hath done very many much good Take a hote wheaten loafe new taken out of the ouen take out all the crum of it put a good quantitie of stéeled water vnto it with one ounce and a halfe of Nutmegs stop it close and let it so stand one whole day in a warme place then still of the water in a glasse Lembecke giue of this to the patient euery morning two ounces and let him fast two hours after it two hours after his meate giue him as much more not forgetting first to warme it alwaies and let him then fast till night The third potion or draught he shall take the next morning fasting as before after the same this is not only in this kind of flixe but in all other flixes experimented and approued Note also that if the flixe be without heate thou maist take red wine in stead of the water for then will it be of better force and vertue Heate of the head with melancholie §. 4. THis infirmitie is described by these signes following the paine is not so great as the former but with a drinesse and sadnesse the heate is more euident in the left side of the face than in the right it causeth disquietnesse and albeit the sicke sometimes taketh rest yet it is an vnnaturall sléepe it maketh the affected faint harted fearefull and carefull the color of the face is red and blew with a sower taste in the mouth if the patient be old if it be about the Autumne then are the signes the surer Thou shalt vse those remedies for this maladie which are prescribed against melancholie as sufficiently shall appeare hereafter Also vse this Clister Take Mallowes Violet leaues Buglosse Fumitorie Bran of each one M. Polipody Epithymus or Dodder of each one drag boile them together in a sufficient quantitie of water take twelue or sixtéene ounces of this decoction oile of Oliues thrée ounces Stronger Clisters shalt thou find elsewhere described Thou maist also make these or the like suppositories Take Coloquint Salamoniacke of each one dragme Oxe gall two dragmes sodden or boyled hony three ounces make them reasonable thicke and long they are very effectuall and strong Head-ach proceeding from emptinesse of the stomacke §. 5. IT befalleth oftentimes that this head-ach vexeth many euery day especially before they eate or drinke any thing and presently after meales departeth wherefore to auoide this emptinesse of the stomacke thou shalt euery morning take one bit of bread dipped in vineger or in the iuice of Pomgranates or veriuice The order of diet in hote head-aches THose that are troubled with a head-ach that procéedeth of heate must altogether abstaine from wine as hath bene alreadie said and not eate any flesh at all or very little for both of them do ingender much bloud Their meate must be thinges cold by nature as Lettice sodden and stewed Spinage Purslaine Panadoes broths béere and bread sodden together Apples and Peares stewed broths of veale of hens being sharpened with a litle veriuice Their drinke shall be small beere whay of milke Barley water with a little of the iuice of Pomegranates or Limons Of Cephalaea and Hemicrania certaine paines of the head §. 6. IF this head-ach do come with quicke and hastie puls and with heate then shall it séeme good first of all to purge the bodie and if the circumstances of the infirmitie permit it the patient shal vse this lenitiue medicine which is thus prepared Take of the greater and lesser Endiue Lettice of each one handfull Poppy heads two ounces séedes of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and of Pompions of each two dragmes grosly beaten halfe an ounce Violets Roses white and yellow Saunders of each two dragmes boyle them all in a sufficient quantitie of water till the third part be consumed then adde twelue ounces of Sugar boile it to the consistence of a sirupe and then clarifie it with the whites of egs Of this giue to the sicke one ounce and a halfe at once with the water of Borage or Endiue or Buglosse vse this thrée or foure times euery morning Because there is a great vse of sirupes in this booke How to make sirupes I will now shew and set downe the perfect order and way how to make and prepare them First sée thou haue fresh and cleare water with which thou wilt make thy sirupe put into it those things first which are hardest as rootes woods and such like let them boile as long as thou wouldest séeth a couple of egs then cast into it thy séedes grosly beaten then thy hearbes being cut after them thy flowers and Currants let them boile well together that their strength may come foorth and if Epithymus be one of the ingredients let it be put in last of all when it is sodden sufficiently adde thy hony or sugar vnto it and clarifie it with the whites of egs as hath bene taught in the Introduction namely in the clarifying of Sugar after this manner maist thou also deale in the purifying of hony But to come to the purpose againe thou shalt note that if the choler be supple and thin then shalt thou take sirupe of Endiue of Violets of water Lillies of each three drag admixed with the aboue named waters if the choler be grosse and thicke then take in stead of the sirupes the like quantitie of Oxysaccharū compos Rasis counselleth to giue this purgation after it Take Damaske Prunes ten drag sowre Dates one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water in this decoction steepe the rind or barke of yellow Mirobalans two dragm grosly beaten the next day strain and presse out all the liquor and giue three or foure ounces of it in the morning Others boyle Violets and water Lillies of each one ounce Stechas or French Lauander two ounces with halfe an ounce of Mirobalans this alwaies giue at the first They are both of them easie and safe purgations for which cause also it is found good sometimes according to néed to adde thrée graines of Diagridium to them or else to mixe with them of the conserue of Prunes or of Electuarium de succo Rosarum thrée dragmes Also in stead of the foresayd potion or drinke thou mayest vse this confection that followeth Take of both the confections before named of each halfe an ounce sirupe of water Lillies as much as sufficeth to mixe them withall and cast some Betonie rootes powdered and a little Sugar vpon it Likewise if thou hadst rather vse pils take two dragmes of Rubarbe Mastix one scruple Scammonie halfe a dragme make pils of them with the iuice of Rue or with wine and take a dragme at one time of them For the same purpose are sower Dates approued to be an especiall good remedie and may in this hot kinde of headache very safely with very great effect be adhibited But thou must take thrée or fower ounces of them at once as thou mayest behold their description and vertues in our Introductiō This manner
purge therefore both head and bodie in manner as followeth Take Sage Lauander gentle Bayberies wild Mints Hysope Marioram sweet Marioram garden Mints Calmus of each one M. seedes of Fennell Persley Sparage Endiue of each two dragmes Raisins Nux Pinea seedes of Melons of Pompions of Gourds and of Cucumbers Roses rootes of wild Smallage Annise seedes of each halfe an ounce Cubebs Pionie seedes Cloues Nutmegs of each a drag and a half Spikenard of India Ginger Cinnamom Pepper of each halfe a drag boyle these things in a sufficient quantitie of water then presse out all the moisture from them boile it the second time with honie or Sugar to the consistence of a sirupe This if thou wouldest haue to purge adde vnto it seedes of wild Saffron Hermodactils of each half an ounce Agaricke six dragmes Salt gem halfe one scruple Turbit two dragmes knit vp these togither in a little bag boyle them in the foresayd liquor Afterwards sharpen thy sirupe with the vineger of Squils as followeth Of this sirupe thou mayest giue one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once mingled with good wine or else with some other distilled waters that may serue to the same end thrée or fower dayes continually togither â—â—nell of Squiâ—omâ—â—â— The composition of the vineger of Squils is as followeth Take the Squill called in Latin Scilla take away the externall shels from it till thou come to the white these white ones take off by themselues seuerally with thy haÌ„d or else with a wooden Spattin or knife and not with iron for that is hurtful also leaue out the hart the innermost part of the Squill and take onely the middle white shiuers of it fasten all these on a thred that the one touch not the other and hang them vp to dry fortie dayes in a coole place and in the shade But this way that followeth is much better Take away all the vttermost parts vntill thou come to the white then wrap it vp in dow and bake it in an ouen afterwards part it in shiuers as before drie it as is already sayd Take of this dried Squils as much as thou wilt cut it into little péeces with a woodden or bene instrument put fower times as much vineger vpon it in a glasse and let it so continue fortie dayes in the sunne Hauing taken the foresayd potion as hath bin taught before thou shalt giue him Pillula Cochiae If thou wilt haue them strong take two dragmes of them Coloquint Bdellium of each one scruple make them into pils with the water of Sage of these giue but one dragme at one time bicause they be very strong to the same purpose likewise serue the pils Alephangina Aureae Aloes prepared being taken a dragme at once But if the sicke would rather take a potion than these pils Take Lauander gentle flowers of Borage and Buglosse Currans of each one ounce Basill séede one dragme Agarick Turbit of each one dragme boyle them in a sufficient potion of water vntill there remaine about ten ounces steepe in this liquor one ounce a halfe of the barkes of Mirobalans called Chebuli set it so in warme ashes all one whole night then presse it out hard and giue three ounces of it at once Also take Hiera picra Agarick of each one dragme Lauander Saffron of each one scruple Salt gem two graines mixe them with some broth that Nutmegs Sage hath bin boyled in In like manner mayest thou vse this that followeth Take honie of Roses sirupe of Stechas of each thrée dragmes Agarick Turbit of each two scruples Spica three graines prepared Turpentine halfe an ounce beaten to powder all what thou canst beate melt thy Turpentine in some hot broth when it is as cold that it may be drunken mixe the powders and sirupes with it giue it early in the morning This must be either diminished or augmented in qualitie according to the abilitie of the patient If the diseased can beare no kinde of Phisicke then vse this Clister Take Mallowes herbe Mercurie Dill Rue Bran of each one handfull boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of water take of Colatare twelue or sixtéene ounces mixe with it of Hiera picra of white Sugar of each halfe an ounce or somewhat more Salt two dragmes oyle of Dill and Rue of each one ounce and a halfe and minister it warme Gargarismes also are very good for this maladie bicause they draw forth a great deale of slime and filthinesse from the head Take Mastix Calmus Licorice Currans of each halfe an ounce Hissope Ireos of each two dragms Pellitorie of Spaine Saxifrage Ginger Mustard seedes of each one dragme beate them all togither and boyle them in fresh water vse it thrée or fower times a day warme Some do counsell to take a vomit of Radish water and Oxymell but it is not without some danger for that it doth oftentimes greatly disturbe the head otherwise it might do some good There are also diuers confections Electuaries made for the same which might warme and drie a cold and a moist braine Take conserue of Roses two ounces and a half conserue of Betonie one ounce and a half gréene Ginger half an ounce Cinnamom one dragme Cloues Annise seedes of each one dragme beate mixe them all togither and if it be too dry adde as much of the sirupe of Citrons vnto it as shall suffice or as much of any other sirupe Of this eâ—hibite euery morning the bignesse of a nut in quantitie Another Electuarie of life This is described by Paulus Riccius Paulus Riccius Phisitiâ—â— to the Emperour his Electuarie head Phisition to the Emperour Maximilian and is very comfortable for the head for it doth both warme and dry it Take Currans six ounces Licorice two dragmes boyle these in the waters of Buglosse Scabious and Betonie of each twelue ounces then straine it presse out all the humiditie in the which being yet warme stéepe one dragme of Rubarbe Lauander fiue graines being bound vp togither in a cloth put them togither in a pot and stop it close and boyle it a good while in a kettle with water presse it out and put into it as much Rubarbe and Spike as before letting them there remaine all a night presse it out againe as before and steepe in it the barkes of Mirobalans to wit Chebuli Indi Bellirici and yellow Mirobalans of each one ounce Emblici two dragmes boile them al togither and straine them through a linnen cloth then ad Sugar six ounces Manna two ounces and let it boyle to the consistence of a sirupe when it beginneth to coole mingle in it Cinnamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galingale Nutmegs of each one dragme Lagnum Paradisi halfe a dragme séedes of Fennell and Annise of each halfe an ounce mixe them well togither and reserue it in a gally pot This following is likewise greatly commended for the same Take conserue of Betonie thrée ounces and
Take Lettice Violet leaues pilled Barley Poppy heads the rootes of Mandragora the white water Lillies of each a handfull Henbane séede Poppy seede Lettice séede of each one quarter of an ounce Cammomill Melilot and Mallowes of each halfe a handfull let this séeth togither in water Take Cassia wood one dragme Opium two dragmes and Saffron one dragme make a powder thereof and at the most take one scrupe thereof let it stéepe in Vineger and Rose water annoint the temples with it it is very strong and safe In like manner wil be for this amongst the common things Oxyrrhodinum vsed whereof some stand described in the first Chapter and second § A Salue TAke one ounce of Poplar salue oile of Violets halfe an ounce Henbane séedes the rootes of Mandragora of each halfe a drag Saffron Cassia wood of each one scrup temper this together the sléepe was woont also to be procured with this following binding it about the necke and to lay it vpon mens priuities and womens breasts Take cold water and Rosewater of each fiue ounces vineger one ounce and a halfe wet a double linnen cloth therein and lay it ouer it Item take herbes of cold natures as Willow leaues water Lillies Vine leaues and Lettice séethe them in water and wash the foresaid place also the hands and féete therwith This doth also to set the hands and feete in cold water A potion and such like to procure sleepe TAke white Poppie séedes halfe an ounce rootes of Mandragora Henbane séede of each halfe a dragme vnbeaten Saffron foure graines stampe them all together and bind them in a cloth and then lay them in stéepe in fiue ounces of the water of water Lillies the space of sixe howers afterwards wring it out and giue it to the sicke person two howers before supper or dinner from one ounce vnto thrée ounces according to the importance of the sicknesse and abilitie of the patient Item take water Lillies twelue ounces Opium one drag stéepe them together in thrée pints of Malmsey the space of 24. howers then cast therein one quarter of an ounce of Salt white beaten Poppie séedes halfe an ounce Henbane séedes one quarter of an ounce Lettice seede thrée drag distill the same in séething water whereof you are to giue going to bed from halfe a drag vnto a drag This is strong inough for to cause the patient to sleepe sixe howers wine doth also prouoke sleepe if one drinke somewhat excessiuely in like sort also wine of Wormwood yet that driueth away heauie dreames A confection and what else may be taken TAke conserue of Violets and water Lillies of each one ounce white Poppie séedes white Henbane séedes of each halfe an ounce Ginger thrée dragmes temper this together and when you go to bed then take the bignesse of a Hasell nut rather more than lesse the Ginger is put thereto to the end that his power might penetrate Another Take white Poppie séedes Endiue séedes Lettice séedes and Purslaine séedes of each two ounces Melon séede pilled Pompion seede Gourd séedes and Cucumber seedes of each a drag and a halfe Mandragora apples one ounce and one quarter Saffron Cammomill Dill seede of each one drag and a halfe Lignum Aloes one drag Sugar twelue ounces honie of Violets sixe ounces the Sugar and honie you are to séeth in the water of water Lillies vntill it be thicke when it is almost cold temper the other beaten small amongst it and vse it as before from one quarter of an ounce vnto halfe an ounce It is good for franticke persons to annoint the forehead the temples the nose and the pulse veines therewith or to take it with the water of Lettice one hower after meate Another not so strong TAke white Poppie séede thrée quarters of an ounce the séedes of Violets of Lettice of Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce pilled Melon séede Pompion séedes Gourd séedes Cucumber séede of each halfe a drag Sugar one quarter of an ounce temper this as thicke as you will haue it with the sirupe of Poppie séedes Here may you sée that Poppie séedes are vsed almost in all receipts for the sléepe likewise all that is made of Poppie is good to procure sléepe as the confection Diapapauer Loch de papauere Syrupus de papauere and Diacodion A powder Take Lettice seede and white Poppie séede of each halfe an ounce Endiue séede Henbane séede and Ginger of each one drag Sugar foure ounces make a powder thereof But if all these things will not helpe then must Opium of necessitie be vsed to the end that nature may get some rest But with what prouidence this is to be vsed that do all experienced Phisitions sufficiently know without whose counsell the same is not to be done Of the ouerheated children when they awake out of sleepe TAke water Lillies or Purslaine Willow leaues Vine leaues and Poppie séede with the heads of each one handfull let these séethe together in a pot of water when it is then lukewarme set the child his féete therein and stroke him well downwards likewise also from the shoulders to the elbow This ensuing is much more safe and expert than any thing else annointed on the temples of the head Item make a cloth wet in his mothers milke or if the same be not to be had in warme Goates milke lay thereof vpon the forehead and on the temples of the head it cooleth well and also causeth to sléepe Of Mania another kind of franticknesse which we commonly called Madnesse §. 7. IT is discouered how that the Mania is a mad Phrenesis without an ague and is described by the learned and defined after diuers manners which are méete to be here rehearsed Mania some say is a distemperature of the vnderstanding which altereth the right and reasonable thoughts with losse of voice of wit and of iudgement which were good in health Other say thus This Mania is a dottage or madnesse and therfore a disease of the mind which no otherwise distempereth the mind but as any other sicknesse of the bodie whereby can be no health In fine it is such a Melancholia in case that it begin to roote in one that they become raging mad and must be bound yea the common sort thinke no otherwise but that he is possessed with a spirit The chiefest signes of Mania be these vnstedfastnesse alterations in words and déedes done without sense or reason like as much talke and prating much waking leaping great troubles and such like But if they be caused of a cholerike Melancholia then is the patient the more vnquiet and so much the more inclined to chiding calling and great madnesse but if it be mixt with burnt bloud then do they only rage and hold also their peace otherwhiles the which cometh straight way againe afterwards with so wonderfull much talke that they are hardly induced to hold their peace they will be leane ouer all their bodie they haue heauie dreames spet out
conceits of the mind vnto our friend also there is nothing else in which we differ from brute beasts but onely in the voice We will not speake of any weake voices which are caused of some long sicknes for we haue already written of them before in the thirtéenth chapter But we purpose only to treate of those things that do corrupt or spoyle the voyce as of hoarsnesse and such like If the voyce be decayed of a cold cause then drinke halfe a drag of beaten cubebs at your lying downe sodden in thrée ounces of the decoction of Guaiacum The common people thinke it a good experiment to stéepe Horstongue in wine and to drinke the same But the tabulats of Diaireos are especially commended which are made as followeth Diaireos Take Ireos halfe an ounce Penniroyall Hyssope Licorice of each thrée drag Dragagant bitter Almonds Pine apple kernels Cinamom Ginger Pepper of each one drag and a half figs dates Currans of each fiue scrup red Styrax three scrup and a halfe and for euery ounce of this powder take twelue ounces of Sugar cut the fruits small beate all the rest and make tabulats or an Electuary of them This is called at the Apotheries Diaireos Salomonis Another Take Ireos halfe an ounce Sugarcandy and the abouenamed spices without Sugar two dragmes Sugar twelue ounces boyle it in the water of Hyssop vntill it be thick then make tabulats of it Both these kinds of Diaireos are good for the cough proceeding of a cold rheume and for a whéesing breath Of Hoarsnesse §. 1. THis hoarsnesse proceedeth of many and sundry causes but especially of cold and sharp humors that fall out of the head into the throte and there make it dry whereof shall be spoken at large when we shall speake of the infirmities of the throte we will now only shew what is conuenient for the roughnesse and hoarsnesse of the same for the which Sugarcandy holden in the mouth very often is very commodious also the confectiō Diatragacanthum whereof there be two sorts to wit the hot and the cold which may be made as hereafter followeth The cold Electuary of Diatragacanthum TAke white Dragagant one ounce gum Arabeck fiue drag Starch two drag Licorice péeled Melon seeds Gourds séeds Cucumber and Pompeon séeds of each one drag Campher fiue graines sugar pennets one ounce and a half beate them to powder If thou wilt make tabulats of it then take of this powder one ounce of the best Sugar twelue ounces boile it in water of Violets as it behoueth This confection is also very good for all infections of the lights and of the breast which do procéed of heate and drouth and especialy for them that are declining to a consumption and them that haue a dry cough doth it much helpe The hote confection of Diatragacanthum TAke Dragagant Hyssop of each two ounces pine apple kernels swéet Almonds and Linséed of each three drag Fenegréeke Cinnamom of each two drag iuice of Licorice Ginger of each one drag make it into an electuary or confection as before This is very good for them that haue a tough and slimy cough and that cannot get vp any thing also for all them that haue a whéesing and short breath and that are subiect to a consumption Take Iuiubes boyle them in water stéepe Cotton seeds in it and hold them in thy mouth a long time it hath a maruellous operation in all hoarsnesse drought and roughnesse of the throate Amongst all other things that haue bin found good by experience the tabulats of Diatragacanth are much conmended wherefore euery night when you go to bed shall you dissolue one of them in swéet wine adding halfe a scruple of Saffron vnto it and drinke them all together this hath cured many men of an inueterate hoarsnesse A good potion Take fiue pints of water half a pint of hony sixe Figs one ounce of Currans two drag of Licorice boyle one pint of it away and scum it well drinke euery morning fasting a good cupfull warme you shall also temper or mixe your wine with it This potion is also very commodiously vsed against the cough Hony of Roses is also very good for all drouth and hoarsnes of the throate for it moisteneth and easeth it In like maner also the conserue of Roses oile of sweet Almonds sirupe of Violets and Hony water which commonly allayeth all roughnesse of the throte But if this hoarsnesse procéed of a cold rheume then is Fennell seed very profitably vsed howsoeuer it be adhibited but for this purpose are confected Cumin séeds Caru◠and confected Almonds much better Likewise whatsoeuer shall be written hereafter in the second part of this booke for the cough may also be vsed in this infirmity How to make a cleere voice §. 2. ONions and Garlicke as also the Hyssop wine are much commended for to make a cléere and good voyce also the tabulats called Diaireos Nicolai This electuary following is also much commended for this purpose Take Cabbage séeds Hyssope Elecampane rootes Fole foote rootes of the Flower deluce Horehound of each half an ounce Annis séeds Fennel séeds Ameos Cubebs Aristology of each one drag and a halfe Oxymel compositum Sirupus de Prassio of each thrée ounces Sugar pennets thrée drag Pineapple kernels that haue bin infused in Vine cuict two dayes foure ounces Saffron one drag clarified hony twelue ounces temper it to a confection or electuary Take of this in the morning halfe an ounce with two ounces of the decoction of Nettle rootes If it be not too much trouble for you take one halfe of it in the morning and the other halfe at night mixed with a little Sugar This may be vsed for all harshnes and hoarsnesse of the throte The water may you alter or change according to the quality of the disease And so we end the first part of this our Booke The second part of this Practise of Phisicke Containeth the Breast THe Anatomici by deuiding mans body into the outward and inward members do affirme the second part of the same to begin in the vppermost part next vnder the Head thence to extend it selfe downewards vnto the Midriffe which is a skin that parteth the Heart and the Lights from the Belly This part maketh shew outwardly of very few members to wit of the Necke of the Breast Ribs Shoulders and vpper parts of the Backe and containeth inwardly two of the principallest members as the Heart and Lights of the which and of the diseases of the same and how they are to be holpen shall now be shewne The first Chapter Of the Necke THere is none other disease to be séene in the Necke outwardly then a swelling or tumor which is called Bronchocele the which either commeth by nature or else of some outward cause the same chanceth also sometimes to swell inwardly although that commonly depend and is caused of the first swelling Of Bronchocele §. 1. IF any man haue this tumor in the throte by
