it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
into the fyre Lemnius wrytes this SNayles without their shelles or otherwyse with their shels stamped myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe if they be applyed to the place And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe Iacob Hollerius FINIS Lib. 1. ⧠The seconde Booke of Notable things WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne or in any euyll aspecte with him and in any Angle and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect in any bodyes Natiuitie It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne shal haue inseperable diseases or griefes in the eyes Iatromath Guat H. Ryff Argent IT is manifest by experieÌ„ce that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft the Kings Euyll which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes As daylye experience doth witnesse Mizaldus ERastratus a Phisition dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse that Antiochus the soÌ„ne of king Seleucus dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices his mother in lawe that vnlesse he might haue his desyre with the good wyll or pardon of his Father he woulde dye These are Authors thereof Valerius Maximus and Galenus Which also by the lyke did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius a councellor of Rome dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre Mizaldus CElendine with the harte of a Woont or a Mould-warpe layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke if he be in daunger of death Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce or syng if not he wyll weepe Mizaldus THe iuyce of Henbane mixte with the bloud of a Hare and sodde within the skynne of a Hare it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for meeting or sodaine seeing of an Hare or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe and forkedwyse called a Hare lyppe Daylie experience confyrmes it Mizaldus THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect and if an euyll planet doth theÌ„ beholde her it wyll be very perillous But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth that sicknes wyl be without any dauÌ„ger Hermes Trismegistus Ptolomeus Claudius Galenus Authors AN Egge layde in strong Uineger three dayes or a lytle longer it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft that one may draw it through a Ring Cast the same into a warme water and let it lye therein and it wyll be harde againe Mizaldus A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger Mizaldus WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of Hâ—mpe is sodden being cast or sprinckled on the earth wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground if any be there Mizaldus THe oyle of Tartar made of the leese of excellent Wine doth take the spottes from yron the yron being clensâ—d from all rustinesse and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes if the yron be rubbed therwith Mizaldus THe roote oâ— Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica It is sayde that it helpes maruelouslie because this herbe belonges to Iupiter which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie which gouernes the huckle bone And of Pisces which chalâ—ngeth the feete Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes IF some droppes of Aqua vite be myxt with wryting ynke the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen Proued WHosoeuer is apt to any thing hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth Myzaldus As thus for exaÌ„ple I may say by the way He that is apt to Martial feates or Warlyke affayres hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting drawing wryting syphering or to the science of Arithmatike or to any wyttie or notable inuencions without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth Which by dayly proofe is infallyble And so you may know of the rest THe woodde of the Sicamore tree is neuer drye in the ayre or hye grounde and in the bankes of ryuers and where waters runne ouer it dryes verye quicklie Mizaldus THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse doth procure sleepe As Actius doth saye THey wyl haue paines in the stomack or be weake stomackt in whose Natiuities Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house or in the twelfth house infortunating the Moone or the Lord of the Ascendent Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed or brusten Take nine redde Snayles and put them betwene two tyle stones so that they slyde not away drye them in an Ouen so that you make them in powder then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning tyll all be done which wyll be in .xviii. dayes The partie must take it fasting and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after And if the disease be so loÌ„g rooted that these nine times wyl not suffice then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles do as before is declared in all points I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter wyll make them laye egges a pace Cardanus THe oyle of Tartare doth take awaye cleane all spottes freckles and fylthy wheales of the face chyn or forehead with his cleansing strength This is well proued WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes froÌ„ any place that there shal none be seene there againe make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring or as my booke sayth Mizaldus in a plate of brasse or copper or of Tyn make the image of a Flye of a Spyder of a Serpent the second face of Pisces then ascending And whyles you are making or grauing of them saye This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer Then
Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
