and moist and the meridional watrish showry and sickly it 's altered also by the starrs meteors as fiery aereal aqueous or impure zones cardinal regions the oriental being moderately temperate and healthy the occidental sickly the meridional making moist and the septentrional dry by the parts of the world kingdoms and provinces cities and edifices particular constitution of places being pure in high moist in low mean in plain thin in the stony open in mountains cloudy in woods moist neere rivers sickly in fennes wholsome in marine places various neere baths that is to be shunned that is stinking and suddain mutations therein are not to be made the cold is to be altered with fire hangings or stoves the hot by cold water roses strewed water-lillies nettles willows and leaves of trees the moist by fire and aromatick fumes the dry by irrigation of waters and moistning herbs the pestilent with the fume of aromatick wood and frankincense those that are idle are to walk in the open aire and fields in the morning about mountains and fountaines and rivers in the evening Then as for Meat it is to be temperate and familiar acceptable and usuall sc the flesh of animals and fishes with bread well baked also simple or various yet not of a diverse substance or qualities at the same time that it may be concocted at the same time with the same heat and not being taken in too great a quantity and it 's convenient firm flesh thin blood sweet phlegme bitter gall and sourish melancholy being to be preserved but they must be well prepared orderly taken and no errour committed in quantity time order and manner of eating it 's necessary in sicknesse also if compound of which more particularly after And as for the Quantity of meat it is either full increasing flesh spirits and humours and is fit for those that are young growing strong lusty and able to endure much exercise or moderate repairing flesh spirits and humours lost and is fittest for persons of a midle health of an estate of body neither perfectly strong nor very weak or else thin lessening flesh spirits and humours for a time to preserve life and the strictest especially is to be used only where there are violent diseases caused by fulnesse or corruption where the sicknesse is abated by the substraction of sufficient food Also a man in health must never eat to satisfy but rise with a quick appetite If drowsy weary and heavy after eating being before nimble cheereful it 's a signe that accustomed measure is exceeded and that the quantity must be diminished till such inconveniences cease If after meals there be unfitnesse for the actions of the mind as study contemplation and other functions of the mind and body then the due proportion is exceeded If there be too much repletion there must be evacuation and that is known by pain and heavinesse of the head long and troubled sleeps troublesome dreams sleep in the day-time after meals lazinesse wearinesse pain in the whole body or any part thereof want of appetite crudities in the stomach sower belching binding of the belly frequent distillations stopping of the nose after supper with little excrement evacuated and much in the morning much spitting unusual abundance of wind and loosenesse If a change be to be made it must be by degrees till come to a proportion not offending the functions of the body or mind and several sorts of meat are to be shunned at the same time some being concocted sooner others more slowly and so there is an evil concoction The Quality of meats also is to be regarded there being like food like flesh like meat like nourishment And the temperate are best for all sorts of persons especially for those well tempered as flesh and bread of good juyce The quality is to be heeded it altering the constitution of the body That is to be used which is most agreeable to every ones particular nature age temperature distemperature and complexion Young hot strong and labouring men may eat hard grosse meats as beife bacon poudered flesh and fish hard cheese hard eggs and rye-bread c. which may be concocted by degrees and nourish slowly the lighter meats as veal lamb capons chickens partridges pheasants or plovers c. in them being too soon digested and turned into choller and milk is best for children tender flesh for such as grow and liquid meats for such as are sick of sharp diseases If the body be bound the diet must be moist and of boiled meats but dry if moist Sweet meats are bad for young children and men and for hot stomachs but help those that are old and cold The bitter engender choller burn blood and give no general nourishment to the whole Sharp spices hurt tender bodies but the strong may eat them with grosse meats Soure meats with sharp as citrons limons oranges and vineger hurt cold stomachs and sinewy parts but if cold and astringent as sorrel quinces services and medlars they help the stomach eaten last except subject to fluxes Those over-salted help those only that toile and labour causing inflammations and obstructions c. the Fatty are good only for cold and dry stomachs All meats are to be given very hot to cold raw stomacks They are to be contrary to the disease when sick that which is naturally or accidentaly loathed is not to be eaten greedily when hungry being turned into wind belchings vimitings and gripings A strong and good stomach may taste of all things but not feed on them as nourishments The Time of eating depends upon custome but that houre may be omitted if the appetite be not quick yet it 's most convenient to eat twice in the day The supper in some that are healthy and in the flower of youth ought to be equal or larger than the dinner but in others more sparing and the most seasonable hour of dining is about 2. or 3. houres before noon and it 's most wholsome as for break fasts in close places and times of sicknesse they are very necessary otherwise it 's best to fast till dinner where the air is clear and wholsome except growing or chollerick the meals are to be often for children and much little and often for old men labourers very often sc 4. or 5. times in a day if working hard and the time quantity and frequency may be altered by custom sicknesse and appetite c. The Order of aliments is this that thin meats liquid easy of concoction loosening and easily descending are to be first taken and the contrary last At the beginning of the meal some broth flesh or some what else actually hot is to be taken not drinking first but drink with meat is necessary without fluctuation the most nourishing meat is to be eaten first and the cold last if the stomach be hot the breakfast may be of liquid meats the dinner of moist and boiled and the supper chiefely of rosted meats As for
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
causeth venery The quills kill warts Serap The fume of the dung bringeth forth the Foetus Port. It driveth away Serpents Jonst The braine is so hot that the powder thereof taken causeth madnesse As for the descripton the body is thick and upright the bones have little marrow the bill is crooked eyes little quills hard claws aduncate gall eruginous bloud thick and fibrous dung very sharp They copulate often they can fly from morning to night very high they see well they hate the Swan Crane Stork Vulture Dragon and Serpents they live long but when old dye by reason of their crooked bills G. Goose Anser P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of Graine Grasse and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ganza Hisp Ansaron GOose Muff. T. Galen commendeth only the giblets stomack liver of a Goose soddeÌ„ in broth The flesh of Goselings well fed is nourishing and pleasant but the best is the stuble Goose being of a middle constitution If it be above 4. moneths old it cannot be well digested without Garlick sauce exercise and strong drink Their moisture is corrected by stuffing them with spices and hot herbs Savonarola counteth the flesh hot Albertus cold and Galen more moist than of any water foule but their feeding sheweth them to be hot and dry they drinking often delighting to be in the coldest water and eating lettuce endive purcelane trefoile ducks meat and sowthistle Aldrov The Jews delight in the flesh thereof The flesh is hard musculous and not easily concocted also they cause little laudable juyce Therefore they are not often to be eaten by those that love their health being excrementitious also and more grosse hot and moist than any domestick foule being of the nature of the Ostrich so Elluch Rhas Avic Savon it causeth feavers Jul. Alex. It causeth obstructions but if well digested it 's of much and strong nourishment Alex. Ben. H. they are naught in the time of Pestilence Villanov And for those that are troubled with the hemorrhoids Fracast or with the french pocks as also those that have the gout in all diseases They are best in the Winter as also all other hot strong flesh The egges are worse than those of Hens Sim. Seth. Grosse and hardly concocted V. Bapt. Port. The flesh eaten causeth length of life Fiâ—in So the fat Port. It maketh loquacious and to tell what is done in dreames It cureth Hydrophobie and causeth venery Gal. The fat is more fit for use than that of Cocks but more digesting being of a thinner substance it 's the most emollient of all wild foul's more loosening than lard drying and easing paine and lassitude yet that of Hens or Hogs may be its substitute Aet It s hotter and dryer than lard Aeg. or Goats fat and of thinner parts Goose grease if not salted helpeth the paine of the matrix and is mixed with plaisters for the eyes and chaps of the lipps paines of the eares roughnesse of the face and colour It easeth paine helps biting humours all tumours inflammations with paine and phegmons with oile of roses Aesculap Constant Also against all hardnesses scirhus's S. Anthony his fire bruises with mustard-seed honey and wax in wounds to stop bleeding with butter and to help gallings with the braine alum and oesipus Hippocrates useth it against cicatrices With honey it helps the biting of a mad Dog With hot water and butter it helps against poyson Avic It helps the alopecia so Marcel and Gal. With the seed of cresses it helps scurse Plin. Sext. and ulcers of the head Apollon It helps the paine of the head and temples Plin. Injected into the nose with oile of roses it stops bleeding With oesipus and myrtle wine it causeth sleepe and it preserveth the skinne of the face so Diosc that it be not hurt by the sunne or weather so Ruel and Marcel Virg. It helps the vices of the eares Pliny and Marcellus adde earth worms Pliny useth it with the juyce of Basil With womans milk it helps contused and fractured eares so with myrrhe butter or rosin with the former it helps their inflammations tumours and rednesse Marcel With earth worms decoct it helps purulent eares Bapt. Fort. It helps deafenesse some adde the juyce of onions also or of garlick the same helps the sounding of the eares so with honey Sext. Also with Bulls gall Apollon And the paine thereof with the fatt and it helps deafenesse with saffron with nitre rosin and oile it helps the inflations of the eares It helps when any thing is fallen into the eare and brings out any humidity with saffron With butter it helps diverse affections of the nostrils It helps the ozaena and chaps of the lips so Diosc Sym. Seth Plin. and Marcel Avic So those of the face and ulcers of the mouth It helps rigors of the neck and tumours thereof with the yolks of eggs With that of Mice it helps crump-backs Plin. With oile of roses it preserveth the duggs after child-birth with milk it restraineth them With tarre and the powder of anet it helps the empyema With Sea crabs it helps the phthisick Plin. With oesipus urine myrrhe and oile of myrtles it helps the dropsy Marcel With the braine butter alum and oesipus it helps the reines In clysters it helps the collick The former composition helps all vices of the fundament Marcel With agrimony it helps the condylomata With warme water the tosted spume of silver galls white wine oile it helps the hemorrhoids in Women and paine of the fundament with oesipus as also the ulcers of the genitals so Diosc with the curd of a Hare and barley meale it helps the incontinency of urine Avic It cureth the vices of the womb sc without salt and fresh with Womans milk and oesipus it helps the paines thereof Hippocrates mixeth it with other things Plin. Hip. It helps its swellings and hardnesse he mixeth it with other things to purge the womb To draw out the difficult birth and the dead infant to expel the secundine stop reds help the dropsy of the womb inflammation suffocation pustules inflamed ulcers to cause conception and to hinder abortion as also to help the falling down of the womb Plin. Applied it helps the paine of the duggs breaketh the mola and easeth the scab or itch with wall lice Furner Used fresh with ligature it helps the wrinkles in the bellies of Women Kiran. It 's also used in pessaries The liquour is used with other things against the palsey and gout Extenuaton of the joynts and spasmes The broth helps against poysons as the cantharides toxicum coriander aconite and dorychnium Diosc The bloud is used in antidotes Myreps It resisteth poysons with vineger Diosc It helps the poyson of the Sea-Hare Plin. So with oile and all evil medicaments with the earth of lemnos and the juyce of the white thorne with water When dry it 's used against long agues Plin. The gall helps