Take Hyssope and Venus haire of each two handfuls pilled Melon seedes Pompion seedes Gourd seedes Cucumber seedes Butchers broome seede Sperage seedes Lineseede and Fenegreeke seedes of each one drag good vineger half an ounce cut and powne all that is to be cut and powned let them seeth all together To this decoction put thrée ounces of clarified Honie nine ounces of Sugar then make thereof a sirupe this is passing good when the Phlegma is thicke and tough But if you will not make a sirupe for it then take common sirupe to wit of Venus haire of Licorice or Hyssope but the sirupe of Licorice is maruellously commended for this For a purgation take Violets Buglosse flowers and Burrage flowers of each one ounce Licorice Currans of each two ounces two or three Figs Agaricus one dragme and a halfe let all these stéepe and séeth together take foure ounces thereof and temper therewith thrée dragms of the confection Eleschoph and then drinke it at one draught When you haue purged then annoint the paine with the oyle of Dill or oyle of Lillies afterwards seeth Cammomill and Venus haire in water and vineger in a bag straine it out and then lay it warme vpon the paine Item take Barly and Pease of each one ounce and a halfe Branne one handfull beate them grosse and make thereof a bag of a quarter of a yard broade seeth it and vse it as aboue Thirdly take Myly and Salt as much as you will warme it together in a pan put it into a bag and lay it warme thereon especially if the matter be windy Of the Pleurisie of Melancholia §. 9. BVt if this disease procéed of Melancholia which chanceth seldome then straine the iuice of one handfull of Burrage and Buglosse and being clarified giue it him with the foresaid sirupe For purging take black Hellebore Thime Epythimus the rootes of Polipodie Sene leaues and such like euen as in the description of Melancholie in the first part the twelfth Chapter and eight § is taught When as the sicke person beginneth to cough vp phlegme then it is necessarie that he vse to drinke for it euery day of common Barly water a good draught of the decoction which here before in the cold Rheume in the second Chapter is expressed and beginneth thus Take twentie Iuiubes c. which cleanseth the breast And if the great pricking and shooting remaine and he do cough with paine then is the patient to drink of this potion following three or foure mornings together Take tenne fat Figs fat Dates Smallage séede Fennell séedes Venus haire Licorice Hyssop and Mallowes of each fiue dragmes séeth them all together in sixe and thirtie ounces of water to the halfe and trouble not your selfe therein albeit the patient should cough vp matter or corruption Of the bastard or false Pleurisie §. 10. WE haue mentioned heretofore of the false Pleurisie in the fifth § and made her nature knowne If the patient haue plenty of bloud then is his Saphaea or liue◠veine to be opened Afterwards set vpon the place of the stitch a cup or boxe or twaine with pricking or according as the humors in that sicknesse do raigne as bloud Cholera Flegma or Melancholia do excéede and afterwards purge and vse stronger Clisters than for the true Pleurisie were prescribed But in case that the patient féele this stitch about the Diaphragma then open the Median and vse the foresaid warming things that deuide the matter let the place be often rubbed with a hand or cloth that thereby the pores may be opened This being done then lay this plaister following therupon Take two ounces of Fenegreeke meale and Pitch three ounces Waxe one ounce most them both and mingle the meale amongst it with oyle of Cammomill to a plaister which you may spread on Leather and couer it with silke and so lay it on the stitch But if the Ague be not too big then may you vse thereto the Oxycroceum plaister Item take the ashes of Colewoorts tempered with Pullets or Swines grease But if the anguish shew it selfe outwardly and yet wil impostume but slowly then must the same be opened be it with an hote iron or with a Lancet What doth loose phlegme that shal be set downe hereafter in the description of the cough of the shortnes breath whether it proceed of heate or cold But if the phlegme that at the first shall be coughed vp be blacke and yellow together one amongst another and that the Ague end not on the seuenth day then it is a very bad signe if therewith be any heauie ratling in the throte with rednes of the cheekes lead coloured and darke eyes then is death at hand When the Pleurisie sheweth it selfe outwardly IF the Pleurisie shew it selfe outwardly with any rednesse and the partie feeleth great paine in the touching of it then it is a certaine token of a false and bastard Pleurisie that is setled outwardly on the ribs For the same is a cup or boxe to be set thereon or to lay a blistering plaister of Figs and Mustard séeds and let it lye thereon so long vntill the place begin to impostumate and then open it and heale it like as other impostumes But if the matter waxe hard then it is to be maturated with this plaister following Take Hollihocke leaues one handfull Cammomill Melilot and violet leaues of each halfe a handfull Fenegréeke seede and Linséed beaten small of each halfe an ounce Beane meale and Barly meale of each two handfuls oile of swéet Almonds oile of Dill and of Violets of each one ounce then temper the one with the other and so lay it on the place Hereafter follow plaisters and salues that asswage the stitch and pain be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull séeth them together to pap and then stamp them together with oile of Violets and Barowes grease and so lay it on the sore but let it not lie too long theron that the matter be not maturated too soone Item take oile of yellow Violets two ounces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and oile of Cammomill of each halfe an ounce fresh Butter one ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe white Waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill seede Cammomill Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce and thrée yolks of Egs make thereof a salue or plaister This poultis following doth much asswage the paine take Branne as much as you please séeth it in Wine vnto a pap and put thereto a little Salt Another Take vnripe Sallad oyle thrée ounces foure fresh yolks of Egs Saffron one drag new oile of Roses one ounce and a halfe seeth it a while and set it on warme ashes and stirre well amongst it the beaten yolkes of Egs put afterwards vnto it Starch and Barly meale of each one drag and a halfe and last of all the Saffron if you will haue it more forcible then put fresh Butter to it and Bdellium of
fresh Butter wherin Almonds and Sugar are mixed stewed Gourds Iuiubes Spinage Endiue Lettice Purslaine oile of swéet Almonds Kids flesh Pullets and such like It is also good that the patient alwaies keepe somewhat in his mouth sometimes one thing and otherwhiles another to wit losinges of Dragagant Sugar pennets Licorice the iuice of Licorice Sugar candy or such like and for this you may prepare this confection following ℞ Specierum Diapapauere vnciam vnam Diatragacanthi frigidi Diapenidionis sine speciebus 〈◊〉 dragmam vnam Sacchari violarum vncias duas Species Diaireos vnciam vnam fiat mixtura Or take that which followeth Take Poppie séede beaten small one ounce and a quarter Starch Dragagant and Gum of each halfe an ounce pilled séedes of Gourds and of Quinces of each thrée dragmes then make thereof a powder Item take Sugar pennets sixteene ounces séeth it with water of Folefoote vnto the thicknes of honie or somewhat stiffer and take thereof oftentimes in the mouth Item take a little pan and frie Currans therein stirring them still about that they burne not and eate thereof euery morning a full spoonefull Item take halfe an ounce of Manna dissolue it in fresh oyle of sweet Almonds if there be any drest therin strain them thorough oftentimes For this also is meete a bath of faire water wherein are decocted Violets Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes Because that this kind of drie Cough hath neede of moisture and mellowing potions for which these things are noted downe Take of the blacke losinges and temper them with the sirupe of Violets and with the foresaid decoction and drink therof as often as you wil it is maruellous good And you may also vse it with the sirupe alone Item take new milke temper it with sweet butter and sugar and drinke when you go to sleepe it easeth the Cough aboue all measure Or take foure pints of water and the fourth part of a pint of honie sixe Figs cut smal one ounce of Licorice seeth them together vnto a pint scum it well and drinke thereof euery morning a good warme draught and delay also the patients wine therewith This is also maruellous good against all hoarsnesse Another Temper faire Well water with any of these sirupes following and drinke thereof to wit with sirupe of Violets of Poppie heads or of water Lillies Item take Barly water one pint séeth therein foure or fiue Crabs according as they be big or in their stead hedge Snailes for they are speciall good against all drie Coughes This potion following is called at the Apothecaries Decoctio pectoralis The pectoral decoction and is much vsed and had in all the Apothecaries shops at Ausborough and also very commodious for it scoureth the stomacke melloweth the Cough cleanseth the tough slime in the breast and moisteneth also the same Take new Figs half an ounce Dates and Iuiubes of each one quarter of an ounce Mallowes Hyssope Currans sliced Licorice Annis séede Fennell séeds and Barly of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in thrée pints of Barley water vnto the second part but if there be much flegmaticke slime with it then let there be sodden therewith one ounce or twaine of Honie The like remed haue you also here before in the second Chapter and the second § Of that which may be vsed outwardly TAke Cammomils alone or with Roses and Thime sodden together and receiue the vapor or fume thereof into your nose Hereafter follow diuers Salues and such like TAke the muscilage of Dragagant and of Gumme of each one quarter of an ounce oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each one ounce Hens grease and Calues marrow of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedefull to make a salue Or take oile of Violets foure ounces as much white waxe as will make it thicke spread thereof vpon a cloth and then lay it vpon the breast Item take the muscilage of Lineséede and of Hollihock rootes oyle of Lillies and Goosegrease of each halfe an ounce Saffron ten grains and a little molten Waxe make a soft salue of them and therewith annoint the whole breast This is speciall good for young children and not vnprofitable for people in yeares The things hereafter following are excéeding good to annoint therewith the breast if so be it be vsed alone or tempered with other things like as the oile of Cammomils oile of yellow and blew Violets oile of Lillies and Poppie heads Item all fat of Hens and Ducks of which two fats take one ounce of Saffron one scruple tempered together and the breasts annointed therewith There are at the Apothecaries two kinds of brest salues which are called Vnguenta Pectoralia Take muscilage of Fleawoort Dragagant Gumme Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each one dragme Hens grease marrow of Calues bones fresh Butter thrée quarters of an ounce washed together with the water of Violets oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as néede requireth and so tempered all together into a salue This swageth not only the Cough but also all paines of the breast Another Take oile of Violets two ounces oile of swéet Almonds one ounce and a halfe fresh Butter two ounces Ducks grease one ounce Muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Linséede and Fenegréeke of each halfe an ounce let these seeth all together vntill that the muscilage be consumed Take molten white Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue but stirre it well about vntill it be cold this hath the same operation with the other Of a moyst and cold Cough §. 6. VVHen the Cough commeth with much slime and moisture and will not be remoued and that therewith be no Ague nor Lask then are these losinges following to be giuen him with water wherein Venus haire and Hyssope is sodden Take Fennell séede Smallage seed iuice of Licorice Venus haire and péeled Almonds of each a like much make trocisces or losinges thereof with the muscilage of Linséede You are also to prepare these Sirupes following which are passing good Take Ireos and Elecampane rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Hyssope and Venus haire of each two handfuls white Mints Pimpernell Mallowes Marioram of each halfe a handfull fried Linséed one ounce raw Barly one ounce and a halfe Licorice Currans of each two ounces Hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces make of them a sirupe For this is also méet the vsuall sirupe of Licorice also Stechados Oxymel of Squils and sirupe of Venus haire three or foure dayes one after another with water of Venus haire or Scabious drunken When as then the matter is prepared with the foresaid things then purge the patient with pils Cochiae and Aureae of each halfe a drag Or take one ounce of Cassie Agaricus one drag and a halfe Turbith also one dragme Sal gemmae and Ginger of each three graines giue it him with foure ounces of water wherein are sodden Venus haire Hyssope Scabious Licorice
breast be much then teÌ„per amongst it Trociscos de Agarico or giue him the powder thereof to drinke in like manner also Rubarb with Spica of Indie with Cinnamom or Squinant according to the importance of the cause Old folkes may vse this as well as yong children How commodious the Cassia is for all sore Coughs is sufficiently declared in our Introduction But for this paine in the breast it is néedefull that it be tempered with Agarick or some other thing according to the qualitie of the sicknesse But for this is especiall heede to be taken for women with child that it be not giuen them without great cause bicause it maketh paine or ache in the belly Item take Sulphur vise two graines temper it with a little Hony and so take it in for it is maruellous good There is also to be had ready at some Apothecaries a costly compound Trociscos de Sulphure Trocisci de sulphure Adulphi or called Adulphi and is thus prepared take losinges of Cole Dragagant Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce Ginger two scruples Licorice thrée dragmes Ireos one scruple Hyssop Nettle seede Rosemary floures Saffron and Sulphur vife of each seuen graines mixe it with Looch sanum and forme trocisces thereof take a little of it letting it melt alone in the mouth and vse it often They make also a Confection of Brimstone take Sulphur vife one scruple mixe it with fresh Butter and Muscilage of Linseede or Elecampane one ounce take thereof often and a little at once The Confection of Foxe lights that is Looch de pulmone Vulpis is aboue all other remedies Looâ—h de pulmone Vulpis for the Asthma which is a shortnes of breath very much commended for it is not only good for a sore Cough and short breath but it healeth and cleanseth all vlcers of the breast and Lights And for the consumption it excelleth all other remedies is made thus Take prepared Foxe lights the iuice of Licorice Annis séede Fennell seede and Venus haire of each halfe an ounce clarified Sugar seuen ounces and a halfe beate these togither and decocted with Sugar in the water of Folefoote leaues temper it into a confection Hereafter follow some good Potions for this shortnesse of breath Take Sebestes Figs and Dates of each fower Venus haire Violets Currans and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce white Poppy seede one ounce Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Annis seed Fennell Agrimonie Hyssope of each one ounce 20. Iuiubes Sugar or Hony fiue ounces thrée or foure pintes of water let this séeth togither vntill the third part be sodden away straine the liquor through a cloth and put the Sugar thereto or hony and let it seeth againe vntill it be cleare IteÌ„ take 3. quarters of an ounce of Figs Dates Horehound Smallage seed Fennel Roses Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice of each fiue dragmes seeth them as before or to the halfe The common people may seeth water with hony and Hyssope as the shortnesse of breath beginneth to lessen he must lay one dragme of Agaricus in the water of Betonie and Hyssope to steepe and temper amongst it some hony of Roses and so drinke it togither Also the common Meade and Sugar water is good to drinke Another Potion Take a pinte and halfe of white wine steepe therein one handfull of Horehound let it seeth togither vntill the third part straine it and put thereto sixe ounces of clarified Hony let it seeth a little togither and scum it diligently whereof the patient is to drinke euery day two or three ounces Some do take three ounces of Hony and do melt therin half an ounce of Turpentine washt or as much Oxymel Both are good and sure A maruellous good medicine which is highly esteemed in Turky Take the liuer of a Wolfe the Milt Lights and braines salt well the braines and take of these fower of each a like much let them be dried well that they may be powned Giue the patient thereof one quarter of an ounce with a little fresh broth three daies one after another in the morning fasting and let him fast afterwards fiue or sixe houres The sicke partie must take his drinke through the Wolfes throate when this is so done they report that they which vse the same be from thenceforth fréed of it all the yeare following but if it returne not within one twelue moneth that then it will neuer come againe And if he had this sicknesse any more afterwards they aduise that one should make a lace of the Wolfes maw and weare the same all his life time on his naked bodie for thereby should he be certainely fréed of this sicknesse But to trie these things is the best way Water distilled of Elecampane or broth wherein it is decocted is very good and chiefly if it be mingled therewith Hereafter are some things described which the diseased may hold vnder his tongue without chewing as big as a beane and swallow it downe by little and little Take Looch de Pino one ounce and a halfe Sugar pennets halfe an ounce powne them together Item take Looch de Farfaria called ad Asthma as much as you thinke méete and as much powned Hollihock rootes make a hard confection thereof with prepared honie or sugar And if any do resist these weake things then shall he in the stead thereof vse Diapenidion described in this Chapter and 6. § And if it happen as it woonteth often that the sicke person by reason of this cough cannot sléepe then is he once or twice a wéeke to take this potion when he goeth to bed Take placents of Ireos one dragme the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple temper it with one ounce and a half of Hyssop water and at the same time strew on the top of the patients head this powder following Take Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce Cloues one drag Mace two scruples Roses water Lillies Violets and Poppie heads of each half a drag Lignum Aloes one scruple stampe each a part and temper them together Plaisters or Vnguents for this Asthma TAke fat Dates and Figges of each one ounce Mallowes Hollihocke leaues of each three handfuls rootes of Mallowes and of Hollihockes of each halfe an ounce cut them to péeces and boile them together into a pappe mixe Pigeon dung amongst it Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce the muscilage of Linséede and of Fenegréeke as much as is needfull for to make a mild plaister lay it warme vpon the breast the same doth also the fatte shéepes wooll Item take Comfrey rootes broad and narrow Plantaine Purslaine and Henbane choppe them small and séeth them together in the waters of Plantaine and Purslaine vntill it be thick beaten well and mixt with Pomegranate pils Acorne cups Galles and Myrtle séede which haue bene stéeped eight howers in warme water then strained out hard and powred to the rest and boiled vnto a little afterwards mingle it with
héere mention some moe things that are very commodious for the panting of the hart like as fragrant things which are of a cold nature as Violets water Lillies Roses all Saunders Corrall Perle Campher Harts bones Iacints Smaragdes shauen Iuorie Amber Coriander the iuice of Limons Rose water odoriferous fruites Quinces Peares Apples and their like Amongst compounds are the confection of Orange pils and their sirupe the confection of Citrons and their sirupes conserue of Buglosse Roses Violets Burrage confected Cherries and their sirupes the flowres and rootes of Cicorie confected sirupe of Sorrell Burrage wine and Cherie wine the Tabulats of Diamargariton Diarrhodon Abbatis Dragagant and Manus Christi with perles but the Phisitions do ordaine many compounded medicines as hereafter do follow The laxatiue sirup of Roses is specially commended if there be any stopping of the belly for it cooleth and diuerteth all ill vapors from the hart whereby the hart is much pained There are also made for this many confections according to the importance of the patient whereof there follow some hereafter Take conserue of Roses halfe an ounce conserue of Buglosse two ounces conserue of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce Perles Iacints Smaragdes Citron séede Sorrell séede and red Corrall of each one dragme red white and yellow Saunders prepared Coriander burnt Iuorie red and white Behen Harts bones stéeped in Rose water of each halfe a dragme filed Gold and Siluer of each two scruples Gold and Siluer leaues of each xv Sugar one ounce and a halfe beate them all small together and temper it with Rose water but not on the fire Item take the iuice of sweete Apples and of Buglosse which is cleare and setled of each two ounces Doronicum Citron pils Burrage floures Roses shauen Iuorie of each halfe an ounce Basill séedes halfe an ounce Mirtle leaues Balme Coriander Cinnamome Galingall Seduary Spike Lignum Aloes burnt silke and Saffron of each one quarter of an ounce small filed Gold and Siluer of each two dragmes and a halfe red and white Behen burnt Harts horne Mace Galliae Muscatae Amber Harts bones red Saunders of each thrée dragmes of all Mirobalans of each halfe an ounce Smaragdes Berill Iacincts Saphires Granates which be prepared of each one dragme Perles thrée dragmes Amber and Campher of each halfe a scruple Muske one dragme make a powder thereof and to euery ounce of powder put twelue ounces of Sugar dissolue the Sugar in Rose water and séethe it for to make Tabulates thereof or a confection This confection is of a temperate nature very forcible for all swouning and maladies of the hart These two next following are cooling Take conserue of Roses Buglosse Burrage of each one ounce Species de Gemmis and Rubies of each one scruple Harts bones péeled Citron seede of each 10. graines sirup of Apples as much as you desire to make it soft vse thereof in the morning two howres before meate The other Take conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce Species Triasandalon burnt Iuorie Sorrell séedes peeled Melon seede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber séede Limon seede and Oxysacchara of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar halfe an ounce Perles two scruples thrée leaues of beaten Gold mixe it with the sirupe of Apples vnto a confection And if this panting of the hart come too often then giue of this powder following halfe a dragme tempered with Rose water and water of Buglosse Take red Corrall Iacinct Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines small filed Gold thrée graines Perles halfe a drag temper them together and put thereto a spoonefull of white Vineger make a potion thereof Item take red Corrall Perles Iacincts and Smaragdes all together prepared of each one scrup giue therof half a drag with some kind of distilled water Restoratiue waters of Capons are very requisite for this which must be thus prepared Boyle the Capon in water wherein hath diuers times gold béene quenched chop it afterwards in peeces and put thereto flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets Roses Citron péeles Cinnamome Cloues Balme and Saffron of each one dragme If you cannot get all these then take as many of them as you can get and distill them all togither with flesh and broth in hot water and then when any body is very feeble giue him a meetely draught thereof it strengtheneth not only the Hart but the stomacke also maruellous much There is also another made with spices as followeth When the Capon is made cleane then stampe him with bones and flesh in a mortar afterwards powre it into a glasse helme Borage Balme Endiue Fennell and Rose water of each two ounces then put thereto the stampt Capon Item put more thereto the water of Wormwood and of Comfery of each one ounce Spec. de gemmis Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton the cold Cinnamome Lignum Aloes of each one scrup distill them all togither as before Moreouer there is another Capon water to be distilled as followeth Take an old Capon that is made cleane put thereto fower quarts of water let them seethe well togither then pull off the skin and the fatnes and then breake him all to péeces and distill water thereof as before You are to salt this water so that it may last the better without stinking You haue also here before in the fift Chapter in the 22. § a precious water which strengtheneth the Hart woonderfull much the which may be also vsed for the same Sirupe of Apples We haue often here before admonished of the sirupe of Apples which is thus made Take the iuice of sweete and sower Apples of each fiue ounces seethe it to the halfe scumming it then let it stand two daies to settle put thereto thrée ounces of Sugar and then séethe them togither vnto a sirupe Another Take the iuice of the best tasting swéete and sower Apples of each twelue ounces séethe it vntill it be well scummed then put thereto sixe ounces of Sugar and let it séethe togither to a sirupe These sirupes strengthen the weake panting Hart preserue one from swouning and strengthen the stomacke Item take Rose water the iuice of sower Apples and water of Buglosse of each thrée ounces seethe these togither to a sirupe or to a Iulep For this is also good many kindes of accustomed sirupes as the sirupe of vineger and of Limons of Raspes Violets water Lillies veriuice Sorrell Borage and Buglosse also Iulep of Violets and Roses the which are to be found in the first Register by their names Confections and Powders for to vse inwardly TAke Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromatici rosati de gemmis and prepared Coriander of each thrée dragmes prepared Bloodstone one drag and a halfe Trocisci de Spodio cum semine acetosae two scruples shauen Iuorie halfe a drag Harts bones halfe a scruple prepared Pearles fower scruples Granadoes Iacints Smaragdes Rubies Saphires Corall and Roses of each one scruple Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces temper
Melon séed Pompeon séed Cucumber seed and péeled Gourd seed of each one dragme sower Dates one ounce Violets halfe an ounce séeth these all together except the Dates and breake them into this decoction it is very good for the breast and cooleth naturally take of it thrée ounces Rubarb two scruples Spica foure graines conserue of Prunes halfe an ounce temper these well together and drinke it warme and fast thereupon the space of sixe houres The same day lay vpon the rupture sixe ounces of greene Nightshade but if you cannot get it then take dried Roses and broad Plantaine of each two ounces Linseed sodden in vineger twelue ounces barly meale fiue ounces oile of Roses foure ounces let all these séeth together vnto a thick pap by a mild fire treatably and then lay this vpon it twice a day Item take water of Endiue Nightshade barly water and beane water of each a like much temper amongst it a litle saffron and oile of Roses make it wet in a cloth and lay it theron Or take Barly meale Lentil meale Beane meale and Violets of each a like much temper these all together with the iuice of the herbe of winter Cheries vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as aboue But if so be that the paine of this accident wil not stanch then powne Henbane amongst it The third day must two cups be set behind on the buttocks and that at such time as the patient hath least paine letting them draw much bloud His meates must be cooling and drying as Veriuice the iuice of Pomegranats c. His drinke must be sower and thin wine This is also to be noted that this kind of rupture is of that nature that it may be cured in eight dayes But the rupture which is caused of phlegmatick humors is much more common and they that gladly haunt strange women are more subiect to these ruptures Also all they that liue riotously eate hard meates and haue sate vpon a cold stone with their naked body which may be knowne through the coldnesse of the disease when it beginneth to mollifie and when one doth thrust his finger into it that the dent of the finger tarieth a good while in it which in the windy rupture nor in the water rupture hapneth not to be Also the place is not perspicuous and the swelling remaineth at a stay This disease is to be cured with these purgations following Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger one dragme white sugar thrée dragmes temper them together of this must the patient euery fourth day take one dragme with Wormewood water and betwéen them must he euery morning take this potion Take water of Balme Betony and Wormewood of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar halfe an ounce Vineger of Squils one ounce mixe them together Now for to strengthen the parts wherein the phlegmatick humor ingendreth it is very good euery morning to take one dragme of Treacle which is ten yéeres old This plaister following is also maruellous good for to consume all such matter Take Sandaraca two ounces Sarcocolla one ounce ashes of Beane straw or Vine stockes sixe ounces Vineger of Squils two ounces as much water as is néedful let these séeth together vnto the thicknesse of a plaister and lay it vpon the sore as aboue Some do take in steed of common ashes the ashes of Saponaria which may be well done Of the fleshie Rupture §. 6. THis rupture may also ingender of good bloud for that the nourishing operation doth works so vehemently therein that the bloud turneth into flesh It may also be caused through great heate of the cods When as then this excrescence of the flesh doth much increase then will this member be much féebled and the new flesh which at the first was not hurtfull will be vtterly destroyed This excrescence of flesh or fleshy rupture is first of all knowne for that therewith is no paine at all The heate is to be knowne by the rednesse of the place where the disease appéereth and by the hardnesse it is also knowne for that it agreeth with other flesh Lastly it is also to be discerned and knowne by the speedy increasing by reason that sometimes it will be as big as ones head The outward causes of the fleshy rupture are all that ouerheate and ouermoisten whereby the bloud inflameth and will be fat euen as all delicate meates yolks of egs good fresh broth swéet Wines Dates Sugar and all that is drest therewith and such like For to remedy this first the Liuer veine or the Median is to be opened and that at seuerall times first one then another Secondly you must looke to open the hemorrhoides in the fundament through continual rubbing it with Oxe gall or with water wherein Sulphur vif is decocted Thirdly through often applying great cups vpon the buttocks hips and other fleshy parts He must eate no other meates than that are cooling and drying thereby to hinder the generation of the bloud for which this plaister following is also to be layd therupon Take Lentil Nightshade Roses and broad Plantaine of each sixe ounces Barly meale twelue ounces three whites of egges seeth these all together in sufficient vineger and thrice as much water then make thereof a plaister and lay it vpon the whole cod fiue or sixe dayes one after an other Now when as this patient hath purged and done all that is prescribed then is this plaister following to be layd vpon the rupture Take Bolus two ounces sealed earth and starch of each one drag Mil dust one ounce and a half Sandaraca and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce make a salue thereof with the iuice of Roses in a leaden mortar and lay thereof twice a day ouer the rupture Afterwards vse this corroding ointment Take blacke Sope two ounces Orpiment one ounce and a halfe Sulphur vif halfe an ounce burnt Copperas one dragme and a half temper all together in a mortar with water wherein Sal Armoniack is dissolued lay this vpon the lower part of the cod about the breadth of a groate and let it lie therein about one houre but no longer so that it may not bite in too déepe When there is any vlcer then lay easie things thereon as Barrowes grease or butter vntill that the escarre fall off When this is all done then take for this the salue of the Apostles afterwards are you to lay this biting salue againe vpon another place of the cod so that it may be opened in sixe or eight places yet so that one may commodiously come to it with the foresayd things When you then sée that such excrescens be consumed which may be discerned and knowne hereby that the cod is come to his wonted bignesse againe the which sometimes hapneth to endure halfe a yéere before it come thereto then must you procéed with incarnatiues which things require an expert and patient Chirurgian Of the Rupture which is caused of broken veines called Varicosa
