conception It is good against the pain of the breast healeth Ruptures cures Convulsions and pains of the side stirreth up Venery taken with Wine and Honey cures venome and the stinging of venomous Beasts therefore 't is used in Antidotes It is good in the Dropsie Gout Palsie and taketh away the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Electuary Trosses Pills c. Trosses against the Hickop Take of Costus Saffron Roses Mastich Spikenard in powder of each halfe an ounce Asarum in powder two drams Aloes and Opium of each a dram with the juice of Fleawort make little Trosses Take a dram at a time Stocher prax cap. 32. fol. 166. The outward use It is used with Oyle to annoynt the body before the cold fit of Agues to warm it as also against the coldnesse and weaknesse of the finews and the Sciatica or Hip-Gout Used with Water and Honey it amendeth the discolouring or blemishes of the skin it helpeth the Mother and cold Diseases of the Womb as well by bathing as suming Being made into powder and cast into moist Wounds and Sores it dryeth up the moisture thereof The hurtfull quality Hot and dry bodies must not be too busie with Costus for that is proper only for cold and moist bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a dram to a dram and a halâ—e Compounds made of Costus 1. Electuary Caryo â—ostinum 2. Piluâ—â—e Mato costinae 3. Oyle if Costus CHAP. XXI De Croco Of Saffron SAffron is a Drug so common that 't is needlesse to describe it The Names It is called in Latine Crocus and Crocum in English Saffron The Temperament Saffron is hot in the second degree and dry in the first The best kinde The best is that which is new well coloured and hath the tops of it a little white in the very end long tough not soon brayed of a most fragrant smell which being moistned dyeth the hand and being tasted it coloureth the spittle and staineth the teeth The Duration It will keep good saith Platearius five years if it be kept in a bag of Leather but Plinie saith it is best to keep it in a box of horne Plin. Nut. lib. 21. cap. 20. The inward use Saffron is profitable for the Head Stomach Heart Liver Spleen Bladder Womb Animall Vitall and Naturall spirits It is usefull in cold Diseases of the Brain and Nerves quickens the memory and senses doth much comfort the heart and recreateth the spirits and makes them chearfull that use it therefore 't is called Corhominis the heart of man and when we see a man over-merry we have a Proverb Dormivit in sacco croci he hath slept in a bag of Saffron It expells venomous vapours from the heart and therefore is very usefull in the Plague Pestilence and Small Pox strengthneth the stomach preserveth the entralls helpeth concoction and naturall heat it is very profitable for the Lungs and Phthifis or consumption of the Lungs and shortnesse of the breath therefore by some it is called Anima pulmonum the soule of the Lungs It is good in the Pleurisie openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Gall therefore is usefull in the Jaundise and against Melancholly provoketh Urine and Venus hastneth Child-birth is procures a good colour to them that use it and drives away drunkennesse as Authours say but I rather believe it hasteneth drunkennesse by fuming up to the Brain for 't is apparent that it provokes sleep and drowsinesse It is profitable in fits of the Mother especially the tincture thereof It is best for old persons such as are flegmatick and melancholick and that in the winter season The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Potions c. A Powder to bring away the Birth or After-Birth Take Saffron Cinamon of each a dram make them in Powder and give it in Posset-drink Or Take of Saffron a scruple of Cassia lignea a dram make them into Powder and give it as before A Potion for the same Take of Saffron in powder a dram of Mithridate two scruples or a dram dissolve them in sweet Wine and give it Against shortnesse of breath Take of Saffron in powder a scruple of Musk in powder a graine give them in Wine Against a Rheume that is ready to suffocate and shortnesse of Breath Take of the juice of Ocymum or Basill halfe an ounce of Saffron in powder a scruple Musk a graine mix them together and take it To expell the Small Pox or Measells Take of Saffron in powder five graines ten graines or more give it in Posset-drink The outward Vse It is outwardly used against the Gout to ease the paine thereof being mixed with the yelk of an Egge and Oyle of Roses and applied A Cataplasme or Pultis made of Saffron Milke and the crums of Bread being applied mollifieth Tumours and Aposthumes It easeth soar eyes and blood-shotten being used with red Roses and the white of an Egge Being mixed with red Rose-water and Womans milk it preserveth the eyes from the Small Pox and Measles it is used against Erysipelas or Wild-fire and inflamations it helpeth deafnesse if it be mixed with Oyle of bitter Almonds and put into the ear warm or dip black Wool in some of it and put it into the ears It killeth the Itch and is used in Pultisses for the Matrix and Fundament to ease the pain thereof and also for old Swellings and Aches Against a vehement paine of the head Take Saffron Gum Arabicke Euphorbium Myrrhe and Nutmeg in powder of each two drams mix them with the white of an Egge and apply it to the Fore-head and Temples A Collyrie for the paines of the eyes and to stay defluxion of humours Take of Saffron two drams red Roses halfe an ounce Gum Arabick three drams Opium and Spikenard of each a dram Rose-water or Plantaine-water halfe a pint or more make a Collyrie and wash the eyes often with it An Oyntment against the Piles and the Disease called a Fig in the Fundament Take the yelk of an Egge and an ounce of Oyle of Roses beat them well together then add white Sugar and white Sugar-Candy in powder halfe an ounce Saffron in powder two scruples Apply it to the Fundament and if the pain be more inward dip a piece of linnen cloath in it and put it up The hurtfull quality Saffron causeth head-ach offendeth the brain and senses brings drowsinesse and hurts the fight it causeth a loathing of the stomach and takes away the appetite and provokes laughter especially being taken in too great a quantity Vid. Rudolph Camerar syllog memorab med cent 3. cap. 44. fol. 167. Some write that if two or three drams thereof be taken it brings death It is not safe to give it to women with Child The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a scruple and a halfe but for Children the Dose must be lesse Of such Medicines as are made of Saffron 1. Tincture or
that have the consumption of the Lungs or Ulcers in the Lungs or have coughs that come of heat The greatest Plantain is counted by some the best The decoction or powder of the roots or seed is much more binding for all the purposes aforesaid then the herbe and helpeth Agues The seed made into powder and mixed with the yolk of an Egg and some wheat-flower and made into a cake and baked doth stay any flux of the stomach and vomiting It is a singular good wound-herb The herb but especially the seed which is of more subtile parts is likewise held to be profitable against the Dropsie Falling Sickness yellow Jaundise and the stoppings of the Liver or Reins the powder of the dried leaves taken in drink killeth the Worms in the belly It must be eaten warm for certain dayes together The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use The juice or the herb stayeth the bleeding of the Nose or the bleeding of Wounds the clarified juice or the water thereof dropped into the eyes cooleth the heat thereof as also cureth the Pin and Web therein dropt into the eares easeth the pains thereof helpeth deafness the same also is very profitably applyed with juice of Housleek against all inflammations breakings out in the skin against burnings or scaldings by fire or water the juice or the decoction is good for old or hollow ulcers for Cancers sores in the mouth or privy parts of man or woman and helpeth also the pains of the Piles and Fundament the juice mixed with Oile of Roses and the temples and forehead anointed therewith easeth the pains of the head proceeding from heat and helpeth frantick and lunatick persons very much as also the bitings of Serpents or of a mad Dog the same also is profitably applyed to all hot Gowts in the hands or feet especially in the beginning to cool the heat and represse the humours it is also good to be applyed where any bone is out of joynt to hinder inflammations swellings and pains that presently rise thereupon A decoction of the leaves killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers The roots of Plantaine and Pellitory of Spain beaten together and put into hollow teeth taketh away the pains therein one part of Plantaine-water and two parts of the brine of powdered beef boiled together and clarified is a most sure remedy to heal all spreading â—cabs and Itch in the head or body all manner of Tetters or Ring-wormes the Shingles and all other running and fretting sores The leaves are very good to heale fresh or old Wounds and Sores as also to make a water or lotion for a sore mouth or throat or for sores of the privy parts of Man or Woman A Pultis to ease the pains of the Hemorrhoides Take a handful or two of green Plantain-leaves bruise them well and with Linseed-oile make a pultis and apply it An ointment against Burnings or Scaldings with fire Water Lead Tinne c. Take of the juice of Plantain Housleeck and Comfrey the lesser of each four ounces sheeps dung dessolved in the foresaid juices two ounces sheeps suet a pound Boil them together at a gentle fire into due height then strain and reserve it The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for cold constitutions The Dose The leaves roots and seeds are given from halfe a dramme to a dramme Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrup of the juice CHAP. 145. De Portulaca of Purslane The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Portulaca in English Purslane and Porcelane It is cold in the third degree and moist in the second The duration It is rarely dried but used green The inward use It is good to cool any heat in the Liver Bloud Reines and Stomach and in hot Agues nothing better it stayeth also hot and cholerick fluxes of the belly as also of Womens courses the Whites and Running of the Reines the distillations from the head and the pains therein proceeding of heat want of rest or the Frensie the seed is more effectuall then the herb and singular good to cool the heat and sharpnesse of urine and the outragious lust of the body venereous dreams and the like the seed bruised and boiled in Wine and given to children that have the Worms expelleth them the juice of the herbe is held as effectuall for all the purposes aforesaid as also to stay vomitings and taken with some Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry cough shortnesse of breath and the Tissick and to stay an immoderate thirst taken upon extream heat The distilled water of the herb is used with Sugar and worketh to the same effect The herb is generally used in Sallets in the heat of the yeer to cool and temper the bloud and hot and fainting stomachs and is good for them to use that have the Falling Sicknesse and also for those that have their teeth on edge by eating sowre Apples or the like The juice helpeth spitting of bloud The syrup of Purslane is good for the afore-said disease The juice made into pils with the powder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabick and taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloudy water The manner of administring it It is given in juice or the feeds in powder or in decoction The outward use The juice is singular good in the inflammations and ulcers of the secret parts in man or woman and for the Piles being applyed thereto The herb bruised and applyed to the fore-head and temples allayeth excessive heat therein causing want of rest and sleep and applyed to the eyes taketh away the rednesse and inflammations in them and those other parts where Pushes Wheals Pimples Saint Anthonies fire and the like break forth especially if a little Vineger be put to it and being laid to the neck with as much of Galls and Lindseed together taketh away the pains herein and the crick in the neck the juice also is used with Oile of Roses for the said causes or for Blastings by Lightning and for burnings by Gunpowder or otherwise as also for womens sore breasts upon the like hot causes and to allay the heat in all other sores or hurts it is said also to stay the spreading of venomous Serpents bitings and to draw forth the poyson Applyed also to the navel of children that stick forth it helpeth them it is good also for sore mouthes and sore Gums when they are swolne to fasten loose teeth The distilled Water saith Cameraius used by some took away the pain of their teeth when all other remedies failed The herb bruised and applyed easeth the hot Gowt the juice put up into the fundament with a Glister-pipe helpeth the ulcerations and flux of the guts It taketh away Warts being bruised and applyed The hurtfull quality The over-frequent use of Purslane extinguisheth the heat and vertue of natural procreation weakneth the stomach and hurteth the sight it is hurtful also
to aged persons and to cold and flegmatick persons The Dose The seed is given from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water syrup both simple and compound CHAP. 146. De Prassio of Horehound The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Prassium Marrubium in English Horehound It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The duration It will keep good a yeer being dryed The inward use A decoction of the dried herbe with the seed or the juice of the green herb taken with Honey is a remedy for those that are pursie and short-winded for those that have a Cough and for such as by long sicknesse or thin distillations of Rheume upon the Lungs are wasted and faln into a Consumption it helpeth to bring away tough flegme from the chest being taken with the dried root of Orris It is given to women to bring down their courses and to expel the after-birth as also to them that have sore and long travels and is good also against poison or stinging of venomous beasts it helpeth the pains of the side openeth the stoppings both of Liver and Spleene kils Wormes and is good for such as have the Itch Scab or running sores The syrup of Horehound is used for old Coughs to bring away tough flegme as also for old men and others whose Lungs are oppressed with thin and cold Rheume and for those that are short-winded The manner of administring it It is chiefly given in decoction see the first Chapter The outward use The leaves used with Honey do purge foule ulcers stay running sores and the growing of the flesh over the nails the juice thereof with Wine and Honey helpeth to cleer the eye-sight and snuffed up into the nostrils helpeth to purge away the yellow Jaundise and either of it self or with a little Oile of Roses being dropped into the eares easeth the pains of them the green leaves bruised and boiled with old Hogs Lard into an ointment healeth the bitings of Dogs abateth the swellings of womens breasts and taketh away the swelling and pains that come by any pricking of thorns or any such like thing Used with Vineger it cleanseth and healeth Tetters the decoction thereof is a singular help for women that are troubled with the Whites if they sit over it while it is warm the same also healeth any Scabs whether dry or moist if the places be bathed therewith The hurtfull quality It hurteth the Bladder and the Reins and must not be used in hot and dry bodies if Raisons and Licorish be used therewith it is lesse hurtful The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty grains Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water thereof Syrup of Horehound Species Diaprassii CHAP. 147. De Pulmonaria of Lung-wort The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Pulmonaria of the likenesse of the form which it hath with Lungs or Lights and also Lichen arborum in English Lung-wort and Wood Liver-wort It is cold and dry The inward use It is used against the diseases of the Lungs for Coughs Wheesings and shortnesse of breath also against spitting of bloud and pissing of bloud it stayeth the Reds in Women and stoppeth the fluxes of the belly and stayeth vomiting The shepherds do give it to their sheep with Salt that be troubled with the Cough and be broken-winded and they give it also to other cattel for the same purpose The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use It is commended for bloudy and green wounds and is very profitably put into Lotions that are made to stay the moist humours that flow to Ulcers and hinder their healing as also to wash all other Ulcers in the secret parts of man or woman The Dose The Dose of the powder is from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 148. De Raphano of Radish The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Raphanus in English Radish and Reddish Garden Radish is hot in the third degree and dry in the second the Horse Radish is hot and dry in the third degree The duration Radish-roots especially Horse Radish may be kept a yeer or two The inward use The Garden and horse-Radish are in use but chiefly the latter and is excellent against the paines of the Reines Bladder and Stone provoketh much Urine and helpeth to separate the gravell from the stone and to expell it being boiled with Honey and Vineger into an electuary it is also a good remedy in strong bodies both for the Cough the Tissick and other diseases of the Lungs as also to provoke womens courses The same steeped in Oxymel three dayes causeth vomit and is commended against the quarta ne Ague the juice given in drink is held to be very effectuall for the Scurvey it killeth Wormes helpeth the Collick and Jaundise and bringeth away the after-birth The distilled water of the herb and roots is often taken with a little Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use The roots bruised and applyed to the belly of Children killeth wormes the same also laid to the place grieved with the Sciatica Joynt-ach or the hard swellings of the Spleen and Liver doth wonderfully help them all the root stamped with the meale of Darnell and a little White Wine-Vineger taketh away all blew and black spots of the face being thereto applied The hurtfull quality Radish hurteth the Braine causeth sharp and soure belchings oppresseth the stomach ingenders raw humours and much winde raiseth up noisome fumes which are hurtful to the Eyes and head Being often eaten it wasteth the teeth The dose The root in powder is given from a scruple to thirty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrup of Radish CHAP. 149. De Rapis of Turneps The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Rapum Rapa in English Turnep and Rape They are hot in the second degree and moist in the first The inward use Turneps well boiled and eaten moderately nourish meetly well increase milk in womens breasts and naturall seed provoke Urine and sharpen the sight A decoction of Turneps being taken is good against the Cough Consumption and hoarsenesse being taken morning and evening with Sugar or clarified Honey but especially if the liquor be made into a syrup and so taken morning and evening The seeds of Turnep resisteth poyson therefore are used in Antidotes provoke Venerie and expell out the malignity of the small Pox and Measels The oile of the seeds is given to women against their after-paines and to children against the worms The manner of administring them They are used in decoction Syrup or eaten with Butter and Vineger The outward use Oile of Roses put into a Turnep made hollow for the purpose and then rosted in Embers healeth the kibed-heels being thereto applied the decoction also of
say it vvill keep good ten years The inward use Sene purgeth chiefly and primarily melancholy afterward thick flegme and other humours from the spleen Mesenterie and entrals also from the brain lungs liver and heart It is very profitable in obstructions of the spleen and Hypochonders and against hard swellings thereof as also in chronicall Agues whether quartaine or quotidian It is a singular remedy against melancholy the Falling-Sicknesse and foul diseases of the skin as in scab itch leprosie elephansie c. It quickens the senses both of seeing and hearing takes away the cause of sadnesse and melancholy and is usefull in madnesse in the frensie c. It causeth a fresh quick and lively habit of the body and cleanseth and purifieth the blood It is given also in all head-aches and palsies Sene is a very safe medicine and may be given to old men women with childe delicate bodies and children The manner of administring it It is given in substance in decoction or by infusion which last is the best way In substance Take of Sene of Alexandria a dram or a dram and a half make it in powder and give it in posset-drink or mace-drink In Decoction Take of Sene one ounce Anise-seed Carraway-seed Ginger of each a dram Licoris two drams Currents and Raisons of the Sun of each an ounce make a gentle decoction hereof in a sufficient quantity of water and strain it The Dose is from two ounces to foure ounces In infusion Take of Sene an ounce Raisons of the Sun half an ounce Anise-seed Citron-seed of each a dram make an infusion on hot embers in Fennel water for the space of five or six hours then strain it and give the clearest Or Take of the fore-mentioned infusion four ounces Confectio Hamech two drams and a halfe syrupe of Roses one ounce make a Potion and give it against melancholy Or thus for the poorer sort Take of Sene half an ounce Borrage-flowers and Rose-leaves of each half a dram Ginger half a dram let them be macerated or steeped in Whey or Posset-drink for the space of six or seven houres then strain it and being sweetned with Sugar give it to drink If you add three or four grains of Diagredium to the same it will be the more effectuall Weichard de Med. nunnul praepar f. 92. Note that â—ene doth better purge the body when it is infused then when it is decocted or boiled for this is certain that Sene being boiled doth much binde the body after the taking of it and Sene will not endure any long boiling The outward use The Lie wherein Sene and Cammomile-flowers are boiled is commended for weak brains to comfort and strengthen them as also for the sight and hearing if the head be washed therewith the same Lie is very profitable for the sinews that are stiffe with cold or shrunk with Cramps it helpeth also the Itch in the body and hands if they be washed therewith The hurtfull quality with the corrective means Because Sene is judged by many to be windy and to offend the stomach therefore it is corrected with Ginger Cloves Galingall Anise-seed or Cynamon It is excellent to infuse it in Whey or Posset-drink Also it may be given with fat broth of a Cock with the decoction of Prunes Jujubes Raisons Marsh-mallows or with Manna and Cassia or Polypodium Violet-flowers Borrage c. In hot Diseases inâ—use it in Whey or Posset-drink in cold diseases infuse it in Water of Fumitory or Wine for being steept in Wine it doth not offend the stomach Schyronius saith that Sene â—s hurtful to the bladder and Wombe especially if there be any Ulcer there Schyron Meth â—ed f. 107 116. The Dose The Dose in powder is from a dram to two drams in decoction from three drams to six drams in infusion from half an ounce to an ounce The compound Medicines made of Sene. Pulvis Senae Montagnan Syrup of the leaves of Sene. Syrupus de Pomis Reg. Saboris Electuarium Diabalsemer seu Elect. Senatum R. nâ—d Passulae laxativa Extract of Sene. Elect. de Sena Nicolas Confectio Hamech Whether Sene offend the stomach and be a griping and windy â—edicine Although some hold that Sene doth offend the stomach especially being weak yet in regard that it is somewhat bitter and partaking of heat and drynesse it doth rather strengthen and profit the stomuch then weaken and offend it Now that after the taking of Sene in some bodies especially in Women and flegmatick persons gripings do follow is not denied but this comes not from the flatulency or windinesse of the Sene but by accident in drawing grosse and flegmatick humours to the bowels and there causeth these gripings especially where the passages are much stopt Fernel Meth. l. 5. f. 115. â—reitag Aur. Med. f. 264. Sennert Instit f. 959. Matthiol Comment in lib. 3. Diascor f. 521. CHAP. 61. De Soldanella of Seabinde-weed SEabinde-weed is an herbe grovving neer the Sea having many small branches somewhat red trailing or lying upon the ground beset with small and round leaves not much unlike Asarabacca but smaller the flowers come forth like a bell of a bright red incarnate colour the seed is black and groweth in round cods the root is small and long The names In Latine Soldana Soldanella Convolvulus marinus in English Seabinde-vveed Seacavvl Seacoale Sea-vvith-vvinde because the branches winde themselves and the flowers are so like the small kinde of Binde-weed that it growes naturally neer the Sea-coasts It is called also Sea-beâ—ls for the likenesse of the flowers and some call it Sea-fole-foot for the resemblance of the leaves and Scottish scurvy-grasse The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use Binde-weed purgeth chiefly water and flegme also therefore it is very usefull and profitable in the Dropsie and openeth the obstructions or stoppings of the liver and killeth wormes It hath two excellent properties the one is that it wonderfully draweth away watery humours the other that it corroborates or strengtheneth the liver The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Decoction Pils c. A Powder against the Dropsy Take of Sea-bindeweed a scruple Hermodactyles halfe a scruple Turbith and Diagredium of each seven graines Ginger and Cynamon of each four graines make a powder hereof and adde oile of Fennell and oile of Anise-seed of each two drops mix them together and give it in Posset-drink A Potion against the Dropsie Take of Sea-bindeweed a handfull Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Anise-seed a dram make a decoction in the broth of a cock straine it and adde syrupe of Pumitarie an ounce of the electuary Diaturbith two drams make a potion and give it The outward use The powder of the dried herbe is used to bring or raise up flesh in deep and hollow Ulcers helping also to heal them The juice also not pressed but issuing forth of its own
