Take of Cammomil three ounces a penniworth of pouder of Cummin sewed in a Poke like a stomacher boil it well in stale Ale lay it to the side hot and when it is cold renew it again hot Contra Surditatem 1. Betonica saepe injecta tepidâ—… mire proficit contra aurium dolorem surditatem alia vitia sonos extraneos non sinit manere 2. Rost an Onion as hot as you may suffer it lay it upon the ear with a linnen cloth laid between Probatum est Contra lupum venit saepe super oculum aut pedem If it be incurable it stinketh fretteth and the wound waxeth black Take Salt and Honey and Barley ana burn them in an Oven wash the wound with Vinegar and dry it with linnen clothes and then lay on the pouder and doe so till it amend Pro Cancro Lupo Take half a pint of Juyce of Mollein and half a pint of Honey sodden to the thickness of honey and mingle with these pouders and lay on the sore Take Orpiment and Verdi-grease of either a drachm and a half juyce of Walwort a pound and a half honey a quartern Vinegar boil them altogether till it be as thick as honey lay thereof on the hole of the sore twice every day with juyce of Ribwort and drinke juyce of Avence Ribwort stamped and laid on the sore will kill it Pro Oculis 1. Lac mulieris quae masculum genuit sed praecipue quae geminos masculos genuit mixtum cum albumine ovi in lana compositum passiones lachrymas oculorum mitigat et desiccat si fronti lacrymantis imponatur proficit etiam ad oculum ictu percussum sanguineâ—… eâ—…ittentem vel epiphoras habentem vel in dolore constitutum 2. Si quis duarum faeminarum matris filiae lacte perunctus fuerit qui uno eodem tempore masculos habent in omni vita sua dolorem oculorum non habebit 3. Eyebright juyce or water is excellent good for the eyes 4. Annoint a red cole leaf cum albumine ovi quando is â—…ubitum oculo applica For Bleared Eyes Take the juyce Peritory temper it with the white of an Egg and lay it all night to your eyes quando removes lava cum succo Cornes Annoint thy cornes often with fasting spittle Or cleave a black Snail to it Take Woodsoure and lay to the corn and that shall gather out the Callum thereof and be whole but you must first cut it about with a knife Apostema 1. Gentian used twice or thrice in a week ad quantitatem pili dâ—…struit Apostema 2. Drinke water of Endive Petty Morrell with the pulp of Cassia Fistula 3. Take Scabios red Pimpernel Solsickle and Fumitorie make these into pouder and use a spoonful thereof in the morning especially in May Probatum est Pro stomacho frigido 1. Oates parched and laid in a Satchell upon a cold stomack is an approved cure 2. The crust of a brown loaf made hot and sprinkled with vinegar and laid on a cold stomack Salvabit 3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar Eysell or Ale wrapt in a clout and laid to the stomack is good Pro dolore stomachi 1. Stamp Fennell and temper it with stale ale bibat tria cocleariâ—… simul Seeth Penniroyall and binde it to his Navel as hot as he may suffer it For winde or gnawing in the Belly Take Calamus Aromaticus Galingale and a little Fennel seed Cloves and Cinnamon grate or beat them together and take them in pouder or drink them with ale For the Small Pox Take Almonds and make Almond milk and take the cream thereof and hath the face twice or thrice though all the Pocks be pulled away it shall not be Pock fret Annoint oft the Patients eyes with a linnen cloth wet in the juyce of Sengreen and it will save them from the Pox For a stroke in the eye Juyce of Smallage and Fennel and the white of an Egg mingled together and put into the eye Bloudshed in the eye Five leaved grasse stampt with Swines grease and with a little salt bound to the eye Pro Oculo Aure. Sint calida quae aure imponuntur frigida quae in oculo For a Venomed sore Take Lavender Marigolds Sengreen and Betonie and stamp them together and lay them to the sore To make a swelling break Take pisse and Vinegar and Sage M. i. stamped and flour and boil them together and lay it hot on a cloth to the sore For the Squinsie Bray Sage Rue and Parsely Roots and lay them hot to the throat For Biting of a mad Dog Stamp Mint and clear Leeks and lay it to the sore To breake a Botch Make a Plaister of Woodbine leaves and lay to the sore For gnawings Take Hearb Bennet and Sheeps tallow and oyle Olive frie them together and lay it to the sore place To increase Milk Pouder of Annise and the juice of the bark of Fennell root drunke If milk be thick Eat mints and boil mints in wine and oyle and lay on the breasts For Botches Wounds and Sores a salve Boil black Rosin red Lead and oyle Olive together flat emplastrum Qui bibit novem dies simul propriam urinam nec habebit epilepsiam paralysin nec colicam Venenum 1. Qui bibit propriam urinam sanabitur a sumpto veneno 2. Garlick Rue Centaury graines of Juniper valent contra venenum 3. Pouder Hempseed and mingle it with Goats milk and let them boyle a little and use this drink three dayes valet contra inflationem venenum Bubonem Felon squinanciam Pro Auribus Green Ash leaves burnt and the liquor that drops out of them impositum valet Euphorbium pounded with Oil Citron and laid hot on the eares cureth sounding of the eares tingling and Fistulaes Caput-purgium Take the juyce of Ivy and powder of Pepper mingle them together and drink it For the bloudy Flix The yellow that groweth in red Roses put into pottage and so eaten is good for the bloudy Flix Vermes Stomachi The same yellow drunk in Ale valet contra Vermes For a Felon Scabious stamped small a good quantity of Tar and greace ana temper them together and all raw lay them to the sore place For the Reines of the back Boyl your own water well scum it then take a quart of that water oyle of Bayes one ounce oyle of Roses one ounce boyle all in a pot and therewith annoint well the reines in the hot sunne or against the fire Unge renes cum nasturtio propria urina jejâ—…nus saepe juvat renes Coque mel butyrum simul unge renes coram igne Seeth Smallage and temper it with Wine and drink it fasting and you shall be healed For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their back and reines Take a fat Hen and scald her and draw her and fill her with Senâ—… coddes
wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill Enula campana Angelica Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced then take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fiâ—…e it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Iaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Calidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one pennyworth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of four bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Ennula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May For a Stitch Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half â—…e consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quaâ—… clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the
fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superstuous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the above named and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put theâ—…o five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tutia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will noâ—… come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a pennyworth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Iutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie
and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Unguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss. Terra lemnia Red n anaÊ’ i. Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apply chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum Ê’ vi Ebeni Ê’ ii Saffron ℈ ss. Lettice seed Ê’ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana â„¥ vi Vinegar â„¥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana â„¥ iiii Vinegar of Roses â„¥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaÊ’ ss. Mithridatum â„¥ i. Triacle â„¥ ss. â—…oil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaÊ’ iii Red n Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana Ê’ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaÊ’ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Iulep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana â„¥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar â„¥ iiii Camphire Ê’ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Iulep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana â„¥ i. Juice of Limons â„¥ i. Sorrell water â„¥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Iulep to quench thirst â„ž Sorrell-water four ounces Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following â„ž Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat â„¥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so caufe him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain or lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some Burrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little Hysop with some Parsley roots the
an Egg and wheat flour mix them together and apply it untill the sâ—…ar doe fall away then doe you mundifie it with this mundificative Mundificative annodine Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iiii Sirrup of red Roses â„¥ i. Honie of Roses Ê’ iiii Boil them altogether a little then take it from the fire and add there to Barlie and wheat flour of each Ê’ vi the yolk of a new laid Egg and mix them altogether and apply it three dayes and then use this following Another Mundificative Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iii Honie of Roses â„¥ ii Juice of Smallege â„¥ ii Barlie flowre â„¥ i. ss. Boil them altogether saving the Barlie untill the Juice be consumed then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold adde the Barlie thereto and mixe them together and use thereof to the grief untill it be clean mundified and then incarnate it with Unguentum Basilicon and lastly sigillate it with Unguentum de cerusa decocted Sometime you shall find a little pustule to appear without any elevation of the parts adjoyning or outward hardnesse Now here to bring it outwardly you must apply this Cataplasm Take Lillie roots Onyons and sour Leaven of either one ounce Boil them in water untill the water be consumed then bruise them in a morter and add thereto Mustard seed Culver-dung White Sope anaÊ’ i. ss. Snails without shels vi in number Mithridate Triacle ana half a drachm Yolks of four Eggs Mix all these together and apply it warm to the grief renuing it thrice a day this order must be continued untill you see the place elevated tending to suppuration then apply a Maturative and so proceed as next before this is shewed you and during the whole time of the cure I hold it better to use rather Poultises then plaisters because they do not so much stop the Pores but give more scope for the venemous matter to breath out When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation how to help it You must first bath and soke the place well with this bag following and then presently apply the Cataplasm ensuing for by this means you shall not onely ease the pain and abate the Inflammation and Fever but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby The Bag Take Mallowes Violets Plantain Liblong ana one handfull Fat Figs â„¥ i. Hollihock roots Lillie roots ana â„¥ i. Lin-seed â„¥ i. You must shred the hearbs grosly and cut the Figgs and roots small then bruise them in a morter and mingle them altogether then put them into two little bags of linnen cloth and boil them in a sufficient quantitie of clean water untill the water be half consumed then take out one of the baggs and wring out the water a little and apply it to the grief warm and when it is cold take it away and lay on the other and doe so half an hour together every dressing which must be twice a day at least The Cataplasm Take Mallows Violets Sorrell Liblong ana two handfuls Henbane a little handfull Wrap them all in a ball together and roast them in the ashes then bruise them in a morter and adde thereto Mel rosarum â„¥ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss. Saffron in pouder half a drachm Yolks of five Eggs Mix them together with the rest adding some Barly flower thereto to thicken it and apply it warm renuing it alwaies before it grow dry and stiffe and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the baggs aforesaid and this order must be continued untill the pain and Inflammation be gone then to bring it unto Suppuration if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasm some oyle of Lillies and sweet Butter unsalted it will be very good or you may make this Cataplasm following Take Soot of the chimney â„¥ iii Bay salt â„¥ i. ss. Yolks of two or three Eggs Mix all these together in a morter and apply it to the grief warm which must be alwaies renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiffe this order must be continued untill the â—…ore come to suppuration then to remove the scar and finish the cure doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter There are other dangerous accidents which doe sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people because they know not the means how to execute the same but if any such thing chance then doe I wish you to seek the help of some learned Physitian or expert Chirurgion whose counsell I doe wish you to follow The End of the Second Treatise A Short Treatise of the Small Pox shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are and whereof it