and Ribwort or a Poltis made of the same with a little Barley-meal and Vinegar if withal you exercise your body much and apply this to the Region of the Liver you shall finde it an excellent cure 4 Fill a Pot almost full with the Juyce of Plantane and binde a Linnen cloth over the Pot and upon the Linnen cloth put wood-ashes in that manner set it over the fire and let it boyl till half be consumed strain out what remains unconsumed and give three or four spoonfulls of it every morning to them that are afflicted with the Dropsie and you shall see the wonderful effects of it 5 Goats blood dried on the fire and a drachm of it given at a time in the morning in any convenient Liquor will soon help the Dropsie 6 Take the Juyce of white Briony Roots and mix it with its double weight of Honey 't is an excellent Purge for such as have the Dropsie but give not too much at a time 7 The Bark of the Root of an Elder-tree is a very good remedy for the Dropsie being boyled in Water and the Decoction drunk and yet in all probability the Bark of the Root of Dwarf Elder is better then it if you cannot with convenience get the Bark of the Root take the Bark of the Branches there cannot be much difference if there be any at all 8 Mustard-seed dried and beaten into powder a drachm of it taken every morning in good Wine helpeth the Dropsie it is a gentle remedy and usually sure yet this is certain one remedy will not cure one disease in all Bodies if it would there need be but one remedy for one Disease 9 Hyssop boyled in Wine and the Decoction drunk not onely cureth the Hidropical humors but also hindreth them that they cannot ingender again 10 If those that have the Dropsie be anointed with common durt such as is found in cart wayes or upon cart wheels in a very short time it cureth them 11. The speedy and quaint way to cure the Dropsie is to let the Patient drink every morning a spoonful of the Piss of a Black Goat if you cannot with convenience get a Black Goat get a Black Sheep and let him drink a spoonful of his piss in the Decoction of Spikenard 12 A man 's own Urine being drunk is very good in this Disease 13 The fat of a Dolphin melted and drunk with Wine helpeth such as are sick of the Dropsie 14 The powder of a Load-stone drunk with Milk cureth the Disease CHAP. 4. Of the Spleen THe Spleen is a small member in the body of Man lying in the left Hippocondria but it is an exceeding troublesome part and often subject to Diseases and when it is iseased it disturbs the whole body 2 The decoction of the inner Rinde of an Ash-tree being made in White Wine and a good draught of it drunk in the morning whilst the stomach is empty is a certain remedy for such as are troubled with the Spleen 3 A Poltis made with Goats dung and strong Vinegar and moistened with a little Sheeps suet and applied to the left side and often renewed makes the Patient whole 4 Make a Decoction with Harts-tongue Cetrarh and White Wine and let the Patient drink of it thirty mornings together and it will help them of the Spleen 5 The leaves of a Willow-tree or if the season of the year afford ye not the leaves take the Bark stamp it with Salt and apply it Plaisterwise to the left side it appeaseth the ache and grief of the Spleen 6 Ivy-leaves used in like manner work the same effect 7 Harts-tongue Agrimony the leaves of Willows and Ivy being boyled in Water and Honey and the decoction drunk easeth the hardness and other ill qualities of the Spleen 8 The powder of a Fox dried upon hot coles if it be given to drink doth utterly waste the Spleen 9 The Twigs of Willows boyled and the Decoction drunk for common drink doth the like 10 Penniroyal boyled with Salt and applyed to the grief taketh away the ill humors of thâ— Spleen 11 That plaister which is called Amoniacum cum Cicuta being spread upon Leather and applied to the Region of the Spleen is an excellent good remedy 12 Bind the Spleen of a Dog to the Region of the Spleen of the Patient and it will help him in one night CHAP. 5. For the Yellow Jaundies TAke an Apple and cut off the top and pick out the Core then put into the Apple a drachm of Turmerick powder and ten or twelve grains of Saffron whole put on the top again roste it by a gentle fire then take it off and adding a little butter to it mash it all together and eat it last at night going to bed this doing in few nights will cure you 2 A Medicine for the Yellow Jaundies which seldome fails is this to swallow down Lice alive you may swallow them down in what you please 3 The Urine of the Patient drunk with Juyce of Horehound helpeth the Jaundies 4 Ivory in powder is a very good help for the Jaundies 5 Yet in my opinion Spodium which is nothing else but burnt Ivory is far better because it strengtheneth the Liver exceedingly and it is impossible the body should be afflicted with the Yellow Jaundies and not both Liver and Spleen exceedingly weakened 6 The proper cause of the Yellow Jaundies is a stoppage in the Biliar pores 7 The Juyce of Cammomile given to drink to the Patient diseased with the Yellow Jaundies is a presenr remedy CHAP. 6. Of the Stone THe cause of the Stone either in the Kidneys or Bladder is the heat of either part which hardneth the gross slimy substance into a Stone 2 Goats Blood dried and beaten into powder being taken inwardly is a very good remedy 3 The powder of Burnt Grashoppers is also very Good 4 If the Region of the Bladder be anointed often with the Blood of a Fox the Stone will break incontinently as appears for if you put a Stone into the Blood of a Fox it will break in three dayes time 5 And here take notice by the way that many times people in avoiding gravel have some great Stone stick by the way in the passage of the Yard which is many times forced to be taken out by cutting in such a case if the party did but hold his Yard in the warm Blood of a Fox it would in a short time be made small enough to come out of it self without any such troublesome or painful remedy 6 And although it is very probable the Blood of a Fox is not alwayes at present to be had yet it may be dried and kept for use whereby it may be alwayes had at present and may be dissolved in any convenient Liquor when there is need of its use and of all Liquors I suppose Vinegar to be the best because of its piercing quality 7 Take nine Ivy berries and beat them into powder and give them to
of Solomons-seal to come much behinde it 5. Make a Pessary or Goats-dung and the juice of Shepheards purse or Ribwort or Plantane and Yarrow and Pomgranate-flowers it helps mightily in this case 6. Make a bathe of Plantane Ribwort Teazle Shepheards-purse Pomegranate flowers the rinde of an Oak put it in a Close-stool and let the diseased Woman sit over it 7 As many Grains as a Woman doth drink of Corriander-seed so many dayes shall the tearms be stopped saith my author I set it down rather for the oddness of the conceit rather then to perswade any one of the truth of it 8. Red Corral being drunk stops the tearms 9. The ashes of burnt A corns cast up the 〈◊〉 trix stops the tearms and rids the Womb of all filthy noysom humors 10. The Decoction of Ribwort drunk is a most excellent remedy to stop the tearms 11. The water that is found in a hollow Oak is very good being drunk to stop the tearms 12. Dried Acorns beaten into powder and Acorn Cups and Comfry Roots and the Roots of Solomons-seal of Bistort Tormentil and Cinkfoyl are very good to take inwardly 13. The herb St. Johns-wort being beaten into powder and drunk doth stop both White and Red Flux 14. Also Dragons blood is much commended for it 15. The Flowers of Red Archangel or dead Nettles stop the Red Flux the Flowers of White the Whites 16. Many times this Flux comes upon women in Labour especially such as fall in Labour before their time and then it is exceeding dangerous in such a case the speediest cure for there must be no dallying is to force away the conception 17. If you can save them and dry them and give them her down back again it may do wonders CHAP. 14. For the fits of the Mother THe cause is cleerly windy vapors ascending from the Womb upwards 2. Stamp nettles and apply them to the matrix is very good 3. Apply a plaister of Galbanum to the Navel it is a most admirable remedy to restrain those noysom vapours I never yet knâ—w it fail 4. It is a strange thing that many that lie sick of this infirmity though their speech be even taken away yet their pulse gives no indication of any sickness at all 5. Therefore if you finde any Woman in that case especially if they fetch their breath short do not say they counterfeit but judge the disease to be the fits of the Mother 6. Let her receive stinking Vapors at her Nose and sweet vapors at her Privities for the Womb draws to all sweet things and flies from all stinking 7. Nettle-feed beaten into powder and drunk in Wine doth asswage all pains of the Womb and takes away the windiness thereof 8. Take of extract of Arrach half an ounce Assa-foetida two drachms make them up into Pills with powder of Arrach and let the diseased Woman take a scruple morning and evening 9. The Leaves of Burs draw the Womb which way you please therefore in this disease apply them to the soles of the feet but in falling out of the Womb apply them to the crown of the head 10. Bur-seeds do the like CHAP. 15. Of swellings of the Breasts and Nipples THe cause may be either cold taken at the Breasts which causeth inflamations there such as women call the Ague in the breast 2. Or else the curdling of the Milk there when it is turned into a substance like Cheese 3. Sometimes the nipples are so swelled through superfluity of Milk that the childe cannot draw them 4. In such a case take Bean flowers and mix it with the white of an Egg and apply unto them 5. Nettles boiled in Vinegar and applied to them instantly helps them 6. Crumbs of Bread mixed with the juyce of Smallage and applied unto the Breasts helps them when the Milk is curdled in them 7. If there be any hollow Ulcer in the Breast Goats-dung mixed with Honey soon easily and gently cleanseth out all the filth and healeth it 8. A Poltiss made of Mallows Chickweed Malt-flour and Sheeps-suet takes away the Ague in the Breast without breaking 9. Goats-dung mixed with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise dissolves the curdled Milk 10. The ashes made of a Dogs Head helps cankrous Ulcers of the Breast 11. Pigeons-dung mixed with Honey is of great efficacy in knotted Breasts 12. Knot-grass being carried about the person takes away the swelling of the Nipples incontinently 13. The Breasts anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog helps the curdling of Milk and opens the Pores exceedingly also if the Nipples be swelled anoint them with it it instantly helps them 14. The shells of Partridges Eggs stamped and mingled with Tar helps the Nipples when they are so chapped that they are ready to fall off Crab-claws taken inwardly are very good in all diseases of the Breast yet my opinion at present is that the whole Crab converted into Mummy and taken a drachm at a time is better CHAP. 16. Of Childe-birth DAte stones beaten into powder and given in Wine doth give most wonderful ease to women in labour 2. Dip a linen cloth in the juyce of Parsley and put it up the Privities it causeth the deliverance of the dead childe 3. The same being drunk brings away the After-birth 4. It is also it very good thing being taken inwardly to cleanse the Womb of ill humors and therefore a syrup of it ought to be kept alwayes in the House it furthers conception much 5. Polipodium stamped well and applied to the feet of a woman in travel bringeth away the childe whether it be alive or dead 6. Castorium or the spirit of it taken inwardly is held to be very good 7. The ashes of an Asses-hoof mixed with Oyl and the Privitives anointed with it is a very good and easie remedy 8. Also give unto a Woman in this case another Womans Milk to drink it causeth speedy delivery 9. The decoction or rather the juyce of Vervine given to drink to a woman in travel causeth speedy deliverance also 10. A dram of Myrrh given in powder to drink in any convenient liquor bringeth the childe away whether it be alive or dead 11. Boil Mugwort in water till it be a Poltis and apply it hot to the Thighs of a woman labouring with childe it causeth both birth to come away and if you let it tarry long there it will bring the Womb away also 12. Dittony in powder given a dram at a time to a woman labouring with a dead childe bringeth it away 13. Take Peony-seed in powder mix it with so much Oyl that you may make it into a Plaister and apply to the small of the back of a woman in labour according to the opinion of my Authour it causeth delivery without pain 14. A suffumigation made of the Horns and Hooss of a Goat being put in a Close-stool the woman sitting over it wonderfully moveth the Womb to deliverance 15. Betony is held to be a precious herb to be taken
yet declareth the patching that the medicine is rather by force constrained then naturally yieldeth it self to the remedy and so of it self unmeet Wherefore as well the matter thereof is to be changed as the medicine it self And if those corrections need also correction what then I will not say that all simples need their correctours although it be avouched of some and such as carry great authority for their skill in Physick Thus have I gentle Reader for thy benefit I hope made a way to the greater use of our home medicines wherein if I have said freely my minde against strange drugs thou mayest understand that otherwise the way were stopped to our English medicines â—nd blame me not if I say as much for ours as the strangers say for theirs And if as yet by custom â—t seem hard to alter the common course let each practicer look to that I set no laws to any onely â— crave liberty in this point both pleasant and profitable to English men Wherein I have examples of excellent Philosophers and learned Physicians neither broach I any idle conceits of my own Of this minde is Plinius Secundus Fuchsius Rulandus Symphorianus Campegius Octavianus Horatianus Physician to Valentinian the Emperour that all Countreys have sufficient medicines for all diseases I know much more might be said of this point but this I thought sufficient The End The Sovereign Vertues of Carduus Benedictus In English The Blessed Thistle which for the Operation and great Efficacy that God hath given unto it may be rightly so named As also of the rare Vertues of ANGELICA It is excellent for the Head and the parts thereof THis Herb eaten or the Powder or Juice of it drunk keepeth a man from the Head-ache and Megrum it also driveth it away Being taken in meat or drink it is good against Dizziness and the swiming giddiness of the Head It comforteth Brain sharpneth the Wit strengthneth the Memory it is a singular remedy against Deafness for it amendeth the thickness of the Hearing and provokes Sleep The juyce of it laid to the Eyes quickneth the Sight Also the water in the which the Powder or Herb dryed is steeped hath the same effect if the eyes be washed therewith The Herb eaten is good for the the same purpose The Water or Juyce dropped into the eyes cureth the redness bloud-shotten and itching of them Some write that it doth strengthen the Teeth they being washed and rubbed with a cloth dipped in the water or juyce thereof The pouder stauncheth bloud that floweth out of the Nose being applyed to the place It Comforteth the Stomach The Broth of the Herb otherwise called the decoction drunk in wine is good for an evil stomach it helpeth a weak stomach and causeth an appetite to meat Also the wine wherein it hath been boiled doth cleanse and mundifie the infected stomack The powder thereof eaten with Honey or drunk in Wine doth ripe and digest cold Phlegme purgeth and bringeth up that which is in the breast scouring the same of gross humours and causeth to breathe more easily The Herb chewed in the mouth healeth the stench of the breath It helpeth the Heart The powder being taken before a man is infected preserveth him from the Pestilence And a dram of it or a walnut-shell full taken immediately after a man feeleth himself infected expelleth the venom of the Pestilent infection from the heart so that if man sweat afterward he may be preserved The same effect hath the herb boiled in wine or in the urine of a healthful man-childe drunk I mean the decoction or liquor from the which the herb is strained after that it hath been boiled therein The leaves powder juice or water of the herb drunk the patient well covered with clothes sweating three hours expelleth poison taken in at the mouth and other corruption or infection that may hurt and annoy the Heart It helpeth the Liver Lungs and other parts of the body This herb boiled in wine and drunk hot about a quarter of an hour before the fit and the patient afterward well covered in the bed driveth away the Ague The powder and water of this herb drunk with wine hath the same effect The juice drunk with wine is good against shortness of Breath and the diseases of the Lungs It strengthneth the members and is good against the ache of the body This herb boiled in the urine of a healthful manchilde and drunk doth help the Dropsie breaketh all Aposthumes mastereth the Falling-sickness The powder eaten or drunk helpeth against the stitches in the side It is also good for them that begin to have the Consumption called the Ptysick The herb eaten doth strengthen the trembling and Palsie members The powder ministred in a Glyster helpeth the Cholick and other diseases of the guts The water drunk hath the same effect The juice drunk with wine or the herb boiled in wine and drunk hot breaketh the stone and driveth out gravel being sodden in water and the patient sitting over it so that the hot vapour may come unto the diseased place it helpeth against the same infirmity After the same manner being used it is good against the Green sickness Also it healeth the griping pains of the belly it openeth the stopping of the members pierceth and causeth urine The leaves boiled in wine and drunk as is aforesaid provoke sweats consumes the evil blood and ingenders good Also the wine or water in the which this herb is boiled being drunk consumeth the evil humours and preserveth the good It is excellent for one that is bruised with a fall or otherwise The leaves juice broth powder and water of the herb is very good to heal the canker and old rotten festered sores The leaves bruised or pounded and laid to are good against burnings hot swellings carbuncles and sores that are hard to be cured especially for them of the Pestilence and also they are good to heal the bitings of venomous worms and serpents or creeping beasts Finally the doun coming of the flowers thereof when the seed is ripe doth heal cuts and new wounds without pain Thus much of Carduus Benedictus gathered out of the Herbals of divers learned men which although it may be sufficient yet I have thought good here to set down that which two painful and skilful Physicians Matthiolus and Fuchsius have written hereof in Latine whose words as perhaps they may bring some credit to that which is already written so in them something more may be learned or at the least something â—s uttered for the better understanding of that â—foresaid Their words in English are as folâ—oweth Carduus Benedictus is a Plant of great vertue especially against the Pestilence and also against deadly poysons aswel taken inwardly or laid outwardly to the stingings and bitings of venemous Beasts They are healed with this Herb that are sick of a Quarten or other Agues that come with a cold and that by the drinking of the decoction or stilled
