Sugar therewith and of this let him drink a good draught and it will cool and refresh him Besides take some of the guts of Hens and some slices of Radish sprinkle them with Vinegar and Salt and bind them to the soles of his feet this will draw away the heat But let not the Radish lye too long upon them because it will give a stink that may increase the head-ach wherewith the People that have the Plague are commonly troubled enough without provoking it Moreover you will do well to tye about his wrists some Rue beaten with Vinegar Anoint his Loyns and Back-bone with the Unguent of Roses or with fresh Butter but if there appear any Spots forbear to anoint him lest they should be driven in You will do well to have Epithemata of good things about you as of Rose water and Elder-vinegar to lay over the Heart with which mix some Camphir But if you find any thing of Specks c. broke out you must use no wet thing Anoint his Heart with Oyl of Scorpions take the Oyl of Sea-blossoms and of those Earth-worms that appear after rain of each six ounces of St Johns-wort Oyl two ounces of fresh Elder-blossoms and Rue each a handful and an half of the Acetum of Marigold-flowers and Roses each about three ounces of live Spiders forty five Boil all these together till the Vinegar be so qualified that when 't is thrown into the fire it cause no cracking there Then strain it and in this strained Oyl put a matter of five and twenty Spiders more of the biggest sort and add to it of Camphir dissolved in the Spirit of Roses half a drachm let it stand in Balneo Mariae or upon hot embers for twelve hours and then put to it of Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce and let them work together With this Oyl anoint the eight Pulses viz. both Temples behind both Ears both Hands and both Knees as also the Heart And this is an excellent Succedaneum to Scorpion-oyl much used by the Germans Besides you must refresh and strengthen the Patient with convenient Meat and Drink I mean with good Flesh or Barley-broath with a little Vinegar in it to make it savoury to him who will have appetite to little else till he have shaken off this venomous Distemper which when he hath done his stomach will be so keen that you will find work enough to keep him from surfeiting Be also careful to keep thy Patients Body open if he be obstructed use a Clister or take Butter or Hogs-grease mixing a little Salt with it or if it be to be gotten a little Mice-trickles and put it into his bowels Physick at the mouth for this purpose is not always safe When the Patient is discharged of the venom a little liquor of stew'd Prunes with some Senna-leaves in it will do well for opening the body Some fresh Butter eaten in the morning or melted in warm Broath and taken down is wont also to keep the body soluble The Drink of these Patients may be Water with some Bread soaked in it or take of such Water wherein Bread hath been soaked one quart and a little Vinegar with two or three spoonfuls of Kitchin-sugar mingling it well together If you have no Sugar use such Water with Vinegar alone This affords good Drink in malignant Fevers Among the Romans it was drunk by the Souldiers under the name of Posca You may also take a handful of well cleaned plantain-Plantain-roots and boil them up in three quarts of Water and then decant the Water which though it be somewhat bitter yet 't is very good in Fevers and a good Drink in hot Distempers If you have Oyl of Vitriol let a few drops of it fall into clear Water mingling it well and you will have a factitious Sawer-brun or Acidula But use no Metalline Vessel for this purpose With this kind of Water many People have been served in all sorts of Fevers the Oyl of Vitriol in such Distempers if rightly used being very beneficial But if a Man should have with it any Pulmonick Disease in that case he must forbear acid things and use Liquorice and content himself with Ptisane Nor is it at all good to use acids in Pestilential Pleurisies And since on this occasion we mention this case and we having above given warning not easily to blood in Pestilential Diseases yet may Venae-section be sometimes upon good consideration used in that Pleurisie provided it be done in the very beginning and the Patient be strong and full of Blood Yet this is not to lessen the blood but only to give it vent but before bleeding the Patient is to sweat by taking some of the above specified Antidotes If the Patient have violent Head-ach lay on his head Vine-leaves or fresh Cabbage-leaves and if you have no Alablaster-salve take two parts of Vinegar and one part of Oyl of Olives the Sea-blossoms Oyl and Elder-Vinegar were better dip long rags of linnen therein and having well squeez'd them again lay them lukewarm over the face and temples Even Vinegar alone is good Of such Applications you may make many of Acetum of Roses Elder-blossoms and the like with a little Camphir The expressed Milk of Peaches is also very effectual in this case If at the going off of this Distemper a hot defluxion should fall into the Eyes take Camphir and infuse it in water and often moisten the Eyes therewith and if it should be cold and windy weather you will do well to keep your self out of the open Air and not to let this water dry up in your Eyes in the cold wind In case of having lost thy hearing take of thy own Urine and with it wash thy Ears within but withal dry them very well because that moisture is very noxious to the Ears And it often happens that after the Hungarian Sickness People grow deaf or hard of hearing Others put the water of Carduus-benedictus distilled with Wine into the Ears or the Oyl of bitter Almonds If thy Throat swell or the Palate of thy Mouth be fallen down gargarize thy Throat with warm Milk wherein Figgs have been boil'd or sweetned with Sugar The Flowers of Phyllirea or Mock-privet which grows in the Hedges boiled and used for a gargarism heals also a sore Throat The same doth the middle rind of Oxyacantha or Haw-thorn if boiled with a little Allom dissolved in the Decoction If you have the Juice of Mulberries mix a little Honey of Roses with it and often take a little thereof The Roots of Sloes boiled in red Wine and the Mouth often washed therewith is also very good If thou hast the Squinancy boil Scabious in Meath and drink thereof warm when strain'd Beat Turnips and fry them in Butter or Oyl and clap them in a cloth round about thy Neck If thou cast up blood take Mouse-ear Ground-Ivy Cumfrey boil them in half Wine and half Water or in Meat and Drink often of it But if
slime The use of Salt-petre thus prepared removeth also the Inflammation of the Heart especially if it be melted upon Lead and then proceeded with as before For Lead is a considerable cooler of which cooling quality the Niter whilst it is melting upon it taketh in not a little Let then your Lead melt and when 't is melted dissolve the Niter upon it and then to purifie it cast some Brimstone into it as was said above till it be cleansed from all impurity and then give of it to thy Patient two or three times a day according as need shall require Otherwise take live Crafishes and fresh Housleek beat them together in a Mortar squeeze out the Juyce with it mix a little Sal-Armoniack or a pretty deal of thy prepared Niter make a Potion of it and give of it even cold to thy Patient repeating this several times every eight or ten hours once according as you shall see occasion Or take fresh Lard if it be salted draw it through hot Water to unsalt it and cut a slice of it two fingers large and of the thickness of a knives back put this into the Mouth of thy Patient it is an excellent Remedy against this Inflammation of which I shall give the reason hereafter I have seen wonders done with it But if thy Patient do rave then fasten this slice of Lard with a Thred and Needle to his Shirt or Doublet lest he swallow it Or take fresh Butter and put it in cold Water and of it give thy Patient at a time the quantity of a Hasel-nut to hold it upon his Tongue and let it melt there which will keep the Tongue always moist And if thou work among this Butter some of thy prepared Niter it hath a wonderful effect though the taste be not pleasant I promised above to explain the Reason of the Cure of these Inflammations When you take a Gargarism of the Waters of Night-shade Wood-sorrel Knot-grass Endive Housleek and the like mingled with Vinegar you do well but this is not enough the reason is If you wet a piece of Leather you make it indeed limber but when it comes to be dry it grows hard and shrinks except you grease it over with some fatty matter and then it will remain smooth So it is with the Tongue though it be made clean with Gargarisms yet will it become again rough and untoward unless some fatness be used For which cause I have directed to use Lard or Butter mixt with Niter If the Almonds be swelled thou must abstain from all sowre things and prepare a Gargarism of Figgs St. Johns Bread Mallows-flowers Liquorice Elder-canes mixing with it some Rose-honey or Juyce of Walnuts or the Rob Diamorom gargling often with it seeing that this symptom is a dangerous thing for when the Throat swells of it few Patients do escape death especially if it be a Pestilential Squinancy And in case there appear any Tumor outwardly take fine Flower Milk and Saffron making a Pulse of it and to keep it from growing hard mix with it Althea-salve or Hounds-tongue-salve the Oyl of blew Violets Mullein white Lillies Camomile or the like adding a little Oyl of Scorpions to it and applying this outwardly Make also a Scraper of Alder-wood if it may be had if not other wood will serve though Alder be best Throw it into cold Water and let it lye there using it as often as there is need yet take heed of making thy Tongue sore or raw CHAP. VI. Of Fevers Belly-aches Tumors of the Belly Yellow-Jaundise and Distempers of the Liver IN Camps there is nothing more frequent than Fevers of the Stomach arising from ill Dyet which Souldiers are often put to for want of better eating what they can get Cheese Herbs Flesh half boiled stale and musty Bread and the like Hence is gather'd a morbifick matter in the Stomach which causeth putrefaction and consequently Stomach-fevers In this case thou art first to purge And for that purpose make use of the Pulvis solutivus de tribus recommended above taking the weight of a Ducat or a Ducat and an half in warm Broath and fasting two or three hours after it Or fetch from the Apothecary of the Tabulatum Diaturbith cum Rhubarbaro or the Diaphoenicon in tabulis taking half an ounce at a time and keeping thy Chamber Or infuse Sena-leaves in Wormwood-wine and drink a small glass-ful of it an hour before thy breakfast This will also serve very well especially if some Carduus benedictus have also been fermented in the Wormwood-wine If thou art troubled with Gripings or Inflation of the Belly take of Zedoar or Angelica-roots or Orange-peels cut them small and take at a time the weight of a Ducat in hot Broath If the Inflation be much take in the morning the quantity of a Hasel-nut of Mithridate fasting an hour after it and if the pains of thy Belly prevail make a Decoction of Wormwood in Wine and drink of it as hot as thou canst this will allay the pains and give thee some stools Mean time abstain from raw Fruit and Beer Milk Herbs and such like If thou art swollen take half a drachm of Rubarb and about the same quantity or a little less of Mechocan reduce it to powder and take it in Wormwood-wine or warm Broath in the morning fasting and eat nothing within an hour or two after Be careful to take down some Treacle in the morning fasting but you are first to be purged Otherwise make a Decoction of the Roots of Elecampane and Pimpernel or Swallow-wort in Wine and drink a warm draught of it mornings it will provoke Urine If thou canst bear amongst it Wormwood Carduus benedictus or Centory add them in the Decoction and it is a good potion for the Liver An Herb call'd by the Latins Euphatorium Avicennae in English I think Common Hemp-Agrimony hath a great operation in swelled People drinking of the Decoction thereof made in Wine Besides use in this case Parsley and smallage-Smallage-roots in thy meat Boil Horse-radish and drink of the Decoction warm in the morning Thy ordinary drink is to be a water in which hath been boiled a good quantity of Cummin Annis or Fennel You may also now and then drink a little Wine swelled people having no great heat in them From these obstructions of the Liver and Mesaraic Veins comes difficulty of Breathing and a dry Cough which occasions the Inflation of the Belly and helps to entertain the crudities and indigestions Mean time there useth to follow upon this the Yellow Jaundise For this take the Roots of Cyclamen or Sow-bread reduce them to powder and take the weight of half a ducat in Meath or Wine mixt with a little Honey sweating upon it and you shall find your sheets discoloured of a yellowish colour In the same manner make use of the seed of Aquileja or Columbine I have reduced these three to powder and mixt them together and given of it the weight of
a ducat to sweat which hath proved very successful Orange-peels used in like manner do also much good in this case The bitter Centory boiled in Meath and a good draught drank of it warm in the morning is also very good Likewise a Decoction of the white Hore-hound and Chicory-roots is also used to good purpose in this case These things expel also Worms if any do lodge within thee for which may also be used the Souldiers Pills of Aloe called Marocostinae In this case Vinegar of Squills is also an excellent remedy taking of it in the morning early a spoonful two or three and exercising after it It will open the Breast and make you expectorate phlegm and slime in abundance If you be troubled with Wind and Gripings of the Guts be careful to have your Body soluble Boil Calamus cut small in Broath drink of it hot putting a little Angelica or Masterwort Do this mornings and evenings and beware of drinking cold and abstain from all Milk keeping your self very warm especially about the Feet which you will do well to bathe with a Decoction made of Asarabacca Camomile wild Trefoil wild Marjerom wild Thyme putting a little Salt into it For your drink boil Cummin Annis or Fennel in Water and now and then a glass of Wine may do well These Gripings may also be cured with drinking very bitter Wormwood-wine as hot as you can endure it This is also opening If you boil Elecampane and Orange-peels with the Wormwood it will have the greater effect And if you add to it Allium Sylvestre Crow-Garlick you have an excellent Medicine for this purpose This I have used my self and found present relief from it when in a very hard Winter upon a Journey I was taken with these Gripings 'T is indeed a very unpleasant potion exceeding bitter especially being to be drunk hot but the good effects will make amends for that If the pains should not cease after all this mix with it the quantity of a Hasel-nut of Treacle or Mithridate and so drink it off together If you can get Malvasy mix a little Oyl of Olives with it and drink of it warm Oyl of sweet Almonds would be better one half of that and the other of Malvasy though these things perhaps will not so easily be had in a Camp Fresh Butter may serve instead of Oyl Else make a Decoction of Juniper-berries or Laurel-berries and Elecampane in strong Wine and drink a good draught of it mornings and evenings Or reduce the Herb Carduus benedictus to powder and drink its weight of a ducat in warm Malvasy or other strong Wine it will remove the Gripings especially if you mix with it a little Zedoary pulverised For your Meat take Larks if they chance to be in season draw them and fill their bellies with Garlick and so rost and eat them Make a Decoction of Burnet or of Masterwort and Laurel berries in Beer strain it and melt a little Butter in it adding a little Pepper and so drink of it hot For an outward Application take the Oyl of Rue and Wormwood dip Cotton into it and put it warm to thy Navil Or beat Onions and fry them in Dill or Camomile-Oyl wrap it up in a linnen Cloth and apply it to thy Belly where the pain is most violent refreshing it often The Oyl of Laurel-berries mixing a little Juniper-berry-oyl or Nutmeg-oyl with it may be used with great benefit anointing the Navil therewith and afterwards put to the Navil a warm dry bag filled with Bran and Camomile-blossoms Or fry Cow-dung in the Oyl of Dill or of Camomile or of white Lillies and apply it thus to thy Navil keeping thy self and especially thy Leggs very warm If you perceive any Hydropical Distemper in you make a Decoction of Wormwood and Juniper-berries in Wine drink every morning a warm draught of it fasting You may also to very good purpose boil with it Swallow-wort Burnet or Succory-roots adding also to it some Annis or Fennelseed But it will be requisite first of all to purge with Mechoacan and Rhubarb and now and then to repeat this purgation Abstain from Milk Beer Fruit and all raw and obstructing food If you knew how to use Elder you would have an excellent Purge to free your Body from the Hydropical water because the Juyce of the Roots of Elder purgeth Hydropical Persons exceedingly But 't is not so safe to use it unless you do it with great caution because a very little of it taken inwardly purgeth both by stool and vomit like Antimony Half a nutshel full may suffice The like effect you 'l find in Elder-buds boiled and then dressed with Oyl and Vinegar like a Salad eating a very little of it But I advise you not to use too much of it else it will cast you into great faintness The juyce of the Roots of blew Lillies hath the like vertue but is likewise to be used with great discretion Otherwise take Earth-worms and having wash'd them clean in Wine reduce them to powder and take of it for some mornings the weight of half a drachm in warm Broath or Wine mixing a little Rhubarb with it The Swelling of your Leggs may be removed by heating some Tiles and sprinkling them with Wine and clapping them about your Leggs to make them sweat For a swelled Groin take warm Milk wherein Calamus Aromaticus hath been boiled and sweeten it well with Sugar and apply it CHAP. VII Of all sorts of Fluxes as also the Tenasmus or vain endeavour of going to stool and the Haemorrhoid or Piles and Marisca's or sore Fundaments IN Wars and Camps Bloody and other Fluxes are very frequent caused by an irregular and ill dyet and these Distempers especially the Bloody Flux carry away abundance of Men. Where it is to be noted that the Bloody Flux is infectious and very catching Commmon Fluxes and Loosenesses may easily be cured Amongst other Remedies take burnt Harts-horn and take it often in Broath or pulverise Medlar-kernels and take of the powder in Broath likewise Also an Electuary made of Quinces and Sloes will cure them The same does Nutmeg and the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed or the Roots of Cinquefoil baked in Eggs and eaten Likewise the Seed of Dock broad Plantain item Terra Sigillata or Bolus Armenus and Wheaten-bread coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red Wine and eaten Again Mastick pulverised and put into Almon-milk red Wine or Broath the weight of a drachm is good for such a Looseness especially as comes from indigestion adding a little Nutmeg or Galingal to it Oaken-leaves also or the Rinds of Pear-trees with a little Mace boiled in Wine and drunk cureth common Fluxes Again Bursa Pastoris Shepherds-Purse boiled in Steel-water with a little Coriander and drunk is also very good and so are Crafishes boiled in Vinegar and the scales beaten to powder taking a drachm of it mornings and evenings either in red Wine or in Broath wherein in red-hot Steel hath