proceedeth FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or Measels as also by good observation it hath been seen that they are fore-runners or warnings of the plague to come as Salius and divers other writers doe testifie I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise to shew the aids and helps which are required for the same I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease because it is a thing well known unto most people proceeding of adusted bloud mixt with flegm as Avicen witnesseth which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth alwaies begin with a Fever then shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes upon the skin throughout all the body which doe not suddenly come forth but by intermission in some more or lesse according to the state and qualitie of the bodie infected therewith for in some there ariseth many little Pustulaes with elevation of the skin which in one day doe increase and grow bigger and after have a thick matter growing in them which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata and after the Latines Variola in our English tongue the small Pox and here some Writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata for say they that is called variola when many of those Pustules doe suddenly run into a clear bladder as if it had been scalled but the other doth not so yet they are both one in the cure they doe most commonly appear the fourth day or before the eight day as Avicen witnesseth What the Measels or Males are Avicen saith That the Measels or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh with many little Pimples which are not to be seen but onely by feeling with the hand are to be perceived they have little elevation of the skin neither doe they grow to maturation or end with ulceration as the Pox doth neither doe they assault the eyes or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth neither are they so swift in coming forth but doe grow more slowly they require the same
of Quinces four scruples Boyle them together a little then strein it and add thereto two ounces of the sirrup of Pomegranates and gargarise therewith oftentimes How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox Sometimes the eye-lids are so fastened together that you cannot open them without great pain and danger then to open them you must foment or bath them well with a decoction made of Quince seed Mallowes and water boyled together wherein wet some fine linnen clothes five or six double and apply them warm and continue it untill you may easily open them and then if you perceive any web or filme to be grown over the sight then thrice a day do you put some powder of white sugar-candy into the eye or if you list you may dissolve the sugar in Rose-water and so use it in the eye which will fret it away and preserve the sight A good Collery for a Web or Ungula in the eye Take the juice of Rue Fennell Salendine Mallowes of either two ounces Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse or peuter over a chafer with coales and scumme away the froth that doth rise thereof then add thereto the gaule of an Eel one drachm and let them boyle together a little then put thereto four scruples of white copperas and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder boil all together a little then let it run through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glasse you must every morning and evening put one drop thereof into the eye provided that first due evacuation be made so well by phlebotomie as purging CHAP VI Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone how to help it TAke Barley Beanes Lupins of either one handfull bruise them all in a morter grosely and boyle them in three pints of water untill it grow thick like a jelly then straine it and annoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day for three or four daies together and then you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with this water following Take Vine leaves two handfuls Beane-flower Dragons wilde-tansey of either one handfull Camphire three drachms two Calves feet the pulpe of three Lemons a pint of raw cream You must shred the hearbs small as also the Lemons and break and cut the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour or rednesse of the face For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day for it is excellent good A good ointment for the same purpose Take oyle of sweet Almonds oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons-grease Goats-tallow of either four drachms Sarcocoll half a drachm Flower of Rice and of Lupins of either one drachm Litharge of gold one drachm and half Roots of Brionie and of Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-candy white one drachm Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them through a searce then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working do you put the water of Roses Beane-flower and of white Lillies ana a great spoonfull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour them altogether untill it come to an unguent You must every evening annoint the face therewith or hands and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley Wheaten-bran and the seed of Mallowes hath been boyled For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone For helping of this accident I have shewed many things yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I have tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the water wherein Bran and Mallowes have been boyled and continue this order twenty daies or a moneth together Running of the eares how to help it Sometimes the eares do run very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning but suffer it so to run and the eares to remaine open but if there be great pain in them then wet a spunge in warm water and oyle of Roses mixt together and lay it upon the eares For stopping of the nostrills to help it Sometimes the nostrills are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them therefore to prevent the same take red-Rose and Plantaine of either one handfull Mirrh in powder half an ounce Boyle all these in a quart of water untill half be consumed and so being warm cause the sick to draw the fume thereof into his nostrills oftentimes Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar it is good For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone Take Licorice Sebesten Jujubes of either two ounces Fat-Figgs four ounces clean water four pints Boyl all these together untill half be consumed then strain it and give one spoonfull thereof to the sick oftentimes and it helpeth For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of gold and of silver of either two drachms Quick br mstone