English it is as thâ— Latine word soundeth we may call it Herb Aâ—gel or The Angelical or Angel-like Herb. 〈◊〉 what occasion this excellent name was first giâ—â— unto it I know not unless it were for the â—â—cellent Vertues thereof or for that God made 〈◊〉 known to man by the ministry of an Angel I suppose the former cause rather to be true howsoever as I am not able to prove the other so I think no man can give any good reason to the contrary For this we know that God hath made his Angels ministring Spirits to serve us for the safeguard of our souls and also of our bodies But upon what occasion soever the name was given it is excellent and so are the properties Angelica is hot and dry at least in the third degree All the later Writers agree upon this and experience proveth the same that it is gooâ— against Poison pestilent Airs and the Pestilence it self The Practicioners of Germany writâ— thus of it If any man be suddenly taken either with the Pestilence or with any Pestilent Ague with too much sweating let him drink of the powder of the root half a dram mingled with a dram of Tâ—eacle in three or four spoonfuls of the water of Angelica distilled from the roots and after his going to bed covering himself well â—t him fast at the least three hours after which if he do he will begin to sweat and by â—he help of God he shall be cured of his disâ—ase For lack of Treacle one may take a whole â—ram of the Root of Angelica in powder with 〈◊〉 much of the distilled Water as aforesaid 〈◊〉 â—ill have the same effect The Root of Angelica well steeped in Vineâ—â—r and smelt to in time of the Pestilence 〈◊〉 the same Vinegar being sometime drunk â—â—ing preserveth from infection But in my â—â—dgement it is better to take an Orenge or â—emon cut off the top pick out the meat prick full of small holes put into it a piece of spunge 〈◊〉 fine linen cloth dipped in the foresaid Vineâ—â—r and smell unto it The water distilled out of the roots of Anâ—â—lica or the powder of the same is good against â—â—awing and pains of the belly occasioned with â—â—ld if the body be not bound withall It is â—od against all inward diseases as the Pleurisie 〈◊〉 the beginning before the heat of the inflamaâ—â—â—n be come into the body for that it dissolveth 〈◊〉 scattereth abroad such humors as use to cause â—â—e Pleurisie Moreover it is good for the disâ—ases 〈◊〉 the Lungs if they come of a cold cause and 〈◊〉 the Strangurian if from a cold cause or of a â—â—pping It is good for a woman that is in traâ—â— It expelleth winde that is in the body and â—eth the pain that cometh from the fame The 〈◊〉 â—t may be sod in wine or water as the nature â—he sick requireth The juice of the root put into an hollow tooth taketh away the ache the same effect hath the distilled water being put in at the ear The juice and water of Angelica quickens the eye sight and breaks the little films that cover the eyes causing darkness of the sight Of the roots of Angelica and Pitch may be made a good Emplaister against the bitings of mad beasts The water the juyce or the powder of this root sprinkled upon the diseased place 〈◊〉 a very good remedy against old and deep foreâ—â— For they do scour and clense them and cover the bones with flesh The water of the same in a cold cause is good to be laid on places diseased with the Gout and Sciatica For it stancheth the pain and melteth away the tough humors that are gathered together The seed is of like vertue with the root The wilde Angelica that groweth here in the low woods and by the water-side is not of such vertue as the other is howbeit the Chyrurgeons use to seethe the root of it in Wine to heal green wounds Thesâ— properties I have gathered out of Germanâ— Writers I have not as yet proved them all mâ— self but divers of them I have proved and havâ— found them to be true I have set down thâ— pill of an Orange or Lemmon the meâ—â— whereof is also commended by Physicians to bâ— both a preservative good against poison anâ— the infection of the Pestilence Late Writers affirm that the roots of Angelica are opposite to all poison and infectioâ— If any be infected with the plague or poisoneâ— they give him immediately to drink a dram of the powder of this root with Wine in the winter and in summer with distilled water of Carduus benedictus then get him to bed and cover him until he have sweat foundly The same root being taken fasting in the morning or but held in the mouth doth keep and preserve the body from the evil of the air The leaves of Angelica pounded with the leaves of Rue and Honey are very good to be laid to the bitings of mad dogs presently taken after the hurt the Wine being drunk wherein the root or leaves of Angelica hath been boiled To conclude I have thought good to write of these Herbs Carduus Benedictus and Angelica either because they are not known to many or else that Artists would have their secret vertues concealed But I do not think it fit that any thing should be secret which may be profitable for my Countrey For God hath not made any thing for the use of a few but for the commodity of all men And we that are the children of God ought to frame our selves so that we may be like affectioned unto our Father who is beneficial to all men who hath made his sun to shine and his rain to rain upon the wicked as well as upon the good that is to say who feedeth all both good and bad by heat and moisture which proceed from the Sun and the rain all things grow upon the earth whereby our lives are maintained I conclude that forasmuch as Almighty God is good unto all men we ought to be like minded and not to keep secret nor to hide any thing that may profit one another I wish all men rightly to use the good creatures of God and to give him hearty thanks for all his benefits Fragmenta Aurea The first Golden CENTURY OF Chymicall and Physicall Judiciall APHORISMES AND Admirable Secrets BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Fragmenta aurea The first Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. THe Hoofs of the forefeet of a Cow dryed and taken any way Mizaldus increase milk in Nurses the smoke of them being burnt drives away Mice 2. If you fry Earth-worms in Goose-grease and drop a drop or two of the Grease warm being strained in your ear helps the pains thereof I suppose you had best first slit them and wash them in white wine 3. The
bruise them and boil them well in a quart of Milk strain the Milk through a woollen strainer and let the sick drink thereof this hath helped those that have been sixteen years sick of this Disease and could not be cured 3. For the Jaundies For the Jaundies boil good store of Hemp-seed bruised well in good strong Ale or Beer and let the sick drink no other drink 4. For Children that have the Jaundies If they be young Children that have the Jaundies or people of riper-years at the first beginning of them this Remedy will be sufficient Take an Apple and cut off the top then pick out the coar with a knife and put into the hollow place a penniworth of whole Saffron and a drachm of Turmerick in powder put on the top again and roast it then mash it all to pieces and eat it up at night going to bed this doing a few nights together will help them you may adde a little Butter to it if you please 5. For the Black Jaundies The Black Jaundies hath been known to have been cured oftentimes with this medicine Take the inner bark of a Walnut-tree and boil it very well in Ale or Beer and when you have done so quench red hot steal in it at least forty times drink a quarter of a pint of this hot morning and evening 6. For the Yellow Jaundies The inner bark of a Barberry-tree boiled in White Wine and the decoction drunk is an excellent remedy for the Yellow Jaundies so also are the roots of Celandine 7. The Pleurisie As in all Inflammations so also in Pleurisies blood-letting is not to be neglected in the beginning 8. For the Pleurisie Such as have the Pleurisie must forbear eating flesh and drinking wine and strong beer but must be content with cold broaths and to drink Barley-water or Almond-Milk if they be rich 9. For the Pleurisie Take three ounces of Carduus-water a spoonfull of white Wine and six whites of Eggs well beaten mix all these together and dip a cloath in them the which lay as hot as it can be suffered to the pained side of one that hath the Pleurisie and it will give him speedy ease 10. For the Pleurisie Also another most admirable remedy for one that hath the Pleurisie is to take an Apple and make it hollow as I told you before in the yelow Jaundies then put into it a drachm or a drachm and a half of Olibanum roast it as before put some Butter to it and eat it up last at night 11. For a Cough A good remedy for an inveterate cough is this take a handful of Figs and boil them in Beer till they be very tender then take them out and bruise them and put them into a linnen bag and apply them warm to your stomach and when they are cold take them off and warm them in the same liquor again 12. To strengthen the Lungs A Syrup made or a Spirit drawn from those whitish Thistles which are commonly called our Ladies Thistles is a great strengthner of the Lungs the like may be said of Hysop 13. For an Imposthume in the Lungs For an Imposthume in the Lungs drink the decoction of Cammomile twice a day and but two ounces at a time gives help to admiration 14. For heat and driness of the Lungs Heat and driness of the Lungs is quickly cheaply and safely cured by drinking no other drink but Plantane water 15. For the Chollick Take Winter-savory and boil it well in white Wine and the decoction drunk very hot rids the belly of the Winde-chollick as though it were swept out with a broom My Authour saith he hath known divers have been helped with this remedy that have had it so extreamly that they have swooned several times in a day yet I confess some of the following remedies please me better 16. For the Chollick Apply cupping-glasses to the navel this remedy pleaseth me very well both for bastard and true Chollick for the Navil vessels though they be of little use after the infant is born yet they still remain hollow and pass to all the chief vessels of the Abdomen 17. Chollick Take Rosemary Sage and Bay-salt and roast them well between two hot Tile-sherds and 〈◊〉 â—y â—em hot to the Navel it is a present remedy to the Chollick especially to the Bastard-Chollick 18. Chollick You may easily know a Bastard-Chollâ—â—◠〈…〉 a true Chollick thus 〈◊〉 Bastard-Chollic◠〈◊〉 belly is so sore 〈…〉 cannot endur◠〈◊〉 have it toucht 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 in a true Choâ—lick 1◠〈◊〉 â—hollick Take Emmets Eggs 〈◊〉 them 〈…〉 â—ven and beat them to pow◠〈…〉 the â—â—wder at a time in any 〈…〉 't is as admirable a remedy for a 〈◊〉 Chollick as any is and will make a man fart as though he had got a Patent for it 20. Strangury Take a good big Onion cut off the top and pick a pretty big hole in it with 〈◊〉 Knife the which hole fill with Betony and Centaury in powder of each equal quantities putting a little Butter amongst theâ— then put on the top again and roast it amongst the embers bruise it being roast 〈◊〉 and apply it being bruised as hot as you 〈◊〉 endure it to your Navel and you shall 〈◊〉 it an excellent remedy for the strangury 21. Chollick Take Hâ—â—p-seed and dry it and beat it into 〈…〉 say this being drunk in Wine is a 〈…〉 â—â—â—llâ—â—k the like they say 〈…〉 manner 't is very 〈◊〉 â—e the◠〈…〉 â—d in a real Cholâ—â—â—k but 〈◊〉 For the 〈…〉 â—â—â—llick It is 〈…〉 take 〈…〉 inwardly fo◠〈◊〉 bastaâ—◠〈…〉 â—st â—se not so eâ— catâ—ous 〈…〉 â—s therefore let sucâ— as h◠〈…〉 â—ick â—pply a Plaister 〈◊〉 Cumm◠〈…〉 â—r â—â—â—ly 23. For the Chollick Take a Lapwing and burn her in a Crucible feathers and all very well till the ashes be white a scruple of these ashes being given in a little warmed Wine to drink at one time is an excellent remedy for the Chollick 24. Worms Garlick either eaten or boiled and the decoction drunk kills the Worms 25. For the Worms Take Worm-seed and beat it into very fine powder and make it up into Troches with juyce of Lavender Cotten and Gum Tragacanth dry them and so have you an excellent remedy for the Worms alwayes by you 26. For the Worms Zedoary beaten into powder and half a dram of the powder drunk in the morning fasting in a little Muskedel not onely kills the Worms but also strengthens the Heart 27. For the Worms Take Garlick Wormwood Featherfew and Mints stamped very small and heat very well with the gall of an Oxe and a little vinegar and applied to the belly plaister-wise and it will kill the Worms and bring them forth 28. For the Worms Another remedy for the Worms and less tedious too is to take the gall of a Bull and warm it then dip a little wool in it and binde the wool to the Navel 29. For the Worms for Children Take Orange-pills and dry
