Crato mixes it with Sugar and gives it 5. The feathers are used in a fume against the rising of the womb 6. The egges are given to cure the running Gowt XXV Perdix a Partridge IS very lascivious and lives long 16 years eating the buds of Hasle and Birch grasse and green corne Whence in Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. Marrow 3. The bloud 4. The Liver 5. The gall 6. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh eaten increaseth the seed and milk and provokes venery 2. The marrow as also the brain is said to cure the Jaundise being drunk 3. The gall is preferred before others for the diseases of the eyes 4. The bloud is anoynted upon eyes bloud-shot and newly wounded 5. The liver dryed at the fire and powdered resists the Evill and is accounted a singular Antidote against a Fever if it be often taken in water of Milfoyle 6. The feathers serve against the suffocation of the womb the fume put to the nostrils for asswaging the Colick and other pains and discussing them used by way of fomentation and with Mint and Sothernwood in a bag are a familiar remedy for Children to mitigate the pangs of the belly XXVI Pica the Pie. The vertues THis Bird is very much commended against the dimnesse rednesse and pain of the eyes eaten or made into powder and put into the eyes or any way applyed It is good for these that are mad Epileptick Melancholick the ashes used Preparat The Antepileptick water of Magpies which is thus prepared Take seeds and roots of Peony and of Pellitory of Spain of each one dram of Aristoloch the long 3 drams of Misselto of the Oak half an ounce of Castor one dram and as much of flowers of Stechas of Lilly of the valley one scruple and half of Cowflips of Peony of each six drams of Lavander and Rosemary of each 5 drams Sage Marjoram Bettony Hysop of each half an ounce Cinamon Clouds Graines Nutmeg Cubebs of each one dram and half When they are all severally beaten into a grosse powder and cut let them be infused in 3 pounds of the water of Lilly convall a pound and half of the water of the flowers of Luiden one pound of water of Primroses then adde thereto young Pies in number 12. which must be bruised the greater feathers cast away and added to the said infusion after steeping let distillation be made in B. M. The vertues It is a notable Cephalick and Antepileptick water The Dose one or two spoonfuls XXVII Struthio an Ostrich IS a Bird very great forain famous for its chylifick quality In Physicall use are 1. The tunicle of the ventricle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The inner coat of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and wonderfully breaks the Stone 2. The fat is good for nervous parts mollifies the hardnesse of the milt asswages the Nephritick pains anoynted XXIII Turtur the Turtle IN use are 1. The whole Turtle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Turtle agrees with the Pigeon in vertues but yet is specially commended in the Dysentery and chiefly in staying the flux of the terms Whether the ashes of a burnt Turtle or the extract thereof be given the Dose 4 or 6 grains or the Turtle deplumed and bowelled be roasted with Mastick in its belly and rose Vinegar sprinkled upon it while it is in roasting in lieu of Butter and afterward be dryed in a close pot and be made into powder and one spoonfull given every morning 2. The fat gathered from it while it is in roasting is anoynted on the kidneys belly breast groyn c. N. Some that are Gowty perswade themselves that the fits are driven away and the Gowt prevented if they nourish Turtles in their Chambers XXIX Upupa the Lapwing IS a melancholick Bird most nasty living on Wormes found in dung-hils In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh and its decoction helpes the Colick by a propriety of its own taken 2. The feathers are said to asswage the Head-ach applyed XXX Vultur a Vultur IS a Bird excelling in the animal faculties chiefly in smelling In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The fat The vertues 1. The flesh is judged to be good for the diseases of the head Epilepsie Hemicrany and the like The decoction is accounted to cure the diseases of the skin 2. The fat is good for the sinews 3. The brain helps the weaknesse of the head anoynted or put into the nostrils 4. The gall is said to take away the Epilepsie taken with wine 5. Of the feathers they fable that if they be put under the feet they powerfully provoke the birth 6. The dung provokes the birth by its stench The End of the Second Classis The Third Classis OF FISHES I. Anguilla an Eele IN medicinal use from this we borrow 1. The fat 2. The head 3. The bloud 1. The fat is good for wounds begets hairs anoynted in the disease Alopecia restores hearing dropped into the ear asswages the Hemroids 2. They say that the head of an Eele cures warts if the bloudy head wherewith the warts are touched be buryed in the earth that it may putrefie 3. The bloud as yet warm is said to mitigate the pain of the Colick taken with Wine N. Some say that the Wine wherein Eeles are suffocated makes men abstemious if the Wine be drunk II. Barbo a Barble IS a fish very commendable in Kitchens It is not in Physical use except the egges are taken of some countrey people to provoke vomit and stool which they do very violently III. Blatta Bizantia IS the shell or covering of a fish called Conchylium smelling like Castoreum N. 1. Conchylium is the species of long Shell-fishes which breeding in lakes where Nard doth grow feed on it whence the shell smells like Castor N. 2. Some confound the Conchylium and the Purple fish but absurdly for that is of the kinde of long shell-fishes this of the round The vertues Inwardly taken it loosens the belly softens the milt and discusses vitious humors Outwardly by fume it stirs up women oppressed with the suffocation of the womb and Falling-sicknesse In other things it performs what other shells of Shell-fishes do IV. Cancer a Crab. IN use are 1. The whole meat of the Crab. 2. The eyes 3. The shell The vertues 1 Crabs cool moysten asswage pain fix the raging spirits Therefore are they of chief use in the heat and pain of the head and reyns bruised and applyed in form of a Pultise in the Quinsie a Gargarism is made of the juyce of Crabs and also inwardly the juyce may be given In an Atrophy inwardly the juyce is used with water or juyce of Celandine outwardly a playster may be made of Crabs bruised the liver of a Calf Oyl Olive and Oyl of Bay They draw darts out of the body bruised and applyed they are good in St. Anthony's fire and burnings 2. Crabs eyes cool dry cleanse discusse waste
