicaments all which may be comprehended under a tripple difference for some are convenient for thick spittle namely incisers and scowrers others are for thin and unsavory spittle as dryers and a little thickning others again are to temper Salt spittle and to hinder the corroding of it Therefore when the spittle is Moderately thick a * What Lohoch is see the end of Riverius Practice of Physick in English And the Dispensatory in English Lohock is needful of water and Honey or Oxymel crude Honey a Decoction of Figs Liquoris sweet Cods Raysins adding a quantity of Colts Foot Lungwort or Scâ—bious for the Pouders of these Herbs may be mixed with the Oxymel to the consistence of a Lohoch or a Soft Electuary in which form the pouder of Iris is used to good profit mixt with Oxymel For Spittle that is very thick these are proper the Decoction of Oak of Jerusalem Elecampane Hatchet-Fetch Hysop Horehound Savory Time long Aristolochia the Pouders of these are mixed profitably with Oxymel for a Lohoch or they are mingled with Honey in form of an Electuary Or There is Compounded a sweet drink with Oxymel and the Decoction of the said Herbs as also by the infusion of them Hysop Wine is wont to be made and Wine of Elecampane which the Antients used Ordinarily The common people use to make a profitable Electuary of the Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Water it were better to take Methegsin or sweet Wine and passed through a Hair sieve and then mingled with twice as much of clarified Honey and Sod to a just consistence Besides these the Pouder of Brimstone doth profit well or the Flower mixt and taken with a rear Egg. The Seed of Nettles mixed in Lohochs or Aqua-vitae with a third part of Sugar made into a confection or mixt with Oxymel So the Pouder of the Lungs of a Fox taken from half a dram to one dram in Wine or Metheglin to be drunk or mixed for a Lohoch Saffron drank in Wine from half a scruple to a whole scruple Sows Lice washed in Wine and infused to one dram al night in white Wine then pressed forth and drank the dregs being cast away The Rozin of the Larch or Firr Tree licked or swallowed down in Bolus for a licking Medicament it must be dissolved in clarified Honey for it will mingle very well with Honey A most excellent Balsom may be made for this purpose Take Oyl of ripe Olives for the rich take Oyl of sweet Almonds that is not rank half a pound sweet white Wine four ounces let them Boyl til the moisture be consumed then add Flower of Brimstone three ounces stirr them continually and very Softly at a gentle fire and when the Flowers are dissolved add Rozin of the Larch Tree or the Firr Tree or if it can be had the Gum of the Firr Tree two ounces and an half mingle them to perfection It may be put into Lohochs or taken inwardly with the foresaid Decoctions or with white Wine But that the spittle may come forth the more easily least the Humor that is thick should grow dry with the use of these things it is best alwaies to add some Emollients and loosners such as are for Lambitives and internall uses the Root of Liquoris the pulp of Raysons Roots of Mallows and Marsh Mallows It is good to Anoint the Stomach outwardly with Butter chiefly that which is rank either alone or mingled with the Mucilage of Mallows and Marsh Mallows An Application of a Colewort Leaf well anoynted with Putter and sprinkled with Pouder of Cummin Seed and so laid hot to the brest is much spoken of When the spittle is thin and unsavory the Decoction of round Aristolochia Iuiubes wild Plumbs Golden Rod Penniwort Veronica the Juyce of somewhat sowre Pomegranats either by it self or with a little Honey All sorts of licking Medicaments made of white starch Gum Arabick Tragant all Physical earth with Honey or Oxymel mixing a quantity of Brimstone or Mirrh or round Aristolochia or the Cream of Ptisan with some white Starch For Salt spittle the Decoction of Barley Iuiubes Liquoris Raysons sweet Prunes are convenient and chiefly in the Decoction of the Feet and Head of a Calf Kid or Lamb also of Snails and Snails of the woods Emulsons of sweet Almonds and of the four lesser cold Seeds chiefly adding the Flower of starch the Cream of Ptisan or a Panatella with the same Emulsions adding also the Emulsion of white Poppy Seed when the Saltnes is urgent the Juyce of sweet Prunes licked up Fresh Butter licked as also added to
Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole
quenched or with Smiths water elâ—rified Some make these Decoctions with Vineger but chiefly wherein Raisins have been steeped to diminish the Spleen that is grown too great if Vineger of Squils be at hand it were good to mix it with the Decoctions to half a spoonful Wines are prepared by the infusion of the same Herbs and they wil be better if you add steel that is prepared with Brimstone which preparation may be made suddenly as for example Take Leaves of Germander Dodder wall Ferne Fumitory Buglos of each one handful Seeds of Ash berries of Ivy of the Wall of each two drams Time and Wormwood of each one pugil Steel prepared one ounce the best white Wine three pound Make infusion in the Sun or some hot place for eight daies stirring the matter alwaies once and again then strain the Wine and take every day four ounces four hours before meat and before ordinary exercise Electuaries may be made of the same herbs adding prepared Steel to them or Ammoniacum and four times so much Clarified Honey Some there are that ascribe a wonderful effect to Ivy berries poudered and mingled with honey to an Electuary or drank in Wine or Broth of Chich Pease to one dram for forty daies Outwardly are convenient Fomentations of the Decoctions of Emollient Herbs adding thereto the Roots of Briony and Sowbread Ivy Leaves and Tobacco dwarf Elder and wormwood to corroborate the parts with some quantity of white wine and vineger in the end of the Decoction to make the better penetration The Fume of this Decoction received is good by quenching in it a piece of a sire-stone or a mil-stone Also Fomentations made of Hemp Yarn boyled in a strong Lixivium and being laid hot and moist to the part are exceeding profitable Also the mud of â—itumenous Baths used for fifteen or twenty daies is commended After Fomentations let the parts be anointed with Oyls made suddenly by boyling together or else apart Sowbread Priony Cappars flowers of Broom Tobacco Ivy Leaves Coloquintida in common Oyl with white wine and vineger til the moisture be consumed adding some wormwood or bitter Almonds to preserve the strength of the part After convenient use of Fomentations and Oyntments apply a Cerate to the part as that which is usual made of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of Squils or provide somthing of the same faculty of the pouders of the said Simples adding some little of the foresaid Oyl to a sufficient quantity of the Pine-tree Rozin or white Pitch and new Wax Also Bee-glew is commended that is yet swelling with Honey bruised by it self to the form of a Plaister adding a little Mastich to help the strength of the part To this place appertains a little bag that is stuffed with equal parts of wild Cucumer pulp of Coloquintida and wormwood laid to the Spleen These cool the Spleen that is over-hot the same that were propounded for the Liver but there must be some temperate Attenuatives added to