through the back with a sharp knife pull out all the bowels and wipe him clean with a cloth break all the bones and put him into an Alimbeck and distil him with a pottle of Sack and as much red Cows Milk so will you have an excellent spirit for a Cough or Consumption of the Lungs if you take three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting 65. For heat in the Reins Let such as are troubled with heat in the Reins lay to the place a fine cloth dipped in Rose-water juyce of Plantane and the Milk of a Woman which brought forth a Girl 66. An excellent remedy for those that are subject to vomiting Take Wormwood Spearmints and red Rose-leaves of each a handful chop them small and boil them to a Poltiss with red Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities thicken it with Rie-bread grated spread it upon a cloth and apply it to the Stomach of him that is subject to vomiting as hot as he can endure it 67. For an Ague of the Breast Let such Women as are troubled with that inflamation commonly called the Ague in the Breast apply to the place a fomentation made with Rosemary-tops boiled in their urine apply it hot for three or four hours and it will help it 68. For the running in the Reins The Marrow of an Oxes back being dried and beaten into powder and a dram of it taken in the morning in a little red Wine is an excellent remedy for the running of the Reins 69. To take away Freckles from the Hands or Face Such as are troubled with Freckles either upon their hands or face or Sun-burning may easily help themselves if they wash the place with a little juyce of Lemmons wherein Bay-salt hath been dissolved wash the place often and let it dry in of it self 70. Against any Swelling Take Cammomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each a like quantity boil them in white Wine to a Poltiss and apply it as hot as can be suffered to a swelling and it will presently ease the pain and asswage the swelling 71. Against Deafness Stop the ears of one that is deaf with good dried Sewet it many times gives help when nothing else will 72. To stop bleeding Take powder of Earth-worms and put upon a Wound that bleeds and it will instantly stop the bleeding 73. For the same Take the ear of a Hare dry it and beat it to powder and put that powder upon a Wound and it will do the like 74. For him that spits Blood Take the juyce of Betony and temper two spoonfuls of it with four spoonfuls of good Milk and let him that spits blood drink the same quantity four mornings together and by that time he will be whole 75. For a Flux Let him that is troubled with the Flux take the seeds of Trefoyl bruise them well and drink half a dram of them in the morning fasting in white Wine if he be curable it will cure him in three dayes if he be not curable he knows the worst of it it is but dying 76. To stop the bleeding of a Vein being cut If a Vein be cut and you cannot stop the bleeding take Rue and boil it in water then stamp it and apply it to the place and binde some wool over that which was never washed 77. For Veins that are sprung For Veins that are sprung take Beans and husk them then boil them in vinegar and bruise them and apply them Plaister-wise to the place 78. For those that piss Blood Take Garlike bruise it and boil it in water till the third part be consumed a little of this water being drunk presently helps them that piss Blood 79. To cause easie Delivery Let a woman that is with childe and near her time drink a decoction of Betony every morning and she shall be delivered without much pain 80. For the same and to expel the after-birth A decoction of Hyssop made with water and drunk very hot giveth speedy delivery to women in travel yea though the Childe be dead in her womb so soon as she is delivered of a dead childe if you suppose any of the After-birth be left behinde let her keep drinking the same decoction till her body be cleansed 81. For the same Savory used in like manner hath the same effects 82. For the same Also another good remedy to give speedy delivery to women in travel is this Take wilde Tansie or Silver-weed and bruise it and apply it to her nostrils 83. For the same Also another remedy is to take the Roots of Polypodium and stamp them and apply them to the soles of the feet Plaister-wise the childe will quickly come away be it alive or dead 84. For a Surfeit Take the bottom of a wheaten-loaf tost it very well till it be dry and hard then dip it in good Spirit of Wine and wrap it up in a single linen cloth and apply it to the Brest of one that hath surfeited and cannot digest his meat apply it warm and let it lie to the place all night and it will speedily help him and cause him either to vomit up or purge out the evil humors which the Surfeit hath contracted in his body 85. To cure hot Rhume in the Eyes Take twelve or sixteen woodlice some call them sows or slugs wash them clean then stamp them and put three or four spoonfuls of Ale to them and mix them well together in a morter then strain it and let him that is troubled with a hot Rhume in his eyes drink it in the morning fasting and as much at night going to bed and in a few times using it will cure him 86. An admirable Poltiss for any swelling Take Violet-leaves Groundsel Mallows and Chickweed of each a handful chop these small and boil them well in water to a Poltiss thicken it with Barley-meal adding a little rough sheeps suet to it to make it moist so have you an admirable Poltiss for any swelling or inflamation in a wound or ulcer 87. For scabby Heads of Children Take white Wine and Butter of each a like weight boil them together till they come to a salve and you shall finde it an excellent Oyntment for Childrens scabby heads 88. For the Falling-sickness or Convulsion Take the dung of a Peacock dry it and beat it into very fine powder and give the party troubled either with the Falling-sickness or Convulsion so much of it at a time in Succory-water as will well lye upon a shilling if it be a child half so much will serve the turn or less if the childe be very young 89. To cure Tetters or Ring-worms An excellent way to cure Tetters and Ring-worms is to wash the place often with Tanners Woofs 90. Against the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon of bacon set it an end in the middle of a Charcole fire and let it burn till it be as white as choak both in the outside and inside then take it and beat it to
powder and let the sick of the bloody Flux take a drachm of it at a time in Milk thickned with flour 91. Against Heat in the Reins An approved remedy for the heat in the Reins which is a thing causeth hard labour and many times abortion to women is to take a fine linnen cloth and dip it in Housleek warm it and apply it to the Reins 92. To ease a woman of her After-pains Take Tar and Barrows-grease of each equal quantities boil them together and in boiling adde a little Pigeons-dung to it spread some of it upon a linen cloth and apply it to the back of a woman newly delivered that is troubled with After-pains and it will give her ease 93. For the same Give a Woman that is troubled with After-pains pains half a dram of Bay-berries beaten in powder and given her to drink in a little Muskadel 94. To cure the swelling of the Cods Stamp Rue and apply it to the Cods that be swelled and it will presently asswage it 95. Take the juyce of Valerian and wet a tent in it and put it into the Wound where any piece of Iron is broken in and stamp the said herb and lay at top of it and it will speedily not onely draw out the iron but also speedily cure the Wound 96. To cure the biting of a mad Dog So soon as a man feels himself bit with a mad Dog or any other venemous Beasts or at least so soon as he can possible get it let him take green Fig-leaves and press out the juyce of them three or four times into the wound if it be at such a time of the year when Fig-trees have no leaves take the rinde of the Fig-tree and bruise it and â—pply it to the Wound 97. For the same They say Mustard made with good Vinegar and applied to the wound works the same effect 98. For a Wound So soon as a man is wounded let him wash the blood clean out of the Wound either with white-Wine or with his own Piss and presently put the juyce of Thapsus Barbatus into it 99. A medicine to drive out the small Pox. Take of distilled Taragon water eight spoonfuls and put thereto six grains of Bezar or Unicorns horn or for want of those two put so much Saffron but the other is the better let it be warm double the portion as you see cause taking nothing an hour before nor an hour after it 100. To avoid Phlegm Take clarified Posset-drink and put thereto sweet Butter the yolk of an Egg and a little small Ginger Hysop red Mints and Sugar seâ— these seethe all together and drink thereof first and last as warm as you can suffer it The Garden Plat OR A very brief account of such Herbs c that excel and are some ofâ— them most useful in Physical and Chyrurgical Cures on emergent and sudden occasions HOundstongue stamped and bruised heals several wounds The Powder of Butter-bur alias Pestilent-wort the leaves in Summer and Roots in Winter expelleth the Plague by sweat drunk in Ale Beer or Wine Fumitory stamped and drink the juyce in Ale Beer or Wine purgeth Choller and doth cleanse the Blood Germander stamped and drunk doth purge womens flowers and helps the Green-sickness Celandine or Fig-wort or Tetter-wort or Pile-wort or Swallow-wort or Marsh-marigold these doth help Tetters Ring-worms Piles and Eye-sight Eye-bright the water helpeth the eyes washed therewith and the Powder eaten with â—hâ— yolk of an Egg and Mace restoreth 〈◊〉 sight The roots of Psillependula beaten and drunk cures the Stone Water-bittary alias Brown-wort stamped and laid to helps old and new sores Pellitory of the Wall steeped and drunk cures the Stone Egremony stamped and drunk helps Lunatick persons Saint-Johns-wort St. Peters-wort and Tutson-leaves stamped helps old sores Mercury the Herb stamped and drunk purgeth women and weak folks Shepherds-purse or Sinkfield stamped and drunk helps the Flux and so doth Plantane and Knotgrass Scabious stamped and drunken helpeth inward Imposthumes Divels-bit stamped and drunken helps the Ague Spown-wort alias Scurvey-grass stamped and drunken helps Dropsies and Scurvey Sanicle stamped and drunk inwardly helpeth Wounds and laid to outwardly Comfrey helpeth the Ruptures stamped and drunken and laid to outwardly it helps wounds and joyns them together Hyssop boiled bruised and drunken helps the Lungs Mints bruised and drunken comforteth the Heart so doth Sage White Horehound or Balm distilled or otherwise helps inward grief Rue expelleth the Plague Fennel Dill and Anniseed and Cummin breaks winde and helps the Stone Saxifrage stampt and drunken and seeds of Gromwel helps Winde and Stone above all others Betony helps the head and stomach Lovage restores the Lungs Pellitory of Spain expelleth the Plague Three Leaves of Arsarabacca stampt and drunken purgeth upward and downward English green Tobacco stampt and mixt with fresh Butter will heal a wound a sore or a scabbed or scald head Dragon-wort stampt and drunken expelleth the Plague or distilled and so doth Arone or Priests-Pintle Cuckow-pintle Centaury purgeth Choller by siege and so doth Rheubarb Elina Campany purgeth melancholly The seeds of Piony helps the falling evil Valerian or Setwal expelleth the Plague stampt and drunken English Galangal comforteth the heart Helleborus called neezing powder purgeth the head Aloe alias Sea-green purgeth Choller Laurel-leaves laid in Vinegar twenty four hours and dried the powder drunk purgeth Choller Phlegm and Melancholly The root of Elder or Danewort stamped and drunken helpeth Dropsies or swoln Legs or Limbs All Elder-leaves Plantane leaves Elm-leaves or all Oak or green leaves stamped and laid to will heal a green wound Ground-Ivy boiled in water and laid to a sore will heal it Wilde Bugloss alias Carpenter-work bruised and laid to healeth the green wound Maiden-hair boiled and drunken heals the Lungs and inward parts Oyl of white Poppy anointed upon the forehead will cause one to sleep The seed of Henbane mixed in a Wax-candle and the mouth holden over when it burneth will draw the Worms out of ones Teeth Sea-holm-roots candied with Sugar called Iringo-roots will restore nature And the powder of them will break Winde and Stone being drunken Yellow Dock-roots boiled and drunken purgeth by Urine and siege Water-cresses stamped or boiled and drunken is good for the Stone Dropsie and Scurvey Tamarisk the small or the rinde of the great Tamarisk boiled and drunken helps the Spleen Barberies in conserve or sirup doth stop the Flux and cool the body Licorice helps the Stone Stomach and Winde Oranges and Lemons helps a hot Stomach in the burning Ague Distilled Water of Oak-leaves stops the Flux Misletoe of the Oak stamped and drunk helps the falling evil Ash-tree â—â—â—ll suffer no Spider or venemous thing to coâ—â—nder the shadow the leaves steeped in Wine and drunk will make one lean An Elder-leaf laid unto a mans feet that is chaffed in going between the Toes or other places will heal it Costemary alias Balsum-mint stampt and bruised will heal a Wound as fast
wonderfully comforts and strengthens the memory This water also preserves youth makes a mix them together and make therewith a pastâ— of the Bole let it dry and powder it again anâ— make paste thereof again with the same waters repeating this over three times and thuâ— you have the Bole-Armonick prepared Chap. 25. A precious water used by the Count Palatine TAke Salviae recentis one ounce and halâ— Nucis moscatae Macis of each one ouncâ— Zinzib albi one ounce and half Gran. Parâ—disi six drams Cinamomi one ounce and an halâ— Zedoariae Galangae an half an ounce Camphorâ— two drams Rorismarini sem Feniculi of eacâ— one ounce and an half Lavendulae Marjoraâ— Rute of each one ounce Florum Camomilae oâ— ounce Matricariae two drams Rosarum ruâ—m 1. Betonicae one ounce Abrotani four dramâ— Castorei recentis one dram Spicae Indicae twâ— drams Macro-piperis one ounce Olei Laurâ— two drams Aqua vitae one pound and an halâ— Menthae Menchastri of each two drams Powder what is to be powdred cut thaâ— which is to be cut and bruise those thingâ— which are to be bruised and put them all in Cucurbite with a long neck then pour there upon eight pounds of the best Wine close uâ— the vessel and bury it in the Earth thirty dayeâ— then take it up and put it in another Cucurbitâ— placing thereon a Limbeck and distil it in Baâ—neo Mariae three times over alwayes puttinâ— the distilled water again upon the feces A◠〈…〉 you come to distil it the fourth time adde a good quantity of Sage-leaves fresh gathered And when it is so distilled reserve it for your use the older it is the better it is you may use it when you please it hath innumerable vertues against all distempers and infirmities of the body Chap. 26. A precious Compound Water of Life which may be used instead of a natural Balsom TAke Trupentine purified and washed in the best white Wine twelve ounces Honey also clarified with white Wine three pound mix them altogether then adde of Aqua vitae well rectified four pound put them in a Cucurbite afterwards take the Herbs hereafter named cut them small and adde them to the rest in the Cucurbite let them stand so eight dayes the vessel being well luted that it evaporate not afterwards distil it in ashes with great dilligence The Herbs are these Take Buglossae Boraginis Melissae Salviae Lavendulae an m. 1. Hissopi Florum Camomilae Card. Benedicti of each half a handful Rorismarini two handfuls Artemisiae half a handful When these things are distilled then adde these things following well powdred and set them to digest in horse-dung eight dayes or in Balneo three dayes The things which are to be added are these Take Ligni Aloes Xylobalsami Santalorum trium Calami Aromatici Stichados Arabici seminis Citri sileris montani Cimini of each one dram Macis Nucis muscatae Cinamomi electi Garioph Galangae Cubeb Zinzib albi Macro-piperis Croci orientalis Gran. Paradisi Cardamomi minoris an three drams Coriandri praeparati gran Juniperi Bacc. Lauri an half an ounce Bistortae six drams sem Feniculi Liqueritiae Visci quercini sem Anisi an one ounce Amigdal mundalarum passularum recent an one pound Take the glass or distillatory in which the matter is and set it in ashes well luting of it and make thereunto a gentle fire the space of four hours And when you see a clear water pass forth into the receiver take away that receiver and put thereto another luting it well as before and increase the fire until there distil forth a Cytrine Oyl into the receiver which reserve by it self Thirdly when you perceive a black Oyl begin to appear take away that receiver and adde another in which receive the black oyl till it be all distilled which Oyl keep by it self The first water ought to be thus prepared by putting into it Musk and Amber of each one dram leaves of Gold one scruple To comfort all the members of the body Take of Malmsey Wine one ounce adde thereto a spoonful of the first water mix them together till it turn white like Milk drink it fasting and fast two hours after it it wonderfully comforts and fortifies the whole body For pain in the head take one spoonful of the said water in water of Betony it comforts and strengthens the Lungs being taken in Winter-time with Mulbery-water or sage water but in Summer-time take of Endive-water one ounce and of this water one spoonful For infirmities of the Breast and a cold Cough proceeding from a Catarre take of Hyssop-water Borrage or Fennel-water mix them with the aforesaid water For the heart Take Bugloss or Borrage water half an ounce as much of the aforesaid water and as much balme-Balme-water mix them and drink them fasting For the Stomach Give of this water in Mint or wormwood-Wormwood-water For the Spleen Use the aforesaid water in water of Bugloss or Tamarisk For the Vertigo and Palsie Give the said water with piony-Piony-water or water of the Herb and Root of Saint Johns-wort For the Stone in the Bladder Take Rhadish water one ounce and too spoonfulls of this water For the Strangury Take water of Cresces Parsley or Saxifrage one ounce and one spoonful of this water For overflowing of the tearms Take water of Plantane and drink it morning and evening with one spoonful of this water To provoke the tearms Take Mugwort-water or Mugwort-seed with one spoonful of this water drink it about that time when the tearms are expected For Women who have received hurt by unskilful Midwives or such as cannot conceive by reason of the coldness of the matrix let them take one spoonful of this water in the morning fasting with water of Valerian Betony or Wilde Roses For the eyes Take water of Fennel and Eyebright of each half an ounce and of this water one dram drink it as aforesaid For Spots or Freckles of the face Take water of Bean-Flowers or Pimpernel-water one ounce and of this first water half an ounce mix them together and wash the face therewith morning and evening and drink of this water in Endive-water twice or thrice a week The second water which is Citrine and the third which is like black Oyl is excellent good against Fistula's Cancers and other Wounds and Sores and may be used instead of a Balsom Chap. 27. An Aqua vitae Composita Against the Vertigo of the Head and the Palsie TAke Salviae nine ounces Florum Lavendulae four ounces Hissopi Menthae an m. 2. Garioph Nucis Muscatae Cinamomi Zinzib albi Granorum Paradisi Zedoariae Galangae an half an ounce Calami Aromataci one ounce Cran. Juniperi one ounce Granorun Peoniae half an ounce Vini albi eight pound Digest them in horse-dung eight dayes or four dayes in Balneo Mariae afterwards distil them in an Alembick and reserve it for use in a glass close stopt it hath a wonderfull operation against