see ryuers or water or precious stones or some that dyd eate or drinke or his Mother or his Awnt or his Mothers Syster This sayth Haly Abenragel But Messahala and Alhayhat and Abrier Farsal haue sayde looke in the sygne of the ninth house from the Ascendent and if thou doest finde in the same house any of the seuen Planettes iudge that the vision or dreame was of them as is before when they are founde in the first house And adde to the sygnification of the Sunne that is if the Sun be in the ninthe house that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene heauen and earth or that he dyd see a great lyght and if there be no Planets in the ninth house then marke him that is in the first house if none be there then marke who is in the thirde house if none be there then looke in the fowrth house if none be there looke in the seuenth house if none be there then looke in the tenth house And iudge according to the sygnification of euery Planet and thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenragell AGainst the quarten ague take the vrine that the partie makes at one tyme in his fytte and kneade flowre therewith and when the same is baked then geue it to a Dogge of the same house And when you haue done thus thryse the partie wyll be whole and ryd of the disease And in his steade the Dogge wil be sicke But for a man that is sicke a Dogge must be chosen If a woman a bytch must be had This was taken out of an often proued experiment of an Italian by the report of Mizaldus WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes Let them beholde the shadow therof in a vessel wherin oyle is put Where they may beholde and see it without daunger For a fatty humor is not easely troubled And what shapes or fourmes it doth receyue It representeth the same truely Mizaldus A Lamen or thyn plate of Gold borne on the seame of the brayne doth strengthen the brayne The same hanged against the region or place of the harte doth helpe the beating of the harte and encreaseth gladnes And if it be put vpon the reynes of the back it strengthens the reynes and cooles the same and ceaseth the paynes of the backe But Mizaldus wysheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fyne Golde when the Sunne is in Leo called the Lion And Iupiter the Moone beholding each other happely Hermes Arnoldus Villa nouanus c. Alij IF the Lord of the Horoscope be in the seuenth house Combust and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygnitye in the same then he that is then borne shall perish by the handes of many which wyll ryse against him But if the Sunne haue then any power in the seuenth house he shall dye by the Kings commaundement Taisnier IT is proued and a secrete that if three graynes of Masticke be geuen to the patient to be swalowed euery night at his going to bed it doth preserue him from the paynes of the stomacke and doth cure him Emperica benedicti victorij I knowe by proofe it helpes the stomack maruelously THis water following breakes the Stone in the bladder and in the reynes Take of the iuyce of Saxisrage two pyntes of Gromell and of the iuyce of Perceley of eyther one pynt of the best Uinegar of a pleasaunt Wine eyght ounces dystyll all these together ▪ and let the lycquor distylled be kept in a glasse with a narrow mouth Of which mynister in the morning one ounce at a tyme as much at noone and as much at euening going to bed This is a proued water as sayth Fumanellus TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head doth betoken euil fortune To dreame that you see your face in the water sygnifyes long lyfe To follow Bees betokens gaine or profyt To be marryed sygnifies that some of your kynsfolkes is dead To dreame that you worshyp God sygnifyes gladnes To looke in a glasse doth portende some yssewe or a chylde To haue oyle powred vpon you sygnifyes ioy Michael Scotus et Artemidorus IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly and run easely put the hooues of a Horse into the same betweene the melting and powring out therof Mizaldus had this secrete of an expert Italyan GOates wyl not stray or wander if you cut of their beards Florentinus Geoponicus and Zoroaster IF you put a Tode in a new earthen potte and the same be couered in the grounde in the myddes of a corne fyelde it is sayde there wyll be no hurtfull tempestes or stormes there As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria Plinio Authore IF the Lorde of the eyght house be founde in the twelfth house with an euyll Planet or in his euyll Aspect it showes the chylde then borne wyll dye a captiue that is in pryson or as one that doth flye away Taisnier WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oyntment folowing it easeth the paine of the head it purgeth the stomack it comforteth the appetyte clarifieth the eyes Take of the iuice of smallach two ounces of the iuice of Mercury fowre ounces of goose grease Hens grease of either of thē a pound of Rosē two ounces of Masticke and Frankyncence of either fyue drams of Cassia Fistula two drams and put therto iuyce of Walwoort and of the inner rynde of Elderne and myxe them all well together and make therof an oyntment This if it be well made is a very good thing THe Squyncie or any other payne of the throate wyll be helpt with this following Marke where a Swine doth rubbe him and then rubbe your hand on the same woodde post or stone with which hande rubbe your sore or swolne throate And as some saye that haue proued it cut of a peece of the same wood where the Swine dyd rubbe himselfe and rubbe the swolne or grieued place therwith But the rubbing of the Swines necke is the best for the necke the legge for the legge and so that part of the Swine for the lyke part of the personne grieued or diseased This is a very true and often proued thing TAke a pynt of whyte Wine one handfull of woodbinde leaues or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde and a quarter of a pounde of the powder of Ginger seethe them all together vntyll they be something thycke And annoynt a red pympled face therwith fiue or sixe tymes and it wyl make it faire This is proued LVdonicus Viues doth wryte that within the memory of his Auncestors or Fathers there was a Sepulchre or Toombe pluckt vp wherin a burning Candle was founde made as was wytnessed by wryting fyue hundreth yeares before And when it was touched or handled by and by it was resolued into powder Iohannes Langius IF you woulde haue a deepe Well made it is best to dygge the same when the Sun is in the last partes of Virgo before the Autumnall equinoctiall