and Ceruse ana 3. ii Bring all these into fine powder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent and annoint the place therewith every morning and evening FINIS Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise PAge the eighth of this precedent Book a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent it is reported to be Pope Adrians Bag which he used against infection and in the great last Sicknesse in London it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries who kept it as a great secret and affirmed it would prevent infection and preserve them safe in that dangerous time and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate But that you may not be deluded in the prescription I have set down the true receit thereof as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend A Preservative against the infection of the air and the Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many others of great rank and credit Take Arsenick two ounces Auripigmentum one ounce make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs and Gum Drâ—…gacanth and hang them about the neck against the heart I have also set down a red Cordiall water very good against infection which I had also from that noble friend Take a quart of good spirit of Wine or very good Aqua vitae
Paris 2. â„ž Pulverem alabastri misce cum albumine ovi pone super tempora alia loca An virgo corrupta Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores da ei comedere de illo pulvere si est corrupta statim minget Ut dens cadat Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem facit cadere cave alia Pro combusto cum muliere Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt and take the yolks of eggs and mingle them well together and therewith annoint the sore and put the pouder into the hole A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaisteâ—… or 〈◊〉 Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them 〈◊〉 a morter and temper them with wine and give the sick that is wounded to drinke twice or thrice in a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open the wound Millfoil cleanseth the wound Sanicle healeth it but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head if the brain pan be broken for it will slay him and therefore it is better in another place This is a good and tryed Medicine Unguentum genistae Take Flores genistae floures and leaves of Woodbind ana p. ae stamp them with May Butter and let them stand so together all night and in the morning make thereof an ointment and melt it and scum it well This Medicine is good for all cold evils and for sleeping of hand and foot Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell and stamp them and temper them with May Butter and put them in a pot fast closed and let them stand so nine dayes and then frie it over an easie fire and strein it through a cloth and put it in a box for your use Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the mormale no ointment worketh stronger then this Take a pound of Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal gemmae this ointment may be kept 40. winters Valet contra cancros and for running holes it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old wounds put it within the wound that it fester not Put to this ointment Pitch rosin and waxe and it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Unguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vâ—…mitum 1. â„ž Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats staneheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigâ—… turd bâ—…nt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthae rutae mixtus curâ—…t fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma empla stri dolori Fâ—…eckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succuâ—… plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma â—…plastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1. Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes â„ž Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud â„ž A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee sodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud â„ž The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine or ale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be wasted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venice Triacle and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the Measels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Seabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull
â„¥ iii Honey â„¥ i. oil of Cammomill â„¥ i. ss. You must shread and pound the Figs and Raisins very small then commix it with the rest in a morter in form of a pultis and use it And when it is digested then you must mundifie it with a mundificative to which purpose Unguentum virid or else Apostolorum mixt with Unguentum basilicon will serve and when it is clean mundified then to incarnate and heal it up doe you onely annoint or strike it over with a feather wet in Arceus linament which must be molten in a saucer and over all lay a plaister of Diaculum or a plaister of Kellebackeron which is excellent good in all Imposthumes and tumours and in this order doe you proceed untill the greif be whole CHAP. V. Sheweth how to bring the botch out that lieth deep within the body or flesh FIrst you must consider that oftentimes the botch or carbunkle doth offer it selfe to come forth in some place of the body and yet no apparant sign thereof but lieth deep hidden within because nature is not of sufficient strength to thrust it forth which is easily perceived by the great and almost intolerable pain that by some is felt in the place where nature intends to expell it which in the most part of people by bloud-letting Cordials and sweat is clean taken away and evacuated but if after all this is done it goe not away then unto these you must use all the meanes you can to bring it to the outward parts First by giving to the sick oftentimes some Cordiall Electuary to keep it from the heart then if no great pain be in the outward part you must apply a cupping-glasse with scarification directly against the place where the greif is felt and let it remain thereon a quarter or halfe an hour then take it away and presently apply the rumps of Chickens Hens or Pigeons to the place as before hath been shewed that being done then lay some attractive and maturative plaister or Cataplasme to the place which here following is shewed and every sixth hour you must apply the cupping-glass as also the rest untill such time as you have brought the venomous matter to the outward parts there to be visibly seen or at least by feeling to be perceived which commonly is effected at the second time then use no more cupping but onely