thick or lasting aliment yet in some it is most sweet soft of good juyce easy concoction and good aliment but the part exerted is harder the tongues of calves kids lambs hogs and sheep are of easy digestion and breed laudable juyce neats tongue is thicker but more fit for nourishment and not dryed the eares are cartilagineous nourish little except eaten with the vieine parts the eyes of those that are young seperated from their skinne fat bals and humours are of a tender and musculous flesh which is very easy of digestion especially the calves the cheeks if of young sat and carnose beasts are of good juyce and those of calves most tender the brain is pituitous of thick juyce hardly distributed and concocted causing nauseousnesse and vomiting and helps against poyson by its viscidity those of calves lambs kids and pigs are to be eaten at the beginning of meales the pigs are to be dressed at the fire being the moistest the pallate which is commended in the cow hath a certaine membranous flesh and is often used in pies the snowt in hogs is worse than the feet but better than the head The heart is hard of concoction and that of the hog causeth sadnesse it nourisheth little but if well concocted the nourishment is not weak or bad The lungs are of a cold and moist temperament pituitous juyce of easy concoction and distribution by reason of their rarity and levity some say they cause inflation of the belly they are of a froathy substance they are good for young men sick of hot agues but bad for strong and labouring men so light a meat not sufficiently nourishing them but putrifying in the stomach those of foxes are not wholsome but rather medicine for sore lungs they are softer than the heart liver kidnies and spleenes but not inferiour to the liver as to nourishment The liver of all animals is of thick juyce hardly concocted slowly penetrating that of hogs is preferred that of lambs and kids doth more easily passe along and is of lesse thick juyce that of goats is said to cause epileptick convulsions no lesse than the hee goats but the hogs with the fat is commended usually they cause obstructions The spleen drawing thick lutulent and melancholick blood yeeldeth also a like nourishment those that are reddish as the hoggs being tinged with a lesse evill blood are not of so bad juyce others are hardly concocted and distributed of an unpleasant taste The reines are of ill juyce an ungratefull sapour hard concoction those of kids and calves being neither hard or virous are commended others are of thick juyce betwixt flesh and kernels allwaies having a smack of that which passeth through them and being two strong for most stomachs after sucking The testicles being virous especially after coiture are hard and not easily concocted but those of hogs are preferred and those of lambs are not discommended those of boares help decayed bodies and cause lust so those of bucks and staggs The womb is of cold and crude juyce therefore hardly concocted and of little juyce The ventricle what nourishment it yeeldeth may easily be conjectured from its constitution it is filmy and therefore cold hard dry and glutinous it is of hard digestion generates phlegme begets obstructions and is the cause of many diseases soft and sedentary men must abstaine from it it being fit only for porters ploughmen and mariners The guts are of the same nature but those of lambs and kids are of an easier substance and concoction the other are farre harder than flesh hardly concocted of little nourishment unwholsome causing itches and leprosies c. The mesentery if of a young calfe and fat is good with a little vineger The udders of milch beasts as kine ewes doâ—s and shee-goats are of laudable taste and better than tripes being of a more fleshy nature the lean must be sod tender in fat broth the fat may be sod alone but each of them needs first a little corning with salt being naturally of a phlegmatick and moist substance The feet and other extreme parts of fourefooted beasts consisting ef membrans ligaments nerves veines arteries and gristles are cold and dry clammy viscous of little nourishment and hard digestion except of young and sucking animals as of hogs pigs lambs and calves also a tender cow heele is counted restorative and pigs pettitoes boild in barley water for the aguish the sodden feet of geese also were counted restorative The kernels are sweet tender and short yeelding a thick nourishment and if the beast be sound very good and being well concocted in the stomach they nourish as much as musculous flesh not well digested they breed flegmatick and raw juyce sc those of the breast of the other those that are soft generate phlegmatick blood the hard that which is raw the sweet breads of beasts are best first rosted then boiled their superfluous moisture being so consumed The fat hinders appetite gluts the stomach hardly digesteth turneth wholy to excrements decayeth the retentive powers especially that of greater beasts it relaxeth the stomach causeth nauseousnesse turnes into choller in hot bodies and is rather sawce for our meat than nourishment The marrow is the sweet of fat as it were secretly convey'd into bones sweet unctuous and pleasant of taste nourishing such whose bodies are dry and stomachs able to digest it it may be sod usually with capons cockrels and henns in a nourishing white broth or pies may be made thereof but it soone causeth surfeits of all that of the deere is counted by some to be easiest of digestion next that of a young mutton and that of beefe the heauiest that of a goat is offensive and that of lambs or calves not good being crude bloody and imperfect for want of age the chine or pithmarrow is much harder and dryer than the brain it selfe especially towards the further end of the back which drynesse makes it lesse loathsome to the stomach than brains are and it strengthneth that body which is able to concoct it some make candles therewith and yolks of new laid eggs to restore nature and recover the weaknesse of the loines caused by venery The tripes are farre harder in substance than their flesh long in concocting nourishing little and excrementitious ingendring filthy diseases The skinne of beasts even of rosted pigge is so farre from nourishing that it can hardly be well digested of a strong stomach This is the Vse of the severall parts of Quadrupedes there are diverse other things taken and made from them As milk which is the abundant part of blood whited in the breasts of such creatures as are ordained by nature to give suck serving for the young sick or old which if crude it 's to be taken fresh that it may not provoke flatulency and it is not good presently after bringing forth it may be corrected with a little salt or sugar if boiled it's lesse flatulent but thicker the
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
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
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
helps the purulencie thereof Vnc. 5. of the urine cure the Dropsy N ° 9. of their lice taken help the running paines of the joynts As for the former its affirmed by Jonston and Aldrovandus c. As for the description it 's needlesse they love the Goat and hate the Woolf Beare Tiger Elephant Crow Eagle Serpents Bees and Rocket They are hurt by aconite hereon prick-wood savin knotgrasse money-wort sheere-grasse pimpernel bitter vetch acorns and scortching fennel They will live about 10. yeares their noise is called bleating they are very simple even to a proverb yet the Rams are very fierce but they may be made to leave off their butting by hanging a board with little pricks in it over their fore heads They love cold springs and bite up the very roots of the grasse they have milk half a year They know their Lambs by smelling on their hinder parts Shrew Mus Araneus P. In England Italy Germany and other places M. Of the roots of herbs thistles and flesh N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Hanaka Hisp Musganho Shrew Gesn T. they are venimous insomuch that Cats will not eate them V. Marcel The ashes with Goose grease cure the swellings of the fundament some use them against fellons and swellings behinde the eares Plin. The ashes of the taile help those that are bitten by a mad Dog Applied it cureth its own bitings The signe of their bitings are inflammation pricking paine rednesse a black pustule and livid colour of the next parts and after it turneth to an eating ulcer It is cured by oxycrat cupping glasses and scarification if not ulcerated use mallows mustard and pellitory else use the decoction of the bark of a sweet pomegranat and apply the same Also use worm-wood vineger garlick hot water colewort album graecum cuminseed barley meale leeks and vervain drinking the decoction of southern wood also lambs curd myrrhe and storax Sivet Cat. Catus zibethi P. In Africa Aethiopia and India M. Of Sugar and other things N. Zibethi feles Catus Zibethicus Civetta Sivet or Civet Cat. Jonst T. V. gr 1. Applied to the navill helps the collick applying hot bread threon It 's commended by Crollius in an ointment against the vertigo and apoplexie being used to the extremities of the nostrils temples and crown of the head In the suffocation of the womb it 's used downwards It may be adulterated with the gall of a Bull liquid storax and honey It s used also in powders sopes waters oiles essences and suffumigations as may be seen in Ambrosinus Schrod Civet is hot moist and anodyne It 's applied to the navils of Children in the paine of the belly Jonst Cardanus Counts it dry Renod. and Amat Lus It 's neere to Musk sc hot and dry 20. and helps the phlegmons of the Dugges Buboes and hard impostumes Applied to the glans it causeth great delectation in Women And it prevents sterility so the fume Put into the eare it cures the pain The smel cures the epilepsy cold soda it inebriats in wine helps the heart warms the matrice and causeth the courses They yeeld it as the Musk Cat. Sow Sus. P. Almost every where but hated in Scotland M. Of Grasse Fruits Roots c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ital. Porco Scrofa Sow or Hogge Gesn T. the flesh is the best of all fleshes and is best when not too fat Pork is worse but the other is of easie concoction and generats good bloud sc that of a midle age but the old and young is very bad it being the moistest flesh and phlegmatick the other yeeldeth great nourishment and neere to the temper of man and is better than that of Goats or Calves yet it 's glutinous and causeth obstructions When young it 's mucous and too humid yet the parts of motion are best The rest is soon putrified especially in stomacks filled with bad humours causing viscous phlegme and thence the Gout Iliack passion stone of the reines and palsey c. the old is cold and hard causing melancholy and long feavers Muff. The flesh of a sucking Pigge is moist 3° and causeth crudities agues apoplexies weakenesse of memory and corrupt humours and is hardly digested by weake stomaks not the coat by the strong it is best dressed being stuffed with salt and sage Pork however prepared is thought by some to have quid flatuosum cacochymicum febrile when powdered it's best to be eaten with green sauce to coole the salt and qualifie the malignity of the flesh The bacon is of harder digestion therefore both as also brawn are not to be eaten without wine or strong bear spiced with ginger and exercise after them The harâ—net is stopping and of bad nourishment yet the liver of Pigges is counted nourishing but their Lungs are very phlegmatick and waterish V. Aet Young Pigges applied warme help venimous bitings drawing forth the poyson and easing the paine Pelagon The bloud given warme helpeth pneumonick Horses see Boare Aet The decocted old salt flesh stamped with old sharp cheese helpeth the hardnesse of the joynts Scrab The wounds of Elephants are helped by butter drawing out Iron fomenting the ulcers with Swines flesh The ashes of the salted flesh is drying The bloud of Swine is moist and lesse hot very like to mans temper Eumel The bloud being given hot to Horses with wine helps the coolenesse thereof Some use the distilled liquour thereof with juniper berries agrimony rue phu scabious fluellin burnet succory pennyroyal and treacle against the plague apostumes of the sides or ribes diseases of the liver or spleen inflation of the spleen corruption of the bloud feaver swellings trembling of the heart dropsy heat besides nature ill humours and chiefely poysons and pestilent feavers drinking 4. or 5. drops thereof The warm bloud kills warts Plin. With the braine it helps the carbuncles of the privities That of a Sow applied to the teats helpeth the growing of the same Gal. or that of a Hogge The fat is lesse hot than that of the Goat and lesse moist as also than that of other beasts being lesse hot and dry and nere to the nature of man that of Bulls is much more hot and dry Plin. Axunge is used to mollifie heat discusse and purge and is more strong when salted Diosc And helpeth the pleuresie being washed in Wine With ashes or lime it cureth inflammations fistula's and tumours Aeg. It 's of the nature of that of Foxes yet that is more hot and lesse moist Plin. With the ashes of Vines it helps against tumours the bites of Scorpions and Dogs with oile or with castoreum and hore-hound Diosc So with the froth of Nitre With quicksilver it helpeth the french pocks Seren. It helps the stiffenesse of the neck the hammes being anointed therewith Myreps With quicksilver it cureth the scab and itch With quicksilver oile of bayes and the juyce of fumitory used to the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet thrice in a day it expels the
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
