greate heate Pulmo marinus T. Is of the like nature c. The decoction of which is commended by Physitians V. They serve as a Psilothron the pouder applied mightily purgeth fluxes Boiled in water it helps the stone A stick rubbed therewith will seeme to burne In the Sea they are full of water and out of it are empty They remaine amongst stones and reeds Tethyia T. If red is edible the pale and subluteous are bitterish Xenoc. They yeeld much nourishment V. They help the tormina and inflations tenesmus and vices of the reines eaten they ease the paines of the sides They help the sciatica and superior venter with rue and the cachexie with rue and honey They are in the Ocean neere France amongst the Sea Mosse and Sea Herbs their covering is betwixt a crust and a skinne they stick unto stones and are without excrements There are others mentioned by Jonston as the malum granatum fungus marinus pyrum penna marina cucumer marinus malum insanum manus marina uva marina which are of little or no use OPHIOLOGIA Of Serpents A. Adder Coluber P. In Hedges Brakes and Ditches and other places M. They live upon Mice and Frogges c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Colubra Gall. Colenure Ital. Scorsoni Hisp. Culebra ADder Tops T. They are hotter that Snakes and therefore live more in the shadowes V. Plin. The water wherein they have been preserved alive helps against the poyson of a Toad Also they or Vipers being put into a pot with the Scrapings of vines and so burnt to ashes help Wens or the Kings evil Pliny affirmeth also that the fat or gall preserveth from the Crocodile H. As for their biting it is very daingerous presently causing swounings tumours and mutation of colour these are the signes R. But the remedie is white wine aqua vitae Triacle and Mithridate with scarrification Their description is needlesse they being well known They lie round and cast their skinne by sliding through a narrow passage after fasting They lay down their poyson when drinking Ammodyte Ammodytes P. In Lybia Italy and Illyria in the Sand. M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ammodyta Centrites Centria Monoceros Ammodyte Matth. T. They are very venimous and their harmes not inferiour to the stinging and poyson of Aspes some dying thereof within three houres after the wound received else quickly after the bloud issueth forth abundantly and the wound swelleth afterwards all is turned into matter and then followeth dulnesse in the head and distraction in the mind they never live above 7. dayes so Jonst. and those dye first that are hurt by the female they by their biting infusing a vehement paine which causeth swelling and therfore to runne thus for the signes Aet The remedy is Triacle drunk and applied and attractive plaisters with scarrification binding the upper parts hard and launcing the sore drinking water with rungwort gourds castorium and cassia Avic Also Cinamon the root of Centory hartwort and the â—uyce of the root of gentian also a plaister of hony sod and dryed to pounded with the roots of Pomegranats Centory the seed of Flax and Lettuce and wild Rue As for the description they have a hard wart like a borne upon the upper chap the head is longer and greater than the Vipers and the chaps wider yet they may be termed a kind of Vipers They are very fierce of a cubits length with diverse black spots on the skinne and small lines on the back Aspe Aspis P. In Afrike and Spaine in dry places M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacer Coluber Propert. Hypnalis Aspe Mercur. T. V. They are not used in Medicine By reason of their poyson The Femals bite with 4. teeth and the Males with two infusing their poyson The Ptyas kills by spitting smell or touch the wound is hardly discovered the poyson piercing inwardly and the pricks not being much greater than the prickings of a needle without all swelling and a very little bloud issueth forth and that black afterwards the eyes grow dark and heavy with paine all over the body yet with some sence of pleasure the colour groweth green the fore head wrinkled with stupidity gaping and the convulsion Those that are hurt by the Ptyas have blindnesse paine in the heart deafenesse and swelling of the face The hurt of the Chalidonian Aspe is known by the often beating of the pulse frigidity paine in the stomach deep sleep and vomiting These are the signes so theirs is the worst of all poysons death presently following The cure is by incision cauteries cupping glasses and cocks rumps applied also by dilatation scarrification Mercur and rue c. and against the congelation Mithridate Triacle and Aqua vitae with fomentation friction and exercise but when the wound groweth purple green or black shewing extinction and suffocation the part is to be cut off after cupping glasses and scarrification applying centorie myrrhe and opium or sorrel plaisterwise with motion and fomentation with Sea-water or yew leaves with butter and a plaister of branne Vomiting also is good drinking juyce of yew with Triacle or Wine Garlick Opopanax Organic bearded Thapsia Gilliflowers red Violets and avens boiled in Wine vineger Using unc 3. at a time So Par. Aet Also a good draught of the sharpest vineger Some use Garlick and stale Ale or Aniseeds Some use Hartwort Parsly-seed and Wine or Aron drunk with Oile of Bayes in black Wine the stomach may be helped by the fruit of Balsam the powder of Gentian or juyce of Mints so Castorium with Lignum cassiae and the skinne of a Storks maw or cimices also Citrons Egyptian Periwinkle drunk in Vineger red Corall in wine henbane bitter hoppes and the urine of a man or Tortise Matth. Diosc So the quintessence of Aqua vitae As for the description they are like Land Snakes but broder in the back Their eyes are in their temples Their teeth are long full of holes which are covered with a skinne that slideth up when they bite and letteth out the poyson Their skales are hard dry and red The Ptyas is about 2. cubits long the Chersen of the earth five The Chelidonian one and the shortest killeth soonest The last resembleth the Swallow and liveth in the water The Ptyas is of an ash colour flaming like gold and greenish The Chersen is green Their voice is hissing like all other Serpents They live as it were in marriage revenge injuries and are enemies to the Ichneumon B. Boas Boa P. They have been taken in Senega and Italy M. They live upon Cows milk and Cattle N. Bova Anguis Caprimulgus Ital. Serpeda de aqua BOas Fest T. V. The poyson causeth tumours and swellings in the body As for the description they goe upon their belly and grow to be above an 100. foot long and kill not cattle till they are dry and then they eate them destroying whole heards
as conservant by a manifest quality and are either Temperate as gold or intemperate and are either Hot and Dry 2° as iron and crocus martis 3° as the flower of brasse burnt brasse the squams thereof it 's rust diphryges and chalcite 4° as misy sory chrysocolla and melanteria or Cold 2° as the filings of silver its spume lead burnt lead washed lead the dust of lead cerusse and plumbage also some are Aâ—tringent as cadmia tutty pompholyx spodium antispodium and verdigrease others Glutinate and cicatrize as washed lead and burnt brasse others Corrupt as the spume of silver and cerusse 3. Semi-mettals c. which are mineral bodies neere in nature unto mettals Of them some are Hot and Dry 2° as sinople others are Cold 1° as stibium and 2° as quicksilver some Bind as sinople others Glew and cicatrize as stibium and others Corrupt the body as quicksilver c. 4. Salts which are concrete juyces and of all the chiefe begotten of what is humid with a terrestrial exhalation adust by heat but not decoct and it 's either natural or factitious and both caused by the concoction of humors or exsiccation thereof it 's marine stagnatick fluvial pureal fontane arenary ammoniack bituminous montane lignary or carbonary or terrene and according to qualities red white rufous purple shining croceous translucid odorate sharp dry pure adulterate hard soft fossil sweet bitter or florid the Sarmatick which is pellucid is white and the fossil black that is Black that is made of wood the spanish fossil is pellucid the dryer the salter it is the ammoniack is unpleasaÌ„t the sodomine is Bitter the Arabian is Odorate the fossil is more Thick the marine and lakish lesse and those are of thin parts that are made of salt water the Sarmatick and gemm salt is Quadrangular and the white indian is Piramidal The tarentine was most used in physick and the Humid for meat but the Dry preserveth it longest The Fossil is strongest which is white pellucid thick and equal and of the marine the thick white and equal Of salts as to medicine some are Hot 1° as flos salis others 3° as alum salt nitre and some 4° as vitriol some Bind as vitriol and alum others Glutinate and cicatrize as alum which worketh also by an Occult quality 5. Sulphurs which are the fat of the earth which is concocted by moderate heat and joyned together having in it aire and fire therefore they are easily inflamed especially Naphth being more fiery and the flower of bitumen as the luteous sulphur is of the rest but Auripigment and Sandaracha arise of a fat and sulphureous juyce mixed with a sharp earth and when burnt yeeld a certain sulphureous fatnesse and seem sharp to the taste It 's begotten where mettal is it being the Father thereof it 's quick native or factitious boiled out of water or with squamms of iron till thick which makes the caballine and it 's of a hot and dry nature citrine or white colour usually dry of a fattish unpleasant taste and smell of a different fatnesse rarity and levity and the Fossil is usually dugg up in knobs and of Sulphurs as to medicine some are Hot as brimstone parmacity and sweet amber some Bind as amber citrine and others Mollify as asphalt bitumen naphth and pissasphalt c. and some worke by an occult quality as bitumen c. 6. Stones which are dry fossil bodies and hard which are not mollified by water in a long time but may be burned by the fire and may so be powdered and the matter of those that are not perspicuous is earth having a mixture of what is humid unctuous viscid but of the perspicuous that which is aqueous humid with a mixture of a most subtile terrene exhalation which is very dry caused by a mineral vertue by heat persistent in a terrene matter and tenacious humour and cold consistent in an aqueous substance and terrene having it's superfluous humidity pressed out and that in divers places and the colours of the perspicuous arise from much matter of water and air which apprehended by the terrene is congregated and congealed as in the christall berill and diamond of the Black froÌ„ burnt earth the Red is when an incended thin fume is spread upon a perspicuous luminare the Yellow from a perspicuous substance with which is mixed a subtile terrene combust exhalation the Sparkling and Ceruleous is caused by a lucid perspicuum with a superinduced thin and a mean aqueous incended vapour as in the topaz chrysoprase chrysolite and the Green as the emerald and chrysolite though of a diverse viridity yet it 's caused by an aqueous perspicuum with a terrestriall much adust As for the hardnesse of stones it ariseth from siccity caused by heat evaporating the humidity and a most cold siccity vehemently apprehending the humid perspicuum and pressing out the moisture thereof and so hardening as in perspicuous stones The porosity ariseth from the evill mixture of the humid part with the terrene As for Gemms they are pretious stones and as to their colour some are Green as the emerald chalcosmaragdus prasius berill chrysoberil chrysoprase jasper topaz callaica molochites beliotropius sagda myrrhites melichlores others Red as the coral onyx sardonyx hematite amber and lyncurius some Purple as the amethist sapphire jacinth hyacinthizon amethistizon chelidonia cyamea and roditis others White as perls paederus asterites galactites galaxia solis gemma selenites cynoedia belioculus epimelas and exebenus the Black are achates absyctus egyptilla medea veientana baroptis mesomelas dionysia piritis others Chrystalline the chrystall diamond galatias ceraunius iris astrion alectoria enhydros carbuncle antracites sandactrus lychnites carchedonius alabandina draconites chrisoprase phlegontis syrtites ermiscion the Golden are the chrysophis chrysolite chrysalectrus chrysolampis ammochrysus leucochrysos melichrysos chrysocolla argirites androdamas chalcites chalcophonos balanites sideritis ideus dactylus aethiopicus zmilacis haephaestitis ostracites and glossopetra the Various are panchus olea mitrax droselitus opalus pontica hexecontalithos and murrhina As for medicine amongst stones some are pretious and alter by a manifest first quality and so some are Cold 1° as jacynth sapphire and the emerald 2° the rubie carbuncle granate and sardonius c. and 4° the diamond others alter by a manifest second quality as the bezoar stone jacynth sapphire emerald carbuncle granate sardonius and amethyst in amulets c. and some Occultly as the bezoar stone topaz snake stone toad stone emerald alectorius chalcedonius amethyst sapphir jasper nephritick stone and lapis tiburonum c. others are lesse pretious and alter by a manifest first quality and so are Hot as the hematite fier stone asian stone thyites smyris and cleaving stone c. or Cold as chrystal phrygian stone and samian c. or Dry as sand c. others by a second quality so some Bind as the asian stone naxeus geodes and
except that of Asses which is of a most thinne substance and dissolving faculty Therefore it wonderfully helpeth the swellings and nodes of the joynts which are in Children caused by use of corrupted Milk making them plain and smooth So a Hemina thereof being drunk in the morning after walking by those that have the stone helpeth them being constantly used and is excellent to preserve from the same So Aet Milk with Honey helps suppurated reines especially that of the Asse or Mare cleansing ulcers after which the acrimonie being removed to cause nutrition that of the Cow is to be taken in a double q. Milk from the Cow Asse and Mare are most agreeable to the belly but trouble it so Diosc It 's most purged by the Mares then the Asses lastly the Cowes and Goats so Var. The young Asse groweth best when bred by Mares Milk Plin. The sweetest Milk is that of the Camel and the Asses the most wholsome or effectuall The Milk of the Cow is the fattest that of Sheep and Goats lesse fat and the Asses least and is therefore very seldome coagulated in the body being taken fresh and hot neither can it if Salt and Honey bee added thereto for the same cause it looseneth the belly more having more serum and lesse of the caseous or cheesy matter so Gal. therefore it as also Mares Milk descendeth sooner being the thinnest of Milks yet Pliny affirmes the same of that of Camels and Mares Marc. Plin. A little of the water being drunke of which the Cow or Asse hath drunke doth effectually help the headach Plin. Vnc. Sem. of the dryed brain of an Asse being drunk daily in water and Honey helps the Epilepsie in 30. daies Plin. The Ephemera feaver is cured by 3 drops taken from an Asses eare being caused to bleed in two hemina's of water also the lungs burnt drive away venomous creatures Haly being powdered and drunk it helpeth the cough and shortnesse of breath Plin. the heart of a black male Asse being eaten with bread helpeth the falling sicknesse so the liver being taken fasting so Diosc Plin. so mixed with a little alheale and dropped into the mouth for 40. daies together Marcel Plin. Being dry powdered with stone parsley two parts and 3. of walnuts and taken with hony fasting it helps the hepatick Avic The powder thereof with oile helps botches and chops caused by could with that of the flesh which Rhas and Diosc attribute to the powder of the hoofe Plin. The old spleen of an Asse helps the vices of the spleen most effectually in 3. daies so Marcel Sext. The spleen powdered and applied with Water causeth Milk in the breasts Plin. and burnt helps the womb Rhas The alcohol of an Asses spleen with Bears grease and oile mixed to the consistence of honey and applied causeth haire on the eye-browes Their old reines powdered and given in wine help the bladder and restraine the flux of urine so Plin. Marcel and the strangury Plin. The Ashes of the genital thicken the haire and help hoarines applied after shaving with lead and oile Osthan The right stone of an Asse causeth venery being drunk in wine or worne so the foame taken in a red cloth or inclosed with silver so the ashes of the genitall Plin. The stones being kept with salt powdered and put upon drink Asses milk or water help the falling sicknesse The gall as also that of the Bull used in water helps spots in the face the sunne and winds being shunned after the coming off of the skinne The bloud helps the flux of bloud from the tunicle of the braine which Diosc attributes to that of cocks 3. or 4. drops of the same drunk in wine help quotidian agues Plin. and the epilepsie if of a young Asse Diosc The fat maketh cicatrices of the colour of the body so Plin. or removeth them Also if old it helps exulcerations of the matrix and in a pessary mollifieth its hardnesse and with water is a psilothron Rhas anointed in a warme place it helpeth the falling sicknesse so the marrow Plin. And helps the Scab The fat helps S. Anthonies fire the leprosy and adustion by the sun applied with goose grease it causeth venery Sext. It helps the fundament Plin. The skin used prevents the fear of infants The bones decocted help against the poyson of the Sea hare the ashes of the hoofe being drunk for a month in the q. of two spoonfuls helpe the epilepsy With oile they helpe botches and the dry powder helps kibes as also creeping ulcers The suffumigation thereof hastens the birth though abortive and killeth if living The ashes thereof with the milk applied helpe cicatrices of the eies and white spots or with womens milk The white ring thereof prevents the epilepsie as that of the Elke The lichens applied with oile cause haire in a bald place applied with vineger it helps the lethargy It helps the heavinesse of the head arising from any cause the powder being used with vinegar So Marcel The flesh taken with broth helps the phthisick and in Achaia many use it for the same purpose so Plin. Marcel The milk of Asses being drunk with hony doth easily and without hurt loosen the belly Diosc Asses milk doth fasten the teeth and gums being washed therewith or the powder of the teeth For it is not only harmelesse to the teeth but helpful by the tenuity and abstersion Plin. The old stones of a Ram being powdered and drunk in water in the q. of an halfe penny or 3. quarters of a pint of Asses milk helpe the falling sicknesse abstaining from the drinking of wine three daies before and after so Plin. So also the curd of a Sea calf with Mares or Asses milk or the juyce of a pome granat mulled vinegar of taken in pills Gal. The milk given after a bath helps the tabes Plin. It helps the phthisick being drunk warme with hony and water also being drunk it helps the paine of the duggs and with hony helps the purgation of women It helps the exulceration of the stomach so that of the cow or three oboli of birthwort or agarick drunk in hot water or Asses milk with as much aniseed as can be taken up with three fingers and as much henbane it helpeth the orthopnoea It is also commended against the cough extenuation spitting of bloud dropsy and hardnesse of the spleene H. Yet it hurts a weak head and such as are troubled with the vertigo or ringing of the eares also it helps against gypsum cerusse and sulphur quicksilver and costivenesse in feavers Being gargled it helps the exulceration of the jawes and drunk helps the atrophy and feaver that is without the headach Being given to children before meat it hindreth corrosion It helpeth the coeliack and the dysentery with hony Being drunk it helps the tenesmus so that of the cow It helpeth the gout in the hands or feet so the Serum Honyed water therewith helpeth against henbane It resisteth poyson especially that of
of a reddish colour and serveth to expell melancholick fumes and helps the cardiack passion syncope and hemorrhoids so Platear Gal. the powder taken helps sterility in women Gal. The ashes of the heart with that of the skinne and horne applied with oyl help wounds The curd of a Hinde hath the same vertues as that of the Hare so that of the hee Goat Lamb Hart Buck and Ibex Plin. The curd of a hinde slain in the womb is very good against the bitings of Serpents so Solin so drunk in vineger Damoc. It 's good against the bitings of madd doggs Hal. So against hemlock and Toad stooles Marcel It helpeth the empyema and spitting of bloud Plin. Drunk in vineger it stoppeth bloud so helpeth inward bleeding Gal. Drunk in wine or taken with the cremor of rice it helps the coeliack and dysentery Plin. The curd of a Hart mightily helpeth the vices of the intestines being decocted with lentils and beet and so taken in wine Diosc The curd of a Hinde taken three dayes after purgation helpeth against conception Plin. The genital is given in wine as also the belly against the bitings of Serpents Diosc It helps against the bitings of Vipers Sym. Seth. So dryed filed and drunk with wine Sext. or so taken with an egge Sext. The same causeth venery being drunk Xen. The ashes with wine applied to the genital of an admissary animal make it more strong for copulation Rhas Albert. The powder drunk helps the dysury and collick Aristot The ashes of the dung being drunk in the quantity of three spoonefulls in mulse help the dropsy Hal. The urine helps the spleens paine inflation of the stomach and intestines and dropped into the eares it helpeth the paines thereof Aristot The cleaning is eaten by them presently after bringing forth and therefore it is counted medicinal Bertruc The extreme part of the taile is venimous and being drunk causeth a contraction in the stomach and intestines also a fainting and death It is cured by vomiting with butter the oile of the oily pulse and anet and afterwards with walnuts and fisticknuts with lycium so Avic Ponzet This is caused by an adust humour carried thither that the rest of the body may not be infected It also causeth sadnesse and the eye is an antidote Pet. Apon As also triacle and the powder of the Emerald Schrod The horn crude helpeth putrefaction corrects malignity provoketh sweat and strengthens the natural balsam therefore it is useful in the small pocks and measells putrid and malignant feavers and other diseases requiring sweating sc being decocted or infused Being prepared S. A. by its drying faculty it resisteth putrefaction stoppeth fluxes of the womb killeth worms provoketh sweat and is convenient for Children the D. is Scrup. 1. to Drach 1. or more Being Philosophically calcined it provoketh sweat and helpeth malignant diseases the D. is to Drach sem the D. of the volatile salt is from gr 5 to scrup sem The water distilled out of the young Horns helpeth burning malignant feavers the D. is cochl sem a girdle of the skinne serveth women to tie about their midles against hysterick passions The genital is diuretick aphrodisiastick and helpeth the dysentery and paine of the colon being decoct or boiled in water Schwenchfeld The dry testicles drunk in wine help to venery Gluckr in Begu The antipodagrick balsam of the bloud applied helpeth contractures also from any cause having a very great resolving faculty by reason of its salt The teares found dry in the corners of the eyes dry bind strengthen and cause sweating therefore are good against poyson and contagious diseases being counted of equall vertue with bezoar stone they also provoke the birth The D. is gr 3. or 4. The marrow helpeth malignant ulcers as in the legges The fat mollifieth tumours bindeth wounds helpeth kibes and easeth paines the destilled oile thereof mollifieth lenifieth and mightily easeth the gout used once or twice in a day The ankle bone helps the dysentery The stone found in the hearts ventricle or intestines is counted equall to the bezoar in vertues Jonst The description being omitted as needlesse They are libidinous a whole day together chiefely in August and September they goe about 8. months and bring forth one young one for the most part Some say they live 3600. yeares Their noise is unpleasant They have friendship with the heath-cock but enmity to the Eagle Vulture Serpent Dogges Tiger Ram and noise of Foxes to the Artichock Rosewood and red Feathers They delight in woods and places of their first education they follow their leader They are fearful even to a proverb They rest themselves in their persuit and run into the footsteps of the rest They use dittany against their wounds they are fat in the summer hide themselves when sheeding their Hornes they love their young and Musick Hedghog Erinaceus P. Almost every where except Creet so Plin. M. Of Apples and Grapes which it carrieth on the pricks N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kipod Acanthio ter Gal. Hedghog Gesn T. The skinn being pulled off the flesh larded stuck with cloves may be rosted and so some commend it as a pleasant meate V. the ashes of the Body burnt are extersive and digesting as also of a drawing nature Gal. Therefore some use them against excrescencies and to cleanse foule ulcers but Dioscorides attributeth it to the Sea Urchin Avic Yet the Ashes of both doe cleanse resolve and dry Gal. The powder of the skin and head with Honey helpeth the Alopecia Albert. The ashes of the whole mixed with pitch cause haire in cicatrices so with Tarre or Honey and Vineger especially with Tarre so Diosc Aelian Avic Rhas and Albert. Marcel So with Beares and it 's own grease so also the fresh dung with Sandaracha Vineger and Tarre Albert. Some adde Galls bitter Almonds and Mouse dung Soran. The powder of the shells of Sea Vrchins with Honey and Vineger helpeth gallings Rhas Albert. The powder of an Hedg-hog applied helpeth the Fistula Plin. The ashes applied with Oile help Ringworms in the face the face being first washed with Nitre and Vineger Aelian The ashes of a Land Vrchin drunk in Wine help the paines of the Reines and Dropsy Diosc The salted flesh drunk with mulled Vineger helps the convulsion Elephantiasis cachexy and fluxions of the bowels so Gal. Rhas Albert. But that of the Mountain is more effectual better to help the stomach mollify the belly and provoke urine so Rhas and Albert. Avic Rhas Some use the flesh salted with Oxymel against the Dropsy Albert even of all sorts sc the carnose tumid and citrine Philes saith the ashes drunk with white Wine help the paines of the Reines Rhas The flesh botled helpeth the phthisick a plaister thereof helpeth the contraction of the nerves and pain of the belly caused by grosse flatulencies and the difficulty of digestion Plin. The ashes applied with Oile prevent abortion The flesh eaten hindereth the strangury and preventeth the pissing
is ever best agreeing with all times ages and complexions The tongue is most nourishing the spawn heavy and unwholesome the fish sweet and nourishing and is best when boiled yet some bake them with spice fruit and butter the head of which is most esteemed as the taile of a Pike and the belly of a Bream for their tendernesse shortness and well relishing Gesn The fatt helps paines in hot griefes Kiran. The same causeth venery and conception being applied The gall helps dimnesse of the eyes Jov. The tongue increaseth venery Rondel The stone in the head helps the heate of feavers quenching thirst and cooling some Affirme that being held in the mouth it stops bleeding at the nose Schrod It helps the collick stone and falling sicknesse so the two stones above the eyes Jonst They are best when fresh and somewhat like a Salmon or Trout Cooke-fish Merula P. Amongst rocks and in holes M. Of the same as the Thrush-fish N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Merulus Tinca marina Aspratilis piscis Cooke-fish Plin. T. It 's mentioned amongst laudable fishes being tender soft and of easy concoction it nourishes little and begetteth good juyce V. Being sod they help such as have feavers Tral It 's good for such as have the epilepsy and the hepatick dysentery of a cold cause as also the Thrush-fish Mullet Plin. They help the heat of the liver Gal. They are not only easily concocted but very wholesome and cause bloud of a midle consistence Salv. In white broth they help those that are sick By those that are well they may be eaten fried with oile Muff. They have their name seeming to season themselves with salt and spices when sod And their Latin name because alwayes alone Jonst They are like Tenches They are taken by angling with Shrimps which they hate Cocks c. Pectines P. In Normanie in sandy places M. Of little Cuttles and other smal fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Novacula Plin. Pavo Gesn Cocks and Cokles Scrib Larg T. Strengthen the stomach Plin. They increase flesh Muff. and lust Being of so hot a nature that they fly above the water like an arrow in the summer nights Alex. Ben. Some by too much eating of them have become fooles Their broth looseneth the body but their substance stayeth it Gal. They are very good meat but bad for such as are troubled with the stone or epilepsy They are best in May being then fullest lustiest and cleanest of gravel which they may be made to cast out by keeping them a day in brine renewing the same The greatest and whitest are the best and best fried but good also sod in water with salt pepper parsly dried mints and cinnamon after the French fashion The Cockles are called Pectunculi Jonst. V. They are easier of concoction than Oisters and provoke urin They nourish best rosted in their shels and helpe the collick Muff. Scalopes Pectines veneris are of the same nature Crab. Cancer P. In soft and stony places in England and other places M. Of shelfishes and the polypus N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crab. Jonst T. Their substance is hard therefore they are hardly concocted but of firme aliment so Gal. Athen. c. V. Plin. They help the bitings of Serpents they help carbuncles in the privities of Women with salt Their juice boiled in vineger helps the strangury Their juyce with the distilled water of the flowers of blewbottles facilitates the breeding of teeth in young children The powder of Ranzovius helps dissections of the nerves Schrod Crabs refrigerate moisten ease paine fixe troubled spirits therefore they are of very good use in heat and paine of the head and reines applied as a cataplasme The juyce helps the quinsey Taken with the water of celondine it helps the atrophy Applyed they draw out arrows and splinters They help S. Anthonies fire and burnings The eyes or stones coole dry cleanse discusse breake the stone and resolve tartar and coagulated bloud therefore they are of great use in pleuresies asthma's and the collick c. the powder thereof being taken crude or burnt and prepared the same cleanseth the teeth The shell is of the same vertue and also helps the itch in children caused by salt humours being applied with oile of roses it driveth away the paroxismes of intermitting feavers They are best when new The ashes of Crabs is drying it helps against the biting of mad Doggs Being taken with the root of gentian With honey it helps the clefts of the feet and fundament and warts thereof The same helps the dysentery The D. is a little sponeful for some considerable time The water of Crabs is diuretick lithontriptick and dipsosbestick That of Querc Pharm Rest Helpeth inflammations burnings and cancers especially if impregnated with the fatt Hart. in pract The D. of the oile of the eyes is g. foure to six Of the claws hereof c. is made the Gascoigns powder Pharm L. Crabs of the Sea Muff. The great ones are called Paguri and the best sort thereof Hippeis The little sort are called Pinnotheres defending themselves by Oisters These of all are the lightest and wholesomest next to them are the ordinary Crabs but of harder digestion both nourish much and help consumptions of the lungs and spitting of bloud so Diosc Plin. Avic c. Especially Asses milk being drunk with them They are to be sodden in water having their vents stopped for such as are costive and in wine if loose the femal having spawn are best The greater Sea Crabs either smooth or rough are strong and lushish of hard digestion overheating and inflaming the body but the lesser coole and moisten the brooth of all of them consumes the stone and helps quartans drunk every morning fasting They are best in season at the spring and fall as also at the full of the moon Jonst drach 2. of Sea Crabs drunk in nurses milk help the strangury in children Avic As also quartans the itch weeping of the eyes Plin. and cankers The River Crabs are edible at any time but are best in summer Avic Being eaten with barley water they help those that are hectick V. They have the same vertues as the rest for the most part Their ashes help against all poysons especially of the Scorpion with milk so Plin. and Diosc Aeg. And of vipers in wine The same helps the bitings of a mad Dog Galen useth them with asarum to draw out water and Hippocrates for the womb That called Majas is dressed as the former Their description is needlesse being a round large shell-fish They copulate by the sore part they goe thwartwise they fight like Rams and feed on Oisters c. by casting in a stone when they open themselves They lie hid when they cast their shells Cramp-fish Torpedo P. In Nilus and muddy places of the Sea M. They feed on fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stupefactor Stupescor Cramp-fish Gal. T. This as also the Forkfish amongst those that are Cartilagineous
red and little When taken they make a noise like Cuckowes Cuttle Sepia P. Their abiding is in the septentrional Ocean M. Of little fishes and the Mullet N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theb. Opistholia Arab. Sarathan Cuttle Jonst T. They ware and are still used as meat they are best when great chiefely in January February and March For the most part they are boiled and are better than the rosted in Illyria the greater are salted and are thence carried to Venice Some use them with nuts to cause venery the spawn may be fried Sym. Seth. They are hardly concocted and have little juyce V. Gal. With the shells of eggs and oile they help the tooth-ach Hipp. They are often used in Womens diseases Cels Diosc Their ink mollifieth the belly Plin. The spawn provoketh urin Marcel And takes away tinctures and spots in the skinn The bones are used in dentifrices Gesn and drunk in water help the vices of the breast Schrod The bone dryeth and cleanseth sc the powder it helps spotts moist itch and the eyes applied with honey It helps swollen gumms in dentifrices it helps the asthma taken it stops the gonorrhoea it expels the stone and provoketh urin the D. is scrup 1. The spawn cleanseth the reines and ureters and provokes the termes Jonst. As for the description they agree very much with the Poulp and Calamire They generate by embraces in the spring and goe fifteen dayes their eggs are first white till they put forth their black liquour thereon and the male ejaculats his sperm The young are excluded as birds The males are known as being rougher The male helps the females and being in dainger they cast forth their atrament They catch fishes after the manner of angling by letting down a line as it were from the neck with a crooke at the end of it D. Dace Leuciscus P. In most rivers in great streames M. Of red worms Cod-worms maggets and young wasps c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leucorinus Albicella Vindosa DAce Muff. T. Is of a sweet taste a soft flesh and good nourishment either sod or broiled or pickled like Anchovaes after the Italian manner Aldrov Gal. So they loose what is mucous and virulent Some catch them and use them like Herrings Bell. Gesn They are best in April and May as also in February In Italy they take them chiefely in the winter Grapald They are good rosted and seasoned with salt vineger oile olive pepper and cinnamon V. Rondel The fatt helps paines of the eares and mixed with the gall cleanseth the dimnesse of the eyes As for the description it 's needlesse Jonst In the summer they have worms in them and are unwholsome They spawn in June and copulate with the Carp Muff. Those of the Sea called Javelings are of the same nature Dog-fish Canis cetaceus P. In the deep Sea and neere the shore M. Of flesh and fishes which they catch by craft N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Canis Carcharias branchiatus Dog-fish Rond T. The flesh is white and not of a ferine taste Mnesith It 's of easie concoction Gal. It 's hard and excrementitious yet eaten by the Country folks being salted but it's mucons and of an unpleasant taste therefore they are eaten with mustard or some sharp sauce Also when salted it engendreth melancholy bloud Alex. Ben. It as also the condemned meats sc the Hoggs Cows Asses Doggs Dog-fishes and all cetaries salted have made many Idiots V. Their teeth are set in silver to cause dentition as many think Rond the same are used as dentifrices by their asperity to whiten the teeth and by their drynesse to preserve and strengthen the same The fatt may be used in steed of that of the Crocodile and used in a gargarism with water and vineger it helps the tooth ach Some weigh foure thousand pound as for the description their skin is rough their mouth supine head great teeth triangular eyes great and round and the optick nerves hard and the taile of a cubit long so Jonst Dolphin Delphinus P. They are to be found in most places of the Sea M. They live of fishes for the most part N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Porcus Marinus Delphis Berellus Dolphin Albert. T. They are not eaten by the Italians but by the Germans Rondel And are of great account amongst the French Therefore they are sent to Lyons having a hard flesh such as will not soon putrify The most useful parts are the liver and tongue The liver is of a tender substance but of evil juyce the tongue is more tender and fatt and to be prefered before the liver Card. The bowels are like violets both in taste and smell V. Plin. The ashes of the fish applied with water help the leprosy and ringworms cicatrizing the same Kiran. The liver rosted and eaten helps tertians and quartans Plin. so taken before the fit or the fatt anointed The same drunk with wine helps the dropsy The fume helps the strangulation of the womb The ashes of the teeth with honey cause dentition and helpe feares Kiran. The powder of the belly helps the spleen As for the description they have a flat nose a moveable short broad and carnose tongue sharp and little teeth great eyes A spout betwixt the eyes Two strong finnes The privity like that in beasts so the womb the genital as in foure footed beasts and they are without a gall They live 300. years generate like rationals and have a groaning voice a sharp sight and love musick and men but hate the Whale c. Dragon Draco P. They live in the Sea amongst the sand and rocks M. Of the smaller kind of fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maris Vastator Dragon Gal. T. The flesh is hard and dry but if prepared It 's pleasant nourishing much and begetteth good juyce Rond V. The ashes of the fresh head thereof help against all poyson Plin. The tooth-ach may be cured by scarification with their bones H. Their wound causeth feavers and inflammations Plin. The remedy is a Mullet eaten or applied Diosc Gal. Or the fish applied Aeg. or sulphur with vineger Aet or lead E. Eele Anguilla P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of froggs worms fishes roots herbs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plota Enchelys EEle Muff. T. Their flesh is sweet but unwholsome So hurts diverse yeelding much nourishment but very corruptible H. They loosen the belly but cause fluxes They open the windpipes but stop the liver They clear the voice but infect the lungs They increase sperme but not good lastly they cause agues hurt the stomach and kidnies engender gravel cause the strangury sharpen the gout and fill the body with many deseases They are worst in summer but never wholesome the elder are better and the silver bellied and sandy worst Villanov They have all a venimous malignity and gluish suffocating juyce yet those of Jovius by Cremona are counted good Note Their sinking
