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A81145	Culpeper's last legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing C7518; Thomason E1464_2; ESTC R22796	103,545	286

stood and hang it up if the weather be hot and dry upon a white thorn else in the chimney corner and as fast as that dries the swelling will cease and the pain go away 184. The water wherein Lavender hath been boyled will take away any spot or stain out of any cloth 185. Let the Image of a Lyon be engraven in a plate of Gold Andreas Cordulensis when Sol is in Leo let not the Moone behold the sixt house nor yet the Lord of the Ascendant behold Saturn nor Mars if it be not a Systeam too rare to find neither let the Moon behold them this strengthens the heart being worn against it as also pains in the back being worn against that 186. Also if Trochisks be made with Olibanum Goats blood Idem and sealed with the said plate and afterwards dissolved and drunke in White-wine it breakes the stone in the Reins and Bladder 187. The whitest of Frankincense Razis Mizaldus beaten in powder and drunk in White-wine wonderfully encreaseth the memory and is profitable for the brain and stomack 188. Any part of the bone of a mans arm with the biggest end of a goose-wing being born about one that hath the quartane Ague Mizaldus Geber cures them 189. The powder of earth worms of mice dung and of a Hares tooth put into the hol● of a rotten tooth it will drop out without any instrument 190. There is a stone to be found in the head of a long Snaile Mizaldus which being beaten into fine powder and blowne into the eye takes away the web spots or other infirmities that anoy it 191. A spoonfull of Aquavitae Lemnius sweetned with sugar and a little grated white-bread put in it that it may not anoy the brain nor harme the liver taken every day preserves folke not onely from Lethargies and Apoplexies but also from all cold diseases 192. Take one part of Gentian and two parts of Centaury bruise them and infuse them five days in a convenient quantity of Wine then distill them This water being drunk preserves the body in health Julius Euonimus resisteth the plague causeth a good colour cureth Imposthumes and Ptisicks stuffings of the stomack and spleen provoketh the terms purgeth choler and corrupt blood healeth inward wounds the biting of venemous beasts and cleers the sight 193. A most excellent remedy for the Plague is this Take Ivy-berries when they are ripe ●lexis and dry them then take halfe a dram of the powder of them in Plantane water and sweat upon it 194. Stamp Chelondine and apply it to any tetter or Ringworm and it will quickly cure it 195. The same hearb by like usage will take away any black spot from any part of the body 196. Let the party that is troubled with the tooth-ach lie on the contrary side and drop two or three drops of the juyce of Rew into his eare on that side his teeth ake and let it remain there an hour or two it will not only take away the pain for the present but he shall never be troubled with it after 197. For womens breasts that are sore beat a handfull of figs well and mix them with a little hogs greace and apply it to the breast as hot as can be suffred if the breast be ready to break it will break it else not 198. Take good saffron in powder and mix it with as much black sope and spread it on the fleshy side of a peice of leather and lay it to the navel of one that cannot make water and in one hour you shall see the effects of it 199. The Roots of Holly-okes Pet. Hisp stamped with hogs greace and applied to the Gout helps it in three dayes 200. Verjuyce sod and put hot into a tin bottle with a narrow mouth and the mouth of the bottle held to the eare that the fume may go up into the head helps the head-ach and noyse in the eares and if any quick thing be gotten into the eare it will quickly bring it out FINIS A TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE With its PREVISION PROVISION PREVENTION By NICHOLAS CULPEPPER Student in Astrology and Physick Printed in the Year 1655. A TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE COnsidering the reigning and raging of this Disease in London and divers other Townes and Cities in England and that large experience I have had in it now these ten yeares considering also the terrible horrour and affright that seizeth on most men and women to this day though the disease have beene no stranger to London this twelve yeares if the disease be but within a House or two of them yea some if it be but in the Street as though they were all dead men I thought good to write a small Tractate of the Disease studyed from the grounds of Physick and confirmed by dayly experience to leave behind me for the benefit of Posterity or my Survivers be they who they will which may be as a Present and a more honest helpe to them then running away for