them by reason of the thick Juyce the Spleen is nourished with Such are Strawberries Maidenhair Hops Sparagus Trichomanes vineger Smiths water clarified with which Decoctions are altered Fomentations and Epithems not forgeting to add some wormwood to outward Remedies to strengthen the part The same things belong to the Reins and the Bladder by reason of the community of their office and nearness of the parts Therefore for these overcooled all those hot Diureticks laid down in their proper place are profitable Also Betony Chamomel the Root of long Cyperus added to the Decoctions and Electuaries But these are judged to be better to heat the Urinary passages water Baths that proceed from Brimstone drank for many days together fasting to some pound weights putting in some smal quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel or the like Diuretick in Pouder for the first Cupp or some Rosin of the Larch or Firr Tree to about two drams taken in Bolus either by it self or with some little Pouder of some of the hotter Diureticks Also white Wine of the best altered with some of the hotter Diureticks is most convenient for this business Outwardly to sit in waters of Baths that proceed from sulphur is an approved Remedy Fomentations of the Decoction of hot Diureticks with hot white Wine Oyntments with Oyl of Bays or some such like prepared presently you have an example of it amongst the Diureticks Cataplasms are commended made of Onions and Garlick Boyled with white Wine and bruised and laid on by themselves or sprinkled with the Pouder of Cummin Seed or the like Clysters made with the foresaid Oyl are often to be given hot and with Wine altered with Chamomel Bay Leaves Penniroyal wild Time and such like heaters that cause Urin. Add to all these strong Motion by riding running Walking whereby the Region of the Loyns is heated But for the Reins over-heat these things profit inwardly Decoctions of the fruit of Alkekengi Marsh-mallows Sorrel Barley Lettice Mallows water Lillies Purslain Grass Roots of Sowthistles with the Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds or the Juyce of Lemmons Moreover Clarified Whey with the Emulsion of the four cold Seeds Also steeled Milk unless some obstruction of the Reins hinder it Drinking of sharp Mineral waters of Copper Vitriol or Iron such are in Italy the Lucenses Noceranae Chalderianae and at Padua of the blessed Virgin Also to eat Strawberries Lemmons Melons Citruls Gourds Barley Lettice Outwardly doth profit a Bath to sit in of sweet waters chiefly altered with Violets Pellitory of the wal-Lettice Mallows the Decoctions whereof are also profitably given in Clysters In the place of Baths Epithems are good of warm Milk either alone or with the Decoction of Mallows or of the foresaid Herbs adding Juyce of Lemmons to them to make them penetrate When heat is urgent add the Leaves of Housleek Garden night-shade and Alkekengi and sometime of white Henbane to the Decoction The most effectual is the Juyce pressed out of the inward scrapings of the gourd either alone or laid on with other things Also sudden Oyntments may be prepared of Oyls wherein are Boyled the slowers or Leaves of water Lillies Blew Violets Damask Roses green Frogs Upon urgent necessity which falls out in an exquisite Diabetes the Seeds of white Poppy and white Henbane out of which also Oyls are made by expression very effectual for the purpose Apply to the Reins and the parts about fresh Leaves of water Lillies when the party goeth to bed and let him wear in the day time in the place of them a thin plate of Lead or a simple Cerate made of Yellow Wax often washed in Rose water or the said Decoctions and Oyls which must be often taken off least growing hot by the Cloaths upon it it may foster the heat of the Reins Remedies for the Matrix No cold things of themselves are kindly to the Matrix because it is the place of generation yet if it shall stand in need of them when it is over heat they
are necessary for to help it which are set sown to help the Reins and the Liver only with this caution that to outward Remedies some things must be added that cherish the natural heat of it and foster its peculiar property But when it is over-cooled these principally are convenient amongst common things Mugwort Angelica Calamint the Root of long Cyprus Daucus white Dictamny Nip Leaves and Berries of bays Lavender Fetherfew Marjoram Balm Garden Mints and wild Mints and Greek Mints Origanum Poly Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Savory Sage wild Time French and Italian Spik sweet Tansey Time and all Spices amongst which the best are Cinnamon Saffron Galanga Mirrh Mace and Nutmeg The Pouder of these may be given to one dram in Spiced Wine or Broth or else Electuaries may be made of them adding thrice as much of Clarified Honey To this end serve all kind of Aromatical Spices that may be had at cheap rates of which take one dram in Wine But Decoctions and Physical Wines are preferred before other Medicaments because by reason of their moisture they can more easily be conveyed to the Matrix The best Decoctions are made of Pidgeon Broth the Belly of the Pidgeon being stuft with the said simples as for Example Take Herbs Calamint Penniroyal Balm Mints of each one handful tops of Rosemary and Lavender of each one pugil Bay-berries Nutmeg and Galanga of each one dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the rest grossly and put them together within the belly of a Pidgeon then boyl them in water sufficient at a very soft fire until the flesh be perfectly boyled then press all out strongly and strain it give two ounces of it or thereabouts daily for many daies Physick Wines are made by the Infusion of the said Ingredients or by thrice pouring the wine upon the said pouders put into a long bag Women use to provide Wines by Decoction and that presently but they are not so effectual because the thinner parts are evaporated Also to drink the water of Baths from Brimstone seasonably doth wonderfully maintain and correct the heat of the Matrix Outwardly do profit Insessions Bath waters from Brimstone or Baths altered with the said Herbs putting into the Matrix a hollow Pipe that by that the force of the Medicament may come to it The same Liquors as also Physical Wines are conveniently used conveied by injections to the secrets Also Fumigations of Spices and sweet Herbs are good Pessaries are commended such as may be presently provided Thus. Take the Pouder of Bay-berries and Rue of each one dram Mirrh half a dram Juyce of Fetherfew or Peniroyal or Spiced Wine one ounce Mingle them and with carded Wooll or Cotton make a pessary Or Take the best Honey one ounce Juyce of Mugwort half an ounce Boyl them to a fit consistence then add Pouder of Galanga or the Spices of vulgar Aromaticks one dram mingle them for a pessary Also Fomentations must be applyed to the lower part of the Belly with Spounges pressed out with mineral waters or of the Decoctions of the foresaid simples chiefly in strong Wine But no Fomentation is better than the mud of hot Baths applyed to that part for some daies Anoint the same place with Oyl of Spik Bays Rue and other things made of the Decoction of the said simples as for example Take Herbs Calamint Marjoram Fetherfew Mints Lavender of each one handful Bay-berries and Galanga of each two