Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
founde in the tyme of his byrth without doubte he shall escape from such sycknesse If in the place of an euyll Starre or Planet he wyll not escape Iohannes Taysnier SEethe the leaues of an Oake and the mydle rinde therof in water and wash the head that is sore or full of Pustules therewith and it wyll helpe it presently This hath bene often and well proued GAniuetus sayth that in the yeare of our Lord. 1418 the .xxiiii. daye of August before fowre a clocke at after noone in the howre of Saturne A certaine priest called Iohannes Morterius â–ª dyd aske him for a certaine brother of his which was sicke what shoulde be the ende of his disease death or health Who after he had erected the celestiall fygâ—re therefore espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a moueable sygne beholding also the parte fortune of a quartyle aspect with dyuers other testymonies and euyll sygnes And also Mercurie being the Lorde of the house of the Moone in the eyght house both Retrograde and Combust Iudgde that the party woulde be madde and so dye within a daye after which the messenger dyd declare vnto his friendes and to the Maister of him that was sycke being his brother Which happened so For about fowre of the clock the next morning he was so franticke that he had lyke to haue kylled his Maister and others But they were preserued through Gods speciall gyfte And after being close in a chamber dyd breake a post and so cast him selfe headlong downe and dyed THe roote of Pelleter of Spaine chewed betwene the teeth a good whyle wyll purge the heade and gummes verie well and fasten the teeth So that it wyll helpe the head ache and toothe ache if it be vsed fowre or fiue times in a day two or three dayes together It is very true and often proued MAke that that is shorne from Scarlet into powder by drying it at the fyre or in an Ouen and then geue to the partye that hath the blouddye fluxe to drynke halfe a spoonefull thereof in redde wine Use this fiue or sixe tymes and it wyll helpe him or her shortlie and certaynlie God wylling This is well proued THe gall of a Partriche annointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the heade So that it may penetrate and syncke in doth profyte verie much for the confyrming of the memory Simeon Sethi IF the tayle of a woolfe be buried or put in the grouÌ„d of any Towne or Uylledge no woolfe wyl enter in that Towne or Uylledge Rasis ALbertus makes mencion of a Well that whatsoeuer is throwne into the same is turned into a stone Whereof proofe was made by Frederick the fyrst who because he woulde not be deceyued he threw into the same one of his gloues wherto fyrst he put waxe and sealed it with his owne Ring and the one halfe of the gloue which was vnder the water became stone the other part aboue the water remayned as it was before IF one go to any body and doth aske them being learned in Astrologie whether he shall fynde him or speake with him or not Marke the Lorde of the seuenth house whome if thou finde in an Angle saye that he is at home If in a Succedent house then he is nye home And marke if betwene the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Lorde of the seuenth house there be any applycation or if there be any Planet beholding the seuenth house and carryes the lyght of the one to the other or that doth ioyne their two lyghts and it be thus then tell him that he shal finde him If not then he shall not â–ª Haly Abenragel Which is true so that the partie doth go to his Wife or to his enemie or to any other common person But according to Guido Bonatus if he go to a king or to his maister then you must take the tenth house and the Lorde thereof if to a Priest a Prelate or a Byshop then you must consider of the ninth house as Haly byddes you Do by the seuenth house if to your sonne or daughter then the first house if to your Father the fowrth house if to your brother then you must iudge as before by the thirde house And so of the rest according to the significations of euery house Wherefore the learned in Astrologie are not ignoraunt and this is a verye true rule throughly â–ª and many times obserued And if the Lord of the seuenth house or the house that the partie trauels vnto doth signifie be in a Cadent house then the partie is farre from home so that hee is not lyke to speake with him MAny haue proued that a Saphire tied to the Artyer doth put away the heat in an ague And the same stone borne against thy hart doth preserue the bearer thereof from the plague and from venemous thinges Rasis et Albertus And other IF one that hath eaten Garlyke or Coomynfeede breath on the face of a woman that is paynted the cullour wyll vanish away strayght if not then her cullour remaynes as it dyd before Lang. THe leaues of an Elme tree or of a Peach tree falling before their time doth foreshewe or betokens a murrian or death of Cattell Cardanus TYberius Caesar who was Emperour of Rome when Christe suffered when he awaked out of sleepe dyd see in the darke as Cats do Suetonius WHosoeuer eateth two Walnuts two Fygs tweÌ„tie leaues of Rew and one graine of Salt all stampt and mixt together fasting shal be safe from poyson and plague that daye Which Antidote King Mithridates had vsed so much that when he drunke poyson purposely to kyll him selfe it coulde not hurte him Plynius IF you shall enclose seedes of diuers kindes eyther in ware or in some other fast matter made something thyn or small shooting out of length that is as long as you woulde haue the same to growe and then putting the same in the grounde well dunged a marueylous hedge wyll spring therof This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the Kings Gardyner Mizaldus THe Elephants haue sence and vnderstanding next vnto man and it seemes they knowe and keepe the course of the Starres for at the chaunge of the Moone they breake downe bowes from the trees holdes them then mouing them vp and downe and they are maruelous docible Gellius and Plynie hath left it wytnessed by Mutianus that was thryse Consull as also Plutarch that an Elephant dyd wryte the Greek Letters And Aelianus sayth that an ElephaÌ„t dyd wryte all the Latten Letters in order with other thinges incredible â–ª GRinde Mustarde with vineger and rubbe it well and harde on the plants or soles of the feete and it wyll helpe and quicken forgetfull personnes Petrus Hispanus A Most notable and proued Water to claryfie the dymnes of the eyes or syght doth followe Take the iuyce of Fennell of Celendyne of Rewe and of Eybright of each two ounces Honny one ounce and a halfe Aloes Tutie and
quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd
which is about the beginning of September or immediatly after for then through the great heate and drynes of the Sommer the earth wants rayne Mizaldus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges Which was a maister Carpentar IF any be bytten or stricken of a Scorpion which shall eate Basyll the same daye he shall be made whole therof Aphri reports it IF any fall sicke in the howre of the Sunne he wyll haue a strong Feuer or ague And many times shall be vexed in his minde which wyll bring no small hurt vnto him Haly Abenragel THe iuyce of Coryander geuen to them that haue the falling Euyll to drinke wyll not suffer the humor to ascende into the head and it worketh great helpe to the diseased This was written in an olde booke WHosoeuer is brought weake either by some greuous sicknes or disease of long continuaunce or by woundes receyued or any other waye and thervppon haue a syege of Melancholy lyke to blacke bloud he shall doubtles dye the next daye after Hippocrates in suis Aphor. A Sausfleame or redde pympled face is helped with this medicine following Take Enula Campana fowre ounces and seethe it with vinegar tyll the vinegar be sodden in then stampe it small and then put thereto quycksyluer and brymstone of eyther fowre drams and Barrowes grease fowre ounces beate them all together and make therof a plaster and laye it to the enfected or spotted place in the face all night and on the morrowe wash it of with warme water Doo thus sixe or seuen nightes and it wyll helpe it without doubt THe fyrst seedes that the Hee or Male Pyony brings forth being round and black do maruelously recreate or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scillitick which is to be had at the Apothecaries and with the syrrup of Sticados a lytle Nutmug which Lemnius doth wytnes for a very trueth WHosoeuer is stricken or hurte of any venemous woorme or other thing or else bytten of a madde Dogge Let them take heede dillygently that the same thing that dyd hurt them see them not vntyl they be perfectly whole For the Hebrew Phisitions saye that the party hurt shall then dye or els be in peryll afresh yea though they begynne to waxe whole when they see them Mizaldus ONe handful of Basyll with ten sea Crabs stampt or beaten together doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place that are nye to the same Aphri as Mizaldus sayth IF the Lorde of the eyght house be afflicted in the fowrth house it sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall dye in pryson Taisnier WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden drunke fasting sixe or seuen morninges together doth perfectly helpe thē that are tormented with the paines of the splene Which makes one to haue a great payne in the left syde there most griefe is after meate And if you annoynt the grieued place so long with an oyntment called Deathea euery morning and euening It is an excellent thing lykewise BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine which dryeth and mightely perseth where the same is applyed taken out of the secretes of Fallopius Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten one pounde and two ounces of new yellowe waxe that is odoriferous twelue ounces of Nutmugges and Cloues of eyther one ounce of common ashes syxe ounces beate all these wel together then put the same into a Retorte fenced with Lute of Wisedome and set in ashes and distyll it with a slowe fyre at the fyrst and after encrease the fyre vntyl all be distilled which gathered distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade receauer putting vnto it before the distylling fowre ounces of the powder of brycke or Tyles Which dyllygently luted in the ioyntes maynteyne fyre vnder it vntyll no more wyll come then haue you purchased an Oyle of a rubyne cullour which worketh myracles in woundes especially where synnues be harmed This also helpeth any manner of rewme proceeded of a colde cause it helpeth besydes the cough by annointing the region of the breast therewith and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes inuented and proued by the aboue sayde Author many tymes This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke called the new Iewell of Health which many perhappes should neuer haue read in this my booke that neuer shall heare tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable thinges therein vttered A Notable and often proued plaster to destroy any impostume swelling and stytche in what place of the body soeuer it be is now described as followeth Take of the roote of Hollyocke cleane washed and cutte in peeces two good handfull and seethe the same in fayre water vntyll the sayde roote be something tender Then take out the sayde roote and put into the same water of Fenecreeke and Lyn seede of eyther one handfull something stamped or brused seethe them together vntyll the water be ropeing like byrdlime then stampe the sayd roote of Hollyock before sodde And put it therto with an handfull of Barly meale and frye them together with Bores grease or Barrowes grease and if neede be you maye take sheepe suet then laye a plaster thereof to the sore or grieued place as hotte as the party maye suffer it and let the same lye twelue howres vnremoued at the least and after applye another plaster of the same therto in such order and within nyne plasters it wyll worke the full effect It hath helpt dyssolued the Pluresy with the applying of three or fowre plasters A thing of smal cost and great vertue WHen the Lord of the Ascendēt is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house It sygnifies that the syck shal not be healed but with great expences of money or els dye And vniuersally marke what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascēdent The sycke is lyke to haue harme or hynderance by such things as that house doth sygnifie whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord or Sygnifyer Iatromath Guat Ryff EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder and geuen in whyte Wine breaketh the stone It is a tryed medicine as one affyrmed to me SUgar especially Ualencia sugar made in pouder and put into a wound or cutte doth not onely clense all corruption from it and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it but also heales it maruelously If you lyst you may mixe a lytle fresh butter therewith wherby it wyll not be of the lesse vertue This is a sure excellent easye and a ready medicine who lyst to trye it shall finde it a syngular thing A Certaine Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London who within a yeare and a halfe after her byrth dyd begyn to eate earth stones bricke and grauell And so continued therin hauing all her delyght in eating of such baggage