seldome exceed a foot in length and look upwards having a great head like Bulheads Sturgian Sturio P. They live in the Sea and mouths of Rivers M. They feed upon mudde and excrements N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aquipenser Stora Sturgian Plin. T. It was counted the most noble of all Fishes The female are best when full of spawn and in fresh waters They are of hard flesh being fat and glutinous so are hardly concocted and engender thick juyce therefore they are not good for those that are sick or sickly Albert. The liver is so sweet that without the gall it causeth nauseousnesse Some also salt them They are to be sod in water white wine and vineger with a little salt Their spawn with salt makes Caviare Muff. The Fish is thought by Mr. Cogan to be of hard substance not much better than Bacon or Brawn sc the old but the young is preferred before other Fish therefore Severus had it served up gilded and attended with minstrels and carolling Galen affirmes it to be of sweet delicate and good nourishment Cardanus Compareth it with Veale but it is farr better Some commend the greater as the best and the males living at the mouths of Rivers H. they especially the forepart hurt those that are aguish being fat oily and soon converted into choller They may be rosted if stuck with cloves and eaten with Venison sauce or they may be broiled and basted with oile and vineger after salt but it 's best pickled being eaten with vineger and sweet fennel When cold being boiled as aforesaid they are to be cut into Jouls rands and so Barrelled up with Rhenish wine wine vineger and Sea water for halfe a yeare And then they are a light toothsome and good meate for temperate stomachs It 's best for hot stomachs young men and in the summer time then helping thirst appetite and heate and yeelding temperate and good nourishment V. Plin. The flesh cleareth the voice Diosc And applied salt it draweth out things fastened in the flesh If stamped with Sandaracha it helps phagedens The fomentation with the pickle helps dysenteries drawing fluxions to the outward parts Used in clysters it helps the Sciatica It may be used in putrid ulcers of the mouth Their fat helps kibes Schrod The bones are given in the running gout so For. and discusse colick griefes The rest Pliny affirmeth of the Silurus Jonst As to the description Their body is betwixt round and broad the head pyramidical the mouth without teeth eyes little the belly is smooth and silver coloured tongue thick and hard throat rough two finns before backwards And the taile divided with scales towards the head yet they swimme fastest against the streame Usually they are of a 100. pound weight are most strong in the water breaking great stakes c. T. Tench Tinca P. They live in standing waters amongst reeds M. They feed on the putrefaction of mudd N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tencha Merula lacustris TEnch Aldrov T. Their flesh is not unsweet but it yeeldeth impure and illaudable aliment and often hurtful also Physitians count it feaverish feeding on and living in dirty places and they are hardly concocted and of bad juyce Muff. They are a muddy and slimy fish as appeareth by the touch therefore they are stopping viscous and very unwholsome Gazius counteth a fried tench a secret poyson Therefore Dr. Caius called them good plaisters but bad nourishment V. For being laied to the soles of the feet they often draw away the ague but taken inwardly H. they cause palsies stop the lungs putrify in the stomach cause many diseases being of hard digestion heavy to the stomach and causing apoplexies Yet hot and labouring men may eate them They are best in jelly of strong wine and spices Gesn Ancient Physicians used them to ease the paines of the head and limbs They help the jaundise applied alive to the liver or navil The gall is used with remedies against the paine of the eares helping fluxions and killing wormes Schrod The fish dissected and applied to the pulses and feet cooleth burning feavers and serves to divert pestilent poysons so also in the paines of the head or joynts The ashes help the whites The stone found in the head operats as that of the Carpe Aldrov That of the Sea Tinca marina is not a sweet fish it is soft enough but not friable easily concocted but excrementitious being fried or broiled they are lesse ungrateful to the pallat than when boiled Thornback Raia P. They live and abide in dirty places of the Sea M. They live upon fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thalis Rubus piscis Rex Papilio Thornback Muff. T. It 's of a pleasant taste but of a stronger smell than Skate and over moist to nourish much yet encreasing lust Hipp. It helps long consumptions The liver is very sweet and of great nourishment as appeares by its taste and consistence The liver is good sodden but the flesh is best broiled after seething to consume the watrishnesse Gal. They are harder more hard of concoction and more nourishment than the Crampfish or Fork-fish If boiled they loosen the belly Yet the Hollanders eate them so with butter vineger and mustard They are best in winter V. Plin. The gall with wine helps the eares also the itch The Stellate Raie is lesse hard and of lesse ill juyce than the Smooth Trout Trutta P. They live not only in the Sea but Rivers M. Of the excrements of the water c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aurata Variolus Trout Aldrov T. Is equal to any fish that liveth in fresh waters Those of lakes are more fatt than the fluviatile some commend them chiefely in April and May and they are worse in October breeding then They are to be eaten fresh soone putrifying Gesn Their fatt applied with a sponge helps the piles c. Muff. Both the Salmon and gray trouts are very pleasant and good for sound persons but in agues they are not comparable to the Perch they are best if sodden like a Breame and eaten hot for if cold they loose much of their grace and more of their goodnesse Tunie Thunnus P. Their living is in the Mediterranean Sea M. Of Weeds Acorns and Fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cordyla Auxus Pelamides Orcynus Tunie Muff. T. They are best when leanest sc At the fall and dead of Winter When at the best they are unsavory cloying an indifferent stomach and engendring most grosse and superfluous moistures As Porpesses must be baked when new so Tunie is never good till powdered with Salt Vineger Coriander and hot spices They live not above 2. yeares waxing so fat that their bellies breake and of the fat then is made Traine-oile for Clothiers Aldrov They are sweet and hard of concoction Diph. They nourish much Xenoc. Oribas They are unfit for the stomach of evil juyce flatulent hardly evacuated and generate crude humours Myreps They hurt those that have
C. Cockatrice Regulus P. In Affrick as also in other places M. Of Frogges Serpents and other creatures N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Pethen Ch. Armene Sibulus COckatrice Tops T. Their poyson is hot venimous and infecteth the aire round about so that no other creature can live by him he killing by his hissing sight and touch both mediately and immediately having an universal poyson yeelding a burning fume and therefore they burne up the grasse where they goe which sheweth their dennes Their sight killeth men the beams thereof corrupting the visible spirit Their biting turneth the bloud into choller causeth yellownesse and after the flesh falleth off V. The powder of the flesh is said to give silver the tincture of gold As for the description They goe half upright and have a comb like a Cock they are feared by all other Serpents when seen or heard Some say they are bred of the egge of Ibis the bird others of that of a Cock arising from the concretion of sperm and putrifying heat They hate Weasels and Cocks D. Dart. Sagitta P. In Lybia Rhodes Lemnus Italy and Sicilia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jacularis Jaculus Serpens volans DArt Matth. T. Their poyson causeth present death Aet Avic The cure of their bitings if there be any at all is the same which cureth that of the Viper V. The gall hereof which lyeth betwixt the back and the liver mixed with the Scythian stone yeeldeth a very good eye salve As for the description They are about 3. or 4. foot long and gaine their prey by leaping in spires on passengers though 20. cubits distant Dipsas Dipsas P. Neere Waters and salt Marishes in Africa and Arabia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causon Situla Melanurus Ammoatis Dipsas Gal. T. Their poyson is very fiery in so much that those that are bitten by them are intollerably thirsty and drink till the belly breaketh other Symptomes are like those of the bitings of the Viper also the patient cannot make water vomit or sweate The signes of death following are great thirst and inflammation of the body so that the parts outwardly are dry as parchment The remedy is scarrification cauteries and section If in the extremity apply Triacle Tarre with Oile Hens dissected the leaves of purslain beaten in vineger barley meale bramble leaves pounded with honey also plantain hysop white garlick leeks rue and netles abstaining from sharp and salt meates and drinking oile to cause vomit and making clysters of the same some use the leaves and barke of laurell As for the description they are lesse than Vipers but kill sooner They are about a cubit long the fore part is thick the head small and they are smaller backwards and the taile very little and black and the other whitish with black and yellow spots Double-head Amphisbaena P. They are in the Isle Lemnos often in Lybia M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amphicaephalos Amphisilene Double-head Tops T. They are very venimous their wounds are very small and scarsly discernable but the accidents are inflammation and a lingring death c. Like to those of the bitings of Vipers so the cure Plin. And Coriander drunk and applied Grevin H. The dead Body passed over by childing Women causeth abortion V. An olive branch wrapped in the skinne helps numbnesse As for the description their Body is of equal magnitude Their eyes are usually shut the colour earthy And the skinne rough hard and spotted They are hot lay egges and carefully looke to the same They are soonest destroyed by vine branches and have an antipathy against humain nature Hereunto is the Scytal Scytale like in poyson cure and body and going but that it goeth one way onely Dragon Draco P. In India Africa Ethiopia and Hesperia M. Of Fruits Herbs and venimous creatures N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Thanin Chald. Darkon Dragon T. Some say that they hurt more by their biting striking with their tails than by their poyson The males bite deepest yet no great paine followeth upon the wound The cure is like that of the bitings of other beasts that are not venimous Hay-dust is good also the Barble or head of a Dog with Euphorbium V. The fat of a Dragon dryed in the Sun helps creeping ulcers and dim eyes with honey and oile The eyes with honey made into an ointment are thought to prevent night visions Magicians used them to cause victory The fatt driveth away venimous beasts some say that the Sanguis Draconis is made of the bloud hereof The tongue of the Sea Dragon is said to cause safety and the fatt with the herb-dragon helps the headach scab and leprosy Dryine Chelydrus P. They live and abide in the bottomes of Oakes M. They live upon Froggs and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Druinae Querculus Ilicinus Cherisidal Dryine Tops T. Are very venimous and hot therefore they are placed among the first rank of Serpents The smell thereof so stopifying a man that it almost strangleth him nature refusing to breath rather than to draw in such a filthy aire When they hurt they cause the skinn to be loose stinking and rotten and the eyes to be blind and painful It restraineth the urine causeth neezing and maketh to vomit bloudy matter Being troad upon the foot looseth its skinn and the smell causeth all things to smell of the same so they kill both by touching and smelling When it hath wounded or bitten there is a black or red swelling about the sore and vehement paine over the whole body with pustuls madnesse drinesse thirst trembling and mortification thus for the signes The cure is like that of Vipers Also hartwort drunk in wine trefoile or the roots of daffodils and a cornes powdered and drunk As for the description they are about two cubits long full of skales under which breed yellow flies which destroy the same Their smell is like that of a wett Horse hide Their back is blackish the head broad and flat and their Captaine hath a white comb on the head They goe directly on the earth to avoid noise and smell H. Haemorrhe Haemorrhous P. They live in Aegypt and the Indies neere rocks M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Affodius Sabrine Halsordius HAemorrhe Tops T. Their bitings cause a continual bleeding sweat with extream paine till death and bloudy excrements The place bitten is black from which floweth first a watery humour then paine in the stomach and difficulty of breathing Lastly there is a dissolution of the powers of the body with a cramp after which followeth death thus of the signes The cure is by scarrification ustion sharp meats c. as in that of the Dipsas Also vine leaves bruised and sod with honey the powder of the head drunk garlick with the oile of flower-deluce and raisins of the sunne with plaisters used
body or loosening it neither strengthning nor weakening the stomach neither procuring nor hindering urin or sweat causing no alteration in the first qualities neither over-nourishing or extenuating the body but preserving it in such state as before and restoring little more than is daily decayed as the heifer calfe sheep lamb kid pig and coney As for the Temperature some are hot as the lamb hog pig in the first degree in the second the hare and roe-buck others are cold as the cow steere coney rabbet young hedg-hogs in the first degree some are moist us the wild boare c. in the first degree in the second the hedgbuck c. in the third young hogs and pigs others are dry as the oxe deere hare and coney in the second degree In respect of Taste some are sweet which agree well with nature being of a temperate heate and so fittest for nourishment they delight the stomach and liver fatten the body increase naturall heate fill the veines digest easily soften that which is two hard and thicken what is too liquid but if over sweet and gluttish they soone turne into choller stop the liver puffe up the lungs and spleen swell the stomach and often cause sharp feavers the bitter if exceeding doe not much nourish except first boiled or infused in many waters they otherwise engendring cholerick humours and burning bloud they kill worms open obstructions cleanse the body but nourish little or not at all and that which is is derived only to some speciall parts those made sharp dry the body exceedingly hurt the eyes and liver c. drawing down humours sending up vapours inflaming the blood fretting the guts and extinuating the whole body therefore they are to be tasted or fed upon their sharpnesse being allay'd with washing infusion oiling and intermixture of sweet things those made soure though they naturally offend sinewey parts weaken concoction coole naturall heat make loane and hasten old age yet they are profitable in cutting phlegme opening obstructions clensing impurities bridling choller resisting putrifaction extinguishing superfluous heat staying loathsomenesse of stomach and procuring appetite but if made soure without sharpnesse they strengthen the stomach bind and corrâ—borate the liver stay fluxes heale ulcers and give indifferent nourishment to them that eat them if made salt as such they nourish little or nothing but rather accidentally in procuring appetite strengthening the stomach giving it a touch of much heate for if very salt they engender choller dry up naturall moisture inflame blood stop the veines gather together viscous and crude humours harden the stone cause sharpnesse of urin and leannesse sc the accidentall salt not the naturall and inbred the fat if excessive glut the stomach decay appetite cause belchings loathing vomitings and scowrings choake the pores digest hardly and nourish little so if two dry and leane on the contrary it 's worse and nourisheth lesse but the mean is best the insipid are of weak nourishment yet extraordinarily they nourish some nourishment being according to the relish usually and the unsavoury nourish lesse and not speedily also what hath here been said of substance and taste agreeth also to birds fishes and other edibles As for the age the flesh of those that are young especially if newly brought forth is slimy soft moist and excrementitious especially when they are most moist by nature yet it is sooner concocted and makes the belly soluble the flesh of those that are old is hard dry nervous hard of digestion and of little and bad nourishment wainelings are lesse hard and dry than the one and more firme temperate and nourishing than the other but generally they are best for most complexions when they are almost come to their full growth both in height length and bignesse their temper being then best and so most agreeable to our naturall moisture being in a mean the same may be said of birds as of beasts In respect of sex the flesh of the males is more strong dry and heavy of digestion the females sweeter moister and of more easy concoction but the males are to be preferred being hotter dryer more laborious and lesse excrementitious when gelt as appeares in oxen and weathers when gelt they are more tender sweet and of an easier digestion as appeares in barrow hoggs they then being of a middle nature As for their feeding those that feed in moist and moorish places have moist flesh and full of superfluities but those that feed on dry places and mountaines are without excrements more easy of digestion and fit to nourish those that feed in good pastures are sweeter and more nourishing so those that feed upon sweet herbs also the flesh of wild beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer than that of the tame so likewise of birds And as to the preparation beasts after they have been fatted with goood food as often as they desire it in a clean and spatious place and chased then killed in their season they either keep relinquish or alter their property by preparation here therefore it 's to be noted that flashy meate and naturally moist should be dressed with a dry heate as in baking broiling frying and rosting and meats naturally exceeding in arynesse and firmnesse should ever be boiled and the temperate may be used any way if crude it 's eaten only by the barbarians if rosted it yeeldeth a dry aliment and often retaineth the excrements if adust it 's worse if fryed with externall humidity it 's sweet by reason of its fat humidity but by reason it doth not conveniently emit its internall superfluity but rather imbibeth more of the redundant externall it 's hardly concocted nidorulent and torrifieth the bloud if seasoned with salt and spices it is yet dryer if boiled it's dryer within yet by reason of exteriour humidity it moistâ—neth and descendeth sooner but rosted meat hath more of it 's own proper and naturall moisture that of the boiled passing into the broth and therefore it nourisheth lesse except eaten with the broth yet boiled flesh is best for such as are yet growing and so of a hot temper as also for such as are sick of hot and dry diseases and that in hot and dry countries and seasons of the yeare but rosted meats are best for those who are of a cold and moist temper who are loose and subject to cold and moist diseases if stewed being equaly prepared it generateth good temperate and permeable juyce if seasoned it 's according to the cookery Note also that flesh engendreth better purer and more perfect bloud than fish for sound men is the best sustenance As for the Parts of beasts The musculous flesh is more hot by vivifick heate than in birds therefore they grow larger the head is edible sc of the cow calfe sow boar kid hare c. but of hard concoction thick and viscous juyce yet of much nourishment the tongue is loose fungous humid and glutinous therefore it yeeldeth not a solid
feed upon garbage carrion or cittie filth and the like are not so sweet wholsome and pleasant as they which feed themselves in seas and rivers they injoying the benefit of fresh aire agreable water and meat correspondent to their own nature In respect of place those that live in fennes being more muddy and lesse exercised are full of excrements most slimy unsavory last digested and soonest corrupted those of great lakes are better the pond-fish are soone fatted having much meat and little exercise but they are not so sweet as river fish except they have been kept in rivers to scoure themselves especially if kept in standing ponds not fed with continual springs nor refreshed with fresh waters those of rivers if troubled and defiled with the filth of great citties are bad for the stomach of grosse substance and of difficult excretion but those of clear waters are better than the lakish and they are best and most wholsome and light when they live in rocky sandy or gravelled rivers running northward or eastward and are best when swimming up highest but those that live in slow short and muddy rivers are excrementitious of corrupt juyce and of a bad smell and evil taste the marine living in seas agitated with the wind and boreal have very good flesh by reason of their exercise and purity of the wind and sea fish is not only the sweetest of all other but the least hurtful and though their substance be thicker and more fleshy yet it 's most light and easy of concoction and wholsome the salt water washing away the inward filth it 's lesse moist and clammy easier of concoction sooner turned into blood and every way fitter for mans body when the next continent is clean gravely sandy or rockey and northeast and not calme or muddy the pelagious living in the bottom of the sea are of a hard flesh hardly concocted but of much nourishment the littoral by exercise dissipating the excrements of their feeding are better than the former the saxatil are easily concocted of good juyce abstersive light and of little nourishment sc those that keep their place and feeding the wanderers by reason of their constant motion and beating of the waves have harder flesh the fossile have a hard and unpleasant flesh and sometimes have been so bad that all have dyed that have eate thereof the Amphibii living partly on the land partly in the water by reason of the variety of their meat and motion are hardly approved of also fishes of the same kind and species differ in their goodnesse according to the healthfulnesse of the place in which they live and some are better in the ocean than in the mediterranean and the contrary Note that be a fish well grown it sheweth it's heal thy if fat it 's young and new it 's sweet and keepeth but till the next day if fed in a muddy or filthy water it soon corrupting also sodden fish or broiled is presently to be eaten hot for kept cold in one day if without pickle or vineger it will corrupt and hurt the eater and if taken out of a pan it 's not to be covered with a platter least the congealed vapour drop thence and so cause vomiting scouring or corruption in the veines also before the eating of a fish dinner the body is not to be heated with exercise least the juyce too soone drawn by the liver corrupt the whole masse of blood neither is it to be sodden or eaten without salt pepper wine onions or hot spices all fish compared with flesh being cold and moist of little nourishment engendring watrish and thin blood though crabs skate cockles and oisters procure lust yet it 's not by great nourishment but by wind making sharp nature and tickling and such sperme is unfruitful furthermore those fish which are scaly and have a substance that crumbles easily are more wholsome than those that are without them being of a dryer substance but the other are more slimy moist and glutinous As for the Parts of fishes The head in some is edible as that of the mullet salmon umber and carp The tongue is tender and fat in the dolphin sweet in the carp and causeth venery â—he eyes in the salmon are tender and fat The barbs are counted delicate The neck and throat salted are pleasant and hardly vitiated The livers of the aselli are counted better than those of other fishes and that of the sheath-fish is so sweet that it causeth nauseousnesse that of the pike rosted and seasoned with the juyce of an orange is not inferiour to that of geese The sides of sturgians and lampreys are commended The bowells are commended in the scarus and are pleasant in the dolphin by their taste and smell The belly of the huso tasteth like hoggs flesh that of tunies is to be seasoned with salt vineger and fennel The lactes are commended in the huso and lamprey The abdomen in the tuny is fat and savorie The intestines are commended in the pike salmon asellus conger The ilia of the flounder are commended also The Ioines are counted good in the sphyraena The taile in the pike and tunie is desireable The skin of the tench is by some women preferred before the flesh The egges or spawn of perches broil'd of carps sod and fried of the pike salmon and huso seasoned are desireable but those of barbels cause pain in the belly As for medicine the crustaceous or testaceous are all of a saline and tartareous nature and yeeld excellent remedies to resolve the stone or tartar to help the strangury dysury ischury and difficulties and suppression of urin the collick passion and tartareous diseases of the lungs c. And outwardly they are used in dentifrices especially if burnt also they consolidate and dry chaps in the skin And all kinds of stones found in the heads of fishes powdred and drunk in wine help the collick and stone in the reines 4. Of Serpents there are few that are eaten or that eate them And as for medicine the body having the head and taile cut off and intrals cast away being flead well washed boiled with wine with aromatized broth is commended against the leprosy The fume provoketh the menses Boiled in oile with the flowers of cowslips it helps the gout The ashes helpe fistula's And as for the parts The eye applied is said to help epiphora's The heart bitten or applied helps the toothach The liver eaten is said to be prophylactick The gall helps bitings of mad dogs tasted caseth delivery and applied helps the hemorrhoids The blood makes red the lips applied cleanseth the skin and helps stinking of the gumms The fat with other things helps the french disease the palsey and gout boiled with may butter and strained and with bulls gall in pessaries it helps sterility The flesh cleanseth the skin and a dramme of the powder taken with syrup of honey helps the leprosy also it helps wounds and cut sinews The
cast skin helps falling off of the haire and cleareth the eyes rubbed therewith boiled in vineger it helps the toothach and bringeth out the same and boiled in vineger or oile it helps pains of the eares And the fume with apopanax myrrh galbanum castoreum and pigeons ar hawks dung bringeth forth the foetus alive or dead The Particular Serpents See after 5. Of Infects few are used as meat except snailes which some count most dainty sweet and nourishing meat and are best towards winter having scoured themselves and those are to be preferred that are of a midle size feeding in the summer time in hilly places upon wholsome herbs and are to be eaten after september also they are bad for those that are of cold and moist complexions being cold 1° and moist 2° but help those that are hot cholerick thirsty inflamed watchful and those that have ulcers of the lungs being parboil'd in warme water and so broil'd upon the coles and eaten As touching the use of insects in medicine there is little to be said in general but of them as also of the rest of the irrational animals see more after more particularly in Alphabetical order Having thus spoken of Animals as to their general differences in respect of parts magnitude place qualities meat generation motion voice life and actions c. together with their use as Meats with their differences as considered in kind substance temperature taste preparation age sexe feeding and place and of their several parts both natural and excrementitious in general as also of their use in Medicine it may not be amisse to adde something concerning Sawces c. Which serve to help the want of appetite and digestion and fit each meat to the several stomacks by which it is to be received As for Sawces therefore they are either hot serving if the stomach want appetite by reason of cold and raw humours furring it and dulling the sense of feeling in its orrifice are made of dill fennel mints organy parsly dried gilli-flowers galingal mustard seed garlick onions leekes juniper-berries sage time vervain betony salt cinamon ginger mace cloves nutmegs pepper pills of citrons limons and orenges grains cubebs c. mixe 1. 2. or 3. of them as need requireth with wine or vineger made strong of rosemary or gillyflowers or cold helping the stomach and appetite hurt by much choller or adust and putrifyed phlegme as those made of sorrel lettuce spinache purselane or saunders mixt with vineger verjuyce cider alegar or water or the pulp of prunes apples and currens c. some help also for slow digestion which is caused by coldnesse of the stomach or hardnesse of the meat and helped by hot things mustard therefore is to be used with beefe and all kinds of salted flesh and fish and onion sauce with duck widgin teal and all water foule salt and pepper with venison and galingal sawce with the flesh of cygnets garlick or onions boiled in milk with a stuble goose and sugar and mustard with red deere crane shovelar and bustard and others are for temperate meats and speedy of digestion as pork mutton lamb veale kid hen capon pullet chicken rabbet partridg and pheasant c. these therefore must have temperate sawces as mustard and green-sauce for pork verjuice and salt for mutton juyce of orenges or limmons with wine salt and sugar for capons pheasants and partridges water and pepper for wood-cocks vineger and butter or the gravet of rosted meat with rabbets pigeons or chickens for such meats their sawces being too cold or too hot would quickly corrupt in the stomach being else most nourishing of their own nature but others are to be corrected by artificial preparation and appropriated sawce which nature hath made queazy or heavy to indifferent stomacks These are the chief meats sawces or matter of Aliment yet many times they are joyned with other Vegetables c. they serving likewise for meat nourishment of which the Substance of some is grosse as of cucumbers turneps beans hard pease brown and rye bread c. that of others is mean and of good juyce as sodden lettuce skirrets almonds raisins and bread made of the purest wheat new well baked and leavened the hard are not easily concocted but quickly corrupted the soft are soon corrupted the viscid are hardly distributed others are of firme or infirme aliment and of easy or difficult concoction or corruption In respect of Quality they are either hot attenuating thick humours inciding the viscid discussing flatulency and increasing choller in the temperate and some are hot in the first degree as new hasle-nuts new almonds asparagus borrage bur-roots skirret-roots white thistle roots hop-buds parsneps wheat rice figs sugar raisins sweet apples and ripe pomegranates others 2° as ripe mulberries new walnuts pickled olives preserved capers phisticks dates chestnuts artichokes carrots potatoes parsly raddish roots eryngo roots nutmegs and saffron 3° mints tarragon onions leekes alisanders old wallnuts cinamon ginger cloves and pepper and 4° skallions garlick and ramsies but such as are hot beyond the second degree are rather medicine than meat others are cold tempering the heat of the stomach and blood but cause flatulency and are so 1° as pompions melons cherries straw-berries peaches some apples peares quinces medlars services spinache succory sorrel goose-berries cabbage coleworts pease and beans 2° prunes damsins apricocks most sorts of plumms lettuce endive citrons orenges limmons gourds and cucumbers some are moist helping the drynesse of the parts and loosening the belly and are so 1° as pine-apple kernels new filbeards sweet almonds dates sperage spinache borrage hop buds carrots turneps and French pease others are dry which are hardly concocted and nourish strongly but cause a melancholick juyce and help those that are overmoistened and are so 1° as straw-berries soure fruit medlars fennel artichokes coleworts and reddish saffron 2° cinnamon nutmegs ginger galanga pears quinces soure pomegranats pickled olives phisticks chestnuts succory sorrel parsly onions leekes limons citrons beans and rice 3° poudred capers services mints garlick ramsies scallions water-cresses cloves and the best cinnamon 4° pepper and all things over seasoned therewith And the rest are temperate not exceeding the first degree as fine wheat c. and are the best being easily concocted nourishing much yeelding good aliment not easily corrupted or gaining an evill quality and such as leave little excrement As for the Taste some are bitter as sperage hop sprouts broom-buds and wormwood c. others sharp as onions skallions leeks garlick radish mustard seed cresses and hot spices others soure as sorrel limons orenges citrons soure fruit and things strong of vinegar and verjuyce some are austere and acerb binding if taken first but loosening if used last as rosted quinces wardens services medlars c. others insipid as melons pompions pears apples berries plums of noe rellish c. others are sweet c. but amongst all other things that arise from plants the chiefe is