apply a maturative to the place A good Maturative Cataplasme â„ž Rad. simphyti ma Liliorum Ceparum Allium ana â„¥ i. Fol. Oxialidis M. i. You must pound all these together a little then wrap them in a cole leafe and so roast them in the hot embers then pound them in a morter whereunto adde Ol. liliorum Auxungiaeporâ—… ana â„¥ i. Fermenti acrisÊ’ vi MithridatiiÊ’ i. Mix them altogether in form of a Pultus and so apply it warm and renue it twise a day Another â„ž Galbani Apopanacis Ammoniaci ana Ê’ iiii Dissolve these in Vinegar if the botch be hot and inflamed but if it be not then dissolve them in Aqua vitae and being dissolved then strain it from the dregs and adde thereto Unguent basillici Mithridat Fomenti acris ana â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and apply it Another which is sooner made Take a great Onyon make a hole in the middle of him then fill the place with Mithridate or Triacle and some leaves of Rue then roast him in the hot embers and when it is soft then pound it with some Barrowes greace and apply it to the sore and that will ripen it in short time then open and cure it as in the Chapter before But if the pain and inflammation in the place be so great that the party cannot indure cupping glasses to be used then must you apply a Vesicatory to the place in the lowest part of the greife A Vesicatory Take Cantharides bruised in grosse powder Ê’ ss. soure Leaven Ê’ ii mix them together in a morter with a little Vinegar and apply it which within twelve houres will raise a blister which you must open and then lay an Ivie or Cole leafe to the place and upon all apply any of the Cataplasmes aforesaid and dresse it twice a day and once a day at least give the Patient some Cordiall and when it is come to a sortnesse and that you perceive it is imposthumated then open it and so proceed to the cure as before is shewed When the botch will not come to Maturation but continueth alwayes hard Sometime it is seen that the botch although it appear outwardly yet will it not come to maturation which commonly is accomplished within three or four dayes but will resist whatsoever you apply to it and remain and continue alwayes hard now here you must presently open it either with a Caustick or by inscition for fear least it strike in again or at least grow to gangrena but before you open it you must Epithemate the greif with this Epithemation following and every morning and evening give the sick some Cordiall and betwixt the sore and the heart annoint it with the defensive before in the second Chapter An Epithemation Take leaves of Mallowes Violets Cammomill ana M. i. Floures of Dill Mellilot ana â„¥ i. Hollehock roots â„¥ iiii Linseed â„¥ ii Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed and then wet some Wooll or Flax therein being first well beaten and pickt clean and lay it upon the sore warm and as it cooleth doe you take it away and lay on another warm stewse and so continue it half an hour together and then open it as beforesaid and immediately apply to the wound Chickens or Hens as before in the first Chapter hath been shewed you and if you cannot get Chickens nor Hens then a Whelpe or a Pigeon clovâ—…n asunder by the back and so applyed warm will suffice which must be renued so oftentimes as cause requireth and when that is done then apply unto the wound a digestive made as followeth A Digestive Take Turpentine â„¥ ss. Honey Ê’ ii Mithridate or Triacle Ê’ ss. the yolk of a new laid Egge Mix all these together and use it in the wound and upon all lay the digestive Cataplasme beforesaid which is made of Figs or a plaister of Kellebackeron or of Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day and every dressing Epithemate the greif as beforesaid when it is digested then mundifie incarnate and sigillate it as in the Chapter before is shewed you CHAP. VI Sheweth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again SOmetimes you shall see the sore will appear outwardly and suddenly vanish away again which is a very dangerous and deadly sign now when this doth chance then presently give some good Cordiall that hath power to expell the venome as in the first Chapter of this Treatise you may find choyce of and immediately apply this Pultus to both the soales of his feet which must be made with Culver-dung
and Vinegar mixt together and spread on a Cole leafe and so applyed you must give the Cordiall every third hour and immediately after the first giving of the Cordiall you must Epithemate the heart with the Epithemation before expressed in the second Chapter of this Treatise and when that is done then cause the sick to sweat if you may and after his sweat and the body well dried then give him an easie Glister the next day parge him with some gentle pargation as before is shewed you And if by these meanes you prevail not then small hope of life is to be expected yet Petrus Forestus willeth you first to give a Glister and then within two houres after it to draw some bloud in the same side where the greif is and to annoint the place greived with Unguentum resumptivum mixt with some Oil of Cammomill and then two houres after it to give a Cordiall and procure sweat upon it and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid did recover divers CHAP. VII Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another and so to discusse him without breaking FIrst you must apply a cupping glasse next adjoyning to the lower part of the sore on that side where you would have him to be brought and next unto that glasse apply another so neer the first as you can and if that be not so farre as you would have the sore to be brought then apply the third glasse and let them all remain a quarter of an hour then takeaway the last glasse but suffer the first to remain then presently apply him again and let it remain a quarter of an hour more and doe so three or four times together but alwayes suffer the first glasse next the sore for to remain now when you have thus done then take all the glasses away and presently apply a Vesicatory to the place where the last and uttermost glasse did stand suffering it to remain there twelve houres then open the blister and lay an Ivy or Cole leafe to the place and upon all lay a plaâ—…ster of Kellebackeron or Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day the longer you keep it running the better it will be and at length â—…eal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Mâ—…lt the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Hearbs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the 〈◊〉 of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected therewith hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss. Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiffe Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted butter the yolk of