against all hard swellings and paines or aches shrinking of the sinews or Cramps or paines in the joynts or any other part of the body and helpeth to dissolve winde and paines in the belly used in Glysters for that purpose anoynted also it helpeth Stitches and paines in the side A Potion to procure rest and sleepe Take Camomill and Marshmallowes of each three handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water let the Patients Thighs Legs and Feet be washed therewith for a quarter of an houre before the time orest Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyle both by distillation and by infusion Salt CHAP. 87. De Capillo veneris of Common Maidenhaire The Names IT is called in Latine Capillaris and Capillus Veneris in English Maidenhaire and common Maidenhaire The Temperament It is temperate in heate and coldnesse opening and cleansing The Duration It will keepe good being dry a yeare or longer The inward use It is of singular use against the Diseases of the Brest the Liver and Reines especially the decoction thereof drunke helpeth the Cough shortnesse of breath the yellow Jaundise stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and urine helpeth to break the Stone provoketh the courses and stayeth both bleedings and Fluxes of the Stomack and belly especially when the herbe is dry for being green by the thinness of the parts it looseneth the belly causeth choller fleagm to be voided both from the Stomach and Liver and by freeing the Stomach by spitting it out wonderfully cleanseth the Lungs and by rectifying the Liver and Blood causeth a good colour to the whole body it is said also to resist and to cure the bitings of venemous creatures and to cure Ruptures The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The herbe boyled in Oyle of Camomill dissolveth knots allayeth swellings and dryeth up moist Ulcers the lye made thereof is singular good to cleanse the head from Scurfe and either dry or running sores stayeth the falling of the hayrâ— and causeth them to grow thick faire and well coloured for which purpose some boyle it in wine putting some Smallage seed thereto and afterwards some Oyle The Dose The Dose in powder is from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe of Maidenhaire both simple and compound CHAP. 88. De Caprifolio of Hony Succles The Names IT is called in Latine Caprifolium and Periclymenum in English Woodbinde and Hony-succle The Temperament It is hot and attenuating or making thin and not colde The inward use It is of a cleansing resolving consuming and digesting quality as Hyssope Origanum and such like therefore used in decoctions with Figs and Licorish they expectorat fleagme from the Lungs and Chest wherewith they are filled The flowers and leaves are of more use then the seeds which is said to consume the Spleene and to procure a womans speedy delivery helpeth shortnesse of breath and cureth the Hicket they also cause barrennesse in women and make men unable to generation The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction as in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The leaves or flowers in powder or the distilled water of them is commended to dry up foule and moist Ulcers and to cleanse the face and skin from Morphew Sunburne Freckles and other discolourings of the skin The Oyle wherein the flowers have beene infused and sunned is good against Cramps convulsions of the Sinews and Palsies and any other benumming cold griefe A water for wounds Take Honysuccle Sage Celandine of each a handfull boyle them in eight pints of running water to a halfe then adde to the strained Liquor a pound of Hony set them on the fire and take off the scumme so long as any will rise then adde thereto of Roch Allum in powder foure ounces graines of Paradise bruised one ounce boyle them a little then straine and reserve it The hurtfull quality The Decoction thereof being drunke sixe dayes together will make the urine as blood although at the first they will but provoke urine onely neither are they good for inflamations of the mouth and throat but hurtfull therein as the burning heate of the leafe doth manifest The Dose The seeds are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things that are made thereof The distilled water Syrup of the flowers CHAP. 89. De Cardamomis of Cardamomes The Names and kindes THere are chiefly two sorts of Cardamoms the greater called in Latine Cardamomum majus and the lesser called Cardamomum minus The Temperament They are hot and dry in the third degree The Duration They will keep good two or three years some say ten yeares The inward use Cardamomes breake the Stone provoke urine when it is stopped or passeth with paine resisteth poyson and the sting of Scorpions and other venemous creatures They are good against the Falling-sicknesse the Cough the broad wormes and the gripings of the bowells and expelleth winde powerfully both from the Stomach and entrailes easeth those that by falls or beatings are bruised and broken those that have loose and weak sinews and the paine of the Sciatica or Hip gout It doth wonderfully strengthen the Stomach and helpe Concoction They are put in many of our compositions Cordialls Antidotes and such like The manner of Administring it They are given in powder Electuary and Decoction The outward use Being boyled in Vineger or steeped therein and used it is good against Scabs and Tetters A fume thereof used killeth the birth The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull in very hot and dry bodies The Dose They are given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Oyle of Cardamomes A confection of Cardamoms CHAP. 90. De Carduo benedicto of the blessed Thistle The Names IT is called in Latine Carduus and Carduus Benedictus in English Blessed Thistle The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and also cleansing and opening The Duration It will keepe good a yeare or longer The inward use A Decoction of Carduus being taken helpeth the swimming of the head strengthneth the memory and is a good remedy against deafnesse killeth wormes provoketh urine and the courses and driveth out gravell cleanseth the Stomach and helpeth the paines of the side It is most excellent in Pestilent Feavers and all contagious Diseases for it expelleth out by sweat all noxious or ill humours It is very good in any kinde of Ague either by Decoction thereof taken or halfe a dram of the powder taken in Posset drinke before the fit cometh for divers fits if need require and sweat after it It is very availeable against all venome and poyson The distilled water is usefull for the aforesaid Diseases but the Decoction is far better The extract thereof is good against the French-pox and the Quartain-Ague The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder
corruption of the ayre They are best fasting or when the stomach is empty Toasted Figs are good for women to facillitate or hasten the birth The manner of Administring them They are eaten as they come to us or toasted and so eaten but chiefly they are used in Dâ—coctions The outward use F gs bruised and applyed with Barly-meale and the powder of Fenâ—ugreeke seede doâ— moâ—lifie the hard tumours and kernells under the Throat and Eares and elsewhere as also the hardnesse of the Mother and if some Leaven and Salt be put to them it breaketh Plague sores They are mâ—xed also with Copperas against old sores of the Leggs and all other foule running Ulcers being boyled in wine with Wormewood and then applyed wâ—th Barly-meale are very profitably applyed to the belly of those that have a Dropsie and beaten with Salt and applyed taketh away the Itch and Scab and the Ashes also made up into a salve and applyed healeth K bes and Chilblanes Fâ—gs bruâ—sed and mixed with Fennegreeke Vineger easeth the hot Gout of the feet A Figgesâ—t and toasted doth often times ease the tooth ach being appâ—yed The hurtfull quality They ingender crude and windy humours in the body and soone corrupt in the Stomach whereby they cause the Itch Scab and breed Lice also They hurt such as have the Chollick and windy diseases and that have hot Livers and chollerick Stomachs they are best for old Flegmatick persons and in cold and moist seasons CHAP. 105. De Foeniculo of Fennell The Names IT is called in Latine Foeniculum in English Fennell The Temperament The seed is hot and dry in the third degree the herbe not so hot The Duration The seeds will keep good a yeare or two the herbe is rarely dryed but used greene The inward use It breaketh winde provoketh Urine easeth the paines of the Stone and helpeth to break it the leaves or seeds boyled in Barly-water and drunke is good for Nurses to encrease their milke and to make it the more wholsome for their children to take the leaves boyled in water but especially the seedes stayeth the Hicket and taketh away the loathing of the Stomach a layeth the heat thereof The seed boyled in wine is good for them that are bitten by Serpents or have eaten poysonfull herbs or Mushromes the seed roots help to open the stoppings of the Liver Spleene and Gall and thereby much conduceth to all the diseases arising from them as the painefull and windy swelling of the Spleens and the yellow Jaundes as also the Gout and Cramps the seede is of good use in pectorall medicines and those that helpe the shortnesse of breath and wheesing by stoppings of the Lungs it helpeth also to bring downe the courses and to cleanse the parts after delivery the roots are in most use for drinkes and broths that are taken to cleanse the blood to open stoppings of the Liver and to provoke urine and to amend the evill colour in the face after long sicknesse Both leaves seeds or roots are much used in drinkes or broths for those that are growne fat to abate the same and to make them more gaunt and lank the distilled water of the whole herbe is good for the same purposes The seed taken in powder doth quicken the eye sight and are often used to correct purging Medicines The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in decoction but the seeds may be taken in powder The outward use It is chiefly used outwardly to cleare the sight as the juyce or water being dropped into the eyes to cleare them and to help their dimnesse See my help for the Poore in Pag. 41. and 43. The hurtfull quality It is bad for hot and dry bodies The Dosâ— The seede in powder is taken in broth or the like from one scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water A Chymmicall Oyle Salt of Fennell Fennell-seed Comfits CHAP. 106. De Faenugraeco of Fenugreeke The Names IT is called in Latine Foenum gracum and Foenugraecum in English Fenugreeke and Fenegreeke The temperament It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first The duration It will keepe good many years The outward use The powder of the seede taken with Hony driveth forth noysome humours out of the body mollifieth inward Impostumes and Ulcers of the Lungs and breast easeth the griping paines of the intralls and killeth Wormes The manner of administring it It may be given in powder or in Decoction but it is not usuall to take it inwardly yet many give it in powder with Otes to Horses for it doth fatten them and killeth Wormes in their Maw The inward Vse The meale or powder thereof heated with Vineger and applied to the Region of the Spleene doth mollify and wast the hardnesse thereof as also other hard tumours and swellings the Decoction thereof softneth likewise the hardnesse of the Mother and easeth the paines thereof if they sit therein as in a Bath or receive the hot fumes by sitting over it the Decoction thereof clenseth the head from scurfe dandruffe and the running sores thereof it helpeth the Disease called Tenasmus that is an often desire to the stoole without doing any thing as also the Bloudy Flux when the excrements smell strong A Pultis made with the meale thereof and Linseede and the Decoction of Mallowes and a little Oyl or Hogs grease put thereto asswageth the swelling and paines of the Cods or privy-parts of Women and generally all other swellings and tumours the same also helpeth the Gout and other joynt-Aches that come of cold the Decoction or muccilage applied to the forehead with clothes dipped therein stayeth the Flux of humours to the Eyes and easeth the paines in them used also in Clysters it is good in the Stone by opening and mollifying the inward parts A Pultis for the swelling behinde the Eares Take of the muccilage of Fenugreeke ten Ounces Cerusse in powder two Ounces Camphor halfe an Ounce make all into a Pultis and apply it The hurtfull quality Fenugreek taken inwardly doth overturne and breed a loathing in some stomacks especially if they be weake therefore onely to be used in strong bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof Syrup of Fenugreek Muccilage of Fenugreeke CHAP. 147. De Fragaria of Strawberries The Names THe P an t is called in Latine Fragaria and the berries Fragra from the Fragrancy of the smell and taste in English Strawberries The temperament The Leaves are cold in the first degree some say hot and drying in the second the root is more drying and binding the Berries while they are greene are cold and dry but being ripe they are cold and moâ—st The inward use The Berries are good to coole the Liver the bloud and Spleene or an hot chollerick stomack to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits and to quench thirst they are good also for other inflammations The leaves and roots boyled in Wine and Water and drunke do
the Church in a shadow by R. Cudworth D. D. now Master of Clare-Hall in Cambridge The Christian Conflict shewing the difficulties and duties of the Christian Warfare with the Armour and graces of Christian Souldiers partially applied to Magistrates and Ministers Husbands and Wives Together with the case of Vsury Depopulation and the errours of Antinomonists occasionally discussed by John Bentham A Remonstrance of the holy life and happy death of John Bruen Esquire exhibiting vanity of memorialls and exemplary passages usefull to all sorts of people as a path and president of piety and charity written by W. Hinde late of Bunbury in Cheshire THE NATURE OF Simple Medicines CHAP. I. De Absynthio Of Wormwood COmmon Wormwood is so well known that it needeth no description The Names It is called in Latine Absynthium because of its bitternesse Beasts will not feed on it neither doe most like the tast of it The Temperament It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third very bitter and cleansing yet binding and strengthening The Duration It will keep good a yeare The Inward Vse Wormwood draweth from the Tunicles of the Stomach and Intestines first choller then flegme and also doth strengthen the Stomach like Alois It purgeth choller likewise from the Reines and Liver and purgeth by Urin. It doth much prevaile in the Green-sicknesse Jaundise and Dropsie It helpeth such as have obstructed Livers and Stomachs the Collicke and gripings in the Belly cleanseth the womb and uterine parts help Crudities dryveth away the Hicket stayeth vomiting brings a good appetite expelleth winde and prevailes in intermittent Agues and obstructions of the Entralls It preserveth the bloud from putrifaction and is usefull in the Pestilence It prevents and resists Drunkennesse vomiting at Sea and killeth worms The Vineger wherein Wormwood is boiled helpeth a stinking breath that commeth from the teeth or gums or from the corruption in the Stomach It provokes the termes in women The wine made hereof is good for all the forementioned purposes except in such as have Feavers The Seeds of Wormwood helpe the Bloudy Flux and other Fluxes of the Belly Wormwood being steeped in Vineger and drunken helpeth such as have taken Mushromes or Toâ—d stooles The manner of administring it It is given in powder in decoction or the juice is taken by it selfe it is also infused in wine Against an Ague Take of Wormwood in pouder two drams Give it in White-wine or Posset-drink one hour or two before the fit commeth Against a Quartaine Ague Take of the juice of Wormwood half an ounce Venice Treacle halfe a dram Treacle water a spoonfull mingle them together Give this before the fit commeth Doe this for three or four fits together and it will prevaile especially at the beginning the body being first well purged A Decoction of Wormwood against Melancholy winde in the Stomach c. Take Wormwood Fumiterry of each a handfull Raisons of the Sun two ounces make an infusion and a gentle decoction in three Pints of Posset drinke to two Pints or two and a halfe strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof It is good against Melancholly a cold Stomach as also to expell winde and to take away obstructions or stopping Wormwood-Wine Take of dry Wormwood a handfull put it into a gallon of wine stop the vessel close and let it stand to infuse This helpeth cold and crude stomachs expelleth winde easeth the Collick comming of winde strengthneth the stomach avails in the Jandise and killeth wormes Wormwood-Wine purging Water Take Wormwood a handfull and a halfe Cardus one handfull Agrimony a handfull Spleenwort Vervaine of each halfe a handfull Oris-root one ounce and a halfe Fennell-root one ounce Parsly-root halfe an ounce Capar barke Asarum Polypodium roots of Succory of each halfe an ounce or take one ounce and a halfe of Succory roots Fennell-seed Smallage-seed Parsly-seed and Anni-seed of each one dram Calamus Aromaticus Cinamon of each two drams Sene one ounce and a halfe Soldanella or Sea binde weed three handfulls Cut and bruise those things that are to be cut and bruised then put to them sixteen or eighteen pints of White-wine wherein Steel hath been quenched let them stand together after a week drink of it a good draught in the morning or about ten of the clock in the forenoone every day or every second day You may make but halfe the receipt The juice of Wormwood is commended against Melancholly if two or three drams thereof be taken in a morning Heurn Meth. ad prax cap. 9. f. 200. Against the Jandise Take the flowers of Wormwood or the tops thereof Rosemary and Black-thorne of each a like quantity of Saffron half so much boyle them gently in Renish-wine let it be given after the body is prepared by purging The externall or outward Vse Wormwood being outwardly applied killeth worms in the belly or stomach the juice with Honey helpeth dim eyes and mingled with Niter it helpeth the Quinsie being anointed therewith It taketh away black and blew spots in the skin that come after falls or bruises if it be mingled with Honey and anointed It helpeth soare and running ears and ceaseth the pain of them if the hot vapours of the decoction be taken in thereat by a Funnell or otherwise It easeth the tooth-ach Being bruised and applyed with Rose-water to the stomach it gives much ease and comfort to such as have been long sick It avails against the hardnesse of the Spleen or where there is a hot sharp water running between the flesh and the skin if it be used with Figs Vineger and Mâ—ale of Darnell A decoction thereof being made and the Temples bathed therewith it helpeth the paines of the head that come of a cold cause Also being boyled in Vineger and the mouth washed therewith it helpeth a stinking breath Being put into Chests or Presses where Cloaths are it preserveth from worms Moths If the skin be rubbed with the juice or with the oyle it drives away Fleas or Gnats If Children before they be three moneths old be bathed with a decoction thereof or their temples feet and hands be nointed with the juice thereof and well rubbed in they shall not be troubled nor molested with heat or cold all their life time It is so commended being used as before that the body shall not be infected with Scab Leprosie French Disease Lice or such like malady Nisi Deus eos velit punire except God will punish such for sin Joan. Rudolp Camerar Memorabil med mirab Nat. arcan cent 3. partic 70. fol. 189. Against the Wormes Take Wormwood Horehound and Lupines of each a handfull boyle them in water or honey or strong wine apply it hot to the Navell A Plaster against the Wormes Take of Mithridate two drams Aloes in powder a dram with the juice of Wormwood make a Plaister and lay it to the belly The hurtfull Quality The juice offends the Stomach being too much used and also
were cured with the Gods meâ—t yea rather with the Devils said the Portugall but softly and in his owne language for fear of being over-heard The outward use If it be mingled with Rue Salniter and Honey it breaketh Carbuncles and Pestilentiall sores being thereto applied and in the same manner used it helpeth Cornes and draweth them forth Being applied with Garlicke and the white of an egge it helps Felons and white flaes of the fingers It clears the fight and helpeth suffusions or spots in the eyes being mixed with Honey and dropped in It cures the stinging of venomous Beasts being applied and the swelling of the Spleen being laid on as a Plaister A perfume thereof is good for the rising of the Mother also a fume thereof and of Goats horne prevents or much mitigates the fit of the Falling-Sicknesse if the party hold his head over it when he feels the fit come upon him It helpeth the Tooth-ach being put into a hollow tooth Plinie lib. 22. cap. 23. forbiddeth it thus to be used and saith he knew one that tried it in the same manner threw himselfe headlong from an high loft and brake his neck but surely this was by accident the party having a cachecticall or plethorick body and so it stirred up the humours The hurtfull quality Give it not to women with Child nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies These things following are made of Assa Fetida 1. Pills of Assa Fetida 2. Extract of Assa Fetida The Dose The Dose is from halfe a scruple to a dram CHAP. VIII De Asaro Of Asarabacca ASarum or Asarabacca is an hearb that hath a round leafe like Ivy but more round and tenderer the roots are many small and slender of a sweet and pleasing smell and a little biting the tongue It growes in many Gardens The Names It is called in Latine Asarum in English Asarabacca Asarobacca and Folefoot The temperament Asarum is hot and dry in the second degree or as some in the third degree The roots are hotter then the leaves The duration The roots will keep a year or two The leaves are best green which may be had almost all the year The inward use Asarum purgeth strongly by vomit and sometimes by stoole It draweth away thick Flegme and Choller both yellow and cruginous or green It is profitable for them that have the Dropsie Jaundise and that have Tertian and Quartaine Agues as also the Green-sicknesse Paine of the head arising of vapours from the Stomach It provokes sweat the Courses in Women and Urine therefore it is good in the Strangury and stopping of the Urine and also in the Hip-Gout and in Asthmatick persons or such as are short-winded It helpeth stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen The roots are effectuall against the biting of Serpents and therefore is put with other simples both into Mithridate and Treacle of Andromachus saith Mr Parkinson in his Herball but I find it only put into Mithridate It helpeth Chronicall or long continued Agues upon a double ground First Because it purgeth away thick Flegme and Choller of all sorts from the Stomach and parts adjacent as also whatsoever is of long continuance in the viscerous parts which is the cause of these Diuturnall or long-continued Agues now by vomit the humours aforesaid are taken away Secondly Because it provoketh sweat and so expelleth obnoxious humous from those parts by the ports of the skin The manner of administring it The leaves and roots are given by infusion decoction and in substance The green leaves are most effectuall to provoke one to vomit the roots more effectuall to purge by siege by Urine and to provoke sweat Neither the leaves nor roots will abide any long boyling for thereby the chiefest strength thereof vanisheth and is lost If you give it in fine powder it doth provoke vomit and Urine If you give it in course powder it purgeth downwards Before the fit of an Ague Take of the roots of Asarum or Asarabacca in powder a dram of white-wine four ounces mingle them together and give it before the fit commeth This taketh away the shaking fit and causeth the hot fit to be more remisse or gentle Or thus Take of Asarabacca-root a dram of Radish-root one ounce of Orach-seed halfe an ounce boyle them in Hydromel or water and honey straine it and give six ounces thereof as before Or Take of root of Asarabacca in powder Broome-flowers Broome-seeds of each halfe a dram in powder give it in Barly-water Against the Green-sicknesse Dropsie Jaundise c. Take of the green leaves of Asarabacca five six or seaven bruise them and steep them in Hydromel or Posset-drink all night in the morning straine it and give the clearest when it works take Posset-drink and keep your selfe warm To provoke the termes or courses in Women Take Myrrhe Cinamon of each a dram Savin halfe a dram Smalladge-seed and Parsly-seed Spiknard Asarum Squinanth or sweet Rush of each a scruple make all into powder and give hereof a dram in the juice of Sea-Holly or in the juice of Rue Freitag â—ur med fol. 325. Against the Quartaine Ague and Agues of long continuance Take of the distilled water of Asarabacca three or four ounces give it in a morning fasting or before the fit commeth This may be given divers times if need be The externall use The leaves bruised and applied outwardly cure creeping and cancerous Vlcers as also the swelling thereof and hinder their growth and increase They cleanse Wounds and sores If the head be washed with a lie made thereof it strengthneth the braine being molested with cold and quickneth the memory The juice and the water thereof with Pompholigos helpeth the dimnesse of the sight The leaves bruised and applied to the forehead and temples doe ease the pain thereof comming of cold There is an Oyle made thereof with which if the ridge of the back be nointed it provoketh sweat and taketh away the shaking fits of Agues The leaves also bruised and applied to Womens Breasts are good to dry up the milk and is good to be laid to the Disease called the Wilde fire especially at the beginning The hurtfull Quality It is not safe to give it to weak and tender bodies nor to Women with Child for though Fernelius saith in his Method medend l. 5. 117. it be free from any malignant quality and therfore may safely be given to women with Child especially if it be not given in fine powder yet Theodor. Dorstenius Botanic fol. 14. saith that both the decoction and water thereof driveth forth the Child living or dead and therefore may not safely be given to Women great with Child Of such things as are made of Asarabacca These following are made of Asarum 1. Diasarum Fernelij 2. Extract of Asarum or Coagulum Asari 3. Distilled Water of Asarum both of the leaves and roots 4. Oyle of Asarum The Dose The Dose in substance is from halfe a dram to two scruples or
Countrey-people Tetter-berries may with good successe be applied to them The root cleanseth the skin from the Morphew Leprosie all running Scabs and Manginesse if a Bath be made thereof or the juice applied thereunto A Pessary made of the root bringeth downe the courses in Women and bringeth forth the After-birth and dead Child A Bath made hereof cleanseth the Womb from filthinesse and uncleannesse The root hung about the Neck is good against the Falling Sicknesse and Convulsion The root bruised and boyled in Vineger being applyed to the swollen Genitalls of men helpeth the same A decoction of the leaves or roots mingled with Honey and the mouth and throat washed therewith cureth Vlcers and sorenesse thereof The distilled water of the root worketh the same effect but more weakly yet the water is used for freckles and spots in the face Against hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene Take what quantity you will of the green root of Brionie bruise it with Figs and apply it to the Spleen adding thereunto a little Oyle of Capers Or Take Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger Oyntment Dialtheae or of Marsh-mallows Plaister of Melilot of each halfe an ounce Brionie root and Orris in powder of each halfe an ounce Ducks-grease Goose grease and Hens-grease of each three drams Bdellium and Galbanum of each a dram and a halfe Oyle of Orris-root one ounce and a halfe of the Mussilage of Linseede and Fenugreeke a sufficient quantity of each dissolve the gums and boyle them gently together and add thereto of Wax four ounces of Turpintine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe make all into a Cerat according to art Against corrupt and fretting sores in the Legs Take the leaves or root of White Brionie bruise them with Salt and Vineger and apply it Against the Gout and Sciatica Take of Brionie-root green bruise it and apply it with Hogs-grease The hurtfull Quality with the correcting means The root of White Brionie doth much trouble the Stomach head and other parts therefore it must not be given to delicate bodies nor where the spirits are low for though it have a specifick vertue for the Diseases of the Brain before mentioned yet it offends the weak The hurtfull Quality hereof is taken away in part by adding to it Ginger Cinamon Quince or such like The same is also very dangerous for Women with Child however it be given for it causeth Abortion or miscarrying These things are made of Brionie 1. The Extract thereof 2. Faeces vel Faculae Brioniae 3. Water of Brionie 4. Oyntment of Brionie 5. Vnguentum Agrippae The Dose The Dose of the root in substance is from a scruple to a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce The juice of the root is given from a dram to two drams or more in strong bodies The faeces or dregs thereof are given from five graines to twenty Cambogia see Gutta Gummi CHAP. XII De Camphora Of Camphor or Campher CAmphor is a Gum or liquor of a Tree growing in India and other places partly distilling forth of its owne accord but chiefly by incision and commeth forth clear and white without any spot therein of a very strong sent and of thin parts so that being but a while expos'd to the air both sent and substance vanisheth away The Names It is called in Latine Camphora Caphura in English Camphire Camfire Camphor and Campher The temperament Some will have it to be cold and dry in the third degree others esteem it to be hot but of this more hereafter The best kinde The best is white shining clear as Crystall not full of spots easie to be broken and brittle also being set on fire it burneth and is not easily quenched and hath also a strong sent The Duration It will keep good many years some say forty years but it must be kept from the air and in Flax-seed or Fleawort-seed otherwise it will evaporate and consume to nothing The inward Vse It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore it is frequently used in the Pestilence contagious diseases and in Feavers It extinguisheth venery or the lust of the body Camphora venenis strenuè resistit cardiacon est Joubert de peste f. 72 Vide Thoner observat l. 3. observat 8. fol. 187. and is good for the running of the Reins as also against the Whites in Women and for the rising of the Mother being dissolved in Balm-water and so taken It cools the heat of the Liver Backe and all hot inflamations in the body The manner of Administring it It is given in Electuaries in Powders Potions c. An Electuary against the Pestilence Take Myrrhe Saffron the bone of a Stags heart or Harts-horne in powder of each two scruples and a halfe of Dittany in powder two drams of white Ginger in powder halfe an ounce of Zedorie in powder two drams and a halfe of Tormentill-roots in powder a dram of Campher in powder or dissolved in Aqua vitae two drams Mithridate and London Treacle of each three ounces with a little Aqua vitae make an Electuary Take thereof morning and evening as much as a small Nut. A powder for the Pestilence Take of Zedoary White Dittany root Gentian-root Scordium Carduus Sorrell of each two drams make them into powder The Dose is a dram in a morning in Carduus-water or in the winter let it be given in White-wine This is a good preservative in times of infection Or Take of white Sugar-Candy a dram white Ginger two scruples Camphor halfe a scruple make them in powder and give it in two or three ounces of Scabious-water or Angelica-water Or Take Angelica-root Bay-berries of each halfe an ounce round Aristolochia or Birthwort two drams Gentian-root Nutmeg of each a dram Camphor halfe a scruple make all into powder The Dose is a dram or more in Carduus-water A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Treacle called Diatessaron a dram Angelica-root in powder halfe a dram or a dram of Rose-Vineger a dram Campher three grains Carduus-water two ounces Dissolve the Campher and the rest that is to be dissolved in the water and make a potion give it and let the party sweat after it This may be given divers times if need be Note That Campher will not be made into powder alone without a blanched Almond or some other such like unctious thing which hereby will be brought into fine powder neither will it easily dissolve in cold water but by warmth it will or with any syrupe it will soon dissolve The outward Vse It helpeth pain of the head and heat thereof if it be mixed with yellow Sanders and red Rose-water and the Temples and Forehead bath'd therewith It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the nostrills if it be smelled to and refresheth the brain It is used against Phlegmous and Erysipelas or Wilde-fire also against heat or inflamations of the eyes it is good in Wounds and Vlcers to abate the heat thereof and is of much