wheat serving to make the best bread of which agreeth to all stomachs without which if meat be eaten it soon corrupteth and passeth out of the body and it 's to be made of the purest wheat well cleansed washed kept and ground with clean water lukewarme a little salt mean leaven well moulded and slit made into mean loaves well baked and full of eyes and it 's then to be eaten being 24. houres old the crumbs to nourish and the crust to dry and the leavened for weak stomachs in such quantity as may make a convenient mixture of meat and drink and the more when the meats are liquid to retain them avoiding fulnesse thereof it being most dangerous by reason of its clamminesse If new and hot it 's thirsty and windy if two dayes old dry hardly concocted if old musty it 's melancholick and binding if heavy it 's flatulent and troublesome and the bisket is dry if branny it nourisheth best but passeth soonest through the belly but the finer is more nourishing the domestick is good the unleavened is heavy and the unsalted obstructive also Drink is no lesse necessary serving to mix the meat and bread and help their distribution restore the humid substance of the body and quench thirst help to concoction and fusion and to hinder inflammation of the nutritive fat and the most simple is Water the purest of which is cold and moist and the best is clear limpid without muddinesse or contents taste or smell thin and smooth which runs presently through the hypochondria and is soon distributed through the body soone hot or cold and lightest Therefore Fountain water is to be preferred having these qualities eastern and running through sand or gravel the southern and northern are worse raw heavy and of slow passage it 's bad if running through pipes Rain water is next best being brought in earthen pipes into a cistern or through gravel in spring and with gentle showres and kept clean in a cistern it 's worse if falling in stormes if with thunder it 's most light and thin but soone corrupting that of snow and ice is thick hurts the ventricle and causeth griefs of the joynts and bowels that taken in cisterns is bad if falling from houses by reason of the lime c. Well waters are thick and heavy obstructing yet are better having good fountains neere them drawn out of deep wells if the sun come at them often drawn cleansed remote from dung hills and the water is sweet in clay colder in tophous earth thin in sand and best amongst red stones of good taste in gravel cold at the bottom of mountains and best amongst stones and flints River-water is sometimes preferred before well water being sweet and clear and taken from swift streams flowing in good ground and a temperate region That of standing pooles and lakes is the worst thick raw and sometimes malignant hurting the stomach corrupting the humours stopping the bowels and causing putrid feavers but water may be corrected by boyling it An other sort of drink is Beere which is made of wheat oats or rye but chiefely of barly which by reason of hopps is hot and diuretical and if new it 's unwholsome obstructive and begets the stone the defecated is more wholsome and ale is said to make fat As for Metheglin it 's hot and soon turned into choller And Wine generally is hot and dry cherishing the heart increasing the spirits refreshing the strength purging choller by urin and provoking the expulsion of excrements and the Muscadine is of good juyce Malago heats the stomach and helps the collick The Rhenish is thin strengthning the heart and restorative The Thin soon penetrats quickly restoreth openeth provokes sweat and urin and is of lesse aliment such is the aquose deep yellow and yellow the Thick is more nutritive heating drying sticking and sometimes obstructing as the black red sweet and austere the White is colder than the yellow or deep yellow if thin also the deep Yellow is next it and good if thin the Red doth moderately heat begets good blood troubles not the head if thick also but obstructeth the spleen liver Claret is almost of the same vertue the Black is of a thicker substance for the most part sweet very nourishing and begets thick blood but causeth obstructions and filleth the head the Sweet nourisheth well and is pleasant to the pallat bowels lungs and mouth and troubleth not the head but obstructeth and turneth into choller the Austere is lesse hot resteth longer in the belly penetrats to the passages of urin and helps fluxes but because it restraineth spittle it 's not to be used in the deseases of the breast and the Mean is best the Fragrant by it's smell restoreth strength increaseth the spirits and strengthneth the faculties and is good for old men but that it fills the head and troubleth the nerves that without smell is not so desired or nourishing and that affected with an other smell is noxious Muste causeth the collick and hindreth urin the New is excrementitious of difficult distribution and causeth fluctuation the Old troubleth the nerves and head but the Mean is better for use Thus meat in general is a more grosse and corporeal substance taken either from living creatures living upon the earth or living ever or sometimes in the water or vegetables in the earth whereby the grosser part of our body is preserved and liquours are thin and liquid nourishment serving as a sted to convey meat to every member and are converted most easily into humours in the body This is the chief matter of meat and drink by which the body of man is preserved augmented and strengthned there is further to be observed that what is according to nature is to be preserved a mean is alwayes to be followed suddain mutations are to be avoided things accustomed are not presently to be left off bodies in exact health are to be cherished with their likes those that recede from it are by little and little and moderately to be reduced to the contrary occult qualities are so to be preserved that the temper of the body be not hurt the innate heat of all the parts is to be preserved by moderate heaters and binders The Aire most wholsome must be temperate pure clean thin open free without any ill vapours moistnesse or corruption but moved with gentle winds and serene and seasonable sc hot and moist in spring hot and dry in summer cold and dry in autumne cold and moist in winter so for the months according to the quadrature of the moon and for the dayes in respect of morning noon evening and night the effects of which are according to the qualities and winds yet all winds in their proper nature moisten and cool but alter according to the site and condition of places through which they blow the septentrional being most vehement the oriental moderately hot and dry and moist from the sea the occidental moderately cold
distributiō the evacuatiō of excrements but if immoderate it dissipats the spirits dryeth the body chiefely the brain increaseth choller inflames the heat being dissipated causeth cold diseases Excretiōs retētions likewise must be regarded the excrements being too long retained begetting several diseases sc apepsie nauseousnesse putrid vapours the collick giddiness head ach but if naturally evacuated they are soft of a midle substance brown colour not of very offensive smell and corresponding with the quantity of things received And if they are often evacuated they ease the body and preserve health if frequently and long it weakens the body and corrodes the intestines Vrin natural is of a moderate substance brown colour with or without sediment white smooth corresponding to the quantity of liquour taken if it be too long retained it distends the urinary passages if the serous humidity be not attracted by the reines it causeth the cachexie and dropsy Insensible transpiration if prohibited causeth great diseases as pleurefies peripneumonies and putrid feavers c. but if according to nature it preserveth health The sperme unduely retained causeth a heavinesse of the whole body and dangerous accidents if corrupted if too much evacuated it dissipats natural heat debilitats the whole body accumulats crudities hurts the nerves and causeth the palsey and debility of mind the flux of the flowers should be moderate according to the temper and custom of the woman with certain intervals and periods as for Venery it hurteth men more than women if immoderate and it 's to be used chiefly in youth and at the middle age But it hurts old men and those of a dry and weak constitution when used the interval must be such that the body may be lighter after than before also it 's worst after hard drinking strong exercises in time of famin or after long evacuations The Passions of the mind are no lesse to be regarded they if moderate preserving health and decaying it if immoderate and therefore they are to be bridled and as for the effects Immoderate love doth accend and often causeth palpitation madnesse or fainting Joy if moderate it recreats the heart and vital spirits if suddain and excessive it so dissipats the spirits that often it causeth death Sadnesse doth by degrees dissolve the spirits cool and dry the body hurt concoction and cause watching and melancholick diseases palenesse and smallenesse of pulse Fear cals the heat inwards makes cold pale weak causeth loosenesse resolution of the muscles and sometimes death with a small pulse Anger moves the spirits outwards agitats the same and humours beats causeth feavers trembling abortion and death Externals also may be profitable as Baths which alter much but often do not a little hurt those that seldom use them or that are cocochymick plethorick rheumatick and inclined to inflammations and the erysipelas That of the vapour of sweet water heateth at first relaxeth and moisteneth after it melteth causeth sweat and if used long it dryeth Water hot moisteneth but first heateth the hot vapours being gone it cooleth attenuats and dryeth if tepid cooleth the hot and heateth the cold relaxeth and impinguats moderately used and concocts used long it dissolves and discusseth therefore it 's moderately to be used by those that are hot and slender it helping them as also the kectical melancholick dry feavers thirsty weary painful and cutaneous affections if cold it refrigerats binds thickens strengthens calls in heat helps concoction prevents external injuryes but is bad for such as use not a good diet or exercise or are bound or full of crudities and sharp vapours The artificial vary according to the ingredients and the medicate according to their minerals the sulphureous heating drying and resolving and the nitrous dry and cleanse Inunctions may be used before or after bathing Friction if hard hardens and thickens and the contrary if soft the mean is indifferent if much it dssolves and extenuats if mean it increases flesh in the morning after evacuation of excrements it helps the dry and weary so in the evening and helps the atrophie As for Garments they all heat if of silk they heat more and mollifie if fine and heate more if villous cloth heateth and dryeth that of skins if full of hair is warmest Scarlet is hot and draws forth the spirits that which is aromatized is naught for a hot brain and causeth head-ach if linnen and flaxen made white with lime it biteth and causeth scabbinesse and that of hemp is dryer This may suffice to be said in general of Animals as used in diet together with the quantity quality time order manner of eating them custom season of the year with other things necessary as motion and rest sleeping and watching excretions and retentions passions of the mind and externals c. Now more particularly as for the diet of those that are great and of infants c. see the regimen after And those betwixt 21. 50. should use a quātity that may not load less if hard the stomach cold appetite wanting idle in sūmer time if too much it 's to be corrected by fasting sleep abstinence rest vomiting using flesh chiefely with suitable sawces to the temper yet sparingly or little often according to age temperament life custom twice in a day or oftner if labouring chollerick lean and when appetite with some variation according to custom least at night if health decays the liquid first laxāts last to loosen the corruptible apart drinking without fluctuation betwixt eating after concoction the stomach not being empty also the affections must be moderate motion little if lean hungry or meat crude moderate before after it avoiding study long exercise sleeping 6 or 9 houres on the right side first the members being contracted head elevated upon a soft bed avoiding often long bathing before concoction not eating soon after voiding excrements by lenients exercise dayly That of old men must be hot moist so the aire of good juyce and easy concoction With a little honey thrice in a day in exact quantity with some change thin wine midle aged mulse or beer shunning passions using gentle exercise frictions long sleep and lenients as honey raisins c. That of the Intemperate must be altered by degrees to the cōtrary til tēperate if declining fasting bleding purging if recovering by purging moist easy fit good meat This may suffice concerning Animals their differerences use as meat and medicine sauces things to be joyned therewith in diet sc bread drink water wine beere fit aire the quantity of meats quality time order manner of eating custom season of the year with motion rest sleeping watching excretions and retentions passions of the mind externals particular dietetick rules serving for the preservation of health by the use of Irrational Animals Now follow the Rational for whose use they are II. Rational viz. Man who is
gall drunk in warm water helpeth the body though almost frozen Damoc. drunk 3 dayes fasting it helpeth those that are bitten by a mad Dogg Plin. this as also that of a Boar helpeth apostumes in any parts and spots in the face Marcel it cureth cankers that are about ulcers which Plin. affirmeth of the curd of an hare being applied gangreens Marcel it helpeth the leprosy being applied every day Rhas being annointed with the fat being applied with a little pepper it helpeth the alopecia Marcel the gall is good against the pains of the joynts Diosc in a lohoch it helpeth the epilepsie Sext. so taken in warm water it is also commended by Arnoldus Physiol it is hot and dry helpeth the palsey Plin. applied it helpeth suffusions of the eyes Marcel with that of a hyena and Hony mixed it helpeth the dimnesse of the sight being constantly used Gal. It helpeth rotten teeth the toothach being applied Sext. being drunk in hot water it helpeth shortnesse of breath in a few dayes so Marcel Plin. drunk in water it openeth the parts for respiration Rhas gr 6. being drunk with Honey and hot water help the Asthma Plin. with Honey it helpeth the cough Gal. Sec. Loc. there is an antidote made thereof against the hardnesse of the Liver The q. of a Greek bean helpeth the jaundise drinking water after it So Gal. Eupor Aet a pessary thereof as also of that of a Lyon or Hyena or Bull sc of the vesicle filled with the narde ointment Flowerdeluce Rosate and Honey an melted together on coals helpeth the conception being used after the purgation of the menses before copulation Rhas the Gall being bound upon the left thigh causeth strength in venery without damage Plin. with fat it helpeth the vices of the fundament some adde the spume of silver and frankincense Rhas gr 6. drunk with Honey and hot water help the Hemorrhoids Plin. the testicles help the falling sicknesse Myrepsus maketh a suffumigation thereof with other things against the Epilepsie Marcel the Milk as also that of a bitch when fresh dropped into the eares helpeth the pain thereof as for the remedies against the bitings of a Bear as also of Lyons and Panthers see in that of Lyons As for the description it may be omitted the beast being common They are very venerious and copulate in February or beginning of Winter after the manner of rationalls they goe 30. dayes and bring forth 5. young sometimes they are enemies to the Sea Calfe Horse Boar and the dead their noise is terrible Having eaten the apples of Mandrakes they eat pismires When wounded they feed on dry herbs As for the differences they are great or little black or white Jonst Bears blould killeth fleas Their fat is used in the weapon salve some use the skin for garments and coverings as also to seem terrible in warre Pallad The grease preserveth iron tools in Winter Mizald. and vines Schrod the fat doth heat resolve mollifie and discusse Being anointed on the os sacrum it helpeth the Enterocele and falling down of the womb Also it maketh hair white In Finlandia the Rusticks use the dryed Gall in stead of a Panacea Beaver Castor P. It 's an amphibion in Helvetia Russia and Prussia c. M. Fish fruits and barkes of Trees N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fiber Arab. Albednester Canis Ponticus Beaver Gesn T. the flesh is bitter Albert and all abominated except the tail Some boil it first and then rost it or fry it in open vessells that the stinking smell thereof may evaporat The tail and hinder leggs are sweet tender and fat like the tuny having a solid and certain tenaceous fatness in taste almost like the Eele Gluttons desire much the membrans that are betwixt the toes being betwixt fish and flesh and they are therefore used in the time of fasting Some rost the tail and casting a little Ginger thereon serve it to the table others boil it and season it with some thick broth Schrod V. The fat is peculiar to the nervous parts and womb also it helpeth the falling sicknesse convulsions and resolutions of the parts and the apoplexie c. The Castor or testicles being taken out and well cleansed are dryed and so kept hung up in some shadowy place and last 7. years It is adulterated sometimes with gumme ammoniack kneaded with Castor and the Castors bloud and so put into little bladders and dryed As also by the reins thus used yet it may be thus discovered the light testicles arising both from one beginning also the adulterine are greater and the genuine are of a strong and unpleasant smell and of a strong sharp biting and bitter taste and of a brittle substance besides that is bad also which is black and mouldy As for the vertues of Castor T. it is hot 3° dry 2° it attenuats opens and discusseth flatulency V. It strengthneth the nervous parts and head It awakeneth the dull animal spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing is anodyne provoketh the termes therefore it is good in the lethargy apoplexy epilepsy palsey vertigo trembling of the joynts defluxions to the same strangulation of the womb and collick being used both inwardly and outwardly also it helpeth the ringing of the ears difficulty of hearing and pain of the teeth being dropped into the same In the suffocation of the womb it may be used to the nostrills bound to the armepits or put into the Navill also it correcteth the virulency of opium The skinne being dressed and worn helpeth the gout and palsey The D. of the extract is from gr 5. to 12. Gesn Plin. The skinne of a beaver being burned with tarre to ashes and mixed with the juyce of a leek stoppeth bleeding at the Nose Plin. The urine resisteth poyson and is put into antidotes Gesn The Gall is very usefull and the curd helpeth the falling sicknesse so that of the Sea Calfe Castorium drunk in mulled water q. drach 2. looseneth the belly it is of very thin parts and best for cold and moist bodies The suffumigation helpeth the affections of the Lungs and head if without a Feaver It helpeth scirrhous dispositions It helpeth against poyson as of the Chameleon drunk in vineger c. And of the Scorpion in Wine and the common and field Spider in mulse causing them to be evacuated by vomiting also against Lizards and the cerastes and prester with panax or rue and wine and other Serpents in wine and against misselto drach 2. being given in vineger also against aconite in Milk and Water as also against white Hellebore in mulled water with nitre so Plin. Avic It helpeth also against the biting of small venemous creatures Plin. scr 1. sem taken in unc 6. of wine helpeth those that are infrigidated Applied diverse dayes with Honey it is a psilothron the hairs being first pulled away Plin. With ladanum it helpeth fistula's Avic It helpeth cold abscesses and malignant ulcers Plin. It causeth sleep with oile of
roses and sowsennell the head being anointed therewith and it drunk in Water therefore it helpeth the phrensy and pains of the head Avic Applied plaisterwise it helps the cold and flatulency of the head Gal. So the fume taken Hippoc. It helps the headach caused by the womb Being given in unc 4. sem of mulled vineger fasting it helpeth the falling sickness which if often troubling it way be used in a clyster sc drach 2. being added to a sextary of Honey Oyl and Water but those that are presently affected it helpeth with vineger applied it helps diverse affections of the nerues and other vices or pounded to the thicknesse of Honey with the seed of vitex in vineger or rose Oyl as also against the falling sicknesse so Plin. Also it helpeth the epilepsy and other cold affections of the head Scrup. 1. 2. or 3. being taken with the juyce of rue or Wine in which it hath been decocted so Platear Also applied it helpeth the vertigo so reduced to the thicknesse of Honey with the seed of vitex in vineger or oyl of Roses the same helpeth against the palsy and other cold affections of the head Opisthotonos trembling spasme vices of the nerves sciatica and stomach griefs Diosc Plin. Avic Being injected it helpeth the Lethargy and sleepy evill So with vineger and oyl of Roses or smelled to Platear As a sternuratory it helpeth the Lethargy it moving and strengthning the brain or boiled with rues juyce mint and a little vineger and so applied as a cataplasme the head being shaved the powder also may be taken by the nostrills with the juyce of rue or the fume Those that are troubled with oblivion after sicknesses as the Lethargy or plague are best helped by hiera Ruffi and Castor applied with oyl to the hinder part of the head as also drach 1. thereof being drunk with melicrate after purging So Aet Platear the wine in which it hath been decocted with rue and sage helpeth the palsey of the whole body The powder held under the tongue till it be dissolved helpeth the palsey of the same The wine in which it hath been decocted being often used to the genitall effectually with a cataplasme of the same helpeth the palsey Plin. being drunk and applied it helpeth tremblings convulsions spasmes and vices of the nerves With oyl it helps the trembling of the members Gal. Yet it is to be used and applied where there is a convulsion or trembling by plenitude and not when drynesse or emptinesse Plin. The stiffenesse of the neck is mollified by Castor drunk with pepper in mulse mixed therewith and Frogs boiled with oyl and salt that the juyce may be drunk so also it helps the opisthotonos tetanos and spasme with pepper so Plin. also with Honey it cleareth the eyes With the juyce of poppy it helpeth the eares and stamped with oyl or meconium it easeth the pain thereof Avic It helpeth the difficulty of hearing from a could cause or spirits contained therein the q. of a lintel being dissolved in nard-oyl and put in Plin. it helpeth the toothach being put into the eare of the same side Hipp. so held in the mouth with pepper Plin. being taken with a little ammoniacum in mulled vineger fasting it helpeth the shortnesse of breath Avic It causeth thirst Plin. Diosc Avic In vineger it stoppeth the hicket Plin. with a little ammoniacum and mulled vineger drunk hot it helps the spasmes of the stomack Gal. so if by plenitude Plin. Diosc it helpeth against inflations and pains Avic drunk with vineger it helpeth the pricking pain of the belly and dissolveth flatulencies so for the latter with the seed of wild Carrot and stone parsley as much as may be taken up with 3 fingers in unc 6. of hot mulse for the other with vineger and wine Gal. with oxycrat it helpeth flatulency pain and hickets caused by cold and thick humours or grosse and flatulent spirits Archig it helps the collick Aet 2. spoonfulls given in mulled water and that of Aniseeds is also used and is most effectuall Veget. farriers use the fume for the difficulty of urine in Horses Platear Decocted in the juyce of vitex and a little vineger and applied to the pecten and genitalls in a plaister it helpeth the Gonorrhea Plin. being smelled to with vineger and pitch it helpeth against the womb drach 3. being drunk with water and penny royall expell the menses and secundine Diosc And the birth the same drunk by men heateth the genitalls so Albert. against the secundine it is used with panax or alheal Gal. so with melicrat Plin. beaver-stone being walked over by a woman causeth abortion The Diacastorium of Myrepsus helpeth those that are vertiginous epileptick apoplectick paraplectick and resolutions There is a plaister also thereof for the same It is also put into oyls and errhines H. Matth. Pet. Apon corrupted Castor causeth madnesse and rage a putting forth of the tongue and Feaver the cure is by butter and muld water to cause vomiting sufficiently sc till the scent be gone and then use Diamoron the rob of limons or syrup thereof or juyce of Citrons else Coriander seed Avic vineger and Asses milk or Philo his antidote Jonst the fore parts of the Beaver are hot the hinder are very cold Rondel the suffumigation helps conception The Gall causeth venery The tail helps the wounds of the intrails The teeth hanged about the neck are an amulet against falls The fat taketh fishes The skins are used by some to make garments of As for the differences some are black reddish or mixed those are counted Masters these servants They generate in the beginning of summer and bring forth in the end of autumne if they bite they leave not till the crackling of the bones They are cleanly in their houses love their young use their fore feet like hands when bound in their body they put their hinder parts into the water They gnaw down trees to build with and draw them on the bellies of their antients Their cry is like that of an infant As for their description they are of an ash colour blackish on the back sharp toothed forefooted like a Dogg and like a goose behind and tailed like a fish with skales thereon Boar. Aper P. In Egypt Macedonia and England c. M. Acorns chesnuts fearn roots c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Chasir Arab. Kaniser Boare Cels T. the braun is of light concoction and the Domestick is the best Also it is very strong and of much nutriment Avic Hoggs flesh either Domestick or wild is of easie concoction quickly decending polytrophick and of a thick and viscous juyce Others say it is cold and viscous Hippoc. The wild dryeth and strengthneth Schrod V. The wild Boare is of the nature of the Domestick but stronger in faculty The fat thereof is used in the weapon salve and to help the pain of the sides mollifie matter and help the excreation of bloud drunk in Wine or Vineger in
Tops Some Husbandmen burn the hornes or dung of their bugills on the windy side of their Corne or Plants to keep them from Cankers and Blasting their Hornes serve to make bowes of As for the description they are of the kind of wild Oxen but greater and taller thicker and stronger than the ordinary They fight with the feet like the Horse and when angry run into the water Lonic Aldrov the Vrin with Myrrh and Oile helpeth the eares the dung helpeth tumours Bull. Taurus P. Almost every where in all Countries M. They feed on Grasse Hay Leaves c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Tor. and Taur Arab. Bull. T. Gal. The flesh of Goats is the worst both for juyce and to be concocted then that of Rams and lastly the Bulls flesh of all which the gelded are best and the oldest the worst both for concoction juyce and nutriment Plin. V. The slough of Serpents with a Bulls skin helpeth the Convulsion Gal. Rhas the filings of the Horne drunk with water stop the flux of bloud Gal. and the flux of the belly Sext. Aesculap the Horn burned where Serpents are driveth them away Diosc The bloud discusseth and mollifieth hard tumours with Barley flower Plin. being powdered and applied it helpeth impostumes as also that of Bugils Gal. it helpeth abscesses as also that of Bores and Goats Aesculap it killeth Serpents Sext. Aesculap Applied it helpeth all spots of the face Applied hot it helpeth broken bones so Gesn Plin. being powdered it helpeth swellings behind the eares Some commend it against the gout Used dry with penny wort it helpeth phagedens fistula's Gesn the fat is in a mediocrity It helpeth spots in the face as also the Gall of a Calf with the herb Cunila sc the seed thereof the powder of Harts-horne burned in the beginning of the Dogg-dayes Sext. Applied with Rosin and Fullers earth it discusseth all hardnesses Aesculapius appointeth Wax for the same purpose Plin. With that of Bares and Wax it helpeth the swellings behind the eares With rue it helpeth the Morphew Warts Wens and the Like with that of a Hogge and night shade It helpeth the botches of Women with the ashes of Aspes With that of the Beare and Wax an With Hypocistis and Galls it helpeth the Gout some use it for the same purpose with that of geese and oesypus Diosc The Marrow is next to that of the Hart and Calf next to which is that of the Goat and Sheep It is dryer and hotter than the two first or sharper Sext. Drunk in Wine it helpeth the tormina Aesculap or rather tremblings Rhas So being mixed with a fourth part of red rue and Oile of bayes the hands and feet being anointed therewith morning and evening Marcel with that of a Dormouse and Henne melted and put hot into the eares it 's very good for the same Diosc The Gall is better than that of the Sheep Sow Goat or Bare being of the same nature but lesse effectual It is dryer than that of the Oxe and hotter Mixed with Honey it is used in plaisters and Theriack remedies ourwardly that are vulnerary Rhas As also in Malignant ulcers Plin. Also other ulcers with Oile of Cypresse Diosc And Phagedens Plin. It helpeth Fistula's with the juyce of leekes or Womens Milk as also Phagedens It cureth burnings Sext. It cureth the biting of the Ape Marcel It helpeth ulcers in the head applied with warme Vineger and hot Scabs with Nitre Wine and Oile Plin. As also the Alopecia with Aegyptian Alum Diosc With Nitre and Fullers earth it helps the Leprosy and scurse Plin. In water it helpeth the spots in the face the skinne being taken off and Sun and Wind avoided also it taketh away Freckles Decocted with the fat of Goats an and drunk in water it helpeth the falling sickness Rhas The stone in the Gall doth the same sharpneth the sight and preventeth humours flowing thether Plin. the Gall with the white of an Egge serveth for collyries being used 4. dayes together in Water Aesculap With Honey and Balsame it helps the vices of the eyes and the dimnesse and weft with mulse Sext. And pain of the eares Plin. As also with the juyce of Leeks warme or Honey if there be a suppuration and stench being heated in the rind of a pome-granat Diosc Also dropped in with Goats or Womans Milk as also ruptures Marcel So with Laserwort and Oile of Cedar Avic It helpeth the ulcers of the eare Rhas 2. or 3. drops help the ringing of the same So Diosc With the juyce of Leeks Plin. It helpeth the teeth as also the Milk of Goats Diosc applied with Honey it helpeth the quinsey so Marcel also salt vineger and old oile may be added Cows milk boiled and drunk helps the dysentery with Honey and the ashes of the horne if there be pain or else the Gall mixed with Cummin seed Gourds being applied to the Navil Marcel Applied with a cloath to the Navil it killeth Wormes Diosc It cicatrizeth the vices of the fundament so Plin. and Avic some use it to open the Hemorrhoids Gal. Put into the fundament in a cloth it looseth the belly so applied to the Navil of Children Plin. So with wormwood or lupines pounded Applied from the Navil downwards with Honey it helpeth the pains of the scrotum and genitalls Plin. It helpeth the pterygia dissolved in hot water some adde Sulphur an and Alum Marcel With butter the marrow of a Hart and Oile of Cypresse and bayes it helpeth bruised knees Avic It helpeth the pain of the womb Applied with new shorn wool it helpeth the purgations of Women Some adde Hysop and Nitre Plin. So the powder of Harts-horne applied and Bulls Gall with opium Hippoc. Being drunk with Wine in the morning fasting and pills made thereof used it provokes the termes Rhas Given in water of coloquintida it presently expels the birth With Serpents grease rust of brasse and Honey applied it helpeth sterility caused by Child birth Sext. The genital of a Bull soaked in vineger and applied causeth the face to shine so the glue thereof Rhas That of a red Bull drunk by Women causeth a lothing of venery yet the later authors affirme the contrary Gal. The Horne burned stoppeth bloud Aesculap The dung discusseth tumours hard swellings Sext. Drunk with hot water it cureth all griefs Applied hot it helpeth the Alopecia Burned and cast upon Wine or hot water it helpeth burnings Plin. Applied it maketh the Cheeks reddish being fomented with cold water both before after Diosc The fume helpeth the falling down of the Womb. Plin. Marcel The urin helpeth the Leprosy and Scurf Marcel And if old also the head being washed therewith Plin. With Goats Gall it prevents what troubles Cattle It helpeth running ulcers of the head and Scurfe with Brimstone Diosc Dropped into the eares with Myrrhe it helpeth the paines thereof The fume as also of that of Man helpeth deafenesse with a third part of vineger and a little
helpeth the alopecia with sowbread and brimstone but this is more effectual Being warmed it extennars cicatrices with myrrhe honey and saffron to which some add the flowers of brasse which Marcellus the Empirick appropriateth to the eyes being boiled with vineger with a like quantity of the slough of a Serpent and put into the eare with a cloath dipped therein being first fomented with hot water by a sponge it giveth great ease It loosneth the belly used as that of the Bull and helpeth the womb to which some adde oile of almonds Plin. The spleen boiled in wine pounded and applied helpeth the small ulcers of the mouth Marcel The glue dissolved in vinegar with a little unslacked lime to the thicknesse of honey applied helpeth the leprosy being left to dry thereon Plin. So boiled with vineger and honey That made of the genitals dissolved in vineger with live brimstone helpeth the tetters of the mouth used twice in a day Plin. It helpeth broken eares dissolved in water Plin. The fume of the dung helpeth those that are hurt by the Scorpion The ashes with vineger stop bloud Marcel With Womens milk it helpeth sordid ulcers Plin. Applied fresh it helps S. Anthonies fire The ashes with the boyled bulbs of lillies and a little honey helpe the paines of swelled vaines and all inflammations and suppurations The ashes with vineger help warts The dung kneaded with oile and gum helpeth the skin discoloured in the summer time Marcel With new oesipus honey butter and a dogs gall mixed it taketh all spots out of the face Plin Boiled in wine it helpeth melancholy Marcel And when fresh helps those that are collerick Plin. That of the male applied helpeth the dropsy Boiled in wine it helpeth the inflation of the intestines It helpeth late luxations so that of a Boar or Sow Marcel And the joynts with the dregs of vineger it helps the gout With vineger it helpeth the swelling of the testicles The ashes with the decocte◠bulbs of lillies and a little honey helpe the gout and articular diseases The urine when first calved with that of a Goat or Bull and a third part of vineger made to fume helpeth the paine of the ears and deafenesse Jonst The bloud of a Calfe with meat cut small being set in a pot for 10. days is a very good baite for fish Camel Camelus P. In Africa and Asia India and Arabia M. Of rushes barley grasse and thistles N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Gamal Arab. Gemal Camel Gal. T. Aristot Plin. Both their milk and flesh are of all the sweetest Their milk is drunk with twice or thrice so much of water yet some commend the milk only as sweet When nere the time of bringing forth there milk is more thinne All milk doth obstruct especially the liver except that of Camels when great and the Asses and Mares so Avic Also it is something salt Being used it causeth freckles or the morphew sc All but this It looseneth the belly as the other two It is the thinnest of all and of a better and more thinner juyce It extenuats thick excrementitious humour and frees from obstructions by reason of its vehement heat so Rhas Also the flesh is hot and dry V. Gesn One that is poysoned being put into the belly of a Camel or Mule new killed is helped thereby the heat thereof resolving the poyson and strengthning the spirits and all parts of the body so Ponzet Avic The flesh provoketh urine yet some affirme it of that of the hart The fat in the bunch burned helps the hemorrhoids by its fume Hal. The bloud dried helpeth the disentery and long flux of the belly Avic It stoppeth fluxions drunk after the purging of the termes it causeth conception so Gesn Though he doubts of the same It helpeth the epilepsie Plin. So the braine dried drunk in vineger so Gal. de Ther. The teeth help the excoriations of the intestines and hemeroides applied The froth drunk maketh demoniack Rhas The powder of the lungs drunk causeth blindness Plin. The Gall drunk with hony helpeth the falling sickness and quinsy Marcel Applied to the forehead it helps dimness of the eyes some adde hony and saffron thereto and then it cureth excrescencies and cicatrices there Plin. The taile dried looseneth the belly The haires thereof twisted together and bound about the arme help quartan agues Avic The milk when they are newly impregnated helpeth the asthma and shortness of breath It helpeth against the dropsy and hardness of the spleen as also that of the Goat and Asse Rhas It strengthens the liver openeth obstructions leasoneth the hard spleen and helpeth the dropsy being drunk hot especially sugar being mixed therewith Avic The milk when first great with oile of mock-privet helpeth the inward parts Except the same all milk is unwholsome for those that are splenetick and hepatick and those that want an attenuating diet For this agreeth with most distempers of the spleen and liver and increaseth the same Also it is very good in the dropsy especially drunk with their urine Avic It causeth a good stomach and thirst also it provoketh the termes and helpeth the vices of the hemorrhoids Haly the milk of a Camel is a good antidote against poyson And it helpeth the decayed temper of the body mollifying the belly Some say the ashes of the dung with oile curle the haire And applied help the dysentery And the epilepsy so much as may be taken with three fingers being drunk Avic The dung hindreth the marks of the small pocks and taketh away warts also it stoppeth the flux of bloud out of the nostrils The white dung powdered and applied with hony represseth tumours and purgeth dry wounds also it resolveth ulcers and schrophula's The urine helps running ulcers Plin. Being drunk it moveth the belly Applied it helpeth dandriff Avic It helps the losse of smelling also it helps the dropsy as also that of a man Matt. Some say that sal ammoniack is made of the urine thereof Jonst As for the description the foot is divided back knobbed taile like the Asses they are teated like a Cow the genital is back wards the buttocks narrow and gall venous They can abstaine from drink 15 dayes They engender backwards a whole day together and goe twelve months They are enemies to the Horse Lion and Oxe-fly Their deseases are the gout and baldness They live a hundred yeares They are revengeful docible love musick are bashful and compassionate They knele down when loaded and carry about 600 weight The Dromedarie will run 100 miles in a day Some are brown some white as to their differences Capricerve Capricerva P. In the Indies Persia Peru and like places M. Of a herb like Saffron and Hermodactils N. Capra Indica Montana Sylvistris Pazon Pers Capricerve Jonst T. The flesh of the last is not very pleasant yet eaten by the Indians V. A piece thereof applied presently helpeth the pain of the eyes being applied fresh Their stone called bezoar Garc.