the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
highly commendeth to open the obstructions of the liver and milt to provoke urine and dissolve the stone as also to allay Inflamations and Gangrenes 5. The Magistery of Urine Take Urine putrified as already said and cleared from the dregs distil it with a gentle fire out of B. M. until all the phlegm be come forth then cease and rectifie the Spirit out of a Vial with a long neck so shalt thou have a Volatile salt which gather and the phlegm cast away Distil the remainder out of sand and there shall ascend a Volatile salt out of the Colcothar elixiviate the fixed salt and coagulate it to drynesse and being mixt with thrice as much clay and made into balls after the balls be dryed distil by a Retort as the spirit of Salt is distilled upon this spirit pour the former spirit by drops on the Volatile Salt until the crack cease then give fire of Sublimation in sand and there shall be sublimed a most excellent Salt of Urine and pleasant to the sight The vertues This Sublimate works more efficaciously then the former by cutting the Tartar of the whole body and expelling it by sweat urine or the belly it cures many diseases arising from thence or at least eases them as are Atrophy c. it preserves also from the pain of the Stone if it be taken every moneth before the new Moon The Dose 7. 8. 9. 10. grains in a convenient liquor The dayly use thereof may be continued for some time 6. The Oyl of Ludus That is to say of the tartareous matter which sticketh to the Chamber-pot is made by calcining and by dissolving in a moist place The vertues It is excellent to dissolve the Stone The Dose is one scruple X. The ordure mollifies procures matter and is Anodyne It is of notable use to mitigate dolors from Incantations applyed on the place to procure matter in Plague sores to cure the Squinsie dryed powdered and anointed on with Honey to remedy the Inflamations of wounds Moreover it is inwardly used of many in the Squinsie burnt and given to drink in Fevers to prevent the fits taken in the manner The Dose two drams in the Epilepsie which as the report is the first ordure of an Infant dryed and powdered and given for many days doth pull up by the roots Preparat 1. The distilled water is made with the Oyl with one and the same labour The vertues It is said to cure the nayl or web of the eye and other diseases of the white of the eye one or two drops instilled to procure a good colour to the face to beget hairs to cure corroding Ulcers and Fistulaes and to take away the skars of the hands It is accounted inwardly to profit those that have the Falling-sickness and the Dropsie it drives out the Stone of the reyns and bladder and helps the bitings of a mad Dog and of venomous beasts 2. The Oyl Take the ordure of a young man not a boy as much as you will let be it dryed in the air or in an Oven with an easie fire then distil it by an Alembeck first with a gentle fire so there shall come forth a phlegm and at length with the white Spirits an Oyl let both be rectified by B. M. Poterius makes it thus Take a great quantity of mans ordure let it putrifie of it self and be turned into certain little creatures and then let it passe almost into air This ordure thus prepared distil out of a Retort first with an easie fire after with a stronger so there shall come forth an Oyl and water N. The strong smell of both is taken away by repeated rectifications and cohobations The vertues It helps sores of the Head Erysipelas ulcerated Tetters anointed it easeth pains of the Gout it cures and mortifies the Cancer Inwardly it cures the Jaundise 3. The Western Civet is nothing else but ordure brought to a sweetnesse by digestion by which it resembles Civet XI The seed or sperm we finde this used of many not only to unloose the bewitched ligature of Venus but also thereof a Magnetick Mumy made by which the heat of love is procured Moreover from hence doth Paracelsus feign his homunculus or little man XII The bloud fresh and drunk hot is said to avail against the Epilepsie if being drunk there be used a more violent motion and swift pace to the breaking out of sweat It stays all bleeding drunk new or made into powder Moreover outwardly it heals the eruption of bloud especially at the nostrils the powder put up or the fresh bloud anointed on the fore-head that there it may be dryed N. 1. The drinking of the bloud requires great caution because it not only brings a Truculency to the takers but also the Epilepsie N. 2. The bloud of a child-bed woman heals the running scab being fresh and anointed once or twice with the secundine Preparat 1. The water distilled is made with one labour with the Oyl The vertues It is profitable in Consumptive and withered bodies an ounce drunk and rubbed on the members it is good in cleansing and healing Fistulaes and cooling burnt places N. There is also distilled a water of bloud and womans milk of each a like quantity and it is commended for taking away the spots of the skin 2. The Oyl distilled Take a great quantity of young mens bloud extracted in the Spring Alcohol of Wine one third part the vials wel closed digest in Horses dung 40 days then distill it in an Alembeck out of ashes and with the water there comes forth an Oyl rectifie both the water by M.B. the Oyl by a Retort out of ashes distilling it 9 or 10 times The vertues It is very much commended for rooting out the Epilepsie if half a scruple thereof be taken every day for a whole moneth beginning at the new of the Moon and afterward every new Moon once in a year a scruple for the Palsey Apoplexy Lungs ulcerated Pleurisie N. The distillation of mans bloud is not found ordered after the same manner For some distil it fresh and as yet hot and that two ways of it self and without addition and with some part of spirit of Wine rectified mixt with it Others distil it not fresh and new but either dryed or digested for some time some make the digestion of the bloud alone adding a little salt others of the bloud with spirit of Wine rectified The Anatomy of bloud affords first a water 2. A Spirit that is water rectified 3. An Oyl that is a thicker liquor 4. A Volatile Salt 5. A fixed Salt but we mention only the more usual 3. The Oyl rectified Take the bloud of a healthful young man drawn from a vein in May receive it in a Cucurbit that only a fourth part be filled then let it be kept in the vessel being shut in an indifferent heat that by the swelling of the bloud the whole Cucurbit may be filled then let the Distillation be made and first comes