hereby their minds being guided by more true charitable and neighbourly principles they may doe good to themselves and others and benefit their owne experience in Physicke as I have done before them Galens three adverbs Citò Longè Tardè And this small treatise for I hate prolixity may stand them in as much and more stead then Galens three adverbs Citò Longè Tardè to runne away quickly and farre and to returne not in a long time which he saith though untruly is worth three Apothecaries shops well furnished Cause threefold The causes of this disease are three yet all subservient the one to the other The first cause is the great conjunctions of the superiour Planets meeting in Signes Cause 1 ruling such and such Countries and Cities or in Signes opposing or squaring such Signes The second is a corrupted and unwholsome Aire Cause 2 which is caused by such meetings of the Planets The third is putrified humours hot blood addust and burned Cause 3 caused by breathing in such corrupt Aire and if the diet before were perverse it addes fuell to the fire and fills the body with superfluous humours A word or two now to satisfie men concerning the common feare of infection which makes many rich men which might and ought to maintaine poore visited people yea many Physicians whose duties it is to administer physick to them to fly away so that in time of great infection you may heare more cry out for lack of bread and meanes necessary then for anguish of the disease Hence also came that unnaturall and inhumane custome of shutting up houses that are visited thereby sadding and dejecting their spirits and thereby making way for the disease as I shall shew anon and taking men from their usuall imployments which is a digester of humours and a preserver of health Nay if the disease be infectious as in their opinions it is it is plaine murder to shut

let him avoid Milk and all other meats of a dilative quality for they send vapors into the head and are hurtfull for him Let his drink be water in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled or in which syrrope of the juyce of Succory or the juyce of Pomgranates or Lemons is put Let him eschew carnal copulation exercises and baths all perturbations of the mind especially anger Directions negative Affirmative Perfumes Vnction If ♂ cause the disease you had better use vervain gathered in the houre of ♀ take this as a generall rule all things that are binding all things that cause stupefaction as crude opium Mandrakes Henbane Poppeys Nightshade those things that bind much though they coole must also be avoyded as juyce of Quinces Medlers c. Let the sick smell to rose water mixed with vineger and often snuffe some of it up into his nose Let also his forehead temples and that part of his head where the paine lies most be anoynted with oyle of fleabane Let the fleabane be gathered in the houre of Mars he being if it be possible in Aries in a good aspect to the Moone So will the infirmity be the easier and more speedily cured Have a speciall care that the Patient go to stoole in good order at the least twice a day Stoole if he do not provoke him first with a Clister then with an ownce of lenitive Electuary every night when he goes to bed for the people most incident to this Infirmity are such as are of a Cholerique constitution though the trouble of this disease be no absolute signe of a Cholericke-man which complexion most commonly causeth astringency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of cold CHAP. III. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Cold. BY cold I meane simply cold without any Flux of cold humours ☞ for that causeth Lethargies but onely a cold distemper The cause This paine in the head is caused of outward cold as by tarrying long bareheaded in a cold aire also by suddain applying of any wet and cold or very cold thing to the head The signes of this are contrary to the signes of the other that came of a hot distemper for in this though the paine indeed be vehement yet the head when it is felt is not hot their face and eyes do not look red neither are they hollow nor shrunke but on the contrary their face looketh full and pale and their eyes are full and swarthy also they desire not cold things nor find ease but paine by them Cautions Let them sleepe moderately but no more then usually they use to do Sleepe They must remaine in a warme aire if it be cold remedy it with a good fire Aire Let them forbeare all meates cold in operation Meats all fish water-fowles and milke Let them eat rear eggs hennes chickens partridge and phesants For drinke let them use Wine moderately Drinke and generally for the cure thereof you must use things that are hot in operation but in the cure as well of this as other diseases in the head you must diligently consider the natural temperature of the braine ☜ for it is such a thing