drams Pound what must be pounded and infuse all in one pound and an half of common Oyl and half a pound of Spiced Wine for six hours then Boyl them at a soft fire till the moisture be consumed Some ascribe a peculiar vertue to strengthen the Matrix to Santoline which Mathiolus makes to be Foemale Southernwood And these are the most common and ready Remedies to alter whereby the distemper of every part and of the whole Body may be corrected Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Due Conformation convenient Magnitude of the Similary parts of which the Organ consists do make the Constitution of the Organ also convenient and fit number to which apt connexion is referred therefore we shall Recite four chief heads of faulty composition namely a Disease in conformation in Magnitude in number in Scituation There are four ill accidents that befal Conformation namely in figure the insensible passage being open or shut Cavity or sensible passage being enlarged or streightened and the superficies being smooth or rough A Disease in figure hath no Remedies that are proper for it but it is either cured with the help of Chirurgery or with Medicaments that respect other Diseases on which it dependeth For it is made either by faulty Conformation in the Womb or violent motion in the birth or the unskillful swathing by Midwives or walking when the Legs are weak disjoyntings and errours of the Chirurgion in curing Fractures and Luxations which want the help of Chyrurgery but of those we do not speak in this place But the part brought again to its due Conformation is strengthened outwardly with Fomentations and Cerates which are made of Astringents but chiefly those that are hot and shall be described very shortly Now if the figure be spoiled by too great Repletions or extream in any Emptines or by some inclinations of one part toward another by reason of a Palsy or Convulsion as it falls out when the Nerves or the Tendons are cut or from some hard Cicatrice or great swelling it is cured by such Remedies as empty strengthen the Nerves soften hardness of which we spak already also with such as refresh the part that is too empty and such as glew dissolved unity of which afterwards Rarity or the opening of the insensible passages which Men cal Porosities which in great Joy poured forth and Diaphoretical sweatings is often the cause of death it is cured by Coolers Astringents and Emplasticks or such as draw up the pores Such things as are most obvious to be applyed outwardly are the sprinkling with cold water and so much the more if it be cooled with Snow or Ice or first altered with cold astringents of which we will speak afterwards Anointing of the Body with Oyls that are actually cold especially of unripe Olives or altered with cold astringents as Roses Quinces and the like Also the coldest Ayr is best that with the cold of the Ayr the pores may be contracted If these things Suffice not lay on Burnt Gip with cold water as a crust upon the Body If Rarity possess the part as when by reason of rarity of the yard the spirits cannot be conteined in the hollow Nerve to cause strong erection those Astringents that shall be by and by propounded must be applyed to the place affected especially hot because so they strengthen the more For the Density or astriction of those passages if it proceed from any matter that is impacted hot detergents are most convenient and such as attenuate which shall be propounded to take away
obstructions that come from thick matter that is impacted If it proceed from cold and driness things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful of which there is notable use to dispose the Body to necessary sweating and to make the Body transpirable which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers and to take off all Cutaneous spots Such are Baths of warm water Fomentations of water and Oyl or warm water chiefly altered with Dill Chamomel Marsh-mallows Roots of white Lillies Lin-seed the flowers of common Jasmin and wall-flowers Boyled till half be consumed Also Unction may be made with Oyl very hot first rubbing the part softly or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand dipt in the same Oyl or some Spiced white Wine adding one half of the Decoction of Violets and Mallows in common water if there be a strong Feaver present Also the rubbing it self with soft Cloths taketh away the thickness of the Skin and Cupping Glasses do it more effectually with or without Scarification Also for the Amplitude or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or sensible passages astringents are convenient which do so much the more forcibly thicken them as the passages are smaller The matter of astringents is of very long extent they may be reduced to three Ranks where the choice of every one for use may be easely found Some do but a little bind the use whereof principally is to corroborate the parts and they do bridle excretions which are not altogether unprofitable yet by their quantity and continuance they may weaken the strength Some do moderately bind which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them and to stay all Fluxes that are hurtful Lastly some astringents do compact the parts that are loosened and are to be used when by the force of the defluxion and vehemency of Evacuation there is imminent danger as it falls out most commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin and comes through passages that are very much loosened with the continuance of the defluxion In a cold cause let such Remedies be made choice of that bind with heat or without any manifest coldness But in a hot cause those things will help which work by cooling And of all kinds of astringents these will be most easely provided for sudden Remedies Upon a cold cause these bind a little all kinds of Wormwood but especially Sea Wormwood Egrimony Betony Coleworts wel Boyled Coriander Seed Cummin Seed torrefied the Root of long English Galingal the Hulls of Beans Mastich wood and Leaves Garden Mints dried Mastick Rice dried Rosemary Sage common Scabious Frankinsence Rosin of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard sharp Wine or any other Wine steelled The dry Pouders of those are given inwardly by themselves in sharp Wine to one dram or there abouts and something more Also Decoctions of Physick Wines amongst which the best is Wormwood Wine or made of Mastich wood or Mastich or Rosemary or Sage Also ordinary drink is profitably altered with the Seed of Coriander and Mastich and the said Pouders are strewed upon meat For an inveterate Gonorrhea without any heat of Urine the said Rosins Boyled in Rain Water or steeled water taken for many daies fasting are profitable and made into Pills to one dram with one scruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus castus Also one scruple of the Pouder of Mastich taken for some daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner will stay the same The same Pouder taken the same way if you drink a draught of wormwood Wine after it staies an Hepatick flux properly so called and Old fluxes of the Belly and vomiting also that proceeds from the weakness of the Stomach Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives they cal it Omphacinum or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood dry Mints Rosemary or