Lavender and Sage an three drams and take every morning fasting Diapliris cum moscho Nicholai For deafness drop of this water every morning and evening into the ear and rest upon that ear that it may go out again For Worms in the ears take of this water half an ounce Juyce of Rue two drams or if you cannot get the Juyce take the distilled water thereof adding a little Aloes Epatick subtilly powdred And of this distil a little into the ear morning and evening lying upon the other side and after a little time turn and lie upon that side where the Wormes are and they will come forth and dye For the eyes take of the aforesaid water half an ounce Fennel-water and water of Valerian of each one dram drop thereof into the eyes For filth of the mouth or nose give every day half an ounce thereof with white Wine in which Mints and Roses have been boiled For the Epilepsie drink thereof every day half an ounce with peony-Peony-water one ounce or thus Take the Root and seeds of Peony Viscus Quercinus of each equal parts boil them in white Wine and give them to the Patient with the said water For the Palsie foment all the members with this water and drink thereof every morning one ounce For lost speech take of the said water half an ounce waters of Lavander Peony Sage of each two drams drink it and take of Mithridate one dram with Wine wherein Castoreum hath been boyled Against Melancholly take of the aforesaid water half an ounce with the waters of Bugloss and Balm each two drams waters of Harts-tongue and Borrage each one dram mix them together and drink it three hours before dinner Against the Dropsie take of the said water one part water of Elder-flowers two parts Fennel water three parts mix them together and take for a Dose half an ounce For the Stone take of this water one part Saxifrage-water Wintercherry-water Aqua Millii solis Rhadish-water of each two parts Against Sterrility take of this water two drams of white Wine water of Rosemary and Mother-wort each two drams drink it morning and evening and twice or thrice in a week take Diamargarit sem Avicenna Many other excellent vertues hath this celestial water which I omit here for brevities sake leaving them to manifest themselves by experience FINIS The Table to the several Treatises of the whole Book The English Apothecary The transcendent sufficiency of English Herbs being fundamental Reasons PRoving our Medicines to be most congruent with our bodies and the great prejudice we daily receive by the use of forreign Drugs as also by their sophistication to which Fuchsius Martino Rulandus c. agree page 35 The correcting of Scamony of its malignity page 19 Of Mechoaca and Opium and the prejudice we receive thereby unless well corrected page 21 Of Rhubarb and its properties page 24 The inconveniency of drinking Wine and that of Honey may be made a better and more wholesome drink page 31 Of Milk and its vertues page 41 The cure of Poysons by venomous beasts with Peniroyal Treyfoil c. page 42 The cure of the Prench-Pox not onely with Sarsaparilla but with the essence of Primroses and Cowslips page 43 The rare vertue of Cink-foyl Worms Wood-lice or Sowes Lichenes c. For the cure of Tertian-Agues Falling-sickness Tooth-ach c. page 44 To cure the bitings of venomous beasts by the decoction of Frogs page 44 53 To cure Cankers by the juyce of Nightshade page 49 To cure the Leprosie with Plantane and its vertues page 50 To cure the Falling-sickness with Misleto Peony-root a mans skull c. page 50 The cure of Poysons in particular page 51 52 The cure of the Pestilence page 52 The cure of hot diseases by contrariety page 54 The cure of cold diseases by contrariety ib. The cure of moist diseases page 55 The cure of dry diseases ib. Rules to be observed in cures page 55 56 Of purgations and their manner both by vomit and stool page 56 Preparatives for the Humors before evacuation c. page 60 The cure of Wounds and the broken Bones by Herbs c. page 61 Of Anodines Causticks Emmolients c. page 62 63 The occult properties of sundry Herbs being appropriated to the Head Heart Liver Spleen Stomach Lungs c. ib. That the Brain is comforted by Herbs as well as by Spices page 68 The sovereign vertues of Carduus Benedictus with its use or manner of taking it page 71 Of the sovereign vertues of Angelica with its temperature and use page 79 A discourse shewing what members of the body are governed by the twelve Signs page 82 Of the members of the body and how they are governed by the seven Planets page 184 A brief accompt of some simples appropriated to the Heart page 186 The Chyrurgeons guide or the errors of unskilful Chyrurgeons page 195 The first error of their curing the Lues venerea or French-Pox page 195 The second error when the disease cometh to suppuration page 198 The third error is concerning Wounds in the Breast page 201 4. Of their applications of Trepans Terribelles for fractures of the head page 203 5. Touching the punctures of Nerves page 204 6. Of the abuse by Runners or Cutters of the Stone and Ruptures page 205 Of the eight kinds of Hernies or Ruptures page 207 Of the Hernie Intestinale page 208 Of the Hernie Zirbale page 209 Of the relaxation of the Peretoneum called Herni Inquinale page 210 Of the kinds of Hernies which be by similitudes or improperly called page 211 Of Hernie Verequose page 212 Of the Herni Ventose ib. Of the Hernie Humorale page 213 Phlebotomy Displayed or perfect Rules for letting of Blood page 214 With Physical cautions for Blood-letting page 219 Vrinal conjectures or brief observations upon the sick Patients staie or water page 222 Of Vomits page 225 Of the Excrements page 226 The Treasury of health or Salves for every sore with their cures page 227 For the falling out of the Fundament page 229 For the Liver page 231 For the Dropsie page 231 For the Spleen page 333 For the Yellow-Jaundies page 235 For the Stone page 236 For the Strangury page 239 For the Vlcers in the Yard page 241 For the Diabetes page 242 For the Swelling of the Gods page 243 For the Pleurisie page 244 For to provoke the Tearms page 244 For to stop the Tearms page 247 For the Fits of the Mother page 248 For the Swelling of the Breasts page 249 For Child-birth page 251 For the Gout page 453 Foa the Fistula or Vlcer page 256 For the Leprosie page 258 For the Warts page 259 For Thorns Splinters c. page 260 The expert Lapidary or a Physical Treatise of the vertues of Stones page 265 Of Jacinth and its vertues 265. The Saphir 264 Emrald ibid. The Ruby 265 Granat 266. Sardine ibid. Diamond 266 Amethist 267. Bezoar ibid. Topaz 268. Snakes-Stone ibid. Toads-stone 269 Alectorius ibid.
herein havâ— the Minerals and Metals the chief place To thâ— exulcerate Canker belongeth the Wolf whicâ— is naught else but a Canker exulcerated Thâ— Gangrene and Speacelus are cured by the râ—medies of the Canker and Wolf the one beinâ— a degree of an Ulcer in which the parts begin tâ— be mortified the other when they have noâ— lost life altogether The Leprosie is an universâ— Canker and for outward medicines requireth nâ— other Among the inward Plantine Whaâ— Hedgehogs dryed and drunk help greatly Anâ— thus much for Cankers and Leprosies which 〈◊〉 they be diseases hard to be cured by any medâ—cine so receive they as great help by these oâ— home medicines as by any of strange 〈◊〉 The Falling-sickness if it be in such as are age and have been long diseased therewith is a dâ—ease hardly or not at all to be cured But whâ—â— it is curable these medicines be comparâ—â— with the best The root of the Missleto of 〈◊〉 Oak the runnet of an Hare the Peony-roâ— Enula Campana the scalp of a Man and Aâ—hoof Hyssop the milt of an Horse the Stoâ— which are found in the Mawes of the first 〈◊〉 of Swallows five leaved Grass the juyce of tâ— Cowslip the juyce of Horehound with Hoâ— All suffocations of the Matrix are cured 〈◊〉 Plantine Pennirial Herbgrace and by an infinite number of home medicines Worms and that infection is taken away by Coriander-seed Colewort seed Garlike Wormwood and in a manner with all bitter herbs with the juyce of Purslane with the filings of Stags-horn little inferiour in vertue to that which is commonly taken for the Unicorns horn Peach leaves Hyssop Mints Purslane seed Thus much touching medicines against diseases ingendred of venemous causes within the body Now touching such as happen by outward occasions and first of those that by mouth are taken into the body Against which generally it helpeth greatâ—y to drink store of butter instead of oyl with warm water or the decoction of Flax seed Feâ—igreek or Mallows and thereupon a vomit which done Sothernwood the root of Seahulver the seed of Nep the juyce of Horehound the seed of wilde Rue Walnuts Turnips Herb-grace five leaved Grass with an infinite number of native medicines expel the poison and restore the Patient More properly to the poison of Cantharides belong Penerial to Buprestis all kinde of Pears and Womens Milk to the Salamander Chamepitis 〈◊〉 holy roots to the worms of the Pine-tree suâ—◠〈◊〉 â—he poison of Cantharides against the poison of the Toad the roots of Reeds and Cyperus against the Camelion Radish roots and Wormwood against Ephemerum Asses milk or Cows milk hot against Dorycnium Goatâ— milk Asses milk Cockles and Crayfishes against the poison of Aconitum Organ Herb-grace Horehound the decoction of Wormwood Against Chriander Wormwood salt broth made with a Goose or Hen which expeâ— also the poison of Flewort the Poison oâ— Hemlock is cured with Mints Herbgrace Nettle-seed Bay-leaves which also cure the poison of Ugh and Carpasus The poison of that kinde of Crow-foot called Sardonia is cured with drinking store of Mede and Milk Henbane with Nettle-seed wilde Endive Mustard-seed and Rocket Cerus with Mede hot Milk Peach-stones with the decoction of Barley with the decoction of Mallows Quicksilver with store of Milk drunk Mercury sublimed with Chrystal Lime Orpiment Ratsbane and such like with the decoction of Flax-seed and Milk with Mede And to conclude thâ— point there is no kinde of poison but it findeth cure by our Countrey Medicines without borrowing Thus much for the cure of poison taken into the body by eating or drinking oâ— them Pestilences are cured if with any medicine with Angelica Carduus Benedictus Arâ—nike worn about the body the root of Pimpâ—nel of Tormentil Herbgrace Setwal Walnuts the powder of St. Johns-wort Juniper-berries Verven and the chief of all the noble simplâ— Water Germander and the Duarfgentian Foâ— pestilent sores and Carbunkles Scabious Osbâ—â— Lousestrife and the Marigold to the pestilent may be referred the small Pocks and such like which agree in medicine also with the pestilence And thus much for the cure of poisons Against bitings and stingings of venemous beasts and poisoned weapons there are also both general and particular remedies The general are these the ashes of the cuttings of the Vine and of the Fig-tree with Lee Leeks Onions Garlike the sea-Sea-water Mustard-seed Endive Heath the root of the Sea-Hulver Bay-berries Herbgrace Dill Sowse-bread Fennel Penerial the runnet of an Hare the Weasel and these general Particular are such as follow Against the bitings of Phalangium the seed of Sothernwood Aniseed the seed of Trifoly the fruit of Tamarisk Against the Scolopendra wild Rue Thime Calamint against the Scorpion Basil-seed against the biting of a Viper Adder c. Sothernwood Bays green Organ the Bramble the brains of an Hen Cole-seed Against the bitings of a mad Dog Crowgarlike the river Crab Balm an actual cautery the liver of the mad dog broiled the blood of a â—og drunk And thus much for the bitings and stingings of venemous beasts which also serve against poisoned wounds else to be cured with the medicine which respecteth properly the poison wherewith the weapon hath been infected The â—nfection without wound is the French Pocks whereof sufficient having been said before I will here say nothing This then shall suffice to have written of the cure of all diseases rising of â—enemous causes wherein if nature of her own â—ccord as it were and in this great neglect of â—ur Countrey and native medicines hath shewâ—d her self so liberal how large would she be if with set purpose and careful endeavour greater trial of things were had and proof made by learned and discreet men Now follow the diseases which are by the excess or defect of one or two parts of the temper which are hot cold moist and dry simple or compounded which if they be not procured by evil humours then require they altering onely by contrary qualities If by them as Phegm Choler Melancholy then are these humours first to be avoided and diminished Such as require altering are cured by natures of contrary quality not onely generally but even answerable to all degrees of excess And first to begin with hot diseases of the first degree they are cured with such contraries as follow Barley sower Grapes Roses Violets the Oak Quinces Damsins Pellitory of the wall Docks Pears Apples Harts-horn the flowers and whole herb of Mallows of the second degree the water Lilly Ducks meat Knotgrasse Vine leaves the Bramble Plantane Cherries Lead Cerus Barberies Cowcumbers Mellons Gourds Citrals whites of Eggs Medlers and Services Of the third Purslane Housleek Mandrake Henbane Of the fourth Hemlock Poppy Thus much for hot diseases Medicines for cold diseases are these hoâ— which follow Of the first degree Bugloss Borage Fumitory Sage Horse-hoof Lycorice Maiden-hair Butter Lillies Flax-seed Marrow and Fat Cammomile Fenigreek c. Oâ— the second Dill dry Mugwort Parsley Saffron Honey
Balm Salt c. The third Annise Folefoot Calamint Commine Fennel Hyssop Mints c. The fourth Garlick Cresses Mustard Celandine the great For moist diseases these medicines are good Of the first degree dry Cabbage Beats Cammomile Fennel Beans Fenigreek c. Of the second Dill Mugwort Shepheards-pouch Dodder Lintils Honey Rosemary Of the third Wormwood Germarder Hyssop Juniper five-leaved Grass Organ Horehound c. Of the fourth Garlick Cresses Mustard-seed wilde Rue Dry diseases have these medicines Bugloss Mallows Turnips Endive for the first degree The second Violets water Lilly Lettice Purslane c. The third and fourth degrees as these are evil supplied by strange simples so are they recompensed by increase of quantities of moist in the two first degrees And thus much touching medicines belonging to the cure of diseases in one part of the temper which being in two parts and without humour require either temperings the simple qualities aforesaid in divers simples or natures wherein such two do exceed which because they be as plentiful as those I have before mentioned and that hereof none makes doubt I will not touch If this double distemper rise of humour as for the most part it doth then is that humour to be diminished or altogether to be voided out of the body and then the distemper remaining to be altered The humors are properly to be voided by purgation otherwise there be diverse as exercise fastings sweating urine and such like But properly the vacuation of Phlegm Choler Melancholly which are the causes of this double distemper belonging to purging medicines which purgations as the greatest doubt is of natures provision in them so they being supplied by our own Countrey Soil the greatest part of this controversie may seem to be decided Purgations are either by vomit or by stool by vomit our native soil ministreth great choice as very gently The Radish roots with the seed the Pepon root and Nettle-seed with more vehemency Folefoot leaf and root the middle bark of the Walnut-tree and the long blossoms thereof and yet most vehemently the seeds of Broom and the flowers thereof and these for vomit By the stool and first to purge choller the flowers and leaves of the Peach-tree Violet flowers and seeds comparable with Rhewbarb the great garden Dock called the Munks Rhewbarb Damask-roses wilde Saffron the powder of Fetherfew all the kinde of spurges the root of the wild Cowcomber the root of Briony and Coloquintida Melancholly is purged with Coloquintida the Oak Fern the juice of Mandrake the flowers of Broom Barefoot and Antimony Phlegm and water are purged with Coloquintida the juice of Rhineberries the gross bark of the Elm the