§. 7. HEreof we haue in the beginning of the 4. § made mention how that it is none other but an intumefaction of the veines through blood for in the cods are many veines that compasse them all about This tumor or rupture procéedeth of melancholick blood to which do help sorrow vexation of the mind many fantasies and grosse meates whereof the melancholik blood is ingendred like as also of grosse red wine salt flesh pottage of Beanes and Lentils and all that is drest with sharp vineger Such a patient is to rule himselfe no otherwise then is taught in the fleshy rupture but that he must not vse any of the corroding salue but in stéed thereof vse the plaisters De Muscilaginibus and especially those that be made with Opopanaco Serapino Bdellio and Ammoniaco For this is also good bathes which are Sulphurish Copperish and warme by nature And to speake the truth this species of rupture is not to be holpen but with great paines and continuance of time Of the terrible Rupture called Buris §. 8. THis rupture commeth also through melancholick blood which not only falleth downe into the cods but also infecteth them wholly so that beyond all measure it commeth thereby to swell yea will be black and cold and sometimes without any vlceration But if so be that there come vnto it any hard swellings which afterwards breake out and yéeld much matter then may the same be wel taken for Elephantiasis yet if so be that the swelling be not so big and hath neuertheles the foresaid signes then is it to be taken for the right Hernia Oscenae which some do call Ossealis which altogether descendeth into the cods This disease will be cured like other hard swellings or as hereafter followeth Take beane meale thrée ounces Cammomill muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Annise séed Fenegréeke séed and Raisins without stones of each halfe an ounce temper them with yolks of egs These things following are good for plaisters as Cumin Nightshade Beane meale Cammomil Melilot oile of Lillies Cow dung crums of Rie bread and moe other things aforesaid But if so be that the hardnesse wil not weare away but inclineth to maturation then must the same be opened and healed as other impostumations The plaister Diachilon is good to be vsed at the first and the gum Ammoniacum by it selfe for that they either consume or maturate the swelling in short space There is also good for this Beane meale Fenegréeke meale Lilly roots Colewoort leaues and figs as much as you please sodden together and then powned and so layd vpon the griefe Also this rupture is to be oftentimes annointed with the oile of Cammomill Lillies and Spike and chiefly when there is no speciall heate therein It is also to be noted that it is not good if it be knowne that the Cod is full of matter or corruption to leaue the same long therein lest that the testicles thereby might also spoile and putrifie For this is this rule to be obserued to the end that in time the melancholike humors might be drawne out and purged away to wit to open the Liuer veine on the left side The next day must he take half an ounce of Catharticum Imperiale with Violet or Waterlilly water Now for to cause the matter to discusse and consume take sixe or eight dayes one after another these potions following Take Violet water Lettice water and Hop water of each one ounce sirupe of Citron pils one ounce and a halfe take this warme early in the morning Of the Ruptures whereby the Bowels do fall into the Cods §. 9. THe eight and last sort of ruptures is here aboue mentioned in the title The descending of the bowels or rim is oftentimes very sodainly and otherwhiles very slowly But howsoeuer the same come yet for all that can it not be without paine and chiefly if it be touched the inward causes are none other then wind which cléerely appeareth hereby if the patient hold vp his breath long the rupture will be the greater and in breathing out the smaller The outward causes are sufficiently expressed in the treatise of the Ruptures of wind and of the Nauell For to helpe this disease before all things diligence must be had that the bowels which are descended may be brought againe into their place And for to compasse this take hold on the cods vnderneath and treatably thrust it vp Take also a great boxing cup set it aboue the priuities or hard by and let it draw a good space The patient must also lie higher with his buttockes than his body that the bowels thereby the easier may returne into their due places If there be any great paine approching then first of all looke to swage the same and chiefly with clisters which are thus to be made to wit the decoction wherein Linseed Fenegreeke and white Sesamum seeds beaten grosly haue bene boyled and therewith butter and oyle of Violets be mixed Item take Hens and Cocks broth and oyle of Sesamum of each sixe ounces Sal gemmae halfe an ounce or a little lesse temper them together and minister this Clister meetly warme Another Take twelue ounces of swéet Wine fresh butter and oile of sweet Almonds of each two ounces Benedicta lax halfe an ounce temper them all together for a clister Further the whole Cods with all parts that are adioyning are to be wel fomented or bathed What waters are to be taken for it you haue them set downe before in the end of the first § beginning thus Take Rue c. Yet another in the fourth § beginning thus Take Seâ—eli or Siluer mountaine séed c. In one of these warme decoctions wet a great sponge and lay it ouer all the priuities which being done then let the rupture be softly shooued backe Afterwards must you lay this plaister following ouer it and bind it as hard as may be abidden and suffered Take Cipers rootes two ounces Mill dust three ounces Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce fish lime or Isinglas one ounce and a halfe Dragagant Gumme Momy and burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce Dragon blood Sagapenum Sealed earth and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes the meale and powned rootes shall you séeth in two third parts of water and one third part of red vineger vntill it be thicke inough then mixe molten Waxe amongst it as much as is needfull stirre it with dissolued Gum well together vntill it be cold You haue also before in the discourse of the Nauell and vpper Rupture many good plaisters which are good for this vse But if so be that the rupture be large and al that is falne downe be much then lay the plaister thereon which is described in the treatise of the vpper rupture in the beginning of the 1. § for it is singular good also for this kind of rupture Make a plaister thereof after the forme of a shield whereof the narrowest end may passe vnder the cods betwéene the legs and the
the force of the vertue expulsiue which is knowne before by certaine impotency and trouble of these parts But if the same grow through outward accidents that must be vnderstood of the patient And to cure this infirmity first it is to be knowne that albeit this disease procéedeth for the most part through heate yet notwithstanding the same may be caused through cold therefore we will here first write of the running of the Raines which commeth through heate Of the Fluxe of seed or running of the Raines through heate §. 1. THis fluxe of séed is as it hath bin sayd felt with some griefe All cold things are acceptable to the patient and hot things do put him to paine as to a man which is superabounding in seed doth this fluxe of Sperme bring not any feeblenes he waxeth not thereby leane at all but if such come through heate of the seed then feeleth he also heate itching and griefe this must first of all be begun with a good order of diet And first he must chuse for his dwelling a place and ayre which is neither too hot nor too cold neither too moist nor too dry It is also not conuenient for him to stirre or go much neither to ride but rest and sleepe is highly commended for this infirmity and not too long but a little and that oftner Déepe speculations sorrow vexation fright feare and especially all veneriall thoughts must he eschue All purgations and that which abateth the body are very hurtfull and if need require the same is easily to be effected through vomits sweates and Clisters For vomiting take water wherein Radishes haue béene sodden thrée ounces sirupe of Vineger one ounce and a halfe giue the patient this warme after that he hath eaten sundrie meates For to prouoke sweate take Barly water thrée ounces strong Wine two ounces giue it him very warme and let him sweat The clister must be thus prepared Take Beets Violet leaues Nightshade Tassell leaues of each one handfull let them seeth well together and take twelue ounces of this decoction Tho. sugar one ounce and a halfe yolkes of Egs oile of water Lillies and of Roses of each two ounces salt one dragme and a halfe the clister must be set in the euening before meate In eating and drinking must be eschued all that nourish wel except there be great féeblenes approching whereof ought most of al to be aduised Also he must eschue al that prouoketh venenery as all sharp hot meates spices fat and windy meates but much rather may he vse all that are contrary to these as water wherein Lentils are sodden and Waterlillies tempered in al his meates and drinkes also conserues of the same Prepared Coriander is also good be it of what maner soeuer they be eaten These things haue a speciall property to expell incontinency In like sort also Purslaine Endiue Cicory and Lettice But Lettice seed excelleth all these if one eate much thereof it stayeth also excéedingly and spéedily the running of the Raines Item oile Oliue and Nightshade are very good for this All these foresaid things is such a patient to vse continually meetly sower vineger Oranges and the iuice of Pomegranats may he also vse otherwhiles and herewith eate shéepes feet and other beasts feet Fish that are taken in fresh waters are also good for him with vineger and other sower things and dressed with sallad oile All sea fish shall he forbeare Concerning flesh there is good all kind of Venison water Fowles and in fine the flesh of all Déeres that be not fat but in good plight For his drinke must he haue red cléere and pleasant Wines and if he desire to haue them watred then take thereto water wherein Coriander Lettice Purslaine and that which is yet better Gum of Araby and dried Waterlilly flowers haue béene decocted And that we forget not the venerious and lusty women it is specially aduised that for them shall be made a potion of the iuice of Betony and Cicory tempered together with vineger Item yet more against concupiscence of man and woman that are hot of nature may plaisters be made Take Henbane Opium Camfere the muscilage of Fleawoort Purslaine séed and oyle of Poppy seed make a plaister thereof and annoint or lay it vpon the kidneyes Yet must this plaister by reason of the extreme coldnes be vsed prouidently Also to go bare footed is good likewise for this and they that be full of blood are to be let blood These things following do much drie the naturall séed to wit Rue and Agnus castus wild Mints Comin and morsels made thereof But chiefly if one do take the séeds of the premisses with vineger Item take Dill séed thrée dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séed of each half an ounce drinke thereof euery time one dragme and a halfe with the water of Lentils Item take Rue séed and Henbane séed of each one quarter of an ounce Roses and flowers of Pomegranats of each thrée dragmes make thereof a powder and giue thereof to drink one quarter of an ounce at one time with water or watered wine But to returne to the léesing of the Sperme it is not amisse to write what is inwardly to be vsed for it First then shall this confection following be necessary for it Take Comfrey roots thrée ounces cleanse them and cut them small pilled Pompeon seed and Waterlillies of each one dragme the iuice of Licorice two scruples prepared Corall fine Bolus Mirtle séed and Roses of each ten graines Gum halfe a dragme beate them all small except the roots and make thereof a powder séeth the rootes in red Wine and stamp them to grout then temper the powder amongst it and put thereto the sirupe of Citron pils and of Orenges as much as you please and then let it séeth together againe to a confection Take euery morning one spoonfull thereof before breakfast Item temper the Conserues of Roses with Marmalade as much as you will or take either apart Another Take prepared Bolus one quarter of an ounce Conserues of Roses thrée quarters of an ounce temper and vse thereof euery time one dragme Or take a whole new layd egge sodden and sugred A famous Sirupe for heate TAke Purslaine séed Lettice seed and Waterlillies of each one ounce prepared Coriander rootes of Waterlillies of Dandelion and of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce Camfere halfe a dragme or fiftéene Iuiubes Dates eight dayes steeped in vineger and chopt small two ounces Rue séeds mountaine mints and parched Comin of each one dragme séeth these all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe then straine it through being very hard wroong out put more thereto twelue ounces of the iuice of Quinces Sugar six and thirty ounces and let them séeth all together and clarifie them Lastly cast a little Mints into it whereof shall be taken two ounces with thrée ounces of Purslaine water it is very precious and approoued For this is also good these sirupes following
as De succo Endiuiae de Cydonijs de Rosis siccis Rosatus solutiuus and Mirtinus It hath béene also said before that for this disease no purgations are fit But if such were most needfull then is there to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of fine Cassia with Purslaine water Another which is stronger Take Cassia one ounce and De succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce beaten séeds of Agnus castus one scruple Water-lillies thrée ounces temper them all together Also there is to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia with hony or milke Afterwards take euery morning a draught of well decocted barly water and temper therewith according as the heate is great a spoonful or twaine of the iuice of Housléeke or Purslaine for it cooleth much Item take one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia strew it with the powder of Licorice and swallow it downe in the morning fasting Item vse fourtéene dayes continually in the morning early a little Cassia out of the pipes and spet out the kernels A Confection that is very fit for this Take prepared Coriander one quarter of an ounce powder of Mints thrée dragmes Lettice Purslaine and pilled Cucumber séed of each two dragmes and a halfe Gum Comin both parched of each one dragme parched Dragagant one dragme and a halfe Waterlillies one quarter of an ounce all these beaten small together Sugar fiftéene ounces and séeth the Sugar in Purslaine water and then make Tabulates of it Hereafter follow Potions Take Comfrey rootes and seeth them in water drinke thereof thrée or foure ounces with Sugar it is very fit for this disease Item steeled water wherein Mirtle seede hath bene decocted being drunken is also very good For this is also meete Plantaine water Sorrell water Purslaine water and Cicorie water Or take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes boyle them in water and drinke of it Or take of the Trocisci de Carabe de terra Sigillata de Spodio which you will or of each halfe a dragme for the whole Dose mixe it with whay and so drinke it What ought to be vsed outwardly IF so be that this infirmitie haue long continued then make Smiths Sinders glowing hot and slake them in wine and bath therwithall You must fill the Nauel with Stags suet which stayeth the affluxion of the heate and sharpnesse of the matter If the patient then desire to make water thē must the patient hang his priuities in Plātaine water or Nightshade water Item take old oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Quinces and Mirtles of each two ounces and a halfe Burnt Lead white Lead Bloudstone both washt in Lettice water of each halfe an ounce Starch one ounce and a halfe Willow leaues and water Lillie flowers of each fiue dragmes Camfere one quarter of an ounce mixe one with another in a leaden mortar with the iuice of Plantaine and make also a salue thereof For this disease shall you finde many remedies both in the auncient and later Phisitions The cooling salue is also very commodious for this like as is the oyntment of Saunders Vnguentum Sandalinum Vnguentum Sandalinum which is made in this manner Take Roses three dragmes red Saunders two dragmes and a halfe yellow Saunders one dragme and a half fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie one drag Camfere halfe a dragme white Waxe one ounce oyle of Rose buds three ounces the Waxe and the oyle are to be molten togither and then temper the other things amongst them This is not onely good for this disease but also for inflamed Kidneies and to coole the liuer the stomacke and all other parts With any of both these oyntments annoynt the patients Kidneies and the Cods euen to the end of his Yard Item take oyle of Mirtles Roses Masticke of each halfe a dragme shauen Iuorie one scruple Camfere two graines powne all that is to be powned and with a little Waxe make thereof a salue wherwith annoynt the Kidneies This salue is also good for the whites in women Womens whites It is also much commended to weare vpon the Kidneies a peece of thin beaten Lead Of the Fluxe of Sperme or the running of Reynes through cold §. 2. IN this infirmitie is felt with the paine in the head a distemperance also of the braines a vexation af the whole body with cold euē as in Mania For this be especially Mints very méete Rue also and the seede thereof be highly commended for the same mountaine Mints Agnus Castus Artichockes with the rootes parched Comin Caruway Annis Frankinsence and their barkes Masticke and Marierom This patient must then prouidently as is sayd and mildly purge afterwards euery morning take a dragme of Treacle with Betonie water You may giue him also stued Peares or Quinces to eate Likewise rere sodden egges wherein is a little Masticke powder strewed and red Corall powder Also the Reynes and bladder are to be annointed round about with oyle of Masticke and oyle of Roses Of the Fluxe of the Sperme or seede in the sleepe §. 3. ABoue the afore mentioned fluxe of the seede this yet is to be annexed vnto it when as the seede also passeth away in the sleepe a nights and very seldome by day The cause of this is daily riotting and surfetting and specially meates which are drest with spice and be easie of digestion Secondly the thoughts vpon a faire woman whom one loueth Thirdly to sléepe sound and to lye vpon the backe abundance of bloud abstinence from women haile youth whence all other signes are to be had and taken these are also to be remedied like the former If it be caused of fulnesse it is to be cured by abstinence if through lust after women then will it be eased with a godly Matrimonie as also by the vse of cold and dry things as is already sayd of the running of the Raynes of that which procéedeth not of abundance but maketh a man vnfit to get children as shall be hereafter spoken of Of what and whereby naturall Sperme or seede will be most augmented §. 4. THe cause of the diminishing or increasing of naturall séede may as well procéede of intollerable heate as cold also of inward and outward causes The cold is repercussiue and kéepeth backe the heate consumeth Likewise it may grow by fals and such like other things moe whereby the braines are weakened Item of some kind of lesion of the stones and other parts also of inward as a bad concoction of the séede cutting of the stone or the Piles wherby the generation of the séede is hindred of sore precedent diseases of sorrow heauinesse temptation smalnesse of the humaine member and amongst diuers other causes of age also Now for to helpe this disease euen as is before sayd not to increase lecherie or fleshly lust but in fauour and preferment of Matrimonie For this therefore is good warme and dry weather and also
the mother then hath she her Termes very little and if they do runne yet are they not well coloured they haue also but little haire on their priuities they be by nature slow and slacke they care not much for men and are commonly of a pale colour for which doth also much helpe the long vse of meates or drinkes which are cold of nature If the Barrennes be caused through heate then hath she likewise her floures or termes very little mixt with yellownesse the woman is hasty headed crafty thirsty desirous of the man hairie about her priuie place she hath a quick pulse and black haire with other tokens moe all which dry or moyst diseases must néedes be in the mother or in the necke of the same Thirdly they are sometimes of a contrary complexion for that the séede cannot be rightly mixed or sometime also too neare like one another of complexion For an example when a cold man commeth to a cold woman or that they be both dry of nature and if in all things else they be also of like complexions one to another then is it vnpossible that the woman can conceiue There shall be moe other signes described how to know by whom the let and infirmitie commeth to wit do cast both Spermata vpon the water and that which driueth on the top is barren Item sprinkle both their vrines vpon a Lettice leafe and whosoeuer doth dye away first the same is vnfruitfull Or take fiue cornes of Wheate seuen Barley graines and seuen Beanes put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon let it stand so seuen dayes long and if they begin to sprout then is the person fruitfull or if they rot then is he or she barren be it man or woman Or let him pisse in a pot and let the vrine stand awhile if wormes grow therein then is that vrine barren These three last proofes do the auncient Phisitions themselues say to be vncertaine therefore we will let them rest Item make vnderneath an odoriferous fume as of Myrrhe red Storax and such like odoriferous warme things to passe into the necke of the wombe through a tunnell which being close couered round about if the woman finde that this smoke go through the body and feeleth it in her nose then is she fruitfull Another Take grosse beaten Garlick and lay the woman with her backe thereupon if so be that she féele the smell in her nose then is it a token of fruitfulnesse There are moe such like tokens which are sayd to be approoued but how that fruitfulnesse is to be furthered and holpen there are diuers remedies hereafter rehearsed out of the writings of the most famous Phisitions out of which may be chosen according to the complexion of women whether they be hote cold moyst dry fat leane oppilated or contrary by nature For to helpe and preferre or hasten fruitfulnesse §. 1. IF that fruitfulnesse be desired to be furthered and holpen then must the cause that hindreth the same be abated and taken away of which the learned do recken very many which may be contained in thrée especiall points as when a woman is to hote and too dry too cold and too moyst or hath her termes or floures too much or to little of which thrée especiall points we will now discourse Of Barrennesse through heate §. 2. ALl such women must beware of hote ayre dwellings and such like also of clothes which kéepe the parts and sinewes about the wombe too hote Also they must eschue all hote meates as Spice salt flesh strong Wine very fat meates warme herbs as Smallage Fennel Thyme Southernewood Rue long watching to lye much on the Raynes or Kidneis great labour anger heauinesse and such like motions of the minde but all that moderately cooleth that must be vsed They must take oftentimes conserue of Roses or cold Dragagant losinges and the confections Triasantali also to hold before the nose and smell to Campher Rose water and Saunders as hath bene many times told for hote sicknesses Aboue all these must the Basilica or Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and to let out about fiue ounces of bloud On the next day is this purgation to be vsed Take Elect. de Epithimo de succo Rosarum of each two dragmes and a halfe the whay of Milke foure ounces temper them well togither and take it in the morning then sléepe afterwards about one houre and a halfe and fast foure houres vpon it this being done drinke a good draught of whay and you may breake your fast one houre after Other do purge with Triphera Saracenica and Rubarb and also minister preparatiue potions mixed either with sirupes of Violets Roses or Endiue Or take the water of water Lillies foure ounces water of Mandragora one ounce beaten Saffron halfe a scruple drinke them luke warme and do this eight dayes one after another Also you may vse these pils following Take Broome flowers Smallage Parsley séede Comin Mugwort and Feuerfew of each halfe a scruple Aloe halfe an ounce Indy salt and Saffron of each halfe a dragme powne them all togither and mixe them well afterwards powre thereon fiue ounces of warme Feuerfew water close it to and let it stand and dry in a warme place do this thrée times one after another This being all done then make sixe pils of each dragme and take alwayes one thereof before supper about the second day all the while that this foresayd Potion is vsed afterwards you must take one thereof about the third or fourth day vntill that she haue conceiued After the foresayd Potions must this purgation following be vsed Take the conserue Benedicta lax one quarter of ounce de Psillio thrée dragmes Electuarium de succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with Feuerfew water and drinke it warme in the morning early thrée dayes after this purgation must the Median veine be opened in the right foote to wit fiue or sixe houres after breakefast and according to her strength must be letten out fiue or sixe ounces of bloud the next day and also fiue dayes one after another filed Iuorie is to be taken one dragme and a halfe with Feuerfew water And the whilest that this Potion is by her vsed then is she in the morning one houre before that she do arise and also at night before she go to bed to sit in this bath following and remaine therein about halfe an houre Take wild yellow Rapes Daucus Balsam wood with the fruits and the séede or keyes of an ash trée of each two handfuls red and white Behen Broome flowers of each a handfull and a halfe Muske thrée graines Amber Saffron of each one scruple séeth all these in sufficient water But the Saffron Muske Amber and Broome flowers must be put into it when all the rest be sufficiently decocted and wrong out A profitable Confection Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of the swéet rootes which the Italians
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