and fatty not ranced being put into water if it swim it is to be cast away The Duration The seeds will keep good three years The inward use The seeds purge Flegme and watery humors by vomit and siege It is a specifick remedy against the Collick It helpeth also the diseases of the breast and hypoconders openeth the obstructions of the viscerous parts and avails in the Dropsie and Jaundies Being made into a Loloch or licking Electuary with Sugar and Honey a few Almonds and Pine Kernels it cleanseth the lungs of Flegme sticking therein wonderfully causing it to be easily spit forth it also cleareth the voice and increaseth sperme by the often use of it With Honey it is excellent against the Cough Being bruised and strained into Milke it makes it to curdle and is usefull to open and loosen the belly Parrots doe eat of this seed yet it doth not loosen them at all The manner of administring it It is given in Emulsions in Tabulats in Electuaries in Pulpe c. An Emulsion or milke purging safely and gently Take of Mechoaehan white Turbith of each one ounce Anni-seed Fennel-seed Cinamon of each a dram bruise them and make a Decoction thereof Take of this Decoction eleven ounces of sweet Almonds blanched half an ounce of Cinamon-water half an ounce or five drams make it into an Emulsion or milkie substance Tabulats purging or square Cakes Take of Diagredium Turbith of each one ounce of the Pulpe of Carthamus-seed half a dram Cinamon Ginger species of Diatragacanthum frigidum of each two drams Citron Pill the Pulpe of preserved Quinces of each a dram of Sugar nine ounces of white Sugar-candy one ounce Powder what is to be powdered and make Tabulats or Cakes thereof and dry them The Dose is from a dram and a halfe to three drams Freitag Aur. med fol. 282. Against the Jaundies Take of the Pulpe of Carthamus seeds a dram Syrup of Worm-wood an ounce of Succory water an ounce mixe them together and give it For the same Take of the flowers of Carthamus in powder a dram give it in Hydromel or Water and Honey or in Barley water The outward use The water of Carthamus is commended against wilde-fire if clouts be dipped therein and applyed The hurtfull quality There are two hurtfull properties in Carthamus the one that it offends the stomack and provokes to vomit to help this it must be given with Anni-seed Fennel-seed Galingal Cinamon Ginger Mastick or such like The other is that it works but slowly and stirreth up the humors to help this it may be given with Cardamoms Salgem and such like The Dose The Dose of the Pulpe is from a dram to two drams though it be rarely given by it selfe because of its viscosity or sliminesse In infusion from three drams to six drams or more Of those Medicines that are made of Carthamus First extract of Carthamus 2 Syrup of Carthamus 3 Electuary Diacarthamum 4 Species of Carthamus 5 The distilled water 6 Olium e enico expressum which being taken with Muskadel is excellent against the Collick 7 Oyle of the seed of Carthamus three drams of which being taken with powder of Anniseed and Cinamon doth purge flegm as saith Brassarolus CHAP. XIV De Cassia lignea Cinamomo Of Cassia Lignea and Cinamon BEcause these are so little differing from each other I shall joyne them together yet speake severally of their vertues They are both barks of trees brought to us from the East-Indies The Names Cinamon is called in Latine Cinnamomum Cinamomum in English Cinnamome and Cinamon I know no other names in use for the other but Cassia Lignea The Temperament Cinamon is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third-degree and dry in the second Cassia lignea is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best Cinamon is that which is of a reddish colour smelling fragrantly and of a sharp and biting tast usually the thin barks or rindes are the best The difference between Cassia lignea and Cinamon The Cinamon rinde is much bigger the Cassia lignea is in very small rindes or barkes besides there is a manifest difference in the tast for the Cinamon hath a rough tast but the Cassia lignea is very slippery upon the tongue The Duration They will keep good eight or ten years as some report which I somewhat doubt of especially of Cinamon The inward Vse Cinamon is of subtill parts and very Aromaticall it comforteth the heart and vitall parts corroborateth and strengthneth the stomack braine nerves and other cold parts of the body it easeth the pains of the Wind Collick provokes the Courses and Vrine hastneth the birth it preventeth and correcteth putrifaction of humours resisteth poyson stayeth vomiting and helpeth nauseousnesse of the stomach it is frequently used in Cardiack passions or passions of the heart faintings of the spirits and in trembling of the heart it causeth sweetnesse of the breath and brings a good colour in the face it strengthneth the retentive faculty of all the parts by drying up and consuming the moisture thereof It is used in the Dropsie and Cough proceeding from moisture In brief it avails in all cold diseases of the head stomack and womb and is most convenient for cold and moist bodies and is much used in Lasks or Loosnesse of the body Note That Cinamon is most fragrant about the full of the Moon and hath the best taste and is then fittest for any medicine especially for oyle Cassia lignea comforteth the Stomack Liver and all the principall parts openeth obstructions or stoppings disperseth grosse humour repelleth winde provokes urine brings downe the menses or termes in women and doth much facilitate or hasten the birth The Vse of Oyle and Water of Cinamon There is a Chymicall Oyle drawne from Cinamon which is most excellent for these Diseases It comforteth the Stomach Brain Heart and all the principall parts it helpeth a stinking Breath resisteth putrifaction provokes the menses and helpeth Women in hard labours easeth the Cough arising from cold and all cold pains of the head it is a singular help in fainting of the spirits and stayeth too much vomiting after the taking of Antimony if two or three drops thereof be taken in mint-Mint-water Good Cinamon-water hath the same vertues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Potions Electuaries and in Pills A Powder to hasten the Birth Take of Cinamon a dram Saffron halfe a dram Cassia lignea two scruples make them all in powder Or Take Cinamon Saffron of each a scruple of Borax four scruples make them in powder and give it in a little Mugwort-water A Potion to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea in powder a dram Saffron in powder a scruple syrupe of Mugwort halfe an ounce Savin-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Pills to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea or Cinamon a dram Castor six grains Storax calamita
halfe a scruple Myrrhe ten grains make them into powder adding of Savin in powder a dram and a halfe and with a little Honey make a masse or lump for Pills Give them as need requireth An Electuary against Fluxes of the Belly Take of Cinamon in powder two drams old conserve of red Roses two ounces red Corall in powder two scruples with syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary of which take morning evening and before dinner the quantity of a small Nut. Note That it is best to make Cinamon in powder only when you use it and not to keep it powdered The outward Vse Cinamon being mixed in Collyries that is Medicines for the eyes quickens the sight and dryeth up the moisture thereof mingled with Honey and Vineger and the place noynted therewith it helpeth Ring-Wormes or Tetters and taketh away spots or freckles The powder is commended against clefts of the lips and other sores being put therein Oyle of Cinamon is commended for all green Wounds and Vlcers if it be dropped therein and doth much corroborate and warm cold parts of the body being noynted therewith and mixed with Honey it takes away spots from the face being therewith anointed Cassia lignea being cast on coles and the smoak taken at the Nose dryeth up Rheumes and Catarrhes that proceed from cold and moist humours Also a Suffumigation thereof helpeth the paine of the Womb and the stoppings thereof Being mixed with Honey and applied it dissolveth swellings and hard tumours A decoction of Cassia lignea made with White-wine and rose-Rose-water is commended against the stinking of the Arm holes if the place be bath'd therewith and the same is good to wash soar mouths and Gums The hurtfull quality Cinamon is hurtfull to those that have hot and chollerick bodies for in such it inflames the Liver and blood and the inward parts neither may such as have Feavers be too busie with it nor Women with Child The same cautions are to be used in taking of Cassia lignea These best agree with cold and moist bodies and weak stomachs and is more usefull in Winter then in Summer The Dose The Dose in powder of either is from a dram to a dram and a halfe The Dose of the Chymicall Oyle is two three or four drops in any convenient liquor The Dose of the Cinamon-water is halfe a spoonfull or one spoonfull at a time in Beer or such like Of those Medicines that are made of Cinamon 1. Cinamon Water 2. Tincture or Extract 3. Elixir of Cinamon 4. Oyle of Cinamon 5. Salt of Cinamon 6. Balsum of Cinamon 7. Syrupe of Cinamon 8. Magister of Cinamon 9. Species Diacinamomu Whether Cinamon be rightly used to stay Womens Fluxes or the Menstru s in Women It is very common among many that when Women are troubled with the overflowing of the Menses or Courses or any other Flux of the body then to prescribe Cinamon and they think it a great binder of the body They usually burne Claret Wine with Cinamon and give them Cinamon in powder with Milk Now in that Flux of the body called Diarrhaea and other Fluxes I deny not but it may be used and that with good successe for it strengthneth the stomach and entralls the imbecillity or weaknes whereof is the cause of such Fluxes but to give it to Women to stay their Courses is contrary to reason and experience for it will rather bring them downe and cause them more to flow as is before manifested Therefore I would advise Women to leave this inveterate custome CHAP. XV. De Cassia Fistula Of Cassia in Canes CAssia Fistula is a black Cane having a black substance therein with seeds like Peony-seeds It was unknowne to former Writers or not regarded and esteemed by them The Names It is called in Latine Cassia solutiva Cassia or Cassia Fistula now it is called Cassia as some think from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quod coriaceum vocant because the Cods or Canes are like Leather or as others conceive from the sweetnesse of the flowers like unto Cassia aromatica or Odorata In English 't is called Pudding-pipe because the Cod is like a Pudding The temperament Cassia is hot and moist in the first degree The b st kinde The best sort of Cassia is that which is taken out of the most heavy Canes and that are fullest and shine without but such Canes as are light and make a sound or rattle are not to be chosen but to be rejected The Duration It will keep good in the Canes two or three years The inward use Cassia purgeth first choller then Flegmatick humours It is profitable for such as are troubled with hot Feavers Pleurisy Jaundise or heat of the Liver mixed with convenient liquours It is good for the heat of the Reins and Kidneyes it bringeth forth Gravell and the Stone and is a good preservative against the Stone taken with a decoction of Licoris or Parsly roots It profiteth in inflamations of the Lungs Breast and Trachea arterie or rough arterie easing those parts very much It tempers the heat of the bloud and takes away the acrimony or sharpnesse of the bloud and choller and quencheth thirst in Feavers It profits in the Quinsie and in the running of the Reines with Licoris Rubarbe and Anni-seed as also in sharp Rheumes and distillations It is a safe Medicine and may be given to Women with Child and that at any time either in the morning before dinner supper Non diu ante cibum exhibere debet aliâs in nutrimentum ea abutitur natura Sennert instit f. 953. or at night The manner of administring it It is given in Boles or in Potions but the best way to take it is in a Bole. A Bole. Take of Cassia newly drawne ten drams Anni-seed or Fennel-seed in powder halfe a dram with a little Sugar make a Bole. Or Take of Cassia newly drawne one ounce of the species of Hiera picra a dram or two drams mix them together and make a Bole. Take it in the morning and within an hour after take a messe of Broth or some Posset-drink A Bole to purge Choller Take of the pulp of new Cassia one ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds halfe an ounce mix them together and take it as before A Bole purging Choller from the head Take of the pulp of Cassia new drawne seven drams of Electuary of the juice of Roses two drams mix them together and make a Bole. A Bole purging Flegme from the head Take of Agarick trochiscated a dram and a halfe Stoechados in powder a scruple of Cassia newly drawne an ounce mix them together for a Bole. A Potion Take of Cassia newly drawne ten drams of the decoction of Succory and Anni-seed three ounces dissolve the Cassia and make a Potion Or Take of Tamarinds one ounce and a halfe or two ounces infuse or steep it eight or ten hours in Whey or Posset-drink then strain it and add to it of Cassia newly drawne
Opopanax Some commend it against the dimnesse of the sight being mixed with other things Opopanax doth much help to the curing of old ulcers and Fistulaes breeds good flesh and especially where the bones are bare and naked and that by a peculiar vertue It is with profit applied to the biting of any venomous creature The hurtfull Quality It must not be given to Women with childe for it destroyes the birth nor to such as have hot diseases It is corrected with Spiknard Mastick c. The Dose The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram or a dram and a halfe Of such compounds as are made of Opopanax Extract of Opopanax Pills of Opopanax Oile of Opopanax CHAP. 51. De Polypodio of Polypodie POlipodium is a root generally knowne growing on the roots of Trees chiefly on Okes sometimes upon houses and old walls The names It is called in Latine Polipodium also â—ilicula quasi parva filix because the leaves are like Ferne. In English Polipodie and Oke-ferne The temperament Polypodie is hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best rootes are those that are fairest or biggest and full of nodes which groweth on Okes and is therefore called Polypodium quercinum The duration These roots will keep good a yeare or two Note that the hotter the Region is where it growes the better it is The inward use Polypodie purgeth adust choler or melancholie and flegme though but gently Therefore it is commended against melancholy as in affects of the Hypochonders quartane Ague also in stoppings of the Liver and Spleen Jaundise Scurvy or Scorbute and in any kinde of Gowt in the Leprosie Scab and foule diseases of the skin It doth much prevaile in the Collick arising from a cold cause and that by a specifick vertue The distilled water both of rootes and leaves is much commended against the quartane Ague being taken many dayes together as also against melancholie troublesome sleep and fearefull dreames And taken with some Sugar-Candy dissolved therein it is good against all the ill affects or diseases of the Lungs Also this water helps the pale colour of the face and purgeth the blood The Salt and Oile of Polypodie are used in the Pleurisie and paines of the side The manner of administring it It is given in decoction broth or infusions for it can hardly be made into powder alone By infusion Take of Sene. Raisons of the sun stoned of each halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Polypodie white Tartar of each three drams of Fumitorie-water Carduus water Buglosse-water of each two ounces let them infuse one night in the morning boile them gently then straine it and to foure ounces of the clearest add Honey of Roses Solutive or Manna two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and give it it purgeth gently Freitag aur med f. 256. Against hardnesse of the spleen and melancholy winde it may be given with Epithymum and Salindum or the decoction of an old Cock with Polypodie Sene Epithymum Thyme Dodder black Hellebore Buglosse Creame of Tartar Anise-seed Fennell-seed Raisons of the sun and such like is much commended In diseases of the breast use Polypodie with Figs Raisons of the sun Elecampane Hyssop Maydenhaire Hore-hound c. In the Collick boile it with Anise-seed Fennell-seed c. In the scab arising from burnt choler boile it in Posset-drink or Whey The outward use The juice of the green root or the powder of the root snuffed up into the nose cureth the disease called Polypus A plaister made of the roots and Honey helpeth luxations or bones out of joynt Ruptures chaps of the fingers and the Piles If the root be steeped in Wine foure and twenty houres made sharp with a little spirit of sulphur and then dryed it may be used for a Dentifrice or medicine to make the teeth white and cleane being rubbed therewith The hurtfull quality It is judged by many to be windy and to offend the stomach but daily experience doth manifest the contrary and that it is a safe and gentle medicine fit for all sorts of persons and may be given in any season It is given with Anise-seed Fennel-seed Ginger c. Not because it offends the stomach or hurteth the other inward parts but to help its energie or force Let the Polypodium you use be new for if it be too old it bindes the body Heurn prax med f. 271. The Dose It is given in decoction or infusion from halfe an ounce to two ounces or more Compounds made of Polypodie Salt of Polypodium Extract of Polypodium Syrup of Polypodium Oile of Polypodium CHAP. 52. De Psyllio of Flea-wort FLea-wort is an herb that riseth up with a stalk two foot high or more full of joynts and branches on every side up to the top and at every joynt two small long and narrow whitish green leaves somewhat hairie the seeds are small and black lâ—ke to Fleas in bignesse and colour The names It is called in Latine Psyllium Pulicaria harba and â—ulicaria because it is like unto Fleas and not because it driveth away Fleas for that it will not do In English Flea-wort not Flea-bane The temperament The seeds are cold and moist in the second degree The best seeds The best are the biggest and the fairest heavy that being put into the water they sinke The duration They will keep good a yeare or two in the seeds The inward use The seeds are chiefly in use the missilage or infusion whereof being made with Rose-water or Barley-water and taken with syrups of Violets syrup of Roses or Sugar purgeth choler and thick flegme and is usefull in hot burning Feavers in great thirst and helps to â—eâ—ifie the drynesse of the mouth and throat it helpeth also the hoarsnesse of the voice and diseases of the breast and lungs caused by heat as the Pleurisie and such like It helpeth all inflammations of the head and all hot paines of the joynts The muccilage of the seed made into an Electuary with Marmalade of Quinces with Popie-seed and Sugar-pellets or Sugar-Candy and so taken doth temper the heat and roughnesse of the throat and tongue and stayeth hot fluxions or rheumes flowing downe In hot burning Agues it quencheth thirst and abates heat being taken with syrup of Violets or Barley-water and purgeth also choler gently The seeds torrified or dryed and taken with Plantaine-water stayeth the flux of the belly and helpeth the corrosions or gripings of the belly that come by reason of hot cholerick sharp and malignant humours or by the super-purgation or over-working of any violent medicine such as cammonie or the like The seeds being kept on the tongue easeth the cough and helpeth the drynesse thereof proceeding from heat It dothnso wonderfully coole that saith Fernelius being cast into hot boyling water it presently cooleth it Fernel meth med lib. 6. cap. 1. fol. 143. The outward use The seeds bruised or the herbe and mixed with the juice of House-leeke or
bole purging flegme and usefull in the Dropsie Take of the juice of Elder berries halfe an ounce powder of Seabinde-weed a dram Oile of Cynamon foure drops make a bole or lump rolle it up in Sugar and take it in a morning drinking some Posset-drink after it A decoction against the Quartane Ague and Quotidian Take of Elder-bark with the root of each an ounce of Asarum three drams Cynamon a dram and a halfe boile them in milk and give halfe of it This will work upward and downward Take it before the fit commeth once or twice if need be Vide Blochwitius Anotomiâ Sambuci The outward use A decoction of the roots of either mollifieth the hardnesse of the wombe if women do sit therein and openeth the veines and bringeth downe the courses The leaves boiled and laid hot upon any hot and painefull Apostumes especially in the more remote and sinewie parts doth both coole the heat and inflammation of them and ease the paines The juice of the leaves snuffed up into the Nostrils purgeth the tunicles of the brain The juice of the green leaves applyed to hot inflammations of the eyes asswageth them The juice of the berries boiled with a little Honey and dropped into the eares easeth the paines of them A decoction of the root maketh the haire black if it be washed therewith the leaves boiled till they be tender then beaten and mixed with Barley-meale and applyed to hot inflammations asswageth them and helpeth places that are burnt either by fire or water cureth Fistulous Ulcers being laid thereupon and easeth the paines of the Gowt being beaten and boiled with tallow of a Bull or Goat and laid warme thereon The young buds and leaves of the Elder and as much of the roots of Plantaine beaten together and boiled in Hogs-grease this being laid warme upon the place pained with the Gowt doth give present ease thereto the leaves also burnt and the powder of them put up into the Nostrils stayeth the bleeding once or twice used The leaves of Elders boiled tender and applied warme to the fundament easeth the paines of the Piles if they be once or twice renewed growing cold The pitch in the middle of the Elder stalkes being dried and put into the cavernous or hollovv holes of Fistulous Ulcers that are ready to close openeth and dilateth the Orifices whereby injections may be used and other remedies applied for the cure of them The Mushromes called Jewes-eares helpeth the inflammation of the eyes being macerated or steeped in Rose-water or Plantaine-water and the eyes washed therewith The dryed Jewes-eares steeped in Rose-water and applied to the Temples and forehead do ease the paines of the head or head-ach The distilled water of the flowers of Elder is of much use to cleare the skin from Sun-burning Freckles Morphew or the like and both the fore-part and hinder-part of the head being bathed therewith it taketh away all manner of head-ach that commeth of a cold cause The same water taketh away the heat and inflammation of the eyes and helpeth them when they are blood-shotten The hands being washed morning and evening with the same vvater of the flovver doth much help and ease them that have the Palsy in them and cannot keep them from shaking The foule inflamed or old Ulcers and sores of the leggs being often vvashed vvith the vvater of the leaves or of the flovvers distilled in the middle of the moneth of Maey doth heale them in a short space The water also helpeth the paine of the side if a linnen cloth be vvet therein and the side bathed therevvith vvarme Oile of Elder-flovvers doth assvvage paine cleanse and mundifie the skin profiteth in stoppings of the Liver and spleene and is good for the paines of the joynts and nerves and is very usefull in burning and wild-fire An ointment made of the green leaves of Dan-wort May butter made in the Moneth of May is accounted with many a sovereigne remedy for all outward paines aches and cramps in the joynts nerves or sinewes for starcknesse and lamenesse by cold and other casualties and generally to warme comfort and strengthen all the outward parts ill-affected as also to mollifie the hardnesse and to open the obstructions of the spleen the grieved parts anointed therewith Against burning by Fire or Water Take one pound of the inner bark of Elder bruise it or cut it small and put it into two pound of pure Sallet-Oile or Oile-Olive that hath been first washed oftentimes with the distilled water of Elder-flowers let them boile gently a good while together and afterwards straine forth the Oile pressing it very hard set this Oile on the fire againe and put thereto foure ounces of the juice of the young branches and leaves of the Elder-tree and as much new Wax let them boile to the Consumption of the juice after vvhich being taken from the fire put presently thereto two ounces of liquid Vernish such as Joyners use to vernish Bed-steds Cubboards c. and afterwards of Olibanum in fine powder foure ounces and the whites of two Egges being first well beaten by themselves all these being well stirred and mixed together put it up into a cleane pot and keep it for to use when occasion serveth Parkinson Treatise of Plantes fol. 210 211. taken out of Matthiolus Against the Tooth-ach Take of the root of Elder cut in thin slices two ounces and a halfe Vineger of Elder or White Wine halfe a pinte boile them together then wash the mouth and teeth therewith Or Take of the middle rinde of Elder and flowers thereof of each a handfull of Jewes-eares one or two boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Vineger and Wine use it as the former An Ointment against the hardnesse or scirrhus of the Spleene Take Oile of Elder an ounce Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of Elders two drams boile them to the Consumption of the watery substance then add a little wax and make an ointment Two or three drams of Wax will be sufficient With this Ointment anoint the spleen morning and evening warme laying a warme cloth on A Cataplasme or pultis against bruises Take of Elder-flowers in powder two ounces Camomill and Worme-wood in powder of each halfe an ounce mix them with a sufficient quantity of Oile of Elder and apply it warme to the bruised parts For the Piles or Hemorrhoides Take a handfull or two of Elder-leaves and boile them in water till they be tender take them out of the water and mix a little Linseed-Oile therewith then apply it warme upon a red cloth or a piece of Scarlet to the Piles there letting it lye till it be almost cold then apply fresh do thus for the space of an houre or two if need require and let it be bound up having the party to his warme bed This saith Gerard hath not failed at the first dressing to cure the said disease Ger. Herball fol. 1423. The hurtfull quality Both Elder and Dane-wort offend the head are