is of a mean flesh They may be fried or boiled If boiled in white broth they are easily concocted V. Kiran. The liver stamped and applied helps all tumours and the gout The ashes of the head help old and eating ulcers The gall drunk with Melicrate helps those that are hepatick yet Athenaeus denyeth they have any Loche Locha Muff. T. They are very light and of excellent nourishment they have a flesh like liver and a red spleen which are delicate in taste and as wholesome in operation They are good for Childbearing Women Mother of Perle Mater perlarum Schrod Besides the vertues of shel-fish they have a cordial vertue some use theÌ„ as an antefebrile Mole Mola Aldrov T. The whole Fish is of a ferine savour and very unpleasant the flesh is like that of a Centrine the hardest of all fishes and of evil juyce but the liver is tender and not insipid if fried and sprinkled with the juyce of Oranges and Pepper they are desired by many so Salv. The fat is used in lights but smelleth ill so Rond The same fat helps the paines of the joynts and contraction or rigour of the nerves Applied with meale it helps suppuration It helps hard swellings of the liver or other parts with storax The teeth burnt may be used in steed of spodium Millers thombs Capitones Muff. T. Are very sweet tender and wholsome especially when with spawn their egges being many and fat and yeelding good nourishment and though Albertus counteth their flesh hard yet it never putrifieth and is well digested they are a kind of jolt-headed gudgins Minoes Apuae cobitae Gesn Aliniatae Caii Phoxini Bell. T. Are a most delicate and light meat either fryed or sodden their gall being well taken out They are lesse than Loches and feed by licking one an other Gesner thinks they are engendred of the waste sperme of Gudgins and others out of an unknown matter They have their name from minium their finnes being red Nun-fishes Monachae Muff. T. Are a wholesome and delicate meate as any Periwinckle They feed upon sweet mud sticking to ship-sides They creep out of their shell like a Sea Snaile but straightly Their face is white their head covered with a black vaile like the Nuns of Saint Bridgets Order so had the name Old-wives Vetulae Muff. T. are dainty and wholesome of substance and large in body They may be boiled with salt wine and vineger and a little time and so are white firme dainty and wholesome Peacock-fish Pavo Aldrov T. Is an insipid and ignoble fish The flesh is fat and gentle Being broiled they are lesse unpleasant if eaten with vinger or juyce of Oranges Puffins Anates marini Muff. They are called Feathered fishes and may be as well called flesh as fish Quawiners Aranei marini Muff. T. Are unwholesome for indifferent stomachs though the poor Orcadians eate them for hunger yet they are crafty fishes Rough-taile Trachurus Diocl. T. is a dry fish Gal. And engendreth thick juyce but if broiled or rosted and put into vineger they are more pleasant Swallow-fish Hirundo Salv. T. Hath hard flesh and therefore hardly concocted yet nourishing much when concocted They are better boiled than broiled and Rondeletius saith they are like the Mullet in flesh and juyce Stock-fish Asellus aridus Muff. T. The Stilliard merchants lay it 24. houres in strong lye and then as long againe in warme waters after they boile it in abundance of butter and so serve it in with Pepper and salt which way it is most nourishing being made tender moist and warm Whilest unbeaten it's called Buckhorn and Stock-fish after Sword-fish Gladius Aldrov T. Is a very fat fish in the back like a Hogge The flesh is dry hardly concocted but nourisheth much if well concocted as also all other great Fishes Sym. Seth. They are of bad juyce hardly concocted and naufeous but if eaten they are to be corrected with sharp sauces drinking old and thin wine afterwards but if young they are better and Jovius compareth them with Sturgian Muff. They are much whiter and pleasanter in taste than Tuny Suckstone Remora Aldrov T.V. They hinder venery and abortion They are said also by their magnetick vertue to stop ships Sea Serpent Serpens marinus Bell. T. Is edible V. Plin. With Lillie roots they help the incontinency of urine Sea Hauke Aquila marina Aldrov T. Hath a very moist and soft flesh but Philotimus saith it's hard Bell. And rank therefore it 's to be eaten with alliate sauce Salv. It 's an unpleasant Fish and not sweet and therefore eaten only by poor people Shads Triches Clupeae Muff. T. Have a tender and pleasant flesh but in some moneths they are full of bones and so daingerous to be eaten They nourish much especially those of the Severn being lesse viscous and not so hypnotick They are best in May Iune and July being then fullest of flesh and freest from bones Stickle-backs Hackles or Harry bannings Pungitii Spinachiae Muff. T. Are naught and unwholesome yet they serve better to quench hunger than to nourish Some think they are engendred of the miscarrying sperm of other fishes and others of mud or raine putrified Thrush-fish Turdus Athen. T. They are very difficultly concocted yet Pliny counteth them good Gal. They are soft tender friable of good juyce easily concocted and fit for those that are either well or sick Tral Or the pleuritick and epileptick being without excrement Gariopont or hidropick Aet or troubled with the collick from pituitous and cold humours Salvian Used them for the sick boiled in water or white broth And fryed them for such as were well Platina broild them and eate them with mustard Alphestes Rond T. Is of the same flesh and substance as other saxatile fishes sc tender soft friable and not glutinous Their broth looseneth the belly They are good fryed or they may be prepared with salt meale and boiled in oile When cold they may be eaten with the juyce of Oranges They are a good food for the sick being easily concocted and engendring temperate bloud Their gemmes by their colour presage the tranquility of the Sea c. Kiran. And are used in Philtra's they are called Opisiani and draconisii Anthias Aldrov T. is sweet a little astringent of much nourishment hardly evacuated and the more carnose terrestriall and lesse fat are most nourishing Kiran. The gall applied with honey helps pushes and makes a florid countenance but the fat helps carbuncles swellings schrophula's doâ—hiens and the steatomata Their stones worne help all passions of the head and neck Atherina Rond T. Is dry enough and of pleasant taste Kiran. Their broth looseneth the belly and helpeth the reines Amia Archip. T. Is sweet and delicate Archest They are best in Autumne Hices They are of good juyce tender of mean excretion nourishing little Archest They may be rosted under embers in Figge leaves with Organie Albus Aldrov T. Hath hard flesh and is therefore hardly concocted it is so
recompensed by the help of wings Their generation is partly spontaneous partly by coiture â—gnats and little worms doe neither copulate nor are bred of animals few of the males in coiture insert into the female but the females have a long genital by which they attract the generative spirit from the male those that generate without coiture engender wormes and those that are spontaneous the coiture of the rest is long and they part slowly whether they emit sperm or not is uncertain their generation is perfected for the most part in three or foure septenaries as in oviperous creatures seven daies after coiture there is a concretion and consummation of the egges in the other three septenaries they cherish and hatch them sc those which procreate with their foetus as spiders Their motion is creeping walking flying c. they all move with more kinds of motion than the sanguine animalls Their breathing is not acknowledged by diverse who acknowledg only perfrigeration but they want lungs and not refrigeration they being of a cold temper the noise that bees and flies make is occasioned by the agitation of the interiour spirits those that seem to sing make a noise by the membrane under the septum transversum against which the included spirit is moved Many of them are exanimated under the water and recovered in ashes not because they cannot inspire but by reason that that interiour spirit was suffocated by the humour which being discussed by the heat it 's againe restored to it selfe Their smelling is performed by their native spirit Their sound is by the attrition of the interiour pâ—llicle locusts make a noise by rubbing themselves with their gubernacula that of the bee is humming but it 's shrill in the grassehopper The life is more tenacious in them than in the sanguineous chiefely in those that have long bodies and many feet as in the palmer-worme by reason of the multiplicating part of their originall yet they are easily killed by pouring oile on them its viscosity stopping the narrow passages and so intercepting the spirits They differ according to place the fier-flie living in the fire rough-wormes in the snow scolopenders in the sea waters water-beetles and leeches in sweet waters wormes in the earth wood-worms in the roots of trees the cerastes in the sig-tree red and hairy wormes in the service-tree the butyri in vines and ipes and the vinefretter in the leaves thereof maggots in the cypresse caterpillers on leaves prasâ—curidâ—s in leekes crambides in cabbages punies in mallowes weevills in wheat the mida in beans nits and lice in beasts tikes in sheep brees in cowes or horse-flies the scolichia in the mullet others in the carp perch gudgin and dace the clerus in bee-hives moths in garments The colour in some is the same in others various As for quantity and figure some are little others great round ovale angulous smooth or rough c. some are winged others not others change their forme as catterpillers which turne into butter-flies Some have wing-cases as beetles and cantharides c. others have their wings alwaies open as flyes bees c. Some have two wings others foure sc those that have stings in their bellies if in their mouthes two The wings pulled off grow again in none of them and those that have crusts over their wings are without stings Some have wings not divided as bees and wasps and in butterflies they are mealy as for the leggs wormes are without them others have many and most have not fewer than six The tongue in some is soft and weake in others hard and strong as oxe-flies and it is in all that have not a sting in the belly very many have teeth but not those that live on moist things some have a sting in their mouth is instead of a tongue lips others in the belly also they are terrestriall or aquatick with or without feet c. Also amongst the aforesaid living creatures some are Solar sc those that are generous and lively as the bull goat horse lion and ramme Amongst Birds the eagle cock crow swan and vulture Of Insects the pilularie beetle and spanish flies the contrary are such as are Lunar Saturnine and Martiall c. The Lunar are the Cat beaver dog goat hart otter and menstruall blood Of Birds the Duck goose heron and merguli c. Of Fishes the carp crab gilt-head frog cister pearch and cockle Of Insects Spiders c the contrary are such as are Solar and Martiall The Saturnine are the solitary nocturnall and sad as the Asse camel cat ape hare mule mouse mole bear toad and wolfe Of Birds the Bat crow crane houpe ostrich owle and peacock and Serpents Of Insects Flies scorpions pismires and wormes the contrary are all but the Martial The Joviall are the Hart bull elephant lamb and sheep Of Birds the Hen eagle partridg pheasant pigeon storke and swallow the contrary are the Martiall The Martiall are those that are quarrelsome impetuous powerfull bilious rapacious as the Dog goat kid fox mule purdal woolfe Of Birds the Crow chough eagle hawke faulcon kite owle and vulture Of Fishes the Dogge-fish jack pearch and fork fish the contrary are all except the Venereall The Venereall are the delitious lascivious mild kinde pleasant and tame as the Calfe cony dog goat and scinck Of Birds the Crow cock eagle pigeon peacock partridg pye swallow swan turtle and wagtaile the contrary are the Saturnine The Mercuriall are those that are ingenious crafty sagacious fauning and loquacious as the Dogge ape hare hart mule fox and weasell Of Birds the Bat colemouse blackbird gold-finch larke parret pie nightingale swallow and thrush Of Insects the Beetle bee kind locust and pismire the contrary are the Martiall and Saturnine Of the influence of which Plants See my Isagoge Phytologica c. Thus of the more generall differences of Animals in respect of parts quantity quality place meate generation motion voice life sense and actions c. Now follow their differences as used in Meat Medicine they are as followeth 1. Of Quadrupeds or fourfooted beasts those most used in diet are the tame sc the calfe oxe cow bull lamb weather ram ewe kid goat pig sow boar and hog amongst the wild the wild boare and sow red and fallow deere roebuck and capreol hare conie and squirrels c. of which see more in their proper places Of these the Substance of some is thin and light fit for fine complexions idle and tender persons and such as recover out of some great sicknesse as rabbets c. others are more grosse tough and hard agreeing chiefely with country persons and such as labour and secondarily with those that are strong using much exercise and accustomed to feed thereon as the bull and hog c. others are of a middle substance and generally the best and most proper aliment ingendering mean blood agreeing almost with all ages times and complexions neither binding the
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
and stones earths and mettals not some totally as bitumen brimstone others partly as the spinus and they all yeeld smoak some may be Burned as all mettals except gold and others are powdered thereby as earths some yeeld Fier as the fierstone flint milstone and chrystal others not some Move in vineger as the astroites and trochites some Bubble in water as certain earths some Swim and being broken sink as the pumice stone thyreus Some rubbed on a whetstone yeeld a juyce as the galactites schistos haematite Some colour mettals as cadmia some impart their colour to other things as chalk black earth silver and earth of eretria c. some sharpen iron as the whetstone sandstone the loadstone Attracts it the the amedes Repels it and amber attracts straws As for figure some are Round as the thyites Semi-spherical as callai astroitae Cylindric as the beril and syenites Triangular as some gemms Quadrate as the and rodamas of Five angles as the basaltes Sexangular as chrystal of More angles as the pangonus some partly plain as the specular and loadstone partly Convex as the aetites within partly Concavous as some emeralds some are like warts as the myrmecias like the curvat moon the tephrites the amiauth like haires stelechites like the trunk of a tree belemnites like arrows chalazias like hail the lapis judaicus like an acorn c. some Represent the effigies of things as the enorchis entrochos enosteos leucophthalmos aegophthalmos lycophthalmos astroites and the achates of woods and rivers They differ also in quantity some being great as marble and gemms small c. And some cure the pestilence as the emerald sealed earth armenian The sapphir drunk helps stingings of scorpions and sulphur applied nitre drunk helps toadstools eaten and vitriol salt applied helps against many sorts of stinging and opium drunk some Stop bleeding as the hematite and hieracites some help the stomach as the jasper applied the aetites worn preserves the foetus some move vomiting as chrysocolla armenium and sutorie atrament All fossils dry but some Heat also as alum sutorie atrament chalcite misy sory melanteria others Cool as earth of eretria plumbarie stone and stibium some Soften as gagates others Harden as plumbarie stone and stibi some Open as nitre it 's spume aphronitre some Shut as samius after and all glutinous earth some Discusse as the pyrites molaris bitumen some Cicatrize as chalcite misy fissil alum others Diminish proud flesh as rust of brasse and chalcite if the body be soft and misy some Putrify as sandaracha auripigmentum and chrysocolla some are of Different vertues others of the Same as chrysocol and armenium auripigment and sandaracha the haematite and schistos and sutorie atrament chalcite misy sory and melanteria and the first are strongest Some