Mastick wood or Mastick Or Liniments made presently such as this following is Take Mastick in Pouder one dram common Oyl one ounce Yellow Wax what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Liniment Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied and Rice dried at the fire Or moist Fomentations of sharp red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs Or a Cataplasm of the shells of Beans dried Rice the Pouder of Wormwood Oyl and sharp Wine Of Mastick and Frankinsence Cerats are made adding to them Oyl of wormwood and Rosin of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is sufficient For long continuing defluxions of the Eys It is good to wash the Eyes often with the best white Wine in which Frankinsence set on fire hath been thrice quenched adding a third part of River water if the defluxion he sharp These bind Moderately Bean meal heated at the fire eaten in meats Chesnuts Avens Black Knapweed the green shells of Wallnuts Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce the Roots of Water-fern Also the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little sharp is propounded by Septalius as a great secret to cure an Hepatick flux also it cureth the flux of Women being taken in Aromatical Wine made Physical with Rosemary Sage or Mints For the hot affections of the Jaws this doth profit singularly the Decoction or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargarism for which purpose a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga or Nutmeg in the morning four hours before meat cureth vomitings and scourings that proceed from the weakness of the Stomach Avens and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine or bear into Pouder is singular good against the falling out of the Intestines and the Matrix Ontwardly Mill dust added to Plaisters is good against Pissing of Blood Earth worms in Plaisters are good for the Nerves that are wounded Salt and Roch Allum put into Decoctions of Red wine are for to corroborate the parts Baths of Allum and Gip such as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua are good to strengthen the Limbs that are distempered by long defluxions The mother of the wine hot is commended to corroborate the Joynts The crum of bread tosted and sprinkled with strong wine and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach These bind strongly great Sanicle Garden dropwort especially the Root all the Cranes Bills especially Pidgeons Foot Herb Robin Mouse-ear The Decoction of these is given or the Pouder to one dram Also the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is most effectual and the inward Skin of Chestnuts Of the Juyce of Herbs and the Pouder of Roots mingled bread may be made baked so hard as Bisquet which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats to be taken without loathing Outwardly Fomentations are prepared of the Decoctions
it doth very happily stay them you must add a fourth part of Comfrey wormwood or a twelfth part of wormwood Mastick For the same purpose the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent made with red Wine adding a little wormwood to it if it be drank daily to two ounces or thereabout five hours before meat Other Remedies may be made for other uses as every one pleaseth Outwardly Crude Gip is convenient mingled with Cerats and Plaisters Also Hogs dung and Asses dung either fresh or else in Pouder by either of these al immoderate fluxes of Blood are presently stopt if it be laid on with the white of an Egg and blown in Guainerius saith that he used Asses dung inwardly and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moisture of the fresh dung pressed out as a chief Remedy to stop immoderate fluxes of the Terms and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood Oyl of the Dog-Tree and the Root of the Oak made by descent exceeds all the rest by an astringent faculty Moreover of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths Cataplasms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Posca and moderately Boyled Also an Unguent may be prepared suddenly but the Unguent of Chestnuts and Comitissa may supply the place thereof Take unripe Galls Cypress Nuts the Kernells of Red Grapes Pomegranate shells the middle Rinds of Chestnuts Mastick of each half an ounce Oyl of unripe Olives or of Roses often washed in Allum Water one pound white Wax three ounces Let the dry Ingredients be beat into Pouder and steeped in the Juyce of Sloes or unripe Services or Verjuyce or the Juyce of astringent Herbs and let them be dried at a soft fire adding thereto before they Wax hard the Oyl and the Wax mingling all gently by stirring it If you had rather have it for a Cerate take Rosin three ounces and Wax five ounces to the said quantity of Oyl and the Pouders Streightness and Closeness of the Passages comes to pass five waies by obstruction constipation Compression cleaving together and by sinking down whence the differences of Diseases in streightness are taken which as they differ by generation and variety of their causes so are they taken away by diverse Remedies Obstruction is properly called so that streightness of the Passages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature not that are united and sticking to the passages such are Vapours and Humors that abound too much or that are too thick and clammy also corruption Clotts of Blood and Milk Thorns and little Bones that stay in the Throat and hinder the passage Hares Stones worms dregs that stick to the Intestines Corruption shut up in Impostumes is taken away by opening the Impostume which is done with Iron or actual fire or by a potential Cautery of which a little after That which sticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks of which we shall speak in the cure of Ulcers That which is poured forth into other Cavities as into the sharp Artery is taken away with such things as cut and cleanse Clots of Blood are to be dissolved by Remedies that are elsewhere set down and are to be evacuated by purging the Belly also by Urin Spittle for the situation of the part affected by Purgations and Diureticks and expectorating Medicaments set down before Also such Remedies as dissolve Clotted Milk and discuss it are evident by those things that have been said Things that stick in the Gullet if they can be seen let them be drawn out with Iron Instruments if they remove the least from their place by Sternutation Coughing or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger or a Feather into the Throat also by drinking plentifully or by swallowing down some solid Gobbet not much chewed and lastly by swallowing down a spounge first dipt in Rozin that the thing may stick to it and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it If Hairs and other things that come from without appear they must be taken out with Chirurgions Instruments if they be hid in the Stomach and Intestins they are driven out by vomit or purging as the sick is inclined Concerning such things as Purge the Belly and drive out the excrements and further concerning Remedies against stones and worms and such as discuss abundant and gross vapours we spake amongst the Remedies that take away the cause of the Disease Obstruction from fullness or abundance of Blood is taken away by a thin diet that is not