been several times quenched Hawes also boiled and made into a thick Electuary and strained is beneficial if taken in the morning fasting and an hour or so before supper the quantity of a Walnut Besides take new Milk with its Cream on it quench therein divers times red-hot Pebble-stones so that the Milk may grow hot of it then mix with it two or three well-beaten Yolks of Eggs two ounces of Sugar melting in it an ounce and an half of the Suet of a Deer or Stagg and about half an ounce of Album-graecum using it for a Clyster which cleanseth and healeth the Guts and allays the sharpness of the Blood and other corrosive humors that annoy the Bowels But take heed of not stopping too suddenly the Bloody Flux or any other Laske for if you do the annoyance will remain in the Body and cause Impostumes Difficulty of breathing and other dangerous Distempers Wherefore consult with thy strength and if that be considerable make not too much hast yet keep a bridle upon it so as to be able to stop it when there is need Mean time if it be without a Fever or heat you may do much with new Milk drinking it also mornings and evenings warm some red-hot Stones having been quenched therein and some Sugar mixed with it to prevent curdling in your Stomach This Medicine was known to the famous Grecian Physicians Aetius Alexander Trallianus and Galenus himself l. 10. de Simpl. Med. facult If you add a little Album-graecum to it 't will be the better I have my self done much good with thus prepared Milk but then there must be no Fever which if there be you 'l easily perceive it by a great thirst quick pulse hot hands and little sleep c. For bloody Fluxes are not wont to be accompanied with shaking Fevers but only with hot fits which spend more of the Patients strength in an hour than shaking Agues in several days which is to be well heeded Eggs boiled hard in Vinegar and given to the Patient that is troubled either with the Bloody or any other Flux it will be stopped The Roots of Tormentil or of Snake-weed pulverised and this powder drunk in a convenient vehicle the weight of a drachm is one of the most approved remedies against these Fluxes Tormentil-roots being very powerful not only to stop them but also to take away their catching malignity The Moss that grows on wild Rose-shrubs reduced to powder and taken in Wine wherein have been boiled the husks of Acrons is an approved remedy in this case Scrape red Lead or Rudle such as Carpenters mark their lines with put it into Wine or Broath wherein hath been boil'd the broader kind of Plantain and Tormentil-roots or take it in an Egg. Hares-blood dried and taken inwardly is also a tried Medicine in this Distemper Item open a new-laid Egg take out the white and fill it up with Nutmeg or the pulverised root of Tormentil or of Snake-weed and give it the Patient to eat or put into it some pulverised Blood-stone and it will do good I have used with good success the Seed of the broader Plantain grosly beaten and rosted in an Egg against the Flux and I know it also to have been beneficially used against the Bloody Flux Take of Mummy a little Mastick Bol-Armeniack Sanguis Draconâ— mix them together and make a powder of them and take of it in a convenient Liquor the weight of a dram once or twice a day Take Rye-biscuit and boil it in Water with Coriander and the roots of Tormentil or of Cranes-bill quench some Steel in it once or twice and give of it to the Patient to drink Make a Decoction of Shepherds-purse and Meadow-sweet in Water and Wine and now and then drink of it Burn live Crafishes in an earthen Pipkin well-closed until they be so burnt as to be reduced to powder of which give to the Patient mornings and evenings a Thimble-full or two in a convenient Liquor A dried Liver of a sucking Lamb or of any other such Animal is very good in this case provided such a Liver before 't is dried be boiled in Vinegar Let the Patient take a drachm of it twice a day Also the Blood of a Lamb or of a Hind both dried will have here a good effect Take a Pigeon Wood-cock or Patridge and having drawn any of them fill them with Mastick and a little Nutmeg and so rost them on a Spit and whilst they are rosting baste them with red Wine and so let them rost till they grow so hard as will make them pulverable then reduce them or any of them to powder and take a spoonful of it at a time in warm Broath The highest Experiment in this case is Crocus Martis taken in the Juyce of the broader kind of Plantain or in a Pulse of red Beans or Rice-broath the dose is half a dram But when the pain is very great you may then add to it some opiat Medicine as of the Trochisques de Garabe or one only grain of Laudanum Opiatum And give the Patient now and then a little new-made Treacle or mix with it a few grains of the Confection of Archigenes for of such Medicaments a Field-Apotheque is not wont to be destitute For the Patients ordinary drink boil water and in it Coriander dried Sloes dried slices of Quinces burnt Harts-horn Mastick Nutmeg or any one of these putting to it some of the roots of Snake-weed Tormentil or such like adstringent roots Of this water the Patient may drink according as his necessity shall require The red Juyce of Quinces boiled up without Sugar is also much to be commended in this case for strengthening the bowels two or three spoonfuls of it being taken at a time and that twice a day In many places a drink is made of Sloes Pilosella or Mouse-ear and Juniper-berries infusing them all in common water and letting them ferment together This yields a pleasant acid drink allaying the violence of the Flux and quenching thirst withal The Rich may make Granat or Quince-wine But I have here undertaken to deliver such things as are parable and cheap for the poor common Souldier I am sorry that in the Field there is no conveniency of administring Clysters For though I prescribe none without great necessity yet Clysters being of great benefit in Diseases of the bowels they being to them like Plaisters I cannot but recommend in this Distemper Clysters of Milk wherein Pebble-stones have been several times quenched mixing a little of the melted Suet of a Stag or Hind without any Oyl or other fat I remember I had once a Patient of quality that had about an hundred stools within twenty four hours who by the use of such Clysters once or twice applied was fully restored The cause whereof is that the Milk washes the bowels and clears them of the sharp humors that annoy them moreover it is healing and repairing by reason of the Pebbles quenched therein The Sugar
and white Wax and melt them over the fire yet so as that you melt the Wax by it self and add of it no more to the rest than to make it a thin plaister Into this compound you must dip some fine lint and you 'l find it very useful for any angry part as also when one limb presses or otherwise incommodes another as happens in hydropical and other swollen people whose belly so sinks down that the thighs suffer by it in which case such lints are to be put between the parts to keep them from immediately touching and pressing one another A grangrene is cured with Sal-armoniac boiled in Urine especially in that of the Patient and clapping such Urine upon the part affected The quantity of the Sal-armoniac may be six drachms For frozen Feet take Gander-suet and Deer-suet dissolve them together and pour them into a white excavated Turnip and expose this for a while to the Air Rain Wind Hoar-frost Snow according as the season shall be Then mince the Turnip and fry it in the same Suet which you had poured into it that done squeeze it out and let the fat fall upon cold water and being there brought to consistence take it off and bring it over the helm from burned Wine and decant this carefully from it again and 't is duely prepared You may also recover frozen Feet with white rotten Turnips beaten with Butter or Tallow and so clapt on CHAP. X. Of several promiscuous Medical Practices for the Service of the honest Souldier THis Chapter I have annexed to the former as an Appendix for the ease and good of Souldiers wherein some things will occurr not inferiour to those that have preceded But herein I have kept no order but set them down promiscuously yet faithfully to supply what may have been omitted before If you be troubled with the Tooth-ach coming from the cold in winter take the root of Pyrethrum Pellitory of Spain and boil it in Vinegar and hold this Vinegar warm in your mouth and it will draw out the phlegm that causes the pain Or take the root of Elder boil it in half Wine and half Water and hold it warm upon the Teeth But what you take of this Decoction must be often spit out and other fresh taken into you mouth of which I have found wonderful Effects The root of Heath boiled together with the same herb in wine and laid on is esteem'd to be powerful in drawing out thorns and splinters You may make a good Ointment against the Itch and Scabs of Savin stale Fat Brimstone and Juniper-berries Oyl If your Limbs after long sickness be weak boil Valerian-roots in Camomil-oyl and anoint such Limbs therewith Also the Oyl of Lillies in the valley and that of yellow Violets is good for the same purpose For worms in the Fingers bruise Parsicaria Arsmart and lay it on or take of a Piggs Bladder of Gall and put it on the affected Finger like a Thimble If you have any coagulated or congealed blood in your Breast make a Decoction of Scabious Chervil and Germander in two parts of wine one part of water and strain it and drink of it mornings and evenings Against the putrefaction of the Mouth make a Decoction of Privet in water adding afterwards a little Allum to it and use it for a gargarism Also a Decoction of the middle rind of Hawthorn with a little Allum is of great effect in the same case Cabbage and Colewort-leaves burnt to ashes and a Lixivium made of it and clapp'd on cureth a Gangrene and the wild Fire especially if you mingle a little Oyl of Elder therewith If you can have no Elder-blossoms for this Oyl take the green middle rind of Elder and boil it in Oyl Olive and then strain the Oyl which done take fresh rind of Elder and proceed with it as before repeating it three or four times to make the Oyl the stronger You may add a little wine to it whilst 't is boiling but that must all boil away and so long till the Oyl cracks no more in the fire Southern-wood stamped with grease and laid on draweth out splinters If you have the Itch or are scabby and can light upon some water standing in the hollowness of a Beech-tree wash your self with it Or make a Decoction of the brown rind of Alder which is under the gray in Butter and anoint your self with it mixing if you will a little Brimstone therewith If you be troubled with the Ring-worm or any running Scab infuse Litharge in Vinegar and let it stand a night infused or make a Decoction of the same in Vinegar But your pain or vessel must be of brass This Vinegar mingle with Oyl of Elder or of Roses or the like and it will become a fine gray Salve curing such running Scabs as aforesaid and cooling also Inflammations If your Body be bound take Sage pulverised and mix it with grease and anoint your Navil with the quantity of a hasel-nut of it This I have with very good success advised to women in child-bed that were thus bound and obstructed If you will have it stronger mix with it the Gall of a Fish or of any Animal whatsoever but then you must not give it to a woman in child-bed Gromel by the Latins call'd Milium Solis pulverised and the weight of half a ducat of it taken in wine or broath provoketh urine yet must the belly be open'd first The same doth Linaria or Toad-flax boiled in wine or broath Likewise distilled water of Radishes repeating the distillation several times from other fresh Radishes Which will have the better effect if the Patient bath his lower parts in a bath made of Marsh-mallows Melilot and the like Gromel above-mention'd taken in warm broath expels the birth And so do the blossoms or buds of Walnut-trees Crabs-eyes also pulverised and taken in warm broath likewise Issop boiled in wine and drank warm This I have inserted for the sake of poor Souldiers-wives who amongst us often follow the Camp If they have any great After-pains let them bath their lower parts in a Bath made of Dill and Camomil-flowers And the yolks of hard Eggs beaten together with some convenient Oyl Nut-oyl is the best and a Plaister made of it and laid to the belly is also very good If they have too great a profusion of blood let them take a drachm of burnt Harts-horn and burnt Ivory in a convenient Vehicle In case of a mortal wound take of pure Turpentine four ounces wash it with fresh limpid water and then dissolve it over a mild fire which done mix with it two ounces or two ounces and an half of white Wax dissolved apart To this add about three ounces of Womans milk which is sucked by a Boy The Turpentine and Wax being somewhat cooled together must be well stirr'd and then poured on cold Vinegar whence when 't is brought to a consistence it is to be taken off and made into a Plaister and so laid