the matter lieth lurking in the interior parts not offering it self to appear outwardly otherwise I hold it better to leave the whole work unto nature specially in sucking children for when we see that nature is ready or doth endeavour to expell the malignity which is in the interior parts to the exterior which may be perceived by reviving of the Spirits and mitigating of the Fever here we ought not to use any meanes at all but leave the whole operation to nature which we must onely help by keeping the sick body in a reasonable heat being wrapt in a scarlet stammell or red cloth which may not touch the skin but to have a soft linnen cloth betwixt them both and then cover him with clothes in reasonable sort and keep him from the open ayre and the light except a little and also from anger using all the meanes you can to keep the sick in quietnesse and if the body be very costive then to give an easie Glister A Glister â„ž Barley two handfuls Violet leaves one handfull Boyle these in three pints of water untill half be consumed and strein it then take of the same decoction twelve ounces Oyle of Violets three ounces red Sugar and Butter of either one ounce Mix them together and give it to the sick warm you may encrease or diminish the decoction or ingredients according as the age of the party requireth but if the sick have great heat then may you add one ounce or four drachms of Cassia newly drawn unto it and when he hath expelled the Glister then rub the armes hands legs and feet softly with a warm cloth which is also a very good meanes to draw that chorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts when all this is done then if the body be inclined to sweat you must further the same by covering him with warm clothes having a care that you lay not more on him then he can well endure for otherwise you may cause faintnesse and swouning which are ill in this case yet must you alwaies keep the sick warm and suffer him not to sleep or permit very little untill the Pox or Measels do appear and here you must have a speciall care to preserve the eyes eares nostrels throat and lungs that they be not hurt or offended therewith as hereafter shall be shewed you which you must use before he sweat and also in the sweat if need be Eyes how to preserve them â„ž Rose-water Plantaine-water of either two ounces Sumack two drachms Let them boyle together a little or stand infused a night then mixe therewith half a spoonfull of the oyle made of the white of an Egg then wet two clothes five or six double therein then lay them upon either eye cold which must bee alwaies kept upon the eyes untill the Pox be all come forth and as they grow dry wet them in the same liquor againe and apply them but if there be great pain and burning within the eye then must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye take quinse-seed half a drachm bruise it a little then let it stand infused in three ounces of Rose-water a whole night then strein it and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at least or take of this water â„ž Rose-water â„¥ ii Womans milk â„¥ i. Myrrh finely powdered six graines Mixe them together and use it in the eye as before is shewed this doth ease the paine resisteth putrefication and preserveth the sight For the eares you must put a drop of oyle of Roses warm into them before he sweat For the nostrels cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar or else Vinegar red-roses and n boyled together For the throate let him alwaies hold a peice of white sugar-candy in the mouth and as it melteth swallow it down For the Lunges give the sick oftenimes some sirrup of quinses or conserve of Roses a little at a time And for his drink the decocted water of barley boyled with a little licorice is best being mixed with the juice of a Lemon Citron Pomegranate or Rybes which the sick best liketh for either of them is very good And for his diet he must refrain from all salt fat thick and sharp meats and from all sweet things either in meat or drink his meat must be of a facile and easie digestion and that hath a cooling property in it as broth wherein burrage bugloss sorrell and such like are boyled and for ordinary drink small beer or ale is best CHAP IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are flow in coming forth NOw when you perceive the Pox or Measels are slow and slack in comming forth then must you help nature with cordials and by sweat to thrust it out from the interior and principall parts unto which purpose I have alwaies found this drink to be excellent good here following â„ž Hordei mund. M. i. Lentium excort P. i. Ficuum No. x. Fol. capil. v. Lactucae ana M. ss. Fol. acetosae M. i. Florum cord P. i. Semen fenic Ê’ ii Semen 4. frigid ma. anaÊ’ ss. Aqua font lb. iiii Boyle all these together untill a third part of the water be consumed and then strein it â„ž Decoct. col lb. i. Succus granatorum vel ribes â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick four or six ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening which will provoke sweat and expell the disease and if you cannot get the juice of Pomegranats nor Rybes then you may take so much of the sirrup of either of them Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels Take a quart of posset-ale a handfull of Fennell seed boyle them together till a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto one drachm of Triacle and one scruple of Saffron in powder mix them together and give two three or four ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening as cause requireth But if it be for a strong and elderly body you may give any of the expelling electuaries which are used to expell the Plague as in the first Chapter for the curing of the Plague doth appear But if the sick be so weak that he cannot expell the disease in convenient time then it is good to epithemate the heart with this epithemation following Epithemation for the heart â„ž Aquarum ros. Melissae Card. b. Buglos Morsus diaboli vini alb. ana â„¥ iiii Aceti Ros. â„¥ ii ss. Pul. Ros. rub Trium santal-Cinamoni Elect. diamarg. frigid anaÊ’ ss. Mithridati â„¥ i. Theriacae Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and let them boyle a little and so warm Epithemate the heart and when you have done it then give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth and then cause him to sweat upon it for by this meanes you shall obtaine your desire by Gods permission Thirst how to quench it Now if in the expelling of the pox