forth a water of no great vertue unless that being more fully wrought it is used of some to extract the Salt let the rest be driven out bâ— a Retort in ashes the joynts well closed Let that which is distilled be poured again upon the feces and cohobation be made nine times that a red colour may follow N. In distilling observe that thou burn not the feces with too much fire and bring them to a coal and therefore thou must only distil them to drynesse The vertues It is accounted of very great force to refresh the sick 4. An Antipodagrical Balsome or Oyl of Mans bloud Alcasitated It is made after the same manner Take mans bloud while it is hot one measure putrefie it 9 days then distil it out of sand by degrees first with an easie fire then with a stronger by a Retort and there shall come forth a red Oyl and stinking the Volatile Salt sticking to the joynts of the neck Rectifie the Oyl by the Colcothar out of a Cucurbit with the heat of sand distilling it often from the fresh Colcothar at length dissolve the Salt in this corrected Oyl and keep it for use The vertues It is of wonderful force in the Gout anoynted twice or thrice a day for six days together It appeaseth the pain the tumor and rednesse vanishing away N. Of like vertue is the Balsom drawn from the bloud of Goats and Harts in which it is requisite to add the bowels viz. the lights heart and liver 5. An Antepileptick spirit Take the spirit of mans bloud dephlegmated and rectified three times two pounds Infusion of Lavender flowers in Wine two pounds mingle and distill tâ—em in B. M. to the half repeat it thrice then add Spirit of Wine rectified two ounces and keep it for use The vertuâ—s It cures the Apoplexy Palsie Asthma c. N. Beguïnus hath other preparations of Mans bloud which may be seen in the Author 6. An Alexiterian Mummy of life Is the bloud of a lusty and healthful man dryed with a gentle fire impregnated with the Spirit of Limons and Spirit of Vitriol and with a little myrrh made into Trochisces The vertues It is very efficacious in curing Carbuncles The Dose half a dram in water of Cinamon drunk in the morning fasting 7. The Arcanum of mans bloud see it in Faber his Myrothec the 8 chapter Bylnick of the nature of Spagyr n. 66. XIII The stone dissolves Tartar viz. the stone in all parts and causes it to be driven out and therefore it helps all obstructions The Dose of the powder one dram Preparat 1. A Crystalline salt Take the stone very well calcined that the hardnesse be softned boyl it in water and it will be dissolved into a certain coloured water Then the filtrature being evaporated there remains the salt in the bottom which calcine again if you please and dissolve it in boyling water coagulate it and set it to Crystallize N. The calcination may be ordered diversly some calcine it with Niter 6 hours some with Sulphur and Niter others with twise as much of beechen coals Sennertus calcines the stone powdered with a circular fire then reverberatory and at length with beechen coals in a potters furnace Instit lib. 5. p. 3 s 3. cap. 5. 2. Oyl or liquor It is made if the Salt be dissolved in the moist air The Dose from 6 grains to 10. N. Sennertus calcines it with Niter then extracts the Salt with Spirit of Wine and the Spirit of Wine being separated he sets the Salt to melt 3. The Essence or Elixir Take the Salt of the stone crystallized volatize it with Spirit of Wine then abstract with a gentle heat the Spirit of Wine and the Oyl remains The Dose from 5 grains to 10. XIV The Membrane which covers the head of some children is said to have very great vertue against the pain of the Colick Of a Carcasse or Dead Man I. The whole carkasse or flesh in shops comes under the name of Mumy This dissolves coagulated bloud two drams taken and it is said to be good for purging the head punction of the milt cough puffing up of the body the courses obstructed and other affects of the womb and the like Outwardly it is used in consolidating wounds N. Mumy commonly signifies four things 1. The Mumy of the Arabians which is a concrete liquor sweating in Sepulchres out of carkasses condited with myrrhe Aloes and Balsome 2. Of the Egyptians which is a liquor from carkasses condited with Pissalphaltum for with this the carkasses of the meaner rank being preserved are to be sold 3. Pissalphaltum counterfeit i. e. Bitumen mixt with Pitch which they sell for Mumy 4. A carkasse in the sand scorched with the heat of the Sun It happens that in the land of the Hammonians which is betwixt the land of Cyrene and Alexandria the heaps of sands heaved up by the whirlwind over-whelm the heedlesse travellers whence their carkasses are scorched with the burning heat of the Sun 5. To these may the Mumy of the more modern be added which is thus made Let there be chosen the carkasse of a red hair'd man because in such the bloud is accounted thinner and in that respect the flesh more excellent in t re new without blemish about 24 years of age killed by a violent death not a disease hang it in the beams of the Luminaries by day and night when the weather is clear Of this cut the musculous parts into little pieces and sprinkle them with the powder of Myrrh and a little Aloes afterward imbibe it by infusion in Spirit of Wine for some days then let it be hanged up 6 or 10 hours and be again imbibed with Spirit of Wine at length let the pieces dry being hanged in a dry air and shady place then is it like to flesh hardened with smoak without stench N. Of these kindes of Mumy now rehearsed although I derogate not from the former if they can be had from sound bodies especially the first which yet I scarse believe is brought to us notwithstanding I affirm the two latter are to be preferred before the other as in whom we are free from the fear which Renodeus intimates affirming the Mumy of the shops to be nothing but the juyce of a rotten carkasse pressed out and thickned and therefore sold to the great hurt of man-kinde Preparat The common medicines in which the Mumy of the shops is an ingredient do every where occur And they are The powder for a fall or bruise Athanasia the great the Balsom of Peter de Ebano the sympathetick oyntment the black Emplaister called of the Apostles The Cerot for those that are bursten Laudanum Opiat c. Besides the lesse common are 1. The tincture or extract of Mumy Quercet It is made of common Mumy extracting it with spirit of Wine and Turpentine of each a like quantity and again separating the menstruum to the consistence of honey The vertues It is