is abstersive and helps to clean the injured places The Fat sticks to the parts annoyed to defend them from being further hurt by the subsequent humors which running down over it can find no stay there and consequently cause no more hurt to those parts Yet must you not put in any greasie Fat or any Oyl of Olives because they hinder healing and all Oyl except that of Linseed Poppies Hemp and Almonds is very sharp and you will find that if any drop of Oyl of Olives should chance to fall into your Eye no Juyce of Oranges or Limons is so strong as to exceed the acrimony of that Oyl But of this Oyl more will be said in the next Chapter to which I therefore refer you If you would have your Clyster yet milder and more sanative you may beat a yolk or two of new-laid Eggs and mix them with it though I have contented my self with the Ingredients before mention'd and found great benefit thereby Else you may in this case use for a Clyster the Cremor hordei mixt with yolks of Eggs beaten in it which is also very good to wash out the bowels Here is no conveniency of making much use of Apothecary-shops else many things might be prescribed to lay upon the belly and the navil as also divers fermentations and stomachical Unguents You may therefore content your self with those plain and easily parable means already deliver'd and be thankful to God for them But then you are also to think upon means to obviate Symptoms of this Distemper and particularly Drought which is wont very much to torment people in this Disease 'T is true Acid things do quench thirst but they cannot be used boldly and therefore you must use them with great discretion and wariness And as for sweet things they usually increase thirst and do easily corrupt and turn into gall Wherefore give to the Patient preserved Currans or if fresh ones be in season mix a quantity of them with Honey or Sugar and give him of it to eat upon white-Bread and Butter Or plump dried Black-cherries or dried Damascene-prunes in half Wine and half Water and let him hold squeeze them in his mouth Or if you can mingle some Almond-milk with chalybeat-Chalybeat-water and let him drink thereof and this is both meat and drink Or let him drink water wherein Coriander and roots of Tormentil have been boiled Or boil in water dried slices of Quinces roots of Bistorta or Snake-weed and burnt Harts-horn put into it a tosted crust of Rye-bread rubb'd with Nutmeg but let it not lye in it above a quarter of an hour lest the water should thicken and become viscous Marmelat also of Quinces Black-cherries and Sloes is proper in this case giving the Patient a slice of it to hold upon his tongue and so to swallow it down Further you must learn how to remedy a Tenasmus which is more irksome to the Patient and occasions more trouble to the Physitian than the Bloody-flux it self since it night and day painfully provokes the poor Patient to go to stool and yet to no purpose For this I have used many remedies but found almost nothing more beneficial than Fomentations of this nature following Take Potentilla wild Tansie Silver-weed Knot-grass Mullein and Oak-leaves of each as much as you please put them into two linnen bags and let them boil in Smiths-water wherein much Iron hath been quenched Squeeze out these bags between two boards and let them be held alternately to the anus as hot as can be endured Black Pitch such as is found on Larch and Fir-trees put upon a heated fire-shovel and the fundament held over it is also a good remedy so is Turpentine used after the same manner Again take a black well-burnt Brick out of the hearth heat it thoroughly and wet it with sharp Vinegar and wrap it about with a linnen cloth and let the Patient sit on it as hot as he can endure it This was the Experiment and Remedy of old Aetius but he reduced the Brick to powder and by boiling it in Vinegar reduced it to a pulse and so put it into a linnen rag and applied it to the fundament You may chuse which you please of the two Milk-Clysters such as above prescribed would also be good but that 't is not safe with Clyster-pipes to vex the anus which is already sore enough Yet you may give a Suppository of Deers-suet mixt with some Oyl of Mullein And the grey Diapompholox or the white Camphire-unguent or the like mixt with it would not be improper in this case If there be a Falling down of the fundament then let it often take in the fumes of the above-mention'd Herbs adding to them the beaten stalks of Sloe-shrubs and those of red Roses as also Mouse-ear and Mug-wort The outer bark of Elder and of Shepherds-purse doth also well with it But above all things keep the Patient warm and let by no means any of the abovesaid steams grow cold on the sore part Make also a Decoction of Garlick and pour it hot into your close-stool let the Patient sit upon it to receive the hot steams Besides put some burnt Harts-horn in a linnen cloth and so strew it upon the fundament by little and little to drew it up Or heat an Oaken-board very well and cover it over with Stags-suet and let the Patient sit upon it whilst 't is hot Put Colophonium or the Rosin of Pinetree upon a heated Iron and let the Patient by holding his fundament over it take in the steams thereof Anoint also the part with Butter in which Onions have been boiled and strew upon it Album-graecum very finely pulverised You may also make a Salve of Ceruse Bol-Armeniack Dragons-blood Stags-suet Blood-stone Oyl of Myrrh or Butter in which first hath been boiled broad Plantain Mullein or wild Tansie Silver-weed and with this anoint the fundament As for the Marisca's which do torment Men especially they may be cured with Oyl of Eggs Salve of red Hounds-tongue as also with the Vnguentum Populeum or with Butter stirr'd up and down in a Leaden Mortar till it turn grey or blackish Let the Patient drink also of Scrophularia or Fig-wort infused in his drink this being a specifick for that evil Also the Oyl of Mullein Elder-blossoms Water-lilly and White-lillies is an excellent remedy for it a rag dipped therein being laid upon the part affected To use scarifying on the lower part of the back-bone is also very good though it be very painful If the Hoemorrhoid-vein bleed in a convenient time and do not overbleed it is an exceeding good thing and preserves from many Diseases as the Inflammation of the Lungs Stitches of the sides the Leprosie Melancholly Quartans and the like If the same vein should bleed in one that is mad or disturbed in his mind or in one that is troubled with the Inflammation of the Kindneys these Distempers would thereby be allayed But if it should bleed too often
Discussives exceed afterwards we use only Discussives though sometimes stronger sometimes weaker according to the condition of the Disease Take Aloes three drams Bole-armenick half an ounce Acacia Dragons blood Cyprus Roots powdered of each two drams Saffron half a dram Rose-Vinegar an ounce and half Oyl of Mirtle and Earth-worms of each an ounce Wax as much as is sufficient to make it into a Linament Another stronger Take Crude Brimstone Ashes of Vine Branches Sal-Gemme of each two drams Bean-meal two ounces Vinegar an ounce Oyl of Nuts a dram Turpentine and Wax as much as sufficeth either to make it into the Consistence of an Ointment or Cerat Another yet stronger Take Laudanum an ounce and half Frankincense an ounce Styrax-Camitis half an ounce Brimstone six drams Alom Salt-peter Ashes of each two drams Cows-dung half an ounce Oyl of Rue an ounce Turpentine and Pitch as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister An Excellent Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows three ounces Bryony Dwarf-Elder of each 2 ounces Leaves of Sage and Rue of each a handful Savin half a handful Boil them in equal parts of Wine and Water in the end adding of Vinegar three ounces then being well beat together add Bean-meal two ounces and a half Ashes half an ounce Cows-dung one ounce Salt half an ounce Leaven an ounce and half Oyl of Camomil four ounces Hoggs-grease two ounces Make it into a Cataplasm If it comes to an Abscess which rarely happens this Poultice is Excellent especially if the Vinegar be omitted and in its room Onions and a quantity of Unguentum Basilicon be added If an Oedema proceed from a Consumption Dropsie or ill habit of Body till those Diseases be cured that cannot I have used often to Cure an Oedema with this Wine or Purging Conserve and exactly rowling the Arms or Legs with Rowlers of 12 or 15 yards long beginning from below upwards and so allowing no liberty for the Humor to descend By this way the Noble Parts are Corroborated the Preternatural Humors Evacuated and the External Members in a few days space restored to their former Condition Take Roots of Orrise Floren. an ounce Sea-holly and Parsley of each half an ounce Rhubarb Agarick Trochis of each three drams Senna six drams Cinamon two drams Cloves half a dram Sem. Siler Mont. two drams tye them in a Cloth and let them infuse in two pints of old White-Wine then take every Morning four or five ounces for a Dose Or Take of Electuary of Juice of Roses an ounce Jalap a dram Spirit of Salt a scruple Mix it in an Electuary Let the Patient take the quantity of a Bean or Hazel-Nut every third or fourth day CHAP. V. Of Scirrhus SCirrhus is a Tumor besides Nature sometimes generated of Tough Viscous Phlegm sometimes of Melancholy hard not yielding to the touch nor painful Differences It is perfect when sprung from Melancholy or Phlegm alone Imperfect when other Humors are unnaturally mixt with it Cause is Melancholy or tough Phlegm Signs great hardness void of pain of a white colour if from Phlegm if from Melancholy Livid Prognostick A Scirrhus where there is no pain and upon which the hair grows is altogether incurable and if Livid it is very dangerous and often degenerates into a Cancer An imperfect small and painful one by means sometimes although very rare may be cured Cure If the Scirrhus be produced from Phlegm the same manner of Diet is to be observed as in an Oedema but if from Melancholy you must chuse a clear Air moderately hot and moist the Meat of the saxe quality and of easie Digestion all sharp things and those that are hot in the third or fourth degree hurt Let the Drink be neither thick nor strong but warming Sadness Anger Cares Venery much Sleep hurtful but moderate Exercises very necessary Bleeding is scarce ever administred with any success but Sweating and Purging with great Amongst the External Remedies are Discussives and Emollients but yet the whole course of the Cure must be mixt now increasing the quantity of the one then of the other The use of Suppuratives in the Cure of Schirrhus hath seldom any good event There are those which try cutting out and burning which must be attributed to their rash ignorance except contained in a proper Tunicle and then the name of Schirrhus is ill attributed to that Tumor Emollient Medicines Butter the fat of Hens Geese Ducks Hogs Foxes Bears Mans Mallows Marsh-mallows Orrach Gums Ammoniacum Galbanum Bdellium Styrax Liquida Ointment of Marsh-mallows Plaisters of Diachilon of Mussilages and Mellilot Resolvents are set down in the Chapter of a Phlegmon Take Gum Galbanum Ammoniacum Oppoponax of each an ounce Flower of Brimstone Red Myrrhe of each half an ounce Camphire a dram Oyl of White-Lillies Ducks-grease of each six drams Wax as much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister Take Roots of Marsh-mallows three ounces Orrise an ounce Leaves of Colworts Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Flowers of Camomile and Mellilot of each a handful Linseed two ounces boil them in Water and being well beat together add to them Horse-dung two ounces Hoggs-Grease Oil of Camomil of each an Ounce boil'd Onions half an Ounce Make a Cataplasm CHAP. VI. De Tumore Aquoso or Watry Tumor TUmor Aquosus is a Collection of a Watry Humor in the whole body or in some one part soft and without pain yielding to the Fingers but suddenly returning Difference Sometimes the whole body is swell'd with water which Tumor is call'd Anasarca sometimes the lower Belly only or with the Legs and then it is called Ascites if Wind mixing with the water extends the Belly like to a Drum it is call'd Tympanites These are three kinds of Dropsies whose Cure rather appertains to the Physician than Chirurgion Water collected in the Head is call'd Hydrocephalos in the Breast a Dropsie of the Lungs in the Navel a Hydromphalos in the Cods Hydrocele Cause is Serum to wit Salt-water produced from the lost heat of the parts that serv'd to Sanguification and Chylification Signs This Tumor is softer then Oedema and more yielding to the Fingers without pain with some itching and if you look on it by Candle-light very shining Prognosticks Watry Tumors are not dangerous if the principle parts that feed it are not too much debilitated yet all are of difficult Cure especially those in and about the Joynts Cure Diet is here the same as in Oedema All Salt things indurated with Smoak and too great a quantity of Drink are very hurtful as also Spirit of Wine and Pepper otherwise hot and dry Aliments are best Purging is very necessary provided it be not too great lest the parts already weak are more weakned provoking Sweat and Urine here are very profitable Bleeding by experience I know it to be hurtful to all Hydropick People Medicines Purging Water Roots of Asarum Dwarf-Elder Jalap white Mechoacans Leaves and Bark of Elder Euphorbium Turbith Gum Gutta Syrup
and Species of Diacarthamum Cream of Tartar Take Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna Diacarthamum of each an ounce Jalap eight grains Cream of Tartar two scruples parsley-Parsley-water as much as is sufficient to make it into a Potion A Purging Wine which cures the Dropsie it self Take Roots of Orrise Gentian Succhory Fennel Masterwort of each an Ounce the middle Bark of Elder an Ounce and half Leaves of Ground-pine a handful Rosemary two Pugils Flowers of Centaury the less one Pugil Seeds of Smallage Coriander Carraway Roman-Nettle Fennel of each a Dram Senna two ounces Agarick three Drams Jalap half an ounce Turbith a Dram and half Let them be cut and infused in six Pints of Rhenish-wine Dose four ounces Medicines consuming Water outwardly used Roots of Orrise Bryony Birthwort Flowers of Elder Camomil leaves of Celandine Centaury Calamint Rue Dill wild Majoram Sulphur vivum Salt Allum Bay-berries Ammoniacum Bdellium Take Cows-dung half an ounce Pidgeons dung two drams Sulphur vivum half an ounce Nitre two drams Honey Vinegar of each an ounce and half Bean meal two ounces Bay-berries Cummin-seeds of each half an ounce Oyl of Dill Nard of each an ounce White-wine as much as is sufficient to make it into a Poultice Or Take Frankincense Mastick Myrrhe of each half an ounce Camphire half a Dram Goats-dung an ounce and half Brimstone Salt Cummin-seeds of each three drams Turpentine and Wax as much as sufficeth According to Art make it into a Plaister Hydrocephalus is always of difficult Cure Water contained in the Ventricles of the Brain or between the Brain and Meninges is very dangerous but less dangerous when collected between the Dura and Pia Mater or between the Dura Mater and the Skull For the Dura Mater may be divided into a Lancet if you can come at it but least danger of all when detained without the Skull Purging Sudorificks and Diureticks seldom do any good here but Cauteries Blisters Issues Setons are more profitable but sometimes we are forc'd to come to Incision or Ustion which Remedies although dangerous have cured several Some Chyrurgeons use with an actual Cautery to burn the Skin of the Head in five six or more places but not together and at once but at several times lest the Patients strength should be too much spent continually choosing that place which the watry Humor makes to appear most convenient Some with a Lancet open the Skin near to the Sagital Suture Which of these Remedies are best cannot absolutely be declared I must esteem an Actual Cautery when the Water is between the Skin and the Skull but if under the Skull between the Meninges I do not see how this operation can be performed without a Lancet But which of them soever you chuse have a care of discharging all the Water at once for in the very Operation it self the Patient dies or at least is very much debilitated for till the end of the Cure all the Water is not to be taken away lest the debilitated Parts be deprived of that heat which the Water possest do corrupt but rather what remains must be consumed by Internal and External Discussives and this is to be observed in all Watry Tumors that are Cured by a Paracenthesis In the same manner the Watry Tumor in the Navel and Cod ought to be handled after other Medicines have been applied in vain Dropsie of the Breast belongs not to Chirurgery except where a Paracenthesis is convenient concerning which Read the 15 th Chapter of the first Part. CHAP. VII Of the Flatuous or Windy Tumor THe Flatuous Tumor is a Disease produced of Wind not yielding without resistance to the Fingers Difference Some are without pain others with it in the one the wind is in motion in the other quiet Causes of Wind are Phlegm especially when mingled with Choler which as Ferment doth froth so it proceedeth wind it always happens upon a debility of the Parts by reason of which although endeavoring to concoct the Humors yet are notable Signs are Inflation with a resistance yielding to the Fingers a rumbling noise especially if shaken Prognosticks It seldom comes is fleshy parts in other parts it brings many inconveniencies in weak and Cacochymick bodies it 's of difficult and tedious Cure Cure The same Diet in here to be observed as in an Oedema Pease Beans Turnips Chestnuts and all Crude Fruit do extreamly hurt On the contrary Wine and other things moderately warming profit as also Spices and those things which disperse Wind as Nutmegs Mace Anise Carraways Lovage The Stomach and the whole Body require purging and corroborating Medicines always mixing with them those that disperse Wind and sometimes also where Corroboratives are used Anodines Laudanum Opiatum cautiously used that is half a grain or a grain for a Dose is here excellent For besides that it ceaseth pain it also by its Diaphoretick quality removes the Cause of the Disease To cause Sweat is as necessary as Bleeding is unnecessary Outward Medicines discussing Wind. Roots of Galangale Lovage Herbs Dill Mint Marjoram Peniroyal Rosemary Rue Chervil Flowers of Elder Mellilot Camomil Seeds Anise Carraways Cummin Fennel Nutmegs Cardamum Castor Oyl of Rue Nard Spike Dill Carraway distill'd Mace Nucista exprest and distill'd Mellilot-plaister Take Oyl of Wormwood Rue of each two Drams Oyl of Nucistae exprest one Dram of Mace distilled half a Dram Castor dissolved in Aqua vitae two Scruples Make it into a Linament Or Take the Leaves of Rue Calamint of each half an handful Bean-meal two Ounces Seeds of Cummin and Anise of each half an Ounce Bay-berries Salt of each three Drams Nitre Brimstone of each a Dram Goats dung six Ounces White-wine as much as is sufficient Mix them and boyl them into the Consistence of a Cataplasm Or Take the Roots of Pelitory of Spain half a Dram Venice-Sope three Drams Castor dissolved in Aqua vitae one dram Seeds of Cummin Carraways of each two drams Ashes of Earth-worms half a dram Oil of Spike half an ounce Mastick three drams Wax and Turpentine as much as sufficeth Make it into a Plaister according to Art CHAP. VIII De Herpete HErpes is a Tumor besides Nature sprung from yellow Choler disfiguring the Skin with corroding and spreading Pustules Difference Where Choler solely predominates it produceth Herpes exedens but where Phlegm is mixt with Choler a Herpes Miliaris Cause is sometimes Choler alone sometimes mixt with Phlegm and I see not why the serum of the Blood may not often be here taken as a Cause For the Lymphaeducts being out of order do produce Mutations in mans body heretofore unknown Signs Are little Pustules like to Millet-seed a heat itching and after rubbing a moistness and little Ulcers Prognosticks Herpes is of difficult Cure but of little danger unless so rendred by the immoderate use of Repellents Cure The same Diet is here required as in an Erysipelas Moreover Purging is here very necessary Bleeding not to be allowed of the use