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. WHosoeuer is greued tormented with the stone let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe cut in slyces and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night then streyne the same well and put therto of the Electuary called Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum one dram myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine wherein the Radish was infused and let him that is grieued with the stone receyue all the same at one tyme and you shall see a maruelous woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together This is proued to be a sure an excellent thing for breaking and auoyding the stone and grauell Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe A Head of Garlycke the skyns pulled off and a lytle brused layde by equall partes to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache especially if it come of a colde cause and be on the neather iawe it wyll helpe them with speede by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent opposyte to Venus or if Venus be in a barraine signe infortunate of Saturne or if Venus be in the house of Saturne especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus ELephants of all other Beastes do chiefly hate the Mowse So that if they shall see or perceyue that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury IF any Woman great with chylde shall take this drinke following euery other day in the morning three howres before she eate any meate begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth the byrth shall not onely be made more easye but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne Take of the great Treackle one scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes the powder of Lycquerys and the powder of Cynamom of eyther three graynes of good whyte Wine one ounce and a halfe myxe all together and make there of a drynke and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde in such manner as is before sayde Benedictus victorius fauentinus in his Booke called Emperica THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe Take Yarrowe and Planten of eyther a lyke muche stampe them well together and put thereto redde Wyne and streyne it well and drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last three or sowre dayes together and certaynly it wyll stay it It is an easy and precious thing IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not let her make water in a copper or brasen vessell and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght that is bryght and cleane and if she be with chylde the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it If not then it wyll be blackish or rusty It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before the same Crow wyll dye soone after Aclianus and Philes NEyther falling sycknes neyther deuyll wyll infest or hurt one in that place wheras a Bay tree is The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt is safe from mothes and if there be any there it wyll driue them awaye Diascorides THe howre of Mars is to be abhord in all thinges bothe in the begynning and when the thing is done Haly Abenragel Therefore you were best to take heede that you take no notable thyng or great matter in hande or beginne any long iourney in the howre of Mars if you can by any meanes knowe when it is But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde be they neuer so symple and vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked learned yea though they know the tymes shall not haue power to auoyde them As I haue seene in many which afterwarde they dyd well consyder though to late And as I haue sayde of Mars so I say of Saturne For there is neuer a good of them both Yâ—t I doo not thinke that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers or beares rule in the Ascendent but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the xii.vii.v or .viii. house But surely I haue markt it long and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne that came to a good ende Which they shall well finde that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea in Saturnes howre I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth which I shoulde not haue consydred so much but by his counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn to the skyn of a Woolfe of any other Beast it wyll make them without heayre or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away Mizaldus COâ—ewoorts and Rew called hearbe Grace are so contrary in nature the one to the other that they ought not to be sowne nye together Fracastorius IF any Sheepe or else heayry Beasts or els Man or Woman be full of woormes in any wound or sore take of the wooll of the same Sheepe or heair of that Beast or some of the heair of that Man or Woman and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun vnder the barke of a tree called Trembla which is a kinde of black Popler tree Do thus certayn dayes and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously or else they wyll dye or leaue that place There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke in manner of
laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes and then cast it among the chaffe and then a great sort of Pygiōs wyll resort to that Doouehouse LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses for hauing this you neede neither vynegar nor Salt as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me sayth Mizaldus FOxes being sodde and cutte in peeces and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after for the space of two monthes Mizaldus THe seedes of Docks tyde to the left arme of a Woman doth helpe barrennes or sterilyty Africanus THe Moone and the Ascendent are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe of the state therof and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same wherof if all they be Infortunate the Shyp is broken and they that sayled in her are drownde vnlesse some one of them be receyued that is of the sayd Sygnifyers and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning and some clymers of the Shyppe wyll escape but if all they be Fortunate all shall escape and be saued that is both Shyp and men chiefly if there be any reception Furthermore if the Ascendent the Moone be both fortunate