accord when it is broken gathered and dried and afterwards relented or made soft and laid as a plaister to the bottom of the belly draweth forth watery humours by siege The hurtfull quality and the corrective meanes Diascorides and some of the Ancient write that it is an enemy to the stomach and sharp in taste and therefore adviseth that it be boiled in broth of fat meat to hinder the strength of its working and they say it must be given only to strong bodies And happily it might operate so with them by reason of the climate where it did grow But that which we use now is a most safe medicine and may be given to children and weak persons as daily experience doth manifest It may be given with Cynamon Ginger Anise-seed Mastich or Sugar also with Rubarbe and Cubebs for Rubarbe is counted an excellent consort for it In decoction it is given with Raisons and Anise-seed The Dose In powder it is given from halfe a dram to a dram and a halfe or two drams In decoction from halfe an ounce to an ounce and a halfe The juice is given from two drams to halfe an ounce Of such things as are made thereof Extract of Seabinde-weed Succus inspissatus CHAP. 62. De Succino of Amber PLinie saith Amber issueth forth from trees like as Gum in Cherrie-trees and Rosin in Pines Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 37. Cap. 3. f. 607. But it is generally taken for a kinde of liquid Butimen whose springs and fountaines are in the Germane Seas and running into pieces some greater and lesser then others and is taken up with Iron-hooks being soft under water but hardning in the Aire like Corall The names In Latine Electrum Chrysolectrum Glessum Resina terrae but the usuall Latine names are Succum Carabe Charabe and Karabe in English 't is called Amber The temperament Amber is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The best kinde Although Authors mention three sorts yet there are but two sorts in shops the white and the yellow the best is the whitest and that which is most cleare and being rubb'd will draw straws unto it and gives a sent like Bitumen The duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use Amber strengtheneth the heart and stomach stayeth vomiting dryeth up moist humours in the stomach and hinders the breeding thereof and stayeth the flux of the belly It is usefull in cardiack passions and palpitations or beatings of the heart It recreates or refresheth the braine and is profitable in Rheumes or Catarrhes in the Falling Sicknesse Apoplexie Lethargie Swiming of the head suffocation and inflation or windinesse of the Mother It stayeth the flowing of blood and seed provokes the termes in women and causeth a speedy delivery It helpeth women that have the whites and men that have the running of the Reines for it stoppeth the flux and strengthneth the parts very much Being taken in Saxifrage-water it is a sure remedy for such as have their urine stopped It is very good for old coughs and those that are falling into a Consumption being mixed with conserve of Red Roses and so taken morning and evening and is profitable for joynt-aches and the running Gowt if it be taken vvith tvvo or three ounces of the decoction of Lignum vitae The chymicall oile of Amber taken inwardly availeth against the Pestilence and contagious aire if three or foure drops be taken for divers mornings together in Carduus or Angelica-water It helpeth the biting of a mad Dog and is excellent to preserve from the Apoplexie Falling Sicknesse svviming of the head and Night-mare taken in Piony-water Betony-vvater Lavender Rosemary black-Cherry-vvater or in Lily Convally-vvater or Sage-vvater or taken in Wine especially if it be taken about the nevv of the Moone in the morning fasting for this oile is a singular secret to comfort the animall vitall and naturall spirits If five or six drops be taken in Sage-water it restoreth the speech lost It dryeth up Rheumes and sharpneth the sight being taken in Fennel-water or Eye-bright-vvater It helpeth trembling of the heart and faintings of the spirits shortnesse of breath taken vvith Horehound-vvater and the Pleurisie vvith vvater of Sage of Jerusalem It helpeth spitting of blood taken vvith Tornentill-vvater It helpeth a cold stomach and vomiting being taken vvith mint-Mint-vvater It helpeth the intemperate frigidity or coldnesse of the Liver and Spleene taken in Spleenwort-water or Wormwood-water and helpeth such as are melancholy if it be taken in Borrage or Buglosse-water Given in Endive-water or a few drops thereof taken in the pap of a roasted Apple with a leafe of Gold cureth the Jaundise It doth wonderfully ease the stone and urine stopt in the Kidneys or Bladder if a few drops be given in Saxifrage or Parsley-water It stirs up to Venery taken with Diasatyrion in Wine It helpeth the Running of the Reins taken with water or syrup of Purslan It easeth the Collick taken with Cynamon-water or Aqua-vitae It cureth the Dysentery or bloudy Flux taken in Tormentil-water It killeth Wormes taken in Tansey-water It helpeth the joynt-Gowt and Sciatica or Hip-Gowt taken with the decoction or Lignum sanctum as also trembling and the cramp It much helpeth the affects of the wombe as the suffocation and precipitation or â—aâ—ling down thereof as also barrennesse taken in Minch or Penny-royall-water or Anise-seed-water and easeth paines in travell bringeth away the childe and after-birth provoketh the termes and bringeth avvay the dead childe given in Savin-vvater especially if five or six drops thereof be given and then as much more vvithin halfe an hour if need require The manner of administring it It is given in povvder in Electuaries c. A powder to hasten the birth Take of Cynamon halfe a dram or a dram Cassia lignea tvvo scruples Saffron half 〈◊〉 dram of white Amber a scruple make all into powder and gâ—eâ— in Savin-water An Electuary against the pain and heat of the stomach c. Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces Marmelate of Quinces an ounce Mastick in powder two drams red Corall in powder a dram a half oile of Amber a scruple with syrup of Quinces make an Electuary Take of it morning and evening before meat and after meat It is excellent also to stay vomiting and the flux of the belly Doring de ol succinii viribus f. 73. The outward use Amber being burned on hot coals and the fume thereof received to the head doth help moist distillations thereof falling on the eyes teeth nose or stomach The fume thereof saith Doringius cured an old man of the Apoplexie that was judged to be certainly dead Doring de ol Succinii viribus f. 71. Being worn about the neck it cures Agues and helpeth swellings of the throat and almonds and is good in times of infection especially used with salt and hinders defluxions A fume thereof doth much help to cure the Falling Sicknesse and is good in the Pestilence made into powder and mixed with Honey
of Lettice stalkes candyed sixe drams of the seeds of Agnus Castus a dram and a halfe of Rue seede halfe a dram of Corall a dram of Crystall halfe a dram of Camphor a scruple make those things in powder that are to be powdered and with syrupe of Purslane make an electuary Take often of it as much as a nut The outward use It helpeth hardnesse stoppings Apostumations and Ulcers of the Matrix if women sit in the Decoction thereof or receive the hot fume thereof The leaves with butter dissolve the swelling of the Cods being applyed applied to the head it easeth the paine thereof and is good in the Lethargy being boyled in salt water with Sage and Smallage and the hinder part of the head washed therewith the same used to the limbs taketh away wearinesse upon travaile or labour the leaves are good for wounds The seeds used with Barly meale doth mollifie hard swellings and break Impostumes and with Niter and Vineger it helpeth freckles of the face used with Hony it helpeth the sores in the mouth and throat With Vineger and Oyle it is good for the Frensy and Lethargy The Leaves used in a fume and also strowed drive away Serpents and being laid on cure their bitings Also strowed in the bed or carried about neere the skin it causeth chastnesse The seeds laid on with water doth heale the clifts of the fundament The hurtfull quality It troubleth the head and bringeth paine thereof especially when it is greene The Dose The seede is given from a scruple to a dram Medicines made thereof Syrupe of Agnus Castus Trosses of Agnus Castus CHAP. 68. De Erugine of Verdigrease VErdigrease is the rust of Copper or Brasse of a greene colour The Names It is called in Latine Aerugo Aes viride and Flos aeris in English Verdigrease The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree The best kinde The best is that which is greenest and cleane from drosse The Duration It will keepe good many years The outward use It is of a sharp corroding quality stoppeth freting spreading soars taketh away superfluous flesh in any Ulcer or Fistula and eateth out the callous or hard flesh thereof and is good in Ulcers sores of the Eyes mixed with Hony and used it consumes the fleshinesse in the nose called Polypus and helps the Disease in the fundament called a Fig. It cures Cankers and sores in the mouth being used with Hony and Plantaine water for a Gargarisme It is thought Achilles first used this Medicine in the cure of Telephus and therefore Achilles is commonly painted scraping off the rust of his Spheare head with his Sword into the wound of the said Telephus It is a drying astringent and corrosive Medicine It cures Kibes in cattell being mixed with Soap or Hogs-greace Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 25. cap. 5. fo 216. A water against Vlcers of the Privities Take of Raine water foure pints of white Candy halfe a pound Boyle them a little then adde of Verdy-grease in powder two ounces and keep it to use An Oyntment for the same Take of white Camphor oyntment foure ounces of Aloes an ounce burnt Allum a dram and a halfe Verdigrease a dram Oyle of Roses one ounce Tutty three drams Camphon sixe graines let those things that are to be powdered be made in powder and make all into an Oyntment The hurtfull quality It is a sharp corroding and burning Medicine therefore there must be care in the use of it Of such Medicines as are made thereof Vnguentum viride Vnguentum Apostolorum Vnguentum Aegyptiacum Greene Treat Tinctura viridis c. CHAP. 69. De Allio of Garlick The Names IT is called in Latine Allium in Egnlish Garlicke and poore mans Treacle The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and raiseth Blisters being applyed to the Skinne The Duration It will keep a yeare or longer being taken up dry The inward use Garlick being eaten heateth the Body maketh thin thick and grosse humours cutteth such as are tough and clammie digesteth and consumeth them also openeth obstructions or stoppings and is an enemy to cold poysons and to the biting of venemous Beasts and therefore is by Gallen and others rightly called The Country-mans Treacle It taketh away the roughnesse of the throat helpeth an old Chugh provoketh Urine killeth Wormes expelleth Winde helpeth the Collick cures the Dropsy proceeding from a cold cause provoketh the courses in women and stirreth up Venus or Lust but dryeth the seed of Generation and is most excellent for a cold and moist stomach and to stir up naturall heate Zacutus Lucitanus de Prax. Med. Admir lib. 2. Obser 11. relates of an old man who in the winter season lying in the cold some time had the innate or naturall heate of his stomach almost gon and his appetite even lost and decayed who after many hot Medicines used yet all in vaine at length he was cured with Garlick and Hony It is a good Preservative against the contagious and pestilent ayre A Decoction thereof made with Origan and Wine being drunke killeth Wormes Lice and Nits It is profitable against the biting of a mad Dog and for such as are inclined to the Palsey for shortnesse of breath and to dry up Rhume and also for the cold Head-ach It is commended against the Consumption of the Lungs pissing of blood and for such as cannot hold their water The distilled water is good for the same Diseases and for the Quinsey The milke wherein Garlick hath been boyled is good for wormes in Children Give two ounces of the water Morning and Evening for a week if need be The outward use The Decoction thereof used for a Bath or Fume to sit over brings downe the flowers and after-birth It cureth the bitings of mad Dogs or the biting of any other venimous creature being bruised with Rue and applyed It taketh away the Morphew Tetters and cures scabbed heads in Children Dandraffe and Scurfe tempered with Hony and the parts anoynted therewith The juyce killeth Lice and Nits if the head be noynted therewith The ashes of Garlick being strowed in Ulcers cureth them The smell of Garlick driveth away venimous creatures and applyed with Figs and Cummin it cures the bitings of the Mouse called a Shrew A clove of Garlick put into a hollow tooth that aketh easeth the paine thereof or stamp it with Safforn and Pepper and hold it between the teeth being bruised and applyed to the throat it helpeth the Quinsie and swelling thereof it helpeth the Gout being stamped with House-leeke and applyed The juyce mixed with Safforn and Goose-grease cures the noyse of the eares being put therein Garlicke burned and the ashes mingled with Hony and laid to black and blew markes after bruises taketh them away and helpeth wilde fire and Scabs being bruised and applyed They usually cure the Pip in poultery with Garlicke Against the Cough in Children Take one ounce of Hogs grease and halfe an ounce of Garlick bruise it and
mixe them together lay it to the soles of the feet at night warme The hurtfull quality Garlick especially eaten raw maketh the eyes dim offendeth the head hurteth the stomach over liberally taken causeth thirst hurteth the Kidneys heateth and burneth the blood yeildeth no nourishment to the body and is hurtfull to Young men and to such as are hot and cholerick and in hot seasons and hurteth Women with Childe and such as give suck it is onely good for such as are cold and moist and abound with Flegmatick grosse and tough humours for old persons and in cold seasons The best way is to boyle it throughly and to eate it with Oyle Vineger or such like Of such things as are made thereoof The distilled water of Garlick The electuary of Garlick which is made thus Take of Garlick foure or five cloves bruise it well with two or three drams of Hony and as much Mithridate then adde of Parmacitty Juniper berries of each a scruple Castor two scruples Pellitory of the wall in powder a scruple with Oximell Squillitick make in Electuary and give of it Morning and Evening as much as a Nut. It is excellent in the Chollick and against winde Whether Garlick and Onions be convenient in the Pestilence Concerning Garlick and Onions there is some question whether they be convenient and profitable in the Pestilence Gallen 1. de Differ Feb. cap. 1. among foode of ill juyce and nourishment doth mention Garlick and Onions and many other Physitians doe forbid the use of them because they increase hot humours whereby a Feaver is soon bred But Galen also saith that Garlick is the Country-mans Treacle and doth commend it against the biting of a mad Dog and other venemous creatures But this may soone be decided thus If we say that Garlick and Onions are profitable and usefull not as aliment or food but as a Medicine For as it is certaine that it yeilds no good nourishment so it is as certaine that it is excellent against Venome and Poyson being used in a small quantity as before is shewed and very usefull in the Pestilence CHAP. 70. De Allumine of Allum The Names and kindes IT is called in Latine Allumen or Salfugo Terrae Antonius Musa mentions foure sorts of Allum Exam. Terrarum Fol. 459. Schroderus writes of five sorts Schroder Pharm Med. Chym. lib. 3. cap. 24. fol. 143. But we have but two sorts ordinarily among us Roch Allum and common Allum true Roch Allum is rare and hard to be got The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third or fourth degree The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The best kinde The best is that which is clearest white and pure and is brought out of Aegypt The inward use Plinie saith it is taken in Pills for the stoppings and hardnesse of the Spleene driveth away the Itch and bringeth forth corrupt blood by urine The vulgar use to make Possets of it as thus to take a pint of milke and a piece of Allum as big as a Wallnut and boyle it then take off the curd and drinke of the clearest a good draught before the fit of an Ague The outward use It is astringent or binding yet cleansing and is good in putrified Ulcers takes away proud flesh cureth the Itch and Scab cleareth the Sight and is usefull in lotions for the mouth throat or elsewhere mixed with a litle Vineger it cleanseth the Gums rotten Teeth and fastneth loose Teeth being washed therewith It stauncheth blood and used with Vineger into any place where the haire hath been plucked up it causeth that which cometh againe to be but soft and in manner of a downe With the juyce of Pomgranat it is good for the infirmities of the eares and amends the fleshinesse growing about the Nailes and helpeth Kibes Mixed with the juyce of Beets it cleanseth the Leprosie Boyled in water and used it kills Nits Lice and such venome breeding in the head and cures the Dandraffe In a Glister it is very good for the Bloody-flix Burnt Allum in Powder is chiefly used to take away spongious Flesh to dry up Ulcers and to procure a Cicatrize A Water against filthy eating Vlcers Take of Plantaine and red Rose water of each halfe a pound Alum two ounces Sugar one ounce boyle them together to the melting of the Sugar and Allum then reserve it to use A Water against the ill smell of the Armeholes and Feet Take of Allum one pound Boyle it in about a gallon of Water and wash the parts therewith Of such things as are made thereof Burnt Allum Spirit of Allum Magister of Allum c. Allum water Magistrall CHAP. 71. De Althaea of Marsh-Mallowes The Names IT is called in Latine Althaeae Bismalra because it is twice as good in effect as the other sorts are in English Marsh-Mallow Morish-Mallow and White Mallow from the colour of the leaves The Temperament It is moderately hot but dryer then the other Mallowes and of a mollifying and softning Nature the roots and seeds are more dry and of thinner parts The Duration The leaves will keep a yeare the roots longer The inward use The roots are in the most use A decoction thereof doth ease the gripings of the Belly bringeth away Gravell and the Stone easeth such as are short winded and is good in all diseases of the Brest and Lungs as Coughes hoarsenesse of the Throat and Voice Plurisy and such like The roots and seeds boyled in wine or water is usefull for them that have any Excorations or frettings in the guts or Bloudy-flix and this it doth by qualifying the sharp Cholerick humours that are cause thereof and by the Sliminesse easing the paines and healing the sorenesse and in some sort stayeth the further eruption of blood It it profitably taken of them that are troubled with Ruptures Sciatica Cramps or Convulsion of the Sinews The dryed roots boyled in milke and drunke are good for the chin-Cough The roots boyled in wine are good for such as have fallen and bruised themselves and for those that have any bone or member out of joynt and for such as have any swelling paine or Ach in the Muscles Sinewes or Arteries of the Body and cures such as are stung with Bees or the like The distilled water is good for the aforesaid purposes The syrop of Marsh-Mallow is chiefly used for the Collick Stone or Gravell in Blader or Kidneyes the Dose is a spoonfull or two in Posset drinke or with Wine in a morning The manner of Administring it Both leaves seeds and roots are used in decoction A decoction provoking urine Take of Marsh-Mallow root halfe an ounce Licorish two drams Fennell root and Parsely roote and Kneeholme of each one ounce Parsely seede and Gromell seede of each two drams Bruise them all and boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Water or Posset drinke straine it and adde Sugar to it Drinke a good draught thereof Morning and Evening warme The outward use The leaves or
they sweat before the fit come will in twice or thrice taking rid it quite away it helpeth also digestion in the Stomach and is a good remedy for a Surfet It helpeth the Collick the Strangury and stoppings of the Urine procureth womens courses and expelleth the after-birth easeth and discusseth all inward tumours and windinesse it openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene cureth the bitings of mad Dogs and all other venemous creatures The roote taken dry or in any other drinke will abate the rage of Lust in young pâ—rsons The root being used greene helpeth such as be short breathed and be troubled with stuffings in their Stomach The root also steeped in Vineger and a little of the same taken fasting is a good preservative in time of contagion The decoction taken helpeth inward bruises and congealed blood and strengthneth the Stomach and is effectuall for the suffocation of the Mother The distilled water is good for the aforesaid Diseases especially if the roots and leaves be steeped in wine and distilled in a glasse The Dose is two or three spoonfulls at a time and doth much ease cold or gripings that come of cold or winde so as the body be not bound The said water taken with a scruple of the root in powder helpeth the Plurisie being taken at the beginning as also all other diseases of the Lungs and breast as Coughs shortnesse of the breath and such like The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction in powder Electuary Potion c. In Decoction Take of the leaves of Angelica a handfull of Angelica roots two drams boyle them in a pint and a halfe of water or Posset drinke to a pinte straine it and give a good draught thereof Morning and Evening A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Angellica root in powder of London Treacle of each a dram Angellica water three ounces wine Vineger halfe an ounce mixe them together take it and sweat upon it A Potion against faintnesse of the heart Take of Angellica root in powder thirty graines Angelica water one ounce Cinamon water a spoonfull mixe them together and give it divers times if need require The outward use The juyce or the water dropped into the eyes cleareth them takes away filmes or skins therein and helpeth deafnesse if dropped into the eares the juyce put into hollow teeth easeth the paine The roots in powder made up with a little Pitch into a Plaister and laid on the biting of a mad Dog or any other venemous creature doth wonderfully helpe them the juyce or the water dropped or tents wet therein and put into old and filthy deepe ulcers or the powder of the roote in want of the other doth cleanse them and cause them to heale quickly by covering the naked bones with flesh The distilled water applied to places pained with the Gout or Sciatica doth give a great deale of ease The root smelled to or held in the Mouth is a good preservative in the times of contagion The Dose The root or leaves are given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The juyce The extract thereof The Stalkes and roots canded Oyle Balsam of Angelica CHAP. 75. De Antimonio of Antimony or Stibium The Names IT is called in Latine Antimonium Antimonium Hyacinthinum vitrem Antimonii Stibium and Stiâ—â—mi in English Antimony and glasse of Antimony The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is the clearest glasse without drosse or earthy substance and of a red colour and brittle or easy to breake The Duration It will keepe good many years The inward use Antimony is a strong Medicine and worketh strongly both by Vomit and Stoole It is profitable in old paines of the head Catarrhes or Râ—umes paines of the Stomack arising from Malignant humours in the Dropsey Green-sicknesse shortnesse of breath Palsey Falling-sicknesse in the Tertian or Quartaine Ague in the French-pox Melancholly and madnesse in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene in the Leprosy Elephansy Scab Itch and foule Diseases of the skin It is most excellent in the Pestilence especially at the beginning The manner of administring it It is given in Substance or by Infusion In Substance Take of Stibium or glasse of Antimony in fine powder three or four graines of Sugar in powder two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and take it in a Morning fasting with Physicall observation Or thus Take of Stibium in fine powder three graines Sugar of Roses two drams or as much conserve of red Roses mixe them togther and take it as before A Bole good in the Dropsey Take of Antimony in very fine Powder three graines London Treacle a dram conserve of red Roses two drams being well mixed take it as before In Pills Take of Antimony in Powder three graines Pilula Alephanginae a scruple make Pills and cover them with leafe Gold Sed fraus honesta latet By Infusion Take of Stibium in powder three or foure graines white wine four ounces let them stand all night in the Morning poure off the clearest and give it The outward use Stibium is used in Medicines to cleare the sight and against Ulcers Festulas thereof or also to take away proud flesh in sores and procureth a cicatrice in Ulcers Being mixed with sope used it helpeth to cure Cankers and the fleshinesse growing in the Nostrills Plinie saith t stoppeth the bleeding of any fresh wound being strewed therein and singular to heale the bitings of Dogs but this I conceive is spoken of crude Antimony Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 33. cap. 6. fol. 473. A water to take away spots in the eyes and to dry up superfluous moysture Take of cleare Antimony in powder ten graines red Rose water three ounces mixe them together and let them stand foure and twenty houres then drop foure or five drops of the clearest into the eyes twice in a day The hurtfull quality Stibium is a strong and violent Medicine and brings Convulsions Cramps Faintings of the Spirits and many times sodaine death therefore take these cautions Cautions in the use of Antimony Give it onely to strong and able bodies Let it not be given where the body is much bound till a glister hath been administred Give it not to women with childe nor to weake persons nor to any that are in a Consumption or to such as spit blood or have bad Lungs Give it not to any immediately before or presently after bleeding When any doe take it let them keepe their beds while it workes and take warme Posset drinke having a care they take no cold Fabricius mentions two Matrons that after the taking of Antimony the one lost her hearing and the other became foolish Cent. 5. Obser 12. If anâ— desire to know more of the nature of Antimony let them read these following Authors Matthiol in lib. 5. Diascor cap. 59. f. 837. 838. Massar lib.