of the best and much Juyce by strong exercise and much rubbing as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body and by sensible Evacuations namely opening the Veins Scarifications Cupping with scarifying Leeches Bad Humors that are many thick and clammy by which frequently the Mesenterium the Liver Spleen Matrix Reins and Veins and arteries of other parts are stopped require Medicaments first that are cutting attenuating and cleansing lastly Purging Concerning Purging medicaments we spake abundantly at the beginning those are of another kind that are set down for to prepare gross Humors but because these that unstop the passages are of larger extent than such as prepare the Humors and there is a very frequent use of them in the cure of Feavers Hypochondriacal Melancholy the cure of the Spleen Jaundice the want of the Terms it wil be worth our pains to Reckon them up more distinctly and to set them down in three ranks namely cold temperate and hot that so the choice of them may be the more easy Cold Remedies that unstop are convenient in the more acute Feavers parts that are hot and obstructed by Humors thickned by adustion amongst which the most Obvious are Sorrel Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are sufficiently ripe Succory Endive Straw-berries Roots of Grass Liver-wort Hawkweed the Roots of all the Docks Seeds of Melons Pompions Citruls Cucumbers gourds Sow-Thistle Garden Endive Dandelion four Trifoyl Of these are made Decoctions with water or Broth for Syrups which will be the better if you add an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it self but it is made most effectual by adding an Emulsion of the said Seeds or if it be altered with opening Herbs The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a present Syrup to two or three ounces the greatest use of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments as also of the Emulsions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds as also those more Liquid Panadoes and Ptisans of Barley as they are commonly called For ordinary drink the Decoction of sour Trifoyl is pleasant enough of Sorrel Straw-berries and Grass which may be made more sharp adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons But this is the thing that is most necessary which sour Roots perform to deceive the sick withall that one still calling for drink that they make the water sharp and it may be made of the colour of Red
of the Throat and the top of the sharp Artery which fals out very frequently is cured by those things that Purge the breast by Spitting which are propounded for Salt matter But if it proceed from sharp Biting matter that lightly Rakes the superficies it is taken away by such Medicaments that temper sharp Humors both by washing them away as also by suppling them with a tempering vertu of which we spake amongst the Remedies that alter the cause of the Disease Remedies of Diseases in faulty Magnitude Natural Magnitude is made faulty either by excess or defect when it is augmented beyond its proportion or els diminished The kinds of Magnitude diminished are reckoned to be Defect of Nourishment or Leanness of all the parts and Marasmus or a Consumption of the whole Body following a Hectick Feaver or wasting away for Leanness of those that recover after sharp Diseases scarse deserves the name of a Disease because it quickly goes away so soon as the Disease on which it depended is removed Of Magnitude increased which men call Tumors all the differences are taken from the cause which in general is four fold The first is a solid Body according to substance belonging to the soundness of the Body whence come grossness from overmuch fat Hypersarcosis from some excrescence of flesh Ruptures of the Bowels and the Caul when the Guts or the Caul fal down which also makes a Disease in scituation The second is a Humor or some thing like to a Humor whence comes that they call Phlegmâ—ne from Blood Oedema from Fleam Erysipelus from Choller Schirrus from Melancholy a kind whereof is Tophus and Struma Cancer from Black choler Carbuncle from burnt Blood and from a watery matter like to a Humor Hydrocephalus the Dropsie of the Abdomen and the Matrix The third is that which comes Preternaturally from the Humors as puffing up from wind The fourth is that which growes in the whole kind Preternaturally from a various and unspeakable corruption of the Humors whence comes properly an Impostume or little Swelling with a little Bag namely Meliceris from a matter like to Honey Steatoma from a fat matter like to Sewet and Atheroma from a matter like to Gruel A particular Consumption such as falls upon those parts that are held with a Palsie and Convulsions requires first such Remedies as can Purge out the foulness of the Body by the passages convenient then Nourishments that can make good Blood lastly attractives that draw Blood to the part and can stirr up the heat of it and strengthen it Gentle rubbings til the part wax red and Swel a little will perform all these Also Baths of sweet water something hot wherein Herbs are Boyled proper for the part to be used til the part Swell a little Or Fomentations and Wettings with water and Oyl Milk sweet Waters altered with Mallows Marsh-mallows and Herbs that respect that part Last of all the most prevalent Remedy is pication til the part wax red and swell and these things are to be done after concoction before any more meat be eaten In a Consumption of the Eyes there remains no place for pications or rubbings but only for Fomentations the best whereof are made with Milk a little Saffron or of the same Boyled with Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows and Fennel or with a sweet Apple brought to the form of a soft Cataplasm with a little Saffron A hot Marasmus without a Consumption which is curable is chiefly overcome with the use of Milk and Baths Womens Milk sucked out of the Breasts or Asses Milk or Goats Milk new milked drank with a little Honey or Sugar taking by degrees from three ounces to seven or eight ounces about five hours after the drinking of Milk a Bath of sweet Water is to be used which must be kept somthing hot til the time the sick come forth of it and then is he to stay a while til he is a little cold with it for the uniting of heat and retaining of Nourishment or presently after the Bath the Body must be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand wet with Oyl of Violets and sweet Almonds somthing cold If there be a Consumption the Bath must be let alone and the Body must be rubbed only before meat after the manner we now spake of and he must apply himself to Milk and he must use also such Remedies as concern the Ulcer of the Lungs If the use of Milk be forbidden by reason of the causes set down in the 5. Aph. 65. He must use instead thereof a Ptisan of Barley Some hold this Ptisan for a secret which is presently provided and must be taken twice a day Take Barley Meal six parts fine Sugar one part Place them bed upon bed in a Glased Earthen Pot and the first and last bed must be Sugar then making a Cover of Past put it into the Oven after the Bread is drawn forth And it will be baked sufficiently the third time or putting of it into the Oven For a Ptisan Take of this baked Meal two ounces Broth of wood Snails or Snails four ounces Mingle them But