juice of the root of Walwort of Elder the garden Flowerdeluce root juiced The dry leaves of Laurel the Seawithwinde scurby weed These are a show of our English store of Purgers which if they be too strong then are they to be ministred in smaller quantity mixed with those of feebler working if too weak then are they to be sharpned with quicker If they offend any part they are to be corrected partly with cordials and partly with medicines respecting such parts as they annoy Which wants are not onely to be charged upon our Countrey medicines seeing even the best of forreign purgers are to be touched with the same As Scammony is corrected with Quinces otherwise it troubleth the stomach with a griping and gnawing it purgeth over vehemently it hurteth the liver and is an enemy to the heart and doth exulcerate where it passeth and procureth dysenteries that is to say ulcers in the guts Turpeth is corrected with Ginger and long Pepper Mastick with oil of sweet Almonds and Sugar else overthroweth it the stomach troubleth and overdrieth the body Coloquintida with oil of sweet Almonds Gum Tragacanth or Mastick else troubleth it vehemently the whole body procureth the bloody Flix and miserably tormenteth the guts So Agarick requireth to be steeped in wine with Ginger and Cloves yet scarce abstaineth it from overthrowing the stomach Cassia marreth the stomach and requireth to be mixed there with stomach medicines The excessive driness and binding of Rhewbarb is corrected with some moistning syrup Aloe requireth Mastick and Gum Tragacanth to mitigate the fretting thereof Sene marreth the stomach and either through windiness or through vehemency of scouring tormenteth the body and therefore needeth Ginger Cinamon or Spike sweet Prunes fat Broth and Raisins Hermodactiles offend the stomach and cause winde and require Ginger Cumine or Spike and to be short there is no purger of strange drugs which requireth not correction of great faults which correction is taken from such medicines as respect those parts chiefly which the purgation doth annoy whereof such is our store that in all parts we be sufficiently armed therewith but of these shall hereafter be spoken Now if any man think for want of Cassia Manna Sene Rhewbarb these humors cannot be voided or not so well let me then know how the Grecians wanted them and yet found no lack using onely Scammony Helleborus and Colocynthis Aloes and Agarick for their chief purgations The other being brought in of late in comparison by the Arabians who both in knowledge of Physick and in the works thereof were far inferiour to the Grecians to whom I say I mean the ancient of them in Galens time and before neither Manna nor Cassia nor Sene nor Rhewbarb nor Hermodactyles were known either at all or at the uttermost for purgers and as for Manna Fuchsius saith that certain having been about the mount Libanus made report that the inhabitants of that mountain having eaten their fill thereof neither feel themselves any whit troubled therewith nor their bodies loosed but use it for an ordinary sustenance whereby again appeareth a great diversity of working of strange medicines according to the variety of Countreys But what should we say of the nature of Purgers it is doubtless one of the hardest points at this day in all natural Philosophy neither minde I at this present to deal therein but this may I say as by preparation one nature may according to the variety thereof receive divers yea contrary vertues so seemeth it to me that this vertue of purging may be procured to natures of themselves destitute thereof by preparation Divers and in a manner all the mettals and minerals being burnt and washed give over their fretting nature And Quicksilver which of it self is not sublimed or precipitated becometh a vehement scouring medicine so likewise Antimony before it be turned into glass or oyl is not known to purge the body which being done is greatly commended against the Dropsie the French Pox Melancholly and divers other diseases which it cureth by purging so that it seemeth art of preparation as it maketh no nature that being a work of the universal nature so may it not onely be a preparer but even a maker of medicines which medicines are not natures as hath been before declared but qualities in natures
even as health and sickness are not of the nature of mans body but even accidents thereto Which being certain let us then consider what an infinite variety of medicines would arise of things the same being used not onely entire but diversly prepared and even corrupted wherein the industry of Alchmistes is verily greatly to be commended and far more excellent then the common Pharmacopolia rather so to be called then Pharmacopoiya by the skill whereof diverse Natures in one thing are so exactly severed every one having a diverse operation Now oft-times because the Humour to be purged is gross and tough and so hardly yieldeth to the Medicine or hath some other evil quality wherewith it might greatly hurt the parts whereby it passeth Nature not forgetting this point hath as abundantly supplied such helps in this behalf as need requireth as for the preparing of Choler Plantine Roses the Verjuice of the Grape Endive Succory Sorrel Sperage c. For Melancholly Violets Borage Bugloss Baulm Fumitory Doddar Ceterach or Fingerfearn c. For Phlegme Fenel Parsley Betony Nep Penerial Thime Savory Germander c. Of these I less stand upon because the preparers of humors are least in controversie although from hence may an argument be drawn not lightly to be passed over to prove the store of purgers seeing nature hath ministred sufficiency of preparers and as it were Harbingers to the purgers of Countrey yield But I will draw to an end and thus much shall suffice for this present purpose to have bin said of Medicines belonging to the cure of all Diseases in the Complexion The other kinde of Diseases are in the frame of the Body and of those if quantity be superfluously increased and that in the whole body medicines which do vehemently waste as those of the third degree hot diminish the same If in the part onely medicines which we call eaters and fretters dispatch the same as Copperas the ashes of Spurge burnt Allom Mercury sublimed and precipitate Verdigreece burnt Salt c. If measure be diminished and that without loss of substance the glewing medicines bring cure whereof our native soil is so stored that for Wounds the Surgeons need neither send into Barbary nor India as Plantine Hounds-tongue the flowers and leafs of Willows Yarrow Carduus Benedictus Betony Scabious Verven Elm-leaves Adders-tongue Moon-wort Herb-turpence Selfheal and these if the wounds be in the fleshy parts If it be breaking of Bones such are joyned with fine flower the brain of a Dog with Wool and the white of an Egg the Holilock-root the moss of the Oke Glew Roses Wormwood c. If there be loss of substance in the fleshy parts either by wound or ulcer Incarnatives fail us not as Barley meal Fenigreek-flower Figbene-meal and to be short all such as be of the first degree hot and dry without eagerness or fellness Now the diseases in the straitness of Passages or Obstructions if they arise of the humors aforesaid and in those places whereto the medicine may conveniently come then are they to be set free by purging If upon other causes or in such places whereto the force of the medicines which purgeth cannot come or hardly entereth or of such causes as be no humours but through some other strange matter or by straitness of the vessels wherethrough the passage is then are other remedies to be used whereof we have great plenty as softners loosers and such as enlarge the pores of the body of which sort are such as be not above the first degree hot as Camomile Lilies new Butter Swines-grease Lin-seed Fenigreek Briony-root all Marrows Also Medicines which make the matter thin or cut it and divide it into sundry parts of which sort are they of the second degree hot to the third degree as Dill Pennerial Savery Organ Thime Marjoran Saint-Johns wort Worm-wood c. Now if the humour prepared be to be voided by place medicine then Salt salt-Salt-water Lye Ashes Allom and Lime take place and if more vehemency be needful Calamint wilde Cresses Treacle Mustard Garden Cresses Mustard-seed Nettles Dragons all the Spurges are to be numbred among the best and if these serve not the root of Crowfoot will make the supply If the humour cannot be voided conveniently except it be altered into another matter of which sort is pent blood out of the veins then are ripening medicines first to be applied as Butter Wheat-flower Sorel Horse-hoof Lilies Marsh-mallows Onions roasted which are all singular ripeners If the matter be tough and clammy the scourers avoid that inconvenience Endive Succory red Roses Plantine Housleek Agrimony Betony Honey Horehound Wormwood Baulm Pimpernel Watergermander c. Now if the matter which stoppeth be the stone as in the Kidneys or Bladder then are these Medicines most convenient for that use Grummel-seed Goats-blood the juice of Mugwort Seahulver-root the stones found in the great Snails heads Radish-roots Saxifrage c. If any hard matter be in other parts the softners and wasters and dissolvers are to be applied Thus much touching the cure of Obstructions and strait Passages which according to the variety of place where they light cause sundry Diseases or rather take to them sundry names As in the Brain the Apoplexy in the bladder of Gall the yellow Jaundies in the Spleen the black in the Sinnews of motion the Palsie or trembling in the Lungs Asthma c. Now if these Passages be too large they are to be stopped and straitned with cooling and drying medicines of which sort in a manner are all of sharp and sowre taste as Vine leaves the Bryer and Bramble Barberries Medlers and Services Quinces and such as are of themselves or by mixture with liquor clammy as Wheat-flower Bean-flower the white of an Egge Plaister washed Lime Litharge and Ceruse Now moreover because in all good cure not onely the cause of the Diseases is to be oppugned but the part also to be strengthned which must needs partly by the cause of the disease and partly even by the conflict of the same cause with the medicine be feebled that nothing be wanting unto us for the restoring of health nature hath provided even speciall munition for every part of the body that the whole furniture against all diseases might be compleat As for the Head Anniseeds Folefoot Betony Calamint Eyebright Lavander Bayes Marjoran Piony Sage Rue or Herbgrace Lettice the Leaves and Flowers of Water-lilies Roses Garden Nightshade For the Lungs Calamint Dragons Licorice Enula campana Hyssope Linseed Horehound the Lungs of a Fox Scabious Water Germander Barley garden Poppy Violets Horsehoof For the Heart Bugloss Borage Saffron Baulm Basil Rosemary Violets the bone of a Stags heart Roses For the Stomach Wormwood Mints Betony Baulm Mint Quinces Medlers Sorrel Purslane For the Liver Dartspine or Chamepitys Germander Agrimony Fenel Endive Succory Liverwort Barbaries For the Spleen Maidenhair Sperage Fingerfearn Doâ—der Dâ—â—der of Thime Hops the bark of the Ash-tree For the Kidneys Seahulver Grumel
water wherein Smiths quench their iron Benâ—â—iâ—â—â—â— being drunk helps the Spleen So doth eating Capers 4. Unslaked Lime beaten into powder and mixed with black Sope takes away a Win being anointed with it 5. Mizaldus If any Wood or Iron be gotten into the flesh and you cannot get it out dip a tent in the juyce of Valerian and put it into the wound if the wound be big enough also stamp some of the herb and binde it to the wound with a cloth it will not onely draw out the thorn or iron but also speedily heal the wound 6. To rub the Teeth and Gums every morning and after meat too if you please with Salt is the best way under the sun to preserve the teeth sound and clean from rotting and aking 7. Minus An excellent cure for the Gout is to take a young Puppy all of one colour if you can get such a one and cut him in two pieces through the back alive and lay one side hot to the grieved place the inner side I mean 8. Strong Ale sod till it be thick is an excellent salve for old aches and also for sores 9. If any suspect he hath gotten the Pâ—â—rifie let him hold his breath as long as he can and if he can let it go without coughing he hath not the Pleurisie otherwise he hath 10. The Coles of a Birch-tree beaten into powder and put into any wound or sore heals it not onely perfectly but also speedily 11. A fleaed Mouse dried and beaten into powder and given at a time helps such as cannot hold their water or that have a Diabetes if you do the like three dayes together 12. Betony Penerial or sweet Bazil Mizaldus in powder given to a Woman in travel hasteneth her delivery I suppose it would be very requisite the time of gathering of them were observed 13. If a piece of fine Gold viz. Angel-gold Golumellâ— Mizaldus or for want of it Leaf-gold but then you need not take it out again be put into juyce of Lemmons and after twenty four hours taken out again a little Angelica root in powder put into the juyce and drunk up by such as have the Plague cures to admiration I suppose if the time of gathering the Angelica were observed for it is an herb of Sol it would be far more effectual as also the time of â—â—â—tting in the Gold 14. A little Bay-salt dried and beaten to powder and mixed with the yolk of an Egg and applied to a Felon called in Sussex an Andicom doth not onely speedily cure it but also draws away the pain and swelling from the parts adjacent which is usuall to such infirmities 15. Bay-salt finely powdered and mixed with Fasting-spittle and applied Plaister-wise to any place where superfluous hair grows doth take it away The like effect hath Pigeons dung applied in like manner 16. Bleeding at the nose will be speedily stopped Mizaldus if you write in the Patients forehead with his own blood these words Consummatum est 17. The powder of the tooth of a Bore mixed with new oyl of Linseed Mizaldus for that which is stale stinketh doth presently cure the Squinancy if the grieved place be but touched with it with a feather 18. The coles of a burnt Vine in powder mixed with Honey doth make the teeth which are rubbed with it as white as Ivory 19. Strong Aqua vitae mixed so full of Sugar as that you may eat it with a knives point taken last at night cures hoarseness in a short tiâ—â— an ounce of Aqua vitae will serve at one time 20. The dross which is left in pressing out Linseed oyl being laid to steep in running water Mizaldus and the hands washed with it makes them of a delicate colour and if you will take the pains to bathe your body now and then with it it will beautifie your skin 21. The blood of a white Hen smeered all over a face that is full of freckles Mizaldus and let alone till it be dry and then wiped off clean taketh away the freckles and spots 22. Cantharides wrapped in a Spiders web and hanged over one that hath a quartane Ague Mizalâ— perfectly cures them 23. Also for any Ague just when the fit comes upon you take half a pint of Sack and boil it to a quarter of a pint with a little Garlick sliced thin in it and drink it as wâ—â—m as you can it will suddenly cure you to admiration 24. The decoction of Hollihock mixed with a little honey and butter doth being drunk warm wonderfully ease the Chollick 25. A Plaister made of young Swallows being â—â—rnt nest and all doth being applied to the throat ease the Squinancy and swelling of the throat you may make it into a Plaister with oyl and wax 26. If you use when you go to bed to rub your finger between your toes and then smell to them you shall finde it an excellent prevention both of Gramps and Palsies 27. The little bone of the knee-joynt of a Hares hinder leg doth presently help the Cramp if you do but touch the grieved place with it 28. A little piece of the tongue of a Fox moistened and made soft in vinegar if it be too dry applied to the place draws out a thorn or any thing else that is gotten deep into the flesh 29. Mizaldus The three-corner'd stone which is to be found in the hinder part of the head of a Carp near the neck being beaten to powder and a little of it snuffed up into the nose doth instantly stay the bleeding of it 30. Mizaldus The head of a Cat that is all black burned in a new pot or crucible and made into fine ashes and a little of it blown with a quill into an eye that hath a web or pearl growing before it three times a day is a most sovereign remedy If in the cure the Patient feel any burning in 〈◊〉 â—e then take three or four Oaken-leaves 〈…〉 â—steâ—â—em in water and lay them to the eye and when they have layen awhile turn them Mizaldus affirms this hath cured such as have been blinde a whole year 31. Snails either with shells or without Hollerius being beat with runnet and applied Plaister-wise will draw out any thorn or any thing else that is gotten never so deep in the flesh Also applied to the Navel of one that hath the Dropsie it draweth out all the waters but it must not be removed till it either drop off of it self or have drawn out all the water 32. The roots of Henbane â—eing stamped Mizaldus Alberius magnus warmed and applied to the place cures the Gout both in the feet and knees the reason is because it is an Herb of Jâ—â—â—â—â—â— who Signs Sagitarius and Pisces rules the Knees and Feet 33. Take nine red Snails and put them between two tile-stones so as they slide not away then dry them in an oven and give one