is to be powred upon it and mixt with it but first it ought to he seven times rectified You must make this Conjunction in a Matrace a Glass-Vessel so called by reason of its roundness in the bottom and long neck and in a warm Balneum till the Calx hath imbibed its Spirit then in a Glass-Alembick you shall separate by Balneum whatsoever of waterish Humidity can be separated and there will remain in the bottom the Buttery Calx of Arsenick of great virtue which must be kept in a Glass-Vessel well stopt Take some of this Powder mix it with Basilicon or a Digestive and thus mixt apply to the ulcerated Cancer CHAP. XIV Of a Gangrene and Sphacelus A Gangrene is a beginning Mortification of the the soft Parts of the Body most commonly following a great Inflammation or ill cured Sphacelus Necrosis Syderatio is a perfect Mortification not only of the soft but of the hard parts also Differences In a Sphacelus the parts are altogether dead but in a Gangrene they begin but to die and the sense is not perfectly abolished there the Skin is first pallid suddenly livid then black here in a manner red greater stink in that than in this The Causes of both are six 1. The External Cold of the Air or Repelling Medicines 2. External Heat from burning or use of Corrosive Medicines 3. A Defect of Nutriment as in an Atrophia either by the compression or obstruction of the Vessels by reason of which straightness the Blood cannot pass to the Part. 4. The stopping of the Pores or Perspiration hindred from whence comes a Suffocation of the Natural Heat 5. Malign Humor either begotten in the Body or contractee from venomous Beasts or Medicines 6. The Scurvy which by a peculiar property causeth the Parts sometimes to mortifie Signs A Sphacelus is easily to be known the Part looks black Spungy Flesh Sense Heat and Pulsation abolish'd But the Signs of a Gangrene vary according to the variety of the Causes If contracted from Cold a great pricking Pain is felt in the affected Part First 't is red then pale at length black The Natural heat by degrees is extinguished and there happens a shaking not unlike that in a Quartane Ague If caused from an External Heat or stopping of the Pores the Redness is changed into White then into Black Pulsation and Pain cease the Senses lessened and at last there appear some Pustules from whence issue a gleety Humor If from defect of Aliment there is neither Pain Inflammation or Tumor the Body waxeth cold and for the most part seizeth upon the Joynts If from a venomous Creature or Humor great Pain and Fever always accompany it frequent Faintings and oftentimes Deliriums Here ariseth a Pustule under which appears a black Spot which spreads it self over the whole part If from the Scurvy it for the most part begins at the Toes it shews it self outwardly with blackish spots and lines which degenerates into a dry Crust upon which follows a Numness of the Part and at length a Mortification it self without any Stink Sometimes without pain other times very great especially in them that are given to Passion or Sadness Prognosticks Except a Gangrene be suddenly stopt it degenerates into a Sphacelus easilier cured in young than old People The Humors continually flowing to the part affected bring danger with them and that very great if they are Malignant In the Cavities of the Body to wit in the Mouth Privy Parts and Fundament c. a Gangrene is always difficult of Cure as also that which happens among the Nerves and Tendons in Hydropicks always mortal That which happens from the Scurvy may be spun out from many Months but seldom cured A Sphacelus is not cured but by the Knife and Fire Cure Diet must be good the Air Meat and Drink generally cooling and drying But seeing the Causes are various we leave it to the Physitian to prescribe what is convenient who also must well distinguish concerning Bleeding and Purging when to be used with advantage or disadvantage Sudorisicks and Cordials are of great use here and because that in this and other Diseases they are often used I thought it convenient to set them down in this Place Diaphoreticks or Sudorisicks Roots of Angelica Scorzonera Lovage Contrayerva Herbs Holy-Thistle Fumitory Scordium Harts Horn Unicorns-Horn Bezoar the Stone of an Indian Hog called Pedro Porco Waters of Threacle Alexipharmick Diascordium Threacle Mithridate Species Liberantis Antimony Diaphoretick Salts of Wormwood Prunella Holy-Thistle Rob. Sambuct Take Diascordium Farcastorii one dram Alexipharmick-Water two drams Holy-Thistle water as much as is sufficient Syrup of Limons half an ounce Make a Potion Cordials Waters of Roses Borage Bugloss Conserves of Rosemary-flowers of Roses Violets Borage Bezoar Harts horn Unicorns horn Confections of Alchermes Hiacynthus Rob. of Red Currans of Barberries of Scorzonera Roots Candied Citron and Orange-peels Candied Saccharum Perlatum Salt of Coral Take Water of Borage Bugloss of each two ounces and an half Alexipharmick-water three Drams Cinnamon-water two Drams Saccharum Perlatum half an ounce Confection of Hiacinth half a Dram prepared Crabs eyes two Scruples Spirit of Salt four Drops Mix them Let the Patient now and then take one or two Spoonfuls Externally Cupping glasses and Leeches but chiefly Scarification must be used although there are some of our Chirurgeons which altogether reject Scarification nevertheless happily curing their Patients by the following Medicines which resist Putrefaction External Medicaments against a Gangrene Roots of Angelica round Birthwort Herbs of Wormwood Holy-Thistle Tobacco Rue Colewort Germander Flowers of Elder St. John's Wort Mellilot Camomil Lye Brine Ink Urine Spirit of Wine Treacle Ung. Aegyptiacum Fuscum of Felix Wortz Horse-dung Some mix Hemlock in Plaisters or Poultices and use it with success Or Take the Tops of Wormwood Camomil and Elder flowers of each half a handful Leaves of Germander a handful and half Rue half a handful Crums of brown Bread seven ounces Horse-dung three ounces Boyl them in Brine in the end adding to them Ink two ounces Spirit of Wine three ounces Make it into a Cataplasm The sound part ought also to be preserved partly by keeping the Humors from flowing and partly by keeping the Gangrene from spreading For this purpose the Red defensive Plaister or the Cerot of Virgo is good as also this following Cataplasm Take Bolearmonick half an ounce Powder of Galls Cypress-nuts Pomegranate-rinds of each three Drams Barley-meal six Ounces Oxymel simplex as much as is sufficient to make it into a Cataplasm Or Take Seal'd Earth Bolearmenick of each half an ounce prepared Harts-horn a dram Camphire a Scruple Rose-vinegar an Ounce Oyl of Mirtles three ounces white of an Egg Make it into a Linament Cure of a Gangrene caused from Cold. The part gangren'd if not grown black but as yet appears very red with pain the Patient is to be placed at the Fire but not too near but at a distance
that the heat by degrees may be again restored to the part and to that purpose strongly rubbing it with Snow or cold Water giving also to the Patient Treacle or Mithridate in warm Wine If the pain and cold remit let the part be embrocated very warm with Oyl of Dill Camomil bitter Almonds or Earth-worms c. A Decoction of congeal'd Turnips is good to foment withal then are required both stronger and hotter Medicines viz. Oyl of Earth of Tiles Turpentine Castor treacle-Treacle-water Mithridate Or use the following Fomentation Take Herbs of Scordium a handful and half Swallow-wort a handful Rue half a handful Seeds of Roman Nettle Cresses of each three Drams boyl them in White-wine let them be strained and to a Pint of the Liquor add Spirit of Wine two ounces Mingle it When the part hath begun to Mortifie Scarifie continue the use of the above prescribed Medicines Cure of a Gangrene from external Heat or hindred by Perspiration Let the cause of the Disease be removed if possible which if it happens from external Ligature Hot or two Astringent Medicines let them be forthwith removed from the part affected and let it be washed being first Scarified with the following Decoction Take the Water of Endive Night-shade of each six Ounces of Sorrel-water eight Ounces Vinegar half a pint Salt an Ounce and half Scordium a handful Lupines half an Ounce Mix them and boyl them to the Consumption of the third part Then let the Chirurgeon use Ung. Aegyptiacum or any other of the above prescribed Medicines Cure of a Gangrene from the Defect of Nutriment Let the Patient use nourishing Aliments all strong External or Internal Dryers hurt Friction of the part with moderately hot Medicines as with Oyl of Sweet Almonds Olives Earth-worms Scorpions Vipers Man's Fat Bears or Hens is good Scarifie if necessity require Discussives here are very injurious Cure of a Gangrene from a venemous Humor If the malignant Humor be in the Body it self Sudorifick cooling and Cordial Medicines are best For Purging and Bleeding I have seen them oftner to do hurt than good Outwardly Defensives are useless but Cupping-glasses Leeches and attractive Medicines are necessary But if the Malignant Humor come from an external Cause the surest remedy is an actual Cautery lest the Malignity spread it self which is to be used the very first time and also to put a further stop apply a Defensive to the sound part two fingers breadth distance from the wounded part so also it will put a stop to the Flux of Humors or else all the hope consists in Leeches Cupping-glasses Attractive Medicines and others set down above Cure of a Gangrene sprung from the Scurvy Internal Remedies we commit to the Physitian Externally these are commended Take Seeds of Broom Roman-Nettle Rue of each a Dram Tops of Wormwood two Drams Gum Galbanum Ammoniacum dissolv'd in Vinegar of each six drams Oyl of Juniper three drams Wax as much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister Or Take Oyl of Earth-worms Bayes Rue of each two Drams Castor a Dram Spirit of Wine three Drams Make it into a Linament Or Take the Raspings of Guaiacum Sassafras of each an ounce Root of Angelica Celandines the greater Tamarisk-bark of each six Drams Leaves of Scurvy-grass Water-cresses of each a handful Fennel-seeds an ounce Spirit of Wine a pint and half Infuse them a Night then distil them in Balneo Mariae Foment the part affected with this and scarifie if there be occasion and let the Chirurgeon proceed according to Art Where a Gangrene hath degenerated into a Sphacelus especially in the Joynts let the Part be amputated concerning which look in the First Part. CHAP. XV. Of a Paronychia PAnaritium or Paronychia is a Tumor very painful in the end of the Finger from a sharp Malignant Humor corroding the Tendons Nerves Periostium and Bone it self Cause is a sharp humor proceeding from Choler or Serum Signs are an intollerable pain about the Nail tormenting the Patient day and night an Inflammation oftentimes extending over the whole Arm A Fever for the most part and sometimes Delirium Prognostick By how much the Humor is the more malignant the greater Symptoms it raiseth corrupting sometimes the Bone the Finger the whole Hand and sometimes from extream pain it occasions the death of the Patient Cure Foment the Finger a while in this Decoction Take Flowers of Camomile Mellilot Elder of each half a handful Linseed and Fenugreek each two drams Boil them in Milk Or let this Cataplasm be applied Take Flowers of Dill Elder Leaves of Hen-Bane of each a handful Poppy-seeds and Linseed of each three drams Marsh-mallow-powder an ounce and half Boil them in Milk to the consistence of a Cataplasm Then make Incision upon the Part affected according to the length of the Finger and for the most part there appears one or more red spots containing a sharp Matter but little in quantity which is the cause of the Disease After the Apertion of the Tumor at the first dressing apply to the Finger Treacle dissolv'd in Spirit of Wine and a Defensive to the whole Hand so in a day or two the Cure will be perfected But if this Part should be gangren'd or Sphacelated either by the neglect of Patient or Chirurgeon let it be taken off Except you will commit the business to Nature which oftentimes separates and throws out this Bone A great Inflammation sometimes here produceth a Fleshy Excrescency occult and sensless this is removed by Knife or exeding Medicines Then cure according to Art But if being too late call'd you find a great collection of Humors let Discussives or Suppuratives be applied then the Tumor being either broke or opened take great care lest the Tendons which do very easily putrifie or incline to putrefaction Separation is here necessary whether it be by Medicines or a cutting Instrument Repellents in this case greatly hurtful CHAP. XVI Of an Aneurism ANeurisma is a Tumor besides Nature from a Rupture of an Artery continually beating easily yielding to the Fingers and as suddenly returning Cause All Arteries except those that are dispersed through the Brain and upper parts consist of a double Tunicle the inmost of which being either corroded or broke the External may be extended so much without a Rupture of it whatsoever others say as to cause an Aneurism Nevertheless where the Tumor is of the bigness of ones Fist it cannot be but that the External also must be either corroded or broke Anatomy doth confirm this Opinion which the Studious in the Art of Chirurgery may enquire into This Tumor also may be caused where an Artery be divided so that the External Tunicle united to the Muscles the Internal by reason of the continual pulsation remains open Signs A Swelling increasing by degrees of the same colour as the skin a continual Pulsation If the Tumor be little it easily yields to the Fingers so that it altogether disappears but suddenly returns
Amber Mastick of each a dram Turpentine half an ounce Euphorbium a dram Ung. Aegyptiacum half an ounce yolks of one Egg Oyl of Elders as much as is sufficient Saffron a scruple Make it into an Ointment Another more excellent than the former and which likewise resists Putrefaction Take Tar Turpentine Galbanum of each two ounces Mastick Frankincense Nitre Sal Armoniack of each an ounce Allom half a dram Verdigrease white Vitriol Camphire Powder of Worms of each a dram Oyl of Lin seed Roses of each two ounces Oyl of Worms and Turpentine of each a dram Molax them with a gentle Fire and make them into an Ointment If the Nerve hinder not in a great putrefaction there may be added some Precipitated Mercury An Anodine Plaister Take Bean-meal Crums of brown-Bread of each two drams let them be put in Milk adding to them Oyl of Roses Violets of each an ounce Yolks of Eggs No. iij. Powder of Red Roses Scordium of each an ounce and half Wax as much as sufficeth Make it into a Plaister An Anodine Cataplasm Take Roots of Marshmallows Comfrey the greater of each an ounce Flowers of Camomil Melilot St. John's wort of each half a handful Tops of Wormwood two pugils boil them in Milk adding to them of the Meal of Marshmallow-roots and Beans of each an ounce and an half Make it into a Poultice If the Wound be quite through a Tent must be put into both Orifices for a Flamula is inconvenient and hurtful At first dressing it once a day is sufficient for in Wounds made by Gun-shot there seldom appears any Matter before the third or fourth day after this the quantity or acrimony of the Matter will guide you best whether it is to be drest once twice or thrice a day CHAP. X. Of Poysoned Wounds POysoned Wounds are made sometimes by Bullets Arrows Swords and other Instruments sometimes by mad Beasts as Dogs Wolves which hurt more by their venomous quality than by wounding Signs are vehement pain a livid Colour suddenly becoming black Symptoms more grievous than for the quality of the Wound a Heat over the whole Body Trembling Delirium Fainting c. Prognosticks A poysoned Wound though little may bring death especially if near to the Heart or any other Noble Part or the Chirurgeon not call'd soon enough Cure consists chiefly in this that the Venom be drawn forth by Cupping glasses attractive Medicines Scarifications or which is safest by an actual Cautery but then it must not be in a Nervous Part the Escar to be forthwith removed and the Wound to be cured by degrees Inwardly Sudorificks and Cordials profit Bleeding and Purging hurt A Plaister that draws forth the Poyson out of the Wound and corroborates the Part. Take boiled Onions three ounces Treacle half an ounce Goats dung an ounce Angelica-Roots in Powder a dram and half Oyl of Scorpions an ounce and half Honey and Wax as much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister That corroborates the Part extracts the Venom produceth Matter and incarns the Wound Take Gums Galbanum Sagapenum Opoponax Assa Foetida Mirtle Pepper Brimstone of each six drams Pigeons and Ducks-dung of each an ounce Mummy half an ounce the great Comfrey-Roots powdered three drams Oyl of St. John's-wort as much as sufficeth to make it into a Plaister CHAP. XI Of particular Wounds IN Wounds of the Head where the Pericranium is hurt a stitch either by Needle or Plaister is not convenient fat things hurt but comforting and drying profit much Take Mastick Myrrhe Aloes Sarcocols of each half a dram Dragons-blood two scruples Bole a scruple Venice-Turpentine two ounces Honey of Roses a little Make it into a Plaister Wounds of the Brain are accompanied with pain of the Meninges and a great Flux of Blood to which succeeds other Symptoms and for the