it is commended against biting of venemous Serpents and mad Dogs and hinders drunkennesse being taken before hand and quickly expels it afterwards it helps such as pisse Bloud or are brused by falls and those that are bursten and have a Rupture as also for those that have the Sciatica and have any inward wounds The Roots have not the same vertue but provoke vomit being taken The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Electuary or Decoction A Decoction thereof is made as is before shewed in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The Decoction with Wine Gargled easeth the Tooth-ach The greene Herbe bruised or the Juice applied to any green wound in the Head or Body will soone heale it and close it up as also to any Vâ—ines or Sinewes that are cut and will also draw forth any broken Bone or any Splinter Thorne or such like gotten into the Flesh it is no lesse profitable for old filthy Sores and Vlcers yea though they be Fistulous and hollow but some do advise to put a little Salt thereto for this purpose being applied with a little Hogs-lard it helpeth a Plague Sore and other Biles and Pushes the Fumes of the Decoction while it is warme received by a Funnell into the Eares easeth the paines of them destroyeth Wormes and cureth the running Sores in them the juyce dropped into them doth the same likewise The Leaves bruised and applied cureth the bitings of mad-dogs and of venemous Creatures and stoppeth bleeding at the Mouth or Nose A cerot against wounds of the Head Take of Betony in powder an Ounce Turpintine Rosin yellow wax of each halfe an Ounce Mastick and Francumsence of each half an Ounce Mummy three drams make all into a cerot and keepe it for your use The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies the roots provoke to vomit and causeth loathing and belchings of the stomack The Dose The leaves in powder are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve of the flowers Syrup of Betony both simple and compound Plaster of Betony Salt of Betony CHAP. 81. De lapide Bezaar of the Bezar Stone The Names and Kindes BEzar-stone is taken out of a Beast like a Hart or Goate It is called Bezar from Paser which signifieth a Goat Or it is called Belzaar from Bâ—l dominus a Lord and zaar venenum Poyson the Lord of poyson as being good against venome and poyson There are two sortes the Eâ—st and thâ— West the East is called Bezoar orientalis and the West Bezar occidentalis the East is most in use The best kinde There is much written by Authors concerning the best choyce of these stones buâ— I shall onely say thus much that the best is that which you fiâ—de by experience to be most eff ctuall for I dare say there is scarce one good stone among forty to be found The temperament They are hot in the first or second degree some say temperat others cold The duration These stones will keep many years The inward use It is usefull in the swimming of the Head Falling sicknesse Jaundes Collick Disâ—ntery or Flux of the Belly also against Wormes the Stone the Courses stopt and hard labours of Women but especially it is used against poyson and venome the P stilence and P stilentiall Feavers in the small Pox and Mâ—asells and in many other Diseases to provoke Sweate and thereby to expell ill vapours from the Heart and vitall spirits and for Swouâ—ings and against Melancholly also and the Diseases that arise from thence and to preserve strength and youth Monardus doth commend it in the Pleurisy and saith it doth much profit such as have taken Arsenick or such like corrasives Thonerus in lib. 3. obscurat 5. f. 186. 187. he cured a Maide forty years old of the Mother fits by giving her six graines of Bezar in Balme-water It doth not alwayes provoke Sweat The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in powder The outward Vse The powder put on the place that is bitten by any venemous Creature doth free them from danger of death and likewise put into a Plague-sore that is opened it doth the like The Dose I conceive there are two chiefe causes why Bezar-stone doth not worke and effâ—ct according to expectation the one is because wee seldome get the right B zar the other is because people take too small a Dose thereof for the ordinary Dose of the Eâ—st B zar is not above five or six Graines at the most nay the vulgar rare y give above two or three Gâ—aines thereof Whereas wee may safely give of it from three graines to ten or twelve yea to twenty Zacutus Lucitanus de pr. med ad mir lib. 3. obs 86. relates of a Woman that fell into a malignant Fâ—ver with dangerous symptomes who in three dayes brought upwards three score and two Wormes having Bâ—zar given her in a small quantity but after the taking of a dram of Bâ—zar at once shee soone recovered although before shâ—e was very dangerous If any desire to reade more of the Bâ—zar-stone let them read Monardus in English of the Bezar-stone and the Hearbe Escuerconera printed 1580. Also Doctor Primrose of errors tra slated by D ctor Witty into Englâ—sh lately And Paeraeus in English booke 21. Chapter 38. Of such Medicines as are made thereof Pulvis Beroardicus Pulvis è ch lis cancrorum compositus or Gascons powder Pulvis cardiacus magistralis CHAP. 82. De bolo Armenio of Bolarmoniacke The Names and temperature IT is called in Latine Bolus Armenius and Bolus Armenia and that â—ecause the best comes from Armenia in English Bolearmoniack and Bole-armeny or red Bole. It is cold and dry in the first degree The best sort The best is firme and close without gravell or stone heavy and for the most part wholly of one colour without discolouring parts and being put to the tongue it cleaveth very fast The Duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use It is drying astringent and strengthning therefore it is usefull in any Fluxe of the belly in womens Fluxes whether white or red in Rhumes and Catarrhes in spitting of blood bleeding of the nose or any inward bleeding it thickneth humours resisteth putrefaction and is excellent in all contagious diseases of the Pestilence Small-pox Measells and against poyson and venome The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Electuary The outward use It stoppeth the bleeding of the nose or the bleeding of any wound helpeth Ulcers of the mouth consolidateth broken bones and is much used in binding Pultises and astringent powders Against bleeding of the nose Take Bole Armoniack in powder an ounce red Rosewater foure ounces Vineger of Roses one ounce and a halfe mixe them well together and wet clothes therein and apply it cold into the forehead The Dose The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in Plantaine water
or such like Of Medicines made thereof Bole Armony washed or prepared Vnguentum Ophthalmicum Vnguentum rubrum siccativum c. CHAP. 83. De Borragine of Borrage The Names IT is called in Latine Borrago and Borago in English Borrage and Borage The Temperament It is hot and moist in the first degree The inward use The Leaves Flowers and Seeds all of them or any of them are very cordiall and helpe to expell sadnesse and melancholly arising without manifest cause whereof came the saying Ego Borrago gaudia semper ago I Borrage bring alwaies Courage It is good in Pestilentiall Feavers and to resist any venome and poyson as also to clarifie the blood and to mitigate the heate in Feavers The Flowers or Seeds breed and increase milke in Nurses The syrupe prevaileth for all the purposes aforesaid and is put with other cooling opening and cleansing hearbs to open stoppings and to helpe the yellow Jaundise to coole and cleanse the blood and temper the heate and sharpnesse thereof especially with Fumitry and thereby to helpe the Itch Ringwormes or other spreading Scabs or Sores that arise from a dust and sharpe humours The conserve is used to comfort the heart and Spirits and for such as are weake and in a Consumption The distilled water is good for the aforesaid Diseases Borrage must be used while it is greene for it will not keep dry The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction juyce and syrup The outward use The leaves or ashes boyled in water and hony is available against Inflamations and Ulcers in the mouth or throat The distilled water being applyed with a linnen cloth dipt therein helpeth the venome of a Spider or Waspe Of such Medicines as are made thereof Borrage water Conserve Syrupe of Borrage The juyce CHAP. 84. De Calamo Aromatico of Aromaticall reed The Names IT is called in Latine Calamus Aromaticus and Acorus in English Aromaticall reed and the sweet smelling flagge The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and of thin parts The Duration Is will keep good two or three yeares The inward use A decoction of this root availes to provoke urine to ease the paine of the side to bring downe womens courses to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and Breast and helpeth Convulsions gripings burstings bruises and such as pisse by drops It prevailes in the Dropsie and against Poison and is put into Electuaries for such as have raw and cold humours in their Lungs or chest Halfe a scâ—uple thereof in powder taken in a little beer doth help the Collick and expell winde It helpeth the Palsie and swimming of the head The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction Electuary and in powder The outward use The juice mixed with a little Hony and used helpeth drynesse The root boyled in wine stamped and applyed into the Cods abates the swelling thereof and helpeth all hardnesse and collections of humours in any place The fume thereof used provokes the courses The fume thâ—reof also taken by the mouth in a pipe alone or with dryed Turpentine helpeth Coughs It maketh a sweet breath being chewed in the Mouth and is used in perfumes The Dose The Dose in powder is halfe a dram to a dram in decoction from a dram to three drams Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distelled water of the root steeped fi st in wine The root preserved The Extract A scruple of which being taken helpeth the Collick El. Diacorum Oâ— e. CHAP. 85. De Calendula of Marigolds The Names IT is called in Latine Calendula Caliha Chrysanthemum and that from the golden Colour of the flowers in English Marigolds The Temperament The flowers are hot in the second degree The Duration The flowers will keep good being dry a yeare or two The inward use The flowers comfort and strengthen the heart provoke sweat and the courses and expelleth the afterbirth withstandeth poyson and venery good in Pestilent and contagious Fevers as also in the Jaundise The conserve made of the flowers taken Morning and Evening helpeth the trembling of the heart and is usefull in time of the Plague or Pestilence and corruption of the ayre The distilled water is good for the aforesaid purposes The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction As Take a small handfull of Marigold flowers and boyle them in a pint and a halfe of cleare Posset drinke to a pint straine it and drink off the clearest The outward use The juyce helpeth the Toothach being washed therewith and if warts be rubbed therewith it taketh them away A fume of the decoction used hot helpeth to expell the secondine or afterbirth The juyce dropped into the eares killeth wormes The water helpeth red and watery eyes being washed therewith Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Vineger of the flowers conserve CHAP. 86. De Chamomilla of Camomill The Names IT is called in Latine Chamomilla Camomilla and Chamaemelum in English Camomill and Cammomill and that because the flowers have the smell of an Apple or Quince The Temperament It is hot and dry in the first or second degree and is of thin parts The Duration The herbe will keep good a yeare and the flowers longer The inward use The decoction of Camomill made and drunke helpeth all paines and Stiches in the side the Chollick Stone and winde in the Belly or Stomach and expelleth tough and clammy flegme as also cold humours provoketh swâ—at brings downe the courses in women and provokes urine It is very profitable for Agues that come of flegme or melancholly or from an inflamation of the bowells and for the Hypochonders that is the sides and that part where the Liver and Spleene lye It moderately comforteth all parts that have need of warmth and digesteth and dissolveth whatsoever hath need thereof by a wonderfull speedy property The flowers boyled in Posset drinke provoketh sweat and helpeth to expell cold Aches and paines wheresoever A syrup made of the juyce with the flowers and White-wine is a good remedy against the Jaundes and Dropsie that comets by the evill disposition of the Spleene A decoction made with White-wine and taken expelleth the dead Childe and brings away the afterbirth speedily and cleanseth those parts The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in decoctions The outward use It is used in decoctions for Glisters against winde and the Collick A decoction thereof being used taketh away wearinesse and easeth the paines to what part of the body soever it be applyed and comforteth the sinews that are overstrained mollifieth all swellings and those that are not over hard and rarefieth or maketh thin those that are bound together The flowers boyled in lye is good to wash the head and to comfort both it and the braine It helpeth paines in the side and Stiches as also the Chollick being applyed and wasteth away raw and undigested humours The Oyle made of the flowers is used
likewise coole the Liver and blood and asswage all inflamations in the reines and bladder provoketh urine and allaieth the heate and sharpnesse thereof the same also stayeth the bloudy Flux and womens courses and helpeth the swelling of the Spleene The water of the Berries carefully distilled is good in the panting or beating of the heart and good for the overflowing of the Gall the yellow Jandâ—es The manner of Administring them The Leaves and Roots are used in Decoctions The outward Vse The juyce dropped in to foule Ulcers or they washed therewith or with the decoction of the herbe and root doth wonderfully clense them and helpe to cure them the Leaves are good to be put into Lotions that are made for soâ—â—outhes or Ulceers therin or in the privy parts or elsewhere and also to fasten loose Teeth and to heale foule gums and to stay flowing of rheume into the Mouth Throat Teeth or Eyes the juyce or water is excellent for hot and red Eyes beeing dropped therein and also for all wheales or other eruptions or hot and sharp humours into the Face or Hands or other parts of the body to bath them therewith and taketh away rednesse in the Face and spots or other deformities of the skin The hurtfull quality Strawberries are hurtfull to cold watery and flegmatick stomacks and too many eaten soon putrify in the stomach Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water or the Leaves and fruit Syrupe Spirit and Tincture of Strawberries CHAP. 108. De Glycyrrhiza of Licoris The Names IT is called in Latine Glycyrrhiza Glyzirrhiza Liquiritia and Dulcis radix in English Licoris and Licorice The temperament It is temperate in heate and moisture The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward Vse Licoris is good against the roughnesse and hoarsnesse of the throat and is helpefull for Ulcers in the bladder and by its moisture it quencheth thirst and is excellent for any dry cough to digest flâ—gme and to cause it to be easily spit up to helpe shortnesse of breath and all other griefes of the Breast and Lungs the Tiffick or Consumptions caused by the distillations of Salt humours on them it is good also in paines of the Raines Strangury heat of the Urine especially boyled with Maidenhaire and Figs. The juyce of Licoris is as effectuall in all the Diseases of the Breast and Lungs the Reines and bladder as the decoction The manner of Administring it It is given in powder in juyce and in Decoction The outward use The fine powder of Licoris blowne through a quill into the Eyes that have a Pin and Wed or rheumatick distillations into them doth cleanse them and help them The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Juyce of Licoris Syrup of Licoris CHAP. 109. De Gramine of Grasse The Names IT is called in Latine Gramen in Enlish Grasse The temperament The roots are moderately colde and dry a little biting and of thin parts the herbe cold in the first degree The inward Vse The Medow Grasse and couch Grasse or quick Grasse are most in use and open obstructions or stoppings of the Liver and Gall and the stoppings of the Urine being boyled in white Wine and to ease the gripings of the Belly and inflammations and wasteth the matter of the Stone in the Bladder and the Ulcers thereof the seede doth more powerfully expell Urine and stayeth the laske and casting or vomiting The distilled water or the Decoction alone being taken killeth Wormes in Children especially if some Worme-seede be added to it The juyce of the whole plant being taken helpeth spitting of Bloud The manner of Administring it The rootes and seeds are given in Decoction The outward use The rootes bruised and applied healeth wounds that are fresh or greene and ease paines of the head as also in inflammations and defluxions of the Eyes Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 110. De Guajaco of Guajacum or Pockwood The Names IT is called in Latine Guajacum Lignum Indicum Lignum Sanctum and Lignumâ—vitae in English Pockwood and Indiall Pockwood The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and hath a cleansing faculty The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use The chiefe use of this Wood is against the French Disease for it provoketh Sweate resisteth contagion and putrifaction and cleanseth the Bloud It is good also in the Dropsy Falling Sicknesse Shortnesse of breath in Catarrhes Rheumes and cold distillations of the Lungs or other parts Coughes and Consumptions the Gout and all other joyntaches and for cold flegmatick humours for the Diseases of the Bladder and Reines and for all long and lingring Diseases proceeding from cold and moist causes it openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene warmes and comforts the stomack and entralls and is good in Scabs Itch c. The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction of Lignum vitae Take of Lignum Vitae or Pock-wood a pound of the barke thereof two Ounces steepe them in twelve or fourteene Pints of spring water foure and twenty houres then boyle them to seven or eight pints straine it and give thereof a good draught morning and Evening and let the party sweate upon it If you adde two Ounces of Licoris or more and some Anisseede it will be much more pleasant to take The barke may be given in powder from half a dram to a dram The outward use The decoction thereof doth make the Teeth white and firme being washed therewith The hurtfull quality It must not be used in hot and dry Bodies too frequently Of such Medicines as are made thereof Extract Chymicall Oyle Spirit and Salt of Guajacum CHAP. 111. De Hedera of Ivy. The Names IT is called in Latine Hedera and Hedera arborea in English Ivy. The temperament Ivy is of diverse qualities some sharpe and hot and some moist others cold dry and astringent The inward Vse A dram of the flowers drunke twice a day in red VVine helpeth the Laske and bloody Flix The yellow berries are good against the Jandise and to keepe from Drunkennesse and helpeth those that spit bloud the white berries being taken killeth wormes The juyce of the root is good to be taken against the biting of the Phalangium or deadly Spider the berries are held by many to be good against the Plague or Pestilence being made in powder and taken in wine they being taken in wine doe helpe to break the Stone provoke Urine and VVomens courses and brings away the birth and afterbirth The manner of Administring it The berries and flowers are given in decoction or in powder The outward Vse A Bath made of the Leaves and Berries doth bring down the Courses and bring away the dead birth and afterbirth being set in or a Pessary made and used doth the like but this must be done onely upon necessity
The Leaves boyled in Vineger and applied warme to the side helpâ—s the Spleene Ache or Stich in the sides the same applied with Rose-water and Oyle of Roses to the fore-head and Temples doth ease the Head-ach although of long continuance the fresh Leaves boyled in wine and used doth clense old filthy Sores and Ulcers and is effectuall for greene wounds to heale them quickly and foder up the L ps thereof the same healeth scaldings of water and burnings by Fire or blisterings in the body The juyce of the Leaves or berries snuffed up into the Nose purgeth the Head and Braine of thin rheume and cureth the Ulcers and stench therein and dropped into the Eares doth helpe the old and running Sores of them the Berries or Leaves used causeth the Haire to grow blacke The greene Leaves are commonly used to be laid upon Issues in the Armes Legs or elsewhere The gum of Ivy is used being dissolved to take away superfluous haire in any place and to destroy Nits and Lice in any place the same dissolved in Vineger and put into hollow aking Teeth doth ease the same and being often used will cause them to fall out Some use it as a bait with other things to Kill Fâ—sh The fume of Ivy branches being burned driveth away Gnats Battes and all other hurtfull and noysome creatures The hurtfull quality It bringeth barrennesse in Man or Woman being too often used and brings weaknesse to the braine and senses It is an enemy to the nerves and sinewes being taken inwardly but helpefull to them applied outwardly The Dose The flowers and berries are given from half a dram to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyl of the berries good against all cold infirmities of the joynts provokes the termes breakes and expells the Stone in the Reines clenseth and health foule Ulcers CHAP. 112. De Hedera terrestri of Ground-Ivie or Alehoofe The Names IT is called in Latine Hedera terrestris and Corona terrae because it spreadeth and is like a Garland upon the ground in English Alehoofe Ground Ivy Gill creepe by the ground Cats-foote Haymaids and Tunnehoof because the Country people use it much in their Ale The Temperament It is hot and dry sharp and bitter in taste it openeth also clenseth and rarefieth or maketh thin The inward use It is a good wound herb for all inward wounds as also for Ulcerated lungs oâ— other parts either by it selfe or with other the like herbes boyled together and being drunk by them that have any griping paines of windy or chollerick humours in the Stomach Spleene or Belly doth ease them in a short space it helpeth likewise the yellow Jaundes by opening the stoppings of the Gall Liver and Spleene it expelleth venome or poyson and the Plague also it provoketh urine and womens courses but doth not stay them as some have thought but the Decoction of the herbe in wine being drunke for some time together helpeth them that have the Sciatica or Hip-gout as also the Gout in the Hands Knees or Feet helpeth to dissolve disperse the peccant humours and to procure ease The syrupe of Alehoofe is usefull in Ulcers of the Lungs and Consumptions as also in â—humes flowing downe to the Stomach Boyled in broth and taken it provoketh sleepe and expelleth ill humours out of the body Being steeped in Aquavitee and taken it doth bring away the gravell and Stone The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction See the Decoction of Mugwort The outward use A decoction thereof is good to gargle any sore throat or mouth putting thereto some Hony and a little burnt Allum as also to wash the Sores and Ulcers of the privy parts in man or woman it speedily healeth greene wounds being bound thereto and the juyce boyled with a little Hony and Vardigrease doth wonderfully cleanse Fistulas and hollow Ulcers and stayeth the malignity of spreading and eating Cankers and Ulcers it helpeth also the Itch Scabs Wheales and other breakings forth in the skin in any part of the Body the juyce of Celandine field Daisies and ground Ivie clarified and a little fine Sugar dissolved therein dropped into the eyes is a soveraigne remedy for all the paines rednesse and watering of the eyes the Pin and Web skins or Filmes growing over the sight or whatsoever might offend them the same helpeth beasts as well as men the juyce droped into the eares doth help the noyse and singing of them and helpeth also deafnesse The leaves are used in Bathes and Glisters to dissolve the Stone An oyntment to heale burnings Take ground Ivie foure handfulls Plantaine leaves a handfull Burnet halfe a handfull Bruise all these together and let them stand eight dayes then adde to them a handfull of Goose dung and one ounce of wax boyle them together till the herbes have almost lost their colour then straine and reserve it Or you may boyle them presently after they are bruised Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water Conserve of the flowers Syrupe both simple and compound CHAP. 113. De Hordeo Gallico of French barly The Temperament IT is colde and dry in the first degree or cold and moist of a clensing faculty The inward use It is much used in pectorall diseases or diseases of the brest helpeth the sharpnesse of the throat and increaseth milke especially boyled with Fennell It provoketh urine and is very profitable in chollerick Feavers The manner of Administring it It is used onely in Decoction As thus Take two ounces of French-barly boyle it in two fresh waters then boyle it againe in a quart of water adding halfe an ounce of Licorish and a handfull of Violet leaves and as many strawberry leaves to a pint or a pint and a halfe strayne it and put thereto of syrupe of Violets two ounces or for the poorer sort you may sweeten it with a little Sugar This is good in a burning Feaver The outward use It is used outwardly to soften hard swellings and is good for inflamations and sorenesse of the throat being boyled alone or with other fitting Herbes and the mouth and throat washed therewith A bath good against the Scab Itch c. Take Mallowes Violet Beets black Hellebor Fumitory of each three handfulls of French barly sixe handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water for a bath The hurtfull quality It is bad for cold and windy bodies We have had of late yeares a Barly called Pearl'd Barly and is much in use for the forementioned Diseases CHAP. 114. De Junipero of the Iuniper-tree The Names THe Juniper tree is called in Latine Juniperus the berries are called Grana Juniperi or Baccae Juniperi the Gum that runneth from the tree being cut is callâ—d Lachrima Juniperi vernix or vernia quasi veris ros issuing forth in the spring as also Sandaracha and Sandarax of the Arabians but not of the Greeks Yet some will have Vernix to be made of Amber and Linseed