laxatiue potions like as this Wine following Take Sene leaues two ounces Tymus and Epithymus of each one ounce and a half flowers of Burrage and Buglosse of each thrée handfuls Harts tong and rootes of Cicorie of each two handfuls Rosemary Stechas of each one handful Roses and Balme of each thrée handfuls these are to be put drie and flixed into a litle Runlet and powre fiftie quarts of Must vpon it and then let it stand and clarifie when as néede doth require then may you take a good draught of it before meate Item drinke Pullet broth wherein Prunes are decocted and to eate the Prunes is very commodious But this broth relaxeth better when it is boiled with Currans and much Sugar In like manner new Whay well salted and drunken warm doth loose but better if it be sodden with Prunes In like manner also are you to take Wormewood Hony and Sugar according to the abilitie of the person séeth this together in water and drinke a good draught thereof Item take Sanicle with the rootes séeth it well and drinke of it the quantitie of foure ounces tempered with Hony of Roses If so be that pilles can not be vsed then take foure ounces of water wherein Mallowes were before decocted and dissolue Sugar therein or Hony of Violets and so drinke it Or take Linséede Hops Burrage al together or each apart decoct them to a potion this looseth also The same doth also one ounce of Polipodie and halfe an ounce of Fennell séedes decocted together Item take conserue of Eldern one ounce or one ounce and a half dissolue it in fresh broth one pound and drinke fasting a good draught thereof Fumitorie and Goats milke boyled together doth not onely loose the belly but also cleanseth the bloud The decoction of Charuill and of Larkes spurres do also open the bodie Item the decoction of Coleworts of Béetes and of Lentils in euery of these are you to temper the quantitie of an hasell nut of fine Turpentine and to drinke it warme which is also good for the excoriation of the guts The decoction of Creuises and of all other fishes are also very good for relaxation but swéet oyle of Almonds is most commodious for this purpose more sure and most pleasant being taken with Sugar It asswageth all griping of the belly and of the breast which oyle is thus to be made Oyle of Almonds Take Almonds as many as you please make them clean beate them small rost them a litle on hote ashes or on a small fire stirring them alwaies about put them afterwards very hote into a strong bag which is made wet in Rosewater and presse it out forcibly then haue you a fine and cleare oyle whereof may be vsed for aged folkes foure or sixe ounces tempered with course Sugar for children and also for the first borne each according to his age Thicke or puddle Wine doth not onely bind the bodie but doth oppilate also the Liuer the Milt and the Kidneys this do they which drinke much of it therefore it is to be refrained Of all laxatiue medicines and potions Manna is not the basest but is highly commended aboue all other things for it is one of the blessedst medicins like as is mentioned more at large in the Introduction This Manna is ministred diuersly according to the abilitie of the person like as water of Burrage fresh broth and such like You may also giue of this Manna to yong children The vse of Cassie to each one according to his age be it in their Drinke Milke or Pap. In like manner is Cassie also a very notable and laxatiue medicine euen as is shewed herebefore at large in the introduction for it is much more commodious to be taken after the forme of a conserue than in any kinde of potion by reason that there must be put vnto it so much moysture thus will we heere prescribe for an example how the same is to be vsed Take the rootes of Polipody chopt small one ounce seeth them in the water of Burrage eight ounces and dissolue therwith one ounce and a half or two ounces of Cassie letting all that is black be washed cleane off and then drinke this warme it looseth very gently Héere before in the first part in the first Chapter and 3. § you haue a good mead of Sene leaues for children and other persons very necessary to be vsed yet this following may be prepared Take Sene leaues half an ounce Ginger and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Licorice thrée dragmes séethe them all together in sixteene ounces of water euen to the halfe drinke the one halfe in the morning and the other halfe in the euening Also there be certaine Sirupes vsed for the loosing of the bodie whereof the chiefest is the laxatiue sirupe of Roses which is before described in the first part Also there is made a sirupe of Sene leaues as hereafter followeth Take right Endiue Sirup of Sene leaues Cicorie Agrimony of each halfe a handfull Venus haire Harts toong of each halfe so much seedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers Gourds of each one dragme wild Saffron séede Polipody rootes seeds of Endiue Cicorie and Licorice of each two scruples Barly one ounce winter Cherries Windweed of each one quarter of an ounce Fearne rootes Smallage Fennell and Sperage of each halfe an ounce Currans three dragmes sixe or seauen Prunes floures of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quarte of water almost vnto the halfe wring it well out and then lay to steepe in this decoction one ounce of Sene leaues prepared Agaricus half an ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce When it hath stoode so one night and is wroong out then temper with it Syrupum Capillorum Veneris which is the sirupe of Venus haire the sirupe of Violets of each one ounce white Sugar thrée ounces let this séethe by a soft fire vnto a sirupe lastly put more vnto it halfe a dragme of beaten Cinnamome and one scruple of yellow Saunders and so kéepe this sirupe vntill that you will vse it Of this sirupe you may boldly giue one ounce or an ounce and a halfe or more vnto all delicate persons yea to women also with child and that with fresh broth or any distilled water for it is very safe Another Syrupe Take Endiue Liuerwort Venus haire all greene of each one handfull red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Melon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Pompeon seede and Burrage of each halfe an ounce Sene Epithymum of each one ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme Ginger one dragme Sugar twelue ounces dissolued in Endiue water make a sirupe of it like as is taught in the first part the first Chapter and 6. § Hony of Roses looseth also very well especially that which is made of the iuice of Roses euen as it
Another Take Endiue water six ounces water of Liuerwort thrée ounces séedes of Gourdes Melons and Cucumbers slightly beaten with the pils of each two dragmes Venus haire two handfuls and ten or twelue winter Cherries let these seeth all togither in sufficient water vntill that a third part be decocted in séething put one quarter of an ounce of red Saunders afterwards strayne it thorow a cloth and séeth in the same decoction thrée ounces of Sugar and then make two Potions of it they do coole cleanse and strengthen the Lyuer the Kidneys and all the intrailes maruellous much Item take of a gréene Gourd set it in an Ouen when the bread is taken out a good while afterwards make a hole in the bottome and receiue the water which shall run out vnderneath then put as much Endiue water vnto it and make a Iulep of it as you thinke meete The wine of Pomegranates is very good for this in like manner also Buttermilke for all diseases of the Lyuer is highly commended Venus haire one ounce and a halfe or two ounces taken in the morning and euening cooleth openeth and easeth all diseases of the Lyuer In the moneth of Iune is the water thereof to be distilled Note also that whereas there is a great heate of the Lyuer present there must one refrayne from drinking Wine and also from all drinks wherein is Hony admixed But he is to vse all that cooleth Make also this Iulep following Take the water of Buglosse Venus haire and of Endiue of each nine ounces the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces white Sugar foure ounces and a halfe seeth all these togither vnto a potion Or take Iulep of Roses mixe them with Endiue water and cleare well water Although for great heate we haue forbidden Wine yet neuerthelesse Cherrie wine is permitted bicause it is of a temperate nature and doth moysten the Lyuer and also cooleth and therefore these patients are to haue otherwhiles at their desire a draught of it This confection following is also to be vsed to wit Triasantali Diarrhodon without spices conserue of Roses of Violets preserued S. Iohns Grapes or Ribes Barberies and Peaches preserued the conserue of water Lillies doth also coole much Also the conserue of Cicorie with the rootes and preserued Grapes are good for this purpose Or haue this confection following prepared Take péeled Melon seede Cucumber séede Gourd seede peeled Pompeon seede of each thrée quarters of an ounce séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and Sorrell of each one quarter of an ounce Pine nuts which haue bene stéeped foure howres in Rose water one ounce Sugar eight ounces or as much as you please seeth the Sugar with Rose water and then make loosinges of them Now for to keepe an open body these pils are to be prepared Take one dragme of Rubarb burnt Iuorie one scruple make nine pils thereof with the sirrupe of Roses and take them in togither at one time Other Pils for the obstruction of the Lyuer caused through Phlegma which falleth out of the head into the brest and lyuer If you wil let the sicke person take these pils two howres before he go to bed Take pils De Hiera Composia two scruples and let the sicke person sit the next day in a bath of water Take also sometimes one dragme of these Trociscis following to wit De Berberis De Camphora De spoâ—â—to and De Sandalis with water of Endiue and make pils thereof We will also heere repeate those things which are to be vsed outwardly Take Roses red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere halfe a dragme beate them all to powder Vineger foure ounces or more temper this togither wet a cloth therein and lay it vpon the Lyuer when it is dry then make it moyst againe in the same Or take the iuice of Nightshade and Endiue water of each thrée ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Vineger one ounce red white Saunders and the seeds of Citrons beaten of each one dragme tempered and vsed as beforesayd Item take one quarter of an ounce of strong wine foure ounces of Nightshade water one ounce and a halfe Saffron fiue greynes mingle them well togither and then lay it with a cloth ouer the whole Lyuer Another Take Endiue water six ounces Rose water and Nightshade water of each three ounces water of Wormwood two ounces the iuice of Lettice and of Calmus of each one ounce and a halfe red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper them well and then apply it vnto it Another which is yet stronger Take water of Endiue and of Sorrell of each six ounces water of Burrage of Buglosse of each foure ounces Species de gemmis Frigidis thrée dragmes Diarrhodon Triasantalon of each one dragme a halfe red Corall halfe a dragme Camfere one scruple temper them and vse them as the other Or take Roses red and white Saunders Wormewood Squinant burnt Iuorie and Spica of each a like much beate them all to powder when as you will vse it then temper halfe an ounce with Sorrell and Endiue waters of each foure ounces Item take the water of Nightshade of Endiue of Liuerwoort of Sorrell and of Wormewood of each foure ounces Species Triasantali Diarrhodon burnt Iuory of each halfe a dragme Saffron one dragme Vineger two ounces temper them and vse them as the other Another which is temperate Take water of Buglosse of Cicory of Balme of each six ounces Spec. de gemmis temperatis one dragme Saffron one scruple Vineger one ounce Malmsey thrée ounces temper them all togither But it is to be noted that these cooling things must be vsed with discretion that they do not coole the breast too much prouoke a Cough the which might easily be procured Here follow now plaisters and such like TAke Barly meale thrée ounces Roses one dragme white Poppy séede halfe a dragme the iuice of Wormewood and of Nightshade of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger half an ounce make pap thereof with the oyle of Roses Or take white Poppy séede one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Wormewood thrée ounces the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Vineger one ounce and Barley meale as much as sufficeth This plaister is also highly commended Take dryed Violets thrée quarters of an ounce Roses two dragmes and a halfe Spica and Masticke of each one dragme and a halfe Cammomill Venus haire Barley meale Hollihocke roots of each ten ounces Squinant Cipers roots and Calmus of each one dragme make a pap thereof with well water and lay it euery day ouer the Liuer The common plaister of Saunders which is to be found at the Apothecaries is also very good for this vse For a salue Take oyle of Roses of water Lillies and Spica of each halfe an ounce Roses burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce red white Saunders seeds of Plantaine and of Purslain of each one dragme Spica Agrimony of each one quarter
same Likewise soure Grapes held long in the mouth do quench thirst also Or if the same be brused into ones drinke like as is more amplyer admonished in the beginning of this Booke Of the yellow Iaundies a sicknesse of the Liuer §. 11. THis sickensse is called of the Grecians and of all learned for the most part Icteros and in Latin Morbùs regius Arquatus Aurigo Suffusio fellis and of many Icteria This is such a sicknesse whereby that the Cholera or Gall doth spread it selfe very yellow ouer all the body and appeareth with other spots or staines Therqfore is this first to be noted that there be three kinds of Icters or Iaundies the yellow the gréene and the blacke The yellow is caused through yellow Cholera the gréene out of light gréene Cholera and both proceede from the Liuer but the black is caused through black melancholick bloud of some disease of the Milt albeit the same may also be caused of the Liuer The causes of these sicknesses are taken to be sundry and especially of the yellow and greene Iaundies as of the hot season by great labour or great exercise great heat biting of venemous beasts the vse of much heate sweete fat meats and inward impostumes Al which causes do so obstruct the Liuer that such matter like as behooueth cannot be conueyed into the follicle of the Gall whereby it is inflamed which the obstruction and heat may and doth come to passe in the veines and in all parts of the body whereby the bloud is spoyled and conuerted into a greene or yellow colour The cause of the blacke Isteria is an obstruction in the Conduits of the Liuer to the Milt or in the conduits of the milt to the stomacke a feeblenesse of the expulsiue or attractiue vertue be it of the milt or the liuer Item through the vse of much melancholicke meate In fine it may also be caused through great heate of the whole body which enflameth the bloud or through great cold that doth congeale the bloud and maketh it blacke The first two signes are abating of the liuely colour yellownesse in the white of the eyes ouer the whole body and of the vrine the pulse is feeble the patient thirstie léeseth appetite his meates will be bitter and readie to vomit Item if the patient be also yong cholericke of nature hath done great labour and eaten much hot meate then do they altogither confirme that it is a perfect Icteritia The blacke Icteritia is to be knowne by her black spots The Milt is commonly hard This sicknes is then short beneath The vrine is browne ruddy and a slime in the bottome The sicke person is alwayes heauie and fearefull without cause like as all melancholicke persons are wont to be Thus then to speake briefly of this yellow Iaundies they do alwayes come with heate and with an Ague or also without any of them both therefore we will first speake of the hote Iaundies Item first of all if so be that there be an Ague with this sicknesse then is the sicke person to drinke Barly water with the iuice of Lettice and of Nightshade for it cooleth vnnaturall heat whereby the yellow Iaundies is caused There be also al kind of cooling herbs to be giuen him to eate as Endiue Lettice Sorrell c. drest with Veriuice or Pomegranat wine His drinke must be well watred thin wine or common small béere Héede must also be taken at the first whether it be not néedfull to purge the partie and if néed require then is the same to be done in this manner ensuing Take Cuscuta and Hoarehound of each one handfull Endiue water twelue ounces and as much white Rhenish wine let them séeth togither vntill two parts remaine then wring it out and take foure ounces of it temper one ounce of the sirrupe de Bizantijs with it you may put Sugar to it if you will and drinke thrée or foure mornings therof one after another Another which is more forcible Take Horehound Cuscuta of each two handfuls Endiue water halfe a pinte Wine one pinte let them séeth togither and hang two dragmes of Rubarb in it wring it often out then take foure ounces of it and temper therewith one of these siirupes following Syrupum de Bizantijs de Duabus Radicibus or Oxymel one ounce and vse them as is before sayd For to purge you may after the sayd potions vse these cooling medicines Take common conserues of Prunes and Cassie of each thrée dragmes confection of Psyllio two dragmes and one scruple De Succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with thrée ounces of water of Cuscuta and one ounce of the hony of Roses or take Hiera Picra thrée quarters of an ounce Diaphoenicon one quarter of an ounce sirrupe of Cichorie with Rubarb halfe an ounce and Endiue water as much as you will The Rubarb is not ordained for this but by good reason because it is forcible at the beginning to take away the yellow Iaundies For this are all medicines good that be described not long ago in the 3. § for the heate of the Liuer But if the heat after purging will not yet ceasse then giue the patient euery day one or one and a halfe of the Trocisks de Camphora tempered in one ounce of wine or the confection Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis but before the foresayd things be vsed you must first vse these pils following Take Earth wormes washt with wine or burnt to powder in a pot as much as you please and put as much Rubarb vnto it or halfe so much and make pils thereof giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe at once according to the age of the partie mixed with Oxymel Also you may giue this patient of this foresayd pouder one dragme without Rubarbe It is also an approoued medicine that twentie or thirtie earth woormes be boyled in the water of Sperrage of smallage and of Parsley and to take often a spoonfull of this decoction Item take of the pouder of burnt earth woormes rootes of Smallage and of Parsley of each a like quantitie giue thereof to women and yong children to each according to his age it driueth the yellow iaundise very forcibly through the veine and in like manner also the dropsie For this you haue another in the second part in the third chapter and 7. § And to returne to purging if so be that the pils be more acceptable then take washt Aloe one dragme or fower scruples and vse it after the foresayd potions which be good and safe But if so be that the obstruction of the liuer be not opened by it then is this medicine following to be vsed Take sirrupe de Bizantijs prepared with Vineger one ounce and a halfe water of Cuscuta of Harts tong and of Cicorie of each one ounce drinke it certaine times one after another or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel with water of Cuscuta of
Agnus castus small Germander and bitter Almonds When as then the sicke bodie hath bene purged the Milt veine is to be opened or if the melancholicke humors do abound then is the Lyuer veine to be opened for that this melancholick humor doth mixe it selfe with the bloud Some aduise and that not without reason that Leches should be set in the fundament on the Pyle veines because that by nature they do draw out the blacke bloud For a strengthening and allaying of the heate this following is to be giuen as confected Peaches Cicorie rootes with Vineger conserue of Roses of water Lillies of Cicorie and of Violets For his drinke is allowed him otherwhiles a draught of Cherrie wine for it is as is oftentimes said altogether temperate and do moisten the dried Spléene and the inward parts Euery such patient is to beware of all sweet and grosse Wine which is shewed before in the first Part. Of the impostume of the Spleene §. 2. THis impostume may be caused out of bloud of Phlegma Cholera and Melancholia as also of winds and obstruction The outward occasions may be blowes fals great labour and chiefly by that which happeneth in the heate whereby the bloud is burned Item of grosse meates which make grosse bloud The common signes of all impostumes of the Milt are paine heauines and swelling of the left side which stretcheth it out from the bowels euen to the shoulder blade and sometimes it bringeth also with it a healing breath All the sowre humors do bring with them their proper signe like as is alreadie rehearsed and for to remedie this present infirmitie this is the right way First of all you are to let him bloud on the Lyuer veine in the left elbow and afterwards in the Milt veine vpon the left hand besides the small finger and if so be that the patient may abide it then let the bloud runne vntill it staunch of it selfe With purging eating and drinking is he to be kept like as it is said in the twelfth Chapter of the Lyuer Otherwise is this following very commodious to wit distilled water of Purslaine Maidenhaire Willow leaues Harts tong Nightshade of Smallage and of Endiue of which one wil alone or tempered together then the rootes of Capers beaten very small and tempered amongst it You may also boyle the foresaid herbs and vse the decoction of them tempered with the sirupe of Vineger The first foure or fiue dayes the Milt is to be annointed with this salue following Take oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe oyle of Cammomill and Vineger of each halfe an ounce then temper it together The second of third day temper amongst it halfe an ounce of the iuice of Nighshade The first day vse this following take oyle of Roses Cammomill and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like much annoint it very warme and lay it vpon a warme cloth Then lay this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale powned Hollihock roots of each two ounces Roses red and white Saunders of each thrée dragmes roots of Endiue one ounce Vineger and water of Harts tong as much as is néedfull for to make a mild plaister When as then the patient is letten bloud purged and hath drunken the foresaid water certaine dayes together he is to purge againe with Cassie and with Epithymo but if the impostume be of cold which chanceth very seldome then may it be knowne for that it is very soft white and without paine But if the same be caused through Melancholia then doth the same shew it selfe hard with small paine and then may you vse that Oxymel compositum or Oxymel of Squils with water wherein the rootes of Capers Tamariscus Harts toung and such like be decocted Concerning the purging of Melancholia you shall shortly hereafter find perfect instructions Of an obstructed Milt without Ague but yet with paine §. 3. FOr this is chiefly commended the Tamariscus and yet about this Harts tong Caper rootes Hony suckles which haue altogether a maruellous power for to asswage the swelling of the Spléene In like manner Centorie Valerian and Meu or in stead thereof the rootes of wild Dill. These are the principall things which may be vsed for the foresaid disease Againe these things following are good for to warme the cold spleen as Aristologie the middlemost rinds of the Ashen trée Broome rootes Burrage Buglosse Ammoniack Rue Thyme Epithymus bitter Almonds the water of the Ash tree leaues Annis Fennell Caraway Ameos Parsly rootes the rootes of Smallage of Sperage Squils and their vineger seede of Agnus castus Lupins Bdellium and Beuercod Of the compounded things are the Confections of Diacapparis Diacalamintha Diacyminum confected Carawaies and Comin very god also And albeit that according to the opinion of Galen others this obstruction of the Milt when the same waxeth old is thought incurable yet do the successors neuertheles think that it is very curable although the obstruction of the foresaid Milt and the hardnesse of the same had continued three or foure yeares For which they do first giue things to open the spléene to wit one dragme of Mithridate water of Sage two ounces that betimes in the morning wherevpon they require one to fast foure howers after Item take Squils and Oxymel of each one ounce sirupe de Eupatorio halfe an ounce water of Valerian two ounces and a half giue it him warme in the morning Or take Maidenhaire Politrichum and Harts tong of each foure scruples Madder Broome rootes of each two scruples fresh Well water 24. ounces Vineger three ounces Licorice one dragme and a halfe séeth them afterwards together by a mild fire vnto the halfe the patient is to drinke of this potion seuen or eight dayes together euery morning foure ounces The same is good and approued Secondly it is to be considered how that this obstruction is to be opened For this it is good that one do take euery morning early one quarter of an ounce of washt Turpentine and fast fiue or sixe howers vpon it Or in stead of this that he do swallow two or thrée pils made of Galbano Thirdly if so be that this wind be caused through wind whereof we are to speake more at large hereafter then may one swallow halfe a dragme of Ammoniacum made into pils Other take Pillulas Aggregatiuas and Ammoniacum of each halfe a dragme Fourthly to the end that the bad humors may be expelled out of the Milt giue the patient one ounce and a halfe of the iuice of Horehound tempered with two ounces of Smallage water to drinke early in the morning Fiftly to the end that no grieuouser disease do strike into the Milt and that the schirrositie or hardnesse might be mollified and discussed take Hollihocke roots and Swines bred of each thrée handfuls Bdellij Ammoniaci of each halfe an ounce Centory Wormewood Harts tong and Tamariscus of each one handfull and a halfe Vineger sixe ounces séeth them all together in a
an ounce the iuice of Smallage as much as suffiseth for to make a masse of pils These pils are good for all melancholicke accidents for the Canker for the Leapry for all incurable blacke Impostumes for all heauines of mind the quartain Ague yellow Iaundise diseases of the Milt and such like One may take a dragme at once of these pils Item take tenne dayes together the powder of Fearne rootes one dragme and a halfe augmenting it still from day to day to the waight of one dragme and a halfe Other do take of this foresaid powder one dragme and of the pils Agregatiuae halfe a drag and temper them together Item take the iuice of Wormwood foure ounces Sugar as much as you please and so vse it ten dayes one after another It is also not onely good for the Milt but also for the yellow Iaundise as also for all moisture of the Lyuer and for the dropsie Item for all hardnesse and swelling of the same being tempered with Vineger and so drunken Maister Tristrams water is also very méete for all diseases of the Milt like as be also the most of all golden waters which be described in the eight part Item take Roses and Barberries of each three dragmes burnt Iuorie Wormwood Cuscuta Licorice Mastick and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Endiue séede Fennell Annis Spica Agrimonie Opium Asarabacca rootes Costus rootes péeled Gourd séed and Cucumber seedes of each halfe a drag then make Trociskes thereof with Endiue water They be especiall good for the Milt and also for the Liuer For potions he may take of these things following what he desireth as namely both kinds of Chamedryos Harts toung Maidenhaire Sene leaues Capers rootes Tamarlske rootes of Parsley Smallage Fennell Cinnamom Licorice Currans Annis Fennell water and of Caraway wherein Thymus and Epithymus be decocted The order of Diet. THis patient is to beware of cloudie and foggie weather and of hard and grosse meates his bread must be well baked and be a day or two stale but vnleauened bread is not good for him also Annis Coriander and Fennell are to be baked in his bread All field fowles as Phesants Partridges yong and old turtle Doues Kids young Mutton drest with vineger he may eate well as also rere Egges Of all other herbs these are good for him Mints Parsly Fennell Garlick Léekes all kind of Cresses Sage Hyssope Radish Endiue Agrimonie red Pease and the first decoction of red Colewoorts He must also eate oftentimes Annis Comin Dill séed Fennell seed and the séeds of Sesamum Capers Tamarisks bitter Almonds the kernels of Peach stones and of Cherie stones for this is also good the losinges of Comin and of Annis The milts of swine are also to be eaten for the curing of the disease of the milt and also the milt of a sound horse dried and beaten to powder the waight of a dragme take of it with strong wine for it is in like maner very requisite for this purpose But if so be that there be no heate then may he chuse some of these things following for to drinke First wine is not onely permitted for this hardnes of the Milt but also highly commended Also all famous Phisitions do aduise that the patient must eate and drinke in the wood of Tamariske for they say that onely hereby many be holpen who haue gone twentie yeares with a hard Milt But if this Tamariske wood cannot be gotten then are the shauings thereof to be taken and laid in his drinke And if so be that one can continue this forty dayes together then he shall euidently see amendement Ash wood doth the same which hath also the power of the Tamariske Of Wines white wine is alwaies most commended if it be too strong then is it to be allayed with water that is stéeled or with raine water or the water of Harts toung You haue also hereafter two kinds of good wines which may be prepared for this vse Take Sene leaues Balme Maidenhaire and the rinds of Tamariske of each sixe handfuls Polypodie rootes foure handfuls prepared Coriander thrée ounces Guaiacum foure ounces eight or ten Nutmegs Cloues halfe an ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Citron pils one handfull shauings of Ash wood as much as is néedfull at the most sixtéene quarts make then an hearbed wine thereof and let the patient drinke the first draught thereof in the morning and euening Another Take the rootes of Cicorie rinds of Tamariske Harts tong and the middle rinds of the Ash wood of each one handfull powre ten pots of Must or some other good wine and vse thereof as before And all other herbed wines which may be made are at this present praised for the Milt as wine of Eyebright wine of Tamariske each made by it selfe or both together Item wine of Hyssope of Marioram and of Wormwood do warm the Milt and all inward parts the wine of Gilloflowers and of Betonie is also good for this Item the Aromaticall wine mo other spiced wins and also the wine of Asarabacca Reasonable exercise before meales is also much commended and sometimes to bath in water wherein the foresaid herbes be decocted To the contrarie he must eschue all troubled wines as Must Syder and Beere for all such do not only obstruct the Milt but also the Lyuer the Lights and Kidneys which obstructions be causes of many sicknesses For this disease is also hurtfull Swines flesh Milke Chéese Rice Starch Pease Beanes Seruices Peares Medlars Quinces Chestnuts and Peaches therefore be they to be refrained We will also note some things wherewith the sicke partie and the Milt with all other inward parts are to be strengthened Amongst which is de Miua Cydoniorum aromatica one of the chiefe Item this confection following if that heate and cold be mixed together Take Venus haire Harts tong of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce Tamariscus one ounce seedes of Agnus castus and of broad Plantaine Aristologie rootes Agrimony Wormwood and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Laudanum one dragme séed of Purslaine Sorrell Endiue and wild Endiue of each two dragmes and a halfe Oxymel of Squils sixe ounces water Lillies Violet séedes and of Mallowes of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar eight ounces Séethe the Sugar with Vineger of Squils vntill it be as thicke as hony when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire afterwards séethe it againe with vineger of Squils vntill it be as thick as honie when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire Afterwards séethe it againe vntill all the water be decocted when it is then sodden and well brayed then vse euery morning three dragmes of it If you had rather drinke it then temper it with Sorrell water it is a maruellous good medicine Another Confection Take Mirobalani Indi and Bellirici floures of Burrage Buglosse Elecampane roots