applied to any bare part of the body it preventeth the hurt by poyson The powder cast upon the bitings of venemous beasts cureth the same and benummeth the beasts being cast thereon also it helpeth all poyson and malignant feavers It helpeth melancholy quartan agues the syncope epilepsy vertigo stone and killeth wormes And is more effectual for women than for men The. D. is gr 12. Of which see more in my Pammineralogie The beast is about the bignesse and likeness of a Stagg Their hair is very fine like silk it helpeth when hot and prevents the inflammation of the reines therefore they fill beds therewith It is said also to help the gout sc Of that called Vicunas which may be here reduced Cat. Catus P. Almost every where In all Countries M. Of flesh fish mice birds lizards rabbits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Catul. and Schanar Feles Cat. Anon. T. The flesh of Conies is like that of the Cat both being sweet It was used formerly in banquets and is still used in other Countries after they are hung out in the aire that they may be more tender and sweeter V. Some count the Cat an uncleane and poysonsome beast Plin. The ashes drive away Mice Ponzet H. The braine of a Cat causeth madnesse being very dry in respect of mans And it so obstructeth the passages thereof that the animal spirits cannot passe to the ventricles of the hinder part so that memory being hindered those that are so affected seeme distracted The cure is by drinking twice a moneth drach 1. of the earth of Lemnos with the water of sweet Marjoram Also spices are to be mixed with the meats to recreate the spirits Wine also is good and sometimes drach sem of Diamoschu dulce there with yet a good order of diet may be sufficient Matth. The braine causeth the vertigo and stupidity which is cured with much difficulty It is to be cured by vomiting and the aforesaid remedies or drach sem of musk powdered drunk in wine Aet The biting of a Cat is cured by those against that of a mad dog But properly honey turpentine and oile of roses mixed and applied Or centaury applied with hony also the dung of a Cock applied with the fatt of the same Some use mans urine with Goats milk and origanum Matth. The Haires are poysonsome The breath also is offensive In so much that some affirme that diverse having kept them in their beds have got an hectick feaver or marasmus thereby And doe therefore often carry the plague about in pestilential times and offend many merely by their sight whom Matthiolus supposeth may be cured by such remedies as serve against the braine thereof Gal. The flesh of Cats salted and bruised draweth out things fixed in the flesh Their flesh is hot and dry helpeth the paine of the hemorrhoids heateth the reines and helpeth the paine of the back Which Iac. Olivar Affirmes Vrsin The loines helpe the like parts So Gesn Although the truth hereof may be questioned Rhas Albert. The flesh of the wild Cat applied helpeth the gout Anon. The bloud of a Cat applied helpeth the soares of the nailes and killeth the wormes thereof Rhas The fat of a wild Cat is of like nature with the flesh Sylv. The fat is betwixt that of a Bull and Sow Ms. The ashes of the head of a black Cat burned in a glazed vessel and put into the eye with a quil thrice in a day helpe the haw weft and web in the eye And if there be heat in the night two or three oake leaves applied wet in water help the same Gal. The liver burned and drunk helpeth the stone Plin. The same taken in the decrease of the moon and drunk in wine after long salting helpeth the fits of quartans Which Sextus attributeth to the dung hanged about the neck with an Owls claw The gall of a wild Cat is very good against the wry mouth The fume extracts the dead birth So applied with coloquintida water by a sponge or put in as a pessary so Rhas and Albert. Sext. Aesculap The dry dung applied with an equal q. of mustard seed and vineger helpeth the alopecia Plin. Some say that rubbed outwardly it causeth bones sticking in the throat to avoid upwards or downwards So Sext Plin. Also it helpeth the exulcerations of the womb Which is affirmed also of the fat of the Fox and marrow of a Calf in wine decoct in water with sewet Jonst The dung with rosin and oile of roses applied stoppeth womens flux A fat Goose being stuffed with the flesh thereof and salt so gently rosted yeeldeth a liquour good against the gout or joynt aches They usually generate in Jannuary and February making a noise by reason of the heat of the sperme scratching of their nailes They goe 56 days and usually bring forth 5 or 6 young ones They are enemies to Mice Toads Serpents the Vulpanser Eagle rue to their own gall sweet smells and moisture therefore some use rue to affright them from Pigeon-houses They love valerian catmint Their eys increase decrease according to the moon shine in the night Also they hide their excrements and love their old habitations which they will find out though carried away blindfolded Schrod The fat of a gelded Cat heateth mollifieth discusseth and mightily helpeth the diseases of the joynts Schwenckf Three drops of the bloud out of the caudale veine of a boor Cat drunk help the falling sicknesse The bloud of the eare helpeth the shingles The skin is woorn to warm the stomach and help contractions of the joynts Some use the secundine about the neck to prevent the distempers of the eyes Obscur The fume of the dung it being applied also expels the dead birth Aldrov The flesh draweth things out of the body and helpeth the hemorrhoids and paines of the back Querc The distilled water of the urine helpeth deafnes Chameleon Chamaeleon P. In Asia Africa and India or the Indies M. Flies locusts beetles the Antients said of the air N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Murilacertus Chameleon T. Jonst They are used for meat being cast into the fire and broiled The skin being taken off the flesh is very white which being boiled in a liquour like our butter is after eaten V. Trall It is also used in Physick sc against the epilepsy being boiled in a new earthen pot with oile He also maketh an unguent thereof against the gout Arnold Aldrov The tongue applied on his that is forgetful helpeth the memory Some apply it to avoid the danger of child-birth Marcel The gall helpeth suffusions of the eyes Plin. The heart in new sheered black wool helps the quartan ague With the root of the herb of the same name and hounds-tongue it causeth silence The liver dissolveth love And the intestines and excrements mixed with the urine of Apes cause hatred There are also diverse other things affirmed thereof which deserve not writing Gassend The teeth are in good order
roses an especially that of the Bull with the juyce of leekes or with honey if there be suppuration It helps the paine and vices of the eares and stench thereof being warmed in the pill or rind of a pomegranate so Plin. Avic The gall anointed on the pallate serveth as an apophlegmatisme drawing flegme from the head Some use a linnen girdle about their midles dipped into the gall using it three dayes against the jaundise renewing it every day Hipp. in lib. de nat Mul. Maketh a remedy thereof to cause conception in women Plin. Mixed with oile of roses and turpentine and so applied with wool it openeth the hardened womb Rhas Mixed with wine the flesh of a Gourd and honey and so anointed on the fundament it looseneth the belly Avic It openeth the hemorrhoids Gal. Especially that of the Bull. Applied it helpeth the piles Gal. It helps malignant and eating ulcers especially in the leggs called lupus being applied as a cataplasme with the juyce of carline thistle and the greater celandine an Plin. The Spleen eaten with honey and applied helpeth the paine of the spleen and running ulcers with honey It may also be drunk in wine against the spleen The cleaning applied helps ulcers in the face Plin. Twenty heads of garlick being bruised with vineger and put into the bladder of a Cow and applied help the paine of the spleen Marcellus addeth verdigrease and mustard seed To help the collick apply a hot brick to the feet wrapped in a cloth the patient being in bed then put some Goats milk into a Cows bladder apply it very hot to the navil to cause sweat and that the belly may not be stopped give the patient a little oile to drink warme Afric The foame applied keepeth flies from them The urine of an Oxe with the ashes of the tamariske tree drunk or taken with meat resisteth venery Used as a bath it helps the coldnesse of the stomach and hemorrhoids so Hal. That of Heifers used as a gargarisme helpeth ulcers in the mouth among souldiers that are infectious called die brune That of a Cow is good against wounds made by fire Their suppurations are better cured by Surgery than Medicine also their urine is good for the cavity used hot So Columella Plin. It helps bees fluxes caused by tasting of the flowers of the cornel tree so that of man Gal. The dung of living creatures is very digestive but that of man by reason of its extraordinary stinck is not much used that of the Cow Goat and certaine other creatures being without much smell is much used That of the Cow is of a drying faculty and drawing as appeareth when it is applied to the stingings of Bees or wasps notwithstanding it may help also by the property of its substance Some have cured the dropsy therewith plaistering the patient therewith and setting him to dry in the sunne That when they goe to grasse when moist helps phlegmons in rustick bodies being applied That when they feed on chaffe is in a mediocrity as to the other and they are fittest for the most rustick bodies sc against the kings evil and all scirrhous tumours applied with vineger as a cataplasme so Gal. Plin. Being heated it may be applied where there is need of breaking or that of Goats being boiled in vineger or wine Avic Gal. Applied with vineger it helps all tumours hot abscesses Plin. Applied it helpeth S. Anthonies fire so that of a Calfe also Applied fresh it helpeth the inflammation in wounds Diosc Applied with vineger it helps hardnesses and botches Plin. With honey it prevents swellings in greē wounds Some say that it will asswage any swelling with barley meale so that of Goats The same in May being dry with egge shells and the soles of old shoos powdered and cast on the wound or ulcers helps those in the leggs that are old also Cats tailes may be added for exiccation Rhas The dung blown up into the nostrils Stoppeth their bleeding some adde vineger for the same purpose Haly commends the ashes thereof Rhas Being wrapped up in a leafe and heated in the ashes it helps the swellings of the veines Avic Also it helps swellings behind the eares Plin. Being boiled warme with vineger it discusseth botches or wens Marcel The ashes mixed with bete help the scurfe of the head Plin. The fume taken helps the phthisick Avic It is used also in diseases of the lungs and its tabes c. Rhas Drunk or used in a clyster it helps the flux caused by the ulcers of the intestines The distilled water thereof drunk helps the yellow jaundise Marcel The liquor thereof strained when fresh being drunk helpeth the collick Some adde ginger cloves mace and cinamon Gal. Three spoonfuls of the dry dung burned and drunk help the dropsy so Rhas Some also observe the sex The dry with vineger and water mixed and applied as a cataplasme to the belly helps the dropsy so Rhas So that of a Calfe Diosc The fomentation therewith helps the sciatica so Plin. Marcel and Avic it being applied And the gout when fresh and hot Plin. Diosc The fume of that of a Bull helps the falling of the matrix Hippocrates addeth other things thereto Plin. The water of which they have drunk helpeth the paines of the head Hartm in Chymiat The extract of the spleen helps the suppression of the menses Prosp Alp. In Egypt some women take the gall nine dayes in baths to cause them to be fat Jonst Vital de furn The butter T. Is naturally hot and moist with the prevalency of heat viscous and unctuous V. The same eaten often moisteneth the stomack looseneth the belly lenifieth the brest and helpeth it as also ulcers thereof and of the intestines especially when fresh it is good also to lenify the lungs and cure its impostumes it having a property to maturate dissipate and cleanse all humours and superfluities of the brest especially eaten with honey and sugar It resisteth poyson moisteneth the body mollifieth and helpeth the roughnesse of the eyes dissolveth and ripeneth impostumes mitigateth the wounds of the brest lungs and gripings of the intestines And mollifieth and looseneth contracted nerves It is very good against inward poysons being drunk with warme milk in a great quantity it obstructing the passages by its fatnesse that the poyson cannot get to the heart The best is the freshest Cheese helps the dysentery Hipp. and 3d species of the tabes Donat. ab Alto mar A suppository thereof anointed with honey helps the ascarides in children The whey doth extenuate thick humours cleanse and loosen the belly Therefore the antients did often use it for the same purpose especially in those which they would purge without acrimony sc The melancholick epileptick leprous and against the elephantiasis and breeking out of pushes in the body The urine of an Oxe having amber quenched therein helpeth impotency The fume of the bloud with S. Katharines flower helpeth the hemicrania Their hornes serve to make lanthorns
testicles help the swellings behind the eares and discusse wens Sext. They help the groin often rubbed therewith Gal. A spoonfull of the powder drunk helpeth the erection of the genital Montagnana mixeth them with a remedy to cause venery in men and conception in Women but this may rather be attributed to the Satyrion called Foxstones which serve also against the tetanos Rhas Two of them taken by a Woman cause conception Sext. The taile woorn on the arme causeth venery Marcel The dung stamped with vineger and applied helpeth the Leprosy Rhas With Oile of Roses applied on the genital it increaseth the strength of salacity so used in a pessary by Women so Gal. Or applied to the privities of either with Cows tallow Schrod The Lungs consolidate and cleanse The liver helpeth the Hepatick The bloud applied to the abdomen groin and reins helpeth the stone The ashes of the flesh help the vices of the brest Jonston mentioneth not any thing but what hath been already related As for the description it is needlesse They generate lying on the ground copulate sometimes with Dogs bring forth 4. or 5. young ones blind which they then lick They are frends to the Serpent and enemies to wild Rue the Kite Vultur Eagle as also to the Crow Badgers which they drive out of their hoales by defiling them with their excremēts They imitate the Dog by houling barking They are very subtile and keep diverse hoals open When troubled with fleas they gently sink down in the water having a little Hay or some other thing on their backs for them to crepe to They kill urchins by injecting their urine into their mouthes They seem to play with the hares and so suddainly catch them when hungry they tumble themselves in red earth and so lie as if dead with their tongues out and when the birds of prey come to feed on them they suddainly take them Being taken by the foot they will bite it off to escape and if they cannot they will seem dead Comming into a Henroost they will shake their tails to affright them and when off their pertches they each them When hunted they will run up into a Tree where often they show much sport and when constrained to leap down they fall on the best Dogs to wound them or be killed by them Their differences are according to magnitude and colour being either back white or crossed hither may the Indian Foxes also be reduced of which c. See the Appendix of unusuall exoticks Frog Ranunculus vir P. Almost every where in woods and among reeds M. Of the Leaves of Trees bushes and reeds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calamites Agredula Isid Frog of the Land Jonst T. the green Frog is sometimes eaten V. It helpeth many diseases Pliny saith that it helps the cough the mouth being spitten in Sylv. Held in the hand it taketh away the heat of feavers Guainerius feedeth Hens with their flesh boiled made into a pap with Barly meale which then serve for those that are hectick Timotheus applied them dissected to the reins of those that are Hydropick to bring forth the water Plin. The Liver tied in the skin of a Crane causeth venery The fat applied to an aking tooth breaketh it The bloud hinders the grouth of hair after evulsion It is of the same vertue as the water Frog The bloud is a Philtron Weikard the ashes stop bleeding in wounds G. Goat Capra P. In Wales Africa Sardinia Spain c. M. Of the Arbute-tree Evergreen privet Oake c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ez. Arab. Dakh GOat Gal. T. the flesh is lesse dry than beef yet much exceedeth mans temper The Kids is of easier digestion The Goats is sharp and of ill juyce but is best in spring and sommer feeding then on shrubs The older they are the worse it is of much nourishment strong juyce clammy and so lasteth long but of hard concoction and generateth melancholick diseases it hath all the evil proporties of beef and is more flatulent causing belchings and choller H. it is bad for Women that have ulcers in the Womb so that of Hogs and beef so Hipp. Rhasis connteth it more cooling than Motton and of little nourishment The milk doth but little trouble the belly feeding on astringent food so its good for the stomach so Diosc The most nourishing is Womans milk then Goats hence happily arose the fable of Jupiters being nourished thereby Gal. It is nothing neer so fat as Cows milk If the Goat feed on scammonie or spurge the milk will loosen the belly It is moderate in respect of other milks being not very fat or thick so in a mean It is not good to be taken without Honey it usually curdling otherwise and causeth griefes some also adde water or salt so Gal. The milk of Women is most temperate then the Goats Asses Sheeps and lastly the Cows so Aeg. the Goats is temperate in substance lesse purging than the Cows otherwise good enough and not a little nutritive next is the Sheeps and lastly the Cows So Bapt. Fier Mant. Var. Of all liquid things that man useth Milk is the most nourishing and so first the Sheeps then the Goats the most purging is the Mares 2. The Asses 3. The Cows and lastly the Goats Cheeses most nourishing are the Cowes and of difficult descent next the Sheeps and the Goats of least yet easily descend V. Gesn The Goat yeeldeth a multitude of remedies which is to be wondered at some affirming that they are feverish Plin. The decoction thereof with the skinne and the Frog called rubeta helps the diseases of all fourefooted Beasts Magicians use the right eye taken from a living greene lizard with the head cut off afterwards which applied in the skinne of a Goat helpeth against quartains Marcel The ashes of a Goats skinne applied with Oile helpe kibes Plin. The same help gallings by shooes Marcel The scrapings of the skinne pounded with Pumice stone and mixed with vineger help pushes Also a thong of the skinne tied about the Dugges of a Woman helps the bleeding of a Womans nostrills Plin. The decoction thereof boiled with the haire stoppeth the belly Aesculap The ashes of the haires stop all fluxes Sext. mixed with vineger they stop bleeding at the nostrills Marcel So with pitch and vineger Sext. and the Lethargy being put into the nostrils Plin. The dung in mulse expelleth the stone so the ashes of the haires The stinck of the Hornes or haires helpeth the Lethargy Marcel The ashes drunk help the strangury Plin. The haires or horne burned drive away Serpents and help their wounds being drunk or applied Plin. Magicians use the flesh rosted at the fire wherein a mans body is burned against the falling sicknesse so Sext. Plin. The Sanies or matter of a Goats liver rosted helps the dimnesse of sight or the gall thereof the flesh being eaten and the eyes held over the steme whilest boiled Plin. The Grecians used
the broth against cantharides As for the bloud see that of Bulls Marcel Applied it taketh away spots Diosc Drunk it helpeth against Toxicum being drunk with Wine Aesculap Drunk it resisteth poyson Plin. So decoct with marrow Some mixe it with earth of Lemnos Diosc commendeth that of kids also used in antidotes Sext. Drunk it helpeth humours or fluxes of the belly as some say though Pliny affirmeth it looseneth the belly as also the marrow and Liver which is denyed by Diosc and Gal. Who affirme it helpeth the paines of the belly also Some give it with Hony against the Dropsy it being of thick terrene essence and dry with heat Plin. Boiled with the marrow it helpeth the dysentery With Barly meale and Rosin spread upon the belly it helpeth the paines thereof Marcel With the branne of meale it stoppeth the dysentery Marcel It breaketh the stone with Barly meale it helpeth all vices of the fundament Dios The fat is astringent and therefore helpeth the dysentery and mordacity in the strait gut and Colon being of a thick substance Gal. That of Kids is lesse hot and dry and that of shee Goats than of the Masculine or male Goat Rhas It is more astringent than that of Cows Diosc It helpeth those that have drunk Cantharides Plin. Applied with Wax it helpeth the wounds of Serpents Aesculap It helps all bitings and hurts Columel For the most part griefs of the Body if without wounds are helped by fomentations the old by cauteries butter or Goats fat being dropped in sc in Cattel Plin. It helpeth Kibes with Lime it discusseth Wens so Marcel Plin. With Sandaracha it helps rough nailes so Sext. Plin. Applied to Ringwormes with Cantharides and the juyce of the grapes of the wild vine it helpeth them with Wax it helpeth creeping ulcers so with pitch and brimstone with Honey and the juyce of the bramble it helpeth running ulcers of the privities Applied with salt it helpeth whitelows or fellons and if there be paine with Oile so that of a Cow Aesculap With Roses it helpeth night wheales The same dropped into the eares helps deafenesse Plin. The meale of spelt in red Wine helpeth the stingings of Scorpions applied warme and the cough with Goats fat or butter Diosc The broth of the fat decoct helpeth the phthisick being drunk So with the pulp of Alica and the cough or with new mulse Marcel Decoct with Ptisan it helpeth the tormina in the declination Diosc With Barly meale rhöe cheese it is given against the dysentery may be injected with the juyce of Ptisan Plin. Drunk with any liquour it mightily helpeth the intestines or being drunk in cold Water Sextus commends the same against the Dropsy which is not probable Marcel The fat of the reines mixed with Barley bran Cumin Anet and Vineger an and so decoct in water strained and drunk doth speedily help the dysentery Plin. Applied with pellitory and Cyprus Wax it helpeth the Gout So with the dung and a little Saffron boiled Diosc As for the Marrow It hath the 4th place amongst Marrows sc after the Harts Calves and Bulls the last is the sheeps See that of Calfe Plin. The bloud of a Goat boiled with the Marrow helpeth against poysons that doe intoxicate the same helpeth the Dysentery and Dropsy The bloud Marrow or Liver looseneth the belly but others rather affirme the contrary all marrows having a gentle drying and emplastick faculty for the most part therefore that of the Goat may be used against the Dysentery The right Horne of a Goat is used in Mesue his Athanasia magna and antidotes of Serapio Haly and Avicen The fume thereof as also of the haire driveth away Serpents and the ashes drunk or applied help the wounds so Plin. Sextus so the powder and milk with organy and Wine Plin. The ashes anointed with Oile of Myrtles hinder sweating With Vineger they stop bleeding so that of the dung Sext. The crusts thereof made by burning it in the flame stamped with vineger of squills mightily help St. Anthonies fire The Horne laid under the head of a sick party causeth sleep Mixed with branne and Oile of Myrtles it helpeth the falling off of the haire and causeth it to grow Plin. So the ashes with nitre the seed of tamarisk butter and Oile the head being shaved first the smell thereof when burned discovereth the falling sicknesse so Sext. Plin. The same awaketh those that have the Lethargy so that of the haires Gal. The ashes whiten the teeth and fasten the gummes so those of the Harts so Rhas Albert and Avic Sext. The shavings mixed with Honey stop the flux of the belly Plin. The fume helpeth the Womb to which some adde Galls Lard and Rosin of Cedar Pallad The hoofes burned drive away Serpents Diosc Rhas The ashes thereof with vineger help the alopecia so Gal. Aesculapius useth them with tarre Plin. The juyce of the head boiled with the haire helpeth the rupture of the intestines The ashes of the huckle bones serve as a dentifrice as also those of almost all hairy creatures Plin. Magicians use the braine drawn through a gold ring giving it to children before they suck against the falling sicknesse and other diseases Aesculap with honey it helpeth carbuncles in the belly Sext. The water comming from the pallat mixed with honey and salt rubbed on the head c. killeth lice helpeth the paine of the belly and looseneth the same Plin The broth of the paunch gargled helpeth the exulceration of the tongue and arteries which some understand of that of the Cow Gal. The liver rosted helpeth the nyctalops and discovereth the falling sicknesse causing a convulsion so that of a hee Goat Diosc Being eaten it helpeth the former evils so also the vapour thereof Rhas some boile it with water and salt Plin. When rosted it helpeth the coeliack especially that of the hee Goat boiled with Austere wine and drunk or applied with oile of myrtles to the navil some adde rue to the same Marcel Some boile it with old wine Hippoc. Being rosted in ashes and eaten for foure dayes drinking old wine it helpeth the inflation of women delivered Plin. The gall used three dayes the haire being pulled up is a psilothron Marcel It helpeth botches With the ashes of alum it cureth the scab Applied it helps the elephantiasis With fullers earth and vineger it helpeth scurfe Seren with honey it helps the dimnesse of the eyes so Sext Diosc that of a wild Goat with a third part of white hellebore helps the glaucoma and cicatrices white spots in the eyes dimnesse of sight the weft argema With Womens milk it helpeth broken tunicles Applied to the eye brows it taketh away haire so Albert. Marcel With honey an scrup 1 put into the eare stopping it after with wool it helpeth the eares though cancerd Plin. With the ashes of a Serpents skinn it helpeth purulent eares With the leaves of leekes or a like quantity of wine it helpeth the vices of
stoppeth the belly and helpeth the ulcers of the intestines R. Mos It breaketh the stone Albert. Fried with oile and used in a clyster it helpeth the flux of the belly and ulcers of the intestines Rhas Albert. So baked in an oven or fried Avic The broth or decoction thereof helps the gout and joynt ach as that of a Fox Gesn The fat is used to draw out things fixed in the body Some adde the flower of beanes and crabs for the feet Plin. The ashes of their haires stop bleeding Marcel So the white haires of their bellies being rolled together and put into the nostrils The ashes with oile of myrtles Bulls gall and alum applied warm help the falling of the haire Plin. Boiled with honey they help the vices of the intestines Marcel The haires made into pills with honey being often swallowed down single conjoyne the ruptures of the intestines Some adde the dung Plin. The fume of the haires bring out difficult excreations out of the lungs Hippocrates useth them against the exulceration of the womb And Aetius to cause conception the fume being used Plin. The ashes help the coldnesse of the feet Diosc The ashes of the head applied with Bears grease or vineger help the alopecia so Avic Rhas and Albert. Gal. The ashes prevent the aking of the teeth The same whiten the teeth with fennel and the powder of the boanes of a cutle-fish With spikenard they help the stinck of the mouth Platin. The braine of a hare as also that of a Coney is very good against poysons Diosc It helpeth tremblings some adde castoreum R. Mos As also against numnesse and the palsey Sext. Rubbed on the gums of children it helpeth to facilitate the breeding of teeth some adde Goats milk also Marcel Drunk in wine and the testicles rosted help the vices of the bladder Plin As also the incontinency of urine so Marcel Seren. and Gal. Rhas Albert. The tooth applied helpeth the toothach Sext. The ventricle boiled and applied with oile and myrtles hindereth the falling of the haire and causeth it to grow Marcel The pills of the dung drunk with old wine help the dysentery Nicand The curd helps against poysons It is the chief of all and dissolveth bloud curdled in the body which is the property of all other curds also Avicen also preferreth this Arist And it 's best when stalest In vineger it helps against Serpents and the Scorpion and shrew mouse c. Sext. And it resisteth poysons Some use it with wine Plin. And drach 1. drunk helps against the bitings or wounds of all marine creatures and aconite misselto and chameleon with vineger it dissolveth milk in womens breasts Plin. With Snailes stamped it draweth out darts and the like that stick in the flesh Some also adde oile frankincense birdlime and bee glew or mallows With vineger it stoppeth bleeding so that of a Hart. Seren. Applied with wine it healeth old ulcers Plin. and exulcerated botches and cancers with a like quantity of capers Plin. Magicians used it against quartans with other things so Seren Diosc It helpeth the epilepsy so Plin. and Gal. and Avic drunk with vineger Plin. With a halfe quantity of sagapenum wine it helpeth the want of hearing Sext. Put into the eare it helps the paine thereof which some affirme of the teeth It dissolveth coagulated bloud in the lungs With terra samia and myrtle wine it helps spitting of bloud so Plin. Diosc It helps the coeliack dysentery and flux of women Avic this as also all other curds dissolveth thick humours coagulats the liquid some add galls to stop with wine or warme water if there be a feaver Aver Applied to the bellies of infants it doth the like Aristot It hath a certaine fiery faculty disjoying things that are heterogenious It doth the same in cheese as leaven in meale a little thereof communicating its tast and quality to a great quantity thereof old cheese also hath such a kind of faculty and therefore serveth for the same purpose to stop and dissolve Plin. It is given in the coeliack with bread and with barley flower if there be an evacuation of bloud Marcel It may be drunk in wine or taken in soft eggs against the dysentery It helps the tormina Plin. With Goose grease and barley flower it stops the flux of urine Gal. All curds hinder all fluxes of bloud also Plin. Applied with faffron and the juyce of leeks with wool it bringeth forth the dead birth Simoc. used in a pessary it causeth secundity in women Sextus applieth the same against the falling sicknesse some use it with frankincense and white wine Plin. The lungs so help the same and paines of the eyes so Sext. and Albert. Plin. Drunk when dry it helps the womb Sext. Albert. Being powdered and applied it helps kibes and the feet hurt by the shooes Plin. The heart of a Hare bound to the hands and the dung of a Cow with the urine of a boy applyed to the feet helpeth the quartane ague The heart dryed powdered and drunk with a third part of the manna of frankincense drunk in white wine for seven dayes helpeth the epilepsy by those that fall oftener it may be used thirty dayes together Gal. It helpeth the paine of the womb Plin. That or the liver being given with hot water to women fasting with the earth of Samos helpeth womens fluxes Sext. It also helpeth those that spit bloud Plin. The liver boiled and eaten helps the coeliack so in austere wine Rhas drach 1. taken helpeth the hepatick Albert. And unc 1. helps the epilepsy Sext. The gall with the liver of a weezel mixed sc an drach 3 of castoreum drach 1. of myrrhe drach 4. with drach 1. of vineger and with honey or bastard wine drunk helpeth those that are vertiginous Sext. Applied with honey it clarifieth the eyes so Plin. and Hemelberg Gal. With an equal quantity of honey warmed in the pill of an onion and put into the eare it helps the losse of hearing The spleen eaten helpeth the spleen Avic The belly with the intestines powdered mixed with the oile of roses and applied repaireth the haire Plin. The reines drunk in wine expel the stone Marcel As also the paine of the reines Montag The testicles and womb help to coiture in men and conception in women with other remedies Plin. some think that they cause conception of males Marcel They help the paines of the bladder The powder of the testicles taken by a woman in wine after her purgation causeth the conception of a male so Sext. Plin. The testicles rosted help the incontinency of urine Marcel So the cerebellum drunk in wine Marcel The testicle boiled and eaten fasting presently helpeth the paine of the hipps Gal. The powder of the matrice drunk by a woman purged of her flowers causeth conception some use the womb in meats for the conception of males Sext. The bloud issuing from the womb of a Hare with the curd being applied causeth the
conception of a femal and the first being drunk by both causeth a male and an hermophrodite if by the woman only Plin. The huckle-bone used prevents the paine of the belly so Sext. and Marcel Some use it against the stone Trag. Being drunk out of the water of pennyroyal it is an ocytocion Anon. With misseltoe coral pearls the seeds of peony and the stones of Crabs an it helps the falling sicknesse Plin. The feet applied to the vices of the joynts help the same Plin. The dung helps burnings the magicians drink or prescribe 9. gr of the dung to cause a constant stretching of the dugs Rhas Dissolved with vineger and applied it cureth the ring-worme Plin. The ashes drunk in wine in the evening help the cough in the night Gal. Stamped and taken in hot wine it helpeth the vices of the columella and difficulty of breathing Plin. The ashes strewed on warme wine help the coeliack and dysentery So the pills thereof made with wine Plin. Boiled with honey and taken daily in the quantity of a beane it helps the rupture of the intestines Aetius maketh a pessary thereof to cause conception Rhas Worne by a women it hindereth conception Albert. And a little thereof applied to the womb dryeth up the menstruous bloud and mightily desiccats the matrix Schrod The D. of the powder of a Hare is from scrup 1. to drach 1. their eyes when taken in March drive forth the birth and secundine being dryed with pepper and the apple being applied to the crown of the head The gall is an ophthalmick and oralgick Jonst The gall with sugar helps the wefts of the eyes Their description is needlesse They generate aversly at any time of the yeare and bring forth in copises two or more at a time They are enemies to the Eagle Crow Weasel Foxe and Doggs They live six or seven years Their noise is shrill They sleep with their eyes open and heare well they disturb their course and leap about before their sitting They use certaine places they are seldome fat when wild by reason of their feare In the winter they lie in sunny places and towards the north wind in summer They use to avoid bushes that their furre may not stick thereon squat on plowed lands when hunted being of the same colour and make rings to avoide the sagacity of the hunter They are presently made tame and suddainly returne when loose to their former wildnesse The female hath a longer head and eares as also a fatter body than the male They differ in colour fatnesse magnitude smell and place Tops When they are awake they shut their eyes They seldome looke forewards going by jumps They rest in the day time and feed in the night When they are hot they feed upon hares lettuce They never drink but content themselves with the dew and so often become rotten They copulate backwards and often though great They bring forth their young blind like other cloven footed Beasts They keep them not all together that some may be preserved When hunted they are to be kept from the upper ground they running faster up the hill than downwards Hart. Cervus P. In Africa Apulia Batavia and Brittain M. Of grasse c. and hay N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Aial Hart. Platin. T. The flesh is almost like beefe for it is slowly concocted nourisheth little and increaseth melancholy it is most pleasant to eat in the summer especially in August being then fattest Cels Being concocted it nourisheth much The best are the Faunes and are best when gelded being lesse hot and dry H. Sym. Seth. Being much eaten it causeth a shaking in the body Avic And quartan agues Rhas It is hot Avic it provoketh urine Vicent Bel. The liver is very bad and ill tempered The young horns help against aconite The way of dressing it may be seen in Apicius and Platina Plin. The bloud stoppeth the belly Diosc and helpeth the dysentery and coeliack as also that of a Goat or Hare Albert. Rhas Being injected with oile it helps the ulcers of the intestines and old fluxes Gesn Applied it stops fluxions Gal. Applied with vineger it is a psilothron Rhas Drunk in wine it helpeth against venomed arrows The flesh in rutting time stinketh like that of a hee Goat and is then vitiated Sym. Seth. The powder of the bloud drunk helps the bitings of venimous beasts Plin. Solin The flesh eaten preventeth feavers As for the marrow See that of the Calfe and Bull. Solin Ointments made thereof help the burnings of those that languish Gal. It is a paregoricotaton Aesculap It easeth paine Used as an ointment it driveth away Serpents Sym. Seth. It mollifieth hard cankers Gyrald It discusseth Plin. It filleth and purgeth other ulcers as well as in the legs so the ashes of the horne It helpeth fistula's with Venus navil-wort The same helpeth purulent eares With rosin lime Goose grease and the fat of an hee Goat it helpeth the chaps in the lips some add onions With that of a Calfe and the leaves of a white thorne stamped it helps the ulcers and clefts of the mouth Sext. Drunk in hot water it helpeth the paine of the intestines though there are tormina Cels Used downwards in an old dysentery it helpeth it taketh away the paine and helpeth the ulcers Marcel With butter Bulls gall and the oile of cypresse or bayes it helpeth bruised knees Hipp. Melted with fat and applied with wool it mollifieth the womb he maketh also a purgatory remedy of the same A pessary of the same with that of a Calf mollifieth the womb also so applied outwardly Rhas It helps the paine of the hipps and sides and fractures also Agric. Used in a pessary it draweth forth the menses Albert. It helpeth the beating of the heart though some deny it Gal. The fat is inferiour to noe mollifying remedy Rhas It heateth and mollifieth or lenifies It softeneth hard cankers so Sym. Seth. Absyrt given to a Horse with wax it helps their cough of a cold cause used with wine after purgation and suffumigation Marcel With tarre pissasphalt and the milk of a Cow or Sheep used every day it mightily helpeth the phthisick Anatol. With a little wine and beane meale given three dayes to a Horse it helpeth their pissing of bloud The tallow burned with oister shells mightily helpeth kibes being applied Sext. Hipp. when fresh the fat helps exulcerated wombs he useth it also to purge the womb with other things Plin. The fume of the haire helps the womb also Sext. It helps against abortion Plin. The shavings of the skinne done by a punice stone and stamped in vineger help S. Anthonies fire Magicians bind many amulets in the skinne Gal. Applied to the right thigh with the juyce or seed of henbane steeped in Asses milk it helpeth pissing in bed Aetius useth the bones of the leggs in the antidote of Philagrius against the gout And in that of Julian being burned against the stone and epilepsy Gal. The