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing or to take any good thing in hande A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath and the same put into the hollowe toothe or holden betweene the teethe so that it touch the aking toothe It puts away the toothe ache presently This is very true IF you distyll hearbe Iue and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued or tormented with the gowte annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly Great warrantyse was made of this medicine where I had it A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes and especiall of the stomack or breast Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres and let it remayne therin three howres drynke it fasting or at euen when you go to bedde It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke or breast LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse and it wyll helpe them This was affyâ—med to me as proued THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors to helpe the headache the swymming of the head and the mygrym Washe the rootes of Beetes and cutte away the vppermost backe then stampe the same and wryng out the iuyce therof then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose and a maruelous effect wyll followe and a speedy remedy therof A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this as a most sure and proued thing in this case COckes that eates Garlycke are made stoute to fyght therefore trauellors do often byte thereof and also such as followes warres because it encreaseth agylytie strengthneth them and makes them bolde It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne at the howre of the battell or conflyct to make them more fierce lyuely and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle Mizaldus THere were young Mise found with the Persians in the bellyes of Myse that had young Myse in theyr bellyes Aristoteles as Mizaldus wrytes IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off the Moone voide of course that is aspecting none and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll it so profytes that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease Hieronimus Cardan IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected and not Retrograde nor Combust nor in his fall as in Capricorne but in Cancer Sagitary or Pisces it sygnifyes the Chylde then borne shall be fortunate happy and haue a common loue in all thinges chiefly if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent or in the place of the Sunne in the Natiuity of the daye or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night Taisnier THis maruelous Water following wyll recouer the syght againe hyndred of any cause wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght Take three drams of Tutie made in very small powder as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder two drams of fyne Sugar syxe ounces of Rosewater as much of pure whyte Wyne myxe all together and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse and being well closed and stopt set it in the Sunne a month together sturring it together once euery daye Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening and with thus continewing a certayne space it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes for it cleareth them maruelously I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght and the next morning the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght called Gloowoormes stampe them and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue then with a fether take of the same shyning matter and myngle it with some quycksyluer and so put it into a Uyall and hang the same in a darke place and it wyll geue lyght This I had out of an olde booke which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge to a Swyne that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof Mizaldus THe sounde of an Eccho is thought to dryue away Bees Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe M. Varro WHosoeuer takes his iourney in the howre of Iupiter he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce and in his busynes and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for Haly. IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused and holden to the nose that bleedes but touch not the nose therwith but smell to the same by by the bloud wil stay and the nose will leaue bleeding This is very true For the venemous Spyder is so contrary and such an enemie to mans bloud that the bloud drawes backe and shunnes the Spyder presently A maruelous thing WRyte what you wyl on fayre whyte paper with the iuyce of a redde Onion well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge which being drie wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper without any wryting But if you holde it against the fyre you maye then easilye reade it or perceyue the letters TO gylde Yron or Copper Take the gall of a Bull and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith so that the same before be well burnished all about that you woulde haue gylded and let it after drye in the Sunne foreseeing that there come no dust therto and when it is drye gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine then drye it and it wyll be maruelous harde Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes and it wyll be very harde CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh with hotte burning coales and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof and it wyll be whyte TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded Seethe pure Sulphurevyue called quicke Brymstone in water vntyll halfe the water be consumed then wette the parte gylded with that water then drye it at the fyre then stryke the same gylded place with a lytle Yron and the Golde wyll fall from it This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke but howe true it is I knowe not Therefore as you trye it so take it TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke Count the daies from the beginning of his or her sycknes and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues as
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members