not continually to be vsed to the end that the raines be not therby too much weakned inféebled After this annointing are these plaisters following to be laid vpon it which do asswage the paine and will open the conduits of vrine Take thrée ounces of Wheaten meale of Fenegréeke meale of Linseed beaten Cammomils of each one dragme and a halfe Salt one ounce then make it to a plaister with the oile of Camelina and with the oile of Scorpions and then lay it warme vpon it You shall find hereafter many things moe which allay the paine also Of those things which expell grauell and do breake the stone §. 4. IF there be any feare had of the stone or grauel or that one perceiue it already then may these things be vsed for it Take oile of Lillies of Scorpions and of Earth-wormes of each a like much annoint the raines very fat with it by the fire or by â—warme ouen And if you cannot get this Scorpion oile then take onely the oâ—her oiles Item eate euery morning 6. or 7. bitter Almonds or Peach kernels like as is counselled before There is also much commended the bone of a Hare which we call the Hares spring pouned and the same drunken with fresh broth when as any bodies raines begin to grieue him then is the red oile of S. Iohns wort estéemed to be very good for to annoint him therewith Item take 18. or 20. Peach kernels one quarter of an ounce of Raisins eate them together and drinke a good draught vpon it of pease broth sod without salt or suet for this is also much commended the Cicers or Spanish pease which haue a speciall vertue against the grauell Item take Hollihocke rootes two pound the same being made cleane powne them and séeth them in two or three quarts of water vntill the half and then straine this broth through a cloth whereof you are euery morning to drinke a good pul Afterwards vse the foresaid potion of Cicers and Peach kernels and when you haue a pound of this drinke then mixe amongst it one dragme of beaten Cinnamome and as much of the Swams which groweth on the wild Rose-branches You may also séeth Parsley rootes Sperage rootes and Fennell rootes with it and drinke often of it this is especially commended for them that would withstand the grauell Item take the rootes of Pimpernell halfe an ounce Bistorta Tormentill Polipodie rootes and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce Gentian Fenegréek Oculi cancrorum peach kernels Louage séed the séed of Smallage Pickrels bones shales of hasell nuts the séed of Mallowes and Cammomill of each one dragme make a powder therof and take thereof the waight of one dragme or one dragme and a halfe euery day The auncient Phisitions accustome to make this potion following How to make Williams potion the which they do call Williams potion Take one handfull of Alehoofe young Acorne buds halfe so much the herbe Mouse-eare a little water and wine of each a pint let them seeth together vntill about the half be sodden away then straine it through a cloth and drinke thereof in the euening and morning each time about thrée spoonefuls and euery foureséene dayes make a fresh How the wine of winter Cherries is to be prepared is amongst others dclared in the eight part it openeth the conduits of vrine maruellously expelleth the matter whence the stone and grauell doth grow very vehemently as well out of the kidneyes vreters as also of the bladder And now further to come to a right processe of the Grauell take at the first fiue ounces of fresh oile of swéete Almonds and drinke the same warme Two houres afterwards take a good draught of this potion following and afterwards as often as you will Take Mallowes with the herbe and rootes and Hollihocke leaues of each one handfull Licorice one ounce fresh Butter and cléere Honie of each two ounces seeth them together in sufficient water or in the water of Cresses and so drinke thereof as is expressed The next day one is to take this confection following early in the morning Take fresh Cassie and Benedicta of each halfe an ounce Species Iustini one dragme and a halfe temper them together and then strew them with Sugar and Licorice Hauing taken this then is the partie to take thereupon presently a good draught of the water of Cresses and through this aduice hath many a one bene released of the grauell Or take of the confection Benedicta fiue or sixe dragmes Turpentine washed in water of Mallowes one quarter of an ounce temper them al together with thrée ounces of Agrimony water and then drinke it as warme as you can it is maruellous good against the stone Necessitie doth otherwhiles require that these confections following are to be giuen to the patient Take the confection Benedicta and washt Turpentine of each thrée dragmes and a half Iewes stone which is prepared with water wherein Millet is decocted one dragme temper them all together with powned Licorice and then giue it him with Cresses water Men do also take sometimes for it halfe a dragme of prepared blood of a Bucke also which is not amisse Hereafter followeth one other necessary meane or processe Pils for the stone and first in case the stone be in the bladder then are these pils to be prepared which do vehemently breake the stone Take the fruites of Balsam Radish seed and the séed of great Smallage Some do sake for this the seede of stone Parsley Opopanacum Capers rootes bitter Almonds Saxifrage Squinanth Cipers rootes Indy Spica Cassie wood Harts tongue wild Rue Gentian Hartwort Asarabacca Cardamome Ammoniacum Serapinum Bdellium long Pepper and Calmus of each a like much the Gums are to be molten in sufficient Balsam temper the rest among them beaten small and make it into pils take of them one dragme at once with the foresaid confection of Benedicta and of Turpentine as is before rehearsed when he is purged then take Pellitorie of the wall Mallowes of each one handfull and a halfe Linseed Fenegréeke séed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull fiftéene or sixtéene Sebestes Licorice powned Millet of each halfe an ounce cut all that is to be cut and let it boile in fresh broth Take twelue or fifteene ounces thereof and temper amongst it one ounce of Benedicta oile of bitter Almonds thrée ounces slight sugar one ounce and a halfe Salt one dragme and one yolke of an egge then mixe them together and set this clister very warme And if that this purgation by reason of the vnpleasantnes of the Turpentine went against his stomacke then may he vse one of these ensuing Take fresh Cassie one ounce and a quarter oile of swéete Almonds foure ounces temper them together and drinke it Or take Electuarium de Sebesten and Cassie of each halfe an ounce Electuarium Indum one dragme and a halfe mixe them all together with Sugar if you will put therewith one
dragme of Iewes stone and make it to a drinke with Millet water then doth it expell the better After this are you to come to the things which do breake the stone easily open the passages of vrine For to atchieue this then is the body first of all to be purged and afterwards are these following and elected remedies to be vsed By what meanes the stone to be broken To breake the stone is this following very forcible Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe ashes of Scorpions one scruple ten graines of good Treacle burnt and prepared glasse one dragme then séeth Radishes Saxifrages winter Cherries in water or wine and take foure ounces of this broth or as much Beane water and make the foresaid a potion and vse it fasting in the morning In case that for all this the paine remaineth induring then take scraped Licorice and Currans of each one quarter of an ounce pouned Millet Maidenhaire of each halfe an ounce séeth them together in water of Agrimonie Pellitorie or Cammomill water take of this decoction two ounces and a halfe Spec. Lithontribi one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum two scruples good wine two ounces Sugar one ounce then temper them all together vnto a potion and drinke it three houres before meate Item take prepared Bucks blood one dragme and a halfe Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Wine wherin Radishes be decocted foure ounces then make a potion of it Further it is necessary that the stomack be strengthened and the hot matter of the kidneyes expelled for which is méet also the foresayd Clister if there be put vnto it one ounce of Cassie more Or vse this following Take twelue ounces of Linséede oyle oyle of bitter Almonds sixe ounces Hens grease foure ounces or in stead of that as much fresh Butter two yolkes of Egs then mixe them all together and minister it warme You may also giue vnto the sicke body oyle of swéete or bitter Almonds of each three ounces and a halfe or more to drink for it is found that the same taken by the mouth hath more asswaged the paine than the which hath bene vsed in the Clisters It is in like sort found to be very good that the place be fomented with these things following where the paine is and after that annointed Take Cammomill Maidenhaire Linseed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull séeth them all together in white Wine and water then make a sponge wet in it and lay the same wrung out very warme vpon it For the annointing may many things be vsed or like as hereafter followeth Take oyle of Scorpions one ounce oyle of swéet Almonds and Butter of each halfe an ounce muscilage of Linséede of Fenegréeke of each fiue dragmes Saxifrage one dragme and a little molten Waxe temper them all together The last and highest meane for the intollerable paine is that the Harcotica be vsed which be things that take away all sence and féeling thus Take the first described decoction and put therein of the confection of Lithontribon two dragmes Philonium Romanum one dragme oile of swéete almonds one quarter of an ounce good white Wine two ounces mingle them all together and giue thereof to drinke Will you then make a Clister of it then take of the foresaid decoction about two ounces oyle of swéete Almonds foure ounces Philonium one dragme Wine thrée ounces and then minister it like as is accustomed These two proceedings in this sicknes I thought good to described thus at length that euery one might know how to chuse of the medicines following what is most needfull for him First we will describe all such things which are to be eaten and may be vsed in the bodie and first of all beginning with the confections Take sponge stones Hollihocke séed Millet and Medlar stones of each halfe an ounce prepared Buckes blood one dragme Iewes stones and Gromell seede of each one scruple great and small Endiue séede and Pykes bones which be vnsodden of each half a dragme Sugar as much as of all the rest but the Sugar decocted with the water of winter Cherries and then make Tabulats thereof and take of them euery time halfe an ounce Or take Pomate stone Iewes stone and burnt glasse of each one dragme and a halfe prepared Bucks blood thrée dragmes Gromel seed half an ounce beate them all smal together Sugar as much as all the rest doth weigh make with the water of winter Cherries or the water of Mallowes tabulats of it and take halfe an ounce at once thereof Item take foure ounces of Pistacies stéepe them two dayes and two nights in the water of winter Cherries take off the péeles and chop them very small Gromell séeds halfe an ounce rootes of Cinqfoile Harts toong wild Thime Rue séed of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces then seeth it with the water of Saxifrage make Tabulats of it and vse them as before Another Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe the iawbones of Pickrels two scruples Iew stones and Sponge stones of each halfe a dragme Melon seed Hollihocke séed Licorice the seed of Smallage Cucubes of each one scruple Sugar two ounces and a halfe make a confection thereof with the water of Mallowes Fennell seed and Comin raw or confected and eaten be good for all diseases in the kidneyes of the stone and grauell The confection of Iustini or Lithontribon as they be prepared at all wel furnished Apothecaries are also maruellous good for this vse In like manner also bitter Almonds confected and eaten expell the matter whence the stone doth grow This following is also a very sumptuous Confection Take burnt glasse and burnt Grashoppers whereof the féete and wings be cast away of each thrée dragmes the ashes of a burnt Hare and preared Buckes blood of each one ounce Plantain seed Starch the seed of Butchers broome of each two dragmes and a halfe Sirupi Acetosi Compositi thirtie ounces Sugar pennets 24. ounces then make an electuarie thereof This foresaid confection doth clense all slimie matter and grauell it breaketh the stone and openeth all conduits of vrine if one take euery morning the space of foureteene dayes three dragmes with the water of Gromell or Radish water The Confection of a calcined Hare is thus to be prepared The electuarie of a calcined Hare Take Iewes stone and Sponge stones of each one dragme the powder of a burnt Hare one quarter of an ounce Spec. Lithontribon one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces make thereof with Saxifrage water tabulats or a Confection This foresaid Electuary prouoketh vrine and clenseth all the vreters of all slime and grauel and expelleth also all windes take thereof two or three dragmes with the water of Sperage betimes in the morning and also before both the meale tides Item take yellow wild Rape seed Comin Balsam wood Parsley seed sweet Costus rootes Calmus Annis Asarabacca Fennel and Cinnamom of each one dragme
together in a pint and a halfe of wine and vse them as before Take the rootes of Cicorie foure handfuls take out the wooddie hart and cut them smal then poure two quarts of wine vpon it and let it séeth so long vntill the force be gone out of it afterwards wring it out and then séeth it vnto a thin sirupe and so take euery morning a spoonefull or twaine of it This following doth open much all obstructions and forceth the Termes Take of the confection Triphera without Opium Mather and Siluer mountaine of each halfe an ounce Fenegréeke Turkish beanes and Céeres of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in eight ounces of water euen to the halfe then straine it through and temper in thrée ounces of this decoction the Triphera aforesaid The Phisitions therefore do occupie this Triphera without Opium because it is forcible and strong Also they temper therewith otherwhiles one drag of the iuice of Sauin sometimes also Mirrha red Storax Bdellium Euphorbium or Opopanacum all according to the importance of the cause Item take Cassie wood thrée dragmes beaten very small and giue it with wine One that is more féeble Take Myrrhe Beuercod and red Storax of each thrée dragmes Sauine fine and course Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe make an electuary thereof with Hony then take one quarter of an ounce thereof and temper it in Wine for a potion Item take Saffron one dragme or more and drinke it with Wine or with Mallowes water Saffron onely preferreth the Floures the same doth also one dragme of powned Cardamome Here now do follow certaine powders which are to be taken in the potions and amongst all things is nothing more to be commended then the Trociskes de Myrrha which are thus prepared Take Myrrhe one dragme and a halfe Lupins two dragmes and a halfe Rue white water Mints Candie Diptamus Comin Madder Elecampane rootes Sagapenum Opopanacum of each one dragme then make Trociskes thereof with the iuice of Mugwort and giue halfe an ounce thereof with water wherein Iuniper berries be decocted Take Beuercod one dragme powder of Mints halfe a scruple drinke it with wine it is also very good for this vse Item half a scruple of the blossomes of the Nut trée taken with wine doth the same S. Iohns wort doth also moue much the termes Also these wines ensuing are very good for it viz. wine of Elecampane rootes of Marierom gentle of the herbe Bennet of Betony of Gilloflowers and of Rosemary Item take one handfull of Iuniper berries Madder Cinnamome and Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce séeth them al together in Mugwort water vntill the third part be euaporated straine it and put one dragme of Boreas vnto it giue thereof a good warme draught twice or thrice a day The same doth also the Trocisci Galliae Muscatae Rasis foure scruples taken with warme white wine it helpeth immediatly It is here also to be noted if so be that the patient might drinke no wine then take the leaues of blew Flowerdeluce stampe them and seeth them in capon broth and let her drinke it this is also found many times good and it expelleth also dead children Item take the scull of a Capon before he is boyled or rosted stampe it and drinke it with Penniroyall water this may suffice for the potions Take Penniroyall Italian Comin Mints Ireos Hartwort Mather and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce make an electuary thereof with clarified Hony take two dragmes of it and drinke a draught of Béere or Wine after it wherein Sauine Penniroyall Mugwort Fennell rootes of Sperage of Smallage and of Parsley haue bene decocted Item take of the electuary Antidotum Haemagogum halfe an ounce and giue it fasting If you had rather drinke it then temper foure ounces of Mugwort water amongst it and vse it against the time that the Flowers do come Treacle and Mithridate do also force the Flowers very gently Amongst the confections there be good for this the confected Elecampane rootes the confected Eryngus conserues of Pionie and Myrrhe rosted in an apple The Italian women do highly commend the electuary Diacyminum if one do take euery morning one quarter of an ounce of it then will the termes come within the space of a moneth as they affirme it doth make fruitfull and strengtheneth the stomacke The confected Calmus is especial good if the obstruction do come through celd Fennel seed confected forceth also the flowers likewise also Comin and Caruway Cinnamom and Saffron are also to be vsed in all things These pilles ensuing are also to be prepared Take the pils Alephanginae halfe a dragme Aloe two scruples beaten Sauin one scruple make fourtéene pils of it with the water of Mugwort and take the one halfe thereof at once they do moue the termes and the stooles and are also very safe Others Take Muscus and Myrrhe of each foure scruples Stechas Mather Penniroyall Citron pils long pepper Cassie wood Cassie pils Pionie séeds and Calmus of each thrée quarters of an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwort whereof take 1. ʒ at once The ancient Phisitions do command pessaries to be vsed as Euphorbium wrapt in wooll Item take Hellebore and the iuice of Wormewood of each one quarter of an ounce Ammoniacum one dragme temper it with Oxe gall But here ensue sundrie which are safer Take Beuercod and Myrrhe of each a like quantitie Muscus a little then forme it with the oile of Behen as an Acorne and tie it to a thréed and put it into the Matrix before Or take fresh Rue Wormewood and Coloquint of each a like quantitie forme a pessarie thereof of Oxe gall Item take white Watermints Swines bread Agnus Castus Rue Sauine Mugwort Penniroyall Marierom Radishes Southernewood Nettle seede Iuniper leaues Mather white Hellebore Centorie Myrrhe Beuercod Elecampane roots Sagapenum Opopanacum of each one dragme Gallia Muscata one scruple stampe all that is to be stamped and then make a pessarie of it with the iuice of wild Cucumbers and Oxe gall and vse them as before Another Take Gentian and Penniroyall of each one quarter of an ounce Nigella seeds one dragme temper them together with powned figges and with a little of the iuice of Mercury these do make no heate like as the other Item take Gentian two scruples Coloquint and Nigella séede of each one dragme temper them together with the iuice of wild Cucumbers Or if you will haue it stronger then put some white Hellebore vnto it there be also sundry other made which be stronger and milder according to the importance of the cause of the foresaid cold and warme things each according to his god pleasure and content Amongst all these things and all that may be iniected into the bodie and necke of the matrix or wombe this general rule is to be obserued that the same may be vsed as well before as after bathing Outwardly may
one bathe and foment with all that which here ensueth Take Asarabacca halfe a handful Ebulus leaues one handful and a half Feuerfew Mints Mugwort Agrimony Marierom and Betonie of each one handfull Cammomill Melilot and Roses of each halfe a handfull cut all the herbes and séeth them like as hath bene taught oftentimes It is also very commodious and good to sit in warme water wherein Mallowes haue bene decocted Or take Mugwort and Sauine of each thrée handfuls Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fennell seeds Parsley seedes Annis Dill séedes Orage seedes wild yellow Rape seedes and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme Cammomill Elderne flowers Rosemary and Stechas of each one dragme make a little bag thereof and séeth it in water and then sit vpon it Another Take Mugwort Sauine trée of each thrée handfuls swéet Costus roots Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each two handfuls the séed of Mallowes of Hollihockes of Southernwood of Linséed of Fenegréeke of Cuscuta mustard séede of Lauender and of Siluermountaine of each one ounce and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell Dill séed wile yellow Rape seede and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Elderne flowers Stechas Rosemary flowers of each one ounce séeth them as before and then sit vpon the bag For fomentation you are to vse that which followeth hereafter Take Cammomil Mugwort Sauine and Nettle roots of each one handful séeth them together in water and receiue the vapor from beneath Item take Rue Sage Southernwood and Sauine of each one handful put them together into a new pot and close it tight but leaue a hole open aboue on the couer wherein a tap may be put whilest it boyleth afterwards draw out the tap and receiue the warme vapor from beneath as is sayd before Or take Myrrhe as much as you will temper it with the iuice of Mugwort and let it drie afterward put filed Harts horne vnto it to wit the third part as much as there is Myrrhe then strew this pouder vpon a hot tile and receiue the smoke beneath but round about couer you close You may also take for it Penniroyal Rue Sauine leaues and vse them alone Item take Violet leaues two handfuls Myrrhe halfe an ounce let them séeth together in raine water and foment therewith as warme as you can abide it Take Penniroyal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hyssope of each one handfull Sauine Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Cinnamom Galingall of each one dragme Siluermountaine and Mather of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse together and séeth the same in a quart of water euen to the halfe and then vse it as before this also prouoketh vrine Or take Penniroyall Marierom Sage and Mugwort of each one handfull séeth them all together for a fomentation for to fume you are to take a little Coloquint cast it vpon a hote stone and receiue the fume from beneath it greatly prouoketh womens termes but note that Coloquint is very sharpe and that the sayd well sauouring spices and other things be much safer for to fumigate withall Or take Dill Cammomill Melilot Squinant Cassie wood Costus rootes Sulphur Rue Marierom Stechas Southernwood any of all these or part of the same To set boxing cups vpon the thighes is also very behouefull and auailable Plaisters and Vnguents TAke the muscilage of Fleawort and of Linséede of each one ounce vnsalted butter two ounces Hens grease Duckes grease Goose grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and oyle of swéete Almonds of each fiue dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue then annoint you therewith behind and before from the nauell downewards but not before that you haue vsed all other meanes of bathing letting of blood potions c. Item take of the confection Benedicta halfe an ounce Turbith one quarter of an ounce Nigella séed thrée dragmes decocted Hony as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This is to be layd ouer the priuities as before If so be that one perceiueth the termes after the vse of this foresaid meanes some do aduise and that very well that this potion ensuing is to be made Take Mugwort Sene leaues and Penniroyall of each halfe a handful Cinnamom halfe an ounce Mace thrée dragmes séeth it al together in thrée pints of good wine vntill about the fourth part be wasted and this in a Canne stopt tight in séething water this expelleth the termes vnto her due time The other orderly meane for to preferre the termes is that first of all the Saphea or Median shall be opened and that afterwards a long bag is to be made and to be filled with any of the foresaid herbes which you like best and then put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Gallia Muscata and weare it so vpon the priuities Afterwards make of one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid Gallia with the water of Mugwort nine pils and take three thereof at once in the morning early then make a pessary of the length of a finger and fill the same with pouned Mercury and put it into the place Set boxing cups also vpon the thighes and in the hams and then rub the legs downewards with warme clothes Squinant and Madder decocted also in the water of Maidenhaire and drunken are also highly commended Item take the pipes of Cassie when the Cassie is taken out and let them be well scraped on the outside as many as you will Cinnamom Mace Saffron Diptamus and Baulme of the one as much as of the other make a powder thereof and take a dragme thereof euery morning with water of Mints the same moueth them very gently But as much as concerneth letting of blood whereof mention is made before some do aduise and not without reason if in case that a woman hath not had her Termes a long time that her veine is to be opened besides her little toe and the next day afterwards on the other foote The words of Hippocrates and of his expounder Galen be true that the letting of blood and hunger do cause women with child to miscary for that thereby they say will the nourishment of the child be withdrawne Therefore good héede is to be taken in these things for that many women haue this for a custome whether they be fat grosse strong or leane that they alwayes open a veine at the halfe of their going with child like as we also haue before admonished in the first § But if one will néeds be let blood then must after the same or else without letting of blood bathings be oftentimes vsed for which is Penniroyall to be taken field mints Southernwood Centorie and Hyssope of each one handful Sauine and Feuerfew of each one dragme Siluer-mountaine Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce stampe and choppe them all small and let them séeth