bones stamped and applied to the belly help the flux thereof Solin Plin. Of the hornes the right is the best yet Aristotle preferreth the left the tops also are most effectual as being more solid They are used crude or when burned Being calcined and washed as cadmia it helps the ulcers and defluxions of the eyes so Diosc Sym. Seth. It is cold and dry yet it helpeth obstructions of the spleen and the jaundise arising commonly from the obstruction of the liver by reason that it as also all things burned except washed retaineth a certain Empyreuma and hot thin parts by reason of the fire but when washed it only dryeth and is emplastick Sylv. Being burned and washed it whiteneth the teeth helps moist gumms the dysentery and fluxes to the eyes clensing without corrosion yet it doth not mitigate paine or concoct being cold and dry Brasav Being calcined and washed many sell it for spodium Being burned it driveth away Serpents applied with vineger it helps the bitings of the same also some add the roots of reeds ciches and cypresse berries burned together and then they are to be drunk with vineger and the juyce of leekes so Gal. Plin. The Hart burieth the right horne in the ground serving against the poyson of Toads Gal. Burned with the heart and skinne and applied with oile it helps wounds Sext. The horne drieth up all humours and therefore it is used in ophthalmick collyries The decoction thereof hindereth the grouth of the haire yet Orpheus saith that being applied with oile it causeth haire even on bald heads Marcel Some add the seeds of black myrtle with butter and oile after shaving Plin. The ashes with wine help scurfe and lousinesse in beasts Gal. The filings boiled with vineger to a third part help ringworms Sext. so burned It helpeth the elephantiasis see Elephant The ashes fill and purge all ulcers except in the leggs so Plin. And applied with water they help wheales The fine powder thereof with a like quantity of the fatt and a greater of lentills being stamped boiled and applied to the face before or in the bath often helpeth specks in the same so Mercel Sext. so the ashes the same with those of a sheeps jaw and wax softened with oile of roses help the fractures of the joynts so Plin. Sext. drach 3. with drach 2. of litharge mightily help paineful gallings Marcel The filings drunk in wine prevent nits and lice in the head so applied and scurfe Plin. Marcel Gal. The ashes applied to the forehead with vineger oile of roses or wine help the paine of the head Sext. So drach 1. drunk with wine and two parts of water Plin. It discovereth the falling sicknesse so the stink thereof so Solin as also bitumen the agath stone the Goats horne and liver Blond The largest hornes are excellent against the epilepsy some use drach 2. of the tipps with unc 1. of misseltoe of the oake and drach 1. of the heart of a Woolf with some powder of the hinder part of a mans skull Aet It helpeth forgetfulnesse after purgation with the hiera Ruffi and drach 1. of ivory drunk in mulse The powder with an equal q. of sponges that have stones in them drunk daily in wine or water fasting helpeth the kings evil or swellings in the throat Plin. The ashes help the roughnesse of the eyes especially those of the Tips Gal. Burned and blown up into the nostrils with sandaracha it helpeth the polypus Burned washed it cleanseth the teeth Diosc Warmed in vineger when crude and used to the gums it helps the paines of the jaws caused by the breeding of teeth or it fasteneth the teeth bindeth the gums so Gesn Some use the powder of the crude horne so that of a Goat the ashes with wine Rhas Alb. or boiled with vineger so Marcel sc drach 2. thereof being used with unc 3. of vineger some adde salt armoniack pepper and flower deluces with mastick The ashes drunk help the empycma and haemoptysis Sym. Seth. being much used it hurteth the lungs for the former purpose some adde gum dragant Being burnt and washed it helps the dysentery also the coeliack and yellow jaundise two spoonfuls being used so Gal. Marcel the filings with a little live brimstone taken in a reere egge stop excessive vomiting Plin. It helps the rheumatisme of the stomach Plin. The ashes in vineger help the spleen It hath the same vertue as a Cows ankle Rhas Albert. The ashes drunk help the flux of bloud and ulcers of the intestines Gal. unc 2. of the powder burned with unc 1. of burnt Snailes plantaine water help the dysentery the quantity of a beane being taken with wine by those that are not feaverish or else with water or so taken with an equal quantity of oile Marcel or with austere wine He commends the powder of the young hornes calcined with gr 9. of white pepper to three spoonefuls thereof and a little myrrhe c. against the collick so Aet Gal. The filings drunk in old wine kill wormes Some use it with Ivory so the powder when burned being drunk in wine or water Albert. Rhas or taken with honey Some adde chalk worme seed and the yolk of an egge rosted hard Sym. Seth. It helpeth the strangury Gal. The powder of it when burned applied as a cataplasme helps aqueouse ruptures drinking vineger Some mixe it with remedies against pissing of bloud Rhas Albert. It helps the paine of the bladder and restraineth the moisture of the womb yet it provoketh the termes Drunk three dayes in wine it helpeth the hysterical passion or drunk in hot water if there be a feaver so Sext. Gyrald Worne by a woman it facilitats the birth The bezar stone or lachryma Cervi Agric. resisteth poyson They are produced by standing in the water up to the neck after their devouring of Serpents which they doe to coole themselves not daring to drink these teares falling into the water congeale and are thence taken by those that doe observe them the quantity is as that of a walnut the D. is gr 12. Physiol it helpeth the panting of the heart Plin. The lungs help cornes clefts and callosity being applied three dayes so the dung also it helps gallings by the shooes Marcel yet that of a hare is more effectuall The powder with that of the gullet dryed in smoake and made into a Iohoch with honey helpeth the cough and the phthisick the powder being taken in wine Marcel so the former also Marcel The ashes thereof burned in an earthen pot help the dyspnoea or difficulty of breathing Plin. The stone found in the womb when great preserveth the foetus in women so the bones and those in the heart Sext. The same bones tied to the arme hinder conception Actuar Arab. The bone of the heart comforteth mans heart by the similitude of its whole substance some sell that of a Cows tongue in steed thereof it is generated of the bloud in the heart it 's
help the falling sicknesse Applied with mouse dung and Honey it helpeth bare eyebrows that want hair the same helpeth the morphew Marcel Applied to the forehead and temples with vineger of squills it helpeth the paine of the hemicrania The urine with the gall of an Oxe helpeth the difficulty of hearing being dropped into the eares Gal. Drunk with Hyssop it provoketh urin Sext. Drunk with spikenard and dry danewort it helpeth the Dropsy Anon. Drunk with the ashes of Ivory it breaketh the stone in the reines and bladder Schrod The bloud is alexipharmick binding so helpeth the dysentery dissolveth congealed bloud helps the stone Used outwardly it ripeneth The oile thereof is good against the stone so the tincture and against coagulated bloud The fat helps the gout strangury and paine of the hemorrhoids The powder of the bladder helps the incontinency of urine drach 1. being given The kell applied warm helpeth the ebullition of the spirits so helps the collick and madnesse and expels urine The decoction of the skin stoppeth the hemorrage and diarrhoea Jonst The bloud with the juyce of groundsel mollifieth glasse steeped therein Mixed with vineger it helpeth the vomiting and spitting of bloud The Description is uselesse the beast being well known Hornd-snout Rhinoceros P. In the deserts of Africa and in many places of Asia M. Of Herbs and prickly shrubs c N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Reem Karas Hornd-snout Schrod T. V. the horn is good against poysons contagions and other affections that have need of evacuation by sweat and therefore it may be used in stead of Unicorns horne when that is wanting the D. of the powder is Scrup. sem to Scrup. 1. Jonst Some eate the flesh which is very nervouse Zacut. The skinne steeped in wine is drunk in malignant diseases As for the description they are almost of the forme of a Boare They have one horne on their nose They are as long as an Elephant yet they have shorter feet and a Boxe-like colour they are enemies to the Elephant and are not firce against man except provoked before they fight they rub their horne against stones and strike at the belly it being the softest part Bont When provoked by men they will throw them down when on horse back as if they were but fleas the flesh of which they then like off by reason of the roughnesse of their tongue When wounded in the woods they cast down whatsoever is in their way even ordinary trees Their noise is like that of the Hogges Horse Equus P. In England France Spaine and almost every where M. Of grasse hay and oats c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Sus. Arab. Bagel Pers Asbaca Horse Gal. T. Some eate the flesh thereof even when old but it is of very bad juyce of hard concoction unpleasant to eat and hurtful to the stomack so that of Asses and Camels The milk is drunk by the Tartars It as also the Asses and Cows is more fit for the belly than the sheeps which is more thick but they trouble the same so Diosc Var. Mares milk is most purging then the Asses Cows and lastly the Goats Plin. Being drunk it looseneth the belly The Camels is most thinne to which this is next the Asses is most thick so that some use it in steed of curd so Plin. Yet it as also the Mares presently descends Marcel The whey of Mares milk doth easily and gently purge the belly The cheese nourisheth much and answereth in proportion to the Cows so Sestius V. Plin. The bloud of a Horse corrodeth the flesh by a septick strength that of a colt drunk in wine helps the jaundise being let bloud in the mouth and swallowing it it cureth their worms Anon. The bloud out of the spurre veine being taken by them with salt helpeth their plague Veget. Applied it helps their weake parts Theomnest And fractures and luxations Anon. Applied it helpeth their cold and convulsive nerves being used warme Plin. The flesh and dung when going to grasse helpeth the bitings of Serpents Sext. The fume of the fatt expels the dead birth and secundine some use it in remedies against the spasme The ashes of the bones with verdigrease and the seed of henbane sprinkled on their abscesses after opening with a cautery help the same Albert. The teeth of a stoned Horse laid under the head hinder snorting in the sleep Plin. The powder thereof helpeth kibes and clefts or chaps in the feet so Marcel Plin. The same helpeth the vices of the privities and warts as also the coeliack and dysentery The first teeth applied help the tooth-ach and facilitate the breeding thereof being applied so Rhas and Albert. a Horse haire tyed about warts killeth them causing a priuation of aliment The ashes of a Horse head stop bleeding Avic The ashes of the Hide applied help pustules by refrigeration Plin. The old tongue of an Horse drunk in wine easeth the spleen so Marcel Matth The curd drunk in wine helpeth the bitings of Serpents Aesculap The same drunk helpeth all paines Dios it helps the coeliack and dysentery so Gall. Avic and Haly. Plin. It looseneth the belly as also the bloud marrow and liver Gesn but they all rather bind Plin. The teeth help the toothach Gal. The liver kept in a Cedar box and given with wine of Chia and Water helpeth the ulcers of the liver Plin. The spleen drunk in sweet water bringeth forth the dead birth The powder of the testicles causeth venery The ashes of the hoof applied with oile and water discusse impostumes in any part of the body and wens with warme urine so Marcel Plin. Applied they help rednesse with the itch Hipp. The filings of the foremost hoofes given with water help the frettings in Horses Hieroc Veget. the same being injected into the nostrils provoke urine Plin. The ashes drunk in wine or water help against the stone so Marcel Plin. The fume of the hoof bringeth out the dead birth The gall is counted poysonsome The milk of a Mare helps against the poyson of a Sea Hare and Toxicum Diosc Avic Being drunk it looseneth the belly Plin. And helps also the falling sicknesse so with Boares testicles Aet It purgeth ulcers Plin. The bath thereof helpeth the womb Rhas Albert. It causeth conception being drunk Marcel The whey thereof gently purgeth the body Aesculap The cheese of Mares milk stoppeth the belly and helpeth tertians Plin. The foame of an Horse used 40. dayes before the grouth of haire restraineth the grouth of the same the same helps the paine of the eares and deafenesse thereof or the ashes of the fresh dung with oile of roses Marcel The same helpeth gallings Plin. The foame helps rednesse with itching as also the disease in the tongue and jawes called die brüne sc that of a Horse eating oats or Barley using the liquour pressed out of Crabfishes after it or the powder thereof applied the same helpeth the cough being drunk 3. dayes Marcel and
the phthisick Rhas Albert. The sweat of an Horse mixed with wine causeth abortion being drunk by a Woman that is great Anon. Drunk with the urine in a bath it driveth away worms and Serpents sc out of the belly Avic The dung is of the same effect as the asses Diosc That of a Horse feeding on grasse being dryed steeped in wine and drunk helpeth against the wounds of Scorpions Plin. So the flesh and curd of a Hare with vineger and against the shrew mouse The dung applied with vineger and a Figge helps against the poyson of a mad Dogge The digestion thereof with vineger made in Horse dung helps the eruptions of bloud So if crude according to Diosc Rhas and Albert. Aesculp So the powder applied Ruf. so applied warme to which some adde chalk and sharp vineger Pelagon That of the same Horse hindreth too much bleeding after phlebotomie being applied Albert. Rhas So smelled to Plin. And the bleeding of wounds the ashes being applied with egge shells The juyce taken by the nostrils helps bleeding thereat Aesculap Dropped into the eares it helps the pains thereof Plin. So the ashes of that which is fresh with oile of roses as also the want of hearing Plin. That of a Foale used within 3. dayes after in wine helpeth the jaundise so that of an asses colt It helpeth the collick sc that from oats or Barley a handful thereof being boiled in unc 17. of wine to the consumption of an half and drunk by degrees so Empir Anon. Plin. The ashes of the dung drunk in wine stop the belly Sext. So the juyce drunk Marcel The ashes help the dysentery taken in wine or in water if there be a Feaver Plin. As also the coeliack Hal. The fume bringeth out the secundine and dead birth Plin. Some use the urine of an Horse with steeled water against the epilepsy and to help the lymphatick Empir With wheate meale an egge and butter it helps the bleeding of cattel by the fundament womb or nostrils Diosc Gal. The lichens in the legges of Horses powdered and drunk in vineger help the epilepsy some use the same against the biting of any beast Plin. Put into the eares with oile they fasten the teeth Drunk in wine or mulse 40. dayes they help the Soda and falling sicknesse Schrod The bloud especially of a breeding Mare is mixed with septick and caustick remedies The milk of a Mare helpeth the epilepsy phthisis cough and asthma's The curd helps the coeliack and dysentery the dung outwardly restraineth the eruptions of bloud inwardly it helps the collick strangulation of the womb expelleth the dead birth and secundine The fume of the lichens helps the suffocations of the womb and falling sicknesse the powder helps the stone The D. of the extract of the lichens is from gr 5. to Scrup. sem the powder of the testicles presently helps the collick and expels the secundine The fat helps the luxation of the joynts The fume of the hoofe driveth away lice The haires stop the flux of bloud The foame of the mouth helps the heat of the jaws Hartm in pract The water coming out of the mouth of a stoned Horse preventeth sterility The powder of the teeth is a dentifrice The stone found in the stomack called hippolithus is of the vertues of the occidental bezoar Jonst Paul Venet. The bloud helpeth hunger and thirst Theophrast The cheese with liquorice will preserve life an eleven or twelve dayes Aet The whey of the milk purgeth the ulcers of the reines Some say that the breath preserveth from the plague As for the description it 's needlesse they live sometimes to 20. yeares of age and are the most salacious of all animalls after two yeares of age It is known by often pissing and moving of the taile They are 12. months in breeding and are provoked to venery a nettle being put into the mouth or rubbed on the matrix Their conception may be known by the cessation of the menses and refusall of the Horse It 's thought they will bring forth a male if Horsed the 3d. day before the full of the Moon and a female if 3. dayes after Their noise is called neighing they beat the ground in their going they thrust their noses deepe into the Water when they drink and they are easily flattered they observe their enemies are very docible of good memory love their keepers and are magnanimous they love Hens and bustards but hate the Camel Elephant Woolf Beare Lyon Sow Sheep Asse Serpent Sea Calf Apples Figges Gentian black colours and dead bodies Their difference is according to places parts and accidents Adrov They or hot Hyena Hyaena P. In Africa Arabia Caesaria and Aethiopia M. Of the flesh of other Beasts N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glanos Belbus Arab. Akabo Hyena Gesn T. the flesh is hot and moist Gal. V. The oile thereof discusseth like that of the Fox so Aet Gesn the flesh boiled with oile helps the gout and pains of the joynts caused by cold being of a thinne substance and diaphoretick Rhas Albert. So decoct in water Plin. Magitians used the skinne under those that were bitten by a mad Dog Marcel Shooes made thereof help against the gout that of the head helpeth the head-ach so Plin. Rhas Albert the bloud with Barly meal helpeth the tormina being taken and applied hot it helps the Leprosy The flesh and liver eaten help against the bitings of a mad Dog The nerves drunk with Wine and frankincense cause fecundity in those that have been disabled by witchcraft and the fume thereof helps the paine of the nerves so the marrow and lassitude of the reines Democ. Marcel Plin The marrow of the back mixed with its gall and old oile boiled to the temper and thicknesse of an Acopon helpeth all vices of the nerves and paines Applied it helps against vaine species The fume thereof driveth away Serpents and it helps the bitings of Dogs being applied The left part of the brain being used to the nostrils helpeth dangerous diseases of man or beasts The eye taken with licorice and aniseeds helpeth sterility in women The teeth applied help the paine thereof The left applied with sheepes skinne help the paines of the stomach the greater being worne help against feares in the night the fume helpeth those that are mad the breast being anointed with the fat of the reines or liver Rhas Albert. Used to the right arme it resisteth forgetfulnesse The jaw taken with aniseed helpeth horrors the fume of the same draweth out the termes of Women The dryed Pallat used with Alum helpeth the stink and ulcers of the mouth The flesh of the neck being drunk when dryed or eaten helps the paines of the loines The shoulders applied help the paines thereof The lungs taken in meate help the coeliack The heart eaten helpeth all paines of the Body as also tremblings spasmes and the palpitation of the heart the ashes of the same being applied with the brain it taketh away
of the hinde or hare Diosc It 's equal to that of the Hare being drunk in wine against aconite and coagulated milk in vineger See Hare Hal. drunk it helps against toadstooles Plin. And misseltoe white Chameleon and Bulls bloud and all bitings or wounds of all Sea creatures drach 1. being drunk in Wine It helps the spitting of bloud so with vineger Marcel The q. of a beane taken in myrtle wine fasting helpeth the coeliack Plin. And the dysentery Gal. With vineger it helps the fluxes of Women Sym. Seth. The lungs preserve from drunkennesse Marcel The ashes thereof help itchings of the eyes and rough eyebrows being applied as stibium Plin The ashes of the bladder help the incontinency of urine The spleen applied helpeth the pain thereof Marcel And swellings in Children Some adulterate euphorbium with the milk of a Kid but it may be known by its ill savour when burned Tops If they keep together they show a storm at hand else faire weather and when they leap and jump If geese swallow their haires they dye thereof They are not to be seperated from their dams till 3. months old they are then to be fed with milk three leaved grasse ivy and the tops of lentils tender leaves or small twigges of trees The hide serveth to make glew of and the hair to stuffe beds withall The red or sandy coloured are the best but their flesh is hurtfull to the collick else they are wholesome fod rosted or baked L. Lamb. Agnus P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of milk first then on grasse as the sheep N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kebes Adasia Bidens LAmb. Crescent T. the flesh is good when taken from the dam. Platin. It is more humid than hot but that of a weather is temperate Gal. Amongst land fourefooted Beasts the flesh of Hogges is best then the Kids and lastly the Lambs which is moist and mucous causing flegme but the sheepes is more excrementitious and of worse juyce Here Note that the flesh of all of them when newly brought forth is mucous but especially the Lamb and Pigges See Ram and Sheep Their flesh is moderately hot and superfluously moist and therefore hurteth those who are of a moist temper but helps those that are more dry Also the younger it is the moister it is also and more hardly concocted so in other creatures so Sym. Seth. and by its lubricity it quickly passeth out of the stomach See weather It is good meate for those that are strong and in health but for those that are sick it is bad for though it quickly passeth out of the stomach yet by reason of its viscous humour it sticketh too tenaciously in the parts Athen. It is soon corrupted by reason of its fatnesse so Swines flesh V. Aet The flesh of a Lamb applied warme after cupping glasses helpeth venimous bitings so that of other small and young creatures as that of Hens Kids and Pigges Marcel The decoction of one that hath a white head applied helps baldnesse Avic unc 1. of the bloud mixed with vineger and drunk 3. dayes helpeth the vomiting of bloud so that of a Kid. It helpeth the Epilepsy with Wine so Avic Yet Gesner denyeth it antepilepticks having aâ—tmetick or inciding faculty Aet With fat the curd of a Goat Kid Hare and the gall together with Harts marrow and oile of roses and spike being used to the matrix after purgation it causeth conception Plin. The grease applied with the slough of a Serpent water and bitumen helpeth St. Anthonies fire yet some affirme it of the Beares fat Rhas The marrow melted at the fire with oile of nuts and white sugar being drunk dissolveth the stone of the bladder and helpeth pissing of bloud Albert. As also paines of the genital bladder and reines Aet The skinne spread with pitch and applied to the belly helpeth the dysentery with coldnesse R. Mos A garment made of the skinnes strengthneth the Body of young men They heate more than those of Goats and are better for the back and reines Marcel The ashes of the Bones cure ulcers that will not easily be cicatrized Gal. Plin. The lungs help gallings by the shooe Diosc And keep them from in flammation Marcel The ashes of the same with oile help the ulcers of Kibes Plin. The curd of a Lamb resisteth all evil medicaments and poyson Drunk in Wine it helps against aconite and curdled milk with vineger so Diosc Avic it helpeth all venimous bitings and those of all marine creatures drach 1. being drunk in Wine so that of an Hare or Kid. Plin. Drunk in Wine it helpeth the bitings of the shrew Drunk in water it helps the curdling of the milk in the stomachs of infants Plin. And the vices thereof with vineger Injected into the nostrils with water it stops its bleedings See Kidde Plin. Samon the gall with hony helps the Epilepsy Albert. Applied it helps Cancers Plin. The bloud that issueth out after gelding applied hindereth the grouth of haire after evulsion thereof The decoction of the feet helpeth the paines of the bladder The dung before they eate grasse being dryed and applied plaister wise helpeth the pain of the uvula and jawes so Marcel Schrod the wool with the skinne helpeth the quinsey and other swellings in the neck being applied Tops They know the voice of their dammes though amongst a 1000 Sheep and the Sheep them by smelling on their back parts They wagge the taile whilest sucking If they suck not their mothers their lips are to be anointed with butter or Hogs grease and milk Salt is to be given to them after eaning but the first are not to be nourished The best are bred in the spring and ivy preserves them Linx Lynx P. In Europe America Lithuania and Polonia c. M. Of the flesh of beasts Cats and chiefly the brains N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lupus Cervarius Oxyderches Linx T. The flesh is not yet used V. Schrod The fat helpeth the resolution of the sinews convulsions and luxations The claw is usually put into silver or gold against the falling sicknesse or spasme Gesn The ashes of the claws with that of the skinne being applied helpe luxury in man or woman The urine helpeth the losse of the same in man Plin. As also the paine in the throat Their claws are thought to help the spasme by signature Plin. He hideth the urine being medicinal which after turneth into a stone called lyncurius see my Pammineralogie which being drunk is said to expel the stone and to help the jaundise Solin It helpeth the paines of the reines Jonst Weck The ointment of the fatt expelleth the stone Crollius maketh a salt of the stone crabs eyes Euonimus mixes lithontriptick herbs with the bloud thereof to wast the stone As for the description their head is little eyes shining and countenance couragious They have teats in their breasts and spots on their skinne which is about three foot long the haire is
soft with a kinde of a down the ends of the hair on the back are whitish to the midst of the belly the eares are little and squarish the beard is of white haires like a cats the feet are shagged with five toes before and foure behind The crunium hath three futures the teeth are twenty They generate like dogs and bring forth two or three Their sight exceeds that of all other animals therefore they are said to see through solid bodies They are very swift and forget their prey if they looke back and are rough in the winter Lion Leo. P. In Mauritania Parthia Getulia and Syria c. M. Of the flesh of men beasts or birds N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ari. Arab. Asad Pers Gehad Lion Albert. Isaac T. The flesh is hotter than that of other creatures grosse and slowly digested causing paine torsion and inflation Plin. Solin The Agriophagi in Aegypt eate the flesh as also that of Panthers Rhas Note the flesh of all rapacious creatures inclineth to drynesse and easily generates melancholick bloud in the body but of all the rest that of Woolfes Dogs is most condemned causing corrupt humours V. Rhas Albert. The bloud of a Lion rubbed on a cancer cureth the same Sext. The bloud rubbed on the body defendeth it from all beasts but Pliny attributeth the same to the fatt Sext. The flesh eaten defendeth from fancies Aesculap it helps all paines Albert. and the palsey Gal. Shooes made of the skinne helpe the paine of the feet Aesculap Being sate upon it helpeth the hemorrhoids Diosc The fatt is to be prepared as that of Bulls and is the hortest of all and groweth more hot by keeping and digesteth more than that of other foure-footed beasts being more hot and of thinner parts therefore it hurteth ulcers phlegmons but helpeth old tumours scirrhus's and spasmes That of the Bull is so much lesse hot than the Lions as it is more hott than the Swines so also in drynesse so Gal. the fatt resisteth poyson used with wine it expelleth evil beasts and the smell driveth away Serpents Aesculap The fatt of the reines used to the body driveth away Woolfs Rhas and flies Plin. With oile of roses it preserveth the skinne of the face causeth whitenesse and helpeth snow burnings paines of the joynts Albert. mixed with unguents it remooveth spots of the face which others affirme of the dung Sext. The fatt easeth all paines as also that of the nerves and knees being mixed with Harts marrow and lettuce Plin. With oile of roses it helps quotidian feavers Sext. Being dropped into the eares it helps the paines thereof Marcel and the tonsils being anointed therewith Being injected into the body in a clyster it helpeth the dysentery With the gall it helps the epilepsy The braine eaten causeth madnesse and dropped into the eare with oile it helps deafenesse Rhas The dogge tooth of a Lion hung about the neck of a child preventeth the toothach Plin. The heart eaten helpeth quartans Albert. The liver drunk in wine helpeth the paine of the liver Bertrut The gall drunk causeth present death though some attribute it to that of the Leopard With water it cleareth the eyes and with the fatt it helps the epilepsy being tasted Albert. A little drunk cureth the jaundise Gal. With honey it helps the ulcers and white spots in the eyes Used in a pessary it causeth conception Albert. The testicle taken with roses causeth sterility Aristot. Their bitings and wounds are cured as those of dogs that are mad and Woolfs sc By scarification washing with vineger taking out the splinters applying plaisters to suppurate purge and cicatrize as Aetius informeth Jonst The powder of the heart helps the epilepsy The fatt helps kibes The powder of the bones drunk with agrimony water cureth simple feavers As for the description he hath a mean head square forehead high eyebrowes eyes not very voluble or prominent nose thick jaws equal wide mouth neck large and thick brest strong metaphren broad and the middle of the belly narrow legs strong and nervous haire yellow and crisped with five toes in the foremost feet and foure in the hinder The Lionesse is smooth teated the bowels are like the Dogs the spleen black the marrow in the bones is little Their temper is most hot and dry by reason of the heat of the heart They drink little They generate with the Panther Leopard and Hyena sc the Lionesse and with the Dog They bring forth after six months and six young ones at once They love the Dolphin and hate the privities of a Woman bristles of Hoggs wild Asse Bull and Ape They looke on the earth that they may not fear the hunter They sleepe with the eyes open wagging the taile Their noise is hideous They will oppose a multitude of opposites and run only when not seen drawing in their nailes They are taken in pits M. Mole Talpa P. Almost every where in pastures and other places M. Of Worms earth and roots of herbs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Pelagoz Mus terrenus MOle T. The flesh is not used in meat Plin. V. They help the bitings of the shrew so applied so Plin. Valer. Hal. They help the wounds of Scorpions Sext. Applied they help glanduls Arnold Olivar Their excrements with honey help the kings evil Furner The water in which they have been soaked till the haires come off used twice or thrice taketh away haire Ruf. The oile in which they have been boiled till dissolved causeth grouth of the same in horses The lye in which they have been often boiled used warm causeth white haires in horses Anon. So the fatt after long boiling The ashes applied with the white of an egge to leprouse parts help the same so Albert. Olivar So with oile or honey Plin. Marcel The ashes with honey help the Kings evil Vincent And the fistula Sext. Also it fastens the teeth The bloud causeth hair on a bald head so Albert. Anon. applied with paper it helps the paronychia Plin. Applied it helps the lymphatick The earth he casts up with the head helps wens and impostumes so the liver The tooth helps the teeth Schrod The ashes of a mole or want taken inwardly with beer or wine helpe the running gout The D. is scrup sem daily The heart helps the rupture one being taken at a time for three or foure dayes Jonst The ashes help fistula's They have little sight but excellent hearing Their description is needlesse Tops Usually they have a black dusky colour when they digg after wormes they creep out of the earth to avoide them In July they run upon the earth to seek food worms then being scant Their enemies are Weafels Wild Catts They may be taken by fastning pikes over the places where they work with a bridge They are killed by putting white hellebore and hemlock into the holes also burne sulphur to drive them away Mouse Mus. P. Almost every where in houses and
withall they strengthning the same They are terrene or marine as to their differences R. Rainger Rangifer P. In Iapponia Swecia Norwegia and other places M. Of mountain mosse leaves and herbs N. Reingus Franc. Raingier Germ. Rein. RAinger Jonst T. The milk is a domestick nutriment and the whey serveth as drink V. the skinne serveth as a covering for the body and beds as also to make bellows of being tough the nerves serve in steed of flax to sow withall the bones and hornes to make bows of The flesh dried in the smoake lasteth many yeares The hoofes help the spasme The haire serveth to stuffe cushions withall As for the description their head is like a Calfs the mane like a Horses the hornes ramous smooth slender longish and stretched backwards in other things considering the proportion they are like the common Harts Tops They change their colour according to the time of the year and quality of the place in which they feede Their hoofe is moveable which they spread in the snow and so avid their enemies They are used to draw when tamed they goe in heards and live hardly The females are without hornes and yeeld milk Ram. Aries P. Almost every where in all countries M. Of herbs leaves hay and graines N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Ail Arab. Kabsa Pers Nerameish Ram. Gesn T. The flesh in respect of concoction and juyce is the worst next that of Goats and the Bulls the worst of all amongst all which the gelded is best and the oldest the worst so Gal. Avic that of Goats is lesse excrementitious this is stronger and lesse excrementitious this is lesse moist than the flesh of Sheepe and harder of concoction The young are lesse humid and viscous and so better than that of Lambs or Sheep for being well concocted they generate much and good bloud especially the castrate being temperately hot and moist and therefore of good taste but it is worst when old being then most cold This is best when of a yeare old sc for young people of a hot and dry temperament and those that live in such countryes so Isaac Aet the lungs powdered are very hardly digested Arnold The marrow is thought to be venimous and so contrary to mans nature so that it will destroy the memory the antidote is the flesh of a Pheasant V. Gesn The skinne of a Ramme hot helps wounds by stroakes and bruises Arnold The plaister made thereof helpeth ruptures Plin. The testicles of a cocke anointed with Goose grease applied therewith hinder venery The wooll washed in cold water and sprinkled with oile helps the evil inflammation of the womb and the fume helpeth the falling down of the same so Sextus Myreps the fume of the wooll that groweth betwixt the hornes helpeth the hemicrania Some use the ashes thereof with vineger Marcel So against the headach also the ashes of the wool mixed with water and applied help the vices of the privities so Plin. being new shorne and applied to the hands and feet it stoppeth bleeding The flesh with the broth of coleworts helpeth against cantharides The ashes thereof help the morphew and ringworms as also the bitings of Serpents and Scorpions and those of a mad Dogg with wine Avic The same help white spots in the eyes Sext. The fatt with sandaracha helpeth kibes mixed with alum and the scab without it Plin. With the ashes of a pumice stone and a like quantity of salt it helps fellons The lungs helpe the colour of cicatrices and the fatt with nitre Plin. Marcel The gall with the fatt helps the gout Marcel The ashes of the hornes mixed with oile and applied after shaving curle the haire Some use the head with aromaticks against folly arising from the distemper of the braine Plin. The lungs consume excrescencies in ulcers Marcel So applied warm Plin. They help the discolouring of cicatrices so Sext. And helpe gallings Marcel As also kibes and ruptures of the feet Sext. The liquour thereof applied helps clavicles in the hands or privities Plin. The sanies helps ringworms also Aesculap the liquour of it boiled helps tertians and the diseases of the reins Marcel It helpeth kibes applied crude Albert. The belly boiled with Wine and mixed with water and given to drink to Sheep helpeth the pestilence of the same Hal. The gall helps the pain of the eares caused by cold Plin. Marcel With the fat it helps the gout Plin. The old testicles the q. of a penny weight being taken in water or Asses milk help the Epilepsy abstaining from Wine 5. dayes before and after Plin. The ashes of the thighs applied with Womens milk with clean cloaths help biles The ashes of the claw with hony cure the bitings of a Shrew Sext. The Sordes which the Ram hath betwixt the thighs with equal parts of myrrhe and birthwort drunk help the jaundise Pliny affirmeth the same of that of the eares also Jonst the lungs rosted prevent ebriety Hippoc. the liver helps wefts or bloud shotten eyes blowed in Tops The best for breed are the one coloured tall straight large bellied full of wool long and rough tailed with a broad forehead large testicles broad shoulders and buttocks They should bee 2. years old before they copulate and kept apart before the time of conjunction being fed with Barly Onions Solomons seal Satyrion and salt water the fittest time for admission is in October the cold of the Winter being then over before the time of ening they may be kept 8. years for that purpose but then they seeke the eldest yewes chiefely Rat. Sorex P. In England and Spain and other places M. Of Bread Corn Pulse Flesh Cheese c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rattus Ital. Rato Rat. Plin. T. V. the Body being eaten by those that are great causeth black eyes so Seren. Plin. The fat helpeth the palsey so that of the dormouse The ashes with the fat and honey help the watrings of the eyes Sext. And being taken every day cleare the eye sight Marcel Applied with oile they help kibes Tops Their flesh is farre more hot and sharp than the flesh of the vulgar Mouse so it 's more likely to expell and dry more Their excrements also are of the same vertue The dung helps the falling off of the hair They are most venimous in the time of lust and copulation the very urine falling uppon a bare place causing a rotting of the flesh even to the bones neither will it suffer any scarre to be made upon the ulcers They are killed by the same poysons and meats that the common mice are killed by except Woolfs bane which they vomit up Rock-goat Rupicapra P. In Persia and the East-Indies c. M. Of Alpish herbs and the black root of doronicum N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Capra Alpina Montana Sylv. Rock-goat Jonst T. the flesh is dry and of melancholick juyce V. The warme bloud helpeth the vertigo so Schrod the fat taken with milk helps the phthisick and