honey 100. Syrup of Borage and Buggloss resist Melancholly and cause light Hearts taking away grief and passions thereof Fragmenta aurea The second Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. Mizaldus THe Roots of Sorrel hung about their necks that have the Swine Pocks doth wonderfully help them 2. Briony Roots boiled in water and the water drunk helps the Dropsie 3. Eyebright is an herb of the Sun and is a wonderful strengthner of the eyes used any way either outwardly or inwardly both the leaves stalks and flowers for it is an herb appropriated to them 4. You may easily know whether a Dropsie be hot or cold thus If it begin below and swell upwards it is hot because the nature of heat is to ascend but if it swell downwards it is cold because the nature of cold is to descend 5. Dry a bullocks sheeps or goats Bladder Galen and beat it into powder and give a dram of it in water vinegar or any convenient liquor to such as cannot hold their water or use to piss in bed and it will help them give it at night or morning according as you see cause 6. Rub a green Marigold leaf between your fingers and put it up into your nose and it will draw away abundance of humours and help Rheum anoying the head 7. The Roots of Elder-trees sod in water and the decoction drunk for common drink cures the Dropsie 8. Garlike and Housleek of each a like quantity stamped and applied plaister-wise to the place will help the Gout be it hot or cold 9. White wine Benenius wherein the ends of a pair of tongs have been quenched being before red hot six or seven times being drunk divers times doth help such as have grieved swelled or diseased Spleens 10. Mizaldus It is a signe of health in a sickness when the Gods begin to itch but take heed then of Venerious acts lest you pay for your pleasure 11. The decoction of Walwort either in wine or water doth admirably by being drunk cure the Dropsie 12. Arnoldus de villa nova Coriander-seed being beaten into powder and mixed with Honey and applied Plaister-wise either to Carbuncles or Sores helps them 13. Mizaldus The Berries of winter Cherries stamped and the Juyce pressed out and dryed helps both the Stone and Dropsie 14. Elder-leaves made hot between two Tile-stones and applied to the Forehead and Temples ease the pains of the Head 15. Take the buds leaves or inner-rind of an Elder-tree beat it and drop a drop or two of the juice thereof into the Ear it cures not onely Imposthumes there but also Deafness 16. Mizaldus The Brain of a Weazel dried and drunk in Vinegar cures the Falling-sickness 17. Many men are troubled with watry Stomachs much thin fresh water comming out of their mouthes towards morning it usually comes with a proneness to vomit the vulgar call it water-springs for such or any other Rheum whatsoever that molesteth your body take this most excellent though cheap Medicine Take a little stick and tye some old Oken-leaves about the end of it and cut them pretty round then put them into your mouth as far as you can well suffer them and hold the stick fast between your teeth and abundance of Rheum will come out of your mouth hold your mouth over a porringer and you may see how much Then wash the leaves in water and put them in your mouth again do so as often as you think fit If you do so before meat it will help your digestion 18. Earth-worms slit and washed well in white wine and dried and beaten into powder and a spoonful taken of them in any liquor in the morning fasting in a little time cureth the black Jaundies 19. Olibanum mixed with as much Barows-grease beat the Olibanum first into powder and boiled together make an Ointment which will kill the Lice in Childrens heads and such as are subject to breed them will never breed them after A medicine cheap safe and sure which breeds no anoyance to the brain 20. Tormentil boiled in wine Petrus Hisp and the wine drunk for ordinary drink and the Herb it self that was boiled being applied Plaister-wise to the eyes at night helpeth such as are so blinde they cannot see at all 21. Andr. Mathiolus Briony roots boiled in white Wine and a draught of the Wine drunk every night going to bed helps such as have the fits of the Mother 22. The juyce of Coleworts snuffed up the nose purgeth the head marvellously and taketh away the pains thereof though of never so long continuance 23. Mizaldus The Gums of young children being often rubbed with the brains of a Hare or Cunney their teeth will cut easily 24. Pet. Hisp Fine Aloes boiled well with the juyce of Coleworts and made into pills a scruple being taken at a time at night going to bed doth gallantly purge the head and ease the pains thereof 25. Take a good handful of Arsemart wrap it up in a Bur-leaf and take it up being so wrapped first in cold ashes then cover those cold ashes with hot embers those hot embers with hot coles and let it roast and apply it being well roasted to the place grieved with the Gout change it morning and evening and in three dayes you shall see the most wonderfull effects of it 26. If you beat a plate of Gold very thin when â—ol is in Leo Hermes Arnoldus de villa nova Jupiter and Luna in good Aspect â—nd Fortunate it will do wonders for being â—id to the seam of the Head it strengthens the â—rain and helps the infirmities thereof being â—anged against the region of the Heart it helps â—he diseases thereof faintings sownings c. â—nd causeth gladness being hanged to the Back it cools and strengthens them and helps pains in the back 27. Take all the Urine the party makes at one time that hath the Quartain Ague Mizaldus and knead flour and make a cake with it and when it is baked give it to a Dog of the house do so twice or thrice and in so doing the party will be well and the Dog sick Chuse a Dog for a Man but a Bitch for a Woman 28. To swallow down three grains of Mastich every night when one goes to bed Emp. Ben. Vict. delivereth from the pains of the stomach 29. Mark where a Swine rubs himself then cut off a piece of the wood and rub any swoln place with it and it will help it with this proviso that where the Hog rubs his head it helps the swellings of the head and where the neck those of the neck c. If you cannot apply a part of the thing the Hog rubbed against to the grieved place you must apply the grieved place to that 30. The rinde of an Ash-tree boiled in wine anâ— a draught of the wine drunk six or seven mornings together easeth the Spleen 31.
Pains of the Spleen trouble a man most after meat 32. Egg-shells dried and beaten into powder and given in white wine break the stone 33. Mizaldus Mice-dung with the ashes of burnt Wasps and burnt Hazel-nuts made into an Ointment with vinegar of Roses do trimly deck a bald-â—ead with hairs being anointed with it 34. Six cloves of Garlike stamped and strained into a draught of Rhenish wine and drunk up is a present râ—medy for the stone strangury and chollick 35. Gather Elder-flowers on a Midsummer-day dry them and beat them into powder and take a spoonful of it in Borage-water every morning and evening it restores Youth and conserves it 36. Burn horsleaches into powder and mix them with vinegar and therewithal rub the place where you would have Hair grow no more and you shall have your desire 37. Drinking much Butter-milk makes one laxâ—â—ive 38. The stone of a Swallow beaten into powder Petrus Hispanus and given in drink to such as have the Falling-sickness cures them 39. Mingle two spoonfuls of water with one spoonful of clarified Honey and give it to a woman when she goeth to sleep if she feel gripings and pains in her belly she is conceived with childe else not 40. Green Nettles steeped in the urine of one that is sick twenty four hours Mizaldus if they remain green and fresh the sick will live else not 41. The berries of white Thorns taken in white Wine are of great force to break and expel the Stone 42. Plantane is given with good success to such as have the Plague 43. Wormwood stamped with the white of an egg and applied to the eyes by way of a Plaister is a notable way to take away the redness and bloodiness of them 44. A Garland made of Ivy-leaves Mizaldus laid to the breasts of women that hang flagging gathers them up together decently and makes them round the like will Ivy-leaves do if they be beaten and applied to them 45. Mizaldus If you wash wounds with Wine wherein Agrimony hath been sodden it cleanseth them of their filth and putrefaction 46. Also stamp Agrimony and apply it to wounds that are ill knit or joyned and it will open them again 47. Mizaldus The juyce of Rue mixed with clarified Honey and a drop dropped into the eye at a time takes away dimness of sight 48 A head of Garlick the skins being pulled off bruised and applied in equal parts to the foles of the feet where they are hollow helps them with speed that are pained with the Tooth-ache especially if it come of a cold cause and lie in the nether jaw 49. Mizaldus If you rub Warts with the leaves of a Fig-tree and bury the leaves in the earth the warts will insensibly consume away 50. Briony-berries dried and beaten into powder and drunk in the decoction of Water-cresses doth wonderfull help the Strangury 51. Benedictus Victorius Faventinus Emp. Take of venice Treacle one scruple of liquorice and Cinnamon in powder of each three grains of White Wine an ounce and an half mix all these together and make of them a Potion If a Woman take such a drink as this is every other morning about a fortnight or three weaks before her delivery it will make her labour very easie My Authour saith she will bring forth her childe without any pain at all 52. Take of Yarrow and Plantane of each a like quantity beat them and strain the juyce of them into red Wine a good draught of which being drunk morning and evening will stop a bloody Flux 53. If a Woman desire to know whether she be with childe or not Mizaldus let her make water in a clean copper or brazen vessel at night when she goes to bed and put a Nettle in it if the Nettle have red spots in it next morning she is with childe else not 54. Oxen Kine Bullocks or Horses Absertus will not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts-horn upon them 55. Put two or three of the seeds of Oculus Christi into your eye and within a while after you shall not feel them whereby you will think they are not there at last they will drop 〈◊〉 of themselves compassed about with slimy 〈◊〉 which doth hinder the sight If you 〈◊〉 this now and then it will clear your eyes wonderfully 56. Warts rubbed with a piece of raw Beef and the beef buried in the ground the warts will consume away as the beaf rots in the ground 57. Take the inner rinde of an Oak-tree and boil it well in fair water then bathe any sore with it whether new or old three or four times morning and evening and then anoint it with fresh butter and flour of brimstone well mixed and you shall see a speedy cure 58. Take a bur-Bur-root the bigger the better and scrape it clean then put it in a Pot of new Ale and the Ale will boyl let it stand twenty four hours close stopped and then let one that hath the yellow Jaundies drink a good draught of it and in doing so two or three mornings he will be cured 59. Let him that hath the Strangury drink a draught of small Ale wherein the inner Rind of the young branches of a Hazel-tree hath been boiled first in the morning and last at night and it help him in few dayes 60. Lay a thin piece of raw beaf to the forehead of them that have lost their voices and remove it not all night and in two or three nights it will help them 61. Take the bones of Horses and wash them clean then dry them in the sun then break them and boil them in a Caldron of water a long time and save the fat which cometh from them which is an excellent Oyntment either for Gout or Palsie 62. The ashes of burnt Snails put into the eye take away the spots thereof 63. A piece of raw Beef of an indifferent thickness put in steep all day in good Aqua vitae and laid at night to the temples and let lie there all night stops the waterings of the eyes and all rheums that flow down from the head 64. Draw a coard through the tail of a Water-snake and hang her up Hollerius a vessel of water being under her into which she may gape and after a little time will she vomit up a stone which will drink up all the water this stone being tied to the navil in a piece of fine linnen of one that hath the Dropsie quickly draws out all the water 65. An Egg that is laid on a Thursday the white being emptied out and the empty place filled with salt and gently roasted by the fire without burning till it may be beaten into powder and cankered teeth being rubbed with it kills both canker and worms that eat the teeth 66. White Copperis the quantity of hâ—â—f an ounce dissolved in a pint of water kills all Tetters and ringworms that are washed with
it 67. A little piece of the Navil-string of a childâ— that is newly born being enclosed in a Ring and so born that it touch the skin is a sure and perfect remedy against the Chollick 68. The decoction of the leaves of Plantane is a most sure remedy for the diseases of the Bladder being drunk morning and evening 69. Wicker If any one be bewitched put some Quicksilver in a quill stop it close and lay it under the threshold of the door 70. Saint-Johns-wort born about one keeps one from being hurt either by Witches or Devils 71. Number the dayes from the twenty six day of June to the day when a party first began to fall sick and divide the number by three if one remain he will be long sick if two he will die if none he will quickly recover 72. Joh. Ardern The juyce of the roots of Daffadil mixed with a little Saffron and water gives speedy help to those that are suddenly swoln 73. Hemlock boiled and the Yard bathed with the decoction helps the Priapismus or continual standing of the Yard 74. Garlick beat to powder and the powder taken inwardly breaks the Stone 75. Beat Bay-salt into powder by it self and as much Cummin-seed by it self and as much common Fennel-seed by it self then mix them together with a little Red-rose Vinegar over a Chafing-dish of coles and apply it hot upon a cloth to the nape of the neck near the head the next night change it This is a most precious secret for it cures the most inveterate head-ache though of never so long continuance or never so violent besides it clears the eye-sight and draws away the superfluous humours of the head 76. Sage either sod and taken inwardly Petrus Hispanus or beaten and applied Plaister-wise to the Matrix draws forth both terms and after-burthen 77. Shave the crown of the head of one that is sick and lay upon the shaved place Rue stamped with oyl of Roses binding it on and if the party sneeze within six hours after he will live else not I suppose this may be true in diseases of the head and it may be cure them if curable and I verily believe it is a notable remedy for mad folks 78. A spoonful of the powder of Nettle-seed mingled with good wine and drunk at a time aswageth the pains of the Matrix the windiness of the same as also the fits of the Mother 79. If a Hog-louse or Wood-louse be pricked with a needle and any aking tooth presently touched with that needle the pain will instantly cease 80. Africanus The seeds of Docks tied to the left arm of a woman helps barronness 81. Goats-dung mingled with vinegar and bran and applied plaisterwise to swelled breasts gives speedy cure 82. Betony stamped and applied to any wound in the head draws out the broken bones if there be any and heals the wound 83. Mizaldus The seeds that are found in the knobs of the lesser burs being beaten into fine powder and given in white Wine purge stones and sand very effectually from the reins 84. If you seethe Mugwort in water and apply it hot plaster-wise to the Navil and Thighes of a woman in travel it bringeth away both birth and after-birth but then you must speedily take it away lest you draw down Matrix and all 85. There is a pretty secret to cure a scald or burn without a scar Take Sheeps Suet and Sheeps Dung and the inner rinde of Elder boil these to an Oyntment and that will do it 86. To draw a Tooth without pain fill an earthen Crucible full of Emmets Ants or Pismires call them by which name you will Eggs and all and when you have burned them keep the ashes with which if you touch a Tooth it will drop out 87. Anoint a freckled face either with the blood of a Bull or of a Hare it will put away the Freckles and make the Skin clear 88. Mugwort steeped in Rose-water and the handâ— washed with it helps the trembling of them 89. Take a great over-grown Toad and tie her up in a leathern bag pricked full of holes and put her bag and all in an Emmet-hill and the Emmets will eat away all her flesh and then you may finde the Stone which is of marvellous vertue If a man be poisoned it will draw all the poison to it presently if he be stung by a Bee Wasp Hornet or bitten by an Adder by touching it with this Stone both pain and swelling will presently cease 90. If you chance to buy this Stone and would know whether it be a true one or not hold it near to the head of a Toad and if it be a true one she will come to catch it from you 91. If you anoint warts with the juyce of Elder-berries it will take them away 92. The outward rinde of Raddish-roots the herb Mercury Ben. Vict. Favent Emp. of each an ounce Saffron three grains Cassia lignea in powder a drachm juyce of Savin two drachms beat them all together and wrap them in a fine linnen cloth and hold them to the Matrix of a woman in travel when the birth is near and the childe will come out with but little pain and not onely the birth but also the after-birth 93. Mizaldus The juice of Knotgrass drunk with the powder of seven Pepper corns a little before the fit comes cures the quartane Ague but they say it must be gathered on a Thursday and the juyce pressed out of it then also 94. A bathe wherein Emmets and their Eggs have been sod will quickly cure an old and almost incurable joynt disease 95. Oyl wherein Frogs have been sodden so long till all the flesh is sod off from their bones doth mightily help all benumbedness and lameness of the nerves and joynts 96. The juyce of Betony dropped warm into the ear puts away deafness 97. Take a handful of Arsemart wet in clean water and lay it gently in a wound or sore Paracelsus then take it away and bury it in some moist place and the wound will heal as the same herb rots 98. The water of Marigolds helps diseases in the eyes and takes away pains in the head 99. The smoak of Marigold-flowers received up a womans privitives by a funnel brings away easily the after-birth although the Midwife hath let go her hold 100. The head of a Kite before she hath feathers as Gallen writes burnt and a scruple of her ashes taken once a day cures the Gout Fragmenta Aurea The third Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. For the Jaundies FOr the Jaundies take Milk and White Wine of each equal quantities distil them in an Alimbeck temper it pretty equally I mean the water with the spirit and let the sick drink two ounces in the morning two hours before meat and going to bed 2. For the Black Jaundies For the black Jaundies take Enule campane-Campane-roots