as cannot endure either violent heat or violent cold Directions Negative Let not their bodies be costive but let them have every day a stool if not by nature give suppositories Let them avoide sadnesse deepe speculations and thoughts studying and other immoderate affections of the mind Let them use moving of their body Affirmative walking and if strength suffer riding Oyle of Vervaine is medicinall for the disease Motion let it be gathered in the day and houre of Venus she ascending fortunately Also Rew Laurell Unction If ♀ cause the discase use Fleabane an herb of ♂ Orris Dill Chamomel Mother of time Marjoram are Medicinal for the disease For the Oyle anoint the fore-head temples nostrills and holes behind the eares Also to boyle any of these hearbs especially vervaine gathered as beforesaid in water Nasalia and snuffe up the decoction in your nose Also quilt these leaves betweene two caps Cucufa and let the patient weare it upon his head The innermost cap being made of fine silke or Sarsnet Take Laurell Mother of time Marjoram Rosemary flowers of each a handfull Rew halfe so much Penny royall Calaminth two drams Cloves Staechas one-dram beat these into grosse ponder and sew them up in the Cucufa or double cappe before mentioned and having first sprinkled the head with Vineger warme it and apply it Also it is very good for the sick to smell to such a Pomander as this Pomander Take of Storax Calamitis two drams Cloves Mace wood of Aloes of each halfe a Dram Lavender two Drams Gallia mofchata a Dram Muske Amber greece of each two graines beate them into fine pouder searce them and with mussilage made with Gum Tragacanth and Marjoram water make it up into a Pomander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of driness or moysture CHAP. IV. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of drinesse or moysture BY drinesse here ☞ and moysture also is meant only the baire quality for although of these alone without heate or cold no paine come yet hereby the studious in Physicke may learne and discerne when the Head-ach commeth of heate and driness when of heate and moisture when of cold and drinesse when of cold and moisture The cause Head-ach through drinesse is caused through drinesse of the aire through hunger much watching extreame studying by dry medicines over much exercise excessive use of venery and violent perturbations of the mind Head-ach of moisture is caused through moisture of the aire The fimptomes moist medicines bathes hot waters and other things that moisten over much Drinesse is knowne by these signes there come few or no excrements out of the nose the eyes be hollow the patient cannot sleepe neither before nor in the sicknesse also the skin of the head is dry as though it were scorched dry medicines do not ease the paine but increase it Moistnesse is knowne by the same that lethargies are of which hereafter Those in whome drinesse doth trouble the head let them remaine in a moist aire let them eate meates of good juyce and a moistning nature Diet. as yolks of egges cocks stones and the broth of them phesants partriches and such meates as moisten and nourish much let them drinke wine alwayes with water let them sleepe largely provoke them to it as in the second chapter let them eschew motion of the body and exercise and use quietness and rest let them eschew carnal copulation hunger and thirst and all things that do dry let them use baths of sweet waters that are warme let them be merry and pleasant and avoyd all perturbations of mind For paine comming of moisture See Lethargyes Let such as have head-ach of drinesse use to anoint the

put into the eye breaks the web there though it be never so strong or of so long continuance 8. The Milke of a Womans breast is excellent for the foregoing infirmity of the eyes only with this Proviso if the party afflicted be a Male let it be the milke of a Woman that bare a Male if a Female the contrary 9. When People have gotten an inflammation in any wound the vulgar say they have gotten the Ague in it as 't is familiar when Womens breasts are inflamed to say they have the Ague in their breasts a speedy way and as cheap as speedy that I may not keepe such a quarter about the name as the Colledge of Physitians did about the Rickers is to take malt flower and make it into the forme of a Caraplasme or Pultis with Vertjuyce and apply it be the place in Arm Leg or Breast or elswhere either with wound or without 10. Hollyhock leaves boyled to a Pultis in milke works the same effect in the same causes 11. A most admirable remedy if not the best of remedies for a Consumption is to goe into the Country in Plowing-time and follow the Plow that so the smell of the earth being newly broke up may be taken in at the nose if this may not be by reason of the season of the year or poverty of the Patient then let it suffice