Oyle The Temperament The Juniper both leaves and wood are hot and dry in the third degrees the berries hot in the third degree and dry in the first the Gum hot and dry in the first degree The Duration The Berries will keep good a yeare the wood longer The inward use The leaves young tender branches of the Juniper tree or the juice of them or of the berries or the berries themselves taken in wine are very eff ctuall against the biting of a Vipers or Adders as also against the Plague or Pestilence or any other infection or poyson the same also is profitable against the Strangury and stopping of the Urine and so powerfull against the Dropsie that as Matthiolus saith he hath knowne divers to avoid so much water by urine by taking foure or five ounces at a time of the lye made of Juniper Ashes that they have been holpen thereby it doth also provoke the courses and help the rising of the Mother and other paines thereof the berries are good for the Cough and shortnesse of breath and other diseases of the Chest an Lungs and to ease the griping paines in the Belly they are prevalent also to help Ruptures Convulsions and Cramps to procure a safe and easie delivery unto women with Childe The berries are very comfortable to the braine strengthen the memory and sight and all the senses and the heart also being either drunke in wine or the decoction of them in wine taken the same also is good against the Quartaine and dissolveth the winde in the Belly or Stomach and in generall is effectuall for all diseases proceeding from any cold cause if they take of the berryes two or three times a weeke three foure or more at a time in wine The Salt made of the Ashes of the Juniper wood is a singular remedy for the scurvey the putrified and foule Gums and generally resisting all putrefaction The chymicall oyle drawne from the berâ—ies while they are greene is as effectuall if not more to all the purposes aforesaid and the oyle drawne from the Juniper wood is good against the Chollick rising of the Mother Gout Wormes Head-ach c. if foure or five drops thereof be taken in a Morning in Broth or in Bâ—ere The Gumme of Juniper in powder taken in wine doth stay vomitings inward bleedings and spitting of blood womens courses also and all other fluxes of the belly and the Piles also killeth wormes in children The manner of Administring it The berries and wood are given in powder or in Decoction The outward use The smoake of the Juniper wood being burned besides that it yeeldeth a good sent to perfume any house it is of good use in time of infection and driveth away all noysome Serpents Flies Wasps c. the Ashes of the wood or barke made into a lye with water doth cure all Itches Scabs Pustules or other eruptions in the skin yea and the Lepry also if the places be bathed therewith The Gum is used to stay cold distillations Catarrhs that fall upon the eyes or Lungs c. the fume thereof upon the burning on coals being taken into a Cap the head also holden in the meane time over the said fumes at night to lye covered therewith or the powder thereof with other things fit for the purpose strewed upon flax and to be quilted into a Cap to be worne in the night chiefly and in the day also as neede shall require the powder thereof mixed with some oyle of Roses and Myrtles healeth the chaps of the fundament Kibes also and Chilblains on the hands and feet the powder also mixed with the white of an Egge and applyed to the forehead stayeth the bleeding at the nose the same also burned upon coals and the fumes thereof taken through a Funnell upon an aking tooth taketh away the paine it is effectuall in most Ulcers and Fistulaes and weeping running sores to dry up their moisture The Liquid Varnish is an especiall remedy against scaldings with water or burnings with fire and to help the painfull and bleeding Piles and Palsie Cramps Convulsions of the nerves and sinews The chymecall oyle of the wood is good against the Tooth-ach and for the Gout Sciatica and resolution of the nerves comming of colde A bath against the Hip-gout Take Camomill flowers and Juniper berries of each ten handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water for a Bath A quilt or bag for the same Take of Juniper berries what quantity you will bruise them and make two large quilts for the hip wet them with strong Aquavitee make them very hot and apply them one after another unto the place affected The hurtfull quality They must not be used in hot and dry bodies The Dose The berries are given in powder from sixe to twenty Of such things as are made thereof Spirit of Juniper Oyle Chymicall both of the berries and wood Salt Extract Elixer juniperinum Rob. juniperinum c. CHAP. 115. De Iujubis of Iujubes The Names THey are called in Latine Iujubae Ziziphae and Ziziphi in English Jujubes The Temperament They are temperate in heate and moisture The Duration They will keep long but soon dry away The inward use Being greene or dry say some they open the body and purge coller gently and clense the blood others deny any purging faculty in them All Authors agree that they coole the heate and sharpnesse of the blood and therefore good in hot Agues and help them that have a Cough to bring away tough fleagme and good for other Diseases of the Chest and Lungs as shortnesse of breath hot rhumes and distillations proceeding from hot humours they are also to good purpose used to clense the reines and bladder from gravell in making the passages slippery they also stay vomitings procured by sharp humours The manner of Administring them They are chiefly used in Decoctions See an Example of a Decoction of them in my first part in the Chapter of Dates The hurtfull quality They are hard of digestion nourish very little and doe not easily passe out of the Stomach they are therefore alwaies used in decoctions with other fitting ingredients Of those things that are made thereof Syrupe of Jujubes simple and compound good against the Cough shortnesse of breath thin rhumes and hot humours falling upon the Lungs c. CHAP. 116. De Lacte of Milke The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Laâ— in English Milke and is cold and moist The best Milke The best milke ought to be white in colour of equall consistence which being dropped on the naile standeth round and firme without flowing abroad And a black or brown Cowes milke is by most esteemed the best In the spring time milke is thinnest and at the fall of the leafe thickest and best according to that old saying When Fearne waxeth red then is milke good with bread The inward use Milke doth nourish the body well breeds good blood and is very usefull in Consumptions
and Ulcers of the Lungs yea no remedy is found like it for the same it is excellent in the bloody flix or any other flux of the body where there is no Feaver nor choller abounding It mundifieth and cleanseth taketh away paines of the Breast Lungs Reines Bladder and Entrailes and very profitable in Ulcers of the bladder It is good for temperate bodies whose stomachs are free from chollerick and flegmatick humours for in such it is well digested aad engendereth good blood and maketh the countenance faire it asswageth heate and scalding of the urine furthereth Venus and is very good in times of infection The outward use It is used in Glysters against fluxes of the belly in the Gout to asswage paine and to soften swellings c. A Glyster against the Bloody-flux Take a pint and a halfe of new milke and adde theteto Barly a handfull Comfrey root and Linseede of each an ounce Boyle them therein to about a pint and being strained dissolve in it of browne Sugar an ounce the yolks of two Eggs and make a Glyster The hurtfull quality Milke is hurtfull for those that are troubled with the Head-ach or Feavers or Hypochondriacke winde or thirst or that avoid cholericke excrâ—ments downewards or have had some plentiâ—ull evacuation of blood as Hippocrates witnesseth It is also bad for cold windy and weake stomachs Gouty persons such as have the Stone and Livers stopt as also for the Palsie and Cramps for sore eyes and distillations of rheume hurteth the teeth and Gums and is unprofitable for old persons and such as have the Chollick Some boyle it and put thereto Salt Sugar or Hony others put in Mints In fluxes of the Belly let it be boyled or peeces of Steele quenched therein before it be taken and you may put some Cinamon therein or Sugar rosat Cautions to be observed in taking milke After the taking of milke the party is to rest lest by the motion of the body the heat be drawne from the Center to the circumference of outward parts After the taking of milke doe not sleepe lest head-ach heavinesse and drowsin sse follow onely very weake persons are permitted to slâ—epe after milke Let milke be taken fasting and take nothing after till it be concocted in the stomach Drinke no Wine after the taking of milke neither mingle any sharpe or soure things with it nor eate F sh with or after the taking of Milke Wash your Teeth and Gums well after the taking of Milke with Beere or Wine Of those things that are made of Milke Creame Butter Cheese and Curde Whey c. CHAP. 117. De Lactuca of Lettuce The Names and temperament IT is called Lactuca à Lacteo succo from the milky juyce which issueth forth from the wounded stalkes and Leaves in English Lettuce and Lettice It is cold and moist in the second or third degree The Duration It is rarely dryed for it will not keepe long but is used green The inward Vse Lettice is good for a hot stomack and yeeldeth good nourishment to the body Ant. Musa did by Lettice ease Augustus of the violence of his disease It procureth rest and sleepe being taken raw or boyled it helpeth to loosen the belly and the boyled more then the raw which eaten last performeth it the better and was generally so in ancient dayes It helpeth digestion quencheth thirst increaseth milke in Nourses and easeth all griping paines of the stomack or bowells that come of choller it abateth bodily lust and tempereth the Heate of Urine the seeds and distilled water are good for the virulâ—nt running of the Reines and for the heart of the Urine as also for the aforesaid purposes It was formerly eaten at the latter end of meales but now t is eaten at the beginning The manner of Administring it It is given onely in decoction as Take a handfull of Lettice and boyle it in a pint and a half of Posset drink to a pint straine it and drink a good draught at night thereof The outward use The juyce of Lettuce mixed or boyled with Oyle of Roses and applied to the forehead and temples procureth rest and sleepe and easeth the head-ach of any hot cause applied with camphor to the Cods it abateth the heat of lust or applied in the same manner to the region of the Heart Liver or Reines or by bathing the said place with the juyce or distillâ—d water wherein some white Sanders and red Roses are put doth abate the heate and inflammations therein as also comfort and strengthen those parts A Fomentation good in the Frensy Take Lettice Violets Plantaine Night-shade Housleeke Purslane of each a handfull Violet-flowers Water-Lillies and red Roses of each a Pugill that is as many as you can hold in three fingers or a small handfull of Mirtle flowers halfe a pugill make a decoction and bath the forepart of the head therewith The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull to phlegmatick and melancholicke bodies dimmeth the sight quencheth naturall heat causeth barrennesse maketh the body sluggish and weakneth the stomack being too much eaten and is bad also for those that are short-winded or have any imperfection in their Lungs or do use to spit bloud and hurts the Teeth It is good to eate Mints therewith or to boyle it and to eat Vineger and Pepper with it Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Lettice-stalkes canded Syrupe of Lettuce Lapis Bezoar see Bezoar CHAP. 118. De Lavendula of Lavender The Names and temperament IT is called Lavendula and Lavandula and of some Lavanda because it was much used in washings It is hot and dry in the third degree and of thin substance The duration It will keepe good a yeare being dry The inward use It is of especiall good use for all the griefes and paines of the head and braines that proceede from a cold cause as the Apoplexy Falling-sicknesse Lethargy Cramps Convulsions and Palsies as also those that are given to faint often It strengthneth the stomack and freeth the Liver and Spleene from stoppings provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the dead Childe and afterbirth Two spoonefulls of the distilled water of the flowers taken doth helpe those that have lost their Speech or Voyce restoring it them againe It helpeth also the tremblings and passions of the Heart and the swounings and faintings thereof The Chymicall Oyle is excellent for the Diseases before mentioned if a few drops thereof be taken in Beere or the like So is the Conserve made of the flowers and Sugar The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction as Mugwort The outward Vse The flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine helpeth them to make water that are stopped as also that are troubled with the winde-collick if the places be bathed therewith It is good to gargle the mouth with the Decoction of the flowers against the paine of the teeth The fume or smoake thereof driveth away Lice A Lotion to strengthen the senses and Nerves Take of Sene
one Ounce red Roses and Lavender flowers a handfull Boyle them in water and make a Lotion for the head The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry complexions and where the body is repleate or aboundeth with blood and humours Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water Conserve of the flowers Chymicall Oyle Lignum Vitae see Guajacum CHAP. 119. De Lupinis of Lupines The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Lupinum and Lupinus in English Lupines oâ— flat Beane It is hot and dry and very bitter The Duration They will keepe good a yeare or two or longer The inward use By reason of their bitternesse they open digest dissolve and clense being steeped in water and afterwards dryed beaten and taken with some Vineger taketh away the loathing of the stomack to Meate and provoketh the appetite the Decoction or Infusion of Lupines taken with Hony and Vinegar killeth Wormes in the belly but if you mixe Rue and Pepper thereto it will the more effectuall the Meale or Powder taken with Honey and Vineger or in Drinke doth the same the said Decoction taken openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene provoketh Urine and Womens Courses If it bee taken with Myrrhe it expelleth the dead Childe The manner of administring it It is used in Decoction or in powder The outward use A Decoction or Lye made of Lupines with Wormewood Centory and bay-salt added thereto stayeth the running and spreading of a Gangrene being applied thereto very hot with stupes of Cloth or Tow A Decoction of them clenseth all Scabs Morphew Cancers Tetters and creeping or running Ulcers and Sores and boyled in Lie it cleanseth the head from Ulcers Scurfe c. breeding therein it also cleanseth the Face and taketh away the markes that the Pox does leave after their healing and all other markes and black and blew spots in the skin the meale thereof being boyled in Vineger and applied taketh away Pimples and scattereth the Rodes or Kernells that rise in the body and breaketh Carbuncles and Impostumes the burning of the huskes driveth away Gnats Flies c. whatsoever The powder mixed with Oyle of Sarin and applied to the belly killeth Wormes The hurtfull quality Being steeped some dayes in water untill they have lost their bitternesse they may be eaten but they breed grosse and crude humours are very hard to digest and slowly passe through the body Mace see Nutmeg CHAP. 120. De Majorana of Marjerome IT is called in Latine Majorana Amaracus Sampsuchum and Sampsuchus in English Marjerome and sweete Marjerome It is hot and dry in the second or as some in the third degree and of thin parts The Duration It will keepe good a Yeare The inward use Sweete Marjerome is comfortable in cold Diseases of the Head Stomack Sinewes and other parts it digesteth attenuateth openeth and strengthneth the Decoction thereof being drunke helpeth all the Diseases of the chest which hinder the freenesse of breathing it is likewise profitable for the stoppings of the Liver Spleene for it not onely cleareth them of those humours that did stuffe them but strengthneth the inward parts it helpeth the cold griefs of the Wombe and the windinesse thereof or in any other inward part the Decoction thereof helpeth such as entring into the Dropsy and such as cannot make water and provoketh the Courses in VVomen The Leaves in powder mingled with Honey and taken dissolveth congealed bloud in the body after falls or bruises it is used also against poyson A Decoction thereof made with Pelletory of Spaine and long Pepper or with Origanum or Acorus being taken helpeth the losse of speech by the resolution of the Tongue The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The powder of the Leaves snuffed up into the nostrills provoketh sneesing draweth forth flegme and is very usefull in the Apoplexy Palsy and cold diseases of the braine it easeth the tooth-ach being chewed in the mouth the powder mixed with Honey and applied taketh away the black markes of blowes or bruises It is much used in sweet waters powders c. It is put into Oyntments and Salves that are made to warme and comfort the outward parts or members the joynts also and sinewes The Oyle made thereof is good against Cramps Convulsions and all aches proceeding from a colde cause A Liniment that easeth the Head-Ach caused by a Bruise Take the juyce of Marjerome and the juyce of Sage of each halfe an Ounce of Sack three drams make all into a Liniment with the yolke of an Egge and apply it to the part affected The hurtfull quality It must not be used in hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a halfe a dram to a dram Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Oyle chymicall excellent in the Apoplexy Falling sicknesse losse of speech c. Oyle by infusion and boyling Conserve Balsame CHAP. 121. De Malvis of Mallowes The Names and temperament THe wild or common Mallow is called in Latine Malva and that quasi molva because it softneth the belly in English Mallow They are temperate in heate and moisture of a digestive and softning Nature The inward Vse The Leaves and the Roots boyled in VVine or in VVater or in broth with Parsly or Fennell-roots doth helpe to open the Body and is good in hot Agues and other distemperatures of the body for by the mollifying quality it not onely voideth hot cholerick and other offensive humours but easeth the paines and torments that come by stoppings of the belly the same used by Nurses increaseth Milke in their Breasts the Decoction of the Seeds made in VVine Milke or Posset drinke doth marvellously helpe all the Diseases of the Chest and Lungs that proceeds of hot causes as Excorations Pâ—isicke Pleurisy and the like if it bee continued for some time together the Leaves and the Rootes worke the same effects they helpe much also in the frettings of the Guts and harnesse of the Mother and in all hot and sharpe Diseases thereof the juyce drunke in VVine or the Decoction made in VVine doth helpe VVomen to a speedy and easy delivery They are counted also good against poyson or venome so as the poyson be presently voided by vomit The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse Mallowes are often used in mollifying Glysters The Leaves bruised and laid to the Eyes with a little Honey taketh away the impostumations of them the Leaves bruised or rubbed upon any place stung with Bees Waspes or the like taketh away the paines rednesse and swelling thereof A Pultis made of the Leaves of Mallowes boyled and bruised whereunto some Beane or Barly-flower and Oyle of Roses is put is an especiall remedy against all hard tumours and inflammations of impostumes and swellings of the Cods and other parts and easeth the paines of them as also against the hardnesse of the
Spleene or Liver to be applied to the places the juyce of Mallowes boyled in old Oyle and applied taketh away all roughnesse of the Skin as also the falling of the Haire the Scurfe Dandruffe or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be anoynted therewith or washed with the Decoction the same also is effectuall against Scaldings or Burnings and to helpe wild fire and all other hot red and painfull Swellings in any part of the Body The flowers boyled in water and a little Hony added is a good Gargle for any sore mouth or throat If the feet be bathed with the Decoction of the Leaves Roots and flowers it helpeth the flowing downe of rheume from the Head which rose out of the stomack the greene Leaves beaten with niter and applied draweth out thornes or prickes in the flesh A Fomentation against winde Take of the Leaves and roots of mallowes a handfull of Camomill and Melilot flowers a handfull Linseede one Ounce Aniseede halfe an Ounce Figges in number forty Boyle them in water and fill a bladder with the hot Decoction apply it Once or twice to the side or part affected Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water The conserve of the flowers CHAP. 122. De Melle of Honey The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Mel in English Hony and is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It wil keepe good two or three yeares The best Kinde The best Honey is very sweet pleasant in smell of a cleare yellowish colour indifferent firme and stiffe yeelding but little scum on the top when it is boyled The inward Vse Honey is profitable in many Diseases of the breast as Cough Shortnesse of Breath Pleurisy Cold Rheumes and doth cleanse the Breast and Lungs of flegmatick and Rheumatick humours it helpeth such as are costine or bound openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene strengthneth weake Parts helpeth the Bladder and Reines and is good in the Dropsey It resisteth putrifaction and as Pliny saith suffereth no dead Bodies to putrify and is very profitable for old Age and flegmatick persons The Roman Pollio being asked by Augustus the Emperour by what meanes hee had prolonged his Life to an hundred Yeares Answered that hee had used Honey within and Oyle without It is better boyled then Raw. Pliny Nat. Hist Lib. 22. Cap. 24. The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in manner of an Electuary or mixed with other things An Electuary for the Cough Take of pure Honey foure Ounces oâ— Elecampane in Powder two Drams of Licoris in Powder a Dramme mixe them together and take often of it especially Morning and Evening The outward use It is good in the Quinsie Sore Mouthes and Throates being used in Mouth-water or otherwise but if choller abound forbeare the use of it It cures Burnings and Scaldings without Scarre and healeth Ulcers of the Eares and good also to cleanse and heale other filthy Ulcers Being dropped into the Eyes it helpeth the Dimnesse of them and cureth Cornes in the Feete If it be mixed with a little Camphor and used it taketh away Spots or Pimples in the Face It is used in Supposittories The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot stomacks cholerick Bodies and young persons for it inflames the Bloud increaseth Choller and hurteth such as have hot Livers And though it bee of a cleansing and opening Faculty yet being too much used it stoppeth the Body puffeth up the Stomack taketh away the appetite to Meate and must not be used in very windy Bodies Of such Medicines as are made of Honey Oxymel simple and compound Water of Honey Essence of Honey Tincture of Honey Hydromel that is Water and Honey boyled together Meade Methegline and many others CHAP. 123. De Meliloto of Melilot The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Melilotus in English Melilot Kings Claver and Hearts Claver because if it grow where Stagges and Deere resort they will greedilie feede thereon Now it is called Melilot from a Lotus that smelleth sweete like Honey It is Hot and Dry in the first Degree and hath a binding Quality besides a Wasting and Ripening Faculty The duration The Herbe and flowers will keepe good a Yeare The inward use The Herbe boyled in Wine and taken provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and asswageth the paine of the Kidnies Bladder and Belly and ripeneth flegme The manner of administring it It is given in Decoction The outward use It mollifieth hard Tumours and Inflammations that happen in the Eyes or other parts of the Body as the Seate or Fundament and the privy Parts of Man or Woman being boyled in Wine and laid to the place and sometimes the Yolke of a roasted Egge or the powder of Fenigreeke or Linseede or fine flower or Poppy-seede or Endive is added unto it It easeth the paine of the Side or Stomack applied either fresh or boyled with any other of the aforenamed things The juyce dropped in the eyes cleareth the sight and taketh away the Web Pearle or spots therein it helpeth also the paines of the eares being dropped into them and steeped in Vineger or Rose-water it easeth the Head-ach the flowers of Melilot and Camomill are much used in Glysters to expell winde and to ease paines as also in Pultises that are made for the same purpose and to asswage swellings or tumours that happen in the Spleene or other parts It helpeth Wens being applyed after it is boyled in water and also running Ulcers of the head if it be applyed with Chalke Wine and Galls The plaster of Melilot dissolveth hard tumours and swellings of the Spleene and cureth greene wounds A quilt or bag to ease the paine of the side Take Melilot flowers Camomill Rosemary and Elder flowers of each halfe a handfull of Branne a handfull of Anisseed Fennell-seed and Carawey seed bruised of each two ounces make a quilted bag for the side sprinkle it with wine and being made hot apply it Of those things that are made thereof The distilled Water Plaster of Melilot both simple and compound CHAP. 124. De Melissa of Baulme or Bawme The Names IT is called in Latine Milissophillum and Melissa because Bees delight much in it and of the effect being good for Bees in English Bawme and Baulme from the singular effects therein in imitation of the true naturall Baulme The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use It is excellent against the Diseases of the Braine Stomach Heart Wombe as in Melancholly troublesome sleepe Palsie Apoplexie Falling sicknesse Swimming of the head and to revive the fainting heart falling into swimmings It is good for a cold stomach and to help digestion as also among other things for the Plague or Pestilence and the water thereof is used for the same purposes It provoketh the courses helpeth a stinking breath and good for the rising of the Mother A decoction of