when newer and more nourishing when thick also it 's better than the milk of Cows so the cheese The milk is thick sweet and very fat yet not so fit for the stomack as the Goats Diosc Also the milk of an Asse Cow or Mare doth more loosen the belly than the Sheeps this being more thick Gal. The fattest milk is that of the Cow the Sheeps and Goats is lesse fat It is thicker than the Goats but the frequent use of it causeth the morphew Of milks the Womans is most temperate then the Goats Asses Sheeps and lastly the Cows so Aeg. Var. Milk is the most nourishing of any food we use that is liquid especially the Sheeps then the Goats Plin. The Goats is most fit for the stomack feeding more on Leaves than Herbs the Cows is more medicinal the Sheeps sweeter and more nourishing and lesse fit for the stomack being fatter and yeelding the fattest butter Var. The Cheese is next to that of the Cow Crescent And is best when new and better than that of the Cow V. Plin. The warme skins help the wounds of stroaks and such as are beaten Gal. in a day and a nights space it concocting and digesting the bloud under the skinne so Rhas and Albert. See Ram. Sylv. The skinne of the feet and snowt of an Oxe or Sheep being boiled by a gentle fire till like curd and dryed in the aire helpeth ruptures Plin. The bloud drunk helps the falling sicknesse The flesh burnt with water helps the vices of the privities so Plin. Cels The broth with vomiting as also that of a Goose or Calf helps venimous bitings Anon. A cloath dipped in the tallow and applied helps burnings Plin. with nitre it helps the colours of cicatrices Marcel With salt it openeth panicles Plin. When old with the ashes of Womens haires it helps fellons With cantharides and the juyce of the berries of wild vine it helpeth ringworms or tetters The fat cureth the roughnesse of the nailes Marcel Applied as a cerot with alum it helps adustion by cold and kibes Gal. Applied with hot water it helps diverse vices of the eyes Plin. With the ashes of a Womans haire it cureth luxate joynts Marcel Being boiled and drunk with austere Wine it helps the cough Absyrtus used it for Horses also Plin. It helps the dysentery and iliak passion Marcel or coeliack Diosc The fat helps the gout so that of a Goat discussing much applied with the dung and saffron Marcel The fat of the reines with the ashes of a pumice stone and salt helps the paine and swellings of the privities Plin. And other vices thereof Plin. Marcel That of the kell applied stoppeth bleedings at the nostrils Diosc The marrow is praised in the 5th place after the Harts Calfes Bulls and Goats The liver cureth the nyctalopie the eyes being washed with the decoction and the marrow being applied to the paines and tumours Hippoc. The powder of the borne of a Sheep or Goat being suffumigated with tosted and shaled Barly with oile bringeth forth the secundine and menses Rhas Albert. The brain applied helps the watering of the eyes Plin. It facilitats the breeding of the teeth but Galen addeth honey thereto to make it more strong and effectual The lungs help black and blew spots so Marcel being applied warme and discusse the same Plin. Being rosted and taken they prevent drunkennesse and used hot to the head they cure the phrensy and lethargy Marcel They help the dysentery boiled with line-seed the flesh being eaten and the water drunk and applied hot they cure the gout or ease the same Plin. The liver helps the nyctalops and the decoction used Marcel So that of a white sheep boiled bruised and applied with water Hippoc. Being rosted in warm ashes and eaten 4. dayes drinking old wine it helps the inflation of Women that are great so that of a Goat Diosc The gall is not so good as that of a Bull. Gal. It is a little sharper than that of a Hogge and helps old and purulent ulcers of the eares Plin. With honey it purgeth the eares Marcel Being mixed to the consistence of a clyster with mulse and injected into the eares the ulcers being purged it most certainly healeth the same and being dropped into the eares with Womans milk it helps ruptures therein Plin. And convulsions Rhas Albert. applied it cureth a canker or corrosion of the flesh Being applied to the head with fullers earth till it be dry it helps scurfe Marcel or the itch Plin. With honey it cureth the Epilepsie especially that of the Lamb. Plin. The Magicians used the spleen against the pain of the spleen so Plin. being tosted and stamped in Wine and drunk it helps the iliack passion as also the wringings of the guts Plin. Marcel The ashes of the thighs with wax help the breakings of the joynts Plin. So of the jaws burnt Harts-horne and waxe mollified with oile of roses The decoction of the thighs drunk with linesced helps the dysentery Gal. The ashes or dust of the huckle bone whiten the teeth and help other vices of the same those of the bladder or of that of a Goat drunk with oxycrate by those that pisse in their sleep help the same The secundine helps many evils in Women See Goat Plin. The milk of Sheep helps against all poyson except that of aconite and flie called wagge legge With oatmeale water and honey it helps long diseases and wastings Drach 1. of swallows dung being taken in 3. cupsful thereof or of that of the goat before the fit helps quartains A gargarisme thereof helps the tonsils and jaws Marcel So that of a Goat or Cow when warme and helps the paine and swellings It is used against the phthisick being boiled and drunk with bastard saffron it looseneth the belly With wake robin it cureth the exulceration of the intestines Diosc Being boiled and having pebles quenched therein it stops exulcerating fluxes of the belly and the tenesmus so Marcel and boiled taken alone or with butter it helps the tormina and coeliack passion It is inâ—…ed also against corrosions caused by medicines so that of the Coâ—â— so Plin. Crescent the whay thereof moveth the belly and purgeth forth choller Plin. The butter thereof with honey with the ashes of a Dogges head or Womb decocted in oile helps the clâ—fts of the skinne about the nailes Marcel So with elicampane and hard swellings also Plin. With honey and an owle boiled in oile it cures ulcers The old cheese thereof helps the dysentery Marcel And drunk in Wine it cures the coeliack Med. Mys The dung with vineger helps warts fellons and the Thymi And burnings in ulcers with the rose-cerot Diosc and cornes so Rhas fere and Albert Marcel and Plin. as also all sorts of warts and carbuncles newly arising Gal. Applied with oile as a cataplasme it cures green wounds made by a sword or wood Plin. Applied with vineger it helps the bitings of the field Spider and of Serpents boiled in Wine
mans flesh and menstruous bloud c. They hate salt and stinks the Cat Mole and Spider They walk in the night The antidote is mithridate and triacle c. Tortise Testudo P. In the deserts of Africa Lybia and Mauritania M. Of a roscid liquour herbs worms snailes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Homet Chersina Tortise T. Jonst Scapp Ambrosin The flesh is often eaten in the Indies with saffron aromatick powders V. Plin. The flesh is used in suffumigations in physick and against poyson In Africa the head and feet being cut off they are used as an antidote and being boiled and eaten discusse botches and help the spleen and epilepsy The bloud cleareth the eyes and helps against the poyson of Spiders and Froggs c. the pills thereof being taken in wine The gall with attick honey helps the glaucoma and wounds of Scorpions The ashes of the shell with wine and oile help the clefts of the feet and ulcers The scales drunk restraine lust The urine helps the bitings of Asps The eggs help botches and ulcers and the paine of the stomach being drunk Gal. The liver is used in a pessary against the strangling of the womb V. Unicorne Vnicornu P. In the East Indies and West Indies and other places M. Their meat is not observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Reem Arab. Alchercheden UNicorne Gesn T. The flesh is bitter and unfit to be eaten like that of the Indian Asse V. The horne being powdered and drunk in water expelleth poyson with amber ivory leafe gold and coral c. It 's much commended against pestilent feavers Mundel and the bitings of mad Doggs and other poysonsome beasts as also against wormes and many great sicknesses and the epilepsy Schrod The horne is sudorifick alexipharmick and cardiack and is therefore good against contagious diseases c. the D. is from gr 4. to scrup sem and more Bac. It 's woorne also as an amulet As for their description in body they are not much unlike a horse but cloven hoofed and have a long horne in their foreheads Tops They are of a dusty colour with a maned neck hairy forehead and a white and smooth horne serving to expel and dissolve all poyson if put into the water after the drinking of any poysonsome beast It sweateth if venim be nigh It weigheth thirteen pound They fight with their mouth and feet They hate the female except at the time of lust but love stranger beasts and maids and are taken by them dressed with sweet herbs W. Weasel Mustela P. Almost every where In England and other places M. Of Mice Moles Serpents Hares eggs N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Choled Chald. Chulda Arab. Caldah WEasel T. V. Vrsin The flesh cureth feavers Aetius maketh an acopon thereof against the gout and paine of the joynts so the ashes and with wine help the epilepsy and headach Albert. It 's good against the stingings of Scorpions Marcel The bloud helps exulcerated botches Gal. It 's of the nature of the Hedghog Avic And drunk in wine helps against poysons drach 2. being taken in wine so Diosc And Gal. Albert. Some adde rue also Gal. It helps the epilepsy Plin. Sext. Aesculap The bloud and ashes help the elephantiasis Marcel some adde the bloud of an Elephant Plin. The ashes helpe botches with those of swallowes Plin. They help suffusions in the eyes and catarrhes with honey so Marcel Plin. Marcel with wax it helps the paines of the shoulders Diosc The ashes with vineger help the gout Plin. Marcel So with the oile of roses amylum or gum dragant Plin. The old brain drunk helps the epilepsy Rhas So with vineger Rhas The bloud applied helps impostumes behind the eares so Archig Sext. And evils of the throat so Isid It mollifieth contracted nerves and helps the paine of the joynts Gal. The liver helps the epilepsy drunk in water Sext. With the gall of a Hare castorcum myrrhe vineger and honey it helps the vertigo The gall is good against aspes Rhas Taken inwardly it kills Plin. The testicles and womb help against the epilepsy and the lethargy smelled to The ashes of the dung may be used in stead of spodium Stumpf. Their biting is venimous but it may be cured by onions and garlick being applied and eaten Figs also are good with the meale of bitter vetches and triacle applied also figg leaves Camerar Their bitings in cattle may be cured by oile in which it hath been steeped giving treacle inwardly Jonst The decoction sprinkled on seed corne keepeth Mice from it The lungs help diseases of the lungs Matth. The gall with the juyce of sennel cleareth the eyes and skinn The genital helps the strangury As for the description it 's needlesse They hate the Crow Hen and Cat. When they fight with Serpents they use rue Weather Vervex P. Almost every where in England and other countries M. Of grasse hay and shrubs c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aries castratus Sectarius Weather Avic T. Of mutton that of the weather is the best especially when about a yeare old Cresc And is worse after See Ram. Platin. It is better than Lamb being hot and moist and tending to temperatenesse See Sheep V. Leonel Fav A bath made of the head with the feet intestines and barly boiled in water helpeth spasmes all fatt and moistning things being good for the same purpose Tops They are loved by the Lambs and being unapt to generation therefore they keepe company with them but the Ewes forsake them for that reason and the Rams cannot endure them The time for castration is in the wane or decrease of the Moon at five months old so that they may not be troubled with heat or cold they may be libbed also at two or three yeares of age and then their hornes grow not but their flesh and lard or sewet is more acceptable than of any other Sheep except very old being neither so moist as Lambs nor so rank as a Rams or Ewes And is hot and moist Woolfe Lupus P. In the north countries Scotland and Muscovia M. Of flesh chiefely mutton and mans flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Zeeb Arab. Dib Chald. Deeba Woolfe Gesn T. The flesh as also that of all wild beasts that feed on flesh and are rapacious is nor used in meat except by Pagans It is cold foetid dry and grosse So Rhas and Albert. Colder than that of a Dog Avic Bell. Some commend the flesh as good for a cold moist and weake stomach and the hemorrhoids The flesh of all rapacious creatures causeth black choller the worst is that of Woolfes and Doggs corrupting both the humours and mind so Rhas Albert. Rhas With a little pepper and despumated honey it helps the collick V. Plin. The decoction helps the gout Hal. The skinne worne by him that is bitten by a mad Dog prevents hydrophoby Rhas Albert. The skinne worne about the belly of one troubled with the collick helpeth it Gal.
descent yet not of much nourishment or such as will last long consisting then of a thinne and fluxile bloud therefore they are naught for such as are troubled with the gout being attracted and received by the weaker parts The braine is to be eaten with salt The liver is moistish The testicles are easily concocted The eggs of Hens are best when fresh and may be known by plenitude they are best boiled and when softish Gal. They then being light of digestion of good juyce not heating but strengthning and clearing the throat When hard they are more grosse viscous and styptick Muff. Young Cockrels are the best of the chickens which leave no excrements in the body and therefore are used in burning feavers it is of all flesh the most commendable nourishing much causing sperme and lust They are best rosted being a moist meat with sorrel and sugar or with white wine vineger They are a most temperate meat for weake stomacks The hardest of digestion are the white so Gilbert Griuener Yet they are best for hectick persons being most cold and moist They are best in summer and Pullets and Hens in winter the Cock-chickens are best before they crow lowd the female before trodden Cocks flesh is best when young it helps consumptions and hectick feavers Their testicles livers and loines are of very good nourishment if sodden it 's not good the broth looseneth and the flesh bindeth which is contrary in that of a Hen so Gal. C. those are the best that are of the game under 2. yeares of age As for Hens they are best before they have laid and when full of egges as also in January and cold months sleep and rest making them then fattest When young the flesh is very temperate of good juyce much nourishment strengthning naturall heate engendring good bloud sharpning the appetite quickning the eye sight nourishing the braine and sperme agreeing with all ages and complexions turning wholly for the most part into bloud making a lively colour and quickning all the senses Avic The flesh of Pullets helpeth the wit cleareth the voice and increaseth the sperme so is of much nourishment They are best when meanely fat and fed with corne cast into chaffe that by exercise they may consume their superfluous moisture The flesh of Capons of 7. or 8. months old is preferred before all meats by most Physicians It helps the appetite openeth the breast cleareth the voice fatteneth leane men nourisheth all men restoreth sicknesses hurteth none but the idle tasteth pleasantly and digesteth easily also it 's more solid than that of pullets more tender than that of Cocks more agreeable than Pheasants or Partridges not so dry as a Cock to be slowly digested not so moist as a Chicken to be soone corrupted but temperate causing much in offensive bloud and much sperme without unnatural sharpnesse or heate therefore Faventinus made it the basis in his Analeptick Electuary and Alois Mundella thinks that consumption desperate which Capons gellies and cullises cannot recover They are best rosted for moist stomacks if boiled in white broth they are of speedier but not stronger nourishment The Italians make Hen-copenets by sering them in the loines Note Freitag As for the name it 's called Capon and Capo quasi caput omnium or the chiefe of all other meats As for egges the best are the Hens the shell of which is like the earth cold and dry the white like water cold and moist the froth therein like aire hot and moist the yolk like fire hot and dry Yet all together is temperate The best are those of Pullets engendred by the Cock new white and long such nourishing much clearing the voice and brest strengthning the stomach curing consumptions causing lust by nutrition They nourish quickly being liquid flesh and much by a proportionable heat and moisture they are best in the morning being newest and in the Winter Hens being then fattest and worst in Summer by reason of ill feeding it is best to eate them alone they otherwise corrupting and filling the face with pimples and freckles H. they are naught for Children their hot bodies turning them into over hot nourishment whence the itch scabs inflammations and corruptions doe arise also for old men being hardly digested in a cold stomach they are best for temperate young people not feaverish Egges serve also in fluxes bridle sharp and griping humours restore spirits in the weakenesse of the heart and speedily passe from a cleane stomack Note the longest are usually Cock egges so of best nourishment also those that have greatest yolks nourish most but the other are fittest for hot stomacks Furthermore rere egges are of lightest digestion The hard of slowest and the softish of strongest nourishment The fried are hot and maligne in quality the potcht are best for hot complexions or those that are aguish Sodden reere in the shell they are soonest converted into bloud and if rosted reere in the embers they make thickest and strongest bloud and are fittest for cold weake and waterish stomacks Ficinus calleth them the quintessence of flesh Finally of all creatures those egges are most wholesome that are most temperate they being like their venters They chiefely in use are those of Hens Turkies Peacocks Pheasants Partridges Berganders Ostriches Ducks Geese Pigeons and Sparrows As for the way of dressing them it may be seene in Apicius Platina and Aldrovandus V. Hipp. The white of 3. egges being taken in water helps the heate of feavers Gal. The yolks help the syncopal feaver before the fourth day using the flesh after chiefely that of a Capon being more friable and tender So the cullise of the same Tral The testicles help the hectick feaver The broth with other things helps the feaver called Epiala so with the fat of a Duck if of an old Cock it is laxative cleansing and opening It dissipats flatulencies and purgeth melancholly so Serap Bras It bringeth out those things that are in the stomack and intestines With sene it purgeth melancholy phlegme with turbith and choller with citrine myrobalans Mesue addeth bastard saffron also to purge phlegme in the gout and against melancholy dodder of time and polypody with time Hyssop Anet and sal gemme for the same purpose Plin. It helps long feavers stupidity tremblings diseases of the joynts diseases and paines of the head Epiphora's inflations nauseousnesse the tenesmus liver reines bladder against crudities and shortwindednesse being boiled with Capers Parsely Mercury Polipody or dill c. The best is the old red Cock and sattish Rhas the braine of a Hen helps the trembling of the braine wit and memory The young Chicken dissected and applied to venimous bitings draweth out the venome and helps the Epilepsy caused thereby Plin. The testicles with water and milk help the falling sicknesse abstaining from wine Ornithol so the gall Amat Lus Ornithol Being dissected and applied to the head of a Woman they help melancholy and folly The white of an egge helps paines
so Avic sticking to the parts by its gluten Applied to the forehead with a linnen cloath it causeth sleep So the feet eaten Diosc The white taken warm helps destillations rheumes The same applied to the forehead hindereth defluxions thence it having an excellent astringent faculty in so much that Pliny saith that being mixt with live lime it will soder glasses Hermol and that being put upon a stick or garment it will not burne Therefore Galen Avicen and Serapio mixed it with things that hindered the flux of bloud from the braine and it helps the pissing of bloud being taken crude Plin. And spitting of bloud so the braine and bloud Gal. Eupor So the shell with other astringent remedies Plin. The powder thereof drunk in wine helps eruptions of bloud so Kiran. And bleeding at the nose with frankincense and the white of an egge Ornithol So with sour or horse dung The dung which is white expelleth coagulated bloud Avic a reere egge helps hoarsenesse of a hot cause Diosc And roughnesse of the throat so Gal. as also the inflammation of the trachea It 's mixed with things that incide humours contained in the breast or lungs It also cureth all asperity of the stomack belly intestines and bladder Elluch Marcel a forbile egge clarifieth the voice so when newly layed Hipp. The flesh of a rosted Hen is good against exulcerated arteries Avic And cleareth the voice Myreps The white dung taken with water or melicrate helpeth occult quinseyes or used with honey inwardly Plin. The yolk of an egge applied helps the destillations of the breast Avic A reere egge helps the dyspnoea Arnold The pulp of the flesh with ptysan helps the Asthma and other affections of the breast so with Rose water Almond milk Amylum and Rice flower Avic A new reere egge helps the pleurisy so Joub Diosc and spitting of bloud Plin. Especially with Amylum Avic Sorbile egges help the cough pleurisy phthifick hoarsnesse of heate shortnesse of breath and spitting of bloud especially the yolk being taken warme so Marcel with old wine Marcel a crude egge drunk with the juce of cut leeks and honey helpeth the spitting of matter Hipp. The flesh of a Cock helpeth the breast Plin. Seren. Marcel An egge with the juyce of hore-hound and honey breaketh vomica's purgeth and cureth them Marcel The fat taken inwardly helpeth those that are empyick Some adde the powder of dill Avic Sorbile egges help the phthisick Marcel Some adde oile and bastard wine Marsil The white Chickens are best for those that are hectick being colder An egge with honey helps the cough so Plin. and Seren. So with brimstone Marcel The powder of the inward skinne of the ventricle drunk with wine helps the humid cough Gal. The yolks of egges help the syncope they causing soddain and much nutriment so the feather put into the nose with vineger Diosc The inward tunicle of the stomach strengthneth the stomack so Guainer Leonel Sylv. being washed in wine dryed and powdered So egges being halfe boiled Marcel And with oile the yolks quench thirst Being taken with live brimstone and the shavings of Harts horne it stops vomiting so with a wall louse but the dung causeth vomiting therefore it 's drunk against poyson being mixed with line seed or that of netles decoct in water or with water and butter so Guainer and Villan Archig the powder of the yolk of an egge taken with barly meale easeth the pain of the stomack Rondel The ashes of the intestines of a Hen help the paine and moisture of the stomack Tral The broth of an old Cock purgeth the hollow part of the liver The oile of egges helps the paine of the liver caused by flatulencies An egge taken with brimstone helps the jaundise Ornithol So the tunicle of the stomack Hipp. Cocks flesh rosted helps the dropsy Marcel The yolks of egges boiled hard in vineger and taken with pepper help those that are coeliack so Seren. with meale or the membrane of the ventricle taken in austere wine Egges boiled in vineger stop fluxes of the belly So Gal. and Sym. Seth. Constant so applied with vineger Seren or the shell drunk in wine Hipp. And the flesh eaten Avic It is boiled sometimes with astringent remedies against the dysentery and with milk against ulcers of the bladder Crude egges with oile of roses help the dysentery with heate Plin. The yolks of 5. egges taken raw with the shells juyce of poppies and wine help the same Calf Egges rosted hard stop the belly So Gal. especially with â—…mach galls powder of snailes the fruite of myrtles medlars balaustins and Hyppocystis Marcel The powder of the skinne in an egge shell drunk in wine helps the dysentery also and the broth of a young Cockrell so the white of an egge used in a clyster with melilore preventing ulcers and putrefaction Seren. the ashes of an egge she ll help the paine of the belly The rosted liver of a Cock with the membrane of the ventricle and juyce of poppies helps the iliack passion Egges boiled in vineger help ulcers of the reines and bladder Alex. Tral Raw egges help the inflammation of the reines Plin. And the yolk helps the erosions thereof Aet The white dung drunk helps the collick Ornithol So the decoction with carminatives used in clysters Avic or the broth with polypodie and dill Diosc So the dung with vineger so Gal. Andernacus maketh a potion of the decoction of an old Cock for the same purpose with things against winde Kiran. Egges boiled in the urine of an Asse help nephritick pains so the inward membrane of the ventricle drunk with wine salt Avic The powder of egge shells drunk breaketh the stone sc of those that have contained Chickens Plin. The white of an egg expelleth the same Diosc A warme egge taken helps corrosions of the bladder exulcerations of the reines Some affirme that the ashes of the throat taken in warm water help the incontinencie of urine and Galen useth this to stop the same sc the membrane of the stomack with frankincense accorns balanstins galls with honey of roses and cold water Rhas The dry comb of a Hen stoppeth the pissing of bed Gal. So the testicle Egges boiled in vineger help the heat of urine The shell provoketh urine so Gatiner Leonel so with saxifrage water mixed with wine it helpeth burstings Marcel The yolk of an egge helps the exiture of the fundament Plin. Egges boiled hard in vineger and taken with peppper stop the belly Rhas They cause venery so the testicles Gal. Egge shells boiled with cuminseed help the paine and inflammation of the genitalls Some commend the powder thereof against the Gonorrhoed Egges steeped in vineger stop the termes being taken with meale and water Kiran. So if taken raw The ashes of the shells with that of Harts horne powder of Amber and aneifeed an Drach 1. taken in water help the whites Being applied with myrrhe they stop the courses So Plin. the yolks boiled and
especially the old without spices c. Muff. The flesh is rather to be used as physick than food by reason of their evil feeding V. Kiran. The flesh is counted good for the nerves and joynts helping all the passions thereof either rosted or boiled Plin. Marcel Also it prevents lippitude Kiran. The ashes of the young Ones help the spots Epiphora and roughnesse of the eyes Leonel Fav The oile helps the palsey like that of vipers so the distilled liquour after the use of the decoction of Crabs it extending the nerves Furnerus useth it with Camphire and the best Amber to beautify the face Trall The nerves with those of the wild Asse and Bore help the fistula's of the feet and paines thereof Plin. The ventricle helps against all poysons so the brain with wine and spikenard Blond The powder of the ventricle with water helps the pestilence of Dogges Plin. Boiled in wine it helps fellons Kiran. The intestines taken in meate help the collick and nephritick possion the gall helps the sight Diosc The dung drunk in water helps the falling sicknesse Aeg. And the Orthopnoea Aetius useth it in plaisters against the gout with axunge so Myrepsus Marcellus Kiranides addeth the leaves of henbane and wild lettuce also the egges with wine blacke the haire the forehead and eyes being covered with meale applying oile omphacine with Boares grease after it Aet Apollon The feathers cause sneezing Schrod The flesh is alexipharmick and yeelds an antepileptick water Jonst They build in the tops of trees They fly not when the south wind bloweth they sleep standing upon one foot laying the head upon the other shoulder They are Enemies to the Quaile Eagle Diver and Bats Swallow Hirundo P. Almost every where in all Countries M. Of most kinds of insects N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Agur. Arab. Chatas Swallow Aldrov T. The flesh is eaten by some poor people their aliment is hot and hurtful therefore they are to bee used physically V. Plin. The Wild are better than the Tame Magicians used them against quartan agues so the heart or dung drunk in Sheepes milk Marcel So the stones found in their ventricles Plin. Some weare the head in a linnen cloath against paines of the head Marcel So the fore mentioned stones Gal. or the dung applied to the forehead with vineger Jac. Olivar Hieron Montu The heart helps the memory taken with Cinamon amomum and aloephangin pills Vrfin and whet the wit Sext. Kiran. The flesh often eaten helps the Epilepsy Plin. Sext. So the bloud with frankincense Myrepsus useth the fume thereof so the ashes with those of a Weasel so Seren. and Plin. Gesn So with Castoreum and strong vineger or the destilled water Sext. Diosc or the stone worne about the arm so Plin. and Tral Plin. Seren. or that found in their nests Plin. The ashes of the young Ones with the milk of spurge and froth of snailes prevent haires in the eye-brows after evulsion The bloud is a Psilothron Gal. The dung with Bulls gall maketh the haires white Oribas The same with water helps black cicatrices but makes them black with Bulls gall Marcel So digested with vineger anointing the face with Harts suet and having oile in the mouth Kiran. So the egges Marcel The flesh of the young ones eaten often rosted or boiled helps dimme eyes Plin. So the ashes applied with cretick honey Sext. The same helps their paines and lippitude so Diosc Sext. or the gall and bloud Marcel It helps the stripes and suffusions of the same so Cels The stones in their ventricles expel things fallen into the eyes The brain with honey helps suffusions Kiran. The eyes of a Swallow used to the forehead help the Ophthalmia and all rigors of feavers Albert. The dung helps white spots in the eyes but it 's sharp digesting and burning Gal. the ashes of the flesh with honey help the putrifaction and crusts of the bones Aesculap The heart helps diseases of the jaws Myreps The nest helps inflammations of the tonsils So Gal. With vineger for that of the wild is discutient The ashes of Swallows with honey help all affections about the jaws and swellings of the uvula or tonsils so Marcel Diosc and Pliny Kiran. The same helps ulcers in the throat and tongue as also all that spread and gangreens Archig The young ones rosted and eaten prevent suffocation and inflammations of the tonsils Diosc Drach 1. Of the powder drunk in water helps the quinsey so Avic and Cels Marcel So the broth thereof Kiran. Or the earth of the nest applied with water so the plaister thereof so Amat Lus Aet The nest with honey helps the Erysipelas of the face Some use the powder against the quinsey either drunk or taken by a reed Avic The ashes used to the pallat help the quinsey The dung is discutient some use the ashes of the flesh with Saffron Indiannarde and honey others with myrrhe and the juyce of myrtles Leonel Faventinus useth it with Album graecum and others apply it with the nest Plin. The ashes help the eyes Kiran. With melicrate it helps hoarsenesse also The stones of the ventricle worne help those that are hepatick Gal. Those of the nests help the cough Marcel The dung taken helps the collick Myresp As also the difficulty of urine with other remedies and the stone Kiran. The flesh eaten facilitats the birth The dung drunk helps white flows Sext. Constant The ashes with honey or mulse help ulcers of the tongue and lips the same help old ulcers Trall The bloud helps the gout The decoction helps the biting of a mad Dog So the nest and that of vipers The flesh helps drunkennesse Schrod The dung looseneth As for the description it 's needlesse They generate not like other birds twice in a year laying 5 egges at a time with duskish specks and the young are blind at the first Their noise is known they sing early in the morning flying abroad but seldome goe by reason of the weakenesse and shortnesse of their legges They foretel raine when they fly about lakes and water or neer the ground They have scarce friends or enemies unto them Swan Cygnus P. Almost every where and is an amphibion M. Of Grasse Graine and Fish spawne c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Olor Heb. Racham Arab. Rakam Swan Albert. T. The flesh is black and hard as also that of all aquatick foule that have great Bodies Aldrov But they are counted unfit for the table upon a twofold account sc because they live in the water so the flesh is excrementitious as also being greater than Ducks or Geese so are of more hard concoction yet the young are sometimes used in banquets Muff. But naturally they are unwholesome Note all flesh the blacker it is the heavier it is and the whiter the lighter the more red the more inclining to heavinesse the lesse red the more light and easie of digestion The flesh of the wild also is black