also are Deadly some by erosion as spodos cadmia chrysocolla others by stopping as gypsum the specular stone Thus of the colour Pellucidity Fulgor Nitor sapour odour heat cold moisture drinesse fatnesse leannesse thicknesse rarity hardnesse softnesse asperity smoothnesse heavinesse lightnesse liquidity mollification humectation clamminesse glewishnes flexibility friability sculpture turning filing compression densation traction ductility fissure burning inflaming motion in vineger swimming juycinesse tincture communication of colour sharpning of iron attraction and repulsion of the same figure quantity helps and hurts of Fossils by which they differ in general Now more particularly 1. Earths which are fossil bodies which irrigated by humidity are first softened into a lutum with more moisture become liquid and the matter of the fossil is a terrene exhalation concrete with an adjunct aqueous vapour and they Differ by the variety of exhalations heat place mixture are generated betwixt stones caves veines fibres fountaines channels ditches and plaines c. they differ in simplicity and composition and it's Light if aereal Binding if aqueous Sharp if igneous and complex if more compound the simple vary by fatnesse leannesse rarity thicknesse or meannesse softnesse hardnesse as in a mean and as smooth rough or mean and they are Fat when being moist they are concocted by temperate heat Clammy when with much humidity heat hath concocted them to a fat spissitude Thick when the humour is mixt a dry heat hath condensed it by concoction or cold hath condensed it 't is Light from air Rough from an inequability of the matter Liquability is from humidity first concocted and after constringed by cold they burn if having a fat humour also the fat and glutinous being airy make a noise in water and the contrary As for colour they are white black luteous red purple green ceruleous ash coloured or fuscous the compound earth is metallik when a metallik juyce spread on the earth doth combine by cold and the earth is not changed and it is like gold silver brasse lead or iron it 's Lapidose when a clammie and brittle earth are mixed and heat hath concocted them and it 's saxeous marmoreous lapideous glareous sabulous sandy calculous or gemmose it 's succous to which concreat juyces are adjunct they differ as salt sulphureous c. the more cōpound are made of more As for their taste it 's astringent if cold constringeth it moistned in water before much heat hath well concocted it or an astringent humour being imbibed but being relax't with heat it becoms sweet if humid with more heat it 's made salt and bitter if more extenuated and elaborated by a dry heat and it 's acid acerb or austere by such juyce imbibed The odour if stinking shews a metallick mixture and the Fragrant are rare if Fat it 's good for plaisterers husbandmen if solute for potters if fat and thick for fullers if fat sharp for Physitians if astringent then it 's cold it 's hot if sharp and emplastick if purely fat for painters if Lean or in a mean and for carpenters and for barbers if abstersive And in generall all earth cooleth stoppeth and shutteth but in particular as to medicine some resist poyson as the Armenian and that of Lemnos others Bind as oker smopick and fabrile rubrick also earth of eretria samos chios selenusia and even all earths some Discuss as the ampelite fullers and testae fornaciae others Clense as that of Melos c. 2. Mettalls which are fossil bodies hard that may be melted by the fire consistent in their own nature and malleable their remote matter is vapour and the proximate sulphur and quick-silver their common affections are congelability solidity in all but quick-silver having an aqueous humidity liquability ductibility having an aqueous vapour well mixed therefore gold is most ductile ponderosity being compact but gold most their tast is acute being sulphureous and they are all foetid in smel but gold least and all but it are combustible and they are 6 in number Of these with their excrements as to medicine some alter the body
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
stale of a young Calfe it causeth venery being drunk and the dung applied to the genitals Hippoc. maketh a purgatorie remedie thereof for Woman that cannot conceive Plin. The glue is made of the eares and genitals and is most excellent against burnings Avic Useth it with vineger and Honey Plin. With Lime it helpeth the itch And ringworme with vineger Marcel So boiled with vineger and live brimstone boiled to the thicknesse of Honey with stirring applied twice in a day Plin. being dissolved it helps fresh wounds made by Iron Avic With Honey vineger it killeth Nits Plin. The fabrile glue decoct in Water and applied helpeth the teeth being presently washed with Wine in which the barks of a sweet pomegranat are Plin. 3. Oboli being drunk with hot Water help the spitting of bloud Marcel It helps the collick Being injected with hot Water it helpeth the dysentery and the dung of a Calf decocted in Wine helpeth inflations Gesn H. the bloud is counted poysonsome Gal. The antidote is vineger with vomiting Such things also as hinder coagulation and are laxative fat and slippery As also Cabbage seed Calamint Nitre Pepper and Tyme c. Jonst As also flower gentle wild figgetree Laserwort Oile of Peeter Sowthistle Bramble bush Diosc Yet the bloud applied with Barley meale mollifieth hardnesses in the body dry it discusseth impostumes in any part and killeth Wormes and being applied it taketh all spots out of the face notwithstanding it is dangerous to be taken it presently coagulating and growing hard If drunk the Symptomes are difficulty of breathing strangling stopping of the jawes and tonsils Rednesse of the tongue and infection of the teeth c. Hereto may be referred the Bison and Vre-oxe whose parts though not experimented are thought to be more effectual in physick as also the bulls of Florida called Butrones the skin of which the Barbareans use against the cold of winter and the hornes against poyson Muff. Bulls beef except very young is utterly unwholsome and of hard digestion the bloud is extream hard and binding as appeareth in the ground where they are killed it glasing it making it of a stony hardnesse therefore they weere wount to be baited before the slaughter that violent heat and motion might attenuate their bloud and soften the flesh yet it 's then fit only for strong stomacks and hurts others Calfe Vitulus P. Almost every where in any country M. They are fedd with milk N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vaccae proles Heb. Egel Calfe Gesn T. In all kinds of living creatures the flesh of the aged is hard dry and hardly concocted Those of the younger are tender and moist and therefore more easily concocted except such as are eaten as soon as brought forth for all such are mucous especially those which are moist in their own nature as Lambs and Sows Pigs but Kids and Calves being of a dryer nature are better concocted and nourish so Gal. They are to be killed 15 days after calved and their flesh then is temperate and of easy concoction also wholesome for those that lead an idle life so Crescent Therefore it is often used by the gentry so Platin. It may be boiled as that of other beasts and eaten with butter and vineger so the plux The head is eaten with the braines and sage at the first course and is much better than that of the Shepe The feet are eaten with vinegar and pepper there are also diverse other things taken notice of by Platina Apicius and others which belonging to cookery are here omitted as belonging to the dypnosophistick art V. Plin. The flesh of a Calf keepeth green wounds from swelling Marcel New boiled and applied with vineger to the armpits it helpeth the stinking of the same Plin. Applied it helpeth the bitings of Men being so used for five dayes together Cels As also of a mad Dog and Serpents the broth being drunk as also that of a Goose or sheep Plin. The same helpeth the disentery and coeliack passion The flesh eaten with birth-wort rosted by women about the time of conception causeth males The Ashes with Womens milk helpe filthy ulcers The marrows of living creatures mollify what is hard or scirrhous either muscles tendons ligaments or bowels but the best is that of the Hart then that of a Heiser or Calf And that of Goats and Bulls is more sharp and drying and therefore are not used for this purpose Also of the marrow of the hart or Calfe may pessaries be made to mollify divers evils of the matrix and remedies to be applied outwardly Also the marrow of the back may be used which is more dry and squalid Plin. All marrow mollifieth filleth dryeth and heateth Plin. It helpeth the dysentery with other things and exulcerated wombs Gal. They doe loosen and discuss As for the way of preparing and keeping them see in my Isagoge phytologica c. Plin. The marrow of a Calfe with a like weight of wax and oile or oile of roses with an egge helpeth the hardnesse of the cheekes Which Marcellus affirmes of the eyebrows With comin seed instilled it helpeth the paine of the eares and deafeness It helpeth the ulcers and clefts of the mouth so that of the heifer Boiled with a little meal wax and oile it helpeth the coeliack and dysentery being drunk Marcel So that of a heifer with meal and cheese With suet it helpeth the running ulcers of the privities Plin. The same in wine decoct with water helpeth the exulcerations of the womb applied Gal. Diverse remedies are made thereof to mollify the womb being used inwardly or outwardly Diosc The fat is something astringent Marcel With salt it helpeth the lousy evil Plin. And evils of the head Marcel Applied it extenuateth the eyebrows Plin. So with Goose grease and the juyce of basil as also paines of the eares and deafenesse so with the marrow of a Hart and leaves of white thorne with wild cumin and honey it helps the sound and ringing thereof Marcel Drunk in water it helps the coeliack so Plin. And the dysentery With rue it helps inflations in the fundament With niter it helps the swellings of the testicles so Marcel Plin. It helpeth rough nailes and warts with salt and the gout as some affirme Diosc The curd hath the same vertue as that of a Hare Kid or Lamb. Plin. A little thereof drunk in wine helpeth the lethargy which some affirme of the Sea Calfe The destilled water of the race with p. aq Of sage and bawme helpeth cold parts resolved or pined being applied daily morning and evening with hot cloths wrapped about them The water distilled out of the liver of a hee Calf with as much sage drunk by men or women that have a hard swelling overthwart the bottome of the belly above the privities helpeth the same Plin. The gall helpeth the leprosy and scurfe with the seed of cunila and powder or ashes of harts horne Marcel Applied it killeth nits The stale urine of man
they tread in one an others foot steps Tops They graze backwards the upper lip otherwise dubling over their mouthes F. Ferret Viverra P. In England France Italy and Germany c. M. Of Conyes Pigeons and Fishes Tops or milk N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Furo Furus Furunculus furectus FErret Tops T. the flesh and teeth are counted poysons V. the Gall helpeth the poyson of Aspes the same is commended against the falling sicknesse Marcellus so the whole Body if it be tosted dressed and eaten fasting like a young Pig Plin. The Body mixed with a Goats gall helpeth against the long flye called a Frier slying into the flame of Candles burning in the night which is counted poyson some They are of a very hot temperature and therefore quickly digest their meat and being wild by reason of their feare they rather seek their meat in the night than in the day Rhas Albert. They are kept out of dove-coats by hanging the head of a Woolf there so Cats c. Fitch Putorius P. Almost every where in England about houses M. Of Hens Birds Mice Rabbets and Fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Catus fuina Scaligeri Fitch T. V. The part of use taken from them is the skinne which is used in garments it 's of a rank smell so that it offendeth the head and causeth pain therein therefore it 's sold cheaper than the Foxes the fattest is the worst and they are best in Winter their flesh and lust being then lower and so hurt lesse by their smell They live in tops of houses and secret corners woods by the Sea sides and caves of hollow trees especially in the stalls of cattel hay houses and where they meet with Eggs. When taking the prey they feed first on the head Foxe Vulpes P. In Russia the Alpes and England c. M. Of Hens Geese Conies Hares Mice and Grapes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Schual Arab. Thaleb Volpes Foxe Gal. T. the flesh is dry somewhat like that of the Hare Rhas It is hot viscous hard of concoction and of bad juyce and is best in autumne Aet It is of exceeding bad aliment being unlike mans nature and stinking V. Gesn Plin. Marcel The decoction of the flesh helpeth the Gout Sext. So the Oile Gal. And that of a Hyena abiding some time therein after evacuation or purgation that it may not attract the humours to the joynts so Aet Hal. The Oile of a Fox decocted helps nodes and the joynts hurt by moisture so Rhas So decocted skin and all till boiled to pieces Mesue prescribeth it with Sea water c. With anet and time so also the decoction of a Hare or hedg-hog L. Favent The decoction of a Fox excoriated and unbowelled having his bones broken used as an embrocation to the nucha and paralytick part helpeth the same Myrepsus also maketh an excellent ointment thereof against the incontinencie of the nerves gout joynt ache and all affections and drynesse of the nerves Avic The skinne is hotter than the rest useful for parts too much moistned by humours or fluxions having a resolving and discussing faculty Sext. Shoos lined therewith ease the podagrick sc by cold so with that of the Sea Calfe Lion or Woolf. Albert. The ashes of the flesh of a Foxe drunk with Wine help the asthma Sylv. Their bloud drunk fresh breaketh the stone Myrepsus makes a nephritick antidote thereof Some drink the dry bloud in Wine for the same purpose with sugar Absyrt Being used as an errhine with gentle oxicrate it helps the Lethargy in Horses Sylv. The fat of a Fox is betwixt that of the Bull and Sow Avic Sometimes it atrracteth more than it resolveth That of the Beare may be its substitute mixed with that of a Woolf it helps the spasme Her Also the pains of the nerves and tremblings Aet It