Alexipharmacal and very much resisteth rottenness it is also commended for the diseases of the breast the Asthma Consumption c. N. The remaining feces are very Anodyne 2. The Tincture or Elixir of Mumy Croll It is made of the Mumy of the more modern with the spirit of Wine or spirir of Elder N. Of this Crollius makes Treacle of Mumy which takes of the tincture of Mumy half a pound Treacle of Andromach 4 ounces oyl Olive mumiated 2 ounces salt of Corall and Pearl of each 2 drams sealed earth 2 ounces Musk one dram digest them a moneth The vertues It is commended against all poysons and infections it preserves from the Plague taken the quantity of a scruple and cures it taken the quantity of a dram or a dram and half N. In poysons it may be given with oyl of sweet Almonds to provoke vomit 3. The Tincture Alcolisated or Elixir of Mumy Take Mumy mans flesh dryed cut into thin slices powre upon it the spirit of Turpentine and set it in an Hermetical vessell close stopt for a moneth to putrefie Poure some spirit of Wine rectified upon the expression received in beasts bladders Put it in a blind Alembeck upon a gourd the joynts very well fenced so that the gourd being set into cold water the sand and coals about the Alembeck may do their office with a gentle heat by the benefit whereof the liquor or Quintessence in a very subtle manner with the spirit of Wine fals through the bladder The remaining matter is to be reverberated and by sublimation to be brought into salt and at length to be united with the Quintessence by the means of circulation after it be separated from the spririt of Wine by B. M. which being finished the Quintessence of the Mumy may further be digested with the treacle and the musk and so kept in the form of an Elixir The vertues It is a present Remedy both of the plague as also of other venomous medicines or things N. There is a report of a tincture of Mumy of its four elements separated from themselves by course and again joyned together which who desires to see may in Tetzel in Med. Diastat 4. Another tincture or secret of Mans flesh 1. The rectified spirit of Wine is powred upon Mans flesh for four dayes the spirit of Wine being decanted the same is again moistned 2. The spirit of Salt at severall times that it may drink up a great quantity thereof then dry it thou hast the flesh seasoned very profitable 3. From this extract the Tincture with Spirit of Wine brought by the force of digestion to the highest fragrancy Defecate it by circulation extract the Salt from the feces calcined and that being cleared mingle it with the tincture and extract it 5. Oyl Olive mumiated Take Mumy first prepared or hardned cut it into pieces and digest it with Oyl Olive in an Hermetical vessell close shut for a moneth Then powre it into a glasse gourd and let the Mercury exhale in B. M. untill no stench come forth and all the Mumy be dissolved Digest the solution 20 dayes with spirit of Wine afterward abstract the same and there remains a red and odoriferous oyl N. Quercetan takes fresh Mumy The vertues It hath all the vertues and properties of naturall Balsom it is good in venomous and pestilent affects 6. An Oyl exalted Oyl after the said manner prepared may be further exalted if it be digested with spirit of Wine and the spirit of Wine again abstracted and so repeated 3 or 4 times The vertues This tincture or exalted Oyl of Mumy is said to excell with such a reviving faculty that there is not a past which it pierceth not no Ulcer no corruption which it cures not if you give thereof dayly twise for some continuance of time 4 or 5 grains with a convenient decoction N. Libavius to the fresh flesh cut into pieces addes a little salt and spirit of Turpentine infuses it in a close vessell strains it and suffers the stink to exhale the vessell being open afterward he distils it by a Retort or a straight Alembick and adding musk and spirit of Wine he digesteth it 7. The divine water Take a whole carkasse with the bone flesh bowels of one kild by a violent death let it be cut into pieces very small and all the parts of the body so pounded that nothing remain unmixed then distill it two times The vertues Some extoll this divine Water for its Magnetick vertue As thus They mingle some drops of bloud 3 or 9 drawn from some patient with a part a dram of the said water and they set it to the fire if the bloud and water be mixed together they promise health within a short space 24 hours but if they shall remain unmixt they affirm death to follow shortly For want of the bloud they proceed in the same manner with the excrements urine ordure sweat corrupted matter or the like which yet they use in a greater Dose II. The skin is commended in hard labour and diseases Hystericall if the belly be bound therewith in the withering and contraction of the joynts if gloves be made thereof and worn III. The fat or grease corroborates discusses asswages pains removes shrinkings mitigates the hardnesse of skars fils the pits left after Smal-pox Preparat A Liniment mingle the grease with spirit of Vitrioll whence is left a certain clammy substance The vertues It is piercing and is used in Blastings IV. Mans bones do dry discusse binde stay all fluxes and are profitable in Catarrhes flowing of the Menstrues Dysentery Lientery Moreover they mitigate the aches of the joynts N. 1. It is usuall to mix them with purging medicines N. 2. The teeth pluckt out of the jaw of one dead are used and commended against diseases by Witchcraft in fume and to pull out worm-eaten teeth if they be often touched therewith Preparat 1. The powder or ashes made after the common manner by calcination in a Potters furnace 2. The bones prepared are made after the common manner by making them smooth with a convenient water 3. The Magistery may be made after the common manner 4. The Oyl is made by Distillation in a Retort The Vertues It discusses it is anodyne and therefore an excellent medicine against the Gowt V. The marrow of the bones is chiefly commended against the shrinking of members VI. The skull is found to prevail against the diseases of the head and namely the Epilepsie whence it is that it entreth many Antepilepticall compositions The triangular bone of the temples is very much commended as a specificall Remedy against the Epilepsie Preparat 1. The skull calcined is made after the common manner in Potters furnace 2. The skull prepared is made of the calcined with an Antepileptick water as of water of the Linden tree 3. The Magistery of the skull is made after the common manner dissolving it in some acid spirit as of Vitrioll and precipitating it The Dose a