to go out into the field every morning and dig up a fresh turse and smell to it an hour or two together 12. Take five white pease and chew them very well then swallow them downe then hold thy breath as long as thou canst thou shalt find it an excellent remedy against the heart-burning 13. For a Rupture this doe give the Patient two or three spoonfuls of the juyce of comfry every morning I know no reason but that the curious may make it into a syrupe then apply the bruised hearb mixed with its equall quantity of Dazies to the place and let him keepe his bed nine dayes by which time he will be well 14. Take a Jay pull off her feathers and pull out her guts then fill her belly full of Cumminseeds then dry her in an Oven till she be converted into Mummy a dram of her being beaten into powder seeds and all is an excellent remedy for the Falling-sicknesse being taken in any convenient liquor every morning put in Piony water 15. Rew bruised and worne under the fect next the skin is an excellent remedy for a quartan Ague 16. If deafnesse come of stopping in the passages of the eares as usually it doth no better remedy in the World then to inject white Wine into the ear being first a little warmed for the ears abhor cold and if you mix a little spirit of Castoreum with it t will be so much the better 17. The powder of burnt Harts-horn let it be well burnt viz. till it be white and rub your teeth well with it and it will keepe them exceeding white and safe from rotting 18. To eat the liver of a mad dog being first dryed and beaten into powder a dram at a time is sufficient is an excellent yea the best of remedies for the biting of a mad dog 19. If an Earwig be gotten into a mans ear you will say it will kill him but presently or so soon as you can conveniently get a mellow sweet apple and having cut a hole in it lay the hole so cut to the eare then lie down on that side and the Earwig will come out to the apple 20. The leaves of Agrimony bruised and boyled in hony and the head that is open moulded plaistered with it helps the disease 21. The juyce of Rue mixed with vineger and the head washed therewith remedies all superficial evils of the head and strengthens it to boot 22. A draught of the same drunk going to bed helpeth such as speak in their sleepes 23. Rew stamped with hony and salt helpes swellings in the knees 24. For broken bones in the head make an oyntment with Agrimony Betony and Hogs-grease with which anoynt the sore and tent it if need be also let the patient drink the juyce of Betony and Agrimony or a very strong decoction of them a quarter of a pint every morning 25. Take an Owl pull off her feathers and pull out her guts salt her well for a week then put her into a pot and stop it close and put her into an oven that so she may be brought into Mummy which being beate into pouder and mixed with Boares grease is an excellent remedy for the Gout anoyncing the grieved place by the fire I fancy this receit much it standing to good reason that a bird of ☽ should help a disease of ♄ and therefore define a dram of the pouder may be taken inwardly every morning 26. Also take notice that the foregoing way is the best way to convert any thing into Mummy and so the Jay before mentioned is to be used 27. If a man be feaverish and cannot sweat for sweating usually helpes such take brook lime and stamp it and having added a little vineger to it apply it to the soles of his feet and it will quickly rout the feaver and withall provoke sweat 28. For any ach or swelling in the knees bruise Rue and lovage and having boyled them a little in a little honey apply them warme to the griefe 29. The inner rind of Elder or dwarf-elder which is held to be better boyled in like manner in bores grease takes away paines in the feet and thighes I know no reason neither indeed do I beleeve there is any why the former should not take away paines in legs as well as in the knees both of them being under the houses of ♄ viz. ♑ and ♒ 30. If any sweat too much bruise lettice and linseed together and apply them to his stomack 31. Make a strong decoction of Centaury in stale ale then having strained it wel boyle it with two third parts of honey viz. imagine there be a pound of your decoction then take two pound of honey boyl it into a syrup a spoonful of this taken in the morning helps the yellow Jaundice strengthens the heart helps digestion and provokes Appetite 32. A pultis made with linseed and chick-weed bruised and boyled in water a little sheeeps suet being added at the latter end is excellent good for one that hath met with a woman a little two hot for his turn I mean to apply it to his members 33. Make vineger of vervain as you make vineger of Roses only make it of the leaves not of the flowers of vervain and this helps the head-ach the head being bathed with it this recepts I fancy much 34. A most excellent remedy for an imposthume in the head is to apply warm to it a red rose Cake moistned a little either with womans breast milk or else with red rose vineger 35. Also a handfull of Betony leaves and halfe an ounce of Cummim seeds