them well and beat them into powder and give a little of the powder inwardly with Muskadel this is a gallant remedy for Children that will not endure any ill-tasted Medicine 30. For a looseness and Diabetes The Pizzle of an Hare dried and beaten into powder and the powder drunk in Wine at night going to bed you may give a dram at a time to a man half a dram is enough for a childe you shall finde it an excellent remedy not onely for a Looseness but also for the Diabetes 31. For the Diabetes The best remedy for a Diabetes that I know is this Take the Bladder of a Goat which I suppose to be best because it is a Beast of Saturn If you cannot get a Goats Bladder get a Bullocks or Sheeps Bladder dry it very well and beat it into powder and take a dram of the powder first in the morning and last at night 32. Caution to the former Receipt In my opinion it were very fitting in the fore-going Medicine that the Sphinater Muscle of the Bladder were by all meanes carefully dried and administred as before 33. Flux The Maw of a young Hare dried and beaten into powder and made up into Troches with juyce of Plantane and a little Gum Tragacanth is an excellent remedy to keep by you for the Flux and it also strengthens the Stomach exceedingly 34. To stop a Flux Take Plantane-seed and beat it to powder and give a drachm of the powder in red Wine to a childe that is troubled with the Flux and it will stop it 35. For a Flux Take the dung of a Stone-horse that is kept in a Stable and fry it in Muskadel and apply it being so fried to the Navel and it will stop any Flux of the belly whatsoever 36. For one that cannot go to stool Take Salt and Sope and mix them well together and apply them plaisterwise to the belly of one that cannot go to stool and it will move him to stool in a short time 37. Bloody Flux Take the Jaw-bones of a Pike or Jack beat them to powder and take half a drachm of the powder in red Wine morning and evening this hath been known to have helped the Bloody Flux when nothing else could do it 38. For the Bloody Flux Take red Beans and boil them in red Wine till it be thick and let the Patient eat of this morning and evening and in a short time it will help the Bloody Flux be it never so violent 39. For the Flux Take an old Apple cut off the top and pick out the coar then put into the hole a ball of Virgins-wax put on the top again and roast it in the embers mash it all together and take it inwardly as a Medicine for the Flux 40. To break the Stone The Urine of a Boar taken and drunk inwardly is an admirable remedy to break the Stone 41. Another to break the Stone Take the blood of a Fox and anoint the Region of the Bladder near to that place where the Stone lies and it will break the Stone 42. Another to break the Stone Also it is an excellent remedy to break the Stone to drink the blood of a Fox either alone by it self or mixed with white Wine And to make the truth of this appear clearly Caution take a Pebble-stone and put it into the blood of a Fox and it will dissolve it yet in my opinion and my opinion is grounded upon reason if the Stone lie in the Reins it is best to drink the blood of a Fox but for the Stone in the Bladder it is best to inject it with a Siringe 43. To break the Stone Bees dried stings and all and beaten into powder and a drachm of the powder given in white Wine is an excellent remedy for to break the Stone 44. To break the greatest Stone that is Take the green Weed that cometh from the Sea amongst the Oyster washed clean then dry it and beat it into powder drink two drachms of this with Muskadel in the morning fasting an hour after it it will break the greatest Stone that is 45. For the Stone Take Oyl of Christal drawn by the art of the Alchymist let him that is troubled with the Stone take a dram of it at a time in a good draught either of White or Rhennish Wine and it will break the Stone For proof of this take a stone and lay it in the urine of him that hath drunk this Medicine and in twelve hours it will be dissolved 46. Green Wounds The same Oyl of Chrystal is an excellent cure for any green wound 47. Stone Take a Goat and keep him three dayes fasting but you must be sure not to give him meat nor water in the night then put him into a great tub full of holes at the bottom and feed him with nothing but Cammomile Parsley Gromwel Celandine Saxifrage Hawthorn-berries or flowers give him Salt to lick and nothing but white Wine to drink save his water that runs through the holes of the tub into which water put Holly-berries Ivy-berries Hawthorn-berries Juniper-berries Parsley-seed Fennel-seed Gromwel-seed Smallage-seed the roots of Radishes and Nettles Knee-holly and Sparragas leaves of Water-cresses infuse all these warm in the Urine in a limbeck close stopped then distil it off this Water is held to be the most effectual for the Stone that is for three ounces of it taken at a time breaks the Stone and brings it away without pain 48. Sciatica For the Sciatica take a gallon of urine I suppose it were best of the party that is diseased boil it and scum it well till it be clear then put to it a quart of black Snails suâ—â— as you shall finde in the Meddows without sheâ—â—â— boil them together till it be thick like a Poltiss 〈◊〉 then spread it upon a cloath and apply it to the grieved place 49. Piles Take a quart of Linseed-Oyl and put as many live Crawfish into it as it will hold boil them in it a quarter of an hour then strain them out and bruise them well shells and all boil them well again in the Oyl then strain them out and keep the Oyl for an admirable remedy for the Piles you may use it by moistening a little cotten in it and binding it closs to the place with a truss 50. For the Piles Take Scabious and boil it well in water and let the party sit over the steem of the water that is troubled with the Piles and it will help him 51. For the Piles The Herb Pilewort either applied to the place in an Oyntment or taken inwardly is an approved remedy for the Piles 52. Many other remedies are used by Authours as namely to boil Elder-tops in white Wine and wash the place witâ— the decoction 53. Also to drink the juyce of Dandelion and Dazies in a cup of Ale every morning 54. An excellent remedy for the Piles Another remedy the conceit of which pleases me very well is this Take
82. For the same To drink the juyce of Marigold-leaves is as gallant a remedy for an Imposthume as any is 83. Murren in Hogs Water Betony given as a drench is a present cure for the Murren in Hogs 84. For Diseases coming of Repletion Fasting three dayes and three nights without meat or drink is a most admirable remedy for all diseases coming of Repletion 85. The Chin-cough The Chin-cough is easily cured if the party troubled with it spit three or four times into a Frogs mouth but it must be into the mouth of the same Frog you may easily keep her alive in a little water 86. For a swelled Leg. For a swelled Leg that is broken and almost mortified bathe it with the decoction of Nettles made with water and it will give ease and cure to admiration 87. Defluxion of Humours If there be a great defluxion of humours to any part of the body be it in wounds or else where it matters not neither whether with pain or without Opiats will be found to be the best cure when all is done 88. To help Digestion The inner skin of the Gizzard of a Hare dried and beaten to powder and taken inwardly is the greatest strengthner of a weak stomach and helper of digestion that is 89. To make Children speak quickly The way to make a childe speak quickly is to rub its tongue often with Salgem and Honey 90. Stuttering The same Medicine for ought I know will help one of riper years that stutters 91. To quench thirst Washing the mouth with Vinegar and spitting it out again presently quencheth the thirst of one that is a dry the reason is because the Pallat of the mouth which is the seat of thirst being moistened and cooled is satisfied and that â—s the reason why men when they are hot get hurt by drinking because the stomach is over-â—loyed before the Pallat be cooled 92. A Suppository A little piece of Salgem cut in a fitting form â—nd put up the Fundament is one of the best Suppositors in the world and will last a man almost his life time 93. For a Wound If you would cure a Wound without a scar anoint it with Venus her spittle 94. For the Pearl There is a certain Trefoyl that hath a white spot in it like a Pearl this herb is an excellent cure for the pearl in the eye 95. If a Cow hath a sore Udder boil her owâ— dung in her own Milk and apply to it 96. Shingles Take the juyce of Archangel and dip a cloth in it and apply it to that inflamation in thâ— Neck commonly called the Shingles and it wilâ— help it 97. Another approved remedy for the same disease is to anoint the place with the blood of 〈◊〉 Cat. 98. An Ache. For an Ache coming of cold or an oâ— bruise take a quart of Muskadel a good hanâ—ful of Onions pilled and bruised an ounce 〈◊〉 Pepper finely beaten and boil all these together till they be thick then spread it upon a cloth and apply it to the grieved place 99. For an Ache in the Legs For an Ache in the Legs take the Gall of an Oxe and boil it well over the fire with Neats-foot-Oyl and dip a cloth in it and apply it to the grieved Leg. 100. Witchcraft The best remedy for Witch-craft that I know in the world is this take a stalk of Amara dulcis leaves and all and let the party bewitched wear it about their middles next their skin Fragmenta Aurea The fourth Golden Century of Chymical Physical and Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. Bruise TAke a good big handful of Rue Yolks and Whites of five Eggs a handful of wheat-flour bruise the Rue very well then temper them all together heat them hot by the fire spread them upon a piece of cloth like a Poltiss and apply them to any bruised place changing it once in 24. hours and it will speedily heal it 2. A Caution concerning Bruises Concerning all Bruises let me give you this caution Be sure you cure them well and soundly at the first else you may feel those bruises at fourscore years of age which you got at fifteen 3. Swelling An excellent remedy to asswage a Swelling is this Take two handfuls of Penerial and boil it in the strongest Ale you can get till it be tender then strain it dip a cloth in the Ale and apply it warm to the swelling and in two or three dayes it will help you new dipping the cloth twice a day 4. An Excellent Salve to cleanse and heal a Sore Take the juyce of Betony Plantane and Smallage of each equal quantities let there be a pound of them all together four ounces of Wax two ounces of Frankincense two ounces of Pitch and two ounces of Rosin melt the things that are to be melted over a gentle fire by themselves then pour in the Juyces and boil it till they be consumed keeping it alwayes stiring then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it for use so have you an excellent Salve both to cleanse and heal a sore 5. I like this Medicine the better because it hath no oyly quality in it experience teaching that all unctious Medicines to raw flesh are inimical 6. An admirable remedy to cleanse and cure Wounds Oyl of Mirrh is one of the best remedies that I know to cleanse and cure wounds for it will do it so speedily as is to be admired 7. For an inflamed Wound If there be any inflamation in a Wound take Camphire and mix it with Hogs-grease and anoint the place with it and it will very speedily remedy it 8. To increase or diminish the Flesh of Wound In Wounds sometimes the flesh rises too fast and sometimes too slowly a remedy for both these is this Take the Lungs of a Sheep and heat them very hot and apply them to the place as hot as you can endure it do this twice a day 9. The Itch. The Itch is a disease which infesteth the skin onely therefore beware you strike it not in lest you infest the body also 10. For the same A strong decoction of Scabious or Devils-bit which you can get you shall finde it an admirable drink for such as are troubled with the Itch you may also anoint the body with Oyntment of Tobacco 11. Falling Sickness Take Wormwood and Rue of each equal quantities in powder and blow some of it into the nose of him that falleth of the Falling-sickness and it will instantly recover him 12. For the same One experience of my own let me quote I have cured one lately of the Falling-sickness that Lad had it above seven years every new and full Moon by giving of him Mustard-seed in powder made up into Pills with Mithridate 13. Convulsions Misletoe gathered in the hour of Sun when the Sun is in Aries and the Moon in trine to him from Leo this being bruised and infused warm in white Wine and distilled off in an Alimbeck eight or