bawme made in wine and drunke is good against venome and poyson helpeth the griping paines of the belly and is good for them that cannot take their breath unlesse they hold their necks upright being taken in a lohock or licking electuary The syrupe of Bawme is a good cordiall strengthneth the heart and stomach resisteth Melancholly and is very profitable in burning and contagious Feavers A Candle made with Eggs and the juyce thereof while it is young putting some Sugar and Rosewater to it is often given to womin in Childbed when the afterbirth is not throughly avoyded and for their faintings upon or after their sore travells The manner of Administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction See the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The herbe bruised and boyled in a little wine and oyle and laid warme on a Bile will ripen and breake it used with salt it taketh away Wens Kernells or hard swellings in the flesh or throat it cleanseth foule sores and easeth the paines of the Gout the juyce thereof used with a little Hony is a good remedy for the dimnesse of the sight and to take away the mistinesse of the eyes It is used in Bathes among other warme herbs to comfort the joynts and sinews It is a good remedy against the sting of Scorpions or other venemous creatures and against the stinging of Bees as also against the bitings of Dogs The decoction thereof is good for women to bath or sit in to procure their courses and for those that have the bloody Flix as also to wash the teeth therewith when they are full of paine It is very often put into oyles or salves to heale greene wounds A quilt or bag against the beating of the heart Take of Bawme dry foure handfulls of Roses Violet Borrage and Rosemary flowers of each halfe a small handfull make them in grosse powder and adde of Camphor two scruples then with red Silke and Bombace make a quilted bag and apply it to the region of the heart The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull in hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Extract Conserve of the flowers Syrupe both simple and compound CHAP. 125. De Menthis of Garden or Spearemints The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Mentha Mentha hortensis and Mentha acuta It is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree of thin parts bitter and binding The Duration It will keepe good a yeare being dry The inward use Speare-mints are good against vomiting weaknesse and rawnesse of the Stomach the Hickop and allayeth choller expelleth winde easeth gripings of the belly helpeth stoppings of the Liver and is good in any cold paine or giddinesse of the head being taken in powder or a decoction thereof made and taken The juyce taken with Vineger stayeth bleeding Mints stir up Venery or bodily lust killeth wormes stayeth the courses in women and helpeth the whites keepeth the milke from curdling in the breasts as also in the stomach It is profitable against the poyson of venimous creatures It is good for women in their hard and sore travailes in Child-bearing and against the gravell and Stone in the Kidneys and Strangury and helpeth a stinking breath The distilled water is much used against vomitings gripings in the belly c. It warmeth and strengthneth the stomach and dryeth up moist humours therein and causeth good Digestion The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use Being outwardly applyed it stayeth vomiting and easeth gripings of the Stomach and belly it dissolveth Impostumes being laid to with Barly meale it is good to represse the milke in womens breasts when they are swollen therewith and keepeth them from growing great applyed with salt it helpeth the biting of a mad Dog with Water and Hony it easeth the paines of the Eares Applyed to the Forehead or Temples it easeth the paines thereof and it is good also to wash the heads of young Children therewith against all manner of breaking out therein whether Sores or Scabs and healeth the chaps of the fundament It helpeth the stinging of Bees or Wasps being applyed A quilt against weaknesse and paines of the Stomach Take Wormewood and Mints dry of each two drams of Citron pill dry an ounce of Galingall Cyperus root and Cloves of each halfe an ounce of red Roses two drams make them all into powder and let a quilt be made for the Stomach The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies and for chollerick persons The Dose The Dose in powder is from halfe a scruple to two scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe Conserve Chymicall Oyle Oyle by infusion Balsam Salt CHAP. 126. De Mili osolis of Gromell The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Milium solis and Lithospermum from the hardnesse of the seede in English Gromell and Pearle plant It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration The seeds will keepe good a yeare or two some say ten yeares The inward use The seeds are counted singular good to breake the Stone and gravell in the Reines or Bladder as also to provoke Urine to expell Winde and to helpe the Chollick The same taken is effectuall to procure a speedy delivery to women in travaile The seedes being taken in Posset-drinke before divers fits cureth the Quartaine Ague The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use The decoction or bath thereof being sit in helpeth the Stone and Strangury the Chollick and winde c. The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose The seede is given from a dram to two drams Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves Holland powder c. CHAP. 127. De Moscho of Muske The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Moschus and Moscus in English Muske It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The best Muske The best Muske is very odoriferous or sweet of a darke liver colour or yellowish The Duration It will keep good a yeare or two being kept close The inward use It comforteth the heart and fainting spirits and taketh away the passions and trembling thereof maketh it merry and joyfull and helpeth to expell sadnesse it comforteth warmeth and refresheth the braine and senses quickning the dulnesse thereof and is a helpe unto Venery It is put in many cordiall powders It is commended in the Chollick and maketh the breath sweet The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in powder The outward use It helpeth moist and rheumatick eyes and ease cold paines of the head being mixed with Populean oyntment and the temples therewith anoynted It is much used for all sorts of perfumes and fits of the Mother to the lower parts It helpeth deafnesse
being put into the Cotten wool The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull to weake braines and hot Livers for the often use thereof burneth up the blood and maketh the face pale it is counted bad for such as have fits of the Mother yet Horstius doth commend it in such fits if it be taken in a small quantity Greg. Horst Observat lib. 1. part 2. Observat 24. fol. 49 50. The Dose The Dose is from two graines to five or sixe in any convenient Liquor Of such Medicines as are made thereof Species Diamoschu dulcis amari Oleum Moschellinum Muske powder CHAP. 128. De Mumia of Mummie The Names and Temperament MVmmie is the body of a man or woman embalmed and brought chiefly from Aegypt or Syria adjoyning It is called in Latine Mumia in English Mummie It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use It easeth the paine of the head coming of cold and moisture and is good in Palsie and Crampe Falling sicknesse swiming of the head it is cordiall for the heart and preventeth the danger of poison or the venome of the Scorpion and other Serpents dissolveth winde both in the Stomach spleen and bowells stayeth the Hickop and inward Bleedings or Fluxes of Bloud dissolveth the congealed Bloud of bruises by falls or otherwise and helpeth the Ulcers of the Bladder and stopping of Urine being taken in Goats Milke and is good against the Cough The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in powder A Powder against Bruises or Falls Take Bole Armoniack or sealed Earth Dragons bloud and Mumme of each two Drams of Parmacitty a Dram Rubarbe halfe a Dram make them in powder and give halfe a Dram or more thereof The outward use It stayeth Bleeding of the Nose or the Bleeding of Wounds and is good to consolidate or close up Wounds it is used also against Cramps and Distentions of the Mouth the hardnesse and shrinking of the Sinewes and Lamenesse in the Feet through cold and wet The Dose It is given from a Dram to two Drams Of those Medicines that are made of Mumme Tincture or extract of Mumme Powder against Bruises Sympatheticall Oyntment CHAP. 129. De Nardo of Spikenard The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nardus Indica Spica Indica and Spica Nardi in English Spicknard It is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The Duration It will keepe good many years The inward Vse It provoketh Urine and brings downe the Courses as some say other will have it to stop all Fluxes both of Men and Women and to stay the loosenesse of the Belly and thin watery humours being Drunke with cold Water it is profitable to those that have a loathing of their Meate or having swellings or gnawings at their Stomacks as also for them that are Liver-growne that have the Yellow Jandise or the Stone in the Kidneyes it dryeth up the Flux of humours both in the Head and Brest and is put into Antidotes against venome and poyson It is very convenient for the Liver and Stomack The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use It stayeth any Flux of the Belly being applied and helpeth Watering Eyes by staying the humours and thickning it also The Decoction used as a Bath for Women to sit in or over it taketh away the inflammation of the Mother It is good to cause Haire to grow on the Eye-Lids of such as want it and dryeth up superfluous moisture in any part of the Body being strewed thereon Oyle made thereof is good for all Cold Griefes and Windinesse of the Head Stomack Liver Spleene Reines and Bladder and of the Mother The hurtfull quality It causeth vomitings and therefore is left out in many cordiall Medicines it is hurtfull for hot and dry Bodies and must not be given to Women with Childe without great caution because it procureth them much disquiet and may force their Courses beyond either their time or conveniency The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to thirty Graines Medicines made thereof Oyle of Nardus Simple and Compound CHAP. 130. De Nigella of Gith or Nigella The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Melanthium and Nigella from the black colour of the Seede in English Gith Nigella and Fennell-flower The Seeds are hot and dry in the third degree The Duration The Seeds will keepe good a yeare or two The inward use The Seede drunken with Wine is a good remedy against Shortnesse of Breath expelleth Winde provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women increaseth Milke in the Breasts of Nurses killeth Wormes and is very good against poyson and the biting of venemous Beasts as also against the Quartaine and Quotian Ague if a Dram thereof be taken in Wine or Posset before the fit It is an excellent remedy where there is neede of cleansing drying and heating The manner of Administring it Is is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use It Killeth Wormes being laid to the Navell with the juyce of Wormewood Being dryed and put into Linnen or Sarfenet and so quilted in and laid to the Head it cureth Catarrhes or Rhemes dryeth the Braine and restoreth the smelling being lost It taketh away Freckles Scurfe and Hard Swellings being mixed with Vineger and applied The Smoke or Fume thereof driveth away venemous Creatures and Killeth Flies Bees and Waspes The same mingled with Oyle of Ireos and laid to the forehead cureth the Head-ach comming from cold The hurtfull quality If too much thereof be taken t is dangerous and bringeth Death The Dose The Dose is from halfe a Dram to a Dram. Medicines made thereof The distilied water Oyle thereof CHAP 131. De Nitro of Nitre The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nitrum and Sal nitri in English Niter and Salt of Niter It is hot of temperature saith Pliny in Nat. Hist Booke 310. Chap. 10. and doth extenuate or make thin others say it is cold The duration It will keepe good many years being kept dry The inward use It is profitable in burning Feavers as also in putried and malignant Feavers in the Calenture at Sea for it resisteth putrifaction and cooleth the boyling of the blood it is usefull also in the Pleurisy inflammation of the Lungs in the Stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder in the stoppings of the Liver and Entralls It stayeth the bleeding of a Veine or of the Nose The manner of Administring it It is chiefly dissolved in some convenient Liquor and so given as if to stop bleeding give it in Plantaine water The outward Vse It is used in Lotions against the inflations of the mouth and throat in the Quinsie against the Gout and in burnings and scaldings as also against spots in the Eyes being mixed with Honey and put therein Being boyled with Wine and Pepper and the Mouth washed therewith it easeth the Tooth-ach and cleanseth the Gums The powder
thereof being burnt maketh the Teeth white being rubbled therewith It is of excellent use to kill the Itch Scab Morphew or any foule Diseases of the Skinne if it bee mixed with Fullers Earth and Vineger and the Skin anoynted therewith A Lotion for Tetters or Ringwormes Take of Nitre three Drams of common Salt a Dram of the distilled water of Dockes foure Ounces Vineger of Squills one Ounce dissolve and mixe them together moisten a Cloath or Sponge therein being warme and rub the places affected Or against the Itch dissolve Niter and Alume with distilled Vineger or with Water of Scabions and therewith wash and rub the places affected The hurtfull quality Where the Body is loose it must not bee given in any great quantity The Dose The Dose is from a Dram to a Dram and an half Medicines made thereof Spirit of Nitre Tincture of Nitre c. CHAP. 132. De Nuce Moscata Maci. Of Nutmeg and Mace The names and temperament THe Nutmeg is called in Latine Nux moschata and Nux myristica in English Nutmeg The Mace is called in Latine Macis in English Mace They are hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent The best kinde The best Nutmegs are the heaviest fastest and such as are fullest of juyce which being pricked with a pin or needle yeeldeth an oyly juyce The largest Mace is the best The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward Vse The Nutmegs are used in all cold Diseases of the Head for Palsies shrinking of Sinewes and the Diseases of the Mother they stay the Laske cause a sweete breath expell winde in the stomack or belly helpe to quicken the sight stay vomiting comfort the spirits and strengthen the stomack They are profitable for the Liver and Spleen cause such as are leane to grow fat help venery and increase sperme they helpe to procure sleepe being applied to the Temples Being mixed with Venice Terpintine washed and taken it helpeth the running of the Reines They provoke Urine say some The Nutmeg being greene is preserved in the Indies and brought over the which is not so hot and dry as our dry Nutmegs and therefore very comfortable for the Head and Stomack eaten Morning and Evening or after meales Mace hath the same property but somewhat more warming and comforting and is good against Vomiting Fluxes and Spitting of bloud The chymicall Oyle of either is excellent for the cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack but must be cautelously and sparingly used The manner of Administring them They are given in powder Electuary c. The outward Vse They are used outwardly to stop fluxes to stay vomiting and to make the breath sweet The thick Oyle that is drawn both from Mace and Nutmegs are good for the Cough vomiting to warme a cold stomack and to dry up Rheume and cold raw humours therein A Cap or Quilt against the paine of the Head arising from superfluous moisture Take Galingall Calamus Odoratus and Cyperus Root of each three Drams Nutmeg and Cloves of each two Drams Betony and Marjerome of each an Ounce Rosemary-Flowers and Stoechados of each half an Ounce Powder them and make a Cap. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to melancholy persons The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to two Scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof Oyle chymicall and oyle by expression of either Salt of Nutmegs Balsome of Nutmegs and Mace Nimphaea see the 69. Chapter CHAP. 133. De Ocimo of Bassill The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ocimum and Basilicum in English Basill and Bassill It is hot in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use It is good for those that are short winded provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women and brings a speedy deliverance to them in travile The seeds are used to helpe the trembling of the Heart and to comfort the same as also to expell melancholy or sadnesse A Decoction of the herbe made and taken is good against poyson and the sting of Scorpions and helpfull for those that are given to swownings and it provokes venery or lust The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward Vse Used with Oyle of Roses or Mirtles and Vineger it is good against the paines of the Head and it is pofitably applied to those that are troubled with the Lethargy the Jandise and Dropsey It is good to be put into the Eares of young Children with a little Goose-Grease to helpe them of paines thereof the juyce or seede bruised put into the Nostrills procureth neesing Mixed with Honey and used it taketh away the spots in the Face The juyce put into the Eyes taketh away the dimnesse thereof and drieth up humours that fall into them Hollerius relates of a certaine Italian that by often smelling to Basil had a Scorpion bred in his Braine who after vehement and long paines Died thereof Hollerius Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Fol. 3. The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight troubleth a weake braine and causetth headache The Dose It is given from a Scruple to thirty or forty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 134. De Nymphaea of Water Lilly The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nymphaea and Nenuphar in English Water-Lilly The Leaves and Flowers are cold and moist but the root and seed cold and dry The duration The dryed Flowers will keepe a yeare The inward use The Flowers boyled and taken coole inflammations and all inward heats of Agues The Seedes and Rootes are effectuall to stay Fluxes of Bloud and Seede both in Man and Woman as also the running of the Reines and the involuntary passage of Sperme in sleepe and is so powerfull that the frequent use thereof extinguisheth lustfull or venerious actions the Roote likewise is very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharpe to be boyled in Wine or Water and the Decoction drunke The Syrupe of VVater Lilly or Conserve helpeth much to procure rest and to settle the Braines of Franticke Persons for it wonderfully helpeth the distemperature of the Head arising from heate The distilled VVater of the flowers is effectuall for the Diseases aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction The outward Vse The Leaves and Flowers are used in Lotions and Bathes against Heate and Inflammations as in the Frensey and Feavers The greene Leaves bruised and applied to the Back helpeth the running of the Reines The Distilled VVater used taketh away Freckles Spots Sunne-burning and Morphew from the Skin in the Face or any other part of the Body The Oyle made of the flowers as oyle of Roses is made doth coole hot tumours and the inflamations of Ulcers and wounds ease the paines and help to heale the sores Of Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound Conserve Oyle and oyntment CHAP. 135. De Olibano of Olibanum The Names
handful Roch-Allome half an ounce boil them in a quarter of a pinte of strong Wine Vineger to the wasting of half then add to the strained liquour a spoonful of Honey and two drams of white Mercury boil them a little and reserve it The Dose The Dose is from half a dram to two scruples Medicines made thereof The distilled water Extract of Cinquefoile CHAP. 142. De Pimpinella of Burnet The Names and temperament IT is call'd in Latine Pimpinella and Sanguisorba in English Burnet Pimpinell It is hot and dry in the second degree say some others will have it to be cold in the second degree and dry in the third The duration It will keep good a yeer being dry The inward use It is a friend to the Heart Liver and other principall parts two or three of the stalks with leaves put into a cup of Wine especially Claret as all know give a wonderfull fine relish to it and besides do quicken the spirits refresh the heart and make it merry driving away melancholy it is a speciall help to defend the heart from noysome vapours and from the infection of the Plague or Pestilence and all other contagious diseases for which purpose 't is of grear effect the juice thereof being taken in some drink and they either laid to sweat thereupon or wrapped and kept very warm It is available in all manner of fluxes of bloud or humours to stanch inward bleedings laskes or scourings the bloudy flix Womans too abundant courses and the Whites also and cholerick belchings and castings of the stomach and is singular good for inward Wounds The powder of the herb taken in Comfrey-water is excellent for such as have falne or are bruised The Water hath the same effects being taken The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder or in Electuary An Electuary against the Consumption of the Lungs Take of Burnet in fine powder two ounces fine Sugar an ounce with a sufficient quantity of pimpinel-Pimpinel-water make an Electuary of which take morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg The outward use It is an excellent herb for all sorts of Wounds both of the head and body for all old Ulcers or running Cancers and moist sores which are of hard curation either the juice of decoction of the herb or the powder of the herb used or else made into Oile or Ointment by it self or with other things to be kept The seed dryeth up moist sores being put therein in powder The distilled Water maketh the face and hands fair being washed therewith An ointment to dry over moist Wounds Take four good handfuls of Burnet of May-butter or fresh Butter a pound cut the Burnet and boil them gently at the fire until the herb wax black then strain and reserve it The Dose Take half a dram of the herb or root at a time Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water conserve made of the seed the root candied Oile Salt of Burnet CHAP. 143. De Pipere of Pepper The Names and sorts THere are three sorts of Pepper chiefly in use white Pepper called Piper album long Pepper called Piper longum and black Pepper called Piper nigrum and this last is most in use The temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree or neer the fourth degree of a heating and resolving quality The duration They will keep good many yeers â—he inward use The black pepper is most in use for sawce and meats They are all usâ—d to warm cold stomachs and to stirre up an appetite and to consume â—rude and moist humours therein or distilling from the head they also help to break and dissolve winde in the stomach or bowels to provoke urine to help the cough and other diseases of the breast and are effectuall against the bitings of Serpents and other poisons are therefore put into the great Antidotes They are given before the fits of Agues to abate the rigour and shaking thereof and are used in the Quinsie with Honey They strongly heat the sinews and musâ—les and all cold parts Pepper must not be too small beaten for fear of inflaming the bloud and other profitable humours of the body â—hey help the dimnesse of the sight and stirre up Venery If five or six grains of black or white Pepper be taken for certain dayes together it doth help a cold and raw stomach and such as are subject to the Collick The chymical oile of Pepper is good for the aforesaid diseases and especially against a tertian Ague if three drops thereof be taken with a scruple of Myrrhe two houres before the fit commeth Pepper is best for cold moist and grosse meats for cold and moist seasons for the aged and flegmatick for such as have cold weak and windy stomacks and that are subject to distillations The manner of administring them They are given in powder or in Electuary An Electuary against winde in the stomack and belly Take black white and long Pepper of each a dram and a half of Ginger Amse-seed and Thyme of each half a dram make them into a grosse powder and with six ounces of Honey or conserve of red Roses make an Electuary and take often of it as much as a Nutmeg The outward use It is used outwardly against Agues mixed with Honey and laid to the Wrists and against the Quinsie and disperseth the kernels as well in the throat as in any other part of the body it easeth the tooth-ach being put into a clout tied up and chewed on and snuffed up into the nostrils it provoketh neesing A Medicine to help the tooth-ach Take of Mastich an ounce Pepper Pellitory of Spain of each a dram and a half make them in powder and with Honey make a paste of which take about the bignesse of a small Bean and hold in the mouth by the space of half an houre fasting The hurtfull quality Pepper is hurtful to hot cholerick and dry bodies in hot weather and hot Countreys consumeth the seed and burneth the bloud if it be immoderately used The Dose It is given from half a scruple to thirty grains Medicines made thereof Species Diatrion pipereon Chymical Oile Oile by decoction CHAP. 144. De Plantagine of Plantaine The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Plantage in English Plantaine It is cold and dry in the second degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use The juice of Plantaine clarified and drunk for divers dayes together either of it self or in other drink prevaileth wonderfully against all torments and frettings in the guts helpeth the distillations of Rheume from the head and stayeth all manner of fluxes in man or woman even the courses also in Women it is good to stay spitting of bloud and all other bleedings at the mouth by having a vein broken in the stomach and that maketh bloudy or foul water by any Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder it is held also an especial remedy for those