a pultise with bran the which lay between the navils and the privities of one that hath the strangury and it will helpe him 64. If thy nose bleed chew the hearb pervincle in thy mouth and it will cease 65. Vervain boyled and the house sprinkled with the decoction drives flies out of it 66. A suppository made of white sope and put up the fundament is a medicine inferiour to none for one that is costive 67. The roots of flower-deluce bruised and boyled in white wine are an excellent provoker of urine 68. Chamomel and Betony of each an equall quantity boyled in vineger to a pultis and applyed warm to the head helpes the Megrim and the inveterate head-ach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 69. Rosemary tops boyled in ale in like manner and applied to the temples doth the like 70. If thou be costive 't is a hundred to one if choler be not the cause but if not boyl the hearb Mercury in thy pottage in stead of hearbs and let them be but halfe boyled this pottage so eaten will not only take away the effects by making thy body slippery but also the cause 71. Take of Rew Sage and Cummin seeds bruised of each a handfull beaten pepper halfe an ounce make a strong decoction of them in water the which boyl into a syrrup with honey this syrup will help an inveterate cough by taking one spoonfull of it in the morning and another at evening 72. Three drops of a mans owne water put into his eare every morning warm helps noyse there 73. A strong decoction made with Plantane in White-wine drunk every morning doth the like 74. An oyntment made with Ivy-leaves and hogs-grease is excellent for swelling of the eyes 75. Take three or four great Onnions and having rosted them well in the embers take off the outward pill then bruise them with a few cummin seeds in pouder this applied plaister-wise in a few times using helps the head-ach This I am perswaded the hair being shaven off it is a good remedy for the Lethargy 76. Take wormwood and mallows of each alike quantity boyl them in water till they be soft then by adding-barly meal or malt-flower which is better and a little vineger and sheep suet to them they make an excellent pultis for any swelling whatsoever 77. The liquor wherein neats-feethave been boyl'd is an excellent bath to bath swolle legs in and if you will add chick-weed mallows and smallage to it t will be never the worse 78. Also when you have well bathed your Legs therein you may take out the hearbs and apply them to the soles of your feet 79. The juyce of Vervain or if it be time of year you cannot get it take the decoction of the dryed hearb it mightily encreaseth not barely milke but good milke in Nurses 80. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly breaks the stone in the bladder 81. The claws of a Goat burnt to powder and a dram of the powder taken in the morning helps such as cannot hold their water 82. To drinke an Allum Posset is a good remedy for overflowing of a Womans Menstruis 83. The juyce of Sorrel mixed with the like quantity of Milke is an excellent remedy being drunke for pissing blood 84. Pigeons dung mixed with Vinegar is excellent to anoint Warts with if you would be rid of them 85. The juyce of Primrose-roots snuffed up into the Nose is an excellent remedy for the Megrim 86. Take an Onion and having cut a round hole in the middle of it fill it full of Oyle then rost it by a gentle fire and having taken off the outward pill stamp it together and apply it warm to the deafe ear to restore hearing 87. An ointment made with Leek-blades and hogs grease is excellent good for burnings 88. A decoction of Earth-worms Sallendine and Ivy-berries in White-wine take equall quantities of each is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundice and if towards the latter end of the decoction you adde a little Saffron tyed up in a rag 't will be the better 89. Take the roots of Female Ferne such as in Sussex are called Brakes and having bruised them well mix some raw Cream with them so have you an excellent plaister for a scald He that hath any wit may make an Unguent or plaister of them to keep alwayes by him 90. The powder of burnt Garlicke helps the Hemorrhoids being strewed upon the place 91. The powder of Anniseeds strewed there doth the like 92. A rosted Onion laid to the place workes the same effect 93. An excellent cool ointment for wounds that have inflammations is thus made take of Litharge of Gold very finely powdered as much as you will and with Oyle of Roses and Verjuyce of each equall parts make it into an oinment by stirring it up and downe in a Mortar without the heat of the fire as it