the right wing for its hotter nature N. 2. The bloudy juyce squeezed out of the feathers may be used in stead of the bloud and that is best which is taken from young ones 3. The thin tunicle of the ventricle dryed and powdered is commended in the Dysentery 4. The dung heats extreamly in respect of the nitrous quality in which it excels and therefore it burns discusses stirs up the redness of the skin by drawing the bloud thereto Hence it is frequently used in Cataplasmes and rubifying playsters Powdered and sifted and applyed with the seed of Cresses it availes against inveterate diseases as Gowts Hemicrany Vertigo Head-ach the old pains in the sides shoulders back and loynes Colick Apoplexie Lethargy and the like It discusses the strumes and other tumours mixed with Barley meal and Vinegar and applyed it helps the shedding of the hair anoynted the Colick in Glysters it discusses the defluxions having recourse to the knees with Salt and Oyl Inwardly it wasts the Stone and provokes Urine The Dose from one scruple to two IX Cornix the Crow KIranides saith that the dung drunk in Wine cures the Dysentery X. Corvus the Raven FRom whence we have in use 1. The young ones 2. The brain 3. The fat and bloud 4. The dung The Vertues 1. The young Ravens are commended when they are burnt to ashes against the falling sicknesse The Dose one dram given every day for 2 or 3 dayes together In like manner the ashes of Ravens are commended against the Gowt and morphew 2. The brain is good against the Epilepsie 3. The fat and bloud make the hairs black which is affirmed of the egges 4. The dung mitigates the Cough of Infants and the pains of the teeth hanged about the neck 5. Some give the Egges in a Dysentery one or two XI Coturnix the Quail N. A Quail eaten is thought to be hurtfull to those that are lyable to a Convulsion Of it there is in use 1. The fat 2. The excrements The vertues 1. The fat or grease helps the eyes and wipes away their spots 2. Some will have the excrements of Quails feeding on Hellebore which as some say is nourishment to it to help the Epilepsie by a certain singular propriety XII Cuculus the Cuckow IN medicine are used 1. The Cuckow it self 2. The dung The vertues 1. A Cuckow burnt is commended against the Stone pain and moystnesse of the stomach It is also given profitably to the sick of a Fever in the time of the fit it cures the Epileptick c. 2. The dung cures the biting of a mad-dog drunk XIII Ficedula a Gnatsnapper SO called in Latine from the eating of figs. The vertues It is said to sharpen the sight in meat XIV Gallus the Cock Gallina the Hen. INto medicines are received 1. The Cock or Hen. 2. The brain 3. The Tunicle of the stomach 4. The stones 5. The gall 6. The grease 7. The throat 8. The dung 9. The egges The vertues in particular 1. A Hen dissected a black one is best the bloud as yet hot is applyed to the head in the Phrensie Head-ach c. it is said to heal the bitings of venomous beasts being applyed to byles called Anthraces it draws out the poyson neither is it to be unobserved that it stayes the breaking out of bloud in green wounds 2. A living Hen or Cock deplumed about the fundament drawes venom out of venereous botches applyed Preparat 1. A Jelly of an old Hen is made of the flesh of an Hen cut into pieces with Calves feet or of a Weather boyled 6 or 7 hours in a double vessell shut and pressed out N. Spices may be added and Cordiall waters The vertues It is very nourishing and strengthening 2. A Jelly bruised is made of the flesh of an Hen which is boyled till the flesh fall from the bones then is it pounded together with the bones and an expression is made to be mingled with Wine and spiced as you please N. The flesh of Hens is better then that of Cocks unlesse they be libbed and of black hens it is better and lighter which never have laid egges 3. The broth of an old Cock Let an old Cock of 2 3 4 years old be wearyed till he fall then let him be killed deplumed bowelled and stuffed with fitting medicines and boyled in a quantity of water till the flesh fall from the bones and then strained The vertues This broth of it self hath a mollifying faculty And for the nitrous parts wherewith that old Bird is endued and which are stirred up by that wearinesse it excels in the faculty of cutting cleansing moving the belly and that so much the more if in it be boyled medicines of like vertue Hence it is most renowned in the Colick boyled with purging and discussing things in the Cough and tartar of the lungs boyled with pectorals 2. The brain hath the vertue to thicken and restrain fluxes as the flux of the belly taken in Wine It is rubbed by Women ore the gums to help toothing 3. The inner tunicle of the ventricle extracted dryed in the sun powdered hath a singular vertue both to binde and also to corroborate the ventricle and to restrain vomiting and the flux of the belly and also to waste the stone 4. The testicles are said to restore strength decayed by sickness they furnish with a fruitfull seed and strengthen the venerean acts used when they are new they also cure Fevers taken 5. The gall takes away the spots of the skin anointed and helps the eyes 6. The grease of hens and capons heats moystens mollifies asswages and is of a middle nature betwixt Goose and Swines grease and duls their acrimony It is good for the chaps of the lips the pains of the ears the pustles of the eyes c. 7. The throat of a Cock parched and dryed given before supper by propriety cures the nocturnall involuntary pissing 8. The dung performes all which Pigeons dung doth but lesse effectually yet specially is it good for the Colick and pain of the womb It prevails much against the Jaundise Stone and suppression of urine N. That is accounted best which is the whitest in the dung The Dose half a dram given morning and evening for 4 or 5 dayes and continued Outwardly it dries scurffe of the head and other running scabs the ashes sprinkled The yellow of the dung consolidates the ulceration of the bladder boyled in fresh butter or Oyl Olive and cast into cold water that the filth may separate and the liquor of the Oyl swim above it is to be injected into the passage of the yard 9. The Egges in medicine supply us with the shels thin skins white and yelk The shels have vertue to break the stone and to cut the Tartareous mucilage The thin skins have a Diuretick faculty used inwardly and outwardly and they are applyed to the foreskin of Infants The white hath vertue to cool binde agglutinate and it is of frequent use in