the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate the Shyp is safe the Saylers in her are destroyed but if the Ascendent the Moone be Infortunate and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate the shyp is ouerwhelmed or lost the saylers in her are safe Haly Aben. GOates dung mingled with Uynegar bran and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast It hath bene proued BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade doth not onely draw out the broken bones but also doth heale the same with speede A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back Take a quart of whyte Wine and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates and of Marygooldes Planten Bettony Pearsley rootes and Fennel rootes of all two handfulles boyle all these together vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away and then streyne them through a cloath and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye FYue leaued grasse sod in water which water if it be droonke and gulpt vp downe into the throte is an excellent helpe for sore throtes THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne especially in Sagitary Haly Abenragel TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse called a Shrew do not byte them Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke which when it is hard hang the same about the necke of the Beast that you woulde keepe safe from such byting And it is most certayne that he shall not be toucht nor bytten as is before sayde Vegetius I Heare sayth Mizaldus that it is obserued proued that a Cowe an Ewe a she Asse a Bitche a she Catte and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde wyll cast theyr Calfe Lambe Colte or that that they go withall if the Male by whome they conceaued be kylled whyle they went with the same Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement of nature is betweene or among them IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne or if Saturne be founde in the same except it be Aries they that be then borne shall for the most parte see true Dreames but if in a moueable sygne his Dreames wyll be without effect c. Taisnier A Notable oyntment for the head ache comming of any cause wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples and all the forehead Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle fowre ounces of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses two ounces of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony of eyther one ounce and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock two ounces of oyle Rosate Omphacine one pound and a halfe of the best and purest Alablaster three ounces powder the Alablaster finely and put it into the sayd oyle and let it lye therein a daye and a nyght then myxe them all together and with sufficient whyte waxe make it into an oyntment which oyntment is good for any payne of the head proceeding of any matter or cause And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne except the begynning Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti AN excellent distilled water for hearing foloweth Take of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Onions of eyther of them syxe ounces of the leaues of Rosemary stamped one handfull of the oyle of bitter Almondes three ounces and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces myxe them all together and destyll them and the lycquor which cōmeth therof keepe in a cleane glasse droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare fowre or fyue nyghts together and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes IT is much to be marueled at that the lytle Byrde called a Wren being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell newly gathered doth turne about and rost him selfe Cardanus and Mizaldus THou mayst make fayre Pictures Uesselles and many other fyne thinges with small coast and expences as followeth Seethe the barke of the Elme tree and the toppes of the Populer tree and whyles they are very hotte put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is well and fynely beaten into powder and searced and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll then drie them in the shadow Hieronimus Gardanus HErmes doth saye that an euyll Planet in Gancer doth threaten short lyfe and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne BRymstone stampt with Wyne and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women breakes the hardnes of them Isac WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde wyll much helpe and relieue him But fyrst tyckle him on the browe and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe and then apply it to him as is beforesayde But if he be farre gone that it wyll not helpe him then take a Tenche and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes and so warme lay the one part to his brow and the other to the nape of his necke and without doubt it wyll helpe him if euer he shall haue helpe This I tooke out of an excellent written booke FOr burning with syre Take oyle
with the syrrup of Hysop Emperica benedicti victoriâ— fauent You maye haue it well made at the Apothecaryes I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in this case YF you wyll breake the great heate of Wyne in the vessell cast into the same a lytle peece of cheese and then you shall see a maruelous thing And why that is Georgius valla placentinus doth teache YF you annoynt your hands or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettels oyle and a lytle Salt it wyll defende the party therwith annoynted from the bytterest colde that is Mizaldus THere be braunches of a Bay tree wrapt vp or layd among cloathes and bookes wyll keepe the same safe from mothes woormes and other corrupcion Dioscorides IF you stampe Ants egges strayne them through a cloath and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse or Knot grasse and distyll it into the eares it helpes a long continewed deafnes A Powder to conserue the syght Take Bettony Rewe Celondine Saxifrage Louache Annyse seedes Cynamom Eyebryght of each one handfull Cardamomum Gynger Fennell Petroselyne Hysop Organy Syler mountaine of each one dram Galinga one ounce Sugar one ounce