have soft and pleasant flesh and meanly passing through the belly and easily concocted also they nourish meanly as also all others that have soft flesh They are used sometimes in steed of the saxatile fishes and to help the epilepsy Plat. Athen. The first is a very acceptable fish Epicharm The least are best Hices Their cartilage is very acceptable to the stomach the rest yeeldeth but little juyce Diph. It is of hard concoction except those parts that are about the head which are render acceptable to the stomach and easily concocted Yet Rondelerius disliketh the use thereof it being of ill juyce unpleasant moist soft and fungous though some eate the hinder parts thereof with garlick and onions amongst poore people Diphilus commends them boiled and Archestratus boileth them in oile and wine with sweet smelling herbs and a little cheese Gal. But if they are used as attenuating diet they are to be taken with beets stamped or white broth with a leeke and a little pepper otherwise they are commonly fried and eaten being sprinkled with the juyce of an orange V. Plin. Being eaten they loosen the belly Hipp. and help the hepatick disease being boiled as also the Forkfish and small Raies The same helps the third kind of tabes so the Skate Being rosted they help the dropsy Diosc Applied to the head they help old paines thereof and restraine the falling out of the fundament so Gal. Aeg. Avic and Kiran. Marcel Empyr sc the Black applied alive till the part be torpid The same helps the gout being trod on till the stupidity reacheth the knee Aet They help inflammations and paines Being boiled in oile and used with a little wax and oile it helps the gout Aegineta maketh his diaturpane hereof and Myrepsus plaisters for the same purpose some also use it with daffodils Aldrov Some substitute the Tench unto it Hol. The gout also may be cured by putting the part into snow water after anointing it with petroleum Aelian Being putrified in vineger it is a psilothron Plin. so the braine with alum Aet The skinne applied helps the falling out of the matrix Plin. The gall used to the geniral hindereth venery when newly taken Jonst As for their description they are black or reddish with or without spots their body is all orbicular except the taile they weigh about 6. pounds their skin is slippery black and yellowish their mouth is upwards and little so their eyes They have no tongue but gills in the midst of their bodies They have two fins nere the taile and a cartilage within They bring forth eighty young and hide themselves in the mud to stupify fishes c. which they doe at a distance Crevisse Astacus P. In brooks lakes and rivers in England c. M. Of fish waterherbs clay and flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caranides Locustella Crevisse Muff T. These as also Shrimps are used for queasy stomachs They are a fine temperate and nourishing meat they are best from the spring until autumne and at the full of the Moone also the females are better than the males for consumptive persons they are first to be washed in barly water and then to be sodden in milk till they be tender being first discaled and the long gut pulled out by the midle finne in the taile They are to be sod in water with salt being first dieted with crummes of white bread in a cistern for three or foure dayes Jonst They are hardly concocted and send cold and moist vapours to the head V. They are used against the bitings of mad doggs the phthisick hectick feaver retention of urin the stone inflammation of the tongue and throat as also the cancer in the duggs The distilled liquour thereof with that of endive roses and erratick poppies helps the quinsey the tongue being washed therewith and a draught drunk also the tongue being anointed with lard and the juyce thereof being still used Hartman prepareth them against the cancer of the duggs Their stones are diuretical expel agues and are vulnerary so Helmont They are used also against the stone with the stones of peaches and medlars And against clotted bloud with the coles of the Line tree quenched in vineger c. Their description is needlesse They generate by ascension and bring forth spawn by the fundament which sticks to the taile often till animated They lye hid in the winter and they have antipathy to Hogs Crowfish Coracinus P. In the Sea and Rivers chiefely in Nilus M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corvulus Gracculus Crowfish Aldrov T. That of Nilus is reckoned amongst the better sort of fishes but the Marine is lesse acceptable The black also is better than the white and the boiled than the rosted agreeing better with the stomach and belly So Diph. Aristot And they are both best when they are great with spawn They are to be boiled in white wine water and vineger and to be eaten with the juyce of sorrel or vineger They may be kept longer with vineger and a little pepper with the leaves of bayes myrtles or walnuts Salv. Or they may be put into hot oile and being seasoned with salt and vineger may be put into barrels having myrtle leaves stratified V. Rond The stones in the head help the nephritick pain or collick and the jaundise They help the stone of the reines by drying up the phlegme or dryving it out by its weight like the Jews or Lynces Stone Jonst Hices they nourish little are easily evacuated and of indifferent good juyce As for the description it 's about a foot long and black They are great in autumne and are best in a squalid yeare Coel. Rhod. And help against the pismires of trees Curre Cuculus P. They are to be had betwixt Brasil and Portugal M. Their meat is not observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coccygium their noise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Curre Aldrov T. It is a sweet fish but not the best it hath much flesh white hard and dry so Philot. Diph. yet it 's preferred before the Sea Kite as lesse hard and being friable Hipp. They are good in pituitous and grosse diseases as also the Scorpion Dragon Callionimus and Gudgion Epicharm Dor. They are to be broiled after dissection and seasoned with parsly cheese silphium salt and oile and sprinkled with vineger Rond The greater may be fried those of Montpelier boile them in water wine and eate them with vineger or the juyce of sorrel or with oile omphacine saffron pepper and the leaves of parsly sc being seasoned therewith Jonst As for the description The whole fish is round carnose and not above three pounds weight The back is bald the head great bonie angulous and prickly The nose hath two long eminencies the jaws serve as teeth the belly is plain the head back sides and finns are red The ventricle is carnose the intestines broad and fatt the liver whitish without a gall And the spleen is
to the bottom when dead sheweth them to be of a muddy nature and wanting that aerial substance that lightneth other fishes as also that they are melancholy feeding in the night Great Eeles are best rosted and broild their malignant humour being next the skinne and so evaporated by the fire the next best are those that are powdered and sowced and baked with butter salt and pepper but worst sodden in water ale and yest as commonly the last hurting the stomach liver and bloud Aldrov They are of a slimy and pituitous juyce H. Hipp. They hurt the third kind of tabes and disease of the spleen and cause inflammations in the lungs sc The Feculent When used the black vein is to be taken from the back The Ancients did eate them with beets for abstersion so salted Salern They are to be dressed with spices also with wine in the winter and vineger in the summer They are good rosted with bay leaves having crummes of bread salt and spices sprinkled thereon If boiled it 's to be done with stone parsly sage bay-leaves and pepper Other wayes of dressing them may be seen in Apicius and Platina V. Gal. The fatt is good against stripes Salv. That when rosted dropped into the eares helps their old paines Rond and those of the nerves Gesn Anointed it helps bald heads Ms. Germ. With that of a Goose the juyce of roe wormwood ground ivy and hounds-tongue made into an unguent it helps wounds the same with the juyce of house-leek dropped into the eare stopping it with a warm linnen cloth and applying bread warm helpeth deafenesse Rond The gall helps suffusions of the eyes With oile of roses it hindereth the grouth of haire after evulsion Salv. The fume of those that are salted their skinns being burnt and taken by the fundamer helps gripings caused by the dysentery Kiran. The liver drunk causeth a loathing of wine Marcel The bloud taken with a double quantity of red wine and warm water fasting helpeth and preventeth the collick their fat and liquour applied help the hemorrhoids Hippiat A live Eele given to horses helps their asthma Schrod The head helps warts Some say that the wine drunk in which they have been killed causeth abstinency Jonst. Horse coursers give the young-ones to Horses to make them more lively As for their description it is needlesse They are generated of slime putrefaction they feed in the night and lye in the mud in the day time They live seven or eight yeares feare thunder and are taken best when there are flouds Muff. T. The Conger or Sea Eele Conger hath a white fatt and sweet flesh The little are taken betwixt Glocester and Tewkesbury but the great-ones only in the salt Seas They feed as Eeles do upon fat waters at the mouths of rivers They are hard of digestion for most stomachs causing collicks if eaten cold and leprosies if eaten hot after seething It is not amisse first to boile it tender in water with salt time parsly baies and hot herbs then to lay it covered in vineger and after to broile it it then yeelding good nourishment in summer for hot stomachs Eele-powte Mustela Muff. T. Is best in April May and September their spawn is very hurtfull but the flesh white sweet firme and of good nourishment and their livers most sweet and delicate They may be sod as a Dorry and broiled a little that they may be of easier digestion or they may be boild as Storgian and eaten cold Aldrov Encel. The ventricle drunk expels the secundine and helps all vices of the matrix and collick The oile of the liver helps suffusions and spots F. Flounder Rhombus P. About fatt earth and shores in England and other places M. Of fishes and Crabs N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Turbotus Arnold Villanov FLounder Aldrov T. By the Ancients they were used in luxury whence arised the proverb nihil ad Rhombum Gal. They have a soft flesh therefore they are to be rosted Rond Yet the Aculeate are hard especially if larger for the smaller are more moist and soft Xenoc. They are hardly concocted but nourish much yet Villanovanus counts them inferiour to good fishes also grosse and viscid hardly concocted excrementitious but agreeing to strong young men with Sauces to correct their viseous and cold nature Gal. Boiled in broth with a little Salt Leekes and Anet they help those that recover from sicknesse and are good for the sound broiled and with vineger or fried with wine now it 's boiled and eaten with the juyce of an Orang Plin. Applied it helps the spleen Jonst As for their description they have a quadrate forme and oblique angles Fork-fish Pastinaca P. In muddy and dirty places of the Sea M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glorinus Opisthokentros Fork-fish Aldrov Their Radius only is poysonsome which being cut off the rosted may be eaten Gal. The flesh is soft and pleasant and may be substituted in the steed of other saxatile fishes So the Cramp-fish yet others count it soft unsweet ferine and of evil juyce therefore it 's eaten onely by poor people It may be eaten with vineger boiled and sprinkled with Meale if fryed Note the head and taile are to be cut off V. Hipp. Those that have the third kind of tabes may eate them in the 4th month and in the hepatick grief like the pleurisy Their liver sod in oile helps the leprosy and ringworms Plin. And the itch Diosc Aeg. Plin. Cels The weapon helps the toothach Aet With henbane it helps the falling out of the matrice Plin. And facilitats delivery Rond Their wounds may be helped by applying the liver and the ashes of the Radius used with vineger Diosc The signes of their wounds are great paine convulsions lassitude and imbecility dumbnesse dimnesse of the eyes blacknesse and stupidity of the part Diosc yet the Fish applied being dissected is good Tarent So Pigeons dung the seed of Lettuce Butter and Similage Aet Also vineger and live brimstone moistened with old urine hore-hound leaves of Laurell Vipers buglosse the root of clowns alheall and sage or acid leaven with tarre the compounds are the emplastrum piscatoris Aet Gal. and Isis Diosc Also what helps against Vipers and scordium drunk and Mithridate c. Vid. Aet Aeg. c. Aldrov They are taken by the hooke and nets Frog Rana marina c. P. In herbose places and the shore c. M. Of flesh even that of man N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabolus marinus Frog Card. T. That of the Sea is not edible Rond Salv. But the flesh is soft unsweet serine mucous excrementitious virulent and of evil juyce and therefore scarce eaten by the lowest sort of people yet Archestratus commendeth the liver V. Marcel Their gall eradicats hair after evulsion Rond it helps suffusions Plin. Their juyce boiled in wine and vineger is good drunk against poyson but Gesner thinks it belongs to the fluviatile
their young ones without egges after the kind of propagation of beasts Mullet Mullus P. Their abode is in the septentrional Ocean M. Of the Sea Hare or any thing N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Triglis Mulio Barbus marinus Mullet Gal. T. In the goodnesse of their juyce or pleasantnesse of their taste they cannot be compared with the Jack Umber or Sturgian c. Yet others commend them as fit for the stomach of good juyce pleasant taste fleshy hardly corrupted and mean as to excretion Cels These as also Pikes have a midle flesh but most other approved Authors count them hard Psel They are hardly concocted but nourish much Gal. The flesh is the hardest of almost all other Fishes and friable it nourisheth well when concocted so other hard meats and those of thick parts but those that are fat fill presently and destroy the appetite as also the viscous Aet They are good in the collick from cold and pituitous humours as also the Scorpions and Sparrows Diph. The flesh is acceptable to the stomach a little astringent hard styptick if rosted and heavy fried and hardly concocted Muff. The Sea Mullets mugiles mar differ little in Shape from Barbels They are of a light and aerial substance They hinder venery sperm courage and conception but their flesh is wholesome white sweet and tender They are much nourishing being first sodden in wine salt and water and then sowced like a Gurnard or kept in a gelly like a Tench or eaten hot with vineger and pepper Of their egges and bloud with salt is made the Italians Botargo Aldrov Which recovers the appetite causeth thirst and helps the taste of wine V. The ashes of the head with honey help gallings of the fundament that of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and consumes its humidity so dryed in an Oven and washed in white wine and the water of Mints and Wormwood being boiled in wine and taken in vineger it stoppeth vomiting so the intestines the fat being taken off for all fat things laxate the stomach Rond The stones found in their heads help against the Nephritick passion Aet The Mulli are not to be used in the collick from cold and pituitons humours as also in the hemorrhage and hemorrhoids Diph. For they attenuate the bloud yet are astringent if rosted Plin. Diosc H. eaten often they dull the eye-sight They hinder venery and the love of wine Rosted they help the tormina So Marcel and Tral Alex. Ben. They are good in the time of the plague Gariopont They help the Dropsy Marcel The flesh of their heads with honey helps vices of the fundament and the head discusseth carbuncles Diosc Applied fresh they help the bitings of the Sea Dragons Scorpion and Spider as also of the Fork-fish with Laser Jonst They breed thrice in a yeare They hate the Sea Hare Mussels Mytili P. They live in sandy places in England c. M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chamae Arab. Amarchas Mussels Wott T. The least are whitest softest and soonest digested but the greater are of stronger and larger nourishment the red ones are very daingerous the yellow ones are suspected but the white are wholesome and much commended except unto hot and destempered stomachs They are best sodden in the water out of which they were taken else in water and salt and a little strong ale and vineger Boiled Mussels encrease heat and drouth if fryed they easily corrupt in the body and turne to a bad juyce If they are kept in Srt. Goodrons pickle for Oisters made of Sea water Wine Vineger Bayleaves Mints Pepper Ginger and Cinamon they are as wholesome and more pleasant than Oisters Horse mussels are not a wholesome meat Plin. Tasting brackish and strong and having a hidden poyson in their flesh Jonst They loose their virulency being boiled with mustard and cresses The worst are in sandy places Plin. their broth increaseth the body The greater are hard and therefore hardly concocted They beget thick bloud and no good juyce but they nourish much and moove the belly and urine V. In physick they have the same use as the Musculi Diosc Applied they help the bitings of a mad Dog The broth openeth purgeth the reines and lesseneth the bloud and fat therefore they are very good for such as have the dropsy jaundise joynt ach inflations c. And to purge Women The shell is used to take up oile with all like a spoon O. Oister Ostrea P. In the Sea and Rivers about Rocks c. M. Of Sea water Mud and Dew N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ostreum Minsh Gal Huistre OIster Muff. T. They are a common and wholesome meat They differ in colour substance and bignesse but the best are thick little and round shelld not flaggy through abundance of gellied humours but short firme and thick of flesh rising up round like a Womans breast being in a manner all belly and short find of a green colour and listed about as with a purple haire and may therefore be called Calliblephara such are our Walfleet and Colchester Oisters which in good relish substance and wholesomnesse farre exceede those of Vsk Pool Southampton Whitestable and Rye c. Gal. They are somewhat heavy of digestion and engender phlegme but he knew not the goodnesse of our English Oisters which are the second best in the World every man loving them and they offending no indifferent stomach though eaten raw but rather setling a bad appetite confirming a weak stomach and giving good nourishment to decayed members through their own goodnesse or being much desired they were also alwayes counted of light digestion being to be eaten first The fattest are taken in salt waters at the mouths of Rivers but the wholesomest and lightest are the marine upon Shelfs and Rocks which also procure urine and stoole and help the collick and dropsy eaten raw but if sod they bind the belly stop urine and increase the collick They are to be eaten drinking wine or strong and hot beere after them else they concoct hardly Little Oisters are best raw and the great stewed with wine onions pepper and butter or baked with onions pepper and butter or else pickled with white wine vineger their own water bayes Mints and hot spices but they are worst sod except in Sea-water All Oisters are worst when full of milk which is commonly betwixt May and August raw Oisters are best in Winter and cold weather when the stomach is hottest sc from September to April yet the Italians never eate them raw but broile them in their shell with their water the juyce of an Orange Pepper and Oile and so they eate daintily Pickled Oisters may be eaten at all times and to the taste and judgment of some they are more commendable chiefely to cold weake windy and queasy stomachs than any way else prepared Some affirme Oisters may be kept all the yeare in Snow and so be eaten cold in the Summer
and if broiled to be used with the juyce of Oranges Porpaise Phocaena P. Their abiding is in all Seas chiefly neere Creete M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tursio Piscis ater Porcus marinus Porpaise Aldrov Tursions or Sea-hoggs are fatter than Dolphins of wose flesh and of hard concoction Muff. They are of the nature of Swine never good till they are fatt contrary to Tunies which are best leanest It is an unsavory meat engendring many superfluous humours augmenting flegme and troubling an indifferent stomach yet many of the Gentry love it exceedingly baked like Venison Poulp Polypus P. Their abiding place is in the Adriatick Seas M. They live upon the flesh of shelfishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anosteos Onos Multipes Poulps Muff. T. Are of hard digestion and naught howsoever drest Hippocrates commendeth them to Women in child-bed and Diphilus Aegineta and Aetius saying that they nourish much and excessively provoke lust Being well sodden in salt water and wine with sweet herbs it is dainty and more wholesome than a Mackrel Jonst The head is very sweet the flesh is of a crude juyce They are better boiled than broild V. Applied they stop bleeding Myreps The ashes with that of an olive and an half of vitriol help the polypus They are given to cause conception In white wine they move the menses They mollify the womb and help its dislocation They are somewhat like the Cuttle The males have longest heads They spawn swim obliquely and change their colour Purple Purpura P. They live in the Sea and neere unto the shores M. They feed upon little fishes weeds and mosse N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Roncera Vngella Purple Jonst T. They are of the nature of Shel-fishes containing a salt juyce loosening the belly but they are of a hard juyce Their necks are hardly concocted their extreame parts are acceptable to the stomach If boiled they make thick broth V. Plin. They help against poyson Nic. As doricnium the slime gleweth fresh wounds The ashes of the shells with honey helpe pustules of the privities With roses and cloves they are used in dentifrices with the juyce of licorice seed of poppies cremor of barley and white wine they help the lungs and stop fluxions The powder helps maligne ulcers With honey it attenuats the haire Aetius useth them to cause conception They are about the quantity of an egge R. Roche Rutilus P. Allmost in all Rivers and in the streame M. Of Redworms Cod-wormes Maggots Sheeps bloud c. N. Lentiscus fluviatilis Gall. Rochette Minsh ROche Muff. T. Their flesh is thought to be light sound and wholesome if sodden like a breame They are full of bones which maketh them lesse regarded They are a very healthfull fish and thought uncapable of any disease whence arised The old proverb as sound as a Roche Jonst They are naught in May they may be dressed as the Carp So Gesn Rochet Rubellio Muff. Is redder and lesser than Gurnards and Currs and of the like flesh and goodnesse yet better fried with onions butter and vineger than sodden seething soaking out their best nourishing substance Aldrov They are sweet good of much aliment and midle substance easily concocted and not moving the belly but cause venery and help feavers Ruffs Cernuae P. They live in the Avon c. and Charwel M. Their meat is wormes c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acerina Plin. Porcellus Porculus Minsh Ruffs Aldrov T. They are sweeter and more wholesome than the greater Perches they may be boiled or fried Gesn The stones in their heads help the stone of the reines and pricking paines of the sides Muff. They are not much unlike to Perches but lesser the best live in sandy places where they grow exceeding fatt and sweet they may be dressed as Perches S. Salmon Salmo P. At Glocester and Worcester and other places M. They feed upon little fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gall. Saulmón Minsh Hisp Salmón SAlmon Aldrov T. Both in taste and tendernesse they are inferiour to no fish either marine flaviatile or lakish Massarius preferreth them before all fishes but they are to be eaten moderately otherwise by reason of their excessive fatnesse they cause surfeits they are best in April and May and when little and those taken in Rivers They are worse at the time of spawning H. They are naught for those that are sick and have weak stomachs for they are viscous hard of concoction as are for the most part all other fishes that leave the Seas to goe into the rivers so Mnesith Plat. They taste well boiled The sides may be pickled and the chine broiled or fried Some reech them Muff. They are of a fatty tender short and sweet flesh quickly filling the stomach and soone glutting If they goe too high into the rivers they wax lean They come in season and goe out with the Buck for towards winter they wax kipper full of kernels under their throat and loose both their rednesse and taste They are best sod in wine vineger and salt or else parboild being cut into pieces stuck full of cloves broild upon a gridiron basted with butter and served in with sauce made of vineger cinamon and sugar If pickled it's like Sturgian When hot it 's counted a leprous meat The Salmon peales or Sea Trouts are a more light wholesome and well tasted meat So the Shuins or Salmunculi Which are to be boiled in wine vineger with salt and sweet herbs They are taken at leapes Scorpion-fish Scorpio P. They wander abroad in the depth of the Sea c. M. They live upon weeds crabs and flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spinula Rascassa Scorpion-fish Aldrov T. They are not the worst of fishes especially if taken in the winter in stony places the pure Sea Philot. They are of hard flesh Gal. They may be substituted to saxatile fishes but yeeld a dry nourishment and that copious solid of easy concoction and abound not with excrements or cause flatulency if duly ordered Hices It 's better than the Scorpaena being abstersive esily evacuated and of much juyce They are tenderest kept a while and boiled in water with oile and sweet herbs if great else rosted Cato V. The broth looseneth the belly with oile salt and aniseeds Hipp. They help grosse and pituitous diseases as also the Dragon Curre and Gudgin The gall brings forth the menses and secundine Marcel and helps the eyes and the alopecia The stone helps the stone So their ashes Their biting is helped by wormwood sulphur and themselves applied c. Sea-Calfe Phoca P. They live both in the Sea and upon the Land M. Their feeding is upon fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vitulus bos marinus Bocas Sea-Calfe Aldrov T. The flesh is soft spongious and very fatt therefore it quickly satiats and causeth nauseousnesse it 's of an ill juyce ferine taste or smell therefore they are not much
eaten by those that live neere the Sea V. Plin. the right finns laied under the head cause sleepe Shoos made of the skin help the gout so of that of the Lion Woolf Foxe or Hyena Avic The flesh helps the epilepsy and suffocation of the matrix Hipp. The fatt helps womens diseases used inwardly or outwardly with bitumen barly chaffe Goats dung and Hares furre burnt c. Plin. The same helps the leprosy and mentagra Plin. The curd with penax helps the epilepsy in wine it helps the lethargy and the quinsy with peucedanum They differ in shape from all other fishes Sheath-fish Silurus P. They live and abide in muddy waters M. They live upon flesh and small fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glanus Solaris piscis Sheath-fish Salv. T. They have a hard flesh and not very sweet The greater are hardly concocted Kentm They are of good taste and usefull in meate both fresh and salted The lesser may be boiled And the greater used as the Sturgian Note the veine in the back is to be taken out and then they are to be prepared as the Eele Jonst As for the description Their body is of a dimme colour the mouth blunt and the jaws rough they grow to the weight of 200. pound They generate like Froggs and the males looke to the spawn 40. or 50. dayes till they are of the bignesse of a pease Shrimp Squilla P. They live and remaine in muddy places M. They live upon oisters and reets N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scyllà 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gibba Shrimp Muff. T. The healthfull recover sick and consumed persons and are of the best juyce For healthfull persons they may be boiled in salt water with a little vineger but for the sick first wash them in barly water then scale them alive and seeth them in chickens broth so they are as restorative as the best Crabs or Crevises If sodden with their scales they cause venery The great Shrimps also are good for the purpose aforesaid but the cruckt backt are sweetest and most temperate Jonst They are hardly concocted and hurt the stomach V. applied they draw out things fixed in the flesh They serve to catch Mullets and Pikes withall Skate Squatina P. They live in dirty and deep places M. They live upon flesh and fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Squatus Lima Vallae Celtes Skate Aldrovand T. They are friable but not of sweet smell yet yeelding moist aliment Gal. They are hard difficultly concocted and nourish much Diph. They are cartilaginous and all cartilaginious things engender flatulency are carnose hardly concocted and if much used dull the eye sight in so much that Rusticks meddle not with them for their ferine smell hardnesse and want of sweetnesse V. Hipp. Boiled they help grosse disseases from phlegme as also the third kind of tabes Rond The oile of the liver helps the hardnesse of the liver with celtick spike storax and wormwood The dryed eggs stop all fluxes of the belly the skin helps scabs the ashes help running ulcers of the head and the alopecia Plin. Applied they hinder the dugg's growing Muff. They are venerious and like the Thornback in forme and quality but better and skind file-like Jonst As for their description They sometimes grow to 160. pound they are of an ash colour their skin is used as a file to polish ivory and wood with They bring forth twice a yeare seven or eight young ones at a time they catch-fish by hiding themselves in the sand and mooving their Rades like worms which the fish take and so are taken They often copulate with the Thornback Smelts Violaceae P. They live about Kew Brainford and Westchester c. M. Of gnats nitts and lice c. N. Eperlanus Rond Epelanus Viola Perlanus Minsh Gal. Eperlón Smelts Muff. T. They are of finest lightest softest and best juyce of all other fish They are best in winter and when full of spawn The western are the greatest and best Their gall is to be taken away and then their livers gutts bellies and fatt are great restoratives They are to be sod in hot boiling water and salt Their sauce is butter and verjuice with a little grosse pepper but civil oranges if fried They smell like violets Aldrov And are about half a foot long Sole Solea P. Their abiding is in most Seas about England c. M. Their meate is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lingulaca Saraulis Sandalium Sole Aldrov T. They are of a most sweet taste and therefore compared to the Partridg And are of a mean juyce Gal. and therefore are substituted to saxatile fishes in sweetnesse and the quantity of aliment and goodnesse of juice they are better than the Plaise but of more hard and solid flesh they are easily concocted and not excrementitious but they are a little glutinous and of hard flesh not being easily corrupted and being long preserved whereas all flesh first groweth tender at length putrifieth by external heat so insipid tastes are first gentle and pleasant and after troublesome by acrimony So Xenocrates they are best in the winter and fried and eaten with the juyce of oranges and pepper Muff. They are good for sick people and of few excrements They are to be fried with parsly butter and verjuyce and sauced with oranges Sprats Chalcides P. They are neere the shores of England and other places M. Of the excrements of the Sea N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sardina Sardella Sprats Aldrov Hices Athen. T. They are squalid leane and not of copious aliment V. They help against the biting of the prester Marcel The powder of their heads helps against botches and paines of the throat as also against the swelling stench and Canker of the gummes Bras Taken before meate they loosen the belly as also other salt Fishes So the head used as a suppository Muff. They smell well when new and fresh being like the River Smelt but their flesh is queasy corruptible and aguish especially in a weake stomach They are worst being smoaked or fried indifferent sodden and best broiled Spurlings Chalcides Majores pickled like Anchovaes exceed them after Turners way The red cause appetite and help it Apuae infumatae Starre-gazer Vranoscopus P. Their abiding place is in the Seas M. Of Flesh and unpleasant water N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pulcher. Tapecon Starre-gazer T. Aelian Some commend the Fish as edible others deny it Diph. They have an unpleasant smell and taste or rankish V. Hippocrates useth them against white flegme diseases from obstruction and the dropsy as also the Dragon Scorpion and Curre being most dry Diosc Therefore their galls are very usefull in Physick above the other and help suffusions of the eyes therefore some say it helped the eyes of Tobias Plin. It helps cicatrices and consumeth supervacaneous flesh With oile of roses it helps the eares and Apollonius useth it with the slough of a Snake and Bulls or Goats gall Jonst They
the gout Tral And the Epileptick Gal. Having a thick and tenacious juyce The lesser are more tender Mnesith They are best rosted their fat being so drawne away Platina seasoneth them with Pepper Cinnamon and Coriander stamped boiled Onions honey and oile Some comend the belly throat head and taile as the best V. Plin. The bloud gall and liver are Psilothrons Gal. Some use the bloud with the juyce of henbane Card. It being cold and grosse The fat helps ulcers The ashes of the head help pustuls of the privities Diosc The old flesh helps the bitings of the Prester drinking much of it and drinking much wine after it Applied it helps the bitings of Dogs Plin. The Cybium stamped helps the toothach purgeth the belly bringeth forth flegme and choller and helps eating and putrifying ulcers Jonst Plin. As for the description they are a slipery Fish having great scales so joyned that they seeme to be without them They live 2. yeares They copulate in February They are swift and sleep in the deep They see best with the right eye V. Umber Vmbra P. They live in sandy places in the salt and fresh water M. They are carnivorous N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vmbrina Ovis Marina Sciadeus UMber Aldrov T. At Rome it 's counted a well tasted noble fish And is best and fattest in the dog-dayes then the head is the best Salv. Being any way seasoned they are sweet if stuck with cloves and rosted being often sprinkled with oile they are more sweet and pleasant Jovius counteth them of the nature of Sturgians They are not so soft as saxatile fishes yet Xenocrates saith they are of good juice easy digestion pleasant taste and not of much nutriment Salv. yet not excrementitious V. Plin. The intestines and scales burnt discusse the panni The stones in the head help the collick Muff. They have a dry and whitish flesh like that of Gray Trouts being of the like substance quality and goodnesse and needing no other preparation The belly is preferred it 's soon concocted spermatogenetick and helps young hot stomachs they weigh 60. pound and swim like a shadow Urchin Echinus P. Their abiding and living is in the Seas M. Their meat is not observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carduus marinus Piscis spinosus Urchin Jonst T. The ashes of the shells help sordid ulcers if stamped and applied they compresse luxuriant flesh Rond they help running ulcers of the head Aet And abortion Paul Jov. They help the dropping of urine Hipp. Their stones expel the secundine being drunk in sweet wine The ashes with Hoggs fatt or that of Bares helps the alopecia They are so full of prickles that they cannot be held therefore some call them the Sea Thistles Aristotle saith that being cut asunder their parts will joyn againe In tempests they poise themselves with sand W. Whale Cetus P. They live in the large Seas about Greenland c. M. They live upon fishes especially Herrings N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cete Pistrix Bellua marina WHale Aldrov T. Their flesh is the hardest of all fishes difficultly concocted excrementitious of evil juyce as also all other cetacious creatures as Dolphins Sea Calves and great Tunies c. Therefore they are to be eaten salted For being crude they engender abundance of raw humours They are fatt also relaxe the ventricle and cause nausiousnesse The Ichthyophagi made bread of their flesh and houses c. of their bones The flesh is better boild then rosted especially with wine vineger parsly hyssop and organy or onions leeks and anet Muff. The livers of the Balaenae as also of Sturgians and Dolphins smell like violets taste pleasantly salted and competently nourish so Card. yet Galen saith they have an ungratefull and mucous taste and melancholy but the greater are not edible Schrod The stone Manat helps the stone and collick the D. in drach 1. Jonst They generate like quadrupeds and see and heare slowly Whiting Oniscus P. They live in the deepest places of the Sea M. Of fishes which they take by craft N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Albula Mollicula Bacchus Whiting Muff. T. All physitians allow them for a light wholesome and good meat not denying them to sick persons and much commending them to such as are in health they are good sodden with salt and time and their livers are very restorative more than of other fishes They are good also broiled and dried like Stock-fish but are then better to dry up rheume than to nourish Y. Yards Colybdaenae P. They live in the Seas and salt waters M. Their nutriment is shell-fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mentula marina Cauda marina YArds Gal. T. Are as agreeable to weake stomacks as Crabs Shrimps and Crevises the flesh nourisheth much is light of concoction and increaseth nature Fishes lesse used in Meat or Medicine ALderling Apium Muff. T. The flesh being well sod smelleth like wild parsley and is of indifferent good nourishment and provoketh urine they are betwixt a Trout and a Grayling and lie ever in deep water under some old and great Alder. Black-taile Melanurus Athen. T. Was counted a poore fish Hipp. And is bad for the 3d. kind of tabes Yet Xenocrates saith it's good for the stomach of good juyce easily digested nourishing much and not difficultly evacuated Diphilus makes them equal to the Guilt-head if living in petrose places They may be broiled or fried Kiran. If broiled they sharpen the sight the broth helps the collick Cod-fish Piscis Capellanus Asellus medius Muff. T. Is of a tender flesh but not so dry and firme as the whiting and is a great Sea whiting called also a Keeling or Melwel They have a bladder in them full of spawn which the northern people call the Kelk and count dainty They have also a glewish substance at the end of their stomach called a sowne more pleasant than good the toughest Fish-glew being made thereof When fresh the head lips and pallat are best being light though slimy Haberdine Muff. Asellus Islandicus T. Is an Island Cod bigger somewhat than ours and firmer Haddocks Aselluli Muff. T. Are little Cods of light substance crumbling flesh and good nourishment in the summer time especially when Venison is in season Hakes Aselluli longi Muff. T. are of the same nature resembling a Cod in taste but a Ling in likenesse Harp-fish Lyra. Rond T. Hath a hard and dry flesh yet sweet enough if eaten boiled with vineger Salv. They may be fried and eaten with the juyce of an Orang but they are better boiled Ling. Asellus Muff. T. is counted the beefe of the Sea and nothing else but a long Cod wherefore the greater are called Organe Ling and the other Cod Ling whilest new it 's called Green-fish and Ling when salted called so by lying being the better if in pease-straw They are taken in the farre Northern Seas but Cod Ling neere Bedwell in Northumberland shire Liver-fish Hepatus Gal. T.