cooles so it dries exceedingly 94. For Ach in the Legs or Arms a precious remedy take very stale Ale and with the Gaul of an Oxe boyle it till it be as thicke as Birdlime when it is cold then anoint the grieved member with it by the fire it will be fluid when t is hot as hot as he can endure it and when it is dryed in once or twice spread some of it upon a peice of white leather and apply to it when it is hard take it off and apply to it another the former will wax soft again thus doing three or four dayes will help you 95. For the Megrim put some Assa foetida into the eare on that side the paine lies and the matter causing the disease will come out at the Nose And yet it may by my Authors leave be some question whether the Megrim lie within the scul or without 96. Take Snails Shels and all and burn them in a crucible till the ashes be white halfe a dram of this taken in White-wine is a great provoker of Urine 97. Take a quantity of water-grasse that part of it that grows above the water and having beaten it presse out the juyce this juyce a little of it being dropped into the contrary ear of one that hath the tooth-ach cures him of that paine for ever saith my Author 98. Take a piece of blew cloth wollen cloth the deeper the blew the better burn it to powder a little of this powder snuffed up the nose stops the bleeding of it 99. It is certain and by dayly experience verified that Elder barke if you slip it upward will provoke vomiting if downward it purgeth by stool 100. It s property is to cleanse the body of crudities and indigestion and they cause three quarters of the diseases in man you need but run to an Elder-tree for the cure and you may find one a great deale on this side Arabia if your stomack trouble you slip it upwards but if the disease afflict not the first digestion then slip it downwards 101. Polipodium stamped and plaistered upon

handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriu● Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot

put thereto a little clarified Honey and a great spoonfull of good Mustard when it is well boiled raise the sick upright and let him receive the smell up his nose twice a day whilst it is very hot 5. For a Rheume in the Head Boyle Pimpernell well in Wine and drink a draught of the Wine in the evening hot but in the morning cold 6. Another Stew Onions in a close pot and bath thy Head and Mouth and Nose therewith 7. For the falling off of the hair Beat Linseeds very well and mix them with Sallet Oyl and when you have well mixed them anoynt the head therewith and in three or four times using it will help you 8. To purge the Head Take some Pellitory of Spaine beat it into powder and mix it with a little Stavesagre in powder then drink a draught of Malmesey or Muskadell if you can get no Malmsey and when you have so done put a spoonfull of this powder into the mouth rouling it up and down but swallow it not till your mouth be hot and full of Flegm then spit it all out and kneeling down with your head inclined gape as wide as you can and the flegm will avoid from all the parts of your head 9. For the falling off of the Haire by reason of a scald head Warm a little oyle of Tartar that which is made by deliquium and rub your head with it or that part of it which is scabby and in eight or nine daies the haire will come again 10. For head-ach especially that which comes by drunkennesse Mix the juice of Ivie-leaves with Oyle and Vinegar and often rub your Temples and Nostrills therewith 11. For Vertigo or Dissinesse Make Tents of Linnen cloath and dip them in Cinamon water and put them up into thy nostrills and they will instantly give thee help to admiration 12. To purge the Head Chew the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew it on both sides of thy mouth and as the rheume falls down into thy mouth spit it out but retain the root there still till you think the Head is purged enough for that time CHAP. II. For the Eyes and their impediments 1. Prooemium SUch things as offend the Head usually offend the Eyes as Garlick Onions c. Such things as purge the Head usually purge the Eyes as Gargarismes before mentioned and Sneezings Have a care of catching cold after Sneezing 2. For Eyes that are blood-shot Beat the whites of new-laid eggs very well and moisten a little fine Flax with it and apply it to the eye being close shut at night going to bed in the morning take it off and weare a green cloath before thy Eye all day the next night renew it and in three nights it will cure 3. For Eyes that are blasted Onely wear a piece of black Sarcenet before thy eye and meddle with no medicine onely forbeare wine and strong drink 4. An excellent water to clear the sight Take of Fennell Eyebright Roses white Chelondine Vervain and Rue of each a handfull the Liver of a he Goat chopt small I suppose the Liver of a she Goat were