most part Death it self Oyl of Roses applied warm greatly easeth pain and fresh Pigeons-blood effects the same In an Haemorage Take Myrrhe Aloes Mastick Dragons-blood Rhubarb Red Coral prepared Hares hair cut small of each a dram Make it into a very a fine Powder Wounds of the Face are not to be stitcht but always care is to be taken that the Scars may not render it deformed In Wounds of the Eyes you must abstain from all Unctious things The sound Eye is to be bound as well as the whole The Head must be placed upright if there be a Flux of Blood the following things are convenient The Blood of Turtles Pigeons Hens Mucilage of the seeds of Fleawort of Quinces Tragacanth Bloodstone Ceruse Tutty Frankincense Aloes the white of an Egg Water of Roses and Plantain Decoction of Balaustians Red Roses Galls c. Take white Troches of Rasis prepared Tutty Aloes Powdered of each half a scruple Red-wine an ounce Red Rose water and Plantain of each two ounces Mucilage of the seeds of Fleawort Tragacanth of each a dram Make a Collyrium In pain Womans-milk fresh is good or the above described Collyrium adding to it half a scruple of Opium and applying over it this Cataplasm Take of rotten Apples two ounces Flowers of Linseed half an ounce Mucilage Seeds of Flea wort two drams crude Opium half a dram Yolks of Eggs as much as is sufficient to make it into a Cataplasm A part of the Nose quite cut off never unites again although the Wound be but just made but if it adheres still to the Body 't is to be stitched to it with a Needle Wounds of the Ears and Lips find greater benefit from the Needle than from Ligature Wounds of the Lungs require comforting and drying Medicines sharp being here very hurtful though used in other Wounds Externally Take Roots of great Comfrey Tormentil Cloves of each half an ounce Flowers of Red Roses half a handful Mastick Myrrhe Aloes of each a dram boil them in Barley-water and to half a pint of the strained Liquor add Syrup of Mirtles common and strained Honey of Roses of each two ounces Make it into a Liniment Internally Take Leaves of Fluellin Strawberries Sanicle of each half a handful Lung-wort a handful Roots of Angelica two drams Liquoras a dram Jujubies No. xv Raisons half an ounce boil them in Barley-water and add to a pint and half of the strained Liquor Syrup of Diacodion three ounces Mix them let them take four ounces of it three or four times a day Half a dram of Sperma Ceti taken every day is excellent but it weakens the Brain Wounds of the Heart are always mortal and those that penetrate into the left Ventricle kill suddenly they seldom live so wounded above six twelve or twenty hours although there are examples produced for it If wounded into the right Ventricle it permits the Patient to live longer but that which terminates in the substance of the Heart grants yet longer time Wounds of the Stomach for the most part are left to be cured by Nature which here doth miracles yet in a Flux of Blood Bleeding is requisite In
and Bleeding it be perfectly cured The true Cure is performed in this manner good Diet Purging Bleeding and Wound-Drinks effect here very much but the Haemorrhoids flowing more Natural Baths do oftentimes cure the greatest Fistula's in defect of them may be prepared Artificial of Brimstone Alom Salt and Tartar boil'd in Water afterwards let the Fistula be drest according to Art Externally the Part is to be corroborated the Humor contained in the Sinus to be dried but especially the Callosity of the edges is to be taken away therefore are Medicines for this purpose to be us'd by whose help many Fistulas have been cured but these not being sufficient an actual Cautery is to be applied having first divided the edges for which purpose the Syringotomon of Fabritius Aquapendents is a most useful Instrument Medicines for a Fistula Roots of Hellebore Cuckospittle Gentain Birthwort Euphorbium Juice of Celandine Smallage Dragons Spunge Flax strong Vinegar Lye Lime Alom Vitriol Verdigrease Orpine Mercury-precipitate and sublimate the Phlegm and Spirit of Vitriol Ung. Egyptiacum Fuscum A Corroborating and drying Plaister Take Mastick Frankincense Pomegranat-rinds of each two drams Dust of a rotten oaken Posts finely searc'd three drams Red-Roses Myrtle-berries of each a dram Yellow Wax Rosin of the Pine Oyl of St. John's-wort of each an ounce Make it into a Plaister An Oyntment Take the Juice of Smallage two ounces of Celandine two drams of Onions one dram Honey of Roses three ounces Turpentine as much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment Another Take Juice of Flower-de-luce an ounce of Celandine half an ounce Red-Wine six drams Honey four ounces Let them boil a little then add of Aloes Mirrhe of each half a dram White-Vitriol a scruple Litharge two drams Turpentine a little Make it into an Ointment Another more Excellent Take Powder of Briony-roots a dram Frankincense Mirrhe of each two drams Verdigreace half a dram Sal-Armoniac a scruple Hogs-grease Oyl of Olives of each as much as sufficeth to make it into an Ointment Another of greater Vertue Take White Vitriol four ounces Alom Verdigreace of each half an ounce Strong Vinegar six ounces Calcine them in a luted Vessel and powder it Mixt it with Ung. Aegyptiacum and arm the Tent with it The brown Ointment of Felix Wurtz is a most excellent Medicine in this case if it be reduced by boiling into the form of a Suppository and so put into the Fistula You will do well to prepare it your self for 't is not rightly made by every one The following Suppositories are excellent especially in Fistulas of the Fundament and other soft Parts Take Agrimony half a handful Scordium a pugil Flowers of St. John's-wort two pugils French-Barley an ounce boil them in White-Wine and strain them adding of Virgins-Honey four ounces Boil them to a thickness then add of Male Frankincense choice Mastick of each two drams Red Myrrhe a dram and half Sarcocols three drams white Vitriol a dram Make them into Suppositories CHAP. VI. Of Burns BUrning is a Solution of Continuity caused by an External burning-Matter always hurting the Scarf-skin for the most part the Skin and sometimes also the Muscles Veins Nerves and Tendons Difference It admits of three sorts 1. Sometimes there is a Heat and Pain at least in the Part affected caused from burning and except Remedies are presently applied the Scarf-skin is separated and divided from the Skin and Blisters are raised which contains in them clear Water 2. Sometimes the Skin it self is burnt then presently a Blister is raised but no Escar made 3. Sometimes also the subjacent flesh is burnt here the Skin is black and void of sense and after the Escar falls off leaves a deep Ulcer The Differences spring from the Causes for Lead Tin Iron Powder Lightning do vehemently burn Oyl Vernice Pitch and Wax less Straw Water Flax and the like least of all Signs by what hath been spoken are manifest enough Prognostick A deep and great Burn very seldom but leaves ugly Scars behind it Burning from Lightning is for the most part Mortal That which penetrates to the great Vessels generally occasions a Gangrene if to the Intestines incurable Burns of the Eyes and Groins very dangerous If a hairy part be burnt it remains bald never hair grows there again Cure The chief care must be to draw out the fire by which in a light burning you preserve from Blisters and Ulcers in a great one you free from all danger therefore what Medicine soever is at hand is presently to be used let the hurt Part be held to the Fire and fomented with warm Water Ink Lye or let there be applied Soot or an Onion beaten with Salt or any the following Medicines in Burning Roots of White Lillies Liquoras Leaves of Bete Coleworts Hemp Onions Garlick Henbane Tabacco Leeks St. John's-wort Flowers of Camomile Melilot Elders Seeds of Quinces of Line Camphire Myrrhe Olibanum Soot Whites of Eggs Hogs-fat Pigeons-dung Sheeps-dung Hens-dung Nitre Ceruse Ink Brine Lye Oyl of Nuts Rape white Ointment with Camphire Plaister of Red-Lead An Ointment Take Juice of Oniâ—ns two ounces Venice-Sope three ounces common Salt two drams Hogs-grease two ounces Washt Lime three drams Oyl of Rape Mussilage of Quince-seeds of each an ounce Turpentine as much as is sufficient to make it into a Liniment Another by whose means a poor Souldier became rich Take Leaves of new gathered Sage a handful of Plantain two handfuls Fresh Butter without Salt six ounces New Hens-dung and the whitest as you can three ounces fry them together for the space of a quarter of an hour press them hard out and reserve the prest-out Liquor for your use This Ointment is excellent in Burning of all sorts even in the greatest it being melted let the hurt Part be often anointed with it in a day then lay over it a fresh Leaf of Colewort Bete or Plantain If any Pustules are raised and yet the Burnt not great open them the third day and let not the opening be prolonged further lest there follow a Corrosion If the Skin be wrinkled and dried all the Pustules are presently to be cut then let the precedent Ointment or this following be applied Take Oyl of Violets white Lillies sweet Almonds Butter without Salt of each an ounce Mussilage of Fleawort-seed Meal of Marshmallows of each an ounce and half Saffron half a Dram Soot Ung. Basilicon of each an ounce Make it into an Ointment If there be an Escar let its Separation be endeavoured the first or second day for which the last above-prescribed Ointment is exceeding good but if it separates not then Incision is to be made into the sound Flesh When 't is separated it is to be cured as a common Ulcer If there be danger of a Gangrene or already present it requires its Cure which is already treated of in its place Where the Eye brows Lips Fingers or Toes are burnt a clean Linnen Cloth or Plate of Lead is to be put
between them If a tender part be burnt you must abstain from the use of Onions Sope Salt and such like sharp Medicines That ugly Cicatrices may not be left you must forbear the use of strong drying Medicines CHAP. VII Of particular Vlcers IN an Ulcer of the Head neither Unctious or Repellent Medicines are convenient If the ill quality of the Humor requires the use of Mercury great care is to be had that it be well prepared for Crude is very dangerous which ought not to be applied where the Ulcers are about the Sutures seeing a Salivation may be easily raised which will difficultly afterwards be suppressed Ulcers of the Eyes for the most part leave Blindness especially where the horny Tunicle is wholly corroded by which the Watry Humor is let out as also oftentimes the Christaline An Inflammation generally is very painful which is forthwith to be removed by those Remedies delivered in the seventeenth Chapter of the First Book To the Ulcer it self first Abstersive then Cicatrizing Medicines are to be applied An Abstersive Collyrium Take white Amber red Mirrhe of each half a Scruple Eastern Saffron six Grains white of an Egg Sugar-Candy a Dram Eye-bright-water two ounces and an half Mix them Another Take Aloes Frankincense prepared Tutty of each half a Scruple Glass of Antimony six grains Gum Tragacanth a Scruple Celandine-water three ounces Mix them Or Take red Coral prepared Frankincense of each half a Dram white Troches of Rhasis prepared Harts-horn of each a Scruple burnt Lead fifteen Grains crude Antimony a Scruple Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment A Cicatrizing Collyrium Take burnt Lead white Troches of Rhasis Sarcocols Sac. Saturni of each half a Scruple Rose-water four Ounces Mix them Ulcers of the Nose most commonly yield an ill Scent whence they are called Ozaenae Cause is a sharp bilious salt or malignant Humor which sometimes corrupts the Bones themselves but chiefly the Cartilage so by a flat Nose deforms the Face They are hard of Cure and therefore respect must be had to the whole Body at least the Head which requires corroborating and moderate Drying External Applications are to be abstersive and because of the Humidity of the Part somewhat drying The Juice of Scharley mixt with Honey of Roses is excellent here Take one Pomegranate sliced Litharge of Gold two drams red Lead a dram burnt Alom ae Scruple Mercurius dulcis half a dram whitest Sugar an ounce White Wine six ounces Let them boyl a little and preserve the strained Liquor for use Take Burnt Lead washt Ceruse prepared Tutty Litharge of each two Drams Frankincense-bark one dram Myrrhe round Birth-wort Mercurius dulcis of each half a dram Ung. Fuscum of Felix Wurtz three drams Ung. Album Champhorat as much as sufficeth to make a Liniment Fumes of the following powder put upon Coals is very good provided it is used cautiously and not above once or at most twice a day lest a Salivation should be raised which also will cure the Ulcer The quantity of a Nutmeg is sufficient for a Dose Take Bensoes Sandarach Mastick Frankincense Storax of each a Dram artificial Cinabar half an ounce Make it into a Powder for Fuming Ulcers of the Mouth require often Purgings sometimes Bleeding and if there be Malignity Antivenereal Sudorifick Decoctions which are here of great use External Remedies also here are Abstersives and Driers I have tried the following to be of singular Vertue Take Oak-leaves a handful Flowers of Roses Balaustians of each a pugil Pomegranate-rinds two drams Burnt-Alom two Scruples white Vitriol half a Scruple boil them in red Wine to half a pint of the strained Liquor add Honey of Roses Rob. Diameron of each an ounce Make a Gargarism Or Take common Chalk burnt Talk red Lead burnt Alom of each a dram Bole-Armenick two drams Mercurius dulcis half a dram Vitriol a scruple boil them in white Wine and to ten ounces of the Liquor add Syrup of Comfrey of Fernelius two ounces and an half Mix it for a mouth-Mouth-water Or Take burnt Talk Flower of Brimstone Bole-Armenick Frankincense comfrey-Comfrey-roots the greater Pomegranate rinds of each a dram burnt Alom two Scruples Verdigreece half a dram Honey of Roses as much as sufficeth to make it into a Liniment Or Take Ung. Fuscum of Felix Wurtz three drams Honey of Roses as much as sufficeth to make it into a Liniment The Fume for Ulcers of the Nose is here useful as also common Ink. If Medicines effect nothing an actual Cautery must be used An Ulcer of the Bladder is troublesome and for the most part incurable having its beginning from a Wound the Stone a sharp Humor or Diuretick Medicine it requires many Internal and External Remedies which that we may not exceed our bounds we leave to be prescribed by the Physician except some few whose vertue hath been often experimented by us Take Roots of round Birthwort Comfrey the greater Osmond-royal of each half a dram Myrrhe Frankincense Storax Mastick Gum Tragaganth Seeds of white Poppy Henbane of each a scruple Juice of Liquoras half a dram Venice-Turpentine as much as to make them into Pills of the bigness of a little Pea. Or Take Troches of Alkakingi de Carabe Burnt-Talk of each half a dram Bole-Armenick Sealed Earth Mans-skull of each a dram Venice-Turpentine as much as to make them into Pills of the bigness of a little Pea. Let the Patient take six of these Pills or of the former every day Morning and Evening Take Lime-water three ounces Plantain two ounces white Troches of Rhasis a dram Mix them for an Injection to be used twice or thrice every day Lime water in this place is nothing else than common-water wherein quick Lime hath been quencht have a care of making it too strong Ulcers of the neck of the Bladder are cured after the same manner though indeed more easily and those of the Penis far more easily although contracted from a virulent Gonorrhaea These are to be known by the pained Part and by the coming forth of the Matter before or after making of the Urine except timely you endeavor their Cure the Disease slides inwardly and will perforate either the Bladder or Perinaeum Sometimes there are here one or more Caruncles which because they cannot always be cured by Medicaments they may be taken away by Chirurgery by the assistance of an Instrument described by Pary and others yet many times have I cured these Excrescensies by using of small Suppositories made of the following Ointment thickned by gentle boiling Take Ung. Fuscum of Felix Wurtz Honey of Roses of each two drams Make it into an Ointment In these Caruncles before they are fixt we effect much by Vulnerary Sudorifick and Anti-venereal Decoctions outwardly using the following Medicine Take Litharge of Gold Flower of Brimstone of each three drams prepared Tutty two drams Red Lead half a dram Ung. Aegyptiacum a dram Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient
The Tunicle investing them being eroded or divided the Skin cannot be consolidated before the whole Glandule together with its Tunicle be consumed with the Ulcer 3. If Corrosive Medicines cure not the Ulcers of the Glandules within the space of few weeks no hope remains of a sound Cure because of the continual Flux of Humors And this is the reason why we are for the most part compelled to take them away by Incision CHAP. XII Of the Skin THe Skin is a similar spermatick part having some Blood mixed with it reddish white loose investing the Body and serving for feeling 'T is covered by a Scarf-skin for the greater defence every where perforated with Pores to give vent to the useless Fumes and Vapors endued likewise with manifest Perforations as are the Mouth Nostrils Ears c. whose use is sufficiently known It hath Cutaneous Veins and Arteries as also Nerves It s Use is to cover the Body as moreover it is the Instrument of feeling Chirurgical Consideration 1. The Skin being discoloured by the Jaundies Freckles and other Spots this Water renders again smooth and fair Cosmetick Water of Minsicht Take white Frankincense Sugar-Candy of each two ounces white Hermodactils Florence-Orrise Venice-Borax of each an ounce Salt of Tartar Burnt Ivory Camphire of each half an ounce Flowers of white Lillies of the white Water-Lillies of the white Garden-Mallows of each three handfuls Virgin-Honey three ounces Goats-Milk two quarts Bean-flower-water and white Rose-water of each a pint and half white Lilly-water and Solomons Seal-water of each a pint being mixt let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae 2. Scars remaining after the Small Pox Wounds or Burns we take away by the following Medicines if deep and great first having used Exedents then Sarcoticks Take Venice-Borax three drams Camphire a scruple Oxes-Gall a dram Oyl of Mirrhe two drams Capons-grease half an ounce Make it into a Liniment Or. Take Powder of the Roots of Snake-weed of Orrise of each three dams Seeds of Melon blanch'd of Raddishes of each a dram Burnt Egg-shels half a dram Common white Chalk a dram and half Frankincense a dram Sugar-Candy three drams Gum Tragaganth dissolved in Rose-water an ounce Goose-grease as much as sufficeth to make it into a Liniment 3. Scabs blemishing the Skin are sometimes moist dry spreading eating crusty malignant this difference is of so small consideration that generals being well known 't is not difficult to one that well weighs every thing to proceed aright in particulars Seeing the Cause of this Disease is a sharp cholerick serous salt Humor mixt sometimes with Phlegm the often use of Purging Sweating and Vomiting of Bleeding Scarification Leeches Natural and Artificial Baths as also of cooling drying Medicines and those that temper the acrimony of the Blood Lotions and Unctions are here very profitable an Example of each I here give A Purging Decoction Take Roots of Asparagus Grass Polypody of each six drams Liquoras three drams Leaves of Fumitory Succory of each an handful Senna an ounce and half Rhubarb half an ounce Tamarinds an ounce Anifeeds two drams Cream of Tartar three drams let them infuse 24 hours in a sufficient quantity of Whey then boil them and to a pint and half of the strained Liquor add Syrup of Dianicum three ounces Make it into an Apozem Dose three ounces A Vomit Take Oxysaccharum Vomitivum Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna of each an ounce fumitory-Fumitory-water as much as is sufficient Make it a draught A Sudorifick Take Flower of Brimstone Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Holy-Thistle Sal Prunellae of each a dram Make it into a Powder to be divided into six equal Doses A Bath Take Roots of red Docks Briony of each six ounces Leaves of Fumitory six handfuls Camomile Flowers three handfuls Bran a pound Brimstone two ounces Nitre an ounce Alom an ounce and half common Salt two ounces Mix them In a grievous and rebellious Scab the Powder of Snakes is excellent this is the Preparation of it Take a Snake in March if possible before it hath laid its Eggs the Head and tail being cut off and the Skin stript off all the inward Bowels except Tongue Heart and Liver thrown away let it dry in an Oven moderately warm to a Powder The Dose from four grains to fifteen Vipers dried after the same manner excel Snakes and are commended in the Leprosie it self A Fomentation Take Burnt-Talk an ounce and half quick-Lime two ounces Litharge of Gold half an ounce Bole-armenick an ounce dry Tabacco-Leaves three ounces White-Wine a pint clear Water a quart Let them boil a little and keep the strained Liquor for use A Liniment Take Crude Brimstone two drams Venice-Sope a dram and half prepared Nitre half a dram Litharge of Gold two drams Mercurius dulcis a dram and an half White Camphorated Ointment an ounce Oyl of Rhodium eight drops Make it into an Ointment CHAP. XIII Of the Fat Nails and Hair IT hath been long disputed whether the Fat Hair and Nails ought to be accounted Parts of the Body or Excrements I neither think them Excrements nor Parts properly so call'd Not Excrements for they are Bodies enjoying with the rest Life and Nourishment but not nourishing others and are of singular use for the publick good They are not Parts properly so call'd being destitute of any certain bounds and have no particular operation Fat nourisheth in Famine the Hair and Nails without injury to the whole may be cut off Adeps or Fat is a similar soft white insensible part made to preserve the Natural Heat to help Chylification to facilitate Motion to moisten the Parts and to nourish the Body in Famine Hair is a similar Part produced by the worst part of the Blood covering some Parts and in some manner adorning them 'T is outwardly four-square inwardly hollow the variety of Colour it owes to the Temperament Age of Men to the Constitution of the Air or Country The Nail is a similar part sprung also from the impurest part of the Blood flexible hard defending the Fingers from external injuries as also adorning them It s Root is joyned to a Ligament and is very sensible by reason of the neighbouring Tendons Chirurgical Considerations 1. Blood wholly or in part destitute of Fat is not much to be commended for its abundance constitutes fleshy its unctiousness fat Bodies as where but little fat lean this fatness of the Blood dispersed into the parts of the Body changeth into natural Fat more copiously in the cold parts to wit in the lower Belly Breast c. than in the hot These Signs may confirm our Opinion as often as they are required from the Blood after the opening of a Vein for the upper part of the Blood which is erroneously taken by many to be the Phlegm of the Body and so the vitious part oftentimes is the very best of it This may be distinguished by the Fire for if it be fat it will flame if Phlegm it useth to crackle hence
it ought to be ascribed to many Nerves that are distributed through them yet the Causes in this Case are various and must be well distinguished to wit 1. a hot Distemperature 2. a cold distemperature 3. a sharp humor 4. a solution of continuity In a hot distemper Bleeding and Purging is very necessary apply Cupping-glasses to the Neck and Shoulders let the Head be purged with Errhins In the beginning this Water being held in the Mouth profits much Take the Roots of Tormentil an ounce Leaves of Vervain a handful and a half Flowers of Balaustians two Pugils Cypress Nuts two drams red-Saunders three drams Scales of Iron one dram Vitriol two scruples Rose-Vinegar two ounces Let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Red-wine to a pint and half keep it for your use The Flux being stayed we discuss the remaining with the following Decoction Take the Roots of Bistort three drams of Flower-de-luce two drams Leaves of Sage Hysop of each half a handful Galls a dram Frankincense Sandarach of each two drams Juniper-Berries an ounce Boil them in Red-Wine In a cold Distemperature the Patient must avoid all cold potable Medicaments yea the very Air it self those Medicines that purge Phlegm profit Bleeding hurt The following Medicine which is of great vertue may be held in the Mouth My Spirit for the Tooth-ach Take shavings of Guaiacum four ounces Seeds of Stavesacre Pomgranate-rinds Galls White-Frankincense of each an ounce Crude Opium red flowers of Poppy Camphore White-Ginger Cloves Long-Pepper of each half an ounce Leaves of Sage Arsmart Tobacco Horse mint of each one handful Roots of Henbane Pellitory of Spain Mandrake Hounds tongue Nettles the less of each an ounce and half Let them infuse fourteen days in a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine then distil it in Balneo Mariae A sharp Humor falling upon the Teeth is cured almost in the same manner as a hot distemperatur but if those Remedies are not sufficient the following Mixture is to be used in a Spoon which is not only of great virtue in this but in all the other kinds of Tooth ach Take water of Plantane an ounce and half of Roses Mint of each an handful Alexipharmick water half an ounce Cinamon-water two drams Julip of Roses or Syrup of Red Poppies an ounce Laudanum Opiatum three grains Mix them In solution of continuity and rottenness of the Teeth it is best to pull them out In the Breeding of Teeth in Children the pain may be mitigated with fresh-butter and Virgins-Honey or with a Decoction of the Brains of a Hare or Coney in Ale but in a long pain it is very convenient to cut the Gum to give passage to the Tooth 9. From the Blood and mixt Humors ariseth the Ophthalmia sometimes true sometimes spurious sometimes seizing on one Tunicle of the Eye sometimes on more that which happens only in the great corner of the Eye is call'd Aegylops the white of the Eye may be vexed with little Bladders called Phlyctenae which being broke there follows an Ulceration except stayed corrupting the whole Eye But if this Ulcer seizeth only the Caruncle that the Punctum Lachrymale afterwards grows callous it becomes a Fistula Lachrymalis If these Diseases yield not to these Remedies proposed in our Chirurgery others are to be made use of Phlectenae are soon removed by the following Powder Take white Sugar-Candy prepared Tutty of each half an ounce red Coral prepared Camphore white Vitriol Saccharum Saturni of each two scruples Mix them and make them into a Powder A beginning Ulcer of the Eye requires first mundifying afterwards consolidating Medicines A Mundifying Medicine Take Mirrhe 15. grains Aloes six grains Sugar-Candy one dram the yolk of an Egg Goats-milk three ounces Mix them A Consolidating Medicament Take red Coral prepared burnt Harts horn Sarcocol of each a scruple Dragons Blood half a scruple burnt-Lead a scruple Starch half a dram Crocus Metallorum half a scruple Gum Tragaganth dissolved in Rose-water a dram Horse-tail-water as much as sufficeth to make it into a Collyrium If the Punctüm Lachrymale in the great Glandule of the Eye be callous and from the continual Flux of Humors degenerates into a Fistula first the Callosity is to be removed before the other accidents will cease for which the following are used by us the Phlegm and Spirit of Vitriol burnt Alom blew Vitriol Verdigreece Mercury water Aqua Fortis Unguentum Aegyptiacum but the best of all is Unguentum Fuscum of Felix Wurtz boil'd to the consistence of a Suppository and put into the Fistula The Callosity being taken away the Ulcer may be cured by the following Medicine Take Roots of Flower-de-luce round Birthwort Bark of Frankincense of each dram and half Mirrhe Mastick Sarcocols Aloes Cadmia Fossilis of each a dram Honey as much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment If the Os Lachrymale or Zygomaticum be foul the Skin being divided an actual or potential Cautery must be applied that the Caries may be removed otherwise it is impossible to cure the Fistula that not taken away 10. The pain of the Ears proceeds from a cold or hot distemperature or from a solution of continuity which oftentimes an Ulcer follows for a cold distemperature and what accompanies it the Wind besides the common and particular Medicines outwardly may be applied this with very good success Take Oyl of Rue Henbane of each half a dram of distilled Marjoram half a scruple Castor six grains Eastern-Saffron four grains Mix them The Smoke of Tobacco blown through the bole of a Pipe put into the Ear hath done good to many for the pain of the Ears and for Deafness oftentimes also a decoction of Cloves in Red Wine hath profited if two or three drops of it be instill'd warm into the Ear and the Ear afterwards be stopt with one of the boil'd Cloves Two drops of the following Spirit Morning and Evening dropt into the Ear is excellent My Spirit for the Ears Take Ants-Eggs N o 100 Castor Pulp of Coloquintida Marjoram Savin Wormwood Rue a handful Seeds of Cummin Anise Fennel Caraways of each three drams Bay-berry-husks pull'd off Juniper-berries of each half an once Pomegranate-rinds six drams Roots of black Hellebore round Cyprus Raddishes Sow-bread of each an ounce middle-siz'd Onions N o vij bitter Almonds two ounces Infuse them 14 days in a sufficient quantity of rectified Spirit of Wine then distil them in Balneo Mariae In a hot distemperature first we ought to divert the Flux of humors by Bleeding Purging Scarifications Glisters c. then the following Medicines by Cotton inbibed we may put into the Ear. Take womans-Milk two ounces Whites of Eggs well beaten half an ounce Oriental Saffron half a scruple Goose-grease dissolved two drams Crude Opium five grains Mix them Or Take Oyl of Violets sweet Almonds Rose-Vinegar of each an ounce Philonium Romanum two drams Eastern Saffron half a scruple boil them and strain them for your use Or Take
and Dr. Francis Vanderschagen wherewith we thought it necessary to oppose that pernicious Enemy with which we were to contend Our Prophylactick Water Take Roots of Angelica Zedoary of each an ounce Roots of Butter-Bur two ounces Leaves of Rhue four ounces Leaves of Balm Scabious Marrigold-Flowers of each two ounces unripe Walnuts sliced two pound fresh Citrons sliced a pound let them be all bruised together then poure upon them six quarts of the best Wine-Vinegar distilled by it self in a Glass Cucurbit in Sand. Let them digest a night then distil them with a gentle fire of Embers to driness but without burning and preserve this Vinegar for your use If you desire an Extract or Salt poure some of the distilled Liquor upon the Caput Mortuum or to the remander and let it digest for three days till it hath drawn out a Tincture with filtre and distil the filtred Liquor in Balneum Mariae to the consistence of an Extract After the Extract calcine the Caput Mortuum and draw forth the Salt Our Prophylactick Conserve Take fresh Citrons two pounds the Juice hard prest out the outward Coats separated from the inward Pulp and bruised very small adding Conserve of White-Roses half a pound of Red-Roses of Borage-Flowers of each half a pound preserved Orange-peels four ounces Make it into a Conserve Our Alexipharmick Powder Take Roots of Contrayervae half an ounce Pestilent-wort Tormentil Elicampane of each 2 drams sealed Earth Bole-armenick of each three drams Shavings of Harts-horn Ivory of each a dram Red Coral prepared four scruples Biting Cinamon two drams Diaphoretick Antimony half an ounce Make it into a Powder I have made use of these three foregoing Medicines with very great success as have also those famous Physicians before-mentioned when they have applied them to several that have been visited with the Plague When I have given them for a Preservative against the Plague I seldom mixed any other with them but for the Cure of it I never made use of them single but have always given them with these or some such like viz. Take Diascordium of Fracastorine four scruples Salt Prunella a scruple Salt of Wormwood half a scruple our Prophylactick Water Holy-Thistle-water Syrup of Barberries of each an ounce Mix them for a draught Or Take our Alexipharmick Powder a scruple Vitriolated Tartar eight grains Salt of Coral 15 grains Confection of Alkermes half a dram our Prophylactick Water an ounce and half Rue-water as much as sufficeth Syrup of Holy-Thistle an ounce Mix it for a draught Or Take Antimony Diaphoretick a scruple Salt of Scordium of Rue of each half a scruple our Prophylactick water an ounce Fumitory-water as much as is sufficient Julep of Roses an ounce Mix it for a draught Take Confection of Hyacynth Diascordium Threacle of each two scruples our Prophylactick extract fifteen grains Spirit of Salt half a scruple Mix it into a Bole. Take our Prophylactick Conserve a dram and half prepared Crabs-Eyes a scruple our Prophylactick-water half an ounce Syrup of Limons an ounce Elder-Vinegar half an ounce Mix it for a draught Take Bezoartick Minera fifteen grains Sal Prunella a scruple Lozenges of Sugar pearl'd half a dram Make it into a Powder Let the sick person take some of these Medicaments for the provoking of Sweat plentifully to which purpose let him take Mutton or Chicken-broth an hour or two after he hath taken his Medicament let the Sweat be gently wiped off with a warm Cloth and another applied to his Breast For we have found it not safe to change the Shifts and other Linnen about the Patient unless they are too much moistened by Sweat We may safely administer these or the like Sudorificks twice in a day to the Patient or thrice in 24 hours and that very much to his benefit There are some who every six hours have very advantagiously made use of a new Sudorifick Nor are you easily to be persuaded to cease from the use of these means although the Patient should tell you that he is well in health lest you find the treacherous Disease of a sudden to surprize you both again For young Children who do usually abhor the taking of Physick I have found nothing better than the following Powder given them in their ordinary Drink two or three times in the space of 24 hours the Sugar may be omitted if the Patient digusts sweet things Take Diaphoretick Antimony 15 grains Lozenges of Sugar pearl'd a scruple and half Make it into a Powder Or Take Crabs-Eyes prepared Shavings of Ivory Bezoartick Mineral of each six grains Make it into a Powder We will treat of Juleps when we come to discourse of the Cure of the Plague The Symptomes of the Plague THey are many and very various but most of them are accompanied with some others which when the former are cured the latter are very easily removed We therefore think it very needless to give an account of them all in this place it will be sufficient to instance in the chief of them amongst which we in the first place encounter with A Fever Of such a Nature that it admits not of any purging or letting of Blood which the Experience of several hath sufficiently confirmed The Sudorificks before prescribed are no less useful for this Sympton than for the Plague it self but the Fever and great driness of the Tongue requiring such things as refrigerate they are not to be administred except they are mixed with Sudorificks as we have shewn before Take Water of Borage Sorrel of each two ounces our Prophylactick Water an ounce and an half Juice of sowre Oranges fresh Citrons of each two drams Julep of Roses as much as will make it conveniently sweet Oriental Bezoar fifteen grains Mix them Let the Patient often take the quantity of a spoonful hereof at once whereby his thirst will be much better allayed than if he should drink ten times the quantity of Beer and that without any check or hinderance to the Sweat Or Take holy-thistle-Holy-Thistle-Water a pint our Prophylactick Water two ounces Syrup of sour Pomgranates two ounces and an half Mix them Or Take scorzonera-Scorzonera-roots Butter-bur-roots of each an ounce Sorrel-leaves two handfuls Boil them in Barley-water to a pint of the Liquor add Syrup of Violets two ounces Sal Prunella two scruples or Spirit of Salt as much as is sufficient Mix them For the Rich such like Juleps as these may be prepared which are both pleasant to the Palate and very Cordial Take Borage-water three ounces Holy-Thistle-water a pint Rose-water an ounce Lozenges of Sugar pearl'd an ounce Amber-greece two grains Musk a grain Juice of Citrons as much as sufficeth Mingle them Wesop-Ale or some such like which is well boyl'd may here be very useful especially if some Nutmeg scrap'd or a piece of calcin'd Harts-horn be tied up steeped in it Nor need we fear any mischief from exceeding either in the quantity or the frequent repeating of it but we must take heed that