helps high tumours being mixed with the ashes of vine branches and boiled with lye Sylv. Her It helps the alopecia Plin. Also ulcers of the head especially the gall and dung applied with a like q. of Mustardseed It helpeth the ulcers of the Womb. Diosc And the pains of the eares being first melted at the fire and dropped in warme so Sext. Avic Albert. and Rhas Gal. With a like q. of lard it helps the diseases of the nerves And eares troubled with water so that of Geese or Hens as also sounding of the eares and sharp paines Hal. With the Oile of Oily pulse it helps the teeth also and other vices of the eares except fractures which may be helped by Calves glue relented in water Plin. It helps the diseases of Cows Absyrt Theomn And falling off of haire from an Horses taile Aeg. The ashes of the head with the some of the Sea and leaves of black Alkanet breed hair in the alopecia when brought to the cicatrice Sext. The brain often given to Children preventeth the falling sicknesse Plin. Some say that the tongue preventeth blearednesse of the eyes Marcel And worn about the neck in scarlet it helps white spots in the eyes Applied after soaking in Wine it draweth out darts Diosc Gal. The powder of the Lungs drunk helpeth shortnesse of breath Plin. So the Liver drunk in red Wine and Marcel in old Wine so Paul and Avic drach 1. being drunk after purgation give the ashes Rhasis useth the powder with cold water or that of raisins Sylv. It is to be washed from the bloud dryed in an Oven and so to be kept and to be powdered when to be used Some wash it in Wine then dry it and preserve it with sugar Others take away the rough arteries also and wrap it in wormwood that it may not putrifie so Cord. hereof is made a Lohoch used in the shops Rhas Albert. Some use the lungs of a Woolf in Milk with Pepper for the same purpose Sylv. It helps the phthisical by the property of it's whole substance Plin. Sext. The ashes drunk in water help the spleen Archig The liver of a Fox drunk in Oxycrate helps the spleen Marcel and Sextus also commend it Plin. Drunk with black Wine it openeth the respiratorie passages as also the lungs Plin. The fat helps ulcers of the head but especially the gall and dung with a like q. of Mustard seed Sext. Dropped into the eares with Oile it helps the paines thereof and mixed with Honey so applied to the eyes it wonderfully helps the dimnesse thereof Rhas drach 1. Being used in the matrice for 3. dayes causeth conception of a male being used as a pessary Plin. The reines applied with Honey help the tonsils so Sext. Plin. Sext. The genital bound about the head helps the paines thereof Plin. It as also that of Woolfes Weasels and Ferrets is bony and therefore good against the stone Sext. Being boiled in old Oile with bitumen and applied as a pessary it helps the suffocation in Women anointed on the head it helpeth the alopecia and dropped in helps the paines of the eares Plin The
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
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
barnes c. M. Of bread cheese corne and tallow c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Achar Arab. Phir Chald. Acbe Mouse Arnold T. The flesh eaten causeth oblivion and corrupteth the meat yet those of Calechut eate them it is hot soft and fattish and expelleth melancholy so Rhas and Albert. yet Gesner doubteth therein V. Plin. A Mouse dissected and applied draweth out reeds darts and other things that stick in the flesh So Marcel After being flead and helps the wounds of Serpents Diosc Gal. Avic Rhas Albert. The same helpeth the wounds of Scorpions Plin. Applied fresh it helps the bitings of the shrew as also it selfe applied It killeth warts so Rhas and Albert. Some use the fatt thereof rosted in a Goose against the scirrhus Young Mice bruised and reduced to the consistence of an acopon with old wine cause haire on the eyebrows Diosc Rhas Avic Albert. being eaten by children when rosted they dry up their spittle Plin. The Magicians eat them twice in a month against the paines of the teeth Marcel The water in which they have been boiled helps against the quinsey Plin. So boiled with vervain Boiled with oile and salt they help the vices of the lungs and spitting of bloud Being boiled and eaten they help childrens pissing in bed Seren. So the ashes with wine or Goats milk Being dissected and applied they help the gout Plin. The ashes help burnings Marcel and the falling off of the haire with that of cypresse balls the hoose of a Mule myrtle oile that of a hedg-hog sandaracha vineger and tarre the same with oile help the tetter Archig Applied daily plaister-wise with axunge it helpeth the alopecia being first rubbed with garlick Rhasis and Albertus adde oile of bayes Galen useth them with honey and Beares grease And Heraclides with those of haire cloath and of Horse teeth with harts marrow reeds powdered and honey Plin. tho ashes dropped into the ears with honey or oile of roses help the paines of the eares Marcel Plin. With honey rubbed on the teeth they sweeten the breath but some adde the roots of fennel Gal. The flesh stamped with the yolk of an egge to the consistence of a ceror and applied with a linnen cloth helps the carnose inflammation of the cornea Plin. Marcel Gal. Avic The fresh bloud killeth warts Gal. With the gall of a Cock and Womens milk an it mightily helpeth suffusions Plin. The ashes of the skinne applied with vineger help the paines of the head Rhas Albert. The head worne in a cloth helps the headach and epilepsy Gal. The ashes of the head with honey helpe the alopecia Some use them with hellebore and pepper after cantharides tarre and nitre as also flies torrified Sext. The ashes with honey used ten dayes cleare the eyes With that of a hare and spikenard they sweeten the breath Marcel The braine being steeped in wine and applied to the forehead helpeth the headach Used with water it cureth the phrensey Sext. The heart taken out of a Mouse when alive worne about the arme of a Woman causeth no conception Seren. The fillet of the liver drunk with austere wine helpeth quartans Gal. The liver rosted in the new of the moon trieth the epilepsy Plin. Marcel Seren. The gall with vineger dropped into the eare bringeth out living creatures in the eare Plin. The dung is corrosive Aet It is mixed with remedies against ringworms Plin. With vineger it helps lichens in the face being first fomented with nitre and vineger Marcel So it helps tettars Myreps With earth-worms white pepper myrrhe an unc sem mixed with vineger and applied it helpeth the hemicrania Plin. With frankincense and sandaracha it discusseth the pani Marcel Seven of the pills applied to the forehead or temples with vineger helpe the paine thereof Marcel Stamped with the herb strumus and applied to the forehead with vineger it presently helpeth the paine of the hemicrania With vineger it helps scurfe Plin. Var It helps the alopecia Diosc So with vineger so Asclep and Gal. some add tarre also Rhas Albert. Some adde the juyce of rocket cresses onions or garlick Avic And honey Gal. and frankincense white hellebore and pepper with tosted barley Applied with that of a Goat and honey they help bald eyebrows Plin. Seren. With raine water it helps the swellings of Womens teats after child birth Marcel Given in any liquour it helpeth the collick Vincent Bel. It looseneth the body Therefore some nurses use it for children in suppositories so Diosc to which some adde salt oile or honey Marcel Drunk with wine it helpeth the hip-gout Diosc With frankincense and mulse it expelleth the stone Avic So with the water of honey Plin. So applied Avic The fume of the decoction helps the difficulty of urine Plin. Applied it hindereth venery in men Hippocrates maketh a pessary thereof to bring out the foetus dead or putrified in the womb Avic The ashes with honey help the alopecia Gal. It helps the morphew Plin. With that of flies an with stibium and oesipus they cause haire on the eye-brows Plin. Seren. It helpeth hollow teeth being put therein Plin. And the diseases of the fundament Arnold The urine corrodeth even to the bones so Albert. Yet some attribute it to that of the Ratt Diosc The bitings of Mice are helped by green figgs and garlick so Plin. Arnold they hurt rather by their biting than by their poyson Schrod The fatt helpes the nerves contractions and cold Jonst They are often generated out of the filth in houses They are enemies to elaterium squils coloquintida Weasels Hawkes and Catts c. And freinds to marjerom the roots of which they eat when sick They heare quickly and hate light in the night if in the water they hang by one an others tailes that they may be drawn out Their difference is according to magnitude colour haire smell and place Gesn The ventricle of the Alpin mouse helps the collick being applied some use that fatt in septicks and ointments against the malignant ulcers in Horses and wormes with things that dry Matth. The same mollifieth the nerves and helpeth contractions The flesh helps the womb yet it s hot and hardly digested Mule Mulus P. In Capadocia Persia and Babilon c. M. Of herbs and fruits as also graine N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Pered Arab. Beal Mule Aldrov Plin. T. V. Some affirme that the dust in which a mule hath tumbled helpeth the desire of love being sprinkled on the body Ponzet The infection by poyson may be helped by putting the patient into the belly of a Mule or Camel newly killed the heat thereof resolving the poyson and strenghtening the spirits and all the parts The ashes of the skinne and the like applied help parts burned by fire they heat ulcers without impostumes and help the gallings of the feet and hips as also fistula's Rhas Albert. The marrow maketh stupid Aldrovand The parts cause sterility The dry heart sprinkled with wine
places M. As of the wild Goats N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orynx Orix 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oxyceros ORyx Jonst T. V. The water in which their hornes have been infused certaine dayes being drunk helpeth those that have been bitten by a venimous fish or beast Tops As for the description it differeth little from that of wild Goats but only that the haire groweth averse In quantity it is like the Roe The hornes are upright black and so sharp that they pierce brasse or iron Herrod Pol. Laur. Val. and serve to make musical instruments of They are accounted enemies to the rising of the Sunne or Moone and love the little dog Starre cold and raine then passing away When they see a Boare Bear or Lion they bend their hornes to the earth till the assault be made and so goare the beasts so that they forget the combat licking up their own bloud They fight till victors or overcome they fight with all beasts and kill one an other It 's said to be alwayes thirsty yet having a bladder in it that quencheth thirst in others They are taken by snares Otter Lutra P. Often in Europe as in England by rivers M. Of fishes tops of plants fruits and barks N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Canis fluviatilis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Otter Gesn Albert. T. The flesh is cold and foetid Hier. Trag. yet some eat them in Germany V. Aelian The bloud mixed with vineger and water helpeth swellings of the nerves Shooes made of the skinne are very good for the sinews Aet And mightily help paines thereof and of the feet Pliny attributes the same to that of the Beaver Albert. The skinne helps against the palsey Her So caps made thereof as also the vertigo and paine of the head Gesn The liver baked helps the dysentery Hermol The testicles help the epilepsy and have the vertue of Castoreum so Aet But are lesse effectual so Brasav Herodot They are useful in remedies for the womb or to help the matrix Jonst The flesh is grosse and pituitous Holler The fat the body being stuffed with digestive remedies and rosted helpeth the paine of the nerves Stooles covered with the skinne help the hemorrhoids they breath often after diving and smell fish far fish-pools As for the description he is more long and slender than the Beaver headed like a Dogge toothed like a hound and eared like the Beaver with a long taile legged like a Foxe short haired and of a chestnut colour Ounce Vncia P. They are bred in Lybia and other places M. It liveth upon flesh N. Vnzia Vnctia Lozanum Tops Ounce Tops T. V. the gall is deadly poyson it hateth all creatures and destroyeth them especially men and loveth none but it 's owne kinde Dr. Cay as for the description it 's most cruel and of the bignesse of a mastiue Dogge with a face and eares like a Lion Body taile feet and nailes like a Cat a terrible aspect teeth so sharp that they can cut wood and strong nailes for defence and betwixt an oak and ash colour with black spots They fight at the head Panther Panthera P. In Africa Asia Pamphylia and Bengala c. M. Of Flesh especially of Dogges Apes and Lambs N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leopardus Pardus Pardalis Panther Rhas Albert. T. the flesh is hot and dry Solin Yet the Agriophagi of Aegypt eate them Gal. and others V. Gesn Some say that the skinne of a Leopard being laine on driveth away Serpents Sylv. The fat of a Pardall is hot and dry next to that of Lion and the Beares next to this Rhas The sat of a Leopard is grosse and sharp it 's subtiltie appeares in those that have a pulse in their temples and the vertigo the smell thereof being taken whilest it is rosting Albert. Also it helps against the palsey and palpitation of the heart Albert. With oile of bayes it helps the Scab and Ringwormes The bloud helps the swellings of the veines or varices being used warme The flesh is hot and dry The brain with the juyce of rocket applied to the genital of a man causeth lust but the marrow drunk helps the paines of the womb Bertrat The gall of a Leopard drunk doth presently kill Matth. It presently causeth a vomiting of green and pale choller as also the smell and taste of aloes in the nostrils and mouth and the jaundise The antidote after vomiting is of the earth of Lemnos and bay berries an p. 1. of the curd of a Capreol p. 3. of the seed of rue and Myrrhe an p. sem made up with honey the D. is the q. of a Nut with vomiting and a sweet bath It causeth all the Symptomes that Napellus and the bitings of vipers doe and is so cured Gesn The Leopard is a most hot creature as may be conjectured from his black spots and swift motion therefore the gall burneth the humours by its heat and killeth within 6. hours Sticking to the muscles of the ventricle it causeth spasmes The Scythians poyson their arrows therewith that they may kill the sooner so Ponzet Matth. the stone called lingua Serpentis by its sweat sheweth the gall of a Leopard Viper or napellus So Math. and Apon Albert. The sixt part of drach 1. taken with water hindereth generation and causeth sterility Rhas Albert. The right testicle of a Leopard being drunk by a Woman though ancient causeth the menses and the more being often used the same may be stopped by the fresh seed of fleawort The remedies against Panthers and Beares see in Lion Avic They are cured by attraction and then as other wounds Jonst The fat is cosmetick As for the description they have a little face great mouth little shining wandering eyes long forehead round eares long and thinne neck breast with small ribbs long back fleshy buttocks and thighs various colour and an asymmetrous body They accompanie with the Lion Dogg or Woolf and bring forth many They hate Men Serpents garlick the Hyena Porcupine Hystrix P. In all Africa and India also in Italy and France M. Of apples rapes pares parsnips and bread N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Adaldal Acanthocoiros Porcupine Gesn T. The flesh as that of an hedg-hogg though it be not much eaten yet it helps the stomach looseneth the belly and helpeth the leprosy and scab being salted it cureth the dropsy and preventeth pissing in bed so Platin. and Plin. also the ashes drunk preserve the birth and prevent abortion so that of an hedg-hogg applied with oile Jonst Agric. They have mouthes like the Hare foure long teeth fore feet like the Baddger and hinder like the Beare on the back and sides diverse coloured prickles partly black partly white of two or three hands length which they erect as the Peacock doth the taile and ejaculate when entring into their harbour And they seeke their prey in the night chiefely Women use their quils to part their haire Pliny useth them to pick the teeth