Let a powder be made of these and let it be taken continually with meate and the syght wyll be restored and kept This powder was ordeyned by Maister Geralde whose tryall an olde man dyd proue which vsed spectacles twelue yeares so that without them he could not see great letters but after he had vsed this powder onely one forty dayes he was free in so much that all the tyme of his lyfe he dyd see and read the least letter that was This Trotula hath written in the later ende of his Booke De passionibus mulâ—erum AN excelleÌ„t way to get out the water out of swolne legges wherby to make them as slender as they were before Seethe Otes in water vntyll they be tender then let the party diseased hold his legge that is swolne ouer the vessell that it maye receyue the fume or smoake of the sodde Otes and couer the partye with some thing that it may go downe rounde about the vessell and then blysters wyll come vpon the legge or swolne place out of which wyll runne much water and corruption then after annoynt the place with butter Doo thus fowre or fyue seuerall tymes if neede be This is well proued TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita put into the eyes morning and euening euery other daye for the space of fowre or fyue dayes wyll cleare the syght and helpe the eyes of a colde cause maruelously An olde Gentlewoman that tryed it on her selfe dyd reueale it to me THe hearbe Dandelyon well sodde in water is counted to be a chiefe helpe for the ioygning or knytting of woundes It is good for Ruptures or for them that be broken or brusten c. Mizaldus A Maruelous Water that soone and easily may be prepared more precious then Golde is made as followeth Put fayre and cleare water into a vessell wherein there was neuer before any lycquor or before neuer occupyed and when the water is verye hotte powre it to quicke Lyme being before in another newe and cleane vessell and let it remayne and rest so long vntyll you haue taken all the fowle spume that fleetes aboue from the same and that all the Lyme bee settled to the bottome and the water verye cleare then powre out the water very softlye without mouing the Lyme in the bottome and keepe the same water in a fayre cleane glasse or some other cleane vessell well couered or stopt vntyll you vse the same It wyll scantly be beleeued what a myraculous vertue and power it hath in all kynde of Ulcers and chiefly such as springes of the Frenche Pockes For the same being bathed or moystned with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet in the sayde water something warme a prety whyle and then a lynnen cloath well wet in the same and so layde vpon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster and after renewed againe it wypes cleane away all the fylthe or corruption it ceaseth the paynes it fylles the Ulcer with flesh and it quyte quencheth the heate or inflamations in a small tyme Not without a great myracle for otherwyse quicke Lyme dooth burne with vehemencie of his heate Let them enioye this most excellent secrete which for great prayer and pryse to many I haue refused to vtter Thus much Mizaldus MYrre geuen to drynke in warme Wyne the quantity of a bygge Nut causeth the delyueraunce of the the chylde eyther quicke or dead Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gowte Take of Romaine Uitryall two poundes of distylled Honny fowre pyntes distyll these together making the Uitryall fyrst in powder and when it is distylled adde to the same the thyrde part thereof of Aqua vite rectifyed which dillygently myâ—ed keepe to your vse and annoynt the sore or grieued place therwith Doo thus morning and euening vntyll you feele your selfe well which wyl be God wyllyng within seuen or eyght dayes at the furthest I wrote this out of an olde Booke I thinke it be also in the new Iewell of Health which is a worthy booke and full of many straunge and excellent things THe smoake of Iuy burned doth driue away Backs or Reremyse from that place where the same smoake is Anatolius IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie for any thing wherin he hath a hope to haue marke if the Lorde of the eleuenth house apply to the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Lord of the fyrst house to the Lord of the eleuenth house Iudge that he shall haue the thing which he hopes to get or haue and he shall come to it And if the Aspect be of a Tryne or Sextyle he shall quickly and easilye and by a good meane obtayne it but if it be by a quartyle or opposyte Aspect he shall get it with tediousnes and labor Furthermore if thou doost fynde the Lorde of the eleuenth house in an Angle receyued then iudge that he shall haue the thing which he so hopes to haue euen as he desyres Haly Abenragel A Peece of the roote of Craw foote eyther put into the hollowe toothe if there be any or applyed to the toothe that aketh wyll helpe the same presently A sure proued and often tryed medicine WHosoeuer hath a sorenes in the throate or else any harde swelling there called the Squinancie or Angina and perhappes thereby doth hardly draw his breath let them apply this following often times in a day and it wyll soften it and resolue it For it is proued Take of the rootes of Hollyock cut in small peeces and made cleane Camamell the flowres of Uyolets the flowres of Mallowes with the rootes of each one handfull let them boyle all in a sufficient quantitye of water vntyll the water be consumed then put to the same the flowre of barley Lynseede and Fenecreeke well stampt and beaten of each