the Stone resolve the Tartar and clodded bloud Wherefore they are of great use in the Stone-colick Pleurisie Asthma Colick c. whether they be taken raw and powdered or burnt and prepared they serve likewise for cleansing the teeth 3. The shell hath the same vertue with the eyes Moreover it cures the scab of children arising from salt humors mixt with Oyl of Roses and anoynted It drives away the fits of intermitting Fevers N. The thin new one is best after they have yearly cast the thicker Preparat 1. The ashes of Crabs that is Crabs burnt are drying they excel by property against the biting of a mad Dog taken with root of Gentian with Honey they mollifie the chaps of the feet the knobs and Cancers of the fundament Some give burnt Crabs in a Dysentery N. Galen very highly commends this kinde of medicine which he confesseth that he learned of Aeschrion the Emperick against the biting of a mad Dog And saith that Aeschrion burnt the Crabs alive in a brazen vessel till they might be brought into a smooth powder and that about the rising of the Dog-star the Sun passing into Leo. The Dose one little spoonful for 40 days 2. The eyes of Crabs prepared are made after the common manner making them smooth with water of Fennel 3. The Magistery of Crabs eyes 4. The water of Crabs is made of Crabs distilled in B. M. or ashes The vertues It moves Urine wasts the Stone quenches thirst N. Quercetan steeps Crabs in water of housleek for a day then he distilleth them using three cohobations and applyeth it to inflamation burnings and Cancers which he saith they help much especially if the water be impregnated with the Salt elixiviated from the reliques 5. The Oyl or liquor of Crabs eyes is made after the common manner per deliquium Otherwise Take Crabs eyes 5 ounces Oyl of Tartar per deliquium 6 ounces digest them in Horse dung 13 days then coagulate and extract with the Spirit of Wine at length abstract the Spirit of Wine and there remains the Oyl The Dose from 4 grains to 6. V. Carpio the Carp IS a known fish living in mud and slyme Whence we use 1. The gall 2. The grease 3. The triangular stone 4. The long stones The vertues 1. The gall helps the dulnesse and the cloud of the eyes 2. The grease helps the hot diseaseas of the sinews 3. The triangular stone found in the head of a Carp is holden to be good against the Colick Stone and Falling-sicknesse 4. The two stones appearing above the eyes are commended against the Epilepsie VI. Cetus a Whale WHich name generally signifies huge fishes bringing forth living young yet in particular it is taken for the greatest species of them which for its vast bignesse and shape is like a four-footed Beast In use is the grease which heals the scab anoynted N. Some would have the Sperma Ceti of the shops to be taken out of this fish but falsely Others account Amber-greese as taken from hence but falsely Manati Among the kindes of Whales is reckoned a fish called Manati from the two former feet which only it represents and these the Spaniards call hands whence also they call it the handed fish The Germans for the likenesse of its head whereby it resembleth a Cow call it a Sea-cow In use is the stone of the Manati which is a crusty bone taken out of its head and it is of divers shapes for some time it represents the teeth and of some is called the tooth of a Sea-cow sometime the â—ones of the ears and are called the bones of hearing Preparat 1. Preparation is made of it calcined or burn N. It is good to bedew it with some convenient water as of Fennel c. The vertues It is very much commended for breaking the Stones of the veins and bladder for asswaging the Nephritick and Colick pains The Dose 1 dram and upward N. Some ascend to an ounce 2. A Magistery may be made by dissolving it with Spirit of Salt or Niter and precipitating it with water VII Concha the Shell-fish IS a kinde of Fish wanting an head entrenched within shells whether it be a single or double shell Of this kinde are also those that have Pearl in them It comprehends under it divers species for the most part having names according to their figure and colour or distinguished by a speciall name N. 1. The Concha increaseth and decreaseth with the Moon N. 2. Amongst water Animals none is accounted to be taken with a greater desire of eating mans flesh than this In medicinal use are 1. The shells 2. The flesh 3. The Pearls The Vertues 1. The shells have the vertue to dry to move sweat to cleanse c. Hence their internal use chiefly is in Fevers which they cure by sweat Outwardly they are good in dentifrices in repressing the swellings of the fundament the ashes applyed Preparat The shells are used both powdered only and also calcined and powdered or prepared after the common manner and made smooth with water of Carduus Benedictus and the like Of the shells of the long sort is made that famous medicine of Crollius against the Fever after this manner Pour Vinegar upon the shells let it stand for a night then it extracteth the filth which being scraped off calcine the shells to whitenesse and keep the powder The vertues It moves sweat in abundance and therefore used the fit approaching chiefly in a Tertian it dissolves Fevers especially if used the second or third time The Dose from one scruple and half to a dram N. Crollius gives it in a draught of hot Ale with a little Butter 2. The flesh that is to say the eatable substance belongs chiefly to Kitchens and in meat is said to be good for Quartanes 3. Pearls are round stones found in many Shell-fishes of the same excrement where of their shells are made They are accounted twofold Oriental and Occidental the former are more bright and are preferred before the rest the latter are white and lesse bright they are found also in many places of Europe as in Scotland Silâ—sia Bohemia Frisia and other Maritine lands but they are of lesse worth In like manner the greater and those which have a hole through them are esteemed riper and more excellent than the lesse and not perforated The vertues They make a most excellent Cordial by which the Balsom of life oppressed and strength decayed are notably refreshed and comforted therefore they resist poyson the Plague and putrefaction they exhilarate the minde and for this cause they are in such repute that the last help even of those that are ready to die is usually from thence expected Preparat 1. They are prepared after the common manner by making them smooth upon a Marble now and then sprinkling them with Cordial water as of Roses Balm and the like 2. Salt of Pearls is made by dissolving them in Vinegar or in the juyce of Barberies and Limons