the sick be very thirsty and dry then give this Julep to drink morning and evening which I have found very good â„ž Sirrup of Jujubes Nenuphare and Burrage of either four drachms Water of Burrage Cichore and Bugloss of either two ounces Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning and the rest at night and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following Take the conserves of Nenuphare Violets and Burrage of either six drachms Manus Christi made with Perles four drachms Sirrup of Nenuphare and Ribes of either one ounce and half Mix them together and with a Licorice stick clean scrap'd and a little bruised in the end let the sick lick thereof CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne FOr that oftentimes the face and hands which is the beauty and delight of our bodies are oftentimes disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I have used with good and happy successe for preventing thereof which is you may not do any thing unto them untill they grow white and that they are come to maturation which when you perceive then with a golden pinne or needle or for lack thereof a copper pinne will serve do you open every pustulae in the top and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linnen cloth and if you perceive the places do fill againe then open them againe as you did first for if you do suffer the matter which is in them to remain over long then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pitts which remaine after the Pox are gone as Avicen witnesseth now when you have thus done then annoint the places with this oyntment following Take Elder leaves one handfull Marigolds two handfulls French Mallowes one handfull Barrowes morte or grease six ounces First bruise the hearb in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coales untill the juice of the hearbs be consumed then strein it and keep it to your use the best time to make it is in the middle or the latter end of May You must with a feather annoint the places grieved and as it drieth in annoint it againe and so continue it oftentimes for this will soon dry them up and keep the place from pitts and holes which remain after the Pox are gone Also if you annoint the Pox with the oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation it will cure them without pitts or spotts and easeth the pain and burning and helpeth excoriation Some do onely oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season and in winter the juice of the roots will serve and by that onely have done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the Pustulaes are opened Take Barley one little handfull red Roses a handfull red Sanders white Sanders of either one oâ—…nce Saffron two scruples Salt four drachms Clean water three pound Boyle all together untill a third part be consumed you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will dry them up I have heard of some which having not used any thing at all but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching have done very well and not any pitts remained after it When the Pox after they come out do not grow to maturation how you shall help it Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation or grow white now here you must help nature to bring it to passe which you may well do with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figgs twelve in number Water a quart Cut the Figgs small and boyle altogether untill half and more be consumed and then wet a fine soft linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith oftentimes which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the paine if any be Ulceration to help it If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations which is oftentimes seen then for the curing thereof use this order here following Take Tamarinds leaves of â—…entils Mirtils budds of oaken leaves red Roses dried of either a lâ—…le handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water untill half be consumed then strein it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this powder following Take Frankincese Mastick Sarcocoll and red Roses of either two drachms Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves then mix them together and so reserve it to thy use A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and Plantaine-water one ounce and half clear Turpentine iii drachms Camphire half a drachm You must first melt the wax in the oyle then put in the Ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with an iron spalter and let it boyle on a gentle fire of charcoles untill it grow black but stirr it continually in the boyling for feare least it burn then take it from the fire and add thereto the camphire and lastly the Turpentine this unguent is good both to mundifie incarnate and sigillate For extream heat and burning in the soales of the feet and palms of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water and that will ease the pain and burning and may boldly be used without any danger For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this disease that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jawes called Aptham which if it be not well looked unto in time will grow to be Cankers now to cure and prevent the same this gargarisme is excellent good Take Barley-water a quart red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and Rybes of either two ounces juice of Pomegranates â„¥ iii Boyle them altogether saving the juice of Pomegranates untill a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while Also to prevent the same the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron or juice of a Pomegranate For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate Take Plantaine-water a pint Sirrup of Pomegranates two ounces Mix them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm Another Taste Nightshade-water a pint Seeds
Id weight and Polipody of an Oak and of Annis Id weight boyl her well and strain her into a vessell and take two spoonfuls thereof and give it the sick first and last For the Stitch Take three handfuls of Mallowes seeth them in a litte raw Milk and put thereto a handfull of wheat bran and let them boyle together and then wring out the Milk and lay it hot to the Stitch apply it often Take a few leaves of Rue and Yarrow stamp them together and wring out the juyce and drink it with a little Ale For the Stitch in the side Make Balls of red Wortes sodden and burne them in a new pot and then grind them to powder and mingle them with Honey and old Greace and make a plaister and lay it thereto when it is well sodden To heal Wounds Take Ribwort Plantain Smallage ana take well nigh as much May Butter as of the juyce mingle it together that it be standing and put it in a Box that no air come thereto and make an Ointment and this is the securest Medicine for healing Wounds For swelling of Ioynts Bray Mallowes and boyle them in new Milk and make it into an emplaister and apply it to the