the foote or leg of an Oxe Cow or horse be swoln by chaunce marke the ground where the same swoln leg or foote doth stand take or graue vp with a knyfe or dagger a turfe or peece of earth in the same place where the same foote dyd stand hang the same turfe or peece of earth vpon the bough of a white thorn or of som other tree if it be fayre or dry wether if not theÌ„ hang it in some chimney where fire is made and after as the turfe or earth doth drie so wil the swelling cease and the payne go away This I haue proued to be true dyuers tymes And it is practised of many especially for Oxen or Kyne But the suddaine swelling griefe of my horse legge hath bene helpt therwith within two or three dayes by none other meanes Who lystes to proue it shall finde it true although it be farre vnlykely THe water wherin Lauender is sod doth quite put away any spotte or steyning in any cloath Cap or Hat if the steyned place or spotted be washed or rubbed therwith It is very true proue it who wyll TO make any fowle of what condition the same be to haue the fethers all whyte Take the Egges of what Byrde or fowle you wyll rowle them in the iuyce of the hearbe called Mowse eare or in the iuyce of Housleeke or otherwyse in oyle after the minde of Cardanus and after put the Egs againe in the nest for after the hatching the fethers wyll grow whyte This is taken out of the naturall and artificial Conclucations of the Schollers of Padua Translated in Englysh by Thomas Hyll YF the figure of a Lyon be graued in a thyn plate of Golde when the Sunne is in Leone that is the sygne called the Lyon So that the Moone beholde not then the syxt house nor the Lord of the Ascendent behold Saturne or Mars and the Moone then seperate or rather free from them it doth put away the intollerable paynes and tormentes of the backe if it hang at the raynes of the backe or touch the same And if 〈◊〉 be made of the powder of pure OlibanuÌ„ and Goates bloud and after sealed with the same Lyon and after dryed and then being dyssolued in whyte Wyne and droonke fasting it workes a maruelous effect against the stone of the reynes of the blather Andreas Cordubensis to Gregory the Bishop of Rome THis confection following is a most excellent medicine and remedy for many inward effectes especially for all fluxes of bloud from whence soeuer they flowe and also other fluxes moreouer for them that haue great paynes in theyr backs and also paynes in theyr Lyuer or whose Lyuer is not all together wel And Galen the Author hereof sayth belyke for the excellencie therof geue not this before thou hast receyued a rewarde therfore the making wherof doth followe Take of Cynamom Cassialignea opium of each two drams Myrre both Peppers Galbanum of each one dram let them be stamped then myxed with a lytle clarifyed Honny and made in a lumpe or masse geue therof at night two round pyls somthing bygger then peason in the soft of a roasted apple and let not the party drinke of two howres after and if his griefe and paines be neuer so great he wyll be in maruelous ease and quietnes within an howre or two after so remaine the most part of all the night yea and perhaps sleepe soundly and well You maye geue it two or three nightes together if the party be strong but if he be very weake geue it euery other nyght three or fowre tymes and if the party be in extreame payne then geue it when you lyst But if the stomacke be full of meate or fleame it wyll shew the lesse effect Who euer shal proue it shal fynd it a worthy thing I haue proued it aboue a hundreth tymes A Fine way to make Corral by art which foloweth Make the hornes of Goates first shauen or scraped into powder and let the same stiepe in strong Lee made of the Ashes of the wood of an Ashe fyâ—teene dayes together afterwarde take it out of the sayde Lee and mixe it with Cinabrium dyssolued in water and hang it ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be thycke and if it haue then the cullour of right Corrall make it in the forme or fashion you thinke good drye it and polysh it according to arte This doth Mizaldus discribe THe iuyce gotteÌ„ out of a red Onion three or fowre drops therof put into the deaffe eare colde three or fowre nyghts when the party goes to bed helpeth the deafnes be it neuer so great or auncient Feare not though it put you to some paine at the fyrst time for at the seconde tyme it wyll be more easie This was taught mee by one that knewe it by proofe TO make a Woman that hath a dead chyld within her immediatly to be delyuered therof Take the quantity of an Alâ—on of a Bulles gall myxe it with two spoonefull of Wine and let her drinke it and she shall auoyde it strayght Iac. Veckerus DEuyde an Aple in the myddes and in the one halfe of the Aple in the myds of it make a round hoale by cutting a peece out of it then into the same hoale put a blacke Betle and so laye the flatte syde on the table and the Aple wyll moue by the meanes of the Betle to the maruaile of them that behold it TAke an Aple of Coloquintida and laye the same to stiepe in water a whole night and after boyle woormwood in that water which water being cast about the chamber kylleth all the fleas therin Also annoint a staffe with the grease of a Hedghogge and laye the same in the myddes of the chamber and all the fleas there wyll come and cleaue to that staffe A Certaine young Gentlewoman or Lady trymming and dressing her selfe holding then in her mouth a few pyns was suddenly priuily strucken between the shoulders by a certaine Rular or Prince being her Louer wherewith she was so suddenly feared amased that she swallowed the pyns which she did hold in her mouth which pyns she auoyded in her vrine within two dayes after without an harm Ioh. Langius a learned Phisition is the reporter herof IF Roses Lyllyes be sowne nye together or that they touch one another the flowers of them wyll smell the more pleasauntly wyll grow the better Mizal. ONe Apisius got much money with this most excellent Oyle following and was maruelously esteemed therfore after whose death the King of Spaine dyd geue vnto his wife fiue hundreth Crowns for the vttering disclosing the making therof as is manifest in a booke made of the same at large by one George Baker in the English tongue which hath manifestly shewed his honest hart natural loue to his CouÌ„try The same Apisius in his life time his wife after his death did helpe all wounds old vlcers aches paines of the