for an Ulcer of the Lungs in particular this is commended Take one dram of the Pouder of Yarrow dayly in Broth or some convenient Decoction Also a Cake of dried Folefoot taken dayly made with Butter and Sewet of a Hog Some prefer Sugar of Roses with Bole-Armoniack or some such Medicinal earth and the Blood-stone used for some months together above all other Remedies Gross Bodies are brought lean after fit Evacuation of the Body First with a thin diet and many hot and frequent rubbings of their Body then by the daily use of some attenuating and drying Remedies amongst which the most commended are one dram of Ash Keys in Broth with half an ounce of the best Vineger or one Spoonful of Vineger of Squills in a good quantity of Broth before meat some ascribe the same vertue to Oxymel of Squils or the Troches of Squils Also the Seed of Ameos or the Seed that is in Elder berries can do as much taken to half a dram drank in the Decoction of the Ash But the greatest force lieth in the Pouder of Vipers to dry the Body of which we spake amongst the Antidotes if half a dram of it be taken in Broth or Wine four hours before meat and so much the more if the Body be lustily exercised after the taking of it To this place belong all things that provoke sweat and Urin. Those Remedies take away excrescences of flesh be they from a Callous or flesh that are Remedies of Constipation of which we spake before A Hernia of the Caul can be taken away by no other means than by cutting which is ful of danger it can hardly be helped by streight Ligature But a Hernia of the Intestins is easily Glewed together in Children and Boys with outward use of astringents and fit Ligature But in people that are of years if it be Old it
longer and stronger Take Herbs Celondine Fennel Vervain Rue of each one handful Honey of Roses half a pound of Rape Roots bruised two ounces Stamp the Herbs and set all mingled together in the Sun and let them be stirred daily after forty daies press out the Juyce to be kept for use in a Brasen Vessel and drop it into the Eye by it self or mingle it with more gentle Eye-Salves Another Take fine poudered Sugar Boyled in a Glass Dish upon Ashes til it wax Red likewise Vitriol purged from the dregs and exposed to the Sun til it Wax white of each equal parts with this Pouder fill the hollow of an Egg Boyled til it be hard then binding both parts of the Egg fast together steep it four daies in water of Eye-bright or white Wine that is somthing sweet wherein Eye-bright hath first been Boyled or Seeds of Fennel or Siler Montanum keep the Liquor pressed out in a Glass for your use Another Take white Wine somewhat sweet very well purged and Clarified one pound Fennel Seed three drams Indian Cloves one dram and an half Steep them for twenty four hours then strain them to which add afterwards Aqua vitae two ounces Antimony once melted with an equal quantity of Salt Peeter two drams then infuse them again for two daies then keep them for your use in a Glass Vessel Another Take the Juyce of Onions drop it in by it self or else allaied with a little sweet white Wine It is a most excellent Eye-Salve and which wonderfully takes away the inflammation of the Eye when there is any Also there is a singular Collyrium described amongst the Remedies for the Eyes which when need is may be made mâ—â—e effectual by mingling some kind of Gall with it or of the second Collyrium that was propounded or the Juyce of a white Onion lightly Boyled with Milk But a Disease that is properly in number augmented which followeth abundance of matter and the strength of the Plastick faculty is better cured by burning and cutting than by consuming Medicaments A Disease in number deficient if it be natural is altogether incurable because it proceeds from want of matter and the weakness of the forming force also an accidental deficient if it fal out in a Spermatical part it is incurable but in a fleshy part somtime it admits of cure It requires the same Remedies that an hollow Ulcer doth or a Compound wound because the part is wanting by the same causes namely cutting burning Corroding putrefaction and the like Remedies of Diseases in Situation and Connexion A Disease in situation and Connexion is either Connatural and it comes to pass when the matter is taken away in the time of forming or it is accidental and falls out usually by reason of three kind of causes from Laxation or disjoynting of the Continent parts from solution of unity and Violent extension from too much Repletion or drivers The fault of the Plastick quantity admits of no cure The other three causes require the same Remedies that a Disease in figure doth which doth necessarily accompany a Disease in sctuation Remedies of Diseases in dissolved Vnity Of dissolved unity there may be assigned two chief kinds an Ulcer and a wound That comes from an eating cause and so must necessarily have joyned with it loss of substance A wound is all other kinds of dissolved unity without an eating cause whether it be a simple solution of unity or with loss of substance as in a Compound wound And though for the diversity of parts often times all these things are changed for an Ulcer in the bone is called rottenness a wound fracture when the Nerves are brok it is called convulsion when they are pricked Puncture and when the flesh is bruised men call it contusion yet stil they hold the same nature so they differ not in generation for whatsoever Ulcer proceeds from a sharp and corroding matter such as are the Humors and sharp Bloody matter harsh Poysons and Medicaments that are putrefactive and causticks actual fire corruption moisture into which the substance corrupted is dissolved as in a Gangrene al other causes that dissolve the continnity by cutting breaking Knocking Contusion they make a wound only taken in a large sence A simple wound or solution of continuity without loss of substance is cured by Glutinative Medicaments which by drying Binding Sticking force the lips of the wound together and bind them fast which Union cannot be made immediately in the Bones because of their hardness but it is made by the means of a Callous the matter whereof glewing nourishments afford But fractures are fastened and confirmed by the same glewing Remedies of which there are two ranks such as are moderate and such as are forcible those belong to a aprt and constitution that are moist these belong to parts constitutions that are more dry and to a Bloody wound Moderate Glutinatives the most Obvious are the white of an Egg St. Peters-wort Tutsane Yarrow Shepheards-purse the fruit of Creeping-Balsam new Cheese and Glew made of it Horse-Tail Herb Bennet Cistus Flower of the Sun the Grass Ischaemon Plum-Tree Gum ground Ivy. The Herb Siciliana Herb Trinity St Johns-wort Adders Tongue Yarrow Leaves of Medlars Ophris Plantain wild Pears Damask Roses the Bramble the Male Sanicle Germander Scabious Veronica Golden-Rod Leaves of Elms Of these may be made vulnerary drinks also they may be given inwardly in other forms They are laid on outwardly either bruised or strewed on in Pouders or pressed out and dropped in or Boyled chiefly in sharp Red Wine and their operation is helped by Ligature by which the Lips of the wound united are held together There are some other things whereby wounds that are simple and new are presently joyned together applyed