or the Spirit of it distilled is a most admirable remedy for the Convulsion 40. For the Ptysick Ale boiled to a hight that it may be spred upon a cloth and applied to the Brest like a Plaister is a most admirable remedy for the Ptysick 41. For the running of the Reins and Strangury The hard Roe of a Red-herring dried and beaten to powder and the powder taken inwardly is an excellent remedy both for the running of the Reins and Strangury and so also is the Roots of Osmund royal 42. For Rhum◠〈◊〉 Eyes Spread a little stone-pitch upon leather as broad as your hand and when ye have done so prick it full of holes either with an Aul or point of a Knife and lay it to the nape of your neck it is as gallant a remedy for Rhume in the eyes as those you shall pay more money for some it cureth in two or three dayes if it cure you not in that time let it stick on as long as it will if that will do no good apply another 43. For Dimness of the Sight Some people that are beginning to lose their sight suppose they see little moaths or flies â—etween them and the light in such cases â—et an issue be made in the Nape of the Neck 44. To procure sneezing Take Sneezing-powder the weight of six pence Castorium the weight of two pence mix them â—ogether with a little Oyl of Amber and put it â—p the nose of one that is troubled with the fits â—f the Mother and it will cause her to sneeze â—d quickly ease her of the fit 45. Against fits of the Mother Let the party that is troubled with the fits of the Mother take a scruple of Assa foetida in Pills once or twice in a week 46. Against Winde The foregoing remedy is inferiour to none for such whose bodies are troubled with winde 47. For Costiveness in a Woman that lies in There is nothing better nor safer for a Woman when she lies in and is Costive then two ounces of Oyl of Sweet Almonds new drawn 48. For bleeding at the Nose Take Nettles and stamp them and press out the juice and let him that bleedeth at Nose take a spoonful of the juice and hold it in his mouth as long as he can and spit that out anâ— take another fresh spoonful and hold that iâ— the mouth likewise also if you will you maâ— moisten the Nettles after you have pressed thâ— juyce out of them with a little Vinegar anâ— binde it on to the forehead 49. To prevent or cure the Pestilence Take a pound of green Walnuts before thâ— have shells half an ounce of Saffron in poâ—der half an ounce of London Treacle and hâ— a pound of Sugar mix them well together in Mortar then set the moisture over the fire till it come to an Electuary keep it by you it is an excellent remedy to prevent the Pestilence before it comes or to cure it being come by taking the quantity of a Walnut at a time 50. An excellent Cordial for such as have the small Pox or Meazles Take the flowers of Marigolds infuse them in strong spirit of Wine and when the tincture is quite taken out strain it out and infuse more flowers in the same spirit repeat the infusion till you have made the tincture very deep then strain it out and keep it close stopped it is as excellent a Cordial for such as have the small Pox or Meazles as most is 51. For those that have bruised themselves Make a Syrup with the juyce of Cabbage-leaves and Sugar and let them that have bruised themselves take now and then a spoonful of it 52. For a Stitch. Take a Cabbage-leaf and heat it very hot betwixt two dishes having first moistened it with a little Sack then lay it hot to the side of one that hath the Stich renuing it morning and evening 53. For the Itch. A decoction made with Fox-gloves and water and drunk is a most excellent remedy for such as are troubled with Scabs or Itch especially for such as have scabbed heads 54. For a scald head Also an Oyntment made of the leaves or flowers of Fox-gloves and Hogs-grease is an excellent remedy to anoint scabbed heads this is an excellent remedy I have proved it my self and never knew it fail 55. Against Hoarseness Take a Turnip and cut a hole in the top of it and fill it up with brown Sugar-candy then roast it in the Embers mix it being roasted with a little butter and eat it up for your supper you shall finde it an admirable remedy for the Hoarseness 56. For the Head-ache coming of a hot distemper and also heat of the Reins Take red Poppy-flowers such as grow in the corn and fill a glass full of them then pour some Sallet Oyl to them let it stand warm either in the Sun or by the fire for a fortnight then strain out them and put in fresh using them likewise strain them out and keep the Oyl for your use and it is an excellent cool Oyl to anoint the Temples with in Head-aches coming of heat or the Reins of the back when they are too hot 57. For a Cough It is an excellent remedy for the Cough to wet the soles of the feet with spirit of Wine at night going to bed 58. To prevent Miscarriage Take Venice Turpentine and spread it upon brown paper let the Plaister be about the length and breadth of a mans hand and applied to the Reins of the back it is an excellent remedy to prevent Miscarriage You had better in my opinion spread it upon leather it will make beastly work else 59. For the same Another remedy for the same is this make a Caudle of Muskadel but how to do it I cannot teach you and put into it the husks of three and twenty sweet Almonds that which you pull off from them when you blanch them being dried and beaten into powder and let her eat it for her supper at night 60. For a Kibe Take strong Ale and boil it to an extract and apply it plaisterwise it is an excellent remedy for a Kibe 61. The very same is excellent good to break a Boyl and draw it out 62. For a Pleurisie Boil Horse-dung in white Wine till half the white Wine be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar the Wine I mean not the Horse-dung and let him that hath the Pleurisie drink a draught of it and go to bed and cover himself warm 63. An excellent remedy for any old Ache. Take a Bullocks Gall and boil it in white Wine Vinegar and Aqua vitae of each equall quantities boil it till it grow clammy and keep it for your use it is an excellent remedy for any old ache by spreading it upon a cloth and applying it plaister-wise 64. For a Cough or Consumption of the Lungs Take a Cock and when you have killed him pull off the feathers while he is hot then presently cut him
The distilled water of Night-shade is excellent good to wash hollow Ulcers but in my opinion the Spirit of the Herb is ten times better CHAP. 19. Of the Leprosie TAke an adder cut off the Head and Tail and cleanse him of his Skin and Entrails then boyl him in Wine and make him into Troches with a few crumbs of bread of which let the Patient take a drachm every morning in a quarter of a pint of the Wine wherein he was boyled if this begin to make his body swell take him to a Hot-house and let him sweat and after sweating let his whole body be anointed with the liquor wherein the Adder was boiled and you shall finde the whole flesh and skin will be renewed and the Patient perfectly cured 2. Viper Wine if it be well made must needs also be very good in this case 3. Make a strong Decoction of Adders in water then let Corn lie in steep in the water certain dayes and feed Hens with the same Corn let them eat no other meat nor drink no other drink but the water it was steeped in and in few dayes you shall see their Feathers will fall off when all their feathers are off then kill them and boil them and let the Leoprous person eat them and drink the water wherein they were sodden and bathe his body in it or at least wise so much of it as is troubled with the Leprosie 4 Take a Snake and roste her with salt afterwards burn her in a pot well closed while she may be all brought into powder of which we may give a drachm at a time in any convenient Liquor to him that hath the Leprosie CHAP. 20. Of Warts THough Warts themselves be no terrible disease yet are they but an ill savoured Ornament to the hands and a worse to the face 2. Put the feet of Hens in hot Embers till the scales thereof be separated and shrunk from her Legs and with the same scales while they be warm rub your warts and in three or four dayes so doing it will drive them away 3. The rinde of a Willow-tree burnt and the ashes tempered with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise to the warts takes them away 4 Agrimony stamped with Vinegar and applied to them doth the like 5. Purslane rubbed upon Warts hath this property that it will pluck them up by the roots 6. Take a red Snail and cut her overthwart the back and save the liquor that cometh from her the which blend with a little Bay-salt being first dryed and beaten into powder and apply it to the Warts and it will instantly kill them 7. The Milk of a Fig-tree if a little of it be put upon Warts it takes them away by the Roots without any pain at all CHAP. 21. To draw any Thorn or Splinter out of the Body SOuthernwood made into an Oyntment with Hogs-grease of its own property draweth out any Splinter or thorn or Iron out of the body of man 2. Goose-dung mingled with the Juyce of Betony doth the like 3. The ashes of burnt Swallows mixed with Vinegar and applied hath the like operation 4. Polipodium stamped with Hogs-grease and applyed to the grief is very good also 5. The root of Gladen being stamped and applied to the place is good in the same operation for it draweth out not onely Thorns and Splinters but also pieces of broken Bones 6. Also if it he drunk inwardly it is exceeding good in all manner of bruises 7. Betony being made into an Oyntment with Hogs-grease is excellent good to draw out pieces of broken bones especially in the head 8. Stamp the Root of Elecampany with the grease of a Hedge-hog and a little Honey and apply it to the place it draweth out Thorns or any thing else that is fastened in the body of man 9. Snails bruised and applyed to the place is a remedy inferiour to none The Expert LAPIDARY OR A Physical Treatise OF THE SECRET VERTUES OF STONES BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. THE Expert Lapidary OR A Physicall Treatise of the secret Vertues of Stones 1. Jacinth OF these there are two kindes red which is the best the other like a Carbuncle which is presently changed by the fire and of a small bigness This Stone being carried about a man preserveth a man from hurt by lightning and preserveth him from the plague if it be brought near to any that hath the plague it loseth its lustre splendor and brightness so it doth being brought near to any poison being beaten into powder and so taken inwardly or born whole about a man it provoketh sleep and encreaseth honour and wisedom Authors for this Cardanus and Wicker 2. Saphire THis being born about one helps all diseases of the skin as Morphew Itch Scabs Ring-worms c. keeps back sweating makes men chaste causeth strength and a good colour takes away vain fears helps Necromancy and troubles by Necromantick Apparitions by divine gift it makes the minde quiet godly and safe being drunk inwardly it helps such as are bit by venomous Beasts and Scorpions inward Ulcers Poyson and Pestilence flesh growing in the Eyes strengthneth and maketh glad the heart being mixed with other Medicines for the same purpose it asswageth Carbuncles by being touched with it being worn it defends from the Pestilence inwardly taken it helps Ulcers in the inner parts and burstness Authors for this Albertus magnus Garcias Cardanus Dioscorides and Gallen 3. Emerald OF Emeralds there are three sorts the best comes from Scilicia and is the softest the next from Peru which is harder and not so deep a colour but more perspicuous and glistering the third which is the worst comes from the West Indies and is of a dull colour scarce to be seen through scarce any that come from Peru are without spots They rejoyce most in their own light and are of more force by night then by day no Stone more safe to carry about one then this the Saphire and Jacinth This Stone stayeth lust and according to Cardanus and Albertus magnus they will break if they be about a man when he deflours a Virgin Being born about one it stayes the Vertigo or dizziness in the head strengthens the memory stayes inordinate passions and affections helps the sight causeth love of Study encreaseth riches being held under the tongue it is good to divine with it causeth eloquence Being taken inwardly it cureth the Falling-sickness bloody Flux it resisteth Poison and helps vain fears as of Fairies Night-Hags Devils c. it helps folly and anger and brings a good condition Cardanus Albertus Magnus Garcias and Aristotle 4. Ruby RUby is a red Stone shining like fire it restraineth lust being born about one but most of all being taken inwardly it resisteth the Pestilence preserveth the body sound strengthens the vital spirits thereby taking away evil thoughts and making the man nimble-witted
water or a dram of the powder In like manner being drunk it helpeth infants that are troubled with the falling-sickness The decoction taken in wine doth mitigate the pain of the guts and reines and other griefs of the belly it provoketh sweat it killeth the worms and is good against other diseases of the womb The Herb it self as well green as dried both drunk and laid outwardly to the grief doth heal ulcers On such exraordinary occasions it is mingled with the drink made of Guacum wine and water for the French Pox. Thus much Mathiolus Learned Writers affirm that it taketh away the stoppings of the inward bowels it provoketh urine breaketh the stone and helpeth them that are stung of venomous beasts They say also that they are not to be infected that take it in their meat or drink before they come into the evil air that it helpeth them much that are already infected Moreover most agree that it iâ— a remedy against the bitings of Serpents Finally to conclude late writers say That it cureth the pains of the head taketh away giddiness recovereth the memory being taken in meat or drink Also it helpeth festering sores especially of the Paps and Teats if the powder thereof be laid upon it Thus much Fuchsius By this we may in part understand with how great vertue God hath indued and as I may say blessed this herb To sum up all it helpeth the body inwardly and outwardly it strengthens almost all the principall members of the body as the brain the heart the stomach the liver lungs and kidneys I may say it is a preservative against all diseases for it provoketh sweat by which the body is purged of much corruption which breedeth disease It expelleth the venom of infection it consumes ill blood and all naughty humours whereof diseases are ingendred Therefore giving God thanks for his goodness which hath given us this Herb and all other things for the benefit of our health it will in the next place be convenient to consider how to make use of it in the application How Carduus Benedictus may be taken It is to be observed that we may use this herb and enjoy the vertues thereof four wayes First in the green leaf Secondly in the powder Thirdly in the juice And fourthly in the distillation The green leaf may be taken with bread and butter as we use to take Sage and Parsley in a morning to breakfast And if it be too bitter it may be taken with honey instead of butter It may be taken in pottage boiled among other herbs and being shred small it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine It is sometims given in Beer with aqua composita and that without harm when the stomach of the patient is weak and he not troubled with any hot disease The juice of it is either outwardly applied the leaf powder and water of it is received in the mouth It may be taken in Pottage also in the green leaf or with Wine which if it be burned and drunk hot it is the better If you please you may boil it with Wine and honey or suger to make it sweet and then drink it very warm The powder may be taken with honey upon a knives point or with bread and honey if you please or else it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine The distilled water may be drunk by it self alone or else with white Wine before meat or with Sack after meat especially if the stomach be weak and cold The liquor or broth in the which this herb is boiled may be made thus Take a quart of running water seethe it and scum it then put into it a good handful of the herb and let it boil until the better part of the liquor be consumed then drink it with wine or if you think fit with honey or suger to make it more pleasant in the taste Or else make a Potion thus Take a good handfull of the leaves with a handfull of Raisins of the Sun washed and stoned and some Sugarcandy and Licorice sliced small boil them all together in a quart of Water Ale or Wine If it be too bitter it may be made sweet as is aforesaid It is also to be observed that the Powder and Water of the Herb is most to be regarded and specially the water For they may be long preserved so that one may have them alwayes in a readiness to use as need shall require when aâ— the juice cannot be had nor the green leaf And the Water which onely is void of bitterness may be drunk by it self alone for the stomach and taste will bear it and like of it as well as of Rose-water Notwithstandig if the seed be sown as soon as it is ripe one may have the Herb both winter and summer from the time that it beginneth to grow until the seed wax ripe again Therefore I councel all them that have Gardens to nourish it that they may have it alwayes for their own use and the use of their Neighbours that stand in need of it Of the time and quantity to be observed in taking of Carduus Benedictus Here perhaps some will ask a question of the time and quantity which things are to be considered in taking of medicines As touching the time if it be taken for a preservative it is good to take it in the morning or in the evening before one goes to bed because that is a convenient time to sweat for one that feeleth not himself greatly diseased But if a man take it to expel any ill humours it is good to take it whensoever any grief is felt in the body immediately to go to bed and sweat As touching the quantity one needs not be so careful in taking this Herb as in taking those medicines that do purge vehemently by â—gestion as some term it or by vomit For â—n taking them if great discretion be not used â—n considering the time the quantity and the state of a mans body they may cause present death or otherwise they may much weaken the Patient This I counsel all that use it that when they or any of theirs are diseased they defer not the time but take it presently as soon as it may be had and that they do not think it sufficient to take it once but that they take it three or four times at the least Of the Sovereign Vertues of ANGELICA NOw I have written what is sufficient of Carduus Benedictus I will adde unto it anothe◠〈◊〉 much like it in the vertue called Angelica that if the one be wanting the other may be taken As â—â—uching the name the latest writers in my judgement most to be credited in this matter finde no other name for it neither in English nor in Latine Howsoever I know that some much to be commended for their learning anâ— also for the publishing of the same to the benefit of their countrey have given it other nameâ— but I think erroneously If we