better for Women infuse them well in Eyebright water then distill them in an Alembick and you shall have a water will clear the sight beyond comparison 5. Another Take green Walnuts husks and all before they have shells as also a few Walnut leaves distill them cold and drop the water into your eyes 6. For a hurt in the Eye with a stroke Take Agrimony and bruise it very well and temper it with white Wine and the white of an Egge spread it pretty thick upon a cloath like a Plaister and apply it to the out side of the Eye-lid and although it be almost out it will cure it 7. To preserve a mans sight a long time Eate one branch of Rue and another of Eye-bright every morning with a Fig or two This doe three mornings every week 8. To draw Rheume back from the eyes Take an Egge and roast it hard then pull off the Shell and slit it in two and apply it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt finde ease presently 9. A Medicine not onely for sore eyes but also for the Megrim Take the white of a new laid Egge a spoonfull of the best Ginger in powder a spoonfull of strong white wine Vinegar and a spoonfull of white Rosewater if for the Eyes of red Rose-water if for the Megrim beat them all together and having made two Plaisters of Flaxe for each Temple one dip them in this Medicine and binde them to the Temples with a cloath this in three or foure nights hath brought sight to such as have been blinde eight weeks if your Eyes be gumm'd up in the morning as it is like they will wash them with a little white Rose or Eye-bright water 10. For such as have a skin growing before their Eyes Take a Sawcer full of white rose-Rosewater and as much Mirrh as a Nut beaten into fine powder binde up the Mirrh in a fine Linnen cloath and let it lye in the Rosewater twelve houres by which time your Rosewater will begin to look red drop this water into the Eye and it will cure it to admiration 11. For the Web in the Eye Take the Gall of a Hare and clarified Honey of each equall proportions mixe them together and lay it to the Web. 12. For such as have lost their Sight by reason of the small Pox. Take Pimpernell stamp it and straine it and put the juyce of it into the Eye with a Feather morning and evening The same is an excellent remedy for a Pin and web and a pearl and indeed in generall Pimpernell is a gallant remedy for the eyes 13. For a Pin and Web. Take Ivie-leaves that grow upon an Ash-tree wipe them clean stamp them and strain them having added a little womans milk to them If it be a man that hath the sore eye saith mine Author let it be the milk of a woman that bore a girle if a woman the milk of a woman that bore a boy I can find no reason for this but shall deliver my own opinion and my reason for it If it be the left eye of a man or the right eye of a woman let it be the milk of a woman that bore a girle because those eyes are under the Moone If it be the right eye of a man or the left of a woman let it be the milk of a woman that bore a boy because those eyes are under the Sun But to proceed The sorer the eye is the more juyce you must take Drop this into the diseased eye with a Feather foure times in a day 14. For sore eyes proceeding of heat Take the juyce of Housleek womans milke Rosewater and the white of an Egge well beaten mixe all these together and dip Flax in it and lay it to your eyes when you goe to bed binding it on it is a most excellent remedy

15. For Eyes that are swelled Take two spoonfulls of Womans milke one spoonfull of Rosewater the Pap of a roasted Apple and the Yolk of a new said Egge boyl all these in a Pewter vessell over a Chasing dish of coals till it be thick then spread it upon a cloath and lay it to your Eyes luke warm when you goe to bed in the morning wash your Eyes with womans Milk and in twice or thrice it will cure you CHAP. III. For the Eares and their impediments 1. For Deafnesse with noyse in the Eare. TAke a little black Wool and dip it in strong spirit of Wine wring it pretty hard out and stop you Eares with it dip it and wring it out againe once in a day 2. For pain in the Eares Drop a little Oyl of sweet Almonds into the Eare and it easeth the pain instantly and yet Oyl of bitter Almonds is our Doctors common remedy 3. For an Imposthume in the Eare. Boyl some milk and put it into a stone Pot with a narrow mouth and hold the sore eare over the Pot whilst the Milke is very hot that the vapour of the Milk may ascend into the Eare this is an often approved remedy to take away the pain and break the Imposthume 4. To take an Earewig out of the Eare. Take an old Apple and cut it in two pieces and lay one piece to the Eare and lie down upon that side and the Earewig will come out to the Apple it seems they love Apples better than Eares 't is a wonder they are not called Applewigs Another was cured by the first remedy mentioned in this Chapter