tallowe Candle therof which if you do lyght after it be colde the same Candle wyll not go out with any winde so long as the whole Candle lasteth And in lyke sorte may lyghts be made to serue in the night time if that fyne lynnen rags be fyrst soked in the Oyle of Hempseede dipped into mowlten tallow which so bound or wrought on a staffes ende or otherwyse lying in an Yron or plate at the ende of a staffe This is taken out of the naturall and Artificiall clonclusions of the Schollers of Padua c. THe young Swallowes of the fyrst broode that a Swallow hath being cut and opened before the full of the Moone two Stones wyll be found in their mawes wherof one is of one cullour the other is of dyuers cullours if these Stones so that it be before they touch any grounde be wrapt or enclosed in a Harte skynne and be tyed to the arme or about the necke of them that haue the falling sycknes it doth heale them of the same disease Mizaldus wrytes this by the report of an Italyan which affyrmed to him that he had proued it to be true WHosoeuer shall especially the fyrst Frydaye in May and euery other Frydaye in May before the rysing of the Sunne graue vp two turfes of new growne grasse with the dew vpon the same then doth tye the grasse sydes of them together and shall then laye the same in a water in the syde of a ponde or in some other water so that the vehemencie of the water dooth not remoue the sayde turfes from the place where they be layde so letting them lye there vnremoued nyne or tenne dayes if at the ten dayes ende he shall take vp the sayde turfes and vntye or loose the same he shal finde a great sort of young Eeles within the same although there be not one Eele in the same water at the laying there of the sayde turfes And then if he tye the sayde turfes with the young Eeles together againe lay them againe in the same water a great encrease of Eeles wyl after come therof This was credibly tolde me for a very trueth of one that dyd trye the same I thinke they breede of the same dew THe Uine tree dooth not agree with the Bay tree for with his odor or smell he is the woorse wherfore when the branches of the Uine drawes neere to the Bay tree he wyl draw backward flying the smel of his enemy Euen so the Burre is enemy or doth not agree with Lentyls Iohan. Bap. Por. AN Image of a Ram grauen or molten in Gold the fyrst degree of Aries ascending and Iupiter plaste in the same not impedite by any euyll Starre or Planet so that the Moone and Venus beholde him friendly is a maruelous helpe remedy to them that haue a continuall headache if they weare the same Image of golde Laurentius Miniatus by the report of Iouianus Pontanus dyd with the same help a friend of his of a continuall head ache Mizaldus IF you wyl cullour or paynt the brystles of a Swine with dyuers cullours when they be well washte and sodde in Allom water let them be put whyles they be warme in water cullored with Saffern if you wyl haue them yallow or in the iuyce of Elderne or Walwoort berries if you wyl haue them of a blew cullour or in water myxt with Flos eris or Uergdygrease if you wyll haue them of a greene cullour and so of other cullours You maye proue the same with the fethers of Byrds Mizaldus THe powder of Earthwoormes of Myce dung or of a Hartes toothe put into the hoales of teethe that be woormeaten doth plucke them vp by the rootes or makes them fal out without any other Instrument Mizaldus IF the Stone that is founde in the heade of a long Snayle be made in fyne powder and blowne in the eye it puttes quyte away all the spottes therof and it destroyes the webbe in the eye and any other euyll in the same Mizaldus affyrmes this IN the wynter tyme a spooneful of Aqua vite sweetned with good Sugar with a lytle peece of the purest whyte bread put into it least it shoulde trouble the braine or do some harme to the Liuer is healthfully geuen to grosse and flegmatyke bodyes that it may concoct the humors and defende theyr bodyes from the Lethargie which is a forgetfulnes and a losing almost of all the sences and frō the Apoplexie which is a ceassing as well of the inwarde sences as of the outwarde and from colde diseases Lemnius TO make a Candle burne vnder the water Take waxe brymstone vynegar of each a lyke much boyle all these together ouer the fyre vntyll the vinegar appeare all consumed and then after of that that remaynes make a Candle and you shall see the proper effect as aboue is wrytten This is taken out of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated by Thomas Hyll TAke a Ryng that is hollowe rounde about into which put quicksyluer and stop the same fast that it runne not forth after heate the Ryng somewhat in the fyre which being hotte laye on a table or stoole and soone after it wyll leape or daunce of it selfe vntyl it be colde It is proued QUenche hotte Yron in the iuyce of Hemlockes three or fowre tymes letting it remayne therin euery tyme vntyl it be colde the Yron wyl be soft Also Cardane wryteth that if you take Oyle putting into it mowlten leade seuen tymes together and after quench Yron red hotte in that Oyle fowre or fyue tymes together it wyll make the same Yron soft to worke vpon A Certayne Woman with Chyld seeing a Bakers shoulder naked or bare whyles he dyd put bread into the Ouen dyd long or desyre so much to eate of the sayde Bakers shoulder that she abhord or lothed all other meate Her husband hauing pitty of his louing wyfe dyd agree to geue the Baker certaine money for euery bytte that his sayd wyfe should byte of his shoulder and the same Baker suffered the sayde woman to haue two byts at his shoulder but when she beganne to byte at it the thyrde tyme he was so grieued with paine that he would suffer her no more to byte at his shoulder Immediatly after the woman traueyled and brought forth three children two of them a lyue and the thyrd dead Iohannes Langius is the Author hereof A Notable distylled water as followeth worthy to be compared to golde Take one part of Gentyan and two partes of Centory stampe them together then put Wyne to them and let them sooke together fyues dayes then distyll them keepe the water distilled in a close cleane vessell this water droonke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kinde of diseases it putteth away all impostumations it maketh good cullour it resysteth the plague it healeth the sycke of the Ptysicke it auoydeth the stuffed stomacke it breaketh the stones in the reynes
pag. 174.46 For swellings in a sore breast pag. 175.47 To helpe a wound in the hand pa. 175.48 A speciall medicine to strengthen the back pag. 175.49 For sore throates pag. 175.50 They are diuellishe that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 175.51 That Beastes be not bytten of the blynde Mowse pag. 175.52 A good lesson to be obserued in Beastes that are with young pag. 176.53 Who are lyke to see true dreames pag. 176.54 A notable oyntment for â—ny payne in the head pag. 176.55 An excellent water for hearing pa. 177.56 A Wren wyll turne at the fyre by it selfe pag. 177.57 To make fyne pictures and vesselles with smal coast pag. 177.58 When the mother shall be of short lyfe pag. 178.59 To take awaye the hardnes of Womens pâ—ps pag. 178.60 To helpe mad â—â—en pag. 178.61 A precious thing for burning pag. 178.62 To cause one make water pag. 178.63 To hatche Chyckeâ—s without a Hen. pag. 179.64 The straunge vertue of the Medler pag. 179.65 That toasted or sodden flesh seeme bloody pag. 179.66 Of quicke and slowe deliuering out of pryson pag. 179.67 To heale a scalde head pag. 180.68 To destroy Wartes pag. 180.69 A Dogge taught to do the offyce of a seruaunt pag. 180.70 A most extreeme famine pag. 180.71 To dryue forth sande out of the reynes pag. 181.72 To cause speedy delyueraunce of a Chylde pag. 181.73 That scalding be not seene pag. 181.74 To drawe out a tooth easâ—ly pag. 181.75 To put away freckles in the face pag. 182.76 To helpe the Elfe cake in the syde pa. 182.77 To helpe shaking hands pag. 182.78 To know a ryght Tode stone pa. 182.79 To make that Garlicke shall not smell pag. 182.80 An easie medicine for the gowte pa. 183.81 An argument of death pa. 183.82 To make a Woman be speedely delyuered pag. 183.83 To know who shal be gelded pag. 184.84 To make that no Dogge bark at you pag. 184.85 To put away the quarten agâ—â— pa. 184.86 To helpe â—â—â—olde and incurable gowâ—e pag. 184.87 A notable medicine for the falling sicknes pag. 184.88 An excellent oyntment for the gowte pag. 185.89 To destroy an Itche pag. 185.90 To make a candle that wyll not be put out pag. 185.91 An excellent oyle for the Synewes and ach of the ioyntes pag. 185.92 To bring woormes and hurtfull things in a garden into one place pag. 186.93 A token of the fathers short life pa. 186.94 To helpe paynes and deafnes of the eares pag. 186.95 A proued water to heale the Fystula pag. 186.96 That horses be liuely quick pag. 187.97 To make a horse pysse pa. 187.98 A maruelous precious water pa. 187.99 For winde or sounding in the eares pag. 188.100 The Table of the eyght booke TO make vineger presently pag. 189.1 The straunge propertie of the Woolfe pag. 189.2 Deadlye wâ—â—re betweene the Hawke and the Eagle pag. 189.3 To take Byrdes that eates seedes that are sowne pag. 189.4 An euyll howre to take iourney on the seas pag. 189.5 Approued Pyls for the Palsey pa. 190.6 A straunge thing of a woman with chylde pag. 190.7 To turne whyte wine into red pag. 190.8 A rare medicine for the cough pag. 191.9 Who shall possesse greater rytches and honours then their Auncestors pa. 191.10 To cleare a dym syght pag. 191.11 A maruelous medicine for woundes and sores pag. 192.12 A straunge diuersitie betweene dead men and dead women pag. 192.13 The great vertue of Marygooldes pag. 192.14 A rare thing to helpe the gowte pa. 193.15 If one doo come or sende to thee in a good howre pag. 193.16 To cause a speedy byrth of a Chylde pag. 193.17 To knowe whether one that is sycke wyll lyue or dye pag. 193.18 To helpe them that be deaffe pag. 193.19 To drawe out a toothe without any paine pag. 194.20 A â—awe that no syck person shoulde drinke Wine pag. 194.21 Whether any water be myxt with Wyne or not pag. 194.22 To encrease Pigions in a Doouehouse pag. 194.23 An excellent thing for deafnesse pag. 1â—4 24 One dyd foretell of the tyme of the death of one that was sycke by Astrologie pag. 194.25 For ache in the bones or in any other place pag. 195.26 They that bee gelded are neuer gowtie pag. 196.27 A prowde and vaine glorious Emperour pag. 196.28 It is not good to burie any too hastelye pag. 196.29 A notable medicine for shortnes of breath pag. 197.30 To breake the great heate of Wine in the vessell pag. 197.31 To keepe any parte of the body from colde pag. 197.32 To keepe cloathes bookes from moaths pag. 198.33 To helpe a long continewed deafnesse pag. 198.34 A precious powder to concerue the syght pag. 198.35 To gette out the water out of swolne legs pag. 198.36 Aqua vite good for the eyes pag. 199.37 To ioygne or knyt wounds pag. 199.38 A water more precious then golde pag. 199.39 To cause a woman bee speedily delyuered pag. 200.40 A blessed water for the gowte pa. 200.41 To driue awaye Backes or Rearemyce pag. 201.42 To knowe whether you shall obtaine that thing you hope for or not pag. 201.43 A present helpe for the toothache pag. 201.44 To resolue the sorenes and swellings of the throate pag. 201.45 For the weaknes and paines in the backe pag. 202.46 To make one syng cleare and to haue a cleare voyce pag. 202.47 The straunge property of mints pa. 203.48 A daungerous howre to fall sycke in pag. 203.49 To breake a tooth and to take awaye the paine pag. 203.50 â—uido bonatus learnedly foretold a great daunger to the Emperour by his reuolucion pag. 203.51 A meruelous matter of a woman with châ—â—de pag. 204.52 A child borne in a certaine time wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler pag. 205.53 A perfet helpe for the Gowte pag. 205.54 To restore the deaffe to hearing pa. 205.55 A notable thing to stop the rewine p. 206.56 To help the Pocks in the eyes pa. 206.57 When the PhisitioÌ„ shall not profit the sick pag. 206.58 To make a toothe to fall out by the roote pag. 207.59 To restore one that is brought lowe pag. 207.60 A noble receate for the black Iaundyes pag. 208.61 Bettonye is meruelous good for the gowte pag. 208.62 An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomack pag. 208.63 To make gotes giue much milk p. 209.64 He that is borne at a certaine time wil be a maister Carpenter pag. 209.65 To cease the outragious paine of the gowt pag. 209.66 A most approoued medicine for the Gowt pag. 209.67 To catch Byrdes with your handes pag. 209.68 To make a woman be speedelye deliuered pag. 210.69 A true medicine for the Gowte pa. 210.70 To kindle a Candle and to burne in the water pag. 210.71 To make that a Ram shall not putte pag. 211.72 A good howre to fall syck in pag. 211.73 A present help for the tooth ache pa. 211.74 A warranted medicine for the Gowte pag. 211.75 A specyall medicine for all suddaine sicknesse pag. 211.76 A straunge