this sperm and dryed is kept for use others put the same sperm in a pot under the earth till it be turned into water Preparat 1. The ashes sprinkled stays the flowing of bloud of wounds and nosthrils It restrains the Bloudy flux of the womb by fume it is with liquid pitch anoynted on Alopecies Inwardly it stayes a Gonorrhea one dram taken 2. Distilled water of Frogs Is made of living Frogs taken about the end of March or beginning of April by an Alembeck 3. The distilled water of the sperm Is made by an Alembeck of the sperm gathered in March N. 2. They use to adde Salt Vertues They are manifest from the precedent besides which it is a notable medicine for the bladder ulcerated from the acrimony of humors It is also good to beat back and stay the issue of bloud and rednesse of the face it cures Tetters Erisypelas and Gangrene 4. The Oyl Is made by boyling Frogs with common Oyl or Oyl of Roses 5. The compound powder of the sperm Take good Myrrhe male Frankincense of each two ounces Saffron powdered half a dram Camphire three drams powder all and mingle them miosten this powder with the distilled water of the sperm of Frogs twenty or thirty times yet so that the former be always dryed of its own accord then keep it for use N. The sperm is to be gathered about three dâ—ys before the new Moon in March then it stinks not and is to be distilled in B. M. The vertues It is a chief remedy against bleeding of the nose throat womb because by its coldnesse it coagulates the bloud It helps also if it be dissolved with Vinegar and applyed on Erisypelas and hot Gowts It likewise stays the bleeding of wounds it kills Impostumation under the nayls The Dose 4 5 6 7 8. grains N. 1. If the bleeding arise from the corruption of the bloud it is no ill medicine because it drives away rottennesse but in the diseases of the womb for the Myrrhe and Saffron I had rather use another N. 2. When Frogs and their sperm or Snayls Worms and Crabs are to be distilled they are to be inclosed in a clean linnen cloth and hanged in the middle of the vessel otherwise the waters will partake of the stench and in the same linnens will remain the powder of the said creatures very well prepared to which for the better correcting of it instill some few drops of spirit of Wine and dry it again or extract the tincture with the said spirit of Wine N. 2. Fabricius de Gangr commends the powder as good against malign ulcers and to restrain all inflamations XVII Sepia the Cuttle IN Physical use are 1. The Cuttle bone 2. The black humor 3. The egges The vertues 1. The bone dryeth cleanseth powdered or burnt to ashes it cures the spots moles the moist scab it is good for the eyes the ashes put in with Honey it helps the swoln gums in dentrifices it is a remedy for the Asthmatick taken it stays the running of the reins it expels stones it moves urine the powder taken to the quantity of a scruple 2. The black humor found within a bladder in the body is said to move the belly taken 3. The egges cleanse the reins and ureters move the terms and urine XVIII Sturio the Sturgeon IS a fish set with pricks on the back and belly loving both fresh and salt waters of a great bignesse The vertues The bones of the Sturgeon are commended in the running Gowt used As also in discussing the pains of the Colick XIX Testudo the Tortoyse IS a creature living as well in the water as on land of the kinde of shell-fishes having a shell-buckler on his back In medicinal use are 1. The shanks 2. The bloud 3. The gall The vertues 1. The shanks are used for a most approved Amulet against the Gowt Take a male Tortoyse he is known among other things from the difference of his tail and a litttle slit under the inner shell when the Moon shall be in the wane before she be joyned with the Sun Let his shanks be cut off he being alive and being sowed in bags made of a Kids skin let them be tyed to the patients members so that the right shank of the Tortoyse answer to the right thigh of the patient and the left to the left and in like manner the right shank of the former leg be applyed to the right arm and the left to the left 2. The bloud of a Sea and Land Tortoyse in inward medicines is given for an Antidote to 2 drams The bloud of a land Tortoyse is used against the Hectick new and raw to an ounce being dryed it is commended against the Epilepsie 3. The gall is good for the eyes XX. Thymallus called Pagrus IN use is the fat or grease The vertues It cleanseth the spots and web of the eyes melted in the Sun and mixed with Honey it takes away the spots of the skin and fills up the pits remaining after the Small pocks anoynted XXI Tinca the Tench IS a slimy fish loving Fenny waters and muddy it is bred both by propagation and also of its own accord It loves the Lucy In Physical use are 1. The whole fish 2. The gall The vertues 1. The whole fish cut into two parts is laid upon the pulses of the hands and soles of the feet to mitigate the heat of Fevers or to divert the pestilential venom In like manner it is used in the pain of the head and joynts Living Tenches one after another applyed on the navel and liver until they dye are said to cure the Jaundise for they attract the yellow colour I have seen a Tench burnt to ashes especially the skin with successe given in the whites of women 2. The gall is commended against the diseases of the ears 3. In the head it hath a stone as the Carp which may be used for the same diseases that the stone of the Carp is XXII Truta the Trout IS a fish very much used in kitchens and much commended In use is the fat which is anoynted on the chaps of the fundament The End of the Third Classis The Fourth Classis OF INSETCS I. Apes the Bee IS an Insect that makes honey living both on the dew of herbs and also of the honey made of that dew In medicine we use 1. The Bee 2. The Honey 3. The wax 4. Bee-glew 1. Bees dryed and powdered restore hair on Alopecies anointed therewith 2. Honey is to be chosen yellow transparent pleasant in smell and tast neither thick in consistence nor very thin but in every part united the white is next to the yellow which is not to be contemned if the rest of the signs be not wanting which betoken its goodnesse But in the choice of honey shun the combe full of Spider webs that which is called Virgins honey is best of all that is it which young and tender Bees make being of colour white and yellow The