there be any veine broken within the vlcer then temper somewhat of these things following with it as Dragon blood Myrrhe Frankinsence fine Bolus Saffron Hartwort with Rose water or with Plantaine water A bath for the raines is very necessary for this purpose whereto you may prepare this following Take Valerian rootes Mew and rootes of Smallage of each foure handfuls Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce the rootes of Yarrow foure handfuls séeth them all in sufficient water and sit therein to the nauell Besides all this there is another bath highly commended wherin the roots of wild Cucumbers be decocted For this is also very good that which is described in the 12. § beginning thus Take oyle of Centory 6. ounces c. But in case this ensuing matter remaine stinking and that there be heate with it then vse the other pessaries made of cotton and Roses that are there discouered but the vlcers must be cleansed before by the iniection of Hony water Lastly if so be that the hardnesse do continue which may be perceiued by féeling as also by the pricking by the paine and by issuing out of the matter then is one to beware that there be no sharpe medicines vsed for it for that thereby the malady will be much the rather augmented for all which is discouered in the fifth Chapter and second § of the iniection of the muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke for that is also the liuer veine to be opened and the salue of Ceruse to be vsed This person must also beware of all which augmenteth melancholy whereof you may find a sufficient discourse in the eleuenth Chapter and 8. § Of an vnnaturall birth called Mola §. 14. IT chanceth also sometimes that in certaine women which haue no company with a man yet their belly swelleth vp no otherwise than as though they were with child and all the signes of being with child agree also with it for that their Termes be absent and stayed they féele also some stirring in the Matrix their breasts will be hard the appetite of meate leaueth them their naturall colour will be pale all which signes are common to women with child notwithstanding they beare no child which beare this Mola This Mola groweth after two sorts in the wombe the one will grow to a péece of flesh without any figure halfe putrified and is also no right flesh but rather a spongeous masse of wind of water and of some other superfluous bloud which through the accustomed termes cannot be expelled and the same then being mixed with the naturall seed groweth otherwhiles to such a hardnesse that the same cannot be cleft asunder with any hatchet Secondly it may also be ingendred of the said bloud and the concourse of certaine tough humors and so make a false shew like women with child Neuerthelesse the expert Phisitions do distinguish thrée seuerall signes whereby bearing women and they that be burthened with this vnnaturall masse are to be knowne for that first the mouing of this Mola or vnnaturall masse is not like that of a child because it is a thing which hath no life Secondly the belly of women which beare Mola is much harder and not so moueable from one place to another as theirs is that be with child Thirdly this masse falleth from the one side to the other Fourthly if a woman be burthened with Mola then be her hands and feete very féeble and limber and it séemeth also that her fingers be shorter all which cannot be perceiued in bearing women Fiftly the woman that beareth Mola is not so merry as one that is with child Sixtly a woman with child is commonly after nine moneths deliuered but in the Mola is no certaine time for that it is found that women therewith haue gone two yeares foure yeares and also longer yea their whole life time that no phisicke hath holpen them And from these that be cured there auoydeth oftentimes as is sayd a lothsome peece of flesh and that with such paine as if she were deliuered of a child It auoydeth sometimes into bloud otherwhiles to wind and their belly falleth away as before This is such an accident that it ought not slightly to be regarded for that thereby it may easily be marked that the Matrix is vtterly vncleane and spoyled therefore do these women easily fall againe into the foresayd maladies or if not into an vnnaturall fluxe vlcer or impostume of the Matrix Lastly they commonly fall into the Dropsies Aseites or Tympanites or into some other perillous sicknesse whereof they die Neuerthelesse must the Phisition not doubt of the cure but as soone as he knoweth certainly that the woman be burthened with a Mola and be not rightly with child then is the woman to be commaunded that the stirre not too much and lie for the most vpon the backe and with her legs higher than the body and to constraine her selfe otherwhiles to vomit and parbrake and refraine from all cold and moist meates for which this potion following is to be made Take S. Iohns wort Sauine Rosemary field Mints and corne Mints Louage Mugwort Penniroyall and Mather of each one handfull Fennell Squinant both kindes of Parsley seede Calmus and wild Galingall of each one dragme Radish foure ounces seeth them together in a sufficient quantitie of water for a potion and vse thereof euery day thrée or foure ounces this potion melloweth that masse and expelleth the humor whereby it might be increased There is also to be tempered with this potion one of these Trociskes following Take Cinnamome Myrrhe of each two dragmes and a halfe Rue Sauine field Mints Penniroyall al together dried Mather Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme Cardamome Iuniper trée Rosemary of each one dragme and a halfe forme the Trociskes of the waight of a quarter of an ounce This afore described is so to be vsed the space of ten dayes or more Other do aduise for a thing of smaller importance to wit that the woman two moneths euery morning early should take thrée ounces of warme Feuerfew water and to fast foure houres at least after it Secondly that she euery fourth day when she drinketh of the water should take one of these pilles Take Galbanum one quarter of an ounce flowers of Mugwort Saint Iohns wort and Asarabacca of each one scruple dissolue the Gum in good Wine and make thereof sixe pilles of a dragme She is also to purge once in fouretéene dayes with thrée quarters of an ounce of Benedicta Laxatiua tempered with two ounces of Feuerfew water Or if she had rather pilles that she swallow one dragme of Pillulas Foetidas Fourthly she is alwayes to weare this plaster following vpon the belly the breadth of a finger beneath the nauell reaching vp towards the hips Take Galbanum one ounce and a halfe Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Alipta Muscata one dragme white Waxe thrée dragmes dissolue the gum in good wine and then
Afterwards is this potion following to be vsed at least eight daies togither early in the morning and to fast fower houres after it Take one ounce of the honie of Roses the water of white water Mints and the water of field Cypers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them togither He may also take to prepare the humour honie of Roses Syrupum de Stoechade and some of the foresaid waters The ninth day shall he swallow these pils following Take Pillularum de Hermodactilis and Foetidarum of each halfe a dragme make thereof seuen pils with the sirupe of Roses and take them early in the morning And if so be that one would take no pils then take fiue dragmes of Hieralogodion and Turbith beaten small halfe a scruple Diagridion two graines Ginger three graines temper them togither and take it so or put some distilled water vnto it Some expert Phisitions do aduise much to this Clister Take Ireas the rootes of wilde Cucumbers field Cipers Saint Iohns woort of each two handfuls seeth them all togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therewith Hieralogodion one ounce oyle of Rue thrée ounces honie of Roses one ounce the yolke of an Egge well braied Salt one dragme vse it once a day In Haruest is the patient once euery fourtéene dayes to take one dragme of these pils following Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Hermodactyli of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one dragme and a halfe Ginger Cinnamome Asarabacca Cloues and Mace of each one scrup Turbith and Epithymus of each one drag Saffron one scruple stamp each alone afterwards temper them togither and powre sufficient field Cipers water vpon it and then set it out to drie in the Sun Lastly powre more of the same water vpon it and let it drye againe to the end you may fashion Pils of it Secondly there is to be considered how that next after purging betwéene the spring and haruest the matter might be deriued towards another place and so to expell it which may be best of all done by those meanes which force vrine whereto these things following are to be vsed First the patient is to drinke about the space of fourtéene dayes euery morning fiue ounces of Asarabacca sugred or in the stéed thereof the water of Madder which is better There is also good for this both these things following Take Pease meale one scruple old Treacle halfe a dragme temper them togither with two â—â—nces of Smallage water and so drinke it and fast fiue howers after it Item take Trociscos de Eupatorio halfe a dragme Gromell séed Cinnamom and Carui of each fiue graines Benedicta laxatiua one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with two ounces of strong white wine then drinke it and fast fiue howers after it All that shall be hereafter mentioned consumeth the defluxions which be still setled in the ioynts then is the place of this disease to be rubbed softly and annoynted with this following according as the patient can suffer it Take vnripe Sallad oyle two ounces well parched salt one ounce annoint the ioints very warme with it and then wrap them in warme clothes The ioynts are to be also fomented with light red wine and vineger powred on hot stones that they may sweate well They are also to be annointed with this following Take Sagapenum one ounce Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each halfe an ounce Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce the Gum is to be dissolued in a little red Vineger and with Waxe make a salue thereof Another Take oyle of Roses and of Cammomill of each one ounce thrée yolks of egges Saffron grains temper them vse them togither After the annoynting you are to strew the powder of earthwormes vpon it and couer it close with shéepes wooll Or take oyle of Foxes oyle of earthwormes and washt Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Salt thrée dragms vse theÌ„ as before You are also to annoynt the same places with warme oile of Roses This following is also very highly commended Take Venice Sope three ounces and a halfe cut it verie thin and then let it seeth a waume or twaine in sixe ounces of the water of Fumitory afterwards you are to put vnto it the oyle of Euphorbium and of S. Iohns woort of each halfe an ounce oyle of Iuniper one ounce and a halfe oyle of Earthwormes one ounce let it then seeth vntill that the water be sodden away afterwards you are to put vnto it Mastick and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Sulfure vif Euphorbium and Pieretrum of each two drag and a halfe vse it as is aforesaid Oile of earth wormes The oyle of Earthwormes is especiall good for all paine of the ioints and for all frozen sinewes the which is made thus Take Earthwormes thrée ounces wash the same with Wine and powre vnto it twelue ounces of Sallad oyle Wine sixe ounces seeth them togither by a gentle fire vntill the Wine be sodden awaie afterwards strayne them thorough a cloth For this disease be all warme baths also requisite And if they cannot be gotten then are the same to be made by the aduice of a learned Phisition yet the most commodious time of bathing is from the middest of April to the end of May. And because that these defluxions be more manifest in the Spring and Haruest than in any other time of the yéere vnto which times we haue appropriated all these foresayd remedies therfore will we now teach what is to be done vnto it in winter For this is purging to be vsed againe and that in this maner following When as September is halfe past then are these pils to be taken once in the morning Take Pillulas de Agarico de Hermodactylis of each halfe a dragme Indy salt two graines make seuen Pils thereof with the Confection of Roses The day after is this following to be dronken the which is thus 8. or 10. daies togither to be coÌ„tinued Take the sirupe of Wormwood and Syrupum de Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce water of Hops or field Cipers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together afterwards is this following to be drunken Take the Confection Benedicta three dragmes Inda two dragmes and a halfe water of blew flower deluce two ounces temper them al together make it warme and drinke it Afterwards are the foresaid pils which be ordained to be vsed in Haruest beginning Take Aloe c. to be vsed throughout all the Winter As much as concerneth other things those remedies are to be vsed which be ordained to be vsed in Summer onely that they must be vsed in more quantitie like as it is aduised in Summer to take one dragme in Winter one dragme and a halfe so also with bathing otherwise You shall hereafter haue many sundrie things which may be vsed against the Gout or ioint diseases viz.
the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
but all spoon meates that are thin are very meet for him He is to beware of all dry meats He is also to hold him sober in drinking that the meate come not to swim in the stomack If so be he find after meate that his meate do trouble him then is he to take this following for to parbrake it out againe Take thrée ounces of water wherein Radishes be decocted white sugar and hony of each halfe an ounce Salgemmae three graines Comin fiue graines Vineger two ounces temper them together and drinke it luke-warme But in case that the vomiting wil not yet follow after it then thrust your finger or a fether in your throate as déepe as you can which is made fat with oile If it will not yet be then must it be looked to that the meate come not to rot in the stomacke and there ingender an ague of it which is to be done with this potion following Take fresh prepared Cassie which is prepared with water of Violets one ounce water wherein the herbe Mercurie hath bene decocted three ounces then make them warme together and drinke it at one good draught Of sleeping and waking §. 3. THey that be burthened with this disease ought to sléepe the space of eight houres at the least and to go to bed one houre after meate and to turne oftentimes about from one side to the other The head is to lie very high and to sléepe halfe sitting When it is cold weather then is he to couer his whole bodie especially his head very warme Reasonable exercise is very good for him if so be that he can exercise himselfe His head must he let be oftentimes and softly rubbed Last of all he is to beware of all motions of the mind as from anger sorrow and such like for that these things do augment the burning of the melancholy Let this suffice to be spoken of the order of diet whereof we shall hereafter discourse more at large and teach also how this matter might be diminished and expelled Of letting of blood §. 4. WE haue before expressed in the generall rules how that letting blood in the confirmed leprosie may not auaile except it be séene that the patient be very full of blood for which setting of boxes is also very commodious whether it be in the necke the shoulders the thighes or vpon the calues and vpon other places mo according to the importance of the cause But if so be that the Leprosie be not rooted then is first the letting of blood to be vsed and that for an vnburthening of the noisome matter But if now the patient be very plethoricke and the veines be full of blood then must one open the patients Median in the left arme and let out three or foure ounces of blood Or if there appeare such fulnes of blood about the liuer then is the liuer veine to be opened in the right arme But if there be any fulnesse in the veines about the head then is the head veine to be opened and that vpon the hand about the great thomb This letting of blood is in the beginning of the Leprosie one of the most principallest medicines and meanes because that the burning blood can through no more commodious way be expelled After letting blood or if it be not estéemed néedfull do all learned commend the potion of Epithymo whereof there be thrée sorts in the first part the twelfth Chapter and eight § described whereof the patient shall take in the morning betimes foure or sixe ounces very warme and then to sleepe one houre vpon it for it is a very mild laxatiue and afterwards he is to fast sixe houres after it But if you desire a weaker potion then take fresh rootes of Polipodie powned Sene leaues Thymus and Epithymus of each one dragme Mirobalani Indi one quarter of an ounce Whay fiue ounces Annis Cinnamome wild yellow Rape seede and Mace of each halfe a scruple and beate it small and steepe it the space of 24. houres in warme Whay afterwards wring it out and so giue it to drinke Item take the confection of Sene leaues three quarters of an ounce and temper it with whay of Goates milke this is a safe and elected medicine This following is somewhat stronger Take Sene leaues one dragme Indy salt prepared Azure stone and fine Bolus of each two graines then giue it warme with thrée ounces of the water of Hops Or take two ounces of the iuice of the leaues of Polipodie temper it with one ounce of good wine vnto a potion If you will haue this more pleasant then take the distilled water which is distilled out of the leaues and rootes of Polipodie Had you rather take pilles then let these following be prepared Take Polipodie Thymus and Epithymus of each fiue graines prepared Azure stone and fine Bolus of each halfe a scruple Annis Mace and Ginger of each two graines Indy salt three graines then make thereof seuen or nine pilles and that with the iuice of Roses for to be taken at one time After this may one bring together many purging things but these beforesaid be sufficient for a patterne and example The clisters may be made thus Take Burrage Buglosse the vttermost of the Agaricus Elecampane rootes and fresh Polipodie of each one handfull then séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe then take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces for a clister without any other addition Another Take of this foresaid decoction twelue ounces Butter halfe an ounce then temper them all together Or take good swéete Wine wherein Mallowes and Violet leaues haue bene decocted foure ounces confection of Sene leaues and Cassy of each half an ounce Indy salt one scruple temper them well together and then set it very warme as a clister Here followeth a stronger Take Coloquint Mirobalani Indi Emblici Epithymus Thymus Fumitorie and Sene leaues of each one handfull séeth all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe and vse them without any other addition for a clister There may also be taken sixe ounces of the decoction wherin an Hedgehog is boiled and putting therto foure ounces of the oile of Violets Indy salt one dragme confection of Hamech thrée quarters of an ounce and temper this together vnto a Clister But this following is the mildest and notwithstanding the most commodious Take whay of Goates milke 12. or 16. ounces Cassie one ounce and set it warme If it be séene that the matter do annoy more the head than any other member then is this laxatiue potion to be vsed Take the confection of Diasena and Hamech of each three dragmes the decocted or distilled water of Betonie water of Violets or of the Sauine trée of each one ounce and a halfe temper it all together If so be that the breast be most of all infected then take Agaricus one dragme and a halfe Mirobalani Indi one quarter of an ounce fresh Polipodie and the huskes of the
had that that be alwaies done or left vndone which is most requisite and profitable so that in strong natures the abstinence and in weake good nourishment be prescribed which not onely in this but in all other maladies is to be specially obserued and kept In this counterfeit and mixt tertian Ague at the first the patient is not to bath but onely when it beginneth to abate and the patient must not haue euery day meate to eate but euery other day and must kéepe himself quiet couer close his breast otherwhiles vse a Clister Item for purging you must take halfe an ounce of Cassie Diaphoenicon two dragmes and a halfe and whay of milke three ounces mingled together For a preparatiue of the humor vse this potion following Sirupe of vineger one ounce Syrupum de Eupatorio half an ounce mingle them together with water of Sorrell of Cicorie and of Fennell of each one ounce drinke it off in the morning fasting cold or warme this is continually to be taken till his vrine begin to waxe paler and certaine small cloudes be perceiued in the bottome Afterwards let him take these things following Take Cassie prepared with Cicory water three ounces Rubarb and Agaricus of each one scruple Spica of Indy and Ginger of each foure graines decoction of Melons Gourds and Citruls three ounces mingle them together with the rest and so giue it him warme There is also to be vsed for these Agues letting of bloud and that at the very beginning The whole ordinance or gouernment of diet must not be cold nor moist as is said of the right Tertian but must be such that it warme digest and open It is also very good to dresse all his meate with Parsley Fennell and such like things and his Barley pappes with some Pepper Item let him vse Hony water wherein Hyssop Marioram and Spikenard hath bene stéeped or sodden Also all things that prouoke vrine except such as warme and dry too fast are passing good and likewise Syrupus acetosus compositus If you desire mo other things then looke what is before written thereof And you must not faile but to giue euery seuen dayes once to the patient for this ague the iuice of Wormwood Oxymel is also passing good and especially that which is made of Squils which openeth all obstructions Some also accustome to giue for these species of Agues Mithridate or Treacle according as the same is ouer hote or cold To conclude vomit after meate is so requisite for all aguish persons that thereby onely many are fréed and holpen Some will haue many things to be vsed for this Ague as there be many wil giue counsell thereto when all meanes and waies haue bene tried then take two ounces and a halfe of the salue of Poplars and mingle it with Cobwebs and so lay them vpon the pulse thrée howers before the ague cometh Some bind it vpon the pulse before the Ague cometh with Cinquefoile Item take a handfull of Eidern leaues Lauander and Salt of each a little mingle them well together with Sallad oyle and so lay it vpon the pulse this should also driue away the Ague The seuenth Chapter Of the burning Feuer called Causon OF this Ague is rehearsall made amongst other Agues in the first chapter of the sixt part that it is like to the right Tertian Agues the hottest of all other Agues euen as we haue also said in the fifth Chapter in which two places her properties are expressed for the obseruation therefore of our accustomed methode we will here shew and rehearse somewhat thereof First this Ague is thus described Causon that is a burning Feuer is a very forcible and continuall Ague and procéedeth of a red Cholera which putrifieth and enflameth in the veines neare the heart in the lyuer and in the mouth of stomack or about any part of the bodie The occasions thereof are somtimes the very hot time great labor that is done in the heate of the Sunne hot meates wrath inflammation of the lyuer and of the bloud in the veines and other causes moe that are rehearsed in the two places aforementioned The signes of the same Ague are a continuall heate and neuer ceassing burning and that rather inwardly than outwardly with many mo terrible accidents also there is great drought of the tongue which at the first is yellowish and afterwards burnt and waxeth blackish with great thirst without any sweate if a Crisis be not at hand the pulses beate fréely the eyes are hollow the appetite faileth vtterly and the water or vrine in this ague is flerie and yellow of colour yea it chaunceth otherwhiles that hearing séeing and speech is taken away by this Ague with a great binding of the bodie In these perillous Agues that commonly make a dispatch of one in foure fiue or at most in seuen daies through death or health these common rules following are to be obserued and also all those that are herebefore noted in the third Chapter and the third § First hasten to expell and mitigate the humor Secondly when the vrine is yellow or yellowish and the pulse slow then must you not let bloud for that the Cholera thereby will be the more inflamed because the moist bloud which delayeth Cholera might thereby be drawne out Thirdly if the vrine be red and thicke and the pulse strong and mightie then first of all must you open a veine Fourthly if it do séeme that it is good to let bloud then must it be done at the first for afterwards it is not allowable lest that thereby great féeblenesse yea death it selfe be procured Fiftly when the heate is almost past then are you to giue the patient to eate and drink sparingly yet in such measure that the naturall strength be not thereby too much enféebled otherwise force the patient although against his will to vse cooling meates Sixtly you must also giue the patient oftentimes cold water to drinke and let him suffer no thirst Seuenthly when his nose or any other part happen to bléed during his sicknesse then must you spéedily staunch the same that he lose no manner of strength thereby Eightly that the hote damps of this Cholera may not ascend into the head the same therfore must be cooled with the oyle of Roses Vineger Saunders and with Rose water And when as the patient cannot sléepe at al or happeneth to fall into any frenzie the same must be cured with méete things as may be found out in the register Ninthly first of all must this Cholera be expelled be it by vomits or stooles and séeke afterwards to coole the great heate which cannot more conueniently be done than that there be sufficient cold water giuen vnto the patient to drinke Tenthly euen as before we haue expressed these diseased are commonly much bound in the belly which must be preuented the first or second day with mild clisters Eleuenthly the patient must also haue a drinke giuen him wherein Prunes sower Dates