by themselves bound on namely Rosin of the Larch or the Firr-Tree Pellitory of the Wall bruised the bruised Leaves of Tobacco dry Pitch spotted Arsmart beaten Oyl made by insolation or the Leaves of Adders Tongue or the fruit of the Balsam Apple But the chief of all and like to a west Indian Balsam than which to knit wounds together there is nothing better is the Oyl that is drawn out of the flowers of St. Johns-wort shut into a Glass and made by heat of the Sun beams by descent Also Earth Worms washed in Black Wine and beaten are good also amongst easie to be provided may be set down that they call Oleum Hispanum described in the five Books of Chirurgery of Aquapendente by which in twenty four hours time wounds are said to be healed These Glew together Violently Lions-Foot the flowers of flower-gentle middle Comfrey the less Comfrey unripe Galls all the Cranes Bills but chiefly Pidgeons Foot Hypocistis Hares-Foot Rinds of Pomegranates Leaves of the Olive chiefly the wood Olive Tree Mouse-ear Knot-Grass Juyce of Sloes the tender Leaves of Oaks Stone-Comfrey of Lobelius Dog-berry Tree The way of dispensing of all these is the same with the former Outwardly
course or when the Stomach is empty about two hours before Meat Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick cause The sprouts of Stone Sparagus boyled and seasoned with Salt and Oyl Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel Colworts cheifly those that are curled being gently boyled seasoned with Oyl and Salt Also the first Broth of Colworts wel boyled and seasoned as before Likewise the Juyce of Colworts pressed out and drank in Broth from two to four ounces Beets vsed in the same manner the white Beet is held to be more effectual then the Black or Red. The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt The first Broth of Chich Pease or Lintels with Oyle and Salt The Broth of all Salt fish New Figs very ripe Dry Figs six or seven soaked in Milk or sweet Wine until they swell Some also in the spring time strew fresh Damask Rose Leaves on Figs which Leaves they often change for the space of Fourteen dayes and putting them pressed close together into a Vessel they lay them up for their use and use to Eat two or three of them before meat New Walnuts or for the lack of them dry Walnuts soked in Water until they be Soft and then Eaten with Salt Branny Bread or that which is course which is made more effectual with Raisions and Senna of Alexandria Bran alone Boyled in Broth. The Decoction of Sweet Cods Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholly cause Capers seasoned with Salt gently Boyled are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger The young sprouts of hops that first come forth Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt they loosen more effectually if you Drink the Broth after them All kind of new sweet Grapes but especially whilst the dew yet hangs on them they are not so effectual when they are hanged up to be kept Sweet Wine drank Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod that is new Wine Boyled a little To these may be referred prunes and Raisons especially in adust Melancholy Vineger is made to season Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble after this fashion Take Crude Tartar one dram or Cream Tartar half an ounce Leaves of Senna three drams good Cinnamon or Annis Seed one dram the sharpest Vineger one pound make infusion a natural day and keep the Vineger for use Also Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been insused a whole night is not uneffectual Lenitive Clysters Clysters are made presently at a very smal rate to purge the Belly of one pound of Flesh Broth Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle and the dregs of Sugar of each three ounces Common Salt one dram mingle them It will be Cheaper and more clensing if a Clyster be made of natural Salt Sea-Water or Mineral Water one pound common Oyl three ounces Or. Take the Decoction of Mercury Mallows Beets and Bran one pound Juyce of Colworts or Honey or Juyce of Beets two ounces common Salt one dram mingle them for a Clyster If there be need of any great Loosning Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or six ounces or Omitting the Oyl increase the quantity of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows Marsh Mallows Brank-ursin and pressed out strongly If there need Cooling the Leaves of blew Violets Pellitory of the wall and Barley must be added to the Decoction If the * what that is see my translation of Riverius Practice of Physick in the Physical Dictionary at the end of the aforesaid Book Expulsive faculty be weak you must double or treble the quantity of Salt Loosening Suppositories Suppositories made of one ounce of Honey or the dross of Sugar Boyled hard adding a little Salt to it If the Expulsive faculty be sluggish do mildly stir up the Belly to void out the excrements Also the Roots of Radish or Beets Cut into form of Suppositories and smeered with Oyl or Butter with or without Salt The same is done with the stem of the Colwort Also a Fig turned the out side inward and made like a Suppository anoynted with Oyl and Salt So Suppositories are made of Spanish Soap or with Lard or a Candle anoynted with Oyl or Butter Purgers by the Belly Those Medicaments that draw forth the excrements by the Belly and are called Purgatives and Catharticks though they hardly drive forth the Humors single but mingled together yet they take their Name from the Excrement that they most effectually purge For which reason they may be reduced to four ranks according to the diversity of Humors that they purge forth Namely to Purgatives of Choller Flegm Mellancholy and Watery or Bloody Excrements We may again divide all these severally to distinguish them the better into gentle purgatives which purge Mildly without gripings from the parts that are about the Liver into forcible Purgatives which drive forth from the remote parts and from the hollow Vein not without some trouble and Violent Purgatives or furious which draw from the furthest parts and if they be not well Corrected they do their work most vehemently and weaken the Patient With this distinction it is an easy matter for any one to make choise of Purgatives according to the different Scituation and the part that is affected and for the greater or lesser resistance of the Humor that must be purged and for the strength or weakness of the Sick that must endure it When Choller Predominates these Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation The wood of Amara Dulcis Boyled from one ounce to two ounces with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the shade and cheifly at the beginning of the spring taken to four scruples it is corrected with some aromatical Seed and the Black Rind that is out-most and therefore it is dried Boyled and bruised al together Monks Rhu-barb or the Herb Patience of Mathiolus the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram to one dram and an half in warm Broth with five or six grains of Ginger or Hysop Blew Violets dried in the shade are taken from one dram to two drams with the Broth of Chich Pease or garden Pease Boyled Moderately The great Bind-weed of Mathiolus Bovled from one handful to two handfuls It is corrected with such things as bind the Stomach cheifly with the Myrtle Berries Rosemary and wild Galinga These Purge Strongly The lesser Centaury in a Decoction from two drams to three drams in eight ounces of Water till half be consumed adding Liquoris or Raysons to correct the bitterness it is given in Pouder to one dram or thereabouts in the Decoction of Prunes or Raysons cheifly in Barley Water Gratiola dried is administred in Pouder to one dram in Wine or Broth altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach When it is green it is Boyled from one dram and an half to two drams some of the Succories especially being Boyled with it Petty Spurge in Pouder about four scruples drank in