insipid that it 's counted the worst of Fishes neither can it be made well tasted by any cookery yet torrefied it's more pleasant but it 's used when there are no other Fishes so Salv. Blatta Bizantina Vnguis odoratus Schrod T. The shell smelleth like castoreum V. Used inwardly it looseneth the belly softeneth the spleen and discusseth vitious humours outwardly suffumigated it helps the strangulation of the womb and Epilepsy and worketh the same effects as others shells Concha Jonst T. The flesh is often eaten crude or broiled by the Indians the shells serve for many purposes Schrod They dry provoke sweat and cleanse c. Therefore they are used inwardly in feavers outwardly they are used in dentifrices abstersorie and the piles hereof is made Crollius his antefebrile which provoketh sweat abundantly given before the fit especially against tertians if iterated the D. is Scrup. 1. sem to drach 1. It may be givē in a warm draught of beere with a little butter The flesh helps quartans Cannes Bell. T. Hath a tender flesh but harder than the Perch so Diph. Therefore it 's of good juyce and not uneasily concocted it 's insipid Salv. And therefore slighted It may be dressed as the Perch and other Saxatile fishes Xenoc. When fryed they are pleasant but hurtful to the stomach Chromis Rond T. It 's a pitiful Fish yet that of Bellonius is good And Hicesius reckoneth them so Cantharus Xenoc. T. Is pleasant of good juyce nourishing much and being easily digested loosening the belly but this rather agreeth to the Fish Citharus Rond This being too soft moist and bad If boiled it looseneth the belly If fryed or sod with Saffron Cinnamon Pepper Ginger Onions and Oile or dryed it's better Citharus Gal. T. Is of a meane flesh Xenoc. ungrateful to the stomach engendring bad juyce and not easily corrupted It 's good broiled Corax Athen. T. Hath a hard flesh but not contemptible Catulus Aldrov T. The flesh is hard viscid and virulent the greatest are best Centrina Aldrov T. Hath a nervous flesh viscous and glutinous unsweet and rank So it 's hardly concocted and of bad juyce the liver is tender but unpleasant yeelding an oile when fryed V. This mollifieth the liver Rond And strengthneth it especially with astringents And helps arthritick paine Applied with honey it helps suffusions The skinne serves to polish withall The ashes cleanse and dry running ulcers of the head and provoke urine Caper Salv. T. Hath a hard and unpleasant flesh and is more hardly concocted than the Citharus Conchylium Jonst T. V. All the parts are used in Medicine Burnt it 's of the same effect as the Purple and Buccinum Gal. The flesh with other things helps the eares Chama Jonst T. The flesh is hard Diph. But it causeth copious and good juyce Dentalium and Entalium Schrod T. V. Both are as yet but little used and not but in the Citrine ointment but it 's probable they may be used in the like cases as other shell-fishes Faber Rond T. Hath a lesse hard flesh than the Turbot Salvian counteth it tender enough and friable easily concocted and of good juyce enough therefore they are reckoned amongst wholesome Fishes also sweet and noble Fish Salv. They are to be fryed and irrorated with the juyce of Oranges or boiled in water and a like quantity of wine with oile salt sweet herbs and spices Farra Aldrov T. Hath a white and sweet flesh not inferiour to that of Trouts Gobergus Aldrov T. Hath a harder flesh than the Fish Afinus and lesse glutinous than molva if steeped in water or beaten they are eaten by poor rusticks Glaucus T. Arist they are always a like good The head is the best Mnesith They are hardly concocted and after yeeld much aliment Trall They help the collick Gal. And those that are stomachick V. Plin. Taken in broth they cause milk and the liver helps warts Huso Ichthiocolla Schrod T. The glue dryeth filleth and a little softeneth It 's used in gellies boiled with white Sugar it becommeth white and is called mouth glew It 's made by boiling the dissected parts in warm water to the consistence of a poultise Albert The flesh of Huso in the back tasts like Veale the belly like Porck and when fresh is very sweet The egges serve to make Caviare of Ichthiocolla Rond T. Is sweet and glutinous Plin. It helpeth night Wheales and smootheth the skinne Drunk it helps the Lethargy It serves to glew instruments withall Hippurus Aldrov T. Hath a sweet fat and hard flesh Julis Gal. T. Is a saxatile Fish having a tender and friable flesh as the rest and fit for sick persons They may be fryed or sod in white broth V. Diosc The broth looseneth the belly Plin. And provoketh urine so that of all Fishes Lupus Aldrov T. The Ancients placed them next the Sturgian Rond The liver broiled and seasoned with the juyce of Oranges is most delicate the best are taken in the Sea Xenoc. The best is the middle sized being tender of good juyce sweet pleasant to the stomach nourishing much of easy distribution and soone evacuated They are good boiled any may or in white broth with spices they cause venery V. Marcel Applied they help hard swellings The stones in their heads help the hemicrania and nephritis The gall applied with honey sharpens the sight and helps their spots The spawn helps the stomach Lavaretus Aldrov T. The flesh is white soft sweet not glutinous of good juyce and of mean nourishment Loligo Jonst T. is edible both broiled and rosted V. Gal. They help those that are stomachick Marcel Broiled they help the tormina Lepus marinus or Sea Hare Jonst T. V. They are reckoned amongst the Psilothrons Archig The bloud applied with wool helps the Aegylops Plin. The bloud used warm and fresh helps the gout The antidote is black Hellebore Asses milk and the decoction of mallows Mormyrus Athen. T. nourisheth much yet Salvian and Rondeletius deny it having a soft flesh very moist lutulent and insipid they are good with vineger and oile being broiled Membras Aldrov T. yeelds a moist and flatulent aliment Molva Rond T. They are better when fresh than when salted or dryed Their flesh being then glutinous the thin humour being then evacuated Some make the Fish glew of the intestines hereof Murex Xenoc. T. If salted they are virouse trouble the belly provoke urine are unpleasant hardly concocted and cause phlegme Yet Celsus and Scribonius Largus count them acceptable to the stomach V. The flesh applied helps haires on the Dugs the ashes of the shells with oile help tumours With honey they help ulcers of the head cleanse spots in the face help swellings behind the eares and are used in dentifrices Marcel They help carbuncles in the privities Musculus Jonst T. The marine yeeld good nourishment those in sweet water have hard flesh and are hardly concocted and of bad juyce V. They provoke urine The marine
to the place made of vine-leaves and honey or the leaves of purslain and barley meale eating much garlick with oile to cause vomiting and drinking wine alayed with water Then let the wound be washed with cold water and the bladder be fomented with hot spunges Some cure it as that of the Viper also by the eating of hard eggs with salt fish as also the seed of radishes juyce of poppy lilly roots daffodil rue trefoile Cassia opopanax and cinamon drunk As for the description they are of a sandy colour a foot long having a small taile flaming eyes and small head with the appearance of horns They goe straight slowly and halting Their skales are rough and sharp therefore they make a noise when they goe Their bodies are spotted with black all over Horned Serpent Cerastes P. They live in the Lybian sandy Seas M. They live upon birds which they catch by craft N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Cerust Heb. Schephiphon Horned Serpents Tops T. They are immoderately dry and therefore their poyson is most pernicious causing death if it be not holpen within nine dayes And at first about the wound there groweth hardnesse and then pustules lastly black earthy and pale matter The genital standeth out straight the patient falleth mad his eyes grow dimme and nerves immanuable on the head of the wound groweth a scab and there is continual pricking as with needles thus of the signes and symptomes The cure is by cutting the flesh unto the bone or dismembring Applying Goats dung fod with vineger or garlick and vineger and barly meale or the juyce of cedar rue or nep with salt and honey or pitch and barly meale c. And inwardly with daffodil and rue drunk radish seed Indian cummin with wine castoreum calamint with emeticks As for the description they are two cubits long of a sandy colour with two hornes teeth like a Viper a gristle for a back-bone L. Lizard Lacerta P. They live almost every where in the fields M. Of grashoppers snailes and bees c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Letaah Ch. Haltetha Arab. Aâ—aia LIzard Tops T. Their flesh eaten causeth inflammation and apostemation head-ach and blindness sc of those in Italy The eggs kill speedily except helped by Falcons dung and wine When they bite they leave their teeth in the place which continually aketh until taken out The cure is by sucking the place then putting in cold water and afterwards making a plaister of oile and ashes V. The medicines of the flesh are the same as of the Crocodile and the flesh very hot therefore it maketh fatt The Henns being eaten that are fed with their fatt mixed with wheate meale halinitre and cumin Card. The same given to Hawkes causeth them to change their feathers Being dissected or the head beaten with salt draweth out nailes or splents With oile it causeth haire to grow upon the head Dissected and applied hot they cure the stingings of Scorpions and Wenns Formerly they used dry Lizards bruised to draw out teeth without paine And sod and stamped with meale or frankincense they applied them to the forehead to cure watering eyes The same burned to powder and mixed with cretick honey to an ointment cureth blindnesse Their oile put into the care helpeth deafenesse and driveth out worms The bloud anointed fasting keepeth children from swelling in the belly and leggs Also the liver and bloud wrapped up in wool draw nailes and thornes out of the flesh and cure freckles The urine if there be any helpeth the rupture in infants The bones taken out of the Lizards head scarify the teeth and the braine helps suffusions The liver laied to the gumbs or hollow teeth helps their paine The dung purgeth wounds and taketh away the whitenesse and itching of the eyes and sharpeneth the sight the same with water is used for a salve Arnold The dung with meale the black being cast away so dryed in a furnace and softned with the water of nitre and froth of the Sea afterwards applied to the eyes in a cloth helps the former evils The green Lizards living in meadows and green fields in Italy loving to Men and enemies to Serpents T. V. Are very useful the skin hanged upon trees and the gall used to the apples keepe them from rotting and drive away catterpillers The flesh eaten helps those that have the sciatica They are given to Hawkes without their touching them a hath thereof causeth a Hawke to cast her old feathers Eaten with sauces they help the falling evil If sod with wine to a third part and a spoonful taken every day they help diseases in the lungs It also helpeth the loines and may be prepared for the eyes Brasavolus his oile hereof helpeth the face and broken pasterns of a Horse with a little vineger The ashes reduce skars in the body to their own colour The bones cleansed by inclosing them in a vessel of salt help the falling evil The bloud applied in flocks of wool cures the beatings bruizings and thick skins in the feet of Men and Beasts The eye is superstitiously used against quartans and paine in the eyes so the bloud of the eyes taken in purple wool The heart helps exulcerations of the kings evil The gall takes away the haire of the eye lids They need not be described being known M. Myllet Cenchru P. They live in Lemnus and Samothracia c. M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cenchrines Milliaris Famusus MYllet or Cenchrine Tops T. They are very hot and therefore venimous in the second degree Therefore putrifaction and rottennesse follow their biting as also more deadly unresistable evils as drousinesse sleepinesse the lethargy paine in the belly especially the collick paine in the liver and stomach killing in two dayes if it be not remedied The cure is like that of the Vipers biting or take the seed of lettuce flax-seed savory stamped wild rue wild bettony and daffodil drach 2. in three cups of wine drinking also after it drach 2. of the root of centaury or hartwort nosewort gentian or sesamine As for their description they are spotted like millet seed about two cubits in length attenuated towards the taile the colour is darke like the Millet and is then most ireful when this herb is highest They goe straight therefore are avoided by winding too and fro They are very daingerous and strong and beate the Body with the taile whilest they suck the bloud N. Neute Lacerta P. They live in ditches and hedges and the like places M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacerta aquatica NEute or water-lizard Tops T. Some apothecaries use them in steed of Scinks or Crocodiles of the earth but they are deceived deceive others in their vertues operation not having wholesome properties They need no description being well known If taken they shut the mouth they are bred in fatt waters and soiles Their eggs
rosting helps fistula's in their hoofes Albert. The flesh of the speckled Serpent makes Hawkes cast their feathers Gal. The cast skinne of Serpents with Sea water helps bloud shotten eyes The ashes thereof with oile of roses dropt into the eares help all soares thereof or stench adding vineger if they are mattery Some adde Bulls gall and the flesh of Tortises boiled Marcel or the gall of a Calf Diosc Gal. If boiled in wine it cureth the tooth-ach fomented or the ashes put in with oile Archig The skin applied not burnt will make the teeth fall out It cureth the phthiriasis Gal. and the collick sc the ashes applied with oile With the oile of roses it helps the bloudy flux and tenesmus Arnoldus useth the fume thereof with opopanax myrrhe galbanum castoreum sulphur Madder Pidgeons or Hawkes dung and Cows gall to bring forth the birth Cardan useth it to cause elequence c. Serpents may be driven away by the fume of hornes hoofes bay-leaves bitumen castoreum galbanum propolis opopanax sagapenum panax fleabane melanthium all stinking things as feathers and haire c. also wormwood and the water wherein sal ammoniacum hath been dissolved sprinkled about or lime and garlick The cure of the poyson is by attractives scarrification cupping glasses ligature vomits triacle mugwort balme Also Pidgions dissected and applied and young things sc their fundament Cauteries Goats milk drunk fomented new Hoggs dung nitre mustard-seed Epigonus his plaister Fumanel's oile Oile of Scorpions quicklime with honey and oile black hellebore garlick sowthernwood coleworts onions figgs barley meale birthwort rocket horehound organy basil leekes rue scabious Inwardly mithridate triacle Galens zopyria Mathiolus his Q. bettony rhubarb agarick and garlick if within They are generated of earth and water and are full of enmity Slow-worme Caecilia P. They live in Greece and England in fields M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cophia Cerula Caecula Surdaster Slow-wormes Tops T. Their poyson is very strong If their wound swelleth it may be pricked with a brazen bodkin and then apply fullers earth and vineger for cure Oswald Some make a triacle of this Serpent which smelleth like aqua vitae which some use against the plague Their description is needlesse they breed young ones in their bowels They come out of the earth in July and goe in in August They are called blind worms also and hurt not if not provoked Snake Anguis P. In Naples England and all over the fenns M. of froggs leeches newts and fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chersydrus That of the water Enhydris Snake Toppss T. That of the water hath a fiery poyson which presently is dispersed over the whole body and when it cometh to the heart the man presently falleth down dead Therefore it is best if the foot be bitten to hang a man up by the heeles or presently to cut off the part The same may be said of the land Snake Their venome is not inferiour to that of other Serpents When they bite there followeth great paine inflammation greennesse or blacknesse of the wound dizzinesse in the head and death within three dayes The cure is by organy stamped and applied with lye and oile or ashes of the root of an Oake with pitch or barley meale mixed with honey and water and sod at the fire And in drink use wild nosewort daffodil flowers and fennel seed in wine V. The liver of a snake is said to breake the stone in the bladder The flesh applied helps the wound Their old skinne as also of the Adder rubbed on the eyes helps the sight if boiled in wine when old it helps the paine of the eares so with tops of poppies dropped in As for their stone called Serpentinus see my Pammineralogy They lay eggs about the bignesse of a bulleis V. Viper Vipera P. They live in Arabia Africa Europe and Asia M. Of herbs horse-flies cantharides and pithiocamps N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Aphgnath Arab. Thiron 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VIper T. Their flesh is hot dry purgeth the whole body by sweat also being eaten or drunk it helps the leprosy so that of Tyrus their heads tailes being cut off so their wine and broth eating halfe a Viper at once and fasting six houres after Mus if eaten they cure ulcers Porphyr It cleareth the eyes helps the sinews and represseth swellings The ashes of their heads beaten together with the grossest decoction of bitter lupines used to the temples as an ointment stop rheums of the eyes the same alone help dim eyes The head burned dipped in vineger helpeth wild-fire The gall cleanseth the eye so the fatt with rosin attick honey and old oile The slough helps the ringworm the powder thereof causeth the haire to grow The powder of the whole drunk helps the gout swelling in the neck the oile wherein they are sodden helps joynt-aches their liquour helps the palsey The male maketh but two holes when he biteth but the female maketh four these more deadly There poyson killeth within three dayes at the furthest The signs and effects of their bitings are first rotten matter bloudy or fatt swelling of the flesh round about blisters on the flesh as if it were scorched after which followeth putrifaction and death The paine is universal as if the body were set on fire with turning of the neck twinkling of the eyes darknesse heavinesse of the head weakenesse of the loines thirst frezing at the fingers ends cold sweat vomiting colour changeable bloudy gumms inflammation of the liver sleepiness trembling dysury feavers neezing and the asthma so Aet Aeg. and Grevin The cure is as in the bitings of other Serpents Preventing spreading by extraction ligature or section Else the poyson may be sucked out applying Hens cut a sunder with scarrification bathing with Sea water or milk and eating old butter using cuppinglasses and a plaister of garlick sharp onions and triacle drinking triacle wine and garlick broth and the juyce of yew leaves The matter is drawn out by Goats dung powder of laurel and euphorbium in wine and after with unc 2. of long birth-worth unc 1. of daffodil and briony of galbanum and myrrh an unc 1. with a sufficient quantity of oile of bayes and wax used twice a day Pareus used triacle with aqua-vitae and mithridate and also ligature ENTOMOLOGIA Of Insects B. Bee Apis. P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of honey flowers trees and sweet herbs N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mellis mater Varr. Solisequa BEes Aldrov T. V. Those of Cumane feed hereon Their ashes with Rats dung and oile of roses cause the haire to grow speedily so also the ashes of walnut barke chestnuts beanes and of the fruit of the date tree Honey T. is hot and dry 2° of thin parts cleansing with a little acrimony therefore it mooveth the belly and provoketh urine Therefore in hot bodies it 's
soon turned into choller and becometh bitter if boiled by the fire So it as all hot things penetrate sooner than the cold doth quickly insinuate it self into the pores and pleaseth the pallate thereby The Ancients used it for the same purpose in steed of sugar which wee now use The smell thereof is strengthning it nourisheth much and preventeth putrefaction but it 's to be used moderately and then it causeth a good colour the sweetnesse thereof pleasing the parts which then attract retaine and assimilate it then the innate heate is increased and after the colour flourisheth the natural aliment being augmented Valleriol It 's good for old men to prolong their age so Galen c. and the use of mulse also Which if drunk warm it helpeth the voice if cold it exasperats it Ruel If made of old Austere wine and good honey it is lesse flatulent and may be quickly used If old it nourisheth the body the middle aged helps the belly expels urin and filleth drunk first and recals appetite That made of Austere wine doth not so fill the stomach The proportion of honey is one part to six of Muste The Melitite wine is used in long feavers that have weakened the stomach for it gently mollifieth the belly provoketh urin and purgeth the stomach It helps the joynt griefe vices of the reines weake heads weake Women it being of a good smell and nourishing the body It differeth from mulse being made of old austere wine and a little honey But this of one part of honey with five of Austere muste and one of salt Hydromel serveth to quench the thirst V. Plin. honey preventeth putrefaction having a pleasant taste and not rough it 's most profitable for the jaws tonsils quinsey mouth and drinesse of the tongue in feavers If boiled it helps the peripneumonia and pleuresy and wounds by Serpents also against the poyson of toadstooles and the palsy in mulse it 's dropped into the eares with oile of roses it killeth nits and lice When despumated it 's ever better but it causeth inflation of the stomach increaseth choller causeth nauseousnesse and is hurtful to the eyes yet applied it helps their exulcerated angles Diosc It is abstersive opens the mouths of the veines and evacuats humours therefore it 's used in sordid and hollow ulcers Being boiled and applied it glutinats flesh with alume it helps ringworms Dropped in warme with fossile salt it helps the sounding of the eares and paine thereof applied it killeth nits and lice It covereth the glans It discusseth the dimnesse of the eyes And used in gargarismes it helps the jaws tonsils and quinsey it provoketh urine helps the cough bitings of Serpents and against meconium taken warme with oile of roses Against the poyson of toads-stooles and the bitings of a mad Dog drunk If eaten crude it causeth inflation in the belly and provokes the cough therefore the despumate is then best Hipp. The comb macerated in water helps the second species of the pluresy If taken it helps the tormina The cremor of the combs boiled in water or vineger helps those that have fallen The same infused in cold water helps the repletion of the lungs It helps the falling out of the fundament It 's good in cold disseases but hurtful in the hot it being then turned into choller and not nourishing It 's unwholsome for those that are young and bilions and all hot diseases When depurated it 's good for a cold stomach it helps breeding of the teeth Confections thereof cause spitting and remoove filth of the skin and wounds They cause medicines to passe quickely through the body provoke urine and cleanse the eares it 's to be mixed with remedies for ulcers of the breast lungs and all antidotes Applied it eateth up the filth of ulcers It opens the jaws by drawing humours Prunes infused in the water thereof mollify the belly it cleares the eyes and face but the Attick is best to cleanse the face and eyes to rub the rough tongue provoke urine in old men glutinate hollow ulcers attenuate thick spittle and to cause excreation It helps the eating herpes and acidity in the stomach If it be taken without the mixture of water it nourisheth more weakely but looseneth the belly Taken more copiously alone it purgeth the belly so it 's to be abstained from in tertian feavers but may be used in pituitous diseases It helps the little ulcers in the mouth of children Some say that eaten after wine it hindereth it from flying to the head and helps the appetite decayed by a pituitous cause Celsus enumerats boiled honey among such things that stop the belly it then loosing it's acrimony Nicand It helps against opium Martial and the cough Ovid. But causeth venery Honied water causeth the beard to grow helps the cough and if heated it provokes vomit It helps the poyson of cerusse and henbane with milk It 's used against the fistula's of the genitals It 's used to the womb with soft bread suddain tumours luxations and to lenify Diosc Melicrate hath the same nature as mulse it 's used crude to loosen cause vomiting and against poyson with oile When boiled it 's given to those that are weake that have a feeble pulse against coughs peripneumonies and those that sweat immoderately It 's made of two parts of raine water and one of honey If Austere it's used to quench thirst So that of the Arabians as also in cold diseases especially of the brain nerves and joynts Drunk in steed of wine it helps spitting and evacuats matter and thick phlegme out of the breast It purgeth cleanseth and washeth the intestines bowels and urinary passages therefore it helps the paines of the colon loosens the belly and prevents the stone The proportion is one pound of honey to eight of water gently to be boiled despumated and percolated and if but little boiled it causeth flatulency in the stomach moveth the belly more and nourisheth lesse but the contrary if more boiled Some adde spices also to mulse sc ginger saffron cinnamon mace wood of aloes gallia muscata and leven That made of snow-snow-water called chionomeli is used in hot feavers Apomeli made of one part of honey with foure of water cleanseth digesteth purgeth choller and provoketh urine but it 's bad for hot and dry constitutions hot diseases and heat of the midriffe but it neither provoketh or quencheth thirst Oxymel helps against Serpents called Seps against meconium misseltoe and quinsies being gargled hot it helps the eares and mouth Diosc taken it draweth out thick humours helps the sciatica epilepsy and gout it inciding and concocting It 's made of one part of vineger two of honey and foure of water The D. is unc 1. to unc 3. The destilled water helps the falling off of the haire swollen and bleared eyes and discusseth their aqueous films and darknesse helping the ulcers of the corners It helpeth burnings especially in soft and tender places The second reddish water purgeth
helped by mans spittle Schrod The pilulary betle helps the falling down of the eyes and fundament the powder being used they help the pain of the hemorrhoids boiled in oile The unctuous betle is like the Cantharides provokes urin helps bitings of mad Doggs and gouts sc the powder taken Their liquour used outwardly helps wounds and is used in plaisters against buboes and pestilential carbuncles the oile of their infusion may be used in stead of that of Scorpions Jonst boiled with the oile of roses earth worms they help the paines of the eares Lanfrank made a powder thereof against the paine of the stone Their description is needlesse They are generated of the corruption of cattle or dung They make a noise when they fly and stop when touched Burn-cow Buprestis P. They live in Italy and other places c. M. Of flies lizards worms and insects N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Boubrostis Bulpestris Burn-cow Diosc T. They are of the nature of cantharides causing erosion exulceration and heate V. Ruel Drunk they cause venery yet they are used in remedies that help the leprosy ringworm and canker Plin. Applied with Goats tallow they help ringworms in the face and by their septick force used in a pessary they provoke the courses Therefore Hippocrates used them against many diseases in Women as to provoke the menses their heads wings and leggs being taken away with the inner parts of figgs so with myrrhe frankincense honey oile of roses wine and aniseeds He useth them also with the same against the strangulation of the womb he useth them likewise against the hardnesse of the womb to expel the mola H. Diosc If drunk they cause great paine in the stomach and belly as the flatulency suppression of urine The remedies are as those against the Cantharides as muste sapes oile milk lard broth that is fatt nitre with water oile of bayes oxymel With vomiting the decoction of figgs in wine also pares myrtles and womans milk the poyson being hot Cattle are to be let bloud that eate them Jonst Some poure oile in their nostrils They are a kind of Cantharides As for the description their outward wings are like gold the head little mouth broad eyes round and belly long Bell. They are bigger than Cantharides Butter-fly Papilio P. They live in pleasant open and warme places M. Of mallow flowers and trunks of trees N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Campilo Avicula Isid Butter-fly T. V. Jonst They are thought to provoke urin they are meat for little birds and serve as baites for fishes Their description is uselesse They generate in May June and July backwards and lay eggs in the rinds of trees or leaves and after live till winter Their multitude often presages the plague Muff. Tarentin Geopon Recip unc 1. of the venimous dung of butterflies annisseed Goats milk cheese Hogs bloud galbanum an unc sem opopanax drach 2. beate them diligently poure on good sharp wine and make troches thereof for fishes They preserve castrels from consumptions They may be driven away sc those that fly in the night from Bee hives by placeing a candle neere them as also by the smoake of gith and hemlock C. Caterpiller Eruca P. They live almost every where in England and other places M. Of trees and herbs and fruits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bruchus Tinea agrestis CAterpiller Aeg. T. V. Those of herbs applied with oile are said to prevent from the biting of virulent living creatures Diosc And drive away Serpents Grev. and that by an occult quality They may be killed by shaking them off Aldrov Or by fine ashes and dung Also by the fume of Bats dung or of bitumen or brimstone galbanum Goats claws or Harts horne or Cows stale and the lees of oile used garlick burnt ciches sown and the juyce of wormwood and mints Jonst Their webb drunk stops the flux of Womens courses They serve to angle with they help the epilepsy so Muff. burnt and put into the nostrils they stop bleeding All cause vesicles and make the skin bare If they are eaten by a Horse Swellings arise the skin is hardned and eyes grow hollow Plin. They are begotten of dew thickned on leaves by the heate of the Sun so Arnold in a moist time And some of Butter-flies Muff. Those of Cabbages applied cause teeth to fall out Hipp. The ordinary drunk help the quinsey Cheselippe Asellus P. They live in moist places under stones and timber M. They live upon warme moisture N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oniscus Tilus Multipedes Hoglice Cheselippe Diosc T. V. Being drunk in wine they help difficulty of urine and the jaundise Applied with honey they help the quinsey Stamped heated in the bark of a pomgranate and dropped into the eares with oile of roses they help paines in the eares Gal. They help the headach and paines that are old therein Sever used in unguents they help ulcerated eares They help inflammations of the throat they help the dyspnoea having an attenuating quality Schrod T. They are of thin parts attenuate cleanse and open therefore they are very good to resolve a tartareous mucilage and dissolve the stone they open obstructions of the bowels therefore help the jaundise nephritick paines the difficulty of urine collick the appetite hurt by the mucilage of the stomach and the asthma c. The powder outwardly helps diseases of the eyes and paines of the eares Applied alive they help phagedens The D. is scrup 1. to drach 1. in nephritick water with spirit of vitriol Jonst They discusse two of thē drunk in wine with drach sem of Mice and Pigeons dung drive out the stone for the jaundise they are to be drunk in mulse and to be taken with honey in the asthma so Hol. and Agric. They help most diseases of eyes outward or inward except the cataract drunk fresh or applied With a third part of turpentine they help the pani unc 1. of the ointment of poplar with oile of roses in which they are boiled unc 1. sem and four grains of saffron helps the hemorrhoids Others boile them with fatt and butter and adde the yolk of an egge unc 3. of the oile of violets in which 4. of them have been boiled to the consumption of a third part to represse the salt humour applied outwardly Lauremberg and Hartman confirme what is said of them against the stone Hereto belong Pollin and Coyayahoal serving to draw out darts The last of which serve also to draw out teeth Muff. Drunk in wine they help the kings evil 3. with gr 4. of elaterium help shortwindednesse Plin. Drunk they help consumptions Marcel and the cramp Applied alive they help any swelling with turpentine The description is needlesse E. Eare-wigg Auricularia P. In cabbages ferulaceous trees and elmes M. Of herbs and flowers as carnations c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forficula Mordella Vellicula Fullo EAre-wigg Muff. Arnold T. V. Being boiled in