and naturall strength be maintained for the which this water following is ordained for the common sort of people which not onely strengtheneth but also driueth out the sweate Take new distilled water of the kernels of Nuts foure ounces powdered Verueine one dragme good Treacle two scrup Saffron seuen greines then mingle it all together and so giue it warme It profiteth much also that the patient alwaies haue in his hand odoriferous things wherewith the heart the braines and all inward parts may be comforted and the bad vapors taken away for the which this Pomander following is very commodious Take red white and yellow Saunders and Roses of each one dragme Saffron and Campher of each one scruple Muske and Amber of each fiue greines then make hereof a Pomander with Dragagant that is dissolued in Rosewater and then bind it in red sarsnet as is before mentioned Of these Pomanders as well hote as cold of nature are herebefore diuers described where we haue treated of the preseruation of the healthie And these sweating patients must not abstaine from meate for that the emptinesse of the stomacke is very hurtfull for them and what meate and drinke is good for them that shall be shewed hereafter If the sicke person be so weak and féeble that he may not be let bloud nor purged then giue vnto him this drinke following that shall do him good Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Coral Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and Verueine of each one dragme beate them all very small together and take therof one quarter of an ounce good Treacle one dragm iuice of Scabious foure ounces Vineger halfe an ounce But if you cannot get the iuice then take the water of Nut kernels and let him drinke it warme yet in winter giue him wine in stead of these waters The next day giue to the patient fine Bolus tempered with as much conserue of Roses and foure ounces of Scabious water after it Sometimes also must the common pils be vsed There is also to be made this cordiall confection as followeth Take prepared Rubies Iacincts Granats Smaragdes fine Bolus Pearles bones of Stags hart fine filed gold and small filed Vnicornes horne of each one scruple raw silk that is cut very small Roses Amber Citron péels and shauen Iuorie of each halfe a dragme white Sugar dissolued in the iuice of Limons as much as you please séeth the same as thicke as honie and mingle the rest amongst it to a confection Giue this to the patient two or thrée dragmes with fresh broth for it strengtheneth maruellous much all the vitall parts it resisteth all vapours and breaketh the force of the Ague In like manner there are cordiall waters to be outwardly applyed whereof some shall be shewed hereafter Take Rosewater sixtéene ounces water of Endiue Buglosse Nightshade Baulme and of Sorrell of each eight ounces Vineger and good white Wine of each thrée ounces red white and yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Corall and Roses of each one dragm burnt Iuorie Saffron and Camfere of each halfe a dragme then mingle them all together and so wetting in it a double cloth lay it ouer the heart Or take water of Buglosse and of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Roses Wormwood Grasse Baulme and of the wild Vine leaues of each two ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum a dragme and a halfe Saffron eight greines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Paradise wood yellow Saunders Basill séed red and white Behen Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce Malmsey fiue ounces put them all together Item take the water of Buglosse of Scabious Violets and of Burrage of each sixs ounces Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued eight ounces Specierum Cordialium one ounce and a halfe Camfere halfe a scruple white Corall foure scruples prepared Pearles a dragme and a halfe beaten Gold eight leaues Malmsey foure ounces Note that you must temper the water and the Malmsey together and when you haue taken twelue ounces of the same then must you take a dragme of this powder and mixe with it and vse it as is before rehearsed Another Take Sorrel water and Carduus Benedictus water foure ounces Vineger of Gilloflowers one ounce Species de gemmis frigidis a quarter of an ounce Saffron two greines Camfere fiue greines Malmsey halfe an ounce temper them all together When as these cordiall waters are laid on the heart then may you annoint the sicke bodies left breast pap with this salue following Take one ounce of the best Treacle iuice of Limons and of Vineger of each halfe an ounce Saffron and Camfere of each one scruple then mingle them together and spread it on a cloth or on a red crimson clout This following is stronger Take good Treacle two ounces Rubarbe and Carlina of each one drag and a halfe old oyle of Oliue twelue ounces forty or 45. Scorpions powne all that is to be powned and then let it séeth in water in a pot alone fiue or sixe houres long afterwards straine it through a cloth and first annoint the heart the pulses and the temples of the head Afterward he must be annointed vpon all outward signes or sores of the Plague and at the last round about the necke and this annointing must be done once euery sixe houres very warme the chamber must also be kept fumed and continually sprinkled We haue also made mention herebefore in the sixt part the second chapter and tenth § and shortly after in the Ague Hectica of many things wherwith sicke folkes are to be comforted and reuiued What is to be done after sweating §. 5. WHen as the patient hath sweat is wiped and laid in fresh bedding then do some counsell to giue him out of hand one dragme of fine Bolus to wit with Rose water if a great heate be adioined or with wine if without heate and that not at one time onely but euery day but it importeth very much whether you haue the right fine and orient Bolus or not for there are many kinds of earths vsed in stead of it Further let him take immediatly after his sweating to wit thrée mornings one after another of these sirupes following for the cooling of these hote agues to warme the same first in hot water and in case that he afterwards féele a sweating againe then let him forthwith continue in his sweate if he can abide it Take sirupes of Limons one ounce sirupe of Citrons halfe an ounce water of Carduus Benedictus of Sorrell and of Burrage of each one ounce mixe them all together for a potion And if so be that after the vse of these thrée potions the patient should be purged which in this ague is seldome néedfull then must it be done with this following Take of the common plague pils ten greins lesse than a dragme and ten greines of Agaricus Rubarbe one scruple then make hereof small pils and giue them all
to the patient at one time Another regiment when any one is infected with the Plague §. 6. FIrst these pils following are to be giuen to the patient in the morning betimes Take of the common plague pils a dragme and a halfe that are formed with sirupe of Citrons and then let the patient if the infirmitie may beare it sléepe afterwards a little the next day after shall he thrée or foure dayes after other alwaies in the morning betimes take a dragme and a halfe of fine Bolus powdered either with wine or with Rose water as the time of the yeare requireth This is a maruellous good medicine and without all danger but onely that it somewhat bindeth the bodie which may be preuented with mild Clisters which must be made of oyle onely It is not amisse for this intent to vse these confections following euery other day which strengthen the bodie and make it sound Take good Treacle one dragm prepared Smaragdes seuen greines then mingle it with wine and so giue it him But if the partie can hardly take this then let him vse one of these Sugar plates following Take Iacincts Granats Rubies Smaragdes Saphires and bones of the Stags hart of each one dragme red and white Saunders and red Coral◠of each one scruple burnt Iuorie fine Bolus prepared Pearles Sealed earth and Vnicornes horne of each foure scruples filed gold one dragme Sugar sod in rose-Rosewater sixteene ounces make it vp into Manus Christi or Sugar plates and take two or thrée dragmes of them at one time As soone as the patient féeleth himself infected let him presently take this potion following and if he vomit not the same vp againe but sweateth after it then it is a good signe of amendement and a manifest token of health Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Corall Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Smaragdes Camfer and prepared Pearles of each halfe a dragm Myrrhe Saffron Citron séedes of each one scruple beate all very small and take of it a quarter of an ounce Treacle a dragme and a halfe Sorrell water and good white wine of each one ounce and a halfe mixe them for a potion and giue it to the patient warme lying in his bed that he may sweate well and that as long as he may suffer it afterwards wipe him well and lay him in another bed But if the time of the yeare be cold and the Ague not very hote then may you put the more wine to the foresaid potion and contrariwise if it be hote weather and the Ague hote also then let Sorrell water be mingled therewith But speciall care must be had that the patient cast not vp the potion agine for the which it is good that there be a great cup set vnder his stomacke without opening the skin and some good sauour be holden before his nose his hands dipt in cold water or smell to tosted bread that is moistned with Vineger and such like things mo Some forbid that men in sweating shall neither eate or drinke which were somewhat indéed if the patient be strong enough but when he is féeble then haue you for this a good direction before How to purge those that are infected with the Plague §. 7. IN the end of the foresaid fift § we haue declared that purging for this sicknes is not greatly commended neuerthelesse if great néed require then is there nothing more fit than the common plague pils with somewhat tempered therwith This potion following may also be giuen him with all safetie for that it doth cleanse the bloud of all superfluities Take of the confection Triphera Persica and Manna of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rubarbe one dragme then mingle them together in foure ounces of Sorrell water Or take Cassie and sowre Dates of each thrée quarters of an ounce Confection of the iuice of Roses one dragme then temper them together with Sorrell water Item take Tripheram Persicam halfe an ounce prepared Agaricke and Rubarbe of each one dragme and mingle them as before Another Take the confection Diasena and Triphera Persica of each three dragms Confectionis Hamech a quarter of an ounce de succo Rosarum halfe a dragme mingle them with the decoction of fruits or with Buglosse water But if the patient be so féeble that you dare not giue him a purging medicine then let him haue a Clister of fresh broth or herbs with Cassy the yolk of an Eg course Sugar oile of Violets and salt For all such diseases are the Conserue of Burrage and Buglosse very commodious euen as they are also for all pestilent Agues for they are both very comfortable they reuiue the heart resist venime take away all weaknesse make men glad and cleanse the bloud We haue before in the fourth § written of other things mo that also do comfort the patient This shall suffise that we haue spoken of the beginning of the Plague we will now procéede and make mention of other accidents of these diseases and teach their due remedies Of the vnnaturall heate in the Plague §. 8. AMongst the other seuen accidents of this contagion that we haue heretofore spoken of and are alwaies permanent with the pestilent Agues there is commonly great headach adioyned Now to strengthen the head and braines haue we set downe many goodly instructions and directions in the first part the first chapter § 2. and also afterwards in the headach of heate This potion following may you vse for the same Take Tormentill burnt Harts horne red Corall and fine Bolus of each one dragme prepared Pearles halfe a dragm Camfer foure greines beate them all together to powder and then giue thereof the waight of a drag tempered with Sorrell water For this also serueth this Iulep following take the iuice of Balme of Burrage Buglosse Sorrell and of Cicorie of each one ounce and a half Rosewater and white Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce the iuice of Citrons or Limons halfe an ounce Sugar as much as you please séeth the sugar to a sirupe and when you will vse the same temper it with Barly water vnto a Iulep Or take Conserue of Roses foure ounces conserue of Buglosse two ounces Species Triasantali one ounce and a halfe burnt Iuorie Sorrell Melon seedes péeled Gourd seedes Citron séedes and Cucumber séedes peeled and chopt small of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar one ounce Pearles foure scruples and sixe leaues of beaten gold then temper them well together for a confection hereof may the patient vse as often as he will For this also is good the Conserues of Burrage and Buglosse of water Lillies of the iuice of Oranges and all that therewith may be made Of the vnsatiable and great thirst §. 9. THe second accident of these pestilent Agues is thirst that by little and little getteth the vpper hand so that the diseased falling into a frenzines thereby séeke to leape into the water or into
not séeth long that they do not breake and get a bad tast They haue the same power as the Barberries The ripe Grapes are to be confected like as we haue written of Peares Of that which commonly keepeth all fruites fresh §. 44. AL that is laid in Honie whether it be Flesh Fruite and Plants or any other thing doth remaine a long time before it spoile therefore haue dead carkasses before time bene powred full of Honie If you haue then any Fruite Fowles Venison or any other such like things that you will kéepe good the space of a yeare or any Plants or Flowers and such like throughout the winter then looke into M. Tristrams water whereof all auncient Phisitions haue had a good opinion The same also do all vitall and golden waters which follow immediatly hereafter The sixt Chapter Of the golden and vitall waters and Elixers of life THese kinds of potions and artificiall waters are ordained most to this end for that they should strengthen the most principall parts of the bodie as the head and the heart to kéepe it from debilitie and swouning especially if the same procéed of cold Thus we will describe some of them whereof there be two which the auncient Phisitions call golden waters for their especiall vertues Take fine Sage seuen ounces Nutmegs Cloues Ginger and Greins of each halfe an ounce Cinnamom péeled Bayberries and Beuercod of each one ounce Spikenard one dragme péeles of Citrons one quarter of an ounce temper them all together grossely beaten then powre two quarts of wine vpon it and so let al together stand the space of fourtéene daies stopped close stirring it well about euery day Afterward distill it in water in an Helme luted well and tight This water doth kéepe all manner of meates by their naturall tast and vertue it expelleth all bad humors of the bodie it maketh all wine cleane and of a good tast if one temper a little amongst it annoynted outwardly vpon one or vsed It is very good for all inward parts as the Stomack the Spléene the Lyuer and the Lights It is also good for all bruses and to annoint the bruses with it In like manner it is good for all falles for all byles and all paines of the head It is good namely at the first against all Dropsies against the Palsey and also against all venime If one haue any thing in the stomacke that he cannot digest then will it be consumed thereby it maketh a good memorie and withstandeth the Leprosie it healeth all scabbines and also all vlcers if one drinke it or lay it vpon them Another Take Lauander flowers Hyssope and Sage of each foure ounces cut them very small Nutmegs Ginger Cinnamom and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Greines two drag beate all small afterwards powre vpon it thrée quarts of the best wine and set it the space of fourtéene daies in the Sunne stopped very close Thus may you vse the first Item take good Malmsey two quarts and stéepe these things ensuing in it being stopt very close and then set it in a dunghill which lyeth in the East the space of thirty daies afterwards distill it as is before said Take fine Sage with the flowers of each halfe an ounce Burrage flowers one ounce one Orange Rue thrée dragmes Rosemarie thrée ounces and a halfe Rosemarie flowers half an ounce the toppes of Marioram gentle foure ounces the flowers of Buglosse thrée quarters of an ounce red Roses two ounces and one quarter Hyssope halfe an ounce Carduus Benedictus halfe an ounce Ireos thrée dragmes Camfere thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Perls halfe a dragme oyle of Spike and liquide Storax of each halfe a dragme powned Cinnamom foure ounces Galingall thrée dragmes long Pepper and Greines of each halfe an ounce Cucubes and Cardamome of each one ounce and a quarter Zeduarie thrée dragmes Ginger one ounce beate this all together grosse Here is to be noted that there will be too little wine and that fréely there may thrée or foure quarts of wine be taken for it Now followeth here a water called the elixer of life and is thus made Take Cinnamom and Cloues of each one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs one ounce red Roses ten handfuls white Roses as many Hyssope two handfuls Lauander flowers seuen handfuls powre vnto it a quart of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of nine daies and distill it afterwards as is said before Now for to distill a common vitall water is thus to be done Take Cinnamom one ounce and a halfe Ginger one ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Greines of each halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes Mastick Mace and long Pepper of each two dragmes Sage sixtéene ounces Cardamome Cucubes and Galingall of each two dragms and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce Balme thrée dragmes Citron péels thrée quarters of an ounce Rue Bayberries and Stechas of each halfe an ounce Rosemarie Marioram Lauander and Betony of each thrée quarters of an ounce Spica and Beuercod of each one dragme stéep it in thrée quarts of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of ten daies then distill it like as is taught of the other Some haue also an especiall water which is called Aqua spiritualis for that it strengtheneth much the vitall spirits Take the herb Lauander with the flowers and Liriconfancie of each two ounces Rosemary flowers and Betonie of each thrée dragmes Sage and Marioram gentle of each one ounce Balme halfe an ounce Hyssope Mints the greater Pimpernell Tormentill Rapontica Angelica and Bistorta of each one quarter of an ounce Piony rootes and of Valerian of each one dragme Auence and Iuniper berries of each half an ounce Bayberries and Beuercod of each one drag cut the rootes and powne them grosly The herbs are you to take drie and to cut them small and then put them in a glasse which is narrow aboue afterwards powre fiue pints of the spirit of wine vpon it and stop it tight then set it the space of eight dayes in the Sunne or in another warme place and distill it afterwards as is said in the beginning In all that which is distilled out are you to lay in steepe Ginger and Galingall of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounce Cucubes one quarter of an ounce Cardamome and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Greines one scruple Citron peeles one quarter of an ounce Pomegranate péeles halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes and white Mustard séede of each one scruple Saffron halfe a dragme Indie Spica one scruple Annis halfe an ounce Fennell one quarter of an ounce Treacle one ounce Turpentine thrée dragmes prepared red Corall one dragme Manus Christi with Pearls halfe an ounce conserue of Roses one ounce clarified Hony foure ounces then powne it all grosse that is to be powned and so let it stand the space of foure daies in a warme place afterwards you shall distill it and then temper amongst it Muscus and Ambra of
so vnlesse it were so hardned through long continuance of time For to cure this the head veine is first to be opened and purged afterwards to lay vpon it Opopanacum molten in Cammomill oile Afterwards a plaister made of prepared Galbanum and Barly meale of each a like much prepared with oile of Lillies and layd thereon for this is also very good Hens grease warme The eyes must be often bathed with warme water wherein Barly and Cammomil is sod and afterwards annointed with the blood of Pigeons Turties or Partridges Another plaister Take Galbanum Ammoniacum of each halfe an ounce Boreas one dragme mixe them together and lay them vpon the eye Or take Frankinsence and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Landanum halfe an ounce Boreas Allume Waxe of each one dragme the dregs of the oile of Lillies as much as is néedfull melt therein the Laudanum and Waxe the rest temper and beate amongst it vse this so long vntill it be all consumed Of the itch and smarting of the eye-lids §. 2. IT is mentioned in the former distension or swellings of the eyelids that the same cometh with great itching and smarting whereof we must speake more at large This happeneth oftentimes in the infusion of the eyes Ophthalmia through salt and sharpe rheumes whereof shall be hereafter discoursed and also of Lice whereof is before spoken in the third Chapter and eight § and shall immediatly hereafter follow in the discourse of the browes Otherwhiles this itch and smart doth procéed of hot bloud or such like other moisture and in case then the rubbing and scratching do come to it then hath the humor the more recourse thither whence follow scabs and scurfe not much differing from bran or sawdust which doth harden and continually smarteth And although in the former swelling of the eyelids as is said there be good remedies declared meet also for this disease yet neuertheles it is very needfull to speake somewhat more thereof If it do come through heate and rednesse vse for it all that is there rehearsed if it come of any sharp matter purge as before in the first swelling is shewed once euery moneth Or purge with the whay of Goates milke wherein is sodden Epithymum in the which shall be stéeped and wroong out Mirobalani Chebuli thrée dragmes Annis séeds halfe a dragme and if this be too much then prepare these pils following Take Aloe Rubarb of each one drag Annis seeds halfe a drag Diagridion two scrup make pils thereof with the iuice of Fumitory take thereof one dragme at the vttermost at one time afterwards open the veines in the corners of the eye and set boxing cups behind in the necke Also vse either of these fomentations of the eyes whereof hath bene spoken in many places of the distension and swelling of the eyelids Or take yellow Amber one quarter of an ounce Pomegranate péeles thrée dragmes temper them with hony and annoint the eyes with it where the itch is Or take Sal Armoniack two drag Aloe halfe an ounce mixe them together in a brazen morter But if the itch be not too great after the letting of blood and purging them onely foment the eyes with warme water wherein is decocted Mallowes Docks and Sorrell with some Rose water put amongst it or take white wine thrée ounces Aloe one quarter of an ounce annoint the eyes therewith after the fomenting Item take Butchers broomeséed Pursian séeds Lentils of each a like much powne them all together close it with the white of an egge and oile of Roses Sarcocolla tempered with the iuice of Celendine is alwayes very good for this purpose Of clefts in the eyelids §. 3. THese clefts and infection of the eyelids are caused of heate or of a sharpe and salt humor that falleth into the eielids after the purging and letting of blood whereof is said so oftentimes Seeth pils and blossoms of Pomegranates very soft afterwards stamp them in vineger and therewith annoint the eylids certaine daies together and afterwards temper some Saffron and the yolke of an eg amongst it and lay it vpon it for it healeth much like as doth also the Sieff de Thure which is approued for all rheumes of the eyes and to be sought for in the Register Of Warts vpon the Eylids §. 4. OF these there be two sorts the one not very hard and without rankling which is caused of melancholike humors the other hard like to a small Mulbery standing commonly about the corner of the eyes both of these must be cut or burnt and afterwards things laid vpon it which hereafter for the cure of the excrescence of the flesh of the fistula and corners of the eye are dicoursed But of the warts shall be more amply written hereafter in the fift part Of the inuersion of the eyelids where the inward red flesh appeareth outwardly §. 5. IT happeneth also that through the increase of flesh the eyelids do turne and the inside doth appeare outwardly There are two sorts of this the one when the eyelids being turned about be red and sore which is a kind of scabbednesse the other doth couer and hide the whole apple of the eye with red and meetely big veines both of them are of long continuance and hard to be healed Therefore it is aduised that at the very first there be somewhat laid vnto it and although the cure of this disease haue the same intention with all other forementioned infirmities of the eyes yet neuerthelesse it is required for this disease that if the party be in health he must purge with these pils Take Agaricus Coloquint Bdellium Mastick of each one dragme Aloe halfe an ounce Turbith one ounce and one quarter make pils thereof with the iuice of Betony whereof you are to giue one drag at once Or take Pillulae aureae two scrup Cochiae one scrup make pilles thereof and fast sixe houres vpon it But if one haue once purged then is the head veine to be opened betweene the thomb and the forefinger and in like maner in the forehead and to set boxing cups behind in the necke Allume boiled in white wine and washed therewith is also very good Afterwards this plaister following shall be laid thereon Take Fenegréeke meale six ounces Cammomil Roses one ounce of each red wine as much as is needful for to make a plaister whereof take as much as you will vse at one time temper amongst it the whites of two well brayed egs and say it vpon it Afterwards you are eight dayes one after another to vse this sirupe following Take sirupe of Roses one ounce sirupe of Vineger Compositum halfe an ounce Fennell and Licorice water of each an ounce after this must you by and by take the foresaid pils againe and further then euery fift day once two houres after supper the inuerted eyelids are in the day time often to be annointed with the iuice of smallage and that enduring the space of eight dayes The next eight dayes
Saunders Camfere and such cooling things like as also the Pomanders are commodious for these causes ordained in the discourse of the Plague When the patient is purged and the pain of the eyes be yet in the beginning then take like as is is oftentimes aduised at the first the brayed white of an egge and drop a drop thereof in the eye Take also milk of a young woman which hath a daughter sucking vpon her put it fresh into the eye or take two ounces of Rosemarie amongst it then beate the white of an egge and drop a drop or two thereof in the eye Some do take onely fresh water mixt with vineger and vse it as is rehearsed specially after bathing and haue thereby found great amendement This is also much praysed Take vnripe Grapes burne the same to ashes bruse them very small and blow somewhat thereof into the eyes it dryeth the running and doth driue away the rednesse Or take the slime of Fleawoort Quince kernels or Dragagant one quarter of an ounce the white of an egge well brayed womans milk that hath a daughter sucking half a drag tempered well if the paine be very great then draw out the slimes or muscilage with water wherein before Poppie heads haue béene sodden You may also vse Sieff de Rosis which followeth hereafter Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce Saffron Spica of Indie Gummi Arabicum of each one quarter of an ounce beate all small and make cakes thereof with raine water and when you will vse them then take one dragme thereof and lay them to stéepe in the beaten white of an egge This is speciall good in the beginning of the hote Ophthalmia for it repelleth the matter backe it consumeth and asswageth the paine In like manner is this also following much commended Take washt Ceruse prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Licium Acatia pils of Pomegranates and Frankincense of each one dragme Pearles Opium of each halfe a scruple and the iuice of Pomegranates which is very cleare as much as is néedfull for to make cakes or troscisces thereof when you will then vse thereof Then lay a dragme thereof to stéepe in Rose water this hath a constringent vertue it drieth cooleth all hot humours but when the paine is at the most then temper among the foresayd medicines two or thrée graines of Opium or of Sieff album called Sieff Rasis Take washt Ceruse one ounce Gummi Arabicum halfe an ounce Opium Dragagant of each halfe a dragme this must you bruise verie small and temper it with the well brayed white of an egge and womans milke Take also the iuice of Fennell well scummed one ounce and a halfe Aloe two dragmes and a halfe a leafe of well beaten gold temper them well and afterwards put vnto it the waight of seuen graines of Frankinsence dissolue them in good white wine and mixe them all togither with Fennell and Rose water you must drop of this water twise a day in the eyes Item take good Aloe stéeped in the iuice of Fennell put thereto the waight often graines of Frankinsence burning therein kindled at a candle vse it as afore Other waters moe Take Rose water fower ounces quench therein glowing gold afterwards put thereto Aloe Frankinsence Masticke Litharge of siluer of each one drag let it séeth vntill a third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as it is néedful Item take Dragon bloud Aloe Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme Saffron Camfere of each halfe so much prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce bruise it very small and temper amongst it wine of Nutmegs fower ounces and as much Rose water also let it séeth in water in a glasse vntill about thrée parts be consumed it drieth and healeth without any danger Item take Aloe Tutia hony Rue Fenegréeke Fennell seeth it in wine it is especiall good for all ouerhote eyes This water following is also verie appropriate for the same disease Take prepared Tutia one ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragme Frankinsence Mastick Pepper of each a scrup Fennell water Eyebright water of each one ounce Rose water and Violet water of each two ounces old fine wine thrée or fower ounces put it into a glasse and let it séeth in water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth A salue Take the iuice of Rue of Framboyes oyle of Mirtle of each one ounce let it boyle vntil all the iuice be sodden away then wring it through a cloth and set it againe vpon the fire mixe amongst it prepared Saphire halfe a dragme Iacint one scruple Antimonie one dragme burnt Copper one scruple prepared Tutia thrée dragmes let it seeth softly with the foresayd fire put thereto thrée dragms of Waxe be it more or lesse accordingly as you desire to haue it hard wherewith annoint the eyelids This swageth the paine stayeth all defluxions in the eyes and taketh away the cause of them wonderfully In running and ouermoyst eyes take Myrrhe halfe a dragme Bloudstone one dragme the vppermost sprigs of Framboyes and of the Rose trée of each one ounce seeth them togither in a glasse in water vnto the halfe afterwards straine it forth through a cloth and drop at least fower times a day one drop in the eyes Secondly the forehead and temples of the head are oftentimes or at least against the euening to be annointed softly with the iuice of Roses But if this rheume be but in his increasing or in Statu which is at the highest then may he very fréely put therein all the foresayd things and chiefly womans milke which is much commended for this also temper Dragagant amongst it and drop in them In like manner take prepared Tutia Camfere of each a scruple tēpered with halfe an ounce of white wine It drieth and swageth all paine This is also very good Tutia tempered in Fennell water in water of Celendine of Rue of Verueine and in Rose water and a gal of a Pickerell or a Partridge put thereto and the same kept in a Copper vessell vntill it be to be vsed or take prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce white Amber one drag Fennell and Rosewater of each foure ounces take also washt Ceruise one quarter of an ounce prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Opium of each half a drag Gummi Arabicum Saffron of each halfe a scrup This being altogether beaten as smal as may be temper it with raine water and let it drie And when as you will vse it mixe it with womans milke Here is to be noted that raine water for all paine of the eyes is very méete for that it is subtile But whensoeuer this Ophthalmia cometh to abate then may bathing be vsed or that which is more sure séeth Cammomill Melilot in water and make a spoonge wet therein wringing it out a little and so hold it warme vpon the eye and when it is cold to make it warme againe Or take fresh Wormwood Lycium Fenegréeke of each two ounces Sarcocolla one