place To knit Sinews or Veins that are kickt or broke Take two Onions in summer when thou findest two Wormes knit together cut off the knots and lay them to dry against the Sun and make thereof powder and cast it in the Woâ—…nds and it will doe as aforesaid Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur Formicas istas pulverisabis misce cum vaccinio lacte da cuivis in potu c. Verrucae Porri ficus Cortix salicis combustus temperatus cum aceto appositus verrucas porros ficus tollit Portulaca fricata tollit verrucas Agrimonia trita emplastrata cum aceto verrucas tollit Stercus ovis si misceatur cum aceto fiat emplaistrum tollit variolas verrucas For Cornes Take Beanes and chew them in thy mouth and â—…ay them to the Corn doe this at night For Warts 1. Purslane rubbed on the Warts maketh them fall away 2. The juyce of the roots of Rushes applied healeth them For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly Take Filago and temper it with Ale or Wine and give it him and anon the bloud shall goe out by his mouth and if the Patient cannot open his mouth open it with a key and put it in and he shall receive his speech this hath been proved If men have any blood within them of any hurt Let them drink Eufrase sodden with water and anon they shall cast it out by vomit Aqua pro scabie tumore prurita Ashes made of green Ashen wood sifted clean and mingled with clean water and often stirred all a whole day the water thereof that is clear gathered and mingled with a little Vinegar and a little Allome and sodden together is a pretious water to wash with sores of swellings and for itchings and cleansing of divers sores An vulneratus vivat vel non The juyce of Pimpernell drunk with water if it come out at the Wound of a wounded man he shall dye if it come not he shall live Also give him Trefoile to drink if he cast it out he shall die To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be Take the roots of marsh-mallowes wash them and boyle them afterwards take the same water and boyle it with the seed of Fenugreek and Line then bake it with the bran of Barly afterwards fry it with Bores greace make thereof an emplaister and apply it hot and within a short time the Patient will be cured For Warts 1. Agrimony stampt with Salt and tempered with Vinegar and laid on the Warts within four dayes doth take them away 2. Take the yolk of an Egg well roasted stamp it with oyle of Olive or oyle of Violets and make it in manner of a plaister and this will doe away the Warts in a night 3. Rub them oft with oaken Apples and bind a plaister thereof on them and bray blossomes of Golds and Agrimony with Salt and lay them to as a plaister 4. Burn Willow tree rind and temper the Ashes with Vinegar utere Oleuâ—… Nucum Take Nuts whole seeth them in water and then break them and take out the kernels and stamp them and then wring them through a cloth and that Oyle is noble and mollificative Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum prâ—… pâ—…dagra Take Brocks greace Swines greace Ducks greace Capons greace Ganders greace suet of a Deer Sheeps tallow ana p. â—… melt them in an earthen pan then take the juyce of Rubarb marsh-Mallowes Morrel Comfrey Daysie Rue Plantain Mace Heyrif Matfelon and Dragons ana p. ae fry them in a pan with the foresaid greace secretum pro podagra For the Collick and Stone â„ž Cepas Rubras pista commixta cum mulvasceto bibe ealide Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum â„ž Aquam fabri â—…otell i. salviae cuprifâ—…lii â—…asturtii mâ—…dicum melliâ—… coque ad medium lava locum Aqua pro alceribus â„ž Apii Salviae Sempervivâ—… ana M. i. pista coque in una 〈◊〉 8. aquae currentis postea â—…ola adde â„¥ iiii Aluminis Medis 〈◊〉 ss. Bulliet alumen mâ—…dicum adde â„¥ iiii Camphorae reservâ—… Capitis dolor Coquâ—… 〈◊〉 in malvazeto lava caput Pista râ—…um â—…um sale fiat emplastrum For Bones broken in a mans Head â„ž Agrimoniae Contisam fiat emplastrum Item bibe Betonicam p. i. resurgant â—…ssa sanatis pro acto vusnera Capitis dolor â„ž Rutae â—…derae terrestris folia lauri coque in aqua vel vino fiat emplastrum super caput â„ž Celidoniam pista coque cum butyro versus dolorem capitis etsi cranium cecidit de loco c. lava cum decoctione ejusdeâ—… herba Corvi albi Attende cum â—…orvus habet ova unge ter vel quater cum melle pulli eorum eruâ—… albi Ebrii Qui prins biberit crocum quam ad pâ—…tationem inierit crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret Acetum Ut acetum redeat in vinum semen porri imâ—…itte per duas noctes Ova rotunda producunt gallinas longa vero gallâ—…s Fistula Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata vel succuâ—… ejus in eam posâ—…ta eam curat Succus caprifolii naribus impositus polypum recentem cauerum fistulam curat Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere â„ž Sume morellae sedi axungiae poreinae p. ae frixa suppoue Contra exitum ani â„ž Urticas rubras pista in olla terrea â—…oque in vino albo ad medium postea bibe mane sero calide faeces superpone Contra fluxum 1. â„ž Cornu cervi conchas ostrei combure da pulverem mane sero ê° dies Plaister of
beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take anew layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Ioynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Iohns Wort three steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Iohns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick 3. ss. of Myrrh of Frankincense ana 3. ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Iohns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana. three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell seed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watereresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Iohns Wont well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then
put in a quart of Saint Iohns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vâ—…lnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides canoâ—… to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melansholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion â—…ften proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half â—…n ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small innamoâ—… water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water ana â„¥ iiii Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water ana â„¥ iiii Of spirit of Saffron â„¥ ii Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevennight in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm oâ—… posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar â—…andy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Iaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation â„ž of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell