ij pippins number twelve raisins of the Sun ston'd â„¥ ij boile them in a quart of water to lb j. in the decoction infuse all night best sena â„¥ js rubarb Ê’ ij pulp of Cassia new drawn â„¥ s tamarinds â„¥ j. liquorish anise-seeds and coriander-seed eachÊ’ js the next morning straine it through a linnen cloth and to â„¥ viij of the straining addc â„¥ vj of white sugar boile it a little after adde to it manna dissolv'd in syrup of roses of each â„¥ ij and make a lenitive syrup dos â„¥ j. in succory water Or of pellitory of the wall with Ê’ j. of the juice of lemons For a pill your aloe rosata in a candid cherry the skin pull'd off is excellent It 's to be exhibited at sleeping time In the morning give of syrup of roses solutive â„¥ j. in posset-drink These and such like are to clear the first passages from impurities or excrementitious humours collected and compacted there which do not only if not removed infect the nourishment inward but dull or otherwise hinder the appropriate medicines From these we passe to the Preparatories which relate partly to the preparation of the humours partly to the wayes thorough which they are to be expell'd and partly to the passages themselves wherein they are contained and this is required most of all before purging medicines seldome before vomits the medicines are to be moderately hot unlesse a Fever be present also thinning opening and cutting as also have a peculiar respect to the parts affected as lungs liver head c. with which is to be mix't such things as are appropriate to the affect The simples are the capillaries especially wal-rue roots of osmond royal buds of male fearn-brake newly sprung up polypody harts-tongue liverwort ceterach agrimony doddar scabious betony leaves and barks of tamarisk bark of eaper roots roots of succory endive grasse sparagus myrobalons liquorish raisins prunes damascens Seeds of annise sweet fennel coriander caraway syrup of maiden-hair betony simple and compound syrup Byzantinus succory with rubarb eupatory five roots staechadis and harts-tongue Observe none of the simples have all the qualities necessary therefore compounds are necessary the barks of ash tamarisk and capers infused in midling beer and used is excellent five little buds of male fernbrake boil'd in lb s. of milk to â„¥ iij. drink it on an empty stomack in a morning This may be used to those used to milke One handful of the said buds male betony Harts-tongue liverwort of each Ms. Tamarisk flowers p. 1. corants â„¥ js with these and a chicken and oatmeal make some broth of which give to the childe â„¥ iiij in the morning and so much at foure a clock afternoon adding cream of tartar ℈ s. If you would have one effectual against pertinacious obstructions in the Mesenterie liver c. â„ž Maidenhaire liverwort agrimony doddor each Ms. roots of maâ—e fernbrake grass sparagus each â„¥ s. Cream tartar Ê’ j. liquorish Ê’s mace ℈ j. boyle them in lb ij of fountain water to lb j. of the decoction addeÊ’ iij. of white or renish wine syrup of Harts-tongue â„¥ js mixe them let the Patient take a draught of it as before If there be obstructions in the lungs â„ž Colts-foot maiden-hair harts-tongue liverwort each Ms. roots of sweet chervil and sparagus each â„¥ s. Spanish liquorish â„¥ js mace ℈ j. Raisins of the Sun ston'd â„¥ j. jujubes number 6. sebestens 8. two figs cut in pieces boyle them in lb ij of barley-water to a pound to which being strain'd adde syrup of maidenhair â„¥ js mixe them use it as before Or â„ž sweet wort lb ij liverwort maidenhaire harts-tongue scabious colts-foot feather-few each M. j. blew figs raisins of the Sun each lbs. cut in pieces liquorish anise-seeds eachÊ’ ij boyle them over a gentle fire nine houres strain it and keep it for use It 's good for the former If there be suspicion of the scurvy or french pox complicated â„ž zarzaperilla cut and well beaten â„¥ iij China harts-horn shavings ivory each â„¥ j. leaves of male betony liverwort scabious each M. iij. buds of fernbrake and osmond royal each â„¥ ij boyle them in foure gallons and a pottle of new ale for foure or five houres over a gentle fire then after some houres respite strain it thorough an hair sieve after put in of the juices of scurvy-grass and brooklime each lbs. barm it up after a due time draw forth for ordinary drink The next comes Elective purging remedies the matter having been prepared to expel it Now these concern partly the humours and partly the parts wherein they are lodged in each due regard is to be had to the spirits The most violent are rather to be relinquished or duly corrected or diminished in the dose It s safer to exhibit a little too little then the least measure too much therefore purging by degrees is better then to remove it at once They are to be suited according to the humours as also to the parrs affected and if there be not peculiar simple purging remedies to supplie to the parts then mixe such ingredients as are familiar to those parts Be sure you make choic of such purgers as are directly opposite to the essence of the disease amongst which rubarb is chief the former lenitives which may qualifie the violence of the stronger as Scammony agarick seeds of bastard saffron mechoachan jalap turbith Merc. dulc senna syrup of roses with agarick magistral against melancholy of apples diabalremer diacatholic confectio hamech benedicta laxativa Of these may be fram'd others answering every constitution c. as if choler abound â„ž rubarb poudered gr viij syrup of cichory with double quantity of rubarb Ê’ vj. syrup of roses solutiveÊ’ ij fernbrake water Ê’ vj. mixe them and make a potion For melancholy â„ž senny polypody epithymum eachÊ’ j. rubarb ℈ j. creame of tartar fennel seeds each ℈ j infuse all in a sufficient quantity of fumitory water to the strain'd infusion adde syrup magistral Ê’vj cynamon water drops 7 or aq epilept Lang. ℈ s. mixe them for a potion For flegmatick humours which are most usually offensive â„ž senny Ê’ js agarick trochis Ê’s fennel-seeds Ê’s camomile flowers 10. boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain water toÊ’ x. or â„¥ js of the decoction adde â„¥ s. orÊ’ vj. of syrup of roses solutive with agarick mannaÊ’ iij. make a potion To evacuate mixt humours as also those that are sharp and adust may from these medicines be fram'd suitable in case either the scurvy strumaes French-pox be complicated mercurie dulc is admirable And I had almost said in all the cases aforesaid being a panacea and if well prepar'd and discreetly given cannot be harmful onely let there be mixed with it either jalap or its Magistral or diagredium as â„ž mercurie dul gr viij diagred gr vij fol. Auri. N. j. f. pul give it in pap panadoes c. If you would have it in lozenges â„ž sweet mercuryÊ’j
the pox be epidemical and partake of great malignity To expel ℞ figs ℥ vij lentils skin'dʒ iij. gum lac ʒ ijs gum tragacanth and fennel-seed eachʒ ij boyle them in fountain-water till a third part be wasted and give of it to drink some adde saffron gr xv and currantsʒ v. the saffron fortifies and opens the currants fortifie the liver c. Or ℞ roots of fennel and sorrel each ℥ j. harts-horn shaved ℥ s. leaves of scabious scordium St. Johnswort each M j. figs N. 6. gum lac ʒ iij. napeseed and of carduus benedictus eachʒ ij lentiles skin'd ℥ s. gum tragacanth ʒ js boile them in fountain-fountaine-water to lb js take of the straining ℥ iij with ℥ j. of the syrup of lemons give it twice or thrice a day Or the following which is experimented and easie ℞ clear posset-drink of Ale lb j. boyle therein marigold flowers three spoonfuls figs sliced N. iij. citron seeds bruised N. xij a little saffron tied up in a fine linen cloth but let all be boil'd a good while after strain it and so give of it to drink daily till danger be past Or ℞ seeds of watercresses and columbines eachʒ j. shavings of harts-horn ʒs red coral and pearles prepar'd each ℈ j. make them into pouder and give aʒs orʒ j. decoct ficuum Minfich or Gascons powder with bezoar are excellent If malignity be very forcible as it 's common when the pox are epidemical then appoint alexipharmacons as confectio de hyacinth bezoar c. such as are appointed in maligne fevers and you are not to omit such cordials as fortifie both inward and outward parts this is to be observed medicines expelling are not to be used in all that 's sick for so it may cause the Pox to come forth too violently and here the ebullition of the blood is to be contemperated lest it procure death To bridle which ℞ barley p. 1. roots of five leaf and tormentil each ℥ j. leaves of sorrel endive and wood sorrel each M. j. lentils skin'd ℥ s. gum tragacanth ʒ j. boile them in water lb ij to lb j. in the straining dissolve syrup of lemons or citrons ℥ iiij make a julep for foure times to be taken twice a day For ordinary drink use barley-water and sorrel-roots which continue until the heat be somewhat remitted and after that use such as expel The third work is to defend the parts which are either inward as the guts liver and spleen which are defended with the first decoction the lungs are secured with conserve of roses violets syrup of jujebs violets myrtles and of dri'd roses also this ℞ syrup of violets jujebs and dri'd roses each ℥ j. syrup of poppies ℥ s. mixe them using it oft licking it by degrees from a spoon Or ℞ lent skin'd and finely beatenʒ iij white poppy seed ℈ j. conserve of roses ℥ ij julep of roses sufficient to make a looch If a violent flux rush into the lungs and procure hoarsenesse and suffocation the foresaid remedies are not only to be used but it 's to be revell'd by cups with and without scarifications and bleeding if necessary but with mature consideration In this case for ordinary drink is to be given the decoction of barley jujebs and liquorish or this ℞ seeds of marsh-mallowes mellons gourds and white poppies eachʒ ij raisins cleansed and jujebs each N. viij boile them in lb ij of water till half be wasted in which dissolve conserve of roses and violets each ℥ s. species diatragacanth frigid ʒ iij. sugar candy and of roses each sufficient to make a licking The roof of the mouth and throat may be defended before the Pox break forth with this ℞ French barley p. 1. leaves of plantain M ij red roses p. 1. pomegranate-flowers seed of sumach eachʒij boile them in lb ij of water till the third part be wasted in the straining dissolve syrup of raspis and pomegranates each ℥ j. mixe them and make a gargarisme If children be so young as that they cannot use a gargarism then use a lambative of syrup of mulberries pomegranates or of dri'd roses either alone or mixt with rose-water which use oft in a spoon If the flux from the abundance cannot be stayed and so danger of suffocation be threatened To lubrifie the passages and help excretion use this ℞ mucilage of fleawort-seeds and oile of sweet Almonds new drawn each ℥ js white sugar candy ℥ ij mixe them and make a lincture giving it every hour If through the acrimony of the flux or abundance of Pox the mouth be ulcerated it 's to be cleansed with barley-water and honey of roses or alum-water Or this I have used successefully water-vineger so mixt that it offend not by its acrimony sweetening of it with sugar if these ulcers grow putrid to the former may be added mel Aegyptiacum i. e. the honey-part that flows on the top of the unguent Outward parts are especially the eyes which are chiefly to be preserved from the Pox for they being endued with a soft and humid substance the matter of the Pox is easily driven to them whence most grievous evils happen yea sometimes losse of sight it self therefore before they break forth or whilest they begin to appear moisten the eyes with the waters of plantaine and roses in which a little saffron hath been dissolv'd Or this which preserves powerfully ℞ waters of roses and plantain each ℥ js powder of the seeds of sumachʒ ij infuse them and strain them hot with many expressions to the straining adde camphor ℈ s. saffron gr v. and make a colyrium which will be more effectual if in stead of the waters the juice of plantain shepherds purse be purifi'd and mixed with the rest If the pustles do begin to arise in the eye it self doves blood is oft to be drop't in that they may speedily be dissolv'd Or ℞ rose water ℥ j. of eye-bright ℥ s. troch alb Rhasis ʒ j. tutia prepar'd ℈ j. camphire gr v. saffron gr iij. make an eye-water with which moisten the eye very often with a fine rag If the eyes be so tumifi'd that they cannot be open'd they are to be wash't oft with a decoction of the seeds of lin fenugreek quinces and mallowes or warme milk If in the eye there seem to be clouds they are to be clensed with sugar candy most finely powdered If the eye be ulcerated ℞ white lead wash't ʒ iij. sarcocol ʒ j. gum tragacanth ℈ j. opium gr ij with mucilage of gum tragacanth drawn with plantaine make troches which dissolve in womens milk or rose-water to use To preserve the nose use noduls of sanders and camphire dipt in rose-vineger or smell oft to vineger alone or make tents which dip in the colyrium made with juice of plantain and shepherds purse and put them up the nose If for all this the Pox be got into the nose that the crusts may fall quickly anoint them with oyle of sweet almonds if there happen ulcers apply
from thence the liver and other parts weakened by cold It s to be dissolved in cordial liquours if given inwardly Dose to ʒ ij if outwardly applied it s to be mixed in waters unguents c. Bol. Orientalis or East-bole It greatly binds dries strengthens It s use is most excellent in staying fluxes thickening humours hindering putrefaction and resisting venome in which account its diarrhea's dysenteries menstrual flux bleeding at the nose wounds c it s outwardly to be used by way of cataplasmes Dose to ʒ j. inwards Camphire It resists putrefaction and venenofity hence oft used in maligne diseases as feavers c. It dulls ♀ and if credited hinders conception ʒs of it made into a powder with ℥ s. of sal prunel and divided into four parts and given in cooling juleps every third houre is gallant as to quench violent heat in malign feavers so also to resist malignity and quench thirst its good in gonorrhea outwardly it easeth pain in the head used in frontals paine of the teeth stopp't with it agues if in a nodula smelt to and is good in gangrenes and inflammations Confectio Alkermes It heats in the end of the second degree vehemently strengthens the heart and chears it regenerates all spirits in great quantity removes maligne putrefaction and so preserves and defends all the inward parts its helpful in melancholy diseases swooning beating of the heart pestilent and maligne feavers It 's profitable against venome and against the bitings of virulent creatures and hastens birth given with cynamon-water to the quantity of ʒ j Dose to ʒ js Confectio de Hyacintho It s temperate in quality and hath a most gallant faculty to strengthen the heart after that the stomack and liver and by reason of its cardiack and alexipharmick quality it produceth spirits in great plenty and extinguisheth all venemous qualities hence it helps admirably in venemous affects especially in pestilent malignant and spotted feavers is a remedy against all bites of venemous creatures Dose is to ʒ js dissolved in cordial liquours or juleps Prepared Coral It bindes cooles dries and strengthens peculiarly the heart then the stomack and liver purifies the blood good against the plague venemous and maligne feavers stays all fluxes of the belly womb yard prevents gonorhea as also the falling sicknesse if given when new born in its mothers milk to gr x. before any thing else it fixes the spirits is good in the Rickets the tincture made of ℥ vi grossely beaten in juice of lemons in B. M. for foure dayes after separated from the faeces is admirable to cool and strengthen the liver Outwardly its good in ulcers to incarne and cicatrize and in Colyrium to recreate the sight and stop watering of the eyes Burnt harts-horne prepared It resists putrefaction stayes fluxes of the belly kills wormes moves sweat and is a very familiar medicine in Infants It s excellent in juleps for feavers in all sorts and all sorts of people It s good in jaundice paine of the bladder and flux of the wombe for a julep Take of it ℥ j. water three quarts boile them till a quart be wasted after remove it from the fire and adde syrup of lemons ℥ iij. rose-rose-water ℥ iiij sugar to sweeten it and some drops of spirit of vitriol Creamo tartar It cuts and thins thick and tartarous humours especially those heaped up in the first region of the body therefore profitably given in obstructions of the spleen mesentery reines and hypochondries It s used as a catholick digestion and so given before catharticks yea if a gr or two of diagridium or gum gutta be mixed with it loosens the belly Dose is from ʒs to ʒj or ʒ ij Diaireos It comforts the brest is good in cold coughs and hoarsenesse you may mixe it with any pectoral syrup appropriated to the same disease and so take it with a liquorish stick Diamargariton frigid It s of a cooling quality extinguishing the heat of blood and choler hath an excellent faculty to strengthen the stomack liver brain especially the heart so restores the vital spirits in great quantity defends the noble parts from all putrefaction removes maligne feavers helps in cardiack affects is a remedy in the trembling of the heart is a restorative in Consumption helps in Hecticks coughs asthma's and restores such as have long laboured under languishing and pining diseases Dose to ʒ ij Diarrhodon Abbatis It a little heats yet dries and marvellously strengthens the liver and all the inward parts helping their concoction helpeth also in feavers from phlegme in which it hath great force although there be mixed therewith cholerick humours It s inwardly in powder dissolved in Hen-broth or cordial julep or in tablets Outwardly in epithems or unguents and so it strengthens the stomack helps concoction discusseth winde and stirs up appetite Diatragacanthum frigidum It lenifieth the winde-pipe easily procures spitting is very profitable in affects of the breast and winde-pipe helps consumptions leannesse inflammation of the sides pleurisies inflammation of the lungs stayes the flux to those parts Dose to ʒ ij in tablets Floure of brimstone It resists putrefaction dries provokes sweat hence profitable in the plague and pestilential feavers whether to cure or preserve helps in catarrhs affects of the lungs coughs consumptions asthmas c. Dose from ʒs to ʒj To preserve exceed not ℈ s. Bezoar stone It strengthens moves sweat is alexipharmick hence profitable in the plague vertigo falling sicknesse swooning beating of the heart jaundice collick bloody flux wormes stone obstruction of the courses difficulty of birth melancholy green sicknesse excellent in maligne feavers and venome Dose from gr iii. to xii or ℈ i. yea Zacutus gave ʒ j. and succeeded when the Patient was hopelesse Prepared Pearles It s cool hath a cardiack force therefore strengthens the heart and defends it and the rest of the principal parts serving to nutrition bridles the heat of blood and choler resists malignity therefore hath an admirable faculty in maligne pestiferous and burning feavers it cheares the spirit excellently Dose to ʒ iii. Mithridate It heats dries attenuates incides powerfully opens obstructed passages of the brain and strengthens admirably the rest of the inward parts moves the courses discusseth winde provokes urine heats and evacuates cold humours in the head oppressed with cold juice its helpful in fits of the falling-sicknesse the palate being anointed is happily given in the plague pestiferous and venemous diseases in paine of the collick and of the stomack from a cold cause yea also in vehement pains of the gums being therewith anointed it helps continual waterings of the stomack ulcers in the body consumptions weaknesse of the limbs provokes appetite casts out the dead birth and helps such women as cannot conceive by reason of cold is admirable in melancholy inwardly it may be taken of it self in a bole or dissolved in liquours outwardly mixed with oyle of scorpion to provoke urine and courses Dose to ʒ ii you
to be cold and moist for being drawn in it contemperates the heat of the heart yet it is naught to lay naked the body to its encounter for it may hinder evaporation by keeping in the sweat and vapours yet they are onely to be covered with light and soft things here wool-beds or quilts are better then fetherbeds and if the feverish heat be much it is fit they be covered with leather the bed is to be large that therein the sick may change places The linnen and other cloathes are oft to be changed so that they be not newly washed smell of washing or shifted at time of Crisis in which nothing is to be removed lest the motion of nature be disturbed The Rayes of the Sunne are to be shut out and much company shunned Poure water oft from one vessel to another besprinkle the pavement with water and vineger or rose-water or cold herbs and flowers as violets willow-leaves water-lilies and roses changing them oft in a day for being dry they heat If there be too much coldnesse as in winter it 's to be temperated with a little fire without smoak In fevers from phlegme the Aire ought to be meanly hot and dry For Aliments in acute fevers they ought to be thin the diligence of the Ancients was much in this appointing it as the greatest part of the cure and if the fever of the sick be most acute they commended the diet most thin nourish the sick only with barley Ptisans as the most fit which cooles humects and together attenuates opens and hinders no evacuation These Ptisans are double one called simple not strained the other is and is called Cremor Hord. the barley is to be boyled in water But now what through the obstinacy of the patient and the indulgency of the Physician in what fever soever though never so acute leave is given to take broths made of chickens capons mutton and that every third or fourth hour in these are boyled cooling herbs as Lettice Endive Purslain Sorrel the broth may be also mixed with juice of limons oranges or citrons if the feverish heat be great and the putrifaction be intense In fevers lesse acute Panatello's may be given 2 or three a day made of bread and broth also Hordeats with broth and sugar or without broth adding sweet Almonds but that often troubling the stomack it is better to use simple broths and Panatella's yet it is very profitable to boyle flesh adding barley and so prepare broths In long fevers a fuller diet may be admitted as the flesh of pullets veale hens capons partridges and mutton or any of them contused and boyled into jelly is fit but observe they must not be given in the fit but when the fever is remitted yet if the fit be long they may be permitted in the declining thereof in all continual fevers a Ptisan of barley and licorish is good to which if the fever be hot adde lettice sorrel Tamarinds c. and to these is wont oft to be added rad gram vel acetos In long fevers adde rad foenicul petroselini sem Anisi coriand aut cinam If the stomack be weak and offended ℞ ptisan vulg ex Hord. liquirit lb ij spir sulph q. s ad gratam aciditatem C. C. usti ℥ j. utatur pro potu ordinario vas usûs tempore agitando or aq panata alone or sweetened with sugar or mixt with a little vineger or water alone boyled that the crudities thereof may be removed with which mixe sometimes sugar as also the juice or Syrup of limons pomegranates barberries cherries or Spir. vitriol aut sulphur q. s ad gratam aciditatem or Sal prunellae a little if you would cool more powerfully also water wherein are infused Tamarinds barberries or prunes the decoction of prunes or boyl barley with Tamarinds and towards the end add Santal citri cinam which drink doth not only quench thirst but looseth the belly and strengtheneth and cooleth the liver ℞ Sacchar fin ℥ viij Sal. prunel ℥ j. f. pul permiscendus ptisan pro potu to which if thirst be great adde spir vitriol This is to be observed ☜ that Spir. vitriol sulphuris is to be much used in putrid fevers both of them having a notable force in cooling opening resisting putrefaction prohibits humour from inflaming and quencheth thirst but yet in Pleuritis peripneumonia haemoptoe phthisis and the rest of the affects of the lungs unlesse the vessels thereof obstructed have risen from crasse phlegm inflammation of the stomack Dysenteria sangu mict the ulcers of the reines and bladder hurt much and therefore in such cases to be forborne In fevers from bile very thin and hot or joyned with a thin and sharp distillation sharp things are not fit but rather those which gently incrassate as Syr. viol rof sicc cum aq Hord. vel panata vel cocta simpliciter permixtus when tough and thick humours abound Syr. acetosus in the place of the foresaid will be most profitable Sometimes may be used conser viol buglos c. boyled in water and drawne through a bag adding some drops of Spir. vitriol Or prepare a Tincture of roses for in colour and taste it is most pleasant as ℞ ros rub sicc ℥ j. aq tepi lb. iij. spirit sulph ʒ j s. aut vitriol infund per 3. vel 4. hor. frigidae colatur add sacch alb ℥ iiij aq ros lb. s. f. julep clarum pro potu ordinario in the same manner may other tincture of flowers be made Julep Alexandr is not a little profitable and most pleasant as ℞ aq fontan lb. j. aq ros succ limon sacc alb ana ℥ iiij coq lento igne dum despumaverint Sleep is very profitable watching hurtful yet too much sleep overwhelmes the native heat and hinders the evacuation of excrements Rest is necessary in acute fevers but in longer light exercise is profitable and oft to be used lest that which according to nature ought to be expelled be retained although all immoderate evacuations which exhaust the strength are to be stayed and all vehement perturbations of the minde are to be shunned CHAP. II. De Symptomat Febrium SYmptomes accompanying fevers are divers but they are ordinarily more powerful and vehement in putrids and therefore they require the next place to be handled The remedies prescribed accommodating the disease may remove some but others must come under peculiar consideration such as oft more molest then the disease it selfe Pain of the head watching and light-headednesse are cured almost with one and the same remedies i. e. with revellers repellers derivers resolvers and anodyns For to revell or draw back use glisters emollient and loosing gentle purging bleeding cups and washings of the feet To beat back use frontals oxyrrhod unguents or liniments To derive open the veines of the forehead and use vesicatories And to resolve use oiles and Animals the which also are anodyns with these are to be exhibited proper Juleps
of the body have scabs wheals pimples or itch come after this affect hopeful They who attaine to the consistence of the disease escape the danger if carefully lookt to The declination of the symptomes promiseth good If the disease continue long it easily procures a Phthisick unlesse some other affect or grievous symptome do intervene as convulsion loud cough swelling of the lungs vulgarly call'd the rising of the lights a continual Feaver Pleurisie and so kill Infants who have had red-haired women to their nurses have been most obnoxious to this affect This disease chiefly invades the cradles of the gentry especially those who live at ease and fare deliciously They whose thigh shankbones are much encreased rather according to latitude thickness then according to longitude for the most part become dwarfs Whosoever are not perfectly cured before the first five yeares of their age be spun out they afterward for the most part live miserable and fickly and being either Asthmatical Cachectical or Phthisical they die before they arrive to the consistence of their age or else they grow deform'd crooked and dwarfish Cure Diet is to be good and easy of concoction Although the essential parts of this disease be various yet may they all be met with by medicines temperately hot and dry And although the spirits prohibit all extreme hot things yet they allow of moderate Being the disease is great and the spirits admit not a suitable remedy it must be divided and given by turnes that is purge by degrees For the Chirurgical Cure The most used and effectual is to divide the ridge that crosseth over the eare a little above the hole stopping the hole with lint It 's to be done in both eares twice or thrice reiterated Some say in a week I have done it succesfully once a moneth it 's to be done with a blunt knife that the nerve usually burnt for paine in the teeth may be divided This I have known succesful when all other means have been fruitlesse This particularly evacuates the head by which the blood is corrected and hereby in some measure the astonishment of the parts is driven away Remember universals are to precede Some highly commend issues If the disease cannot be conquered by other meanes it 's to be made in the neck by incision yet I have known some after by reason of the paine have been lesse gamesome If with the Rickets an acute disease be complicated vesicatories are to be used in the neck moderate ligatures may be used swathing of some parts with boulsters are to be used as ankles knees c. For the Physical Cure be sure let the first wayes be first wash't from their impurities which is done either by 1. Glisters 2. Vomits or 3. Lenitive purgers The first is required chiefly when the belly is costive and excrements hardened when windie humours torment the guts or some vehement paine in the bowels afflict the Patient In these cases they are not only to be injected before preparation but also before a vomit or a lenitive purge They are frequently fram'd of gentle purgers sometimes only of such things as have a faculty only to make the wayes slippery and to expel the winde Never of strong Catharticks They are to be injected warme or luke-warme After long abstinence from meat take some formes â„ž new milke warm'd â„¥ iij. foure five or six Coriander-seeds bruised ℈ s. course sugar â„¥ j. syr viol Ê’ vj. mixe them and make a glister This I have experimented in case of winde excellent as also in old the quantity being increased The Doctors in stead of the Coriander use Anise-seed ℈ s. This I know the powder of new anise-seeds being very fine and mix'd with pap c. and given by the mouth to a childe a day or two or more after it 's borne purgeth gallantly removing a green matter impacted in the intestines which torments the childe A sufficient quantity of the emollient decoction with lenitive electuary â„¥ s. syr of roses solutive and syrup of violets eachÊ’vj oyl of Camomile â„¥ j. mixt will serve Or â„ž Althea-roots beaten â„¥ s. melilot-flowers Ê’ij mallow-flowers as also of mullin eachÊ’ j. bayle them in whey sufficient quantity to â„¥ iiij or five straine it adde red sugar â„¥ s man calab Ê’ iij. oyle of Camomile â„¥ s. mingle them and make a glister But to passe to Emeticks these are excellent and procure many advantages if considerately administred and the dose fitly proportioned otherwise dangerous they are to be forborne unlesse the humours incline upward of their owne accord and the children are either naturally or customarily apt to vomit or can easily endure it Also if they spit blood use to bleeding at the nose or any internal opening of the veins tyssick and consumption if the vomits be vehement therefore they are either to be gentle in their own nature or if vehement be corrected and given in a lesse dose I have known given to children white copperas of it self which hath wrought well and securely the salt of it is excellent from five to ten grains dissolv'd in convenient liquour Your juice of Asarabacca is more churlish so is infusion of glasse of Antimony more crabbed then that of crocus metallorum the last may be infused either in sack or white-wine made in a cold place and well purified Dose from Ê’ j. toÊ’ ij to which adde syrup of five roots Ê’ j. dissolving them in posset-drink to which adde cynamon-cynamon-water ten drops or if you feare Convulsion fits aq ante pilepti Lang. drink it warme Or â„ž the tops of groundsel Ms. raisins â„¥ j. ale a pinte boil them together till the halfe be wasted to â„¥ iij. of the strained liquor adde syrup of vineger simple â„¥ s. mixe them and drink them luke-warm Some administer vineger of squills with some oxymel of the same from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls Lenitives work without tumult and therefore require not such care as vomits or strong purgers only let them not be nauseous to the stomach lest they procure loathing of all other medicines nor oppresse the stomach by their too great quantity and lest they vomit them up presently let the mouth be moistened with pleasant liquour or use sugar candid cherries preserv'd barberries or the juice of oranges c. The Lenitives are either simple as manna cassia fistula aloes succotrina tamarinds oake-foarn rooâ—s jujubes sebestens sweat prunes and damascens figs dates pap of rosted apple whey c. These are to be mix't with other catharticks otherwise they wil not satisfie or Compound as Cassia drawn either with or without sena diacassia lenitive electuary electuary of raisins common purging decoction syrup and honey of violets syrup of roses solutive c. Or â„ž best mannaÊ’ vj. cream of tartar gr 6. dissolve them in posset-ale in which a few anise-seeds have been boil'd â„¥ js mixe them and give them in the morning Or â„ž polypody of the oak â„¥ ij cream of tartar Ê’
magistral of jalap ℈ j. white sugar dissolv'd in betony waterÊ’ iij. or â„¥ s. make them into lozenges according to art of the weight ofÊ’ j. or ℈ ijs of which administer one at a time it will not be amisse if you adde Confect Alkermes ℈ j. if they be very weak If you would have pills use aloe rosata with which if you please you may admix rubarb If the childe be greedy of drink â„ž of rubarbÊ’ js raisins of the sun the stones pict out Ms. of ordinary ale lb j. infuse them for twelve houres straine it if your purses will not reach the best rubarb a double quantity of our English may perhaps be better And here we take our leave of purging medicines and come to specifick altering medicines which are to be used the causes of the disease having been prepared and in part evacuated or at least so subdued that for the present they cannot retard the cure Now these are directly contrary to the nature of the disease and are either 1. Simple Or 2. Compound The first are roots or rather the spike of the roots of osmond royal the middle being thrown away the roots of male fernbrake or rather the little buds before they peep forth out of the earth Roots of grasse succory sparagus madder eringo All the maiden hairs ceterach harts-tongue liverwort betony the flowers and leaves of dead nettles borrage sage rosemary tamarisk southernwood sea wormwood greater Celendine saffron turmerick sarsaparil sassafras china 3. Sanders guaiacum and its bark flower of brimstone ivory prepar'd steel white and Renish wine sperma ceti musk ambergreece castory earth-worms liver of frogs and young ravens woodlice washt in whitewine bak'd in an oven and beaten to pouder And note because none of these simples distinct do meet with all the causes of the disease therefore they are duly to be compounded and made fit for the disease And be sure it be so performed that they be grateful to nature and pleasing to the sick childe I shall give you one with which I cur'd many in Northampton-shire Nottingam-shire and Warwick shire â„ž Ceterach maidenhaire each Mij Scurvygrasse Tamarisk each Ms. Harts-tongue liverwort Mijs China sliced two spoonfuls anise-seeds liquorish each â„¥ j shavings of ivory and harts-borne eachÊ’ vj. boile them all in three gallons of new midling-wort to the consumption of the third part after strain it barme it up after it 's ready drink of it morning at four a clock in the afternoon and in the night if drink be call'd for yea at all times Or â„ž rosemary Ms. liverwort scabious Agrimony Maiden haire each M j. Speedwell Miij roots of osmond â„¥ iiij or rather the spikes of the roots Currants Mj anise-seeds fourspoonfuls boile all in three quarts of water till half be wasted straine it adding fugar-candy to sweeten it and pouder of red sanders and roots of oris tied up in a fine cloth Or â„ž Ceterach â„¥ j. Maidenhair M. j. anise-seed â„¥ j liquorish â„¥ j raisins of the sun ston'd and Currants each â„¥ ij liverwort harts-tongue woodsorrel each M. j. Malefern-buds â„¥ ij shavings of harts-horne â„¥ ij of ivory â„¥ j. boile them in three gallons of wort to the third part and use as before Or â„ž liverwort maidenhair each M. j. Harts tongue speedwell each M. s. pennyroial p. ij raisins ston'd â„¥ iij. Liquorish â„¥ j. boile them in fountaine water till halfe be wasted to which adde whitewine a pint and common treacle a penniworth white sugar candy â„¥ ij drink of it as before These have all been proved sufficiently If therewith a consumpâ—ion be complicated use this â„ž liverwort coltsfoot Jerusalem cowslips each M. js maidenhair agrimony scabious each M. j. french barley â„¥ iiij pearmaines N. 20. snailes N. 30 shaved liquoris â„¥ j. raisins ston'd â„¥ ij shavings of harts-horne and ivory each â„¥ iij boyle them all in six quarts of spring water in a vessell well stopt till half be wasted after strain it and sweeten it with honey or sugar candy drink of it as before If you would have one proper for the pox or strumaes complicated for the first drink take this of the Doctors â„ž sarsaparilla cut and beaten â„¥ iiij China sliced â„¥ ij infuse them in seven pintes of spring water for twelve houres after boile them till half be wasted then adde the roots of sassafras and osmond royal leaves of harts-tongue ceterach maidenhair dead nettle each M. s. Spanish liquoris Ê’ ij mace Ê’ j. boile them to lb. iij. to the decoction adde honey or sugar â„¥ iij. drink it ordinarily â„ž flowers of tamarisk M. j. male Pauls betony M s. bruise them gently and infuse them in two pound of ordinary beer cold in a stone or glasse flaggon well stopt with cork for ordinary beer Broths may be made with some of the foresaid simples a chicken hen old cock c. and some oate-meale panadoes with the broths grated bread adding butter and sugar and the yolk of an egge you may adde a little saffron with these may be mixed proper pouders made of the best tasted of the same simples as of woodlice livers of frogs or young ravens to be prepared as before Dos is from ℈ s. to ℈ j. of the pouders may be fram'd electuaries with honey sugar dissolv'd or syrup You have choice of all in the Doctors Tract They may be used for change although I beleeve your drinks will be more acceptable go down with lesse trouble and be as if not more efficacious Thus having shew'd how to combate with the disease We come now to take order with the Symptomes In which consider if they be eminent and grievous leave the true method of cure to resist them These are flux of the belly profuse sweats painful breeding teeth and tooth-ach The first of these falls out often which if it persevere for long time or if very violent easily wastes the spirits and consumeth the solid parts It 's true a bloody flux rarely happens a lientery often With which there is a concurrence of other causes as ill digestion feaver watching wormes painful breeding teeth c. all which rather procure a lask or lientery rather then a bloody flux or Dysentery For Cure it 's partly perfected by purgations partly by astringent medicines partly by such as open partly by such as strengthen the parts For purgers rubarb is most excellent either taken in a bole with conserve of roses made up with syrup of coral Dose of rubarb ℈ s. to ℈ j. in pouder well dri'd at the fire The same pouder ℈ s in saxifrage water â„¥ j. with syrup of dri'd roses and quinces of each Ê’ ij may be made a potion Observe first if the flux have not been long or immoderate and the peccant matter be much use instead of the foresaid syrups the syrup of roses solutive Augustan or succory with rubarb but rather which is safest augment the dose of rubarb not omitting the syrup of dri'd roses In the evening
after the purgation administer ℈ s. of diascordium boild in wine with cloves and a little cynamon mixed with a third part of corne poppy water and some syrup of clove gilly flowers to strengthen the stomack and stay the flux To procure sleep ℞ white wine posset-drink aromatized with a little saffron tied up in a rag crushing it gently between your fingers confectio Alkermes ℈ j. pouder of pomegranate pills gr vij diacodium ʒij mix them Or ladanum gr s. Magistral of coral gr xij Conserve of red roses ℈ j with sufficient quantity of syrup of quinces make a bole take at bed time If there be obstructions you may prescribe Crocus martis or salt of steele to be taken in the morning As ℞ Conserve of red roses ℥ j. preserv'd succory roots preserv'd myrabolans each ℥ s. salt of steele ℈ s. or crocus martis ℈ j. cynamon liquoris red coral each gr viij saffron gr js syrup of succory without rubarb sufficient quantity and make an electuary dos ʒ s. Every morning in its ordinary drink quench red hot iron for the same purpose If the childe be troubled with a violent flux you may give it conserve of slows mixing it with such things as the childe delights to eat being sure to please its palate For profuse sweating which wastes the spirits and retards the cure be cautious you do not rashly restrain it especialy if a Feaver feaverish fit or immoderate heat hath preceded for then it either may be critical or may bring more advantage to the body then damage to the spirits for nothing more sweetly and potently expelleth feaverish heat then sweating But if it be inordinate and causelesse arguing the body oppressed with obstructions crude juices and unprofitable superfluities it's to be corrected For which there 's nothing more fit then purging by which the superfluities are removed draws them off from their former motion and clears the way for opening medicines such as strengthen the skin and move forward concoction Amongst purgers in this also rubarb is a none such Thus it may be used ℞ rubarb sliced ʒ ij Raisins ston'd and slit ℥ j. small beer two pintes put them in a vessel stopt with corck Set it in a very cold place and stir it oft before you use it let it settle again a whole day then use the liquor for ordinary drink When the vessel 's empty fill it again with beer to the same rubarb To these may be call'd in former electuar purgations Those that are opening are French and Renish wine which are to be mix'd with borage or red rose water or temperated with rosted apples adding a little sugar and grated nutmeg let them be taken in a lesser quantity onely at meals For steele so highly commended must be cautiously used and a man of reason although vers'd in the Latin when he hath well weighed the Doctors caution it seemes he must come to them or else it cannot be regularly used which doth either proclaime the imperfection of their cautions or else that they have monopolized all others wit within their Craniums If I misse not of their meaning as it 's to be forborne where there 's a catharre cough obstructions of the lungs peripneumonia pleurisie spitting blood or pronenesse to them as also in acute Feavers so it 's not to be used but in the beginning of the disease and beginning of the increase for in the rest of the times there 's usually a considerable Oligotrophy of the parts and as to my simple observation who have seen many I seldom have observ'd superfluous sweats till there hath appear'd an evident Oligotrophy of the parts Other openers although of less note in children may be effectual or else why used in weak men successefully are roots of succory borage conserve of their flowers roots of grasse sparagus fernbrake maddar leaves of ceterach spleenwort maidenhair Among the compounds species of the three sanders diarrhodon abbatis As ℞ best sugar ℥ iij dissolve it in rose water boiling it a little beyond the consistence of a syrup adde then conserve of barberries ℥ j. diatrion santal diarrh abbat eachʒ j. pouder of saffron gr 1. mix them and make an electuary Painful breeding and aching of the teeth is the last mentioned these producing Feavers unquietnesse watchings and other evils require mitigation If paine be caused by its working through the gum without delay if not done before evacuate universally First by vomit which is a potent remedy against tooth-ach It may be mov'd by tickling the throat either with a feather or with the nurses finger or else rubbing the tooth breaking forth with a tobacco leaf wrapt about the nurses finger and a little moistened with beer or lastly by giving some vomiting draught formerly prescribed The day following use a Cathartick after use topicals as rubbing the gums with coral yea rather with the root of marsh mallows which is farre better or this ointment ℞ butter without salt ℥ iij. grease of capon and ducks eachʒ ij red poppies ʒ j. boile them in the juice of crab-fish bruised and drawn forth with water of sea-wormwood french mallow-roots eachʒ ij to the consumption of the juices after strain them adding white sugar candy ℥ iiij nutmeg ℈ j. one yolk of an egge mixe them and make a balsome You are to anoint the gums oft with it it mollifies and thins the gums easeth paine causeth the teeth to come forth easily and oft may deliver from death If universals prevaile not use opiats especially when watchings are troublesom as ℞ diascord gr vij diacodium ʒ ij white-wine posset drink tinctur'd with saffron ʒ j. give it at bed time the night following the purgation Or ℞ laudani gr s. gascoins powder ℈ s. adde conserve of clove gilli flowers ℈ j. with syrup of balme make a bole let it be swallowed at sleeping time We are at last arrived at external remedies and those whether exercises or outward applications are to follow after purgations and to be used with specificks For exercises which children that have the Rickets are extreamly averse unto especially those that are violent You are to begin with those more gentle they are to lie on their sides unlesse in case of much weakness from diseases rocking in cradles is good if very weak unlesse in time of sleep carrying about and tossings and wavings of it to and fro holding it either by the hands rather if weak under the arm-pits swinging it is very beneficiall fit rollings are good also playings tempting them to the use of their feet walking is helpful if they be strong and their joynts be knit otherwise not hanging of the body frictions are excellent this last is to go before and in the application of outward medicines beginning at the back-bone the child being laid on his belly thrusting your fingers under the short ribs and so hinder the growing of the liver a great cause of the Rickets But leaving these we come to outward applications
may take ℈ i. or ʒs in the morning and follow your businesse Diascordium It s helpful in pestilential diseases may supply the place of theriaca especially in those which cannot bear the other as in children and breeding women it s a remedy in maligne feavers and is adverse to venome and venemous diseases it sustains the vital faculty strengthens the animal and begets plenty of all spirits it provokes the courses facilitates and speeds labour it stops fluxes strengthens the stomack and procures sleepe therefore good in such feavers where there is want of sleep Dose from ℈ s to ʒ j. Theriaca Londinensis It s cordial resists the plague and is a good preservative in pestilential times resists poison strengthens cold stomacks helps digestion removes crudities Dose ʒij Opium It quiets the unquiet and seditious motion of the spirits procures sleep easeth paine not to be used inwardly without preparation outwardly its profitable in unguents Laudanum opiat It s a gallant anodyne seldome frustrates expectation for it helps without molestation or any trouble of the brain against all paines from whatsoever cause arising against all hemorrhoids or fluxes of blood in what part of the body soever against all defluxions therefore ½ gr excellent in chin-cough against all fluxes of the belly dysenterick hepatick lienterick c. it procures admirably rest in feavers and bridles the impetuosity of the humours its excellens in madnesse melancholy vomiting falling sicknesse hiccough collick weaknesse of the stomack pleurisie all kinde of gout and stone Dose from gr j. to iij. or iiij by degrees I have given six it s to be given the body having been evacuated Mecorium As opium is a distillation from the plant incised so this is the juice thickened by decoction which being well prepared is excellent in the effects in opium described c. Theriac Andromac This being in little use and theriac Lond. as a substirute put in room of it we shall say little only look the vertues of ◠ithridatè Philonium Romanum It cooles in the third degree powerfully induceth stupefaction stirs up deep sleep is very profitable in intense pains in what part soever Shaving of Harts-horne It s cordial resisting venome cheareth the heart dispelleth winde easeth the collick opens obstructions killeth wormes helps the jaundice easeth pains in the reines and bladder drives forth the small pox and measles Sal Prunellae Dissolved in convenient liquors or ordinary beer its excellent in burning putrid feavers especially those called spotted its good in pleurisies with red poppy-poppy-water as also in inflammation of the lungs for the stone in the kidneys or bladder given in vulgar ptisan or in pellitary-pellitary-water with syrup of French mallowes nothing better It helps in obstruction of the liver and meseraicks It extinguisheth thirst is good in inflammations of the mouth and squinance dissolved in gargarismes it easeth paines and cureth scalds or burns dissolved in proper liquour and applied Note it s not to be given in loosnesses Dose from ℈ ij to ℈ iv Tartar vitriolatum It s a most excellent digestive resolveth tartarous humours most effectully hence most profitably given in obstructions of the bowels meseraick veines good in all Feavers especially quartanes and in obstruction of the courses Dose from ℈ s. to ℈ j. Sealed earth It dries bindes resists putrefaction and venome resolves grumous blood comforts the heart and head dilates the blood therefore moveth sweat It s used especially in the plague malign feavers diarrhea dysentery in venemous bitings outwardly in wounds especially maligne as also venemous bites The fourth CLASSIS are Aromatick which with their vertues follow Calamus Aromaticus or sweet garden flag It s especially used in affects of the wombe and pains of the sinewes it provokes urine strengthens the lungs helps bruises resists poison Dose if given inward is ʒs Cloves They have a notable peculiar cordial cephalick and stomacaical quality They profit in fainting tooth-ach crudities of the stomack vertigo they also qualifie maligne and uterine diseases stop loosnesse help digestion provoke lust and quicken the sight Hot and dry in the third For fainting ʒs Of those withʒ j. of cynamon and xv graines of galingal beat and boiled with halfe a pinte of rose-rose-water in B.M. for three houres is excellent Cynamon It opens discusseth moves the courses cheareth the parts refresheth all the spirits and bowels helps concoction used oft in faintings and in cold affects of the head stomack and wombe procures urine speedy delivery resists poison good in defluxions on the lungs dropseys Crocus or Saffron It s proper to the heart and lungs good for the wombe and familiar to the rest of the bowels It opens cleanseth mollifies easeth pain procures sleep expels the courses birth small pox oft used in swooning apoplexies mother jaundice plague and other venemous diseases good in asthma with oile of sweet Almonds Dose to ℈ j. It s used outwardly in collyriums and cataplasmes to ease paine in which it excells Galingal It s proper for the stomack head and wombe incides opens is used in the crudities and inflation of the stomack vertigoes obstructions of the wombe and other affects of the whole body arising from cold and winde its excellent in errhins for the head inwardly Dose ʒs hot and dry in the third Nutmegs and Mace The latter is but the cover of the first The first is proper for the head stomack and wombe discusseth winde helps concoction mends stinking breath recreates the birth helps faintings of the heart lessens and easeth the paine of the spleen admirably stayes fluxes of the belly and vomiting easeth pain of head and joints addes strength to the body is a good masticary in debility and defluxion of the braine Mace hath the same vertue Pepper It s used in coldnesse and crudities of the stomack collick especially white pepper it s used in weaknesse of the sight outwardly it may be used in apophlegmatisms gargarisms neezings It easeth the tooth-ach abates the swelling of the palate and gets it up and is good in cold affects of the sinews Sugar It s use is to sweeten broths and other aliments it profits in the cough and other affects of the lungs is good in the reins and bladder especially the candied hot in the first Ginger It powerfully heats opens incides attenuates helps the stomack to digest expels winde resists putrefaction and malignity cleares the sight heats the joynts and therefore profitable in the gout The fifth CLASSIS are waters and juices which are as followeth Some of these are simple distilled from some particular herb others are compound the former of these it would be uselesse to set down their vertues being they will be writ in the Classis which is of herbes The simple are these The waters of sorrel borage and buglosse marigold-flowers balme plantain roses angelica carduus benedictus red poppies and purslaine The Compound with their vertues follow Anise-seed-water It s good for those troubled with winde and for a cold
Supplementum Chirurgiae OR THE SUPPLEMENT To the MARROW OF CHYRVRGERIE Wherein Is contained Fevers Simple and Compound Pestilential and not Rickets Small Pox and Measles with their Definitions Causes Signes Prognosticks and Cures both general and particular As also The Military Chest containing all necessary Medicaments fit for Sea or Land-service whether Simples or Compounds such as purge and those that do not with their several vertues doses note of goodness c. as also Instruments Amongst which are many Approved Receipts for several diseases By JAMES COOKE Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery LONDON Printed for John Sherley at the Golden Pelican in Little-Britain 1655. COOK 's SUPPLEMENT to the MARROW of Chyrurgery TO THE ACCEPTING READERS FRIENDS ALl rhat I have to acquaint you with as to this part of the Supplement is that considering few having writ fully of Chyrurgery methodically whether more Prolixely or Concisely but they either intermixed Fevers with Tumors c. or put them a part by themselves as may appear in Pareus and Calmeteus I resolving to steere the same course rather choose to follow the latter that so you might at a single view know the cure as well of those Fevers essential as accidental There 's added the Small Pox and Rickets the latter with the rest had come in publick view before any other printed in this Nation if it had been admitted may be the cause was its insufficiency however it hath received advantage thereby You have annexed a Military Chest The method as to Names and Order is Hildanus's the vertues doses c. of all I picked from various Authors a Catalogue of which you have in the Marrow only some others since have fallen into my hands de novo I have this onely to say further That there are several things in all which have been successefully experimented by Your worthlesse friend JAMES COOKE Warwick the 26. of the first moneth vulg March A TABLE general of things contained in the BOOK Sect. 1. Chap. I. DIary Fever Page 3 Chap. II. Simple Synochus Page 7 Chap. III. Hectick Fever Page 11 Chap. IV. Interm Quotidian Page 102 Chap. V. Quartan Page 106 Chap. VI. Compound Fevers Page 128 Sect. 2. Chap. I. Putrid Fevers Page 25 Chap. II. Symptomes of Fevers Page 71 Chap. III. Intermitting Tertian Page 88 Sect. 3. Chap. I. Pestilential Fevers Page 135 Chap. II. Rickets Page 209 Chap. III. Small Pox and Measles Page 260 MILITARY Chest Page 280 In which is contained Simple Purgers Page 281 Compound Purgers Page 293 Cordiall Electuaries and Powders Page 301 Aromaticks Page 315 Waters and Juices Page 319 Syrups Page 325 Roots Page 331 Herbes Page 344 Flowers Page 359 Seeds Page 363 Fruits Page 367 Oyles Page 373 Ointments Page 385 Fat 's Page 392 Plaisters Page 395 Gums Page 401 Mettals Page 408 Meales Page 415 Instruments Page 417 BOOKS to be sold by John Sherley at the Pelican in Little Britain The Life and Reign of Sultan Orchan Second King of the Turks translated out of an eminent Tuâ—kish Historian by W. Seaman the like not heretofore extant in any language Dr. John Ponet his short Treatise of Politick power The vanity of the lives and passions of men by D. Papillon Gent. The Diocesans trial by Paul Bayne A brief Compendium of the vain hopes of the Jewes Messias Col. 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Gatakeri dissert de Tetragammato sua vindicatio Good Reader by reason of the Authors distance from the Press some faults have escaped the most material he prays you thus to correct ERRATA's PAge 27. line 13. read yet for ye p. 27. l. 16 r turgid p. 40. l 7. dele out p. 75. l. 14. r. bole p 114 l. 23. r ℈ s. p 122 l 27 after partem put M j p. 17 2 l. 10 r crass p 173 l 3 after those put in p. 175 l 5 r yea p 177 l 13 r those p 182 l 22 r ill p 194 l 2 after to put be putting out that after used l 4 r Mij p 206 l 10 for and r A p 236 l 9 put a comma after wal-rue l 27 for five r take p 240 l 1 r diabalzemer p. 265 l 4 f. secondly r twofold l 11 r whit p 174 l 22 r â„¥ ij p 275 l 10 r plantain water p 286 l 22 for these r this l 23 r â„¥ sp 334 l 10 r. â„¥ iv p. 337 l 21 r scrophula's p 340 l 12 r â„¥ ij p 344 l 10 after kills put wormes p 349 l 19 r cleanscth p 400 l 5 for â„¥ s. r. â„¥ j. p 404 l 2 r and p 406. l 8 r if p 421 l 9 r be p 423 l 18 r there is after till p 424 l 1 r Arcei p 430 l 9 r ost cocolla De Febribus SECT I. PREFACE DIseases of the body are either outward or inward The latter are either universal afflicting the whole body or particular affecting some parts The first of these are Fevers which may be divided into simple putrid and pestilential the simple are diary intermitting synochus and hectick Before particulars premise these generals First it is a hot distemper of the whole body arising from preternatural heat kindled in the heart and diffused with the spirits and blood through the veines and arteries into the whole body Secondly it 's caused by any thing that kindleth heate in the body as motion putrifaction touching and vicinity of hot things constriction of the pores c. Thirdly it 's absolved First by altering wherein so proceed that the cause be not nourished Secondly by mitigating the Symptomes which are especially thirst his cough vomiting flux of the belly drynesse blacknesse and roughnesse of the tongue c. as after CHAP. I. De Febre Ephemera THis ariseth from the inflaÌ„mation of the vital spirits in the heart continuing the space of a day therefore call'd Diary Signes Signes Urin concoct like natural if not it 's changed by obstructions and crudities Pulse quick and oft yet equal orderly great and strong Heat is sudden without loathing lasinesse sleeping or frequent yawning preceding to
the touch being pleasant and gentle there 's little or no cold or shaking unlesse the body be ill habited or it be caused by the sun or cold Paine and heat of the head oft abundance of hot and acrid breathings the pores being obstructed The causes are procatartick of which in the Differences Progn Prognosticks The cure is easie unlesse it passe into synochus sinè putredine in a body young and plethorick or into a putrid the fourth or fifth day in cacochymicks or in hecticks or bodies hot Cure dry or thin Cure first alter by coolers and moisteners either inwardly given as cream of barley fountain-water with Syrup of limons or maiden hair pleasant cooling broths hydrosacchar c. or outwardly applied to the region of the heart pulse and forehead as oxyrrhodon c. Secondly evacuate either by opening a veine if there be fulnesse or by gentle purging if there be ill habit Baths of warme water used by the ancients are suspected Thirdly strengthen the stomack Differ The differences of the Feaver taken from the causes As I. Cold especially when the patient goes from violent exercise into the cold aire then it assaults sinè horrore urin and pulse are little chang'd the heat in statu is moderate here sweating is to be provoked at the end of the fit II. Constriction of the pores known by the hardnesse compactness of the skin this ariseth from abundance of blood cold binding or drinesse It 's cured Cure first by bleeding if blood much offend Secondly by purging inciders premised if there be present plenty of crasse humors and after sweat cum vino oligophor valde diluto which is also excellent if from cold for it helps to open the passages and provokes sweat Thirdly by loosing with hot and moist temperate bathes moderate frictions quick washings if it proceed from cold III. Crudities and that numerous known by the present signes of the affected stomack Here First vomit if there be loathing and easinesse to vomit Secondly purge if vomiting be hard Here glisters may be used by which part of the crudities may be drawn away Thirdly corroborate by medicines opposing the quality of the offending humors IV. Buboes known by the presence of the bubo by the swiftnesse and greatnesse of the pulse much heat and rednesse of the face In this draw blood sufficently the bubo moderately appearing for so it vanisheth by applying either repellers or relaxers otherwise it 's to be suppurated V. Heat to this use cooling diet VI. Labour here command rest and a more liberal diet VII Weariness then use frictions VIII Anger here command quietnesse rejoycing bridle choler and use coole meats and drinkes IX Sadnesse use the same recreations of minde and thin wine X. Watching here sleep XI Hunger use a cooling and strengthening diet XII Obstructions If from fulnesse bleed if from ill habit purge if these remove not the Fever it degenerates into other Fever the cures whereof shall be set down in their proper places CHAP. II. De Synocho Simplici IT 's a Fever without putrifaction or a Diary of many dayes arising from the inflammation of the spirits and thinner blood continuing without intermission 3 4 or more dayes and is called Inflativa because where the blood is heated the vessels are distended and there is felt the lassitude of the body Signes Signes urin is more thick and redder then usual pulse great full oft and quick lasinesse without exercise heavinesse of the head forehead and temples heat gentle moistnesse of the skin stretching of the members streightnesse of the breast and difficulty of breathing It s progresse is various yet equal hence it hath three differences i. e. Epacmastica which increaseth continually Paracmastica which so decreaseth and Homoronos or Acmastica which keeps the order or form Progn Progn It 's not difficult to be cured because it oftest assaults bodies more strong temperate or more hot or moist of a middle age and fleshy unlesse it passe to another Sometimes it vanisheth the fourth day or seventh with plentiful bleeding of the nose or sweat unlesse some notable error hath been committed by the sick physician or attendants and then it may passe to a putrid or some other very grievous disease Causes Causes are those stirring up a diary if they fall in a plethorick body indued with a thick habit or from the thinner blood heated by many hot vapors which are hindered by transpiration Cure Cure first open a vain by which the blood is cooled and an increase of vapours hindered this is rather to be done oft and little by repetition then once too plentifully wherein is danger although in some cases I have knowne it very successeful It may be done at any time unlesse the stomack be full of meat for then concoction is first to be expected letting a glister precede if the belly be not open or the intestines be filled with crudity it 's to be mollifying loosening Secondly evacuate the first region lest serous and bilious excrements increasing a putrid Feaver be produced These are good Tamarinds Rhubarb cream of Tartar and syrup of Roses solutive c. for they neither heat nor move too much Thirdly alter by appointing cooling potions plentiful drinking of cold water is now disliked as dangerous opening Emulsions and Julips being more safe the Julips are made of the waters of Succory Endive Sorrel Lettice c. with the syrupes of Succory Limons Pomegranate c. adding spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur or spirit of Salt a few drops If the waters be thought too crude boyle them gently with a little Spec. Triasantal or Diamargar frigidū An emulsion prepare thus Take of sweet Almonds pill'd and steept in rose-rose-water ℥ j. of the four greater cold-seeds and of white Poppy of each 2 dragms beat them all in a marble mortar by degrees pouring upon them barly-water a pound and a halfe after strain it and dissolve therein sugar of roses ℥ iii. make an emulsion for to be taken thrice twice a day this is also excellent in watching To the heart apply this ℞ of the waters of roses buglosse and lettice of each three ounces vinegar of roses one ounce diamarg frigid ʒ js camphire vj graines and make an Epithem which apply to the region of the heart ℞ aq endiv. cichor acetos ana ℥ iiij acet ros ℥ js trium santal ʒijs f. Epith. admovend regioni hepatis also to the liver and loynes use cooling ointments Ex oxyrrhod unguent refrig Gal. vel cerat santal oxycrato abluto forget not glisters Fourthly strengthen cum manu Christi perlat diamarg. frigid conser ros vitriolat acetosella c. Fifthly use a cool thin and moistening diet of brothes prepared with cooling herbs stewed Prunes baked or rost Apples cremor hordei panadoes let the drink be barly-water or spring-water boyled with Syr. of Maiden-haire Limons c. adding Sp. Vitrioli CHAP. III. De Febre Hectica THis possesseth the solid parts which constitute the
or if there be some inflammation aq Hord. aut aq panata cum syr granator Limon acido citri julep ros c. sleep out of the fit is good in the fit hurtfull Those things which stir up anger sorrow and the like are to be especially shunned In the fit cooling bellows and odoriferous irrorations suppress the resolving of the spirits the face is to be sprinkled with cold water or of Roses with Vineger The same may be applied to the testicles in men and paps of women if the spirits with the heat are not called from the heart to the habit it 's to be done by frictions of the extreme parts plucking oft both of nose and haire and calling them by their proper names Give bread steeped in the juice of pomegranates or thin odoriferous wine well diluted cum aq ros or in great necessitie may be given Cynamon-water with rose-water In the interim strengthning broths are not to be omitted with which mixe confect Alkerm c. or oft a spoonful of this ℞ aq ros ℥ ij aq Naphae ℥ j. aq cinam ℥ s. confect Alker ʒ j. margar coral pp. an ℈ j. Manus Christi perlat ʒvj misc f. pot To these may be call'd in the opiats and condita in the former chap. the crumbs of hot bread dipt in vineger and rose-water and held to the nose is good Apply to the heart cooling and cordial epithems to stop the pores and hinder dissolution lap the sick in linnen strewed cum pul ros balaust santalor or linnen wet in aq ros modico aceto Anoint the whole body especially the back with this ℞ ol ros omphac ℥ j s. ol my rtillor cydonior mucilag sem Psyllian ʒ vj gum Arab. dissoluti in aq ros ʒ ij cerae alb q. s. f. liniment Have special care of the stomack in which the hurtfull humour is heaped up anointing the Region thereof cum ol ros Cydon Also apply toasted bread moistened in juice of Quinces and Pomegranates and if great heat necessitate foment it with a warme decoction of Purslaine and Roses or Succ. Solani portulac uvae acerbae adjecto ol ros Cydoniorum Thus swooning being removed and strength refreshed the cause of the Fever is to be taken away by altering and evacuating both set down in the former Chapter in a burning Fever whither we refer you and come to the other called Syncopalis Humorosa and this being from another cause hath a contrary cure to the former The aire ought to be enclining to heat bright pure and dry Meat to be of good juice and easie of concoction prepared with Hysop Fenell c. Drink is to be thin wine oligophorum sleep and watching moderate Friction with rough clothes is to be used from the beginning first on the feet and thighs after the armes shoulders and back the cloaths being first fumed Styrac lign aloes Thur. Caryophyl c. These also abundantly heat the joints which with the rest are to be anointed cum ol Anethi Chamom Irino Costin c. These frictions are excellent for by them the heat of the spirits and the hurtfull matter suffocating the strength are called outwards In the fit the sick is to be stirred up by pulling the nose and haire rubbing the eares also the lips with salt and loud calls to the nose also is to be held aq Cinam vel stor aurantior The infusion of Cloves in Vineger and bread steeped in Hypocras which also may be exhibited or Cynamon-water or else some of this ℞ aq Melissae flor aurantior rorismar an ℥ j. aq Cynam ℥ s. confec Alker ʒ j. Syr. Condit cortic citri Caryophyl an ℥ j. Misce f. pot detur ex cochleari frequenter or this opiat ℞ confec flor buglos anthos cortic citri cond an ℥ s. Nuc. Moschat condit ʒ iij. confec Alker ʒ ij Spec. diambrae diamosc dul an ℈ j. cum Syr. Condit citri f. opiat Apply to the heart Epithems and Pidgeons to the stomach and testicles in men and paps in women also fomentations and others set down in virium imbecillitate whilest this is doing frictions are to be reiterated and never omitted in this affect Strength being a little regained the morbifick matter is to be drawn forth by Glisters and Purgings in which Hier. cum agaric much profits the purging is to be gentle and oft with casting in fit preparatives Want of appetite is almost common to all Fevers for when the stomach is affected with a hot distemper it procures thirst and decreaseth hunger yea sometimes the appetite is so dejected that the sick can scarcely take broth which is caused from vitious humours collected in the stomach or drunk up in the coates thereof or else from corrupt and maligne vapours assaulting it For cure the Morbifick matter is to be evacuated by vomit or stoole even from the beginning with an infusion of Tamarinds and Rhubarb but in declinatio if the Fever be not strong cum Hier. picr. in decoct Hord. cicerum absinth and in other cleansers dissolved After these use purging Glisters which call back from the stomach Exhibit oft things sharp and coole as Syr. Limon granator ceras acid c. given either of themselves or with cooling waters In declinatio feb may be given Syr. de absinth pontic alone or with sharp Syrups or juices mixed Offer to the sick meats very gratefull and not much at once but by intervals for too much spoiles appetite They are to be seasoned if a cough be absent with Olives aceto ros Succ. Limon If the sick abhor meat and can eat nothing cast in nourishing Glisters once or twice a day first casting in cleansing Glisters If after the Fever is quite gone there remaine this affect the sick is moderately to exercise use Capers and Olives and change the place going to a colder aire If this suffice not use Worm-wood wine pil de Hier. or Tinctur Hier. in vini alb Cochlear 3. singul mane Hiccough and Vomiting following Fevers are opposed by various medicaments the matter of which is set down in their cures to which we referre you ☜ only observe that you stay not vomiting upon a criticall day Hiccoughs are oft deadly though sometimes those caused from the exhibiting of cooling juleps have been cured by wine An Empl. ex Mithrid to the stomach is excellent Flux of the belly following a Fever if Critical is not to be stayed neither presently at the beginning though Symptomaticall unlesse strength be very much decayed lest the vicious humours run to the principal parts When it 's to be staied it 's to be done with gentle purgers together with glisters binding deterging strengthening Also exhibit incrassers binders and strengtheners all which may be taken from the Cure of Diarrhaea beginning at the more gentle and make progresse if there be necessity to the more strong by degrees Sweat if criticall is not to be stayed but if Symptomatical
rue given before the sit with white wine cures The following Troch exhibited though in winter have cured many â„ž sem rutae Petroselini myrrh Theriac rec an Ê’ j. opii ℈ s. f. tr parv dabis unum cum aq ante Paroxysmum Also Amoniacum septies sublimalum pulvis serpentum in convenienti vehiculo pondere ℈ j. vel ℈ js ante paroxysmum datus cor leporis ut pulmon vulpis praeparatum ol myrr ab gut 4. ad 8. ante paroxysmum Narcoticks have an excellent quality to stay the fits but before they be exhibited the greater part of the morbifick matter must be evacuated and obstructions much diminished otherwayes they may be hurtful by retaining the vicious humours in the body and so generate more obstructions and other diseases yet given as in the former Troch mixed with some openers and inciders they are the lesse hurtful To stay the fit it 's profitable to give gentle purgers an houre before it invades These revel the humour rather by solliciting nature then purging as â„ž Senn. mund polyp q. Thymi Epithy an Ê’ j. flor borrag p. j. f. Decoct ad â„¥ iij. cap. una hora ante paroxysmum or â„ž Senn. Ê’ iij. Turb Ê’ j. Cynam Ê’ s. croci zz an ℈ s. Sacc ad pond omnium f. pul dividendus in tres partes cap. unam ante paroxismum cum vino albo vel pil sagapeni Camilli One of them given in the beginning of the fit and continued for some dayes and a little after anointing the back with a liniment made ex Theriac aq vit ol laur vel de spica and two or three hours after the taking of the pils give broth prepared cum rad borrag buglos Thymi pom. curtipend The anointing of the spine is profitable for easing the rigor of the fit and therefore oft to be used although the foresaid pils be not given they may also be composed ex ol Anethi chamom. irino costino rutaceo de piperibus aliÃsque calidioribus cum aq vitae Theriac Caryopbyl castoreo Sinapi piper aliÃsque permixtis These ointments will work more efficaciously if with them the Spine be anointed before the fit before the fire and then put the sick in a hot bed laying hot bricks besprinkled with sack and lapped up in linnen and applied to the soals of the feet and palmes of the hands Whilest the former remedies are using special care is to be had of the Spleene because that part in this disease is perpetually affected and therefore such fomentations liniments and emplasters as are used in obstructions of that part are dayly to be used yea and sometimes baths of hot water conduce especially after many evacuations not onely to ease the Spleen but also to humect the whole body and help the concoction of the diseased matter they are to be used in the intermitting dayes onely warme for otherwayes the humours being hastened into the several parts would produce more dangerous Symptomes These medicaments used to the wrists are not to be rejected as â„ž fol. Sambuci Salviae ped columbin rute an M. s calthae tertiam partem Sal. Vini parùm omnia si nul trita carpis admoveantur ante accessionem Or rad urtic. contusa aceto macerata brachiorum pedum Arteriis applicentur Some have cured it by the application of Crowfoot to the wrists For Spurious Quartanes are to be cured almost with the same remedies provided for a Tertian adding in the decoction of the juleps and Apoz those things which peculiarly respect the atrabilious humour As also those more temperate set downe in the legitimate Tertian as in the beginning adding borago buglos fumar lupul acetos cichorii ceterach Scolopendria agrimon poma redol The decoctions of these their distilled waters and sometimes their juice if purified may be added to the Julep Apoz or Magistral Syr. In the progresse to the former may be added cortic rad cappar med Tamaris enul camp polypod q. absiâ—thi Whilest the sick are using these preparatives purgers are oft to be cast in on the day ante paroxysmum and reiterated twice a week which may be put in various formes For the dainty loosing ptisans may be used cum Syr. de pom. Saporis or chicken-broth altered cum borrag buglos pimpinella add Senn. Ê’iij vel â„¥ s. Bleeding plentifully at the beginning is to be used if strength temperament and age c. concurre The disease continuing vomiting is to be permitted and reiterated as before The Hypochond are to be fomented as â„ž rad althaeae lilior Enul camp cortic rad cappar Median Tamarisc an â„¥ j. fol. Malu Althae parietar borag buglos pimpinellae absinth an M. j. Sem. lini petrosel an â„¥ s. flor chamom anethi Melilot an p. j. fiat decoctio in tribus partibus aq una vin alb Sub finem additis qua foveantur Hypochondria bis die longè à pastu â„ž unguent dialth â„¥ j s. ol lilior chamom. rosar absinth an â„¥ s. f. liniment applicandum post fotum or oile alone applied cum lana succida These correct the ill quality of the bowels subdue the new matter of the fits and greatly mollifie and attenuate the impacted humour Lastly baths of warme water are excellent either ex aq dulci or wherein are boyled emollients and humecters or onely Hord. Amygd These oft make a full conquest by correcting the distemper of the bowels temperating the heat and drinesse of Atrabile mollifying the hard opening and loosing the wayes and concocting the crude humours these are to be used as before with the said cautions and their operation will be much furthered if in the entering into the bath medicaments preparing and opening obstructions be given Amongst which the decoction oâ— Wormwood and Elicampane hath the precedency being most commodious to prepare all contumacious humours if the great heat of the bowels do not forbid it in which case others more temperate may be mixed And whilest these are using gentle purgings are to be reiterated as before In the real declination signes of concoction appearing fly to specificks above prescribed In the whole course of the disease the brest is to be respected lest they fall into a Consumption for the offending humour hath an eroding quality Diet Diet. Aliments are to be such as afford good juice are of easie concoction of thin substance and moderately heating and moistening as the flesh of young Animals and mountain-birds new and reare egges river-fish In the state and declination admit of salt fish capers olives yea pepper and mustard Of herbs is commended borrage bugloss pimpinel spinage the roots of fennel and parsley and above the rest turneps which are first to be boiled in water and after in fat broth which is most profitable for a quartane a decoction whereof mixed with butter and sugar hath cured many Of fruits apples stewed prunes raisins figs almonds dates pine-nuts and to season meats use cynamon nutmegs and saffron
a liniment fram'd of the yolks of egges juice of plantain being mixed long in a leaden mortar To preserve the face some have used rose-water and other astringents but very unfitly for great portion of the impurities being sent to the face which from the loosenesse and moistnesse of the skin is apt to receive them are by this means not only kept in but also thereby nature is hinder'd in its motion therefore when the Pox appear they may be anointed twice a day with oyle of sweet Almonds to help on their ripening and being ripe which is discerned by a spot in the middle open them with a gold or silver needle or rather let them break of themselves however the oyle is to be used till such times as the crusts fall off for it qualifies the sharpness of the choler ripens and hastens the fall of the crusts which otherwise would lodge the matter under them and so deeply ulcerate the skin oile of new nuts newly drawn without fire mixed with a like quantity of rose water and reduc'd to a liniment is most efficacious I have with good successe used oile olive â„¥ ij and carduus-water â„¥ js mixt together After which few scars have remain'd if through the neglect of these or the like medicines notable scars remain it 's to be help't as much as may be with the oyle of yolks of egges and sheeps sewet For filthy scars first wash the face with water of bean-flowers or water distill'd from cowes dung in May after anoint them with mans grease Or â„ž oil of sweet almonds and white lilies each â„¥ i. capons grease Ê’ iii. powder of the roots of piony oris and lytharg of gold each ℈ s. sugar candy ℈ i. mixe all these well together in a hot mortar and strain it hard thorow a linen cloth and anoint the places morning and night and after wash them well with the water distill'd from calves feet or in want thereof some of the foresaid waters The fourth and last businesse is to remove symptomes which are various as itch and exulceration especially in the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet by reason of the compactnesse of the skin hindering their eruption to help which hold those parts in hot water or foment them long in an emollient decoction If itch fall out in the face which causeth the sick to scratch whence followeth notable scars use this â„ž leaves of poâ—â—itary M i. flowers of chamomile and melilot each p. s. boile them in lb j. of scabious water in the straining adde wood-binde water in this being hot moisten some cotton or fine lint often moistening the itching Pox therewith Vlcers that arise from maligne and eating Pox are to be cur'd with white ointment camphorated Or â„ž burnt lead â„¥ ii litharge â„¥ i. white lead wash t and vineger each â„¥ s. oyle of roses â„¥ iii. honey of roses â„¥ i. three yolkes of egges myrrh â„¥ s. waxe sufficient to make an ointment for convulsion epilepsy palsey hearing hurt inflammation of the eyes c. See in their proper chapters only if a bloody flux accompany wherein oft the Pox become deprest the following is admirable â„ž the roots of five leafe and tormentil each â„¥ i. leaves of pimpernel and scordium each M i. yellow sanders and shaving of ivory eachÊ’ ii boile them in water to â„¥ xii in â„¥ iii. of the straining dissolve aq naphae and of roses each â„¥ s. troch viper ℈ i. bezoar gr iiii make a potion which give to those that are greater at one draught twice a day but to such as suck give of it often in a spoon The Measles require the same cure with the Pox only observe there 's in the masse of blood a double excrement the one thick the other thin the measles is from the last which it may be is the cause of their discussion without maturation To these are referr'd first pustles of the bignesse of lupins without rednesse inflammation or fever being white and fill'd with serous humours these after three dayes break and die and are seldome dangerous there are other tubercles as some red invading with heat and dry cough other like red spots burnt c. which have nothing singular in the cure THE MILITARY CHEST WArs prophesied must be accomplished Providences are oft-times real Comments on holy Writ witnesse these times wherein the day of Gods vengeance is in his heart and the yeare of his redeemed is come I shall not dispute or question the truth of that which is so evident as that those who are most against it speak the verity of it in their actings But to passe this and come to meet with those events that occur and are the proper subjects of the discourse as wounds c. and here is not to be expected the methodical cure already elsewhere dispatch't but only as it were a Catalogue of the matter by which it 's effected with their vertues and qualities annexed Now the meanes or matter are either medicines or fit instruments fitly placed in a convenient chest The medicines are either Physical or Chirurgical The instruments are either hard or soft all which are to be fitly placed to prevent confusion and to be ready for use They are by Hildanus divided into twenty Classes whose method we shall follow taking in what he hath judiciously set down only take the liberty to adde where there is necessity requiring that so it may be full for our own Climate In the first Classis is the simple purging medicines which are with their vertues as followeth Agarick It potently purgeth phlegme from the wholebody especially the excrements of the mesentery wonderfully removes the affects of the braine purgeth the brest and the wombe healeth asthma difficulty of breathing and jaundice begets a good colour moves urin and courses is excellent in paine of the collick yet ingrate and adverse to the stomack it 's to be corrected with ginger cloves and being slow in operation may be acuated with salt gem cream of tartar c. it 's hot in the first and dry in the second dose from Ê’ i. to Ê’ ii in infusion from Ê’ i. to five that 's the best which is white light rare brittle at the first taste is sweet but after bitter and stiptick Aloes It 's a remedy against many diseases is conveniently administred in those who are molested in their head for it drawes the vapours ascending from the stomack to the head without trouble and is therefore good in those whose pain in the head ariseth thence It 's profitable in swimming of the head inflammation of the eyes cataracts especially if they arise by consent from the stomack It 's profitable for those that are troubled with nidrous crudities it procures a good colour and removes the excrements of the belly heales the jaundice and those troubled in their sleep preserves from putrifaction and plague and therefore excellent in such seasons It sharpens the sight stayes fluxes of blood and kills wormes
in obstruction of the courses beating of the heart faintings and dropsey Outwardly in sordid and maligne ulcers to venemous stings and ulcers in the paps Inwardly Dose ʒ j. excellent in curing the rupture Orris It incides attenuates expectorates cleanseth and mollifieth used especially in tough humours of the lungs cough asthma obstruction of the tearmes paines in Infants bellies resisteth poison and are good in dropseys outwardly cleanseth the skins from spots mends the stinking of the mouth and is good in ulcers To lbs. of this adde of storax and benjamin eachʒ ii and make it into a powder It s most delightful to the smell and dries and strengtheneth the braine Hot and dry in the second White lilies Cleanse digest mollifie and especially ripen and ease paine in tumours good to be applied to cornes and burnes Parsley Heats and dries 1. Attenuates extergeth is diaphoretick hepatick c. used specially in obstructions of the lungs liver spleen reines and bladder hence good in coughs jaundice stone courses asthma c. Outwardly resolves hot humours hinders the falling of hair and diminisheth milk Pimpernel It s sudorifick attenuates opens abstergeth is good against the stone is a good vulnerary used specially in preventing and curing venemous diseases in opening stoppings of the liver kidneys lungs and wombe is good in the stone gravel strangury collick cough asthma and inflammation of the lungs crudities and weaknesse of the stomack and in the French pox Outwardly in paines of the teeth to ripen buboes increase milk cleanse the spots of the face and cancerous ulcers and consolidates wounds both old and new Plantane It s hepatick and vulnerary used especially in all kindes of fluxes in which its gallant as fluxes of the belly spitting blood gonorrhea pissing abed immoderate courses is good in the jaundice ulcers of the reines and kidneys one bit of it eaten stayes paines of the head to admiration Outwardly it cleanseth and consolidateth inveterate wounds and ulcers Cold and dry in the second Polipody or Oak-fearne It drawes forth burnt choler melancholy and tough phlegm hence most profitable in stoppings of mesentery liver and spleen therefore used in hypochondriack affects scurvy yet seldome given alone it s very familiar to our nature helpes quartanes hemorrhoids is good in French pox and paine of the joynts takes away all swellings in hands feet knees and joynts also stitches and pains in the side and rickets it s to be corrected with a few anise-seed and being bruised is to be boiled in white-wine till half be wasted Squills They attenuate absterge discusse resist putrefaction for further see the vineger and oxymel Outwardly they are good in ulcers of the head and kibes being infused in oil Hot and dry in the second Tormentill Without signal heat astringeth is vulnerary diaphoretick and alexipharmick used especially in the plague and other maligne diseases especially when associated with fluxes of the belly it s also good in pestilences dry catarrhs in French pox in venome in vomiting and in wounds and ulcers The Eighth CLASSIS are Herbes Common and Romane worm-wood This first especially respecteth the stomack is proper for the liver and spleen It attenuates astringeth opens and is bitter hence kills drawes forth choler discusseth helps surfets resists poison cleanseth the blood is good in feavers especially tertians Outwardly it comforts the stomack sharpens hearing is good in gangrenes and to discusse tumours A Ms. of this with the like quantity of agrimony and centaury boiled in water lb j. to lbs and drunk for three mornings together with a little sugar is made a gallant decoction which procures appetite easeth pain cleanseth the stomack of phlegme and expells winde The second doth more astringe incide discusse and resist putrefaction draweth forth choler by urine therefore good in all affects of the liver gall stomack pain of the belly and womb and stayes vomiting in Infants Of its salt ℈ j. in a spoonful of juice of limons stayes vomiting gallantly although in a maligne feaver Agrimony It s a most noble hepatick as splenitick and vulnerary it opens digests roberates is excellent in all diseases arising from the liver as dropsey cachexia c. outwardly it s used in fomentations and lotions c. for wounds and ulcers Hot and dry in the second Ladies mantle It s a gallant vulnerary consolidates bindes and cleanseth thickens blood stops excessive courses stayes vomiting and the whites in women it s very profitable in those subject to miscarry through cold and moisture outwardly it helps wounds reduceth womens breasts that hang flagging heals bruises and ruptures Jack of the hedge or sauce alone It s profitably boiled in asthma's the seed is good in coughs the juice in maligne feavers Outwardly the juice or seed powdered provokes neezing stirs up the epilepsy and lethargy the seed made into an emplaister with vineger is good in the mother the leaves boiled in glisters are good in the collick or stone being beaten and applied may cure noli me tangere the juice is excellent in maligne ulcers it may be a substitute for scordium in cataplasmes for gangrenes and other putrid sordid ulcers it cleanseth and resists putrefaction it s to be gathered either the latter end of Aprill or beginning of May after dry it in the shade for a day then shred it and presse out the juice which may be kept two or three yeares if put in a vessel with oyle Hot and dry in the fourth Althea or Marsh-mallowes See the root Both are better the syrup made with its juice is excellent in the stone Betony It discusseth attenuates opens cleanseth is specially proper for the head also liver spleen breast wombe is vulnerary it helps the epilepsy all head-aches from cold cleanseth the breast and lungs opens stoppings of liver and spleen good in the rickets procures appetite helps soure belchings provokes urin breaks the stone helps cramps and convulsions resists poison helps pox out and such as pisse blood kills wormes helps bruises and cleanseth women after labour Dose ʒ j. in white-wine Outwardly its good in plaisters injections c. Carduus benedictus It s an herbe much used in posset-drink and not in vain in Agues its cardiack alexipharmick and sudorifick it attenuates discusseth and opens resists venome and putrefaction cureth inveterate feavers and quartanes is good in vertigo deafnesse strengthens the memory helps griping paines in the belly kills wormes provokes sweat expels poison helps inflammation of the liver good in plague and French pox Outwardly applied ripens plague-sores and helps hot swelling the bitings of mad dogs venemous beasts and foul filthy ulcers Centaury It s proper to the spleen and liver it gently bindes cleanseth opens and is vulnerary It drawes out very gently bilious and pituitous humours by the belly and serosities by the pores in the skin hence profitable in feavers jaundice suppression of the courses scurvey gout wormes green sicknesse and bites of mad dogs Outwardly its excellent in wounds ulcers gangrenes
mix a little Theriac Andromac saffron and vineger and put it in again and rost it under the ashes then strain it forth It will be excellent to kill wormes in infants if put upon the naval and left on Qualifies the heat of the heart if the region of that part be anointed provokes sleep the temples anointed therewith Pomegranates They are convenient for the stomack nourish little the sweet ones are good in long coughs The skin or pills are excellent in all fluxes Myrtle-berrie Quencheth thirst mitigates inflammation of fluxes helps the laxeness of the joynts and broken bones used in falling forth of the wombe and fundament removes tinea dandriffe c. Cypresse nuts They are especially used in hemor rhoids diarrhea dysenteria's pissing in bed and curing ruptures a little hot and dry in the third Pediculi Rosarium Some call rose-seed they grow up in the middle of the roses on little strings as it were are of the same quality with the roses Currants and Raisins They lenifie loose the belly qualifie sharpnesse are grateful to the tongue lungs and liver and mitigate the cough the first is usually boiled in water and the decoction drunk in feavers Elder-berries They purge serosities excellently of them take lbs. being ripe and lb j. of Danewort-berries ripe and presse out the juice hard after infuse them in foure times as much white-wine after they have stood for ten dayes cast in â„¥ j. of cynamon boile them at a gentle fire till a pound be wasted after strain it and keep it â„¥ j. of the wine drunk in the morning dissolves the winde and humours in dropseys and casts them out by stool asswages the belly and mitigates thirst Prunes They are cold and moist if new crude they mollifie the belly specially after meat but they easily corrupt therefore moderately to be used those of Damascus are more fit they mitigate sharpnesse quench thirst and are good in fevers The Twelfth CLASSIS OYLES Oyle of sweet and bitter Almonds The sweet lenifies maturates and is anodyne used principally in the cough with sugar candy in paines caused by the stone and collick drunk to â„¥ ij with manna or syr de althaea Given to children new borne prevents torments in the belly with penidies as also torments after birth if it be used inwardly let it be new drawn The bitter opens obstructions of liver and spleen helps such as are deaf helps the hardnesse of the sinews and takes away spots in the face Oyle of Dill. It s discussive anodyne and comforting it concocteth crude humours easeth pain of the head procures sleepe asswageth aches strengthens the sinewes and is good in convulsions Oyle of Anise-seeds It chiefly operates upon the breast and lungs it helps narrownesse of the breast rawness and winde in the stomack all infirmities there coming of cold and winde strengtheneth the sinewes six drops is enough at once taken in broth or other convenient liquour Black balsom or of Tolu It s hot and dry digests discusseth moves sweat is chiefly used inwardly in coughs apostemes of the lungs to break the stone move urine in immoderate flowing of the courses as also the whites and to expel the dead birth Outwardly it healeth wounds discusseth rupture mollifies hardened nervs and nodes and is profitably used in plaisters for the Rickets Vigo's balsame In wounds after digestion most excellent its gallant in cramps of fulnesse palseys pain of the joynts fistula's deafnesse weaknesse of the sinews c. Oyle of Caroway-seed It s good in winde of the stomack or guts as collick also in vertigo strengthens the stomack provokes urine Oyle of Cloves It strengthens the heart braine and all the vital spirits helps concoction is good in cold affects of the stomack wastes all impurities is most profitably used to the stomack in plaisters it sharpens the sight and wonderfully helps the dysentery and other affects of the guts Oyle of Chamomel It discusseth is excellent in contusions strengthens the nerves asswageth pain good in weariness of the members and in glisters is good for the collick and stone of the same quality are the oiles of linseed nuts and sesamuum Oyle of cynamon It 's excellent good for such as are in consumptions one drop is sufficient at once It moves the courses and expells the birth cleanseth the face from spots and stayes cold catarrhs from the head to the breast Oyle of wax It s excellent in swellings to asswage them as also for ulcers and is diuretick Dose inward gut iij. iiij 5. it s good in the gout and cures all wounds its gallant in chops in womens paps and elsewhere Oyle of Fenel-seed It cleanseth the braine of cold infirmities lethargies indisposition of the body numbnesse want of motion also it helps the stomack and expells winde Oyle of St. Johnswort It s excellent in green wounds easeth paine and is good in affects of the nerves or if wounded is good in convulsions cramps burnings scaldings sciatica as also tumours in most parts Oyle of white lilies It mollifies hard tumours asswageth paine easeth the heat of the kidneys used in glisters to mollifie and ease paine Oyle of earth-wormes It comforts the cold nerves is profitable in paines of the joynts is good in convulsions cramps as also for sinews wounded it hath some consent with the glandulous parts the small tumours whereof it resolves mollifies tumours and is good in bruises Oyle of mastick It comforts the stomack liver and joynts easeth pain helps hard tumours stayes vomiting and fluxes and roborates the nerves of the same nature are the oyle of nardus worm-wood only the last kills wormes more powerfully and discusseth winde Oyle of mints It wonderfully strengthens the stomack helps digestion stayes vomiting procures appetite resolves schirrus and hard tumours Oyle of Myrtles It comforts rhe heart stomack and intestines stays vomitings binds the flux of the bâ—lly if with it the stomack or navil be anointed it helps concoction and provokes appetite The same vertue hath oyle of quinces and mastick wood Oyle of nutmegs It s excellent in the collick gut ij or iij is profitable in the tumour of the spleen is good in dysentery in any fit vehicle strengtheneth the stomack and the bowels its good in old ulcers mixed with oyle of chamomel Oyle of Olives It heats and humects moderately yet the older the hotter it mollifies digests is vulnerary looseth the belly â„¥ j. taken in beer hot corrects the drinesse of the breast mitigates the torments of the belly looseth the urinary passages outwardly its excellent in glisters hot tumours burnings c. Oyle of Roses It cooles and strengthens is good against hot tumours strengthens the stomack easeth pain of the head removes inflammation and abates swelling its good inwardly given in fluxes to retund the acrimony of the humours Oyle of violets It cooles and increaseth is anodine cures all tumours arising from a hot cause procures sleep lenifies the breast and windpipe temperates the heat of the reines and is good for