from this following taken by spoonfuls Take Fracastorius his Diascordium two drams Amber half a scruple red Coral prepared Dragons blood of each a scruple prepared Pearls half a scruple fennel-Fennel-water an ounce Plantane and rose-Rose-water of each an ounce and half Syrup of Comfery of Fernelius an ounce Mix them Clysters of an astringent drying emollient quality given twice or thrice in a day have likewise in this case been found very necessary Take Roots of Comfrey the greater an ounce Bistort and Tormentil Roots of each three drams Oak-leaves half a handful Flowers of Balaustians Red Roses of each a pugil Aniseeds three drams boil them in Cows Milk that hath been burnt to into 8 ounces of Liquor dissolve of Venice Turpentine two drams one Yolk of an Egg white Troches of Rhasis a dram Honey of Mercury half an ounce of Roses an ounce Make a Clyster The Bathing of the Belly with the Lees of white or rather of red Wine and the applying to it afterward a warm cloth three or four times doubled have by some been found to be of singular benefit or else the Ointment and Plaister following may be made use of Take Oyl of Mastick of exprest Nutmegs of each a dram Oyl of Dill Wormwood Myrtles of each two drams old Treacle three drams Mix them Take Bolearmenick Franckincense Mastick Dragons-blood of each two drams Mummy three drams Powder of Galls a dram half Seeds of Carrots Lovage Anise Myrtles of each a scruple Oyl of Nutmegs by expression three drams Venice-Turpentine as much as sufficeth to make it into a Plaister And thus much may suffice to have been spoken concerning the inward Symptoms of the Plague the outward are three the Spots call'd Petechiae the Bubo and the Carbuncle The Spots can hardly any other way be better removed than by inward Remedies but they do usually portend some mischief The Bubo I am wont to deal with after this manner following At the first appearance of it and although the swelling hath arrived to no considerable height I draw a Blister without making use of Cupping-glasses which by reason that they cause a great deal of pain create a Fever draw unto them both the good bad Humors cause a greater alteration than was before in the Blood I do utterly lay aside After 7 or 8 hours cutting the Blister I apply unto that part a Magnetick Plaister of Arsenick the virtue whereof is so great that I know not any more excellent which will appear to whomsoever shall make use of it the account of it out of Hartman and Agricola is as followeth The Magnetick Arsenical Plaister Take Crude Antimony yellow Brimstone white Arsenick of each two ounces When you have beat them very small let them be put into a Viol covered in Sand to which you must apply fire till they are all melted appear to be of a dark red colour when it is cool it may be taken out of the Vessel and this is that which they call the Arsenical Magnet and hath not in it any thing of Poyson as it may be easily experimented upon Dogs afterwards Take Gum Sagapenum Ammoniacum Galbanum of the Arsenical Magnet of each three drams Turpentine of the Larch-tree Wax of each half an ounce Oyl of Amber two drams Dulcified Earth of Vitriol a dram Let the Gums be dissolved in the strongest Wine-Vinegar and strained through a Linnen Cloth let them after that be boiled up to their former consistence then melt the Wax and the Turpentine together by themselves when you have taken them off from the fire stir them well till you have brought them to the consistence of an Ointment then add to them the Gums beforementioned the Arsenical Magnet together with the Earth of Vitriol and Oyl of Amber you will have that plaister which is most effectual for drawing forth all sorts of Poyson I have found the virtue of this Plaister to be such that if it be applied to those parts where the Skin is somewhat hard it leaves not the least sign of a Scar and yet doth so plentifully draw forth the malignant Humor that a Bubo of the bigness of a Walnut will in the space of 5 or 6 days be utterly taken away but because it doth not always so suddenly produce this Effect it is often very necessary to raise a Blister for evacuation of the Humors And it is observable that in some strong Bodies it causeth no Escar at all unless when the Blister hath corroded not only the outward but also the inward Skin But in Children and more tender Bodies it will of it self cause an Escar although there be no Blister drawn before the application of it This Escar or Crust is the true seat of the Venom which is extracted is of that thickness especially considering that the Skin is but superficially corroded that it is well worth our while to consider it For I do believe that to be the reason why it is much sooner separated than other Crusts or Scars that are caused by Art for in the space of 24 or 36 hours if no Scarification hath preceded it may be easily taken off without any or at least with a very small pain if you make use of any Antipestilential Plaister and add unto it some Treacle or Vnguentum Basilicum or else the severing of the Escar may be very much promoted by this Ointment Take Virgins-Honey Ducks-greese of each an ounce Soot six drams Turpentine an ounce Yolks of two Eggs Treacle three drams Oyl of Scorpions as much as sufficeth to make it into an Ointment But if the Tumor is not sufficiently abated when the first Crust is taken off by the Arsenical Magnetick Plaister it is requisite that you create a second or third and then proceed as before The Ulcer may be consolidated by a Plaister of Minium of White Lead Diapompholigos or some such Remedy which drieth up the Humor and bringeth the Ulcer to a Cicatrice But we must observe this by the way that this Consolidation is not to be wrought too suddenly lest part of the poysonous Humor which still remains in the Body should cause some new Disease which may be fatal to the Patient For want of the Magnetick Plaister you may make use of this following if you take care first to raise a Blister the vertue whereof hath been found to be very great by several for the taking away of painful Scrophula's and the excellent qualities that are in it have made it famous by the name of The Divine Plaister Take Gum Galbanum an ounce Ammoniacum two drams Oppoponax three drams yellow Wax twenty ounces Oyl of Olives 24 ounces Litharge of Gold 17 ounces Olibanum two ounces Mirrhe Frankincense of each ten drams Verdigreece long Birthwort Mastick of each an ounce Bdellium Loadstone of each two ounces Make it according to Art into a Plaister If the Bubo is too protuberant or cleaves to the Tendon a Vesicatory is too weak but
Medicines thou canst be Master of to drive out the poyson if thou wilt save thy life I never found any thing that was considerable done in the Plague by means of Purging and Bleeding but rather on the contrary all those that had Spots if they were Purged or let Blood soon after died However I will prescribe nothing magisterially to any man let every one endeavour to do what he can give a good account of I have together with my Collegues treated many hundreds in our Hospitals infected with the Plague without ever opening a Vein and yet we have by Gods blessing recovered near 600 persons besides those that by the same mercy we have cured in their several Houses Now to procure sweat in the very beginning take the quantity of two Hasel-nuts of Treacle dissolve it in common Vinegar but if thou canst have a cordial Acetum made of Rosemary Lavender Elder-blossoms Rue Roses or Elder-berries use it much rather and give it the Patient to sweat Or take the roots of Celondine boyl them in Vinegar and dissolve some Treacle in it Or take Carduus benedictus Rue Petasites or Butter-burr a little Angelica Zedoaria or Saxifrage-roots boyl them together in half White-wine and half Vinegar or only Water dissolve a little Treacle or Mithridate in it and let the Patient take it warm to make him sweat Mithridate hath the like virtue with Treacle yet neither of them are safe to take for Women with Child old Persons and young Children You may also make use to good purpose of the Saxon-powder taking of it the weight of a Ducat in Caduus benedictus Scabius or sorrel-Sorrel-water which Powder is thus to be prepared Take Valerian half an ounce Celondine or nettel-Nettel-roots of each one ounce Polypody Althaea or Marchmallow wild Angelica of each two ounces of garden Angelica four ounces of the rind of Laureola or Lowry an ounce and an half These roots are to be dug up in their best strength viz. between the middle of August and the middle of September and being cleansed they are to be cut small and then put in a glazed pot pouring a sharp Vinegar upon it so as to cover it two inches high Then lute on the cover with a lute made of whites of Eggs and Flower let all be boiled upon a gentle fire then pour off the liquor and dry the roots and reduce them to powder mixing with it some 26 berries of Herbe Paris or One-Berrie which look like Pepper-corns very good against poison and thus the powder is made This herb grows in shadowed and moderately moist places I have found of it several times in Koshinger-wood near Ingolstad It hath four leaves on one stalk and one berry on the top An herb belonging to the family of Solanum's or Night shades whence the leaves of it do very much cool Inflammations especially those of the Eyes when laid upon them Take notice of Sorrel bruise some of it and pour Vinegar on 't the Rue acetum is the best and strain the juice through a cloth put into it a little powder of Angelica about the weight of half a Ducat or of the root of Dictam or of Butter-burr or a little Treacle or Mithridate and give it to sweat On this occasion of mentioning Dictam I must add that in our Countrey there grows only the white Dictam which is among others an excellent Antidote but you must take of it the double quantity and weight to that of Creta You may boil of the root of half an ounce in half White-wine and half Vinegar or instead of the Wine in Carduus benedictus water and drink of the Decoction warm and put your self to sweat or take of the powder of it a drachm and an half in warm broth with a little Vinegar for the same purpose The Dictam of Creta hath hairy leaves and purpureous blossoms and is used in the prepation of Treacle This herb by its odour drives away Serpents The wild Goats being hurt by any Arrows eat this herb and 't is said that by this means the Arrows fall out of the wound This perhaps hath no other ground than that of the Poet Virgil affirming that Venus with this herb healed her Son Aeneas when wounded in the War His words are Aeneid 12. Hic Venus indigno nati concussa dolore Dictamnum genitrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida Puberibus caulem foliis flore comantem Purpureo non illa feris incognita Capris Gramina cum tergo volucres haesere sagittae About this time came in the Hungarian Infection which was a Disease that bred such a a putrefaction in the bodies of Men that even when they were near death they fell a vomiting but that with such a stench that no body could endure it Here those Medicines do well that preserve the body from putrefaction for the Plague Spotted Fevers and the Hungarian Distemper proceed all from inward corruption And of them the Plague attacks the Spirits residing in the Heart and so killeth very quickly whereas Spotted Fevers have their seat in the Blood and therefore do last twelve fourteen and sometimes twenty days before they kill But the Hungarian Disease is seated chiefly in the putrified Phlegm of the Head and Brains whence those that labour under it are tormented with great and maniacal head-ach But though these three Diseases have their rise from one and the same cause Putrefaction and are to be cured by the same remedies yet is therein required the discretion of a prudent Physitian for the ordering and prescribing of Medicines according to circumstances Take a drachm of Zedoary give it pulverised to the Patient in Acetum of Rue or Elder or Marrigold flowers or even in common Vinegar Let him sweat upon it 'T is good against all sorts of venom and causeth a sweet breath as resisting inward corruption In the Apothecary Shops you find an Electuary called Diascordium found by that famous Physician Hieronymus Fracastorius It is like to Treacle and Mithridate only 't is red from some Ingredients giving it that colour This may be used with safety by Women with Child young Children and all sorts of Persons whereas as was said above Treacle and Mithridate may not It is made chiefly of Scordium or Water-Germander which hath the smell of Leek when bruised Galen in his first Book De Antidotis Chap. 12. writeth that when in a great Battel some slain Bodies chanced to fall upon this Herb they rotted not as far as they were touched by this Herb. The said Fracastorius did compound this his Diascordium out of this Herb Scordium Tormentil Serpentaria Gentian Bole Armeniac and Terra Sigillata and such like Ingredients It is chiefly to be used in the hot Diseases of the Head which I have done many a hundred times Take of it the weight of about two ducats in common Vinegar or in Elder-water or rather in the expressed Juyce of fresh Sorrel and sweat upon it 'T is very good especially in the