Honey Water with a little Vineger These Purge Violently Dogs Cole the Juyce of it whilst it is fresh and the Herb first dried in the shade The same thing doth Scammony but it is corrected with Quinses or the Smoak of Brimstone which is a new Invention and it makes the Medicament gentle enough and void of all taste either of these being grossely poudered is spread upon a brown Paper and poudered Brimstone is cast upon the Coals underneath so that the Paper over it may receive the smoak so soon as the matter begins to Melt it is taken away and reserved for use and so may Scammony be safely given from five grains to fifteen but if it be prepared with Quinses ten grains are sufficient it may be given in some convenient Liquor or made up in Pills or Bolus Of these spoken of divers purging Medicaments may presently be provided concerning which we must generally take notice that the purgation will be made more gentle if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the same kind which must be understood proportionably of all other purgatives for Example A potion to purge Choller may presently be provided thus Take Raysons half an ounce sweet Prunes eight The Lesser Centaury two drams Fennel Seed half a dram Barley or common Water eight ounces make a Decoction at a soft fire til half be consumed strain it and give it to drink If you will have a Bolus Take the Roots of patience in pouder one dram the flowers of the Lesser centaury half a dram the pulp of Raysons clensed from their stones or the * what Rob is how to make it you may easily learn if you Read the Translation of my London Dispensatory under the Title Rob you shall find twelve several sorts of Rob by which with diligence and care you may make any other sort of Rob. Rob of Prunes thickned six drams Ginger six grains mingle them and make a Bolus If you meet with a Patient whose Stomach abhors all Physick then make purging Prunes or Currence or Figs if you steep the said fruit in some of these purging Decoctions that purge Choller so long that the fruit swel and then six Prunes or three or four Figs or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce will be sufficient for a purge So you may provide these fruit to purge any other Humors only changing the matter of the Purgative Liquors that they are soaked in according to the matter of the disease whether it be Blood Melancholy or Flegm These gently Purge Flegm when it is predominant Agarick infused all night in Liquor in which Ginger is first soaked or Hysop or Time or some other like hot and sharp Herb and then it is dryed As they make Agarick in * See the way of making Thoches of any sort in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the lasâ— Edition Troches it is given beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram in Pills or Bolus or drink of Oxymel it is infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabouts especially in Honey Water Asarum of Mathiolus Purgeth every Part of it but the Root most effectual it is given in Pouder from one dram to two drams with Oxymel or Water and Honey The pulp of the Seeds of wild Saffron is given from two drams to five drams or thereabout the Emulsion of them is given in sweet Wine strong Wine or Broth it is corrected with such things as heat and corroborate the Stomach as spike wild Galingal Rosemary c. The Juyce of the Berries of Buckthorn or dying-thorn wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow is given in substance from three drams to six drams it is corrected with sweet Herbs Seeds or Spices especially with Ginger The thicker Rind of the Elm Poudered is given from two drams to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine or the Decoction of Hysop Radix cava or the Root of Bulbus Fumitory dryed in the shade is given in substance poudered one dram in some convenient Liquor Of the Buck-thorn there is made a pleasing Syrup two ways and to be kept for the Poor after this fashion Take the Juyce of the Berries of dying Buck-thorn clarified two pound clarified Honey two pound and an half Boyle it at a soft fire to the consistence of a Syrup straind through a wide Linnen Cloth after wards whilst the strained Liquor is yet hot cast in of the best Cinnamon in Pouder three drams Ginger one dram and an half mingle them and keep it for your use Or. Take of the said Juyce strained and Boyled by it self til a fourth part be consumed one pound clarifâ—ed Honey eight ounces Boyl them together to the consistence of a Syrup when they are Boyled and taken from the fire cast in two drams of good Cinnamon Give either of these from one ounce to one ounce and an half in Wine or Broth of Flesh or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley or Time Strong Purgatives Take the Root of Esula the greater or the less which is commonly the more effectual The Root is used first steeped in Rose Vineger or Vineger of Quinces and then dried and kept for occasion If these Vinegers be wanting common Vineger is altered with some Stomachicall Astringent as with Roses Barberies wild Pomgranatâ— Flowers or Quinces the Tendrells of Vines Flowrs of the wild Vine or Myrtle Berries it is given in Pouder from six grains to twenty grains it is Infused from one scruple to five scruples or thereabout in Wine or Metheglin The Rind of the Root Esula of Venice is of the same nature prepared and given the same way Garden-Broom which they calâ— spanish Broom the Leavs and Seeds are given in substance from one dram to two drams in Infusion or Decoction from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with Aromatical Wine or some Odoriferous stomachical remedies Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the same effects exhibited the same way Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dioscorides the Roots of them digged up before they flower and especially before the Leaves come forth endure no boyling or infusion the Pouder is given from two scruples to two drams in Pils or Bolus or Lozenges or alone in drink in Wine or Broth. The force of it must be sharpned with some tart thing as with Ginger Hysop or Time also it were good to ad some Antidote to correct the Windiness of it as amongst common antidotaries are Rue Goats Rue or wild Angelica Root and the purgation wil be the safer The Root of the yellow wild Daffodil is given in substance from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth it is corrected with odoriferous stomach strengthners The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus is given in Decoction from one dram and an half to three drams In substance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half or thereabouts it is corrected with the