full of bloud that first of al the head veine afterwards the veines in the corners of the eyes be opened others do aduise to open the median and the veine in the forehead Afterwards whether it be of a Phlegma or Melancholia purge with the pils Cochiae or Lucis and then to take Mithridate or Treacle In the eye is to be vsed the fat of the Bucks liuer described before or to temper it with a little of the Bucks gall or the Buckes gall alone decocted with a little vineger applied likewise as aforesaid for in this disease is most of all commended that which commeth from the Bucke or Goate Plini◠admonisheth that some haue aduised that one should wrap the Goates dung with waxe and so swallow it down He writeth also that this blindnesse is to be holpen with Goats bloud it may come thereby for that it is sayd that those beasts do see as well by night as by day therefore it was commanded to Nycripolis to eate the Buckes and Goats liuer rosted And how the same shall be drest is shortly before declared where we haue discoursed of the diminished and weake sight When one is waxed almost blind §. 22. IF there fall any moysture in the eyes which maketh one almost starke blind then it is found out by experience that the decoction of a Viper the head and tayle chopt off hath holpen yet the intrailes pluckt out and stuffed with Fennell séedes like as also helpeth if one eate the flesh of this Serpent boyled This is reported of the nature of the Viper snake The like vertue also hath the decoction of Guaiacum vsed after his manner or kind the which is not onely méete for this but also in certaine confections for the sight which Pope Innocentius the third did send to an Abbot who was almost blind and is made thus Take Fennell séede halfe a pound Siluermountaine seede and blew Chamedris of each foure ounces Smallage Annis Parsly séedes Peniroyall Hyssope Saxifrage Iuniper berries of each one dragme the séede of Stauesacre two ounces this being beaten small with Hony or Sugar and a confection made thereof and vse thereof morning and euening and you shall sée maruels Commeth the cause of the hinderance in sight through obstructions of the sinewes whereby the sight commeth into the eyes then vse the Pils Cochiae and Lucis of each half a dragme make 7. or 8. pils therof swallow them in the morning betimes and fast fiue houres vpon it vse them once euery moneth Afterwards vse this confection take Peniroyall Rue Betony Celendine of each one handful Saxifrage Louage Annis Cammomil Ginger Fennell Parsly Hyssop Marioram Siluermountaine of each two dragmes and a halfe Gallingall halfe an ounce powne all very small that is to be powned and temper it with Sugar which is clarified in Fennell water it requireth halfe a pound of Sugar at the least cast Tabulates of it and then lay them vpon the tong and let them melt of themselues this do and continue it the space of two or thrée monthes all after that the blindnesse is great and hath long continued Of Squintnesse §. 23. THis is a distractiō of the eyes out of their naturall places towards the right or left side vpwards or downewards the occasion of this is sometimes through resolution of the sinewes where the whole place doth draw that infirmed vnto it Also it may be a crampe in the same sinewes whereto the cōtrary the shrinking sinewes do draw the whole vnto them it cometh also very well through a custome when yong children in the cradle do lye alwaies vpon one side open but one eye but if the squintnes do come through slacknesse of the sinewes or the crampe that is séene and shewed by the signes which are described in Paralysi or in the crampe This disease could the auncient Phisitians heale very badly and it is very vncertaine in yong children neuerthelesse we will not pretermit to shew our aduise for it on the side where the disease is put some clearenesse to the end the eye may be drawne to his naturall place also when it is caried about on the arme the auncient Phisitions haue vsed all those things which were wont in Paralysi and in the distraction of the mouth to be adhibited Hydromell honie water how to make and vse the same §. 24. IT is before oftentimes mentioned and therefore it is very worthy for to describe here how to make it The ancient Phisitions tooke raine water and hony decocted therewith scumming it well and vsing it for a common drinke in the stead of water or wine like as also it standeth discouered in many places of this booke now it is for the most part made with well water and hony In fine Hydromell is no other thing but our common meade without any addition of other sorts of meade is spoken hereafter in the eight part The eight Chapter Of the Nose THis is also one of the principallest outward members of the face artificially conioyned of sinewes and gristles and by nature ordained for many kind of vses for who knoweth not how excéeding needfull it is for the life and for preseruation of the good breath and for discerning of al smels sauors in behalfe of both these two causes is the Nose set in the height of the bodie and endued with such a propertie that it might refresh and coole the hart the lights and all inward parts with continuall breathing without the which no man liueth Besides this it hath power to discerne and iudge the sauor of the meate it is set besides and aboue the mouth to the end it might adiudge and giue euidence to all before it goeth into the mouth what is pleasant and what is to be eschewed or is necessarie or hurtfull it standeth also in the middest of the face not onely for a garnishing but also for a stay or defence betwéene both the eyes for to defend them as hath bene said before It is also a right pipe or gutter to purge and cleanse thereby all the moisture of the braines and the head to the end there should nothing fall downe vpon the breast or other principal parts that might there cause great sicknesse This member is subiect also to many kind of diseases as Impostumes Obstructions Rheumes excessiue bléeding losse of smelling of all which and others mo shall be hereafter spoken Of Obstruction or stopping in the Nose §. 1. THis infirmitie is caused through inward or outward occasions If the nose be stopt thorow falling striking or thrusting then must it swell if it be then swolen then be the waies thorough which the breath and smell commeth stopped yea also the smell otherwhiles wholy lost It may also be well stopped through some grosse moisture that falleth out of the head and braines which cannot passe thorough the nose for that the nose vents are thereby stopped As much as then concerneth any outward brusing there must be salues and plasters
wring it afterwards out and giue it to the sicke person cold or lukewarme Take ten dry Prunes sower Dates one ounce seeth them in sixe ounces of water then take thereof thrée ounces and mixe amongst them two dragmes and a half of the Electuarie De succo Rosarum and drinke it warme Item take sower Dates Manna of each one ounce temper them with thrée or foure ounces of Prune broth Also these pils following may be vsed Take Pillula foetidae de Sarcocolla of each one scruple temper them and make thereof seuen pils After the purging he is to kéepe him quiet and to couer the belly with warme clothes But if to this giddinesse there happeneth no rednesse in the face nor any ague it may be concluded therof that the cause procéedeth of cold wherof the matter lyeth in the stomack which there prouoketh the patient to wambling and vomiting whereto the patient is then to vrge himselfe thereby to be rid of it that through this meanes Take Radishes or Horseradish one ounce the séede of Orage and of Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce seeth all this in twelue ounces of water vnto foure ounces vnto this strained decoction you are to adde halfe an ounce of Oyle Saffron one drag vineger foure ounces giue therof two spoonefuls in the euening after meate Preparatiue potions are to be vsed according to the cause of the disease for the space of certaine dayes and then to take these pils following Aurea or Cochia the waight of one dragm Or in the stead of these pils to vse halfe an ounce of Hiera Picra and Oxymel Compositum one ounce with foure ounces of water wherein Hyssope and Zeduarie is decocted It chanceth also oftentimes that at the first this giddinesse doth come with some swarming or fantasies which appeare before the eyes the which neuerthelesse in truth is nothing so This the Phisitions do call Scotomiam and Imaginationes whereof before in the seuenth Chapter and 12 § is spoken at large Of the which very many be holpen by these meanes following Take Eyebright two ounces Mace halfe an ounce beate them small giue thereof after the purging half a drag or two scruples with wine or flesh broth What further concerneth this kind of giddinesse you may discerne hereafter where we speake of Paralysis with that which this swimming doth agree This patient must refraine from all meates and drinkes which be cold of nature but Kids Mutton Pullets Partridges Pheasants and all other fowles that haue their abode in hilly countries he may well eate them yet rather rosted than sodden in like sort egs and all that is drest with wheate or Rice small red wine or rather hony water is to be his ordinarie drinke But if this will not helpe and the foresayd giddinesse do still continue then is this commēded for a principall remedie to wit to open the head by actuall or potential Cauteries aboue vpon the seame which is called Sutura Coronalis to the end that thereby all bad vapors which cause these infirmities in the braines might exhalate Some vse in stead of the foresaid Cauterie this corrosiue salue following Take Cantharides the heads and wings broken off two ounces sower dow halfe an ounce temper them with spirit of wine or vineger lay them behind in the necke and behind vpon the brawnes of the legs in bignesse of half a doller let them lye so long vntill they raise a blister that is about twelue howers or somewhat more These blisters are to be holden and kept open with the laying vpon them of a Colewoort leafe as long as is possible But if so be that neither ague nor vomiting nor any other impostume do befal with it and yet neuerthelesse the giddinesse persist and endure then is the sicke person oftentimes to be purged with the pils Cochiae and to withdraw him as is said from cold meates because that the cause of this disease proceedeth of cold Further he is to be let smell to a little bag of Annis séedes and in like sort must he weare a cap with Annis séedes vpon his head and receiue the vapor of the decoction of Annis séedes into his nose for that the smell is very requisite because it drieth and warmeth well Also the head is to be cleansed as oftentimes hath bene shewed but this ensuing is especially good for it Take the iuice of wild Cucumbers one ounce honie water wherein Marioram is decocted two ounces temper and draw them into the nose but take before thy mouth full of cleare water so that it may come the lesse into the mouth Gargarismes GArgarismes are also to be vsed for this purpose thereby to expell all flegmaticke humors which cause this maladie Take Betonie Hyssope of each one handfull Licorice Rue and Raisons the stones being taken out of each one ounce Pieretrum Ireos of each half an ounce Mustard séede Licebane Ginger and Masticke of each one quarter of an ounce clarified honie thrée ounces séethe them in sufficient store of water and scum them well take thereof before and after meate at each time two spoonefuls in the mouth holding it long therein and hauing gargarized spet it out againe With this may you also vse chewed Mastick Picretrum decocted in wine or water or stéeped But alwaies as is admonished before the rootes knit in a cloth for it is otherwise too strong Item take Mustard séede Marioram Pieretrum long Pepper and Sage of each one quarter of an ounce seethe it to the halfe being strained vse it as before The Pieretrum hath an especiall operation against the giddinesse therefore it is also to be decocted and beaten to pap with the whites of egges and so laid vpon the head A powder for meate TAke Nutmegs prepared Coriander of each halfe an ounce Misselden of the Oke Piony séede peeled and Galingale of each one drag Calmus Betonie Cubebs and Cumin of each halfe a drag Sugar as much as you please You haue heretofore in the first § a good powder for the memorie which is also méet for this purpose and this following is very necessarie for it Take the iuice of Fennell one ounce Sugar two ounces séeth it together like to Manus Christi An Electuarie TAke a pound of Currans well cleansed Licorice cut small Buglosse water and Endiue water of each sixe ounces set them seeth together and afterwards wring it out hard in this decoction are you to put of preserued Mirobalans Chebuli and Emblici of each sixe ounces honie of Roses and Sugar fiue ounces let it séeth vntill it be somewhat thicker than honie afterwards clarifie it with the whites of egs when it is now cold then temper amongst it one drag and a halfe of Cinnamom powder preserued Nutmegs one ounce Lignum Aloes Cloues of each one drag Fennell and Annis séedes of each halfe a drag conserue of Roses two ounces and a halfe Of this confection you are to vse euery wéeke the quantitie of a Walnut Item take Cinnamom Cloues
of better estimation and of a more secret or hidden vertue to wit Bryonie worne about the necke also Thyme Hyssope Rue and Southernwood worne likewise in the bosome for by reason of their smell they may haue some effect A capitall Vnguent TAke Marioram gentle Rosemarie flowers of each halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes one ounce beate them together and rub them well with strong wine in a mortar temper one ounce of Barly meale Starch two ounces amongst it apply this to the head being shauen it easeth the falling euill maruellously Item take oyle of Rue oyle of Pepper of each one ounce swéet Costus rootes Pieretrum Ginger Galingall Rue séeds of each one drag and a halfe mixe them all together and so apply them warme ouer both the shoulders Item take Beuercod cut small foure ounces oyle of Oliues sixe ounces Iuniper berries beaten grosly thrée ounces put a pint of strong wine vpon them couer it well and let it boyle a while with this is the patient to be annointed in the hammes in the armepits and on the pulses of his hands Also it is very good in this infirmitie to annoint the forehead with the sewet of a Stagge Indian Baulme is in like sort good for all kind of falling euils being annointed on the roofe of the mouth and albeit that it cureth not the sicknesse wholy yet will it greatly hinder his returne Vngula Alcis IT is a common error to weare a ring of this beasts hoofe on his finger against the falling sicknes I haue proued it oftentimes but with no ease vnto the patient A Confection or Electuarie for the falling euill TAke Pieretrum Costus rootes Stechas of each ten drag Agaricke fiue drag Dill séede Assafoetida Aristologie of each two drag and a halfe iuice of Squils clarified Honie of each 14. ounces boile the iuice and the honie with a gentle fire vntill it waxe méetely thicke afterwards when it beginneth to coole mixe the other ingredients with it take of this euery morning three drag and fast foure houres after it Montegnana taketh God to record that he hath knowne a thousand cured thereby This following is not much vnlike the former take Pieretrum Siluer mountaine Stechados of each ten drag Agaricke fiue drag Cardamome Assafoetida Aristologie of each one drag and a halfe iuice of Squils and Honie twice as much as of all the rest or as much as is néedefull let them boyle sufficiently and temper the other things being powdered amongst them The patient shall vse euery day of this confection one quarter of an ounce and beware of grosse meates These two Electuaries following are very good for all manner of falling euils except that which is caused of bloud take prepared Pearles one dragme Cloues Galingall Nutmegs Cucubes of each half a dragme Cinnamom one scruple Couchenell Lignum Aloes red Stirax of each halfe a scruple red Saunders Calamus Doronicum of each fiue graines Piony seedes péeled Mistleto Diptamer of each one drag Currans one ounce conserue of Roses conserue of Stechados conserue of Burrage of each two dragmes white Sugar clarified in Rose water twelue ounces make a confection of them Another Take Piony rootes one ounce Mace Indian Spike Saffron red Corall prepared Pearles of each half a dragme Cinnamom Cloues Nutmegs Ginger Pepper long Pepper Cardamome Graines of each two dragmes Licorice fiue dragmes Anacardium one ounce and a halfe Muske Amber of each seuen graines clarified Hony or Sugar twelue ounces make an electuary of them take of this the bignesse of a Nutmeg and drinke a little Meade after it It is very good against the falling sicknes the Palsey and such like other infirmities more it comforteth the braine maketh a good memory and expelleth the lethargie and al obliuiousnesse One may vse either of these prescribed medicines or this powder following take Cinnamō Cloues Galingall Nutmegs Mace Cucubes of each two dragmes blacke white and long Pepper Cardamome Annis séeds Fennell séedes péeled Piony seeds Hissope Diptamer Mistleto of each one dragme Saffron two dragms Sugar candy fiue dragmes make a powder of them kéepe it in a leather sacke and vse it in all thy meates Item take the seedes of Maiden haire halfe an ounce Mistleto one ounce Tormentill one ounce and a half make them into powder and minister two dragmes of it at once with the decoction of Piony rootes when you feare the accesse of the disease For this purpose serueth also white Mustard séedes prepared conserue of Betony the iuice the water the herbe and the flowers in fine all that is made of Betony is very good for the falling sicknesse of the head and for all other infirmities of the same So is also the conserue of Piony rootes séedes water wine of Piony and all what may be prepared thereof as may euidently be seene by the former receipts the preserued Eringus rootes are also very profitably vsed therein In like sort also Lauander Rosemary Spikenard their leaues flowers wine and whatsoeuer else is made of them we haue also mentioned of the taking of Mithridate and Treacle likewise Guaiacum is very commodiously vsed for this infirmitie After due euacuation of the body this is also much commended in the falling sicknesse take the iuice of Rue two ounces Assafoetida halfe a dragme mixe them togither and so take them Item take the skull of a sound man calcined or burnt pilled Piony seedes of each halfe an ounce Tormentill Mistleto of each two dragmes giue it to the patient as before the same doth also burnt Harts horne taken with wine as also the liuer of a Kite and dried bloud of a Shéepe the bladder of a Boare with the vrine dried in an ouen and euery day the bignes of a beane taken with Oxymel Item Rauens egs Swallowes flesh Wolfs Harts Foxe flesh either boyled or otherwise the bloud and flesh of a Wesell tempered with the vrine of a man-child Item Buckes bloud taken the hoofe of an Asse burnt and mixed with strong Vineger and so annointed about the head The liuer of an Asse taken fasting the gall of a Beare powdred the fume of Peacoks dung or otherwise vsed Partridges liuers dried and one dragme and a halfe dronken the braines of Camels or of Wesels vsed with vineger the bones of a man calcined the bloud of a Tortoise that liueth in fresh water a Cuckow put into a pipkin close stopped and burnt to ashes the stones of a Boare of a wild Boare of a Ramme and of a Beare dronken with water the braines of Sparrowes with many strange things more that are highly commended of diuers famous Phisitions but aboue all other things is the reuming of a Leueret much commended as hath béene sayd before Euery one may vse of the premisses those that he hath approued to be good but if this falling euill which very seldome befalleth be caused of bloud then appeareth it with rednesse of the face red eyes and with large veines In this case is the Saphaea to be
béen sayd before mixe Well water with the iuice of Pomegranates or wine likewise the decoction of Barley mixed with Sugar cleanseth the mouth The water of Sage healeth all exulcerations if the mouth be renced oft therewith Also in a hot cause are very good all fruits that are sower cold astringent being chewed as Medlars Mulberies Choke peares Quinces Seruices Framboies and such like especially if they be not ouer ripe Also the iuice of Vine leaues and sower and tart herbes may be vsed for gargarismes But if these gentle remedies do no good then purge the patient as the cause requireth as before hath often béen shewed But bicause this is for the most part caused through heate he is to be purged with Cassia sower Dates or with the Electuarie of Roses afterwards open the veine vnder the tong or those that appeare on the inside of the lower lip which is very commodious for all hot infirmities of the lips If sucking children be troubled with it then is the nurse to be fed with cooling things for by the alteration of their milke they are easily restored to health againe for this purpose is the oyle of Sulphur very good as well in yong children as ancient people but there are many common things that are altogither as good as that Item take the yellow seedes of white Roses blossomes of Pomegranates Starch burnt Iuorie milke of Lentils Purslaine séedes Coriander Sene huskes of each a like much and a little Camfere make a powder of them and rub the vlcer easily therewithall or hold it in thy mouth with vineger of Roses Rose water and oyle of Roses Item for this hot exulceration thou shalt take the water of Shepheards purse of broad Plantaine of Roses and of Purslaine of each two ounces the iuice of Mulberies hony of Roses of each one ounce mixe them wel togither and gargarise with it often Item take Gals Pomegranate blossomes and Cypers nuts of each one ounce Roses white Bryer two dragmes Acorne cups halfe an ounce beate them grossely and boyle them in water and wash thy mouth with it When by these meanes the paine is somewhat abated then mixe fresh butter with hony of Roses and annoint the place therewith this mayst thou well account one of the best remedies Or stampe a fower Pomegranate with the pils wring it out hard and adde as much hony to the iuice let them séeth togither vntill it be thicke If thou wilt haue it stronger adde the third part of beaten Acornes with it The application of boxing cups is also very meete and fit for it and if the patient be ful of bloud then is the head veine to be opened But if the blisters be white then is the patient to be purged with Diaturbith or with their pils following Take Species Hiera Picra two dragmes Species medicaminis turbith two dragmes and a halfe Coloquint halfe a dragme make pils thereof with wine take of them one dragme or one dragme and a halfe at once It is also very good to rub them with hony and salt but these things following are more in vse and more fit for this purpose Take Allum one ounce boyle it in Plantaine water you may also put Plantaine leaues vnto it and wash the mouth often therewith Take hony of Roses warme water a little Allum halfe as much vineger as water vse it as before it is very good Take Roses one ounce a halfe Plantaine one ounce burnt Allum halfe a dragme Mirtle seedes halfe as much Pomegranate blossomes and pils of each one scruple let them seeth well togither vse it as the other Item take one pinte of water and a good peece of Ireos cut small and asmuch Allum hony of Roses 2. spoonfuls let it boyle away two fingers bredth In fine whensoeuer Phlegma is cause of the vlcers then must drying and astringent remedies be vsed Cypers nuts barkes of the Frankinsence trée Frankinsence Masticke and although one should mixe these warme things with others that are cold and astringent as Gals Pomegranate pils Roses Mirtle séeds such like yet is not that any errour at all but rather a helpe Also of these things following may gargarismes be made or little bals with the iuice of Peares or Quinces to hold in the mouth There is in the seuenth Chapter and fourth § a water described for the eyes beginning Take broad Plantaine water with Verdigrease and Dragons bloud This may you vse if the sore run much and were very vncleane for it drieth and healeth much Take Plantain water boyle therein grosse beaten Myrtle séedes This cleanseth the sores and cureth them Conserue of Roses held in the mouth long doth cleanse the same Oxycraton that is wine water and vineger mixed together is also very good If this exulceration of the mouth procéed of Melancholy then shalt thou purge as followeth Take Currans one ounce Burrage flowers and of Buglosse Epythimus and Sene of each one drag boyle them in water wherein Mirobalani Indi and Chebuli of each halfe an ounce haue bin stéeped and decocted giue thrée or foure ounces therof in the morning In like manner may you purge with Hiera Ruffi you shall also vse a gargarisme made with Currans and Annise séedes and mixed with honie Hereafter do diuers good things ensue for the infirmities of the tongue that are also very good for this present purpose Of the swollen Almonds §. 2. IT chanceth also sometimes that in these infirmities the Almonds or the pallet in the throate do exulcerate of this pallet shall hereafter especiall mention be made But for the tumor of the Almonds and other exulcerations in the throate are these remedies following ordained Take a quart of red wine Roses thrée M. peeles of two Pomegranates foure Gals grosly beaten Licorice halfe an ounce Currans two dragms boyle them together vntill the fourth part be wasted before thou doest adhibite this wash thy mouth with a cloth dipped in wine then vse it warme if it be with any exulceration then adde honie of Roses vnto it and wash it euery day fiue or seuen times Aqua Iohannis THis water is very good and effectuall to gargarize withall both in blisters and vlcers Take Sulphur vife red Mints Allume Sugar of each half an ounce Mastick Frankinsence of each two drag Pieretrum halfe a dragme Aqua vitae thrée ounces beate all what is to be beaten and temper them together Take Allume Sugar of each halfe an ounce boyle them together in Plantaine water mixe it with the iuice of Mulberries wash the mouth therewith it asswageth the swelling dryeth and healeth The same doth also the sirupe of Mirtle séedes and of the iuice of Nutshels that hereafter are described In like manner also Milke and the iuice of Lettice each by it selfe If the throate be exulcerated within then take Frankinsence Sandaraca Masticke of each one drag red Stirax halfe a dragme beate them together and receiue the fume therof at the mouth oftentimes
little Stauesacre Mustard séede and Pieretrum but this is very hote and bitter so that the patient shall hardly be able to abide it but this following is milder Take Salarmoniacke and Ginger of each a like much temper them with the iuice of Squils and rub the tongue with it Item Oxymel of Squils and water wherein one or moe of the former things haue bene decocted is very commodious but annoint the necke and the hinder part of the head with oyle of Bayes and of Beuercod afterwards apply this plaister following vpon it being spread on Leather Take Gumme thrée drag Stechas and Marioram gentle of each one drag oyle of Marioram gentle and waxe as much as is needfull for a plaister Take Beuercod wet it with the iuice of Sage and make pilles of it and hold them in thy mouth or else take Nutmegs Indian Nuts Cloues Pieretrum Assa foetida of each one scrup Laudanum Dragagant of each one drag make them into pils with wine and hold them in thy mouth So also may you hold a péece of a Nutmeg in the mouth and chew it Treacle Mithridate and such like confections are commended in this infirmitie The patient must also speake much and plainely But if it come with the infection of any other sinewes then it is to be cured by the meanes that are prescribed in the Palsey But if it procéede of an Ague with a contracture of the tongue then must you irrigate the patients necke and shoulders from on high with warme water for that moisteneth and warmeth the same place and the tongue also afterwards annoint it with oyle of Oliues How to moisten the tongue IF then a great drith of the tongue happen with it as it commonly befalleth in hote Feauers then is the patient to hold in his mouth oyle of Roses or of Violets but especially