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
Veget. With vineger it cures the falling off of a Horses hoof The ashes thereof with Nitre or those of the bones of Lambs thighs help cankers especially in those ulcers that will not be cicatrized Plin. The dung being heated and moulded together helps tumours in wounds cleanseth fistula's and cureth night wheales The ashes with Cyprus oile and Honey help the Alopecia Rhas Albert. A plaister thereof with Goose or Hens grease helps abscesses about the roots of the eares Anon. Applied warme it cureth the swelling of the dugges in Women Drach 1. drunk with the decoction of woodbind or with oxymel cureth the jaundise Marcel With Wine or Water it helps the paine of the Colon. Rhas The ashes applied help the increasing of the spleen Marcel Lib. 1. of marsh mallows with p. 2. hereof and as much axunge stamped and applied to the reines with new shorn wool plaister wise helps the stone Plin. The soft dung easeth the gout The dung also helps the diseases of Women Albert. The urine of a red or black Sheep with honey helps the Dropsy Rhas So being drunk also Plin. The q. of a penny weight of the sordes of the eares or duggs with a little Myrrhe and 2. cupsfull of Wine helpeth the jaundise as also fellons Sylvat Serap The sweat with vineger cureth the Epilepsy New shorn wool especially that of the neck of a black Sheep is good against wounds in the beginning stroaks desquammations bruises and broaken bones being soaked in vineger oile or wine and is used in embrocations and by reason of grease and excrements therein called Oesypus it softeneth and is vâ—â—y effectuall with vineger and oile of roses against paines of â—e head stomack and other parts so Diosc Plin. and inflations of the stomack also it defendeth from cold and is used with oile wine or vineger according to the intention either to asswage bite or bind or to help the paines of the nerves or luxations for which purpose some adde salt or rue and fat so Plin. as also for contusions and swellings With cold water it helps the pilling of the skin about the nails Marcel With hot oile it helpeth humid parts and old ulcers with honey and wounds with wine vineger cold water or oile Plin. The fume thereof helps the phrenetick Applied it helps bloudshotten eyes the blood of a Pigeon being first put therein With the white of an egge and the powder of frankincense it helps epiphora's Gal. Being wanned in vineger the moisture crushed out and put into the eare after it it helps the paines thereof Marcel Being put into the nostrils with oile of roses and the eare stopped there with it stops bleedings Plin. Being rubbed on the teeth with honey it sweetneth the breath Marcel And maketh them white Gal. Being torrified in a linnen cloth and mixed with a third part of salt it preserveth from the toothach being used as a dentifrice Plin. Being dipped into Tarre Nitre Sulphur Oile and Vineger and applied twice a day very hot it helps the pains of the Ioines That of a black Sheep applied to the testicles helps the swelling thereof Plin. Applied with Bulls gall it causeth purgation in Women some adde Hyssopp and Nitre Applied it bringeth forth the dead birth and stops the courses in Women Also it helps the Hemorrhoids Seren. The same with live brimstone helps the yellows Plin. With the root of marsh mallows it helps the Kings evil and suppurations That dyed of the purple colour put into the eares helpeth the same some adde Nitre and Vineger The ashes cause crusts remove excrescencies of the flesh and cicatrize ulcers Diosc It 's to be washed for the eyes until it bindeth the tongue and biteth not The ashes are hot and sharp with tenuity of parts therefore they presently eliquate the soft and moist flesh of ulcers and are put into drying medicines It is used in gallings wounds burnings fistula's and suppurations of the eares and to cleanse the face Marcel And with vineger to help the paines of the head Gal. Those of the hinder part of the wool drunk in Wine help the difficulty of breathing Plin. They cure the vices of the privities and the passions of Sheep so Aggreg The aesypus quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or sordes and filth sticking in the wool arising from sweat and therefore the wool is called succida quasi sudoris sordibus succo imbuta is of a concocting faculty like butter and a little digesting so Gal. Marcel It helpeth bare eyebrows Note it is drawn out of the wool by hot water and so taken off the top and clarified Aet It hath a little acrimonie and mollifieth and is of the smell of wool and like ceruse when rubbed so Diosc It 's used against inflammations and callus of the cheeks and inflammation of the Hypochondria It heateth and filleth ulcers With the ashes of Barley and verdegrease p. aeq it helps wounds also it helps cankers and creeping ulcers and wasts the brimmes and equalizeth the excrescencies filleth and cicatrizeth the same Plin. With tuttie and oile of roses it helps the holy fire And with a little Myrrhe mixed in two cupsful of Wine or with Goose grease and myrtle Wine it provoketh sleep With Corsick honey it extenuats spots in the face and helps the roughnesse of the skinne with oile of roses Some adde butter also and the gall of a Dogge Marcel Applied to the head it cureth the Phthiriasis or lowsy evil With Wine and a little Myrrhe it helps the Epilepsie It helps the corrosions of the corners of the eyes scabbed cheeks and fallings off of the haire of the eye liddes so the sout thereof so Aet Marcel With Myrrhe it causeth haire to grow upon the eye-brows Plin. With honey it helpeth contusions of the eyes being first anointed with the fat of a Goose and bloud of a Duck. With Goose grease it helpeth the ulcers of the eyes mouth and genitals Aetius mixeth it with the cerot against the phthisick and against the pleuresie in epithems Diosc It bringeth forth the menses and birth Plin. With melilot and butter it cureth the inflammations of the womb and swellings and clefts of the fundament some adde tuttie and oile of roses also With honey and the squams of lead it helps carbuncles in the privities and other wounds therein With ceruse and Womans milk it easeth the gout Marcel So with Wax some adde axunge Goose grease and bulls tallow Plin. The filth of the taile that is hardened into pills being powdered and applied helps the teeth fastens them and helps cankers of the gums aesypus drunk with Wine and a little myrrhe helpeth the Dropsy some adde Goose grease and the oile of myrtles so the sordes of the Dugges Myrepsus maketh a cerot thereof against the gout phlegmons and hardnesse Aetius Aegineta and Dioscorides shew the way of the preparation thereof Schrod The gall applied with wool to the navil looseneth Childrens Bodies and dropped into the eare with Womans milk it
Jay with black feathers bill and legges whitish about the neck with haires about the eye lids They breed in the tops of trees and sometimes joyne with Crows They lay 2. egges they love their young they are scabbed in the summer solstice they fly swiftly and they love the Stork and Crane but hate Owles Crow Corvus P. Desolate humid and high places that are tilled M. Of Corne Apples Cherries and Worms c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Satyra avis Heb. Oreb Arab. Gerabib Crow Aldrov T. the flesh is counted unwholsome they feeding upon dead bodies So for Hawks also V. Drach 1. Of the ashes drunk thrice in a day with the water of Castoreum helps the Epilepsy Philes the egges with myrtles make the haire black so the bloud and braine with black wine Rhas So the fat with rue and oile Ornithol The braine with vervaine water helps the Epilepsy Rhas The gall prevents venery with the oile sesamine Rhas The fume of the same makes the haire white The hearte is said to cause watchfulnesse Plin. Marcel Sext. The dung with wool helps the toothach Plin. And the cough in Children the fume helps the white scald also Kiran. The egges cause abortion Arnold The egges help the spleen with those of a Pigeon applied to the spleen Schrod The ashes of Crows help the gout The description is needlesse Jonst They lay 4. or 5. Egges sit 20. dayes live 40. years and hate Kites Cuckoe Cuculus P. Almost every where in England Holland c. M. Of Flies Birds Flesh Egges and Fruits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Kaath Gugulus Albert. Cuckoe Aristot T. The young are fat and of good taste the flesh is used by the Italians V. Plin. Being applied in a Hares skinne it causeth sleep Some use the dung decoct and drunk against the biting of a mad Dog Rondel The ashes help the paine and moisture of the stomack Schrod And the stone it also helpeth the epileptick and those that have agues being given in the fit the description is uselesse Jonst usually they lay but one egge chiefly in the nest of the Hedg-sparrow which bred some say after doth devour the damme their flights are short interrupted and low Their voice is known They are enemies to birds friends to the Kite Their feathers come off in Winter and they are scabed D. Duck. Anas P. In watery and Fenny places and the like M. Of the roots and seeds af aquatick plants N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pappos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hisp Anáde DUck Aldrov T. The flesh is hot moist grosse hard not easily concocted and excrementitious Gal. It 's harder than that of the Hen or Pigeon yet Archigenes commends it for those that are stomachick Avic It sometimes causeth feavers and descendeth slowly out of the stomack loading the same but if it be concocted it yeeldeth much nourishment nourisheth more than that of other foule making far yet it 's not of so good juyce The best part in them is the wing the liver is good sweet of good juyce but this rather agreeth to Geese It s in moisture like Mutton hotter than that of other domestick soules Mes It 's very moist clarifieth the colour voice helps flatulencies strengthens the body Elluch It 's good for those that are hot young chiefely in the winter It 's hot and moist 2° it 's best rosted with spices Plat. It's hotter than the Goose Jul. Alex. The liver helps fluxes caused by the vice of the liver Alex. Ben. H. the flesh is naught in times of the plague Fracast And for the french pocks Savon Also it causeth nauseousnesse Bruyer Those are worst that are bred in Cities Villanov They are best in autumne but never good for temperate bodies The wild are better than the tame and the young than the old a dayes after killed They are bad for those that are melancholick but good in cold seasons and for those that labour As for the cookery thereof it may be seen in Platina and Apicius Muff. Young Ducks fed with grinded malt are of good nourishment clear the colour help hoarsenesse increase sperme and expel wind V. Marcel The flesh eaten helps the termina so applied alive to Cows Horses or Men. Avic It causeth coiture Gal. The bloud drunk with oile helps against poyson some potions bitings of vipers so Kiran. and Myreps Diosc Therefore it s used in many antidotes as the Diahaematon c. it helps the bleeding of the nostrils and confusions of the eyes being after anointed with Oesypus and honey It stoppeth the belly Serap The fat is hot subtile and better than the rest but this rather agreeth to Goose grease Myreps It 's used in plaisters against the pleuresy With oile of roses it stoppeth bleeding Villanov The dung applied helps venimous bitings The womb is used in the Antidotus Ecloge of Myrepsus against the coeliack passion and spitting of bloud Schrod Applied alive they help the collick The fat heateth moistens softens digesteth and resolveth therefore it 's used in inward and outward griefs sc of the sides joynts and cold distempers of the nerves c. As for the description it may be omitted Jonst They generate in March and are very salacious They sit neere waters They goe showly by reason of the shortnesse of their feet and they are almost of the nature of Geese They shun the Eagle by diving They foretel wind thereby and raine by their noise E. Eagle Aquila P. In Peru. Germany and Polonia and other places M. Of the flesh of Pigeons Geese and Swans c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Nescher Chald. Nisra Arab. Alneser EAgle Aldrov T. The flesh is hard fibrous and excrementitous begetting a black juyce therefore it 's fitter for Medicine than meat so D. Hieron V. The skinne dressed like that of a Swan helps the collick and vices of the stomack The nerves help paines of the nerves and gout The bones help the Hemicrania Those of the scull ease the headach The wings put under the feet accelerate delivery The feet help the pain of the loines The braine drunk in wine helps the jaundise With oile and a little Rosin of Cedar it helps the Scotoma and all affections of the head The tongue helps the incontinencie of urine Being hung about the neck in a linnen cloath it helps the rough arterie vices of the Columella difficulty of breathing and the cough so Gal. the heart is said to drive away wild beasts The powder of the ventricle helps digestion but it emaciats The powder of the liver drunk with the bloud and oxymel 10. dayes helps the Epilepsy Diosc The gall is the strongest of all Gal. It 's used against swellings and suffusions in the eyes An errhine may be made thereof for Children against flatulencies in the head With water it clenseth white spots in the eyes Applied it helps the bitings of the viper and venim of Scorpions The powder of the testicles