CHAP. IV. For the Nose and its Infirmities 1. For Polypus or a fleshy substance growing in the Nose TAke the juyce of Ivie and make a Tent with a little Cotten the which dip in the juyce and put it up in the Nostrill 2. For bleeding at Nose Let them that bleed at Nose smell to a Hoggs Turd 3. Another for the same If it be a Man that bleeds wrap a cloath moistned in strong white wine Vinegar about his privities if it be a Woman wrap it about her breasts 4. To cleanse the Nose Snuffe up the juyce of red Beet-roots it will cleanse not onely the Nose but also the Head this is a singular remedy for such as are troubled with a hard congealed stuffe in their Nostrills 5. For bleeding at the Nose Put a piece of hot Hoggs-turd as it comes from the Hogge up the Nose 6. Another Binde the Armes and Legs as hard as you can with a piece of Tape ribbening that perhaps may call back the blood 7. Another Hold a living Toad near the Nose it stops the blood instantly because the blood flies from its enemy 8. Another They say Smallage born about one stops bleeding both by the nose and by wounds 9. For a Canker in the Nose Boyl strong Ale till it be thick if the Canker be in the outside of the Nose spread it as a plaister and apply it if in the inside make a Tent of a Linnen Rag and put it up the nostrill 10. Another for the Polypus The water of Adders tongue snuffed up the Nose is very good but it were better in my opinion to keep a Rag continually moistned with it in the Nose 11. For an Impost hume in the Nose Keep a Rag continually in your Nose moistned with the water of yellow flower-de-luce such as grow by River sides the juyce of Carduus Benedictus will doe the like 12. For bleeding at the Nose Take Amber and bruise into grosse powder put it upon a Chasing dish of coals and receive the smoak up into the Nose with a Funnell 13. Another A certaine man that had bled four and twenty houres was thus cured he took a scaine of black thread and put one end of it in his nostrill and set fire to the other end and so soon as the smoke came to his nosttill the blood presently stopped 14. Another When no other meanes will stop the bleeding at the Nose it hath been known that it hath been stopped by opening a veine in the eare CHAP. V. Of the Mouth and its Diseases 1. A Caution WHosoever would keep their Mouth or Tongue or Nose or Eyes or Ears or Teeth from paine or infirmities let them often use sneezing and such Gargarismes as they were instructed in in the first Chapter for indeed most of the infirmities if not all which infest those parts proceed from Rheum 2. For spitting Blood Drink a spoonfull of juyce of Betony mixed with Milk every morning My Author sayes it must be Goats milk but I know not his reason 3. For a stinking breath Take the juice of Rue and black Mints I think he means Horse-mints and snuffe it up the Nostrils 4. To recover lost speech Take the juyce of Sage and Primroses and hold it in the mouth and it will cause thee to speak presently 5. For extream heat of the mouth Take Rib-wort and boyle it in red Wine and hold the decoction as warm in your mouth as you can endure it 6. For a Canker in the mouth Wash the mouth often with Verjuyce 7. Another Wash the mouth with water of Perwinkle or Lavender or Fumitory or Burnet but in my opinion the decoction of either is better 8. Another If the Canker be very inveterate and eating take old rusty Bacon and Vine roots of each an ounce of Wheat bran a handfull of Brine wherein Flesh hath been salted two or three pints boyl them together and when you take them off from the fire receive the steem up into your mouth with the Funnell afterwards wash your mouth with any of the foregoing waters 9. Of the falling down of the Pallat. There is a mad fantasticall opinion to this day in the brains of the Vulgar that there is such a thing in the Mouth which they call the pallat which will fall downe and be put up againe especially by an old woman which hath no more Teeth in her head than Eyes and all of them naught whereas indeed the truth is the Uvula is a spungy piece of flesh in the mouth and therefore very subject to receive either Inflammations or Humours which any hot thing dissipates from thence came the fashion of putting it up againe with Pepper and Honey 10. Another I adde this onely for the conceits sake it may be true enough though I can give no reason for it it is this Take a handfull of Featherfew rub it well between your hands and lay it to the top of your head and it will draw the Uvula up CHAP. VI. Of the Teeth and their Medicines 1. A Caution IF you will keep your Teeth from rotting or aking wash your mouth continually every morning with juyce of Lemmons and afterwards rub your Teeth either with a Sage leafe or else with a little Nutmeg in powder also wash your mouth with a little faire water after meats for the onely way to keep the