the Plague reign not open first a Vein For a violent Cough boil white Turnips well cleansed in common water throw away this first water pour on other water and in it let the Turnips boil till they grow soft Strain this water sweeten it with Sugar or infuse in it Liquorice cut small and drink of it mornings and evenings warm Or make a Decoction of St. Johns bread and drink it abstaining from all four and salt things The bleeding at the Nose is also incident to persons infected which is no good sign though in sound persons it often frees from the Head-ach and cools the Liver If this bleeding be too violent clap Ice-cold water about the Patients Neck or let him put his Pudenda in cold Vinegar CHAP. V. Of the Inflammation of the Tongue its rise and concomitants together with the Remedies WHen the Tongue is inflamed the whole Oesophagus or Weasand is inflamed also and this from beneath upward because the inward fire sends up its smoak all along as it were that chimney which like soot sticks to it drying and blackning the same But there is another Inflammation much more dangerous which taking its rise about the Heart and therefore is call'd the Inflammation of the Heart which proceeds from the great inflammation of the orifice of the Stomach situate near the heart in which is inserted the sixth pair of Nerves which maketh the said orifice very sensible of any pain This part being seized by so great an inflammation which is venomous withal it must in a manner harden and shrink and this heat is of that extent that the inner Membrane of the Stomach that of the Tongue being one and the same what befalls the Stomach the Tongue must needs be sensible of it Whence it comes to pass that if the Gall overflows and passeth into the Stomach the Tongue presently finds the bitterness of it or if the Stomach be full of slime or foul or the like the Tongue is soon affected therewith There is another kind of Inflammation by the Latins called Prunella alba This is of the same kind with the rest but not of the same degree for 't is not of so dry a nature as the others are but commonly is moist yet overlays all the Gums the Throat and the Weasand with such a tough white slime like a kind of Leather and so covers the Almonds with the same that sometimes it can hardly be removed even with Instruments The Tongue is as if it were crusted over with dough the Gums like an Oven that by the heat of fire is burnt white the Almonds cover'd as 't were with white leather and the Palate of the Mouth likewise And in this case if the Patient will speak he lalls and stutters his Tongue being burthen'd with a load of slime or if he make his Tongue wagg the slime spins out like a thred and so invades the Teeth as if they were laid over with varnish And when this varnish on the Teeth grows black as I have often observ'd it to do and drieth on them 't is a mortal sign of which Hyppocrates saith Quibus in febribus livores circumdentes nascuntur his fortes fiunt febres 4. Aph. 53. These are the three sorts of Inflammation for which let us now seek out the Remedies beginning from the last the White This is not to be master'd by gargarisins alone but the hand must be employed also Take therefore Cotton-wooll or Flax and wind it about a stick or rod and dip this in Vinegar and rake his Throat and Gums therewith yet taking care not to make it raw let him gargarise between and wash well his Mouth with Water and Vinegar or Mul-berry-juyce Privet that grows in the hedges or the middle rind of Haw-thorn boiled in Water and a little Vinegar then strained with a little Sal-armoniack put into it is in this case an excellent gargarism but if there be blisters upon the Tongue or elsewhere then take instead of Sal-armoniack a little unburnt Allom and mix it therewith If you can have the Juyce of Turnips or the Juyce of fresh House-leek dissolve therein also a little Sal-armoniack and use it to wet the stick wherewith thou cleansest the Throat of the Patient dipping it often therein and carrying it about the Vvula or Palate of the Mouth and you will see lumps come away as big as Pease The skin is under this Prunella alba fair and red but tender Whilst thou art cleansing the Patients Mouth let him often gargarise with the Waters above-specified and he will clear his Mouth of the loosen'd lumps If thou canst get Mul-berry-juyce mixt with Honey of Roses the Mouth will heal the better for upon this sort of Inflammation there usually follows a Putrefaction of the Mouth and in case thou perceivest any such thing take Wood-sorrel and the above said rind of Haw-thorn make a Decoction of it and put in it a little Allom and often gargarise with it Clean thy Teeth from the slime with Water well sharpned with Vitriol The common Inflammation of the Mouth may be cured with frequent washing of the Mouth taking a gargarism made of House-leek Lettice Night-shade or Self-heal Water mixing a little Honey of Roses and Mul-berry-juyce with it Of this gargarism the Patient is also to swallow a little thereby to moisten the Throat Some take House-leek and beat it and put to a pound of it half an ounce of Sal-armoniack mixing it well together And so they put it for some days in an earthen pot glased under ground then they distill of it a Water in Balneo or in Sand Which is excellent both to drink and to gargarise though the Sal-armoniack make it a little unpleasant But there is nothing better to allay this Inflammation than Niter which is so well known amongst Souldiers that they are wont to give one another Gunpowder to drink which Powder performs this effect not upon the account of the Coals or Brimstone but the Saltpeter For this cause Experienced Physitians and Chirurgeons endeavour to purifie Niter for this use that it may have the greater effect and this they do in manner following They take of the purest Niter they can get as much as they think fit they beat it to a fine powder and melt it in a large Crucible whilst it boils up and foameth they pour into it a little powdered Sulphur and so let it boil together till the blew Sulphur-flame ceaseth then they cast in more fresh Sulphur Which they repeat often and then pour out the Niter into an earthen vessel glased making Lozenges of it of which they put one pulverised into a quart of limpid water and so give the Patient to drink of it as much as he needs to quench his thirst Or they give of this purified Niter to their Patients labouring under this Inflammation the quantity of a ducat or half a ducat weight in Broath or in Ptisan till they find the Tongue cleared of its
oftentimes wholly cures the King's-Evil Take Oyl of Myrtles and Bayes of each half an ounce Ointment of Martiaton an ounce Quicksilver extinct with Flower of Brimstone six drams Make it into an Ointment Let the Scrophula be annointed with it twice a day and if they are not consumed at least they will be diminished but the Chirurgeon must look into the Patient's Mouth each day lest upon the continual use of Mercury there follows a Flux which causes a swelling of the Tongue and Jaws The Plaister of Frogs with Mercury is likewise good here Or Take Gum-Caranna an ounce crude Mercury extinct in Turpentine three drams Make a Plaister If the Tumor he painful there may be added to this Plaister a dram of Opium which hath the virtue of resolving and easing pain and is not cold but hot Suppurating Medicines are set down in the second Chapter and Corrosive in the foregoing Chapter In Suppurated and open Scrophulaes this Ligament is much esteemed Take Oyl of Bayes Ceruse powdered and allayed with Aqua-vitae of each an ounce Roch-Allom half an ounce Salt two drams Make it into an Ointment CHAP. XI Of a Bubo BUbo is a Tumor besides Nature of the Glandules from impure Blood Red Painful and hard Difference Where little and not painful and easily brought to Suppuration 't is called Phyma but where there is more of Choler in it Phygeton in the Arm-pits Panus behind the Ears Parotis The one Malign or Pestilential the other not sometimes contracted from unchaste Embraces then 't is called a Venereal Bubo Cause is Blood never alone but always mixt with some other preternatural Humor Signs are Redness about the Glandules pain heat tension hardness pulsation and sometimes a Fever The Liver and Spleen according to the opinion of the Ancients discharge themselves into the Groins the Breast and Heart at the Arm-pits the Brain at the Glandules of the Ear but now far other use is attributed to the Glandules Of which there are several Tracts written and we shall give our Opinion in another place Prognosticks The Bubo that is not Malign is not dangerous except it be long discussing or suppurating and then fear lest it Fistulate In the Arm-pits it is sooner brought to maturity than in the Groins and here sooner than behind the Ears On the contrary a Malign is for the most part a sign of sudden Death although all outward signs may appear well The Venereal is not mortal but of hard Cure and for the most part precedes the Pox chiefly when by Bleeding or the use of repelling Medicines the Matter is returned from the External into Internal parts Cure Diet the same as in a Phlegmon In a Benign Purging is necessary provided it be not with too strong Medicines Bleeding except a great Fever or a Plethora require I admit no more of it here than of Repellent Medicines for 't is unseemly that Natures Assister should return that into the interior parts which Nature her self did eject which for the most part is Critical Sweating in all Buboes profits much Scarification hath no place here except in Malignant nor Leeches but where very much inflamed The External Cure is to be managed so that the Humor may be dissipated with Resolvents which by reason of the frigidity of the Glandules are required the stronger adding also Attractives to them for in all I suspect lest the Matter be not perfectly thrown forth But in a painful Bubo 't is first necessary to ease the pain before you come to any other Medicines In extream Pain Take Musilages of the Seeds of Flea-wort an ounce and half the Yolk of an Egg Saffron a dram fresh Butter half an ounce Make it into a Liniment Or Take Leaves of Mallows an handful Meal of Marsh-Mallow Roots and Fenugreek-seeds of each two ounces Barley-meal an ounce Ducks-grease Oyl of Dill of each half an ounce Boil them in Milk to the consistence of a Cataplasm Resolvents are above described Attractives shall be presently set down If it yield not to discussion Suppuration is to be endeavoured which is of all the safest Method Being suppurated let it forthwith be opened but rather by Incision than Cautery And so let it be kept opened until the whole Tumor be dissolved In Children for the most part we commit it wholly to Nature only prescribing a good Diet and forbidding the often touch of the part affected with the hands or we apply the Plaister of Diachilon or of Musilages 't is also often cured by the only using of Oyl of Olives Rape Camomil or white Lillies In a Pestilential Bubo neither Bleeding or Purging whatsoever others say must be used Sudorificks and Refrigeratives are convenient outwardly Attractives in the beginning are necessary Attractives Roots of Aron Briony Birthwort Pellitory of Spain Dittany Cresses Virgins-Flower Leeks Nettles Garlick Onions Figs Mustard Gums Galbanum Ammoniacum Euphorbium Succinum Cantharides Castor Ox gall Pigeons grease and Goats-dung Quick-Lime Nitre Brimstone Leaven Black-sope Plaisters of Diachilon Oxicroceum Thereacle Mithridate Take Roots of Marsh-mallows an ounce Onions two ounces Elder and Camomil-Flowers of each a pugil Figs N o xij Fenugreek-meal two ounces Pigeons-dung two drams Thereacle three drams Make a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of Pellitory of Spain Mustard-seed of each two scruples Salt two drams Treacle three drams Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister Many take a Hen or Frog divided in the midst and apply them warm to the affected Part often changing them Some apply to the Part the Breech of a live Hen or Pigeon the Feathers being pulled off Others take away all by Incision which is very dangerous and not to be permitted But they proceed best who forthwith in the very beginning apply a Vesicatory to the Bubo then the following Morning or Evening open the Blister and afterwards dressing it with Attractives This is of great Use and of much Esteem Take the Plaister of Diachilon with Gums of Musilages of each half a pound Ointment of Basilicon four ounces Mustard-seed three ounces Make a Plaister More of the Cure of a Bubo look in our Description of the Plague In a Venereal Bubo you must neither Bleed nor Purge as long as there remains any hope of Curing it by External Remedies lest the Malignant Humors which Nature threw out should be returned again into the Body and so occasion the Pox But Suppuration is to be endeavoured by all means and the Suppurated Tumor forthwith yea although the Matter be not perfectly concocted is to be opened if it is tough as for the most part it is Attractives are to be applied especially Cupping-Glasses they not being sufficient when the whole Mass of Blood is infected the Cure of the Pox is to be prescribed often using this following Decoction Take Roots of China Sarsaparilla of each three ounces Polipody an ounce Bark of Guaicum three ounces Senna two ounces Agarick Trochiscatum two drams Cinamon two drams Infuse in a sufficient
quantity of Water over the Fire for 24 hours then boil them to three quarts and to the strained Liquor add Syrup of Roses Sol. with Senna four ounces Mix them Dose six or eight ounces Some make this Decoction with stale Beer or Wine but in these things the Surgeon ought to consider the past manner of living of his Patient his Temperature and Age If you desire that it purge you more you may add a dram or two of Trochise Alhandal and if not strong enough then you may mix it with five or six grains of white Precipitate provided strength gives leave CHAP. XII Of the Carbuncle A Carbuncle is a Tumor besides Nature from adust Blood corrupting the Part where it is collected Difference 'T is called by the Greeks Anthrax by the Latines Ignis Persicus by the Germans Een Kool Some endeavour a Difference between an Anthrax and Carbuncle but lose their Labour There is is no other Difference but sometimes it is bigger sometimes lesser sometimes more Malignant other times less Cause is adust Blood assuming the Nature of black Choler and so apt to putrifie Signs are sometimes but one great Pustule sometimes many litttle ones which being opened appear black and all about enflamed The Crust being removed instead of Matter you find spungy Flesh the Part affected is very painful a Fever present and Watchings Prognosticks Very dangerous when black especially in Plague time when near to to a principal part if great and suddenly vanishing Cure Strong Purging Medicines I much mistrust Clisters or loosening Medicines will suffice viz. Cassia Fistula Manna Tamarinds Cream of Tartar c. But more suspicious to me is Bleeding to fainting as Galen writes and in its room Leeches or Cups with Scarification will be sufficient But I rely most upon Sudorifick and Refrigerating Medicines using outwardly the same Medicines as in the Plague This Plaister is much commended to make a separation of the Eskar Take old Thereacle Mithridate of each half an ounce Leaven Turpentine of each two ounces Honey of Roses an ounce and a half Fresh Butter two ounces White Vitriol an ounce Soot two ounces and half Black-sope three ounces Saffron three drams Yelks of Eggs N o iij. Mix them and make a Plaister according to Art The External Medicines ought often to be changed Here is no need of Suppuratives for the Humors are easily corrupted of themselves in the place of which the Eskar being separated may be used Ung. Fuscum of Felix Wurtz Aegyptiacum and Honey of Roses c. CHAP. XIII Of a Cancer A Cancer is a Tumor besides Nature sprung from Black Choler round hard livid painful full of turgid Veins resembling the feet of a Crab. Difference Where not exulcerated by the Greeks it is named Carcinoma when ulcerated Plagedaena by the Greeks and by the Germans De Wolf Signs In the beginning difficultly known scarce equalling a Pea in bigness then sometimes increasing suddenly sometimes slowly it makes it self by its grievous Symptoms easily enough to be known The Tumor is hard painful hot livid or black round with some inequality full of swell'd Veins Prognosticks A Cancer is seldom Cured by Medicines often by Chirurgery but not without danger sharp Medicines exulcerate it It is imprudence to attempt an occult Cancer or that is detained in any Cavity of the Body except it be very little and may easily be taken away by Incision Cure Diet the same as in Schirrhus frequent Purging convenient be cautious in Bleeding as also in Scarification The Moneths flowing in Women and in Men the Hemorrhoids are very beneficial Externally Suppuratives and strong Discutients are hurtful the following good Medicines in a Cancer Roots of Arum Dropwort Gentian Figwort Mullein Leaves of Maidenhair Housleek the greater Agrimony Tobacco Plantain Nightshade Hounds-tongue the Spawn of Frogs of Whales Burnt-Crabs Burnt-Lead Mans-Dung Plaisters of Diapompholigos of Lead Diafulpharis of Frogs with Mercury Sugar of Satùrn Camphire For a Cancer not ulcerated Take the Juice of Plantain Endive Housleek the greater Night-shade Rose-Vinegar Oyl of Myrtle of each an ounce Venice-Turpentine two drams Stir them together in a Leaden Mortar with a Leaden Pestle adding of the Rinds of Pomegranates and Citrons of each a dram Bole-armonick Burnt-lead Camphire of each half a dram Make it into a Liniment For an Ulcerated Cancer Take Galls Pomegranate-Rinds of each half an ounce Burnt Talk an ounce Bole-armenick half an ounce Burnt-Lead two drams Ashes of Crab-shells a dram Turpentine and Honey as much as is sufficient Make an Ointment By the use of these or the like Medicines Cancers that are not ulcerated have been often cured and ulcerated Cancers have been for many years kept in the same condition but for the most part the business is committed to Chirurgery The Part affected being held by a pair of Forceps is to be cut off by the help of a convenient Knife but so that nothing of the Cancer be left behind left it bud afresh others holding it only with their left hands or passing a string quite cross take it off by Incision Many with great Praises extol prepared Arsenick or Mercury sublimate but its Deeds answer not their Words Its Preparation John Faber in his Myrotheico Spargirico teaches The Quintessence of Arsenick Take Cristalline Arsenick with the like weight of Salt-Petre and reduce all into the finest Alchool and put them into a very strong Glass-Retort to which joyn a Recipient big and large enough being well luted together distil them with Embers observing the degrees of the Fire at first gentle at the end very strong and violent until all the Spirits of the Arsenick and Salt Petre are gone forth They being come forth and the Vessels cold disjoyn the Recipient from the neck of the Retort having great care of the Spirits that are within which are venomous suddenly stopping the mouth of the Receiver with a strong Lute afterwards breaking the Retort and that which is in the bottom must be powdered and put into a new Retort and upon the Powder that is put into the Retort the Spirits of Arsenick which were in the Receiver is to be powred and distill'd again being luted well as at first This is to be done three or four times till the Arsenick be well calcin'd with the Salt-Petre then lay the Arsenick upon a strong Tile and for a whole day make a strong fire about it so that which could not be Calcined by Distillation may be Calcined and burnt by an open Fire This Calx of Arsenick is to be dissolv'd in distilled Rain-water and the Solution so cleansed and depurated from its Terrestrial Excrements and by filtring made clear and limphid is to be evaporated and dried and calcined again with a very strong Fire until it remits no Faeces in the Solution but the whole Calx is dissolved and the Water remains most clear and limphid then the Water being evaporated it is to be dried Then lastly it s above reserved Spirit