way used Ryff So the liquour used with a linnen cloath the holy fire The powder of the egges helps white spots in the eyes Some use the parts dissected to weake joynts others against the nyctilops cardiack passion melancholy of a cold cause and canker in the yard Kiran. The heart with ivy helps the dysury Schrod The powder helps the Epilepsy so the water Q. Quaile Coturnix P. Almost every where in England and Holand c. M. Of Millet Wheat and other Fruits N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Schelau Arab. Salui Currelius QUaile Aldrov T. the flesh being eaten often and largly of they generate grosse pituitous and viscid humours fit for the generating of Epilepsies spasmes c. But if eaten moderately it begets good bloud but such as is apt to putrify if very fat They are most wholesome and best tasted when rosted Manard Muff. In the spring and summer they cause melancholy in Autumne and winter they are too moist they are of small nourishment causing loathing of meat and corruption thereof Muff. Yet when young they are counted a good and dainty diet V. The brain with the myrtle ointment used to the face helps the Epilepsy Kiran. The egges drunk cause lust Kuefn So the fat with hellebore Aetius useth it in pessaries to cause conception Gesn With myrrhe white vitriol and honey it helps the eyes Schrod The dung helps the Epilepsy or falling sicknesse The description is needlesse Jonst They are salacious like the Partridg and breed 4 times in a yeare They fly but little but runne fast their voice is known They love not the Pelican Their chiefe disease is the Epilepsy R. Ring-dove Palumbus P. Almost every where in England c. M. Of Beanes and Acornes and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Guarascen RIng-dove Muff. T. the flesh is good when young of very good taste and nourishment Aldrov Yet some count it excrementitious V. Hipp. The flesh is good for Women that have pituitous menses it drying and binding the belly Gal. It 's harder then that of Pigeons Note here the flesh of Birds is lesse nutrient than that of beasts but more easily concocted especially that of the Partridg Heathcock Pigeon Hen and Cock but that of the Turtle Ring-dove and Duck is harder Paul C. The first place amongst Birds is due to the young Pigeon Heathcock Hen and Pheasant the second to Thrushes Blackbirds and Sparrows the third to Ring-doves and the Duck the fourth to the Peacock and the last to the Goose and Ostrich Mart. The flesh eaten hindereth venery Archig It helps those that are stomachick Tral Also the tympanie Aret. And Elephantiasis and cold and phlegmatick collick Alex. Ben. It 's good in the time of pestilence Hipp. It helps those that have lately conceived and the laxity of the womb as also the lientery Bapt. Port. The eyes help cicatrices and ulcers of the eyes Plin. The flesh boiled with vineger helps the dysentery and coeliack Tormina and contractions of the nerves The bloud is like that of Pigeons and helps the gout The dung operats as that of Pigeons and provokes urine Schrod So the ashes of the feathers and help the jaundies As for their description they are sufficiently known Jonst They generate after 3. months old after the manner of Pigeons They build in trees and lay twice in a yeare 3 egges at a time They live 30 years Their noise is like groaning They are simple and hate adultry S. Sparrow Passer P. Almost every where in England and other places M. Of Corne Seeds and Flies c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Passerculus the Hedg-sparrow Troglodites SParrow Plat. T. the flesh is to be condemned in meat not nourishing well by reason of its too much heate difficulty of concoction and salacity some count it hot and dry 3° Gal. It 's harder than that of Partridges Elluch It bindeth especially if leane but the broth looseneth the belly it 's not good for temperate Bodies Muff. It engendreth hot and aguish bloud The best are the youngest fattest and wildest The Red and Hedg-Sparrows are unwholesome V. Aldrov H. they are naught in feavers yet they may be used in quartans of natural melancholy being eaten when fat they make salacious So Plin. and Marcel Especially the egges and braines so R. Mos Bapt. Port. Avic Hal. c. Some therefore preserve them with honey The flesh is good against the Epilepsy consuming humours by it's siccity and heate Trall It helps the tympany Gal. As also the stone in the reines and vices of the joynts Myrepsus useth the fat in his plaister against hard swellings Rhas The gall applied causeth venery Plin. The dung put into the next eare with warm oile helps the toothach Archig The powder thereof drunk helps the laxation and nausiousnesse of the stomach Kiran. And causeth falacity drunk with wine and applied with lard it helps the Alopecia and breaketh carbuncles Some use the dung in remedies against the worms in Hawkes That of the Hedg sparrow cleanseth the face and extirpats varices applied with mans spitle Plin. The ashes of the flesh drunk with mulse water help the jaundise two spoonfuls being taken those of the young Ones with vineger help the toothach Schrod The Hedg sparrow breaketh and expelleth the stone A few graines of the dung of the other loosen the belly in Children As for the description it 's uselesse Jonst As for their generation they are most salacious copulating 20 times in an houre They build under the tiles of houses or in holes in the wall they live 3 or 4 years They are very fearfull They hate the Vultur and Weasel c. Stare Sturnus P. Almost every where in all Countries M. Of Berries Grapes and almost any thing N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Sarsir Arab. Alzarazir State Aldrov T. Some count the flesh hard not yeelding to the stomack with a kind of a virouse odour especially in the time of hemlock Platina refuseth the use of it yet Galen reckons it amongst meats of good juyce when young and feeding on Mountaines They are best in Autumne so Jul. Alex. Cardan They are to be dressed without their heads Aver They are hot and dry Muff. Yet savory and good against all poyson so Kiran. V. Aldrovand The dung is cosmetick Aeg. It helps the Morphew also it helps Ringworms so Gal. Diosc Serap Porta as appears by its spots It is abstersive and drying So that of the Crocodile but it 's more effectual Kiran. The flesh helps those that have drunk poyson Arnold But hurts the Hemorrhoids Jonst They build almost like Sparrows fly together in a round circle and chiefely in the evening They fear Hawks Storke Ciconia P. In Egypt and Aethiopia and other places M. Of Frogges Snakes and Fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Chasidu Arab. Zakid Storke Aldrov T. the flesh is almost like that of the Crane their flesh is fibrous hard and of bad aliment
than in the Summer they being then fattest So Villanov Gesn V. The ashes of the flesh being burned in an earthen pot help the stone They are taken by nets in Cock shoots Brids lesse used in meat or Medicine CAstrel Tinnunculus Aldrov T. V. Plin. The dung helps white spots in the eyes Clotbird Coccothraustes Aldrov T. The flesh is used in meate it 's sweet grateful and not disaproved of They feed upon Olives and Berries but chiefely on Cherries and their Kernels Curines Arquatae Ornithol i. e. Gesn They are preferd before Hens the flesh is solid dry and almost like that of hares Bell. It 's like that of Deere but it 's a dainty in France Bell. They live on Worms Feldefare Turdus exoticus T. V. Muff. They feed like Thrushes and give almost as good nourishment Yea better when juniper Berries are ripe all their flesh being then perfumed therewith Goldfinch Carduelis T. V. Platin. The flesh if fat and before breeding is of good aliment but Wecker disaproveth of it yet Kiranides useth it rosted against the Iliack and collick passion Godwit Fedoa Muff. T. When fat it 's a light and fine meat they are a fenny fowl and live of Worms about River banks they are plentiful in Lincolneshire Gluts Muff. Glottides T. V. They are of no bad taste or evill nourishment They feed in the fennes upon red feedes bents and wormes Howlet Vlula Aldrov T. V. the flesh being boiled in oile with Sheeps butter and honey helpeth ulcers The gall helps white spots in the eyes suffusions and the dimnesse of fight Plin. So the fat Hickwal Jynx Hieron Trag. T. The flesh is eaten and of no unplesant taste Jay Gracculus Albert. T. the flesh is eaten after excoriation They are eaten by the rusticks in France yet Aldrovand saith little of the taste of the flesh Muff. It 's of bad nourishment causing the Epilepsy they feed upon mast and wormes c. Jack Daw. Monedula Muff. T. The nourishment is as bad as their conditions their feeding is sufficiently known Ibis Albert. T. The flesh and egges are venimous Kiran. But they rather drive away Serpents Plin. The ashes of the flesh drunk help the tormina The feathers resist Serpents The dung is a substitute for the leaves of the wild Fig-tree Lapwing Vannellus Aldrov T. V. Some buy eate and commend the flesh yet Rhasis counts the same anstere V. Marcel The ashes drunk with wine help the Colon a calaplasme thereof helps the bitings of mad Dogs Plin. The heart helps paines of the sides The bloud applied to the temples causeth in sleep to see wonderfull things The fume of the feathers expels worms The tongue helps oblivion The skinne helps the head-ach Rhas The eye helps the Leprosy Martinet Apos Aldrov T. They are not unpleasant when fat the young ones are dear at Bononia Plin. In wine they help the tormina Mavisse Turdela Anglicana Muff. T. When young fat and in season they are wholesome meate They feed upon hawes sloes misle and privet Berries Osprey Haliaetus Aldrov T. The flesh is not in much use V. Plin. The gall with attick honey helps wefts dimnesse and suffusions of the eyes yet some attribute this to that of the common Eagle Ox-eye Parus Major Muff. T. Their flesh is unwholesome they feed as ordinary Titmise doe upon caterpillers blossoms of trees bark-worms and flies Phenicopter Phoenicopteros Aldrov T. The tongue and brain were chiefely used in meat The cookery may be seen in Apicius Percnopter Percnopteros Avic The gall with oile of violets helps the paine of the head As an errhine it helps flatulency in Children The alcohol with cold water helps white spots in the eyes The gall used outwardly helps the bitings of the Scorpion and Viper Diosc Serap The fuffumigation of the dung expels the Foetus Pelecan Pelecanus Aldrov T. The flesh is hard excrementitious and of a strong nature V. Kiran. The gall mixed with nitre whiteneth black cicatrices taking away and cleansing all the blacknesse the same gall whiteneth rusty silver Plover Pluvialis Gesn T. The flesh is very pleasant and better than the green Lapwing Bellon And much eaten in France Muff. It 's best when fat in the winter-time Parret Psittacus Christ. Columb T. The inhabitants of Grachane count the flesh when fatted very acceptable Poole-suite Totanus Muff. T. They have a strong and unpleasant rellish and live wholly upon fish Puffins Pufina Brit. Muff. T. They are of ill taste and worse digestion how dainty soever they seem to strainge appetites and are permitted by Popes to be eaten in Lent Railes Rallae Muff. T. Those of the Land may be placed next the Partridge for their flesh is as sweet as their feeding good and are therefore preferred to noble mens tables The water Railes are preferred in Italy before Thrushes or Quailes They feed upon water-snailes and water-flies and the worms breeding in the roots of reeds they are very sweet and pleasant of taste yeelding a fine and wholesome nourishment Redshanks Erythropodes Muff. These as also Gluts feed in the fennes upon red seeds bents and worms and are of no bad taste or evil nourishment Redlings or water red-shanks feed as water Railes and are of the like nourishment Robin-red brest Rubecula Muff. T. Is esteemed a light and good meat they feed upon Bees Flies Gnats Wallnuts Nuts and crummes of bread Rooks. Corvi leguminales Muff T. They cannot bee ill meat when they are young feeding chiefely upon Corne but their skinne is tough black and bitter Sea Pye Picus marinus D. Cai. T. The flesh is of a bad taste they feed upon Spawn Frogs and Frie of Fish Sea-mew Larus Aldrov T. The flesh is leane black of a stinking smell and almost abominable V. Cael. Aurel. The dry braine smelled to by infants helps the Epilepsy so taken with mulse and vineger by the adult Kiran. It 's of the nature of the King-fisher and the heart facilitats Child birth The venter dry causeth concoction being tasted of Shovelar Platea Muff. T. They are not inferiour to fatted Gulls being dieted with good meat They feed upon Shell-fish Smirings Ochropodes Muff. They are a fine and delicate meat they live in waterish copses with worms Snite Sneppa Albert. T. The flesh is sweet Gesn yet not so good as Partridge Muff. They are of so light digestion and good in temperature that they agree with most mens stomacks especially a month after their first comming they are dryer and worse at their departure they require not so strong a stomach as the Woodcock They live upon worms which they get out of their holes by blowing into them Stone Chatters Arquatulae ter Muff. T. They are of a very good taste and juyce They feed as Witwals Teales and Widgins Querquedulae Muff. T. Commonly they are very fat and sweet of taste much better than wild Ducks or Geese yet suspected of ill juyce by many They feed upon worms herbs roots and seeds Titmouse Parus Aldrov Gesn T.
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
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
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
Schrod Those belonging to rivers are an antidote against all poysons of Serpents being eaten with salt oile and butter and their broth drunk They help against old rigors of the tendons The wine in which the green are killed helps to the loathing of wine Applied alive they help pestilent biles the heate of causons and mitigate the pains of the joynts and quench St. Anthonies fire Their Gargarisme helps the toothach applied to a torminated belly they ease it The heart applied to the back bone helps algid agues and some apply it against the heart to help causons and heate Crat. The liver powdered is good used in quartans The livers of the green help Epilepsies The gall helps the eyes and drach sem of the powder taken helps quartans The fat dropped into the eares helps the pain thereof The sperm called sperniola doth coole constipate thicken ease pain help the itch of the hands in March kills creeping ulcers helps the Paronychia it helps the erysipelas burnings and other inflammations It helps the rednesse of the face flux of the menses and hemorrhoids put into the womb or fundament The ashes of Frogges stop bleeding in wounds or the nostrils the fume helps hemorrhages of the nostrils it helps the alopecia with tarre Drach 1. taken helps the gonerrhoea The water of the sperm helps the bladder exulcerated by the acrimony of humours also it repelleth and stoppeth bloud helps rednesse of the face and cureth ringworms the erysipelas and gangreens French the compound helps all paines and hot and cold swellings The powder of the sperm helps malignant ulcers and all inflammations Jonst They of the Sea as to their description are all head and taile their mouth is great teeth many and sharp jaws semicircular the tongue longer than the upper jaw and eyes large in the top of the head Kircher Art Magnet They have a kind of finne in the midst of their nose They live alone and amongst stones where they lie with open mouth seeming to have a worm therein which the Fish seeing are taken by them So they are call'd Piscatrices G. Grailing Thymallus P. In cold frigid and gravelly waters M. They live upon aquatile insects N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aschiar Thymus piscis Temarus GRailing Gesn T. They are to be preferred before Trouts Salv. They are tender and sapid and therefore dearer than other Fishes especially in May. They are also very wholesome and therefore prescribed by Physitians to their patients in steed of saxatile Fishes Plat. They are good fried Gesn But the fatter are better tasted when rosted Salv. And the greater are best boiled and eaten with butter V. Gesn Ms. Germ. The gall is used in diseases of the eares as that of the Eele and Tench for being dropped in it breaks the pellicles cureth fluxions and killeth worms Salv. The fat dropped in helps deafenesse and wounds Gesn It helps the eyes lippitude rednesse heate and wefts a drop being dropped in dayly The fat helps spots in the eyes and adustions and marks of the pocks so Schrod It 's a kind of Troute Groundlin Aphya P. About Rocks in many places in the Sea M. They live by licking one an other N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apua Hepsetus Liparis Genitura Groundlin Rond T. They yeeld a moist aliment Athen. And are flatulent being of unequal concoction Mnesith They loosen the belly and are to be eaten sodden The Phalerick is very fat which serves for lamps Jonst They are generated of putrified mud and showers They swim together in great sholes that make the water white They are taken with fine nets Gudgin Gobius P. Almost every where in England c. M. Of Worms Cad-worms and Grubbes c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cobio Gobio Cothus Gudgin Muff. T. They are either white and little or else bigger and blacker yet both are as a Perch but the yellowish are dry leane unseasonable Gal. They are much to be commended being short pleasant in taste fat friable soon concocted nourishing much and increasing good bloud and of a mean juyce and softer than Mullets The best live about Rocks but those that live in fennes and lakes are not wholesome Hices They generate much but not good juyce they are easily evacuated and nourish not much The white are better than the black the yellow are of a more hollow substance lesse corruptible of thinner juyce and not so copious and by reason of their largenesse are more nourishing Aet They are good in the collick from cold and pituitous humours yeelding much aliment and strength to the body V. Aeg. The Marine being sodde loosen the belly Kiran. So the fluviatile with salt or milk Sym. Seth. If rosted and without salt they help dysenteries lienteries and painful egestions Diosc Applied they help the bitings of mad Dogs and Serpents Schrod Nicand Being eaten they help against dorycnium Diocl. Saxatil fishes yeeld a dry aliment but solid and corpulent Muff. Sea Gudgions called Paganelli and by some Sea-cobs are a most sound light wholesome and nourishing meat They are brought to Exceter Groundlings called Funduli are of the same nature Guilt-head Aurata P. About Berenice and the Seas M. Of Flesh and Shell-fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orata Chrysos Joniscus Guilt-head Hices Athen. T. They are the sweetest of all Fishes and most acceptable to the Pallat. Mnesith They are hardly concocted but if so they yeeld much aliment Rondel They are of a midle flesh good juyce and a little harder than Saxatile fishes the best are the Marine in France they boile them in water and wine or vineger some adde oile Saffron Pepper and Raisins or they may be rosted with oile and vineger often sprinkled thereon See Plat. and Apic. Muff. Those call'd Lucernae or Golden-Poles are almost like the Gurnard Gal. But of harder digestion Jonst As for their description they seldome exceed 10 l. their back is of a ceruleous blackish colour the sides silver coloured the belly milkie the upper part of the eyes golden The fore teeth are long They breed in the summer neere the mouths of Rivers And they are taken by bows placed on the Sand. H. Herring Halec P. In the Baltick Ocean and Germany M. Some say they live only on the water N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Halecus Harengus HErring Aldrov T. They have a fat and soft flesh Being fried fresh in butter they are very delicate and much desired by the Hollanders some use them the back bone being taken out with Onions Apples Vineger and Oile they are eaten also rosted or broiled after watering being salted Schrod V. their animae taken provoke urine The salted applied whole to the soles of the feet draw humours from the head ease feaverish heate and the ashes break the stone The pickle is used in clysters in paines of the hips and dropsy it cleanseth foetid ulcers and helps gangreens quinsies and botches Horn-beake Acus P. They live in the salt waters M. Their meate
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
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
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
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-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
is not observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ablennes Acicula Horn-beake Diph. T. That of Aristotle is of hard concoction moist and of good juyce though Hicesius saith they are juycelesse Alex. Ben. They are good in the time of pestilence Rond The vulgar hath a dry and hard flesh V. Gal. The ashes of the Marine drunk help the flux of urine Kiran. Whole with the Irine unguent it inspissats and the ashes help diseases by the whale or wounds That of Oppian is soft or moist being fried and irrorated with the juyce of an Orange it is gratefull to the pallat Jonst As for the description the first is long sc of one cubit a finger thick and of a yellow colour with a little head long nose eyes little gills on each side and ventricle in the midle also they bring forth egges K. Keeling Milvus P. They live in the Seas onely M. Of flesh though without teeth N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Milvago 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Landola KEeling Muff. T. They differ in nothing but in name from Cod. Aldrov The flesh is unpleasant Athen. Harder than the Gurnard but if any will eate them they are better boiled than rosted V. Rond The gall helps suffusions in the eyes Jonst They are like Kites as to their description L. Lamprey Lampetra P. They live in the Sea and Rivers M. Of water and mosse and the like N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alabeta Galexia Lumbricus marinus LAmpreys and Lamprons Muff. T. Differ in bignesse only and in goodnesse both are a sweet and nourishing meat increasing lust through much nourishment but they are evil even for strong stomachs and quickly cause furfeits Vid. Polyd. Virg. L. 11. H. they are best in March and April being then sattest in the summer they are harder and leaner They are to be well sod or baked else they are of hard and very dangerous digestion H. they are hurtfull for those that are old gouty aguish and troubled in their sinewey parts The Italians beate them on the taile till almost dead then gagge their mouth with a whole Nutmeg and stop every oilet hole with a clove and then cast them into oile and Malmsey with crummes of bread a few Almonds blancht and minced to correct and better their flesh These are best baked and the Lamprons broiled The best are those in Severns being whiter purer sweeter fatter and of lesse malignity Alex. B. it 's of good juyce and to be preferd before all Fish Albert. But it 's rather unwholesome and to be seasoned with spices Aldrov The flesh of that called Muraena is in a Mediocrity Aet They are difficultly concocted and cause inflations and bad humours Their dressing may be seene in Apicius V. Kiran. eaten with broth they help the Nephritick Leprosy and Scabs with Pepper Plin. The teeth worn help breeding of the teeth also their ashes with honey help lichens and the Leprosy Marcel The ashes of their skinnes applied to the forehead with vineger help paines of the head Jonst As for their description they are about 2. cubits long Salv. They are about 12. pounds weight They live in the Sea about petrose places and the mouths of Rivers They live with flesh When taken they are said to fly at the fishers They hate the Locust Polypus and Conger c. Lobster Locusta marina P. In the Sea and in most places M. Of little Fishes and Congers c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gammarus Lobster Muff. T. They are of a strong and hard flesh and hard of concoction The belly claws and upper parts are most tender and the taile parts tough When they are seething their mouth and lower vent should be stopped with towe that they may be more pleasant in taste They are for strong stomachs The least are tenderest and the middle sized best flesht the greater are old and tough and hardly concocted They come in season with the Buck and goe out with the Does comming in Also they are best in the full of the Moon Clove and gilly-floure vinger is their best sauce also buttered with vineger and Pepper they give a strong nourishment to an indifferent stomach They are best when their spawn lieth greatest in their head Hipp. They purge childing Women Sim. Seth. The ashes of the shells drunk with pure Wine purge the reines from the stone So Jonst Lumps Orbes P. In the septentrional Ocean M. Their meat is not observed N. Orchis Lumpus Angl. Aldrov Batus rotundus Lumps Muff. T. They are crude raw and phlegmatick meat like a Thorne-back half sodden They are best being boiled and pickled like a Sturgian and so eaten cold Jonst They are round as to their description and without scales M. Mackrel Scombrus P. They live in the Ocean and Mediterranian Sea M. They feed neere sandy shores N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Piscis Iberus Macarellus MAckrel Diph. T. It 's a light Fish and quickly descendeth from the stomach Hices It nourisheth much and is of better juyce than the Colias but lesse easily evacuated Arnold But they are rather no wholesome fish being grosse viscous hardly concocted excrementitious and are not therefore to be used except by young strong men and with sauces that may correct their viscous and thick juyce Tral H. they are naught for those that are troubled with the Epilepsy Athen. They are fat but load the stomach and are best broiled Muff. They have a suffocating substance and are offensive to the brain head and breast though pleasant to the taste and acceptable to the stomach yet they cause drousinesse in the best stomachs and apoplexies palsies lethargies or dulnesse of sense and sinewes in them that are weake Tral They hurt those that are phlegmatick or obstructed They are best sod in wine vineger with mints parsly rosemary and time and if after they be kept in pickle made of Rhenish wine ginger pepper and dill they are dainty and wholesome but worst buttered The French lay them upon southernwood and broil them basting them with wine and butter and so serve them in with vineger pepper and butter as hot as may be which lessens their malignity and increaseath their goodnesse V. Aelian Being eaten they help those that are troubled with the liver and jaundise The pickle dropped in warm helps all diseases of the eares Being putrified in vineger they help the suffocation of the womb As for their description it is needlesse they being common Maides Raiolae P. The place of their living and abode is in the Sea M. Of Flesh Livers and Spawns of Fish N. Their names are not much observed Maides Muff. T. Are as little and tender Skates They are very nourishing and of good juyce fit for weak stomachs and those that have through wantonnesse spoiled themselves They are to be boiled in wine water and salt with a sprig of rosemary and then to be eaten with vineger pepper and sweet butter Note these as also the Skate Thornback amongst Fishes bring forth