make some of it stiffe and put up into the Nose The hurtfull quality It is not safe to give the juice of Damask Roses to women with childe because it provokes their courses and the water also thereof is hurtfull to such as are troubled with the head-ach The dose The leaves and seeds are given from a scruple to two scruples The juice is given from one ounce to two ounces Syrup of Roses laxative is given from one ounce to 3. or 4 ounces The electuary of the juice of Roses is given from two drams to six drams Of those Medicines that are made of Roses The distilled water of Damask red and white Roses Conserve both of Damask and red Roses Sugar of Roses or Sugar-roset Oile chymicall and spirit of Roses Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of the juice of Roses Syrup of Roses with Agarick Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of Roses solutive with Sene. Syrup of red Roses dry Honey of Roses Tincture of Roses Oile of Roses by infusion Ointment of Roses Vineger of Roses Balsam c. CHAP. 151. De Rosmarino of Rosemary The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Rosmarinus Rosmarinum quasi Rosa marina English Rosemary It is hot and dry in the second degree and also of an astringent or binding quality yet of subtil or thin parts it is best for cold and moist seasons for the age flegmatick and rheumatick The duration It will keep good a yeare or two being dryed The inward use It helpeth all cold diseases of the head stomach Liver belly and wombe A decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold distillations of the braine into the eyes and the giddinesse or swimming of the braine drowsinesse or dulnesse of the minde and senses like a stupidnesse the dumbe Palsie or losse of speech the Lethargie Apoplexie and Falling Sicknesse it helpeth the paines in the Gums and teeth by rheume falling into them or by putrefaction causing an evill smell from them or a stinking breath it helpeth a weak memory by heating and drying up the cold moistures of the brain and quikening the senses It is a good remedy for windinesse in the stomach or bowels as also the Hypochondriack passion and winde in the spleen It helpeth those that are Liver-growne by opening the stoppings thereof by warming the coldnesse making thin the grossenesse and afterwards binding and strengthening the weaknesse thereof it helpeth dim Eyes and to quicken the sight as also the yellow Jandise and the whites in women and the rising of the Mother if the flowers or leaves be daily taken in decoction or in powder The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken help the Cough or Tissick and Consumption by warming and drying the thin rheum which causeth those diseases The Chymicall oile is good for the aforesaid diseases if two or three drops thereof be taken in Beere or other Liquor The flowers and the conserve made thereof doth comfort the braine and heart and is good to expel the contagion of the pestilence If you steep or infuse a few Cloves Mace and Anise-seed in the distilled water of the flowers for certaine dayes and take morning and evening thereof it helpeth a stinking breath and mouth The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It helpeth the cold diseases of the head if a decoction thereof be made and the temples and neck bathed therewith The leaves are much used in bathings and made into Ointments or Oiles is singular good to help cold benummed joints sinews or members the herb burned in houses and chambers in time of infection is good to correct the aire in them The Herb is much used in powders and quilts to dry up rheume and to strengthen the wombe The Chymical oil is good for the cold diseases of the braines if the temples nostrils and nape of the neck be anointed therewith An Epitheme for the cold head-ach Take Rose-mary Sage Camomil Melilot Betony and Bryonie-root of each a handfull Boile them in water and with a spnge or soft linen clothes made wet therein apply it hot to the forehead The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is gven in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medi ines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oile Conserve of the flowers Species Dianthos Balsame CHAP. 152. De Rusco of Knee-holme The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruscus Ruscum and Bruscus in English Butchers Broom and Knee-holme It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first with some tenuity or thinnesse of parts It is one of the five opening roots The duration The roots will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the roots made in Wine and taken openeth stoppings provoketh urine and amendeth the strong smell thereof helpeth to expel gravel and the Stone Strangury and Womens courses the same also helpeth the yellow Jaundise and the Head-ach and with some Sugar or Honey put thereunto helpeth to bring away flegme and to cleanse the chest of much clammy humours gathered therein The juice of the leaves taken with Sugar helpeth spitting of bloud and cleanseth the wombe The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder A Powder against Winde and gripings of the belly Take the roots of Knee-holme Anise-seed and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce make them in powder and mix therewith half an ounce of Sugar take every morning thereof as much as will lye on a shilling in White Wine or Posset-drink The outward use The juice thereof taketh away the stink of the mouth and Gums being washed therewith and the powder of the root cleanseth Wounds and preventeth a Gangrene being strewed therein The Dose It may be given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 153. De Ruta of Rue The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruta and Ruta hortensis in English Rue and Herb-grace or Herb of Grace it is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use Rue provoketh urine and womens courses expelleth all venome and poyson and is most excellent in time of the Plague or sicknesse the seed also taken in Wine is an Antidote or Counterpoison against all dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons A decoction made thereof with some dried Dil-leaves and flowers easeth all pains and gripeings in the body The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the chest and sides as also Coughs hardnesse or difficulty of breathing the inflammations of the Lungs as also the shaking of Agues to take a draught before the fit come It killeth Wormes being boiled in Wine and Honey and taken The juice taken with Wine purgeth women after their deliverance bringeth away the dead childe and after-birth It dryeth up the milk and the
naturall seed of generation and quickeneth the sight The leaves of Rue first boiled then laid in pickle is by some eaten as sawce for the dimness of sight and to warm a cold stomach The manner of administring it It is given in powder in decoction and electuary Mithridates his Antidote against Poison Take twenty leaves of Rue a little Salt a couple of Wal-nuts and a couple of Figs beat them together into a masse This is for every day The outward use It helpeth tht swelling of the cods if it be boiled with Bay-leaves and they bathed therewith The juice mixed with Honey and the juice of Fennel helpeth dim eyes being dropped therein being boiled or infused in Oile it is good to help the winde-collick or the swelling hardnesse or windinesse of the Mother and freeth women from the strangling or suffocation of the Mother if the shares and parts thereabouts be anointed therewith It helpeth the Gowt or pains in the joints of hands feet or knees and also the Sciatica applied thereunto the same with Figs helpeth the Dropsie It cureth the Morphew and taketh away all sorts of Warts on the Hands Face Nose or any other parts if it be boiled in Wine with some Pepper and Nitre and the places rubbed therewith and with Allome and Honey helpeth the dry Scab or any Tetter The juice dropped into the eares easeth the pains thereof It is good against the bitings of venomous beasts and to be laid to Carbuncles A fomentation against the running Sores of Childrens heads Take of green Copperas two ounces of Rue and Sage of each a handful boil them in a quart of water to half and wash the head therewith The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for women with childe and destroyeth the ability of getting children The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty grains Medicines made thereof The distilled water Chymicall Oile Oile by infusion Salt Vineger of Rue and Balsame CHAP. 154. De Saccharo of Sugar The Names and temperament IT is called Saccharum Sacchar Succharum Mel Arundinaceum Mel Cannae it is Honey of the Cane because it grows in Canes in English Sugar It is hot and moist in the first degree or temperately hot and moist and is abstersive or cleansing The best sort Some commend the coarsest or brownest Sugar before the other but sure the whitest refined Sugar being made up without adulteration or deceit is the best and most wholesome for nourishment The duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use Sugar is good for the diseases of the breast cleanseth and strengtheneth the Lungs is convenient for the stomach helpeth the roughnesse and drinesse of the mouth and throat also thirst and drought in Feavers especially being mixed with water and so taken and it is very profitable for the Reins and Bladder The outward use Sugar or white Candy being put into the eye taketh away the dimnesse thereof and the bloud shotten therein and strewed into foul sores it cleanseth them A Water against an Ulcer in the Bladder Take of the water of Milk distilled half a pound of white Sugar five ounces mix them at the fire and inject it hot with a Syringe A Water against rednesse of the Eyes Take of white Sugar and Aloes of each five drams Tutia or Tutty in powder half a scruple White Wine Rose-water and Fennel-water of each half an ounce Put them together in a glasse vessell and let them infuse six or seven houres then use it as need requires The hurtfull quality Sugar soon turns to choler causeth thirst and is hurtful to hot constitutions being over-much used it produceth dangerous effects in the body for it heateth the bloud breedeth the Jaundise Stoppings the Green-sicknesse and Consumptions rotteth the teeth and maketh them black withall causing also many times a loathsome stinking breath And therefore let young persons especially beware how they meddle too much with it lest they have for their sweet meat sower sawce I knew a young maiden whose mother was so indulgent over her that she gave her all the sweet meats she desired and that for many yeers together till at length her teeth were so corrupt and her breath so stanck that she was loathsome to company then followed Apostumation of her teeth and gums the Kings Evil and so continued a long time Of such things as are made thereof White Sugar-Candy Red Sugar-Candy or Brown Sugar-Candy Sugar-Pellets Sugar of Roses Sugar of Violets Oil and Salt of Sugar CHAP. 155. De Sale of Salt The Names and temperament IT is call'd in Latine Sal in English Salt it is hot in the second degree and dry in the third it is of a cleansing digesting attenuating drying consuming and somewhat also of an astringent faculty The duration and kindes Salt will keep good many yeers There are two sorts in use White and Bay Salt The inward use Salt may most justly be called Condimentum condimentorum Sawce of sawces as being necessary for seasoning and preserving of meats that we cannot well live without it For it is a custome among us to set it first at the table and to take it away last It maketh thin grosse and clammy humours resisteth venome preventeth and correcteth putrefaction by drying and consuming all crude and moist superfluities stirreth up Venery strengtheneth weak and loose parts helpeth digestion especially in a cold and moist stomach consumeth all corrupt humours and is very profitable in stoppings of the urine and belly as also in the Collick The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in powder A powder to help concoction Take of common Salt one ounce and a half Pepper six drams Cummin-seed half an ounce Caraway-seed Cynamon Zedoarie of each three drams Ginger and Mace of each two drams and a half make all into a fine powder and let it be eaten with meat The outward use It is used in rotten and putrid Ulcers as also in creeping Ulcers and simple Tumours in the Itch Scab Tetters or Ringworme in the Gowt cold Aches pain of the Teeth Head-ach Collick and to take away the skin growing over the Eye It is good also in Gangrenes and in Burnings to draw out the heat A Lotion against the Gowt Take of common Salt three or four handfuls boil it in water to the consumption of half with which bathe the parts affected warm Against pains of the Eares Take Salt and dry it make it in powder and being put into a bag apply it warm to the eares A Suppository gently to provoke siege Take of Honey half an ounce of common Salt a dram boil it gently to a due light and form and being cold anoint it with Oile or Butter and put it up The hurtfull quality Salt used too much dryeth up the humours of the body wasteth seed burneth the Liver and Bloud ingenders sharp and biting humours causeth Itch and Scabs annoyeth the stomach dimmeth the sight destroyeth the radicall moisture corrupteth and spoileth the habit of the
whole body making persons soon look old and wrinkled as may be seen in young maidens that eat much thereof It is very hurtful for lean dry and cholerick persons Of such things as are made thereof Oile of Salt or Spirit Tincture of Salt Flowers of Salt CHAP. 156. De Salvia of Sage The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Salvia because it maketh men safe and sound in health in English Sage It is hot and dry in the second or beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use A decoction of Sage made and drunk provoketh urine bringeth downe the courses easeth paines of the head that proceed from cold and rheumatick humours as also all paines of the joynts and therefore helpeth such as have the Falling Sicknesse the Lethargy or Drowsie Evil such as are dull and heavy of spirit and those that have the Palsey and is in much use in all distillations of thin rheum from the head and for the diseases of the breast The juice of Sage is much commended for women that have moist and slipperie wombes and not able to conceive by reason thereof if they take a quantity of the juice with a little Salt for foure dayes before they company with their Husbands and it is good to prevent miscarrying in women If three spoonfulls of the juice be taken fasting with a little Honey it doth stay the spitting or casting up of blood It stoppeth the whites and reds in women It is of excellent good use to help the memory by warming and quickening the senses and the Conserve made of the flowers is used to the same purpose as also for all the former recited diseases It is of good use in the time of the Plague and good also against the Cough hoarsenesse paines of the side and Dropsie The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder in Pills Potions c. A Potion against Arthriticall paines Take of Sage and Hyssop of each two ounces infuse thereein for a nights space of Agarick trochiscated two drams Rubarbe foure scruples Cynamon halfe a dram then strain it and dissolve therein of the Electuary Diacarthamum two drams Syrup of Stoâ—chodas halfe an ounce make a Potion Pills against a Comsumption Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drams of the seed of Sage a little dryed at the fire one ounce Long pepper twelve drams all these being made into fine powder make it up into a masse with the juice of Sage the dose is a dram every morning and evening The outward use A decoction of Sage taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bathed therewith it stayeth the bleeding of wounds and cleanseth foule ulcers or sores The leaves of Sage and Nettles bruised together and laid upon the Impostume that riseth behinde the Ears doth asswage and help it much The leaves boiled in Wine and the place bathed therewith helpeth the Palsey Cramp cold joints paines in the side comming of winde if the grieved place be bathed warme therewith and the Herb after the boyling be laid warme also thereto Gargles for mouth-mouth-waters are made with Sage Rosemary Honey-sackles and Plaintane boyled in water or Wine with foine Allom put thereto to wash Cankers sore mouths and throats or the secret part of man or woman as need requireth It is also commended against the biting of Serpents The often chewing of Sage in the mouth is profitable for the Teeth and sinews for it strengtheneth the one and preserveth the other from putrefaction The hurtfull quality The frequent use of Sage is hurtfull to leane and dry bodies and in hot and dry seasons The dose The dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty graines Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymicall Oil. Conserve and Salt of Sage CHAP. 157. De Sassafras of Sassafras The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sassafras in English also Sassafras and Ague-tree of his vertue in healing Agues It is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good many yeers The outward use The decoction of Sassafras is given in all cold diseases and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen as also in cold Rheumes that fall on the teeth eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts afterwards and therefore is available in Coughs and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs and restraineth castings and helpeth digestion breaketh and expelleth winde the gravel and stone in the Kidneys and provoketh urine and Womens courses it also warmeth heateth and dryeth up the moysture of Womens Wombes which is the cause of barrennesse and causeth them to be more apt to conceive it is of good use in tertian and quotidian Agues that are of long continuance It is generally used in all diseases that come of cold and raw thin and corrupt humours the French Disease and other of the like foule nature The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction as thus Take of Sassafras foure ounces steep it in a gallon and a half of water foure and twenty houres then boil it close covered till it be neer half consumed then being strained give a good draught thereof morning and evening for the diseases before mentioned The outward use It is thought to be good in the time of the Pestilence to weare some thereof continually about them that the smell of it may expel the corrupt and evil vapours of the Pestilence The hurtfull quality It is hurtful to very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Medicines made thereof Extract of Sassafras Chymicall Oile CHAP. 158. De Sarsaparilla of Sarsaparilla The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sarsaparilla Salsaparilla and Zarzaparilla it is hot and dry in the first or second degree of thin parts and provoketh sweat The duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It is chiefly used in the French Pox in Rheumes Gowts cold diseases of the head and stomach expelleth winde both from the stomach and mother It helpeth all manner of aches in the sinews and joynts all running sores in the legs all cold Swellings Tetters or Ring-wormes and all manner of spots and foulnesse of the skin The hurtfull quality It is bad for hot Livers and cholerick persons The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction see the fore-goin Chapter The Dose The Dose in powder is from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 159. De Scordio of Water-Germander The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Scordium because it smels like Garlick in English Water-Germander and Garlick-Germander It is hot and dry in the second degree bitter in taste harsh and sharp The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use It is effectuall to provoke urine and Womens courses killeth Wormes in the belly or stomach is also a safe
and sure remedy for falls and bruises and for such as are bursten either the decoction or the leaves in powder being taken It is excellent good against all poysons and infections either of the Plague or Pestilence or other epidemicall diseases as the small Pox Measels faint Purples or spotted Feaver and also against the gnawing pain of the stomach and pains of the side that come either of cold or stoppings and for the bloudy flix also it is good against an old Cough and to bring away rotten flegme in the brest and good for the Cramp and for the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen It is a good cordiall to comfort and strengthen the heart and cures the quotidian Ague by an occult quality The Electuary Diascordium is of the same nature The manner of administring it It is used in decoction or in powder The outward use The dried herb being used with a little Honey cleanseth foule ulcers and bringeth them to cicatrizing as also closeth fresh Wounds the dried herb made into a Poultis and applyed to Wens and such like helpeth both to constrain the matter from further breeding of them as also to discusse and disperse them being grown It being used with Vineger or Water and applyed to the Gowt easeth the pain thereof The green herb laid or bound to any Wound first bruised healeth it be it never so great A Liniment against Wormes Take of Scordium or Water-Germander and Aloës in powder of each a dram of the juice of Worm-wood and Southernwood of each two drams of common Oil one ounce Wax two drams make a Liniment and anoint the belly and stomach therewith warm morning and evening The hurtfull quality It is not safe to use it in hot dry and cholerick bodies The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram and a half Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled Water Syrup both simple and compound Conserve Salt Diascordium CHAP. 160. De Sebesten of Sebesten The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Myra Myraria Sebesten and Sebestena in English Sebesten or Assyrian Plum They are temperately cold and moist and have a thick clammy substance The duration They will not kep long but soon grow dry The inward use They open the body as Prunes do especially being green They serve to cool any intemperate heat of the stomach or Liver and are good in hot Agues and to purge choler whereof they come they are very effectual also to lenifie the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the throat they help the Cough and Wheesing of the Lungs and distillations upon them by making smooth the passages and causing much flegme to be avoided they also give ease to them that are troubled with pains in their sides and marvellously help them that are troubled with the sharpnesse of their urine proceeding from choler or salt flegm they also drive forth the long Wormes of the belly The manner of administring them They are given in decoction or in pulp see Jujubes The hurtfull quality They stop the intrails and stuff up the narrow passages and breed inflammations The Dose The pulp is given from half an ounce to ten drams Medicines made thereof Electuary of Sebestens Pulp of Sebestens CHAP. 161. De Sinapi of Mustard The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sinapi and Sinapis in English Mustard The common seed is hot dry in the fourth degree but the white seed and the other small sorts are not so hot The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the seed made in wine and drunk provoketh urine resisteth the force of poysons the malignity of Mushromes and the venome of the Scorpion or other venomous creatures abateth the fits of Agues and doth mightily prevail to stir up bodily lust it helpeth the spleen and paines in the sides and gnawings in the bowels shortnesse of breath and provoketh the terms Mustard made with strong Vineger is good to bring down Womens courses and for fits of the Mother for the Falling Sicknesse Lethargie or Drowsinesse of the brain for by the sharpnesse thereof it pierceth to the Brain and purgeth it by sneesing and drawing down rheume and other tough humours which by their residence do much offend or by their distillation upon the Lungs and Chest procure coughing It doth much help concoction in a cold stomach and drieth up the superfluous moisture thereof and is good for the Palsie The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder in Electuary c. The outward use It helpeth the uvula or palate of the mouth when it is faln down and fasteneth it being used as a Gargle and also dissolveth tumours and Kernels about the throat being applyed and helpeth the tooth-ach being chewed in the mouth It easeth the Sciatica and other Gowts pains in the side or loines the shoulders or other parts of the body upon the applying thereof to raise blisters and by drawing the pains to the place from the inward or more remote cureth the disease or diverteth it to those outward places where locall Medicines may help It helpeth the falling of the haire and mixed with Honey and applyed it taketh away the black and blue marks that come of bruisings the roughnesse of the skin in any place as also the Leprosie Lowsie Evill and Crick in the neck Applyed with Figs to the head first shaven it avails against the Lethargie and Falling Sicknesse The powder of the seeds put into the nostrils causeth sneesing and raiseth women sick of the Mother out of their fits A Cataplasme against Rheume Take Mustard-seed and Olibanum of each half an ounce Nigella-seed dried one ounce Mastich two drams of Pigeons dung and Barley-meal of each an ounce with Oxymel of Squills make it in form of a Pultis apply it to the coronall suture or forepart of the head The hurtfull quality It is offensive to cholerick and dry bodies The Dose The seed is given from half a dram to a dram Medicines made thereof The distilled Water Oile of the seed good in cold diseases of the Nerves CHAP. 162. De Sperma Ceti of Parmasitty The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sperma Ceti Spuma Maris Flos Maris also Ambra subalbida in English Parmasitty It is cold and moist The best kinde The best is that which is white and fatty not yellow and rancid or stinking The duration It will keep good a yeer or two but it loseth much in keeping The inward use It is chiefly used against falls and bruises and to dissolve clotted bloud in the body and for women that are newly delivered it is also used in the Collick and in pains and torments of the belly both of children and others It easeth the Cough and provoketh sweat The manner of administring it It is chiefly given by it self in Sack or Beer The outward use It taketh away the marks of the small Pox cleers the skin