and given to drink to one dram excellently prevails against a Dysentery 4. Propolis is a rude and grosse matter or glew found at the entrance of the hives That is to be chosen which is yellow representing Styrax or Galbanum The vertues It heats in the second or beginning of the third degree it gently cleanses and draws it extracts pricks and all things fastned in the body it concocts hard things it asswages aches it fils up desperate Ulcers In an old Cough it helps by fume II. Araneus the Spider IS a poysonful Insect hurtfull by her prickings There are divers sorts very usuall For there is a Spider which is greater of divers colours or lesser of a black colour they are distinguished by their sex they couple in the Spring and beginning of Sommer and sometime in Autumn and beginning of Winter whereupon it is that they are accounted more hurtfull at those seasons they live on flies for the taking of which they spread their nets In medicinall use are 1. The Spiders 2. The Spiders web The vertues 1. The Spider is said to drive away the fits of Fevers applyed to the wrists or the temples but especially it is commended against the Quartane inclosed in a nutshell and hanged about the neck or arme 2. The web astringes conglutinates and therefore is vulnerary restraining bloud and preventing inflamation It is used not only outwardly but also inwardly boldly enough to drive away Feverish fits Preparat The Oyl of Spiders simple and compound may be made by infusion as the Oyl of Scorpions The vertues It is an ingredient in the Emplaister against the Fever III. Aselli Cheeslips BReed in moist place Cellars and the like under stones and vessels full of water if they be touched they contract and gather themselves round The vertues They are of thin parts they digest make thin cleanse open Whereupon they are specially profitable in dissolving the Tartarous mucilage and bringing the stone to mucilage in opening the obstructions of the bowels in the Kings evill in the Nephritick pain difficulty of making water in the Colick and in the appetite empaired by the mucilage of the stomach in the Asthma c. Outwardly the powder is commended for the diseases of the eyes pains of the ears and Quinsie anoynted with honey A living one applyed on a Phagedena or running sore kils it The Dose from a scruple to a dram in powder with Wine or any Nephritick water Preparat Some wash them in Wine and dry them and again wash and dry them then they powder them and moysten them with spirit of Vitrioll The Dose 4 5 6 drops Others beat them with Wine strain them and use them Others only infuse them in Wine and strain them N. 1. I go not beyond one scruple neither continue I their use because by their exceeding resolving quality they may cause no small inconveniences N. As the naturall stony place shews that they are good against the stone so their aptnesse and inclination to contract themselves declare that peradventure they may not be unprofitable against Convulsions IV. Bombyx the Silk-worm BReeds both of its own accord as also of egges N. It undergoeth a wonderfull Metamorphosis of little egges is produced a small creature not unlike to the Palmer-worm This worm nourished with the leaves of the berries of the Elme encreaseth daily till it shine again with swelling then being put into a box it girds it self with a silken web till it die after a while it revives having wings as a butterflie and after three dayes copulation and then the male presently dies the female bringeth forth egges in abundance and dyeth In Physicall use are 1. The Silk-worm 2. The Silk 3. The silken-pouches The vertues 1. Silk-worms dryed and powdered are sprinkled on the crown of the head to help the Vertigo and Convulsion 2. The silken web is temperate in heat and cold some say hot in the first degree dry in the first it strengthens the heart refreshes the vital natural and animal spirits Preparat It is sometimes burned that being dryer it may be brought into a smooth powder sometimes it is mixed with decoctions but it is better to use it raw and only cut There are usuall medicines whose composition it enters as Confect Algermes Diamosch c. N. In Physical use also is the Skarlet silk dyed with grains of Kermes and is used for staying of bloud astringing wounds drying and sowing them together Moreover it is used of the vulgar for an Erysipelas tyed about it 3. The silken pouches have the same vertues with the web N. Take heed of those which are defiled with the filth of their excrements or in whom as yet a Necydalus lies dead and eaten with worms The wilde Bombyx is a certain kinde of green Palmer-worm changeable after the manner of Domestick Silk-worms V. Cantharides Spanish-flies or French-flies ARe bred of certain kinde of Worms not unlike to Palmer-wormes which grow from moisture sticking on the leaves of Ash Poplar Privet and Wheat They are accounted best which are found in Corne or Medows of divers colours and which have yellow lines overthwart on their wings with a long body thick and fresh They are killed with the vapor of very sharpe Vinegar which exhales while it is hot Then are they dryed and kept for two years The vertues They are hot and very dry corrosive or blistering Diuretick emetick wherefore they are frequently used in vesicatories Their inward use is very rare because they are commonly reckoned among poysons Verily they are so offensive to the bladder that outwardly tyed to the skin they do exulcerate the same But some are so bold that they dare mix them with diureticks There are also wicked harlots which by them do kill and drive forth the tender Infant N. 1. The later Physitians cut away the wings feet and heads only reserving the body for use N. 2. Galen useth the wings and feet for an antidote against their own poyson N. 3. Oyl of Cantharides is drawn by the spirit of Wine and is profitable against the Stone VI. Cicada the Grashopper IS an Insect like to a Cricket very stridulous living on dew N. This only creature of those that live hath no mouth for in lieu of it it hath a sharpe pointed thing in its breast with which it lickes the dew In Italy it is commonly known not so with us In Physicall use are dryed Grashoppers The Vertues We use dryed Grashoppers against the Colick with so many grains of Pepper viz. 3 5 7. Others use them burnt to those whose bladder is diseased The ashes notably wast the stone VII Cicendela the Gloe-worm IS a feathered Insect shining in darknesse like fire It is unknown in shops except that Cardanus seems to attribute an Anodyne vertue thereto lib. 9. subtil Others commend it in the stone N. Roderick Castrens 4. Book of Meteors Microcosm 16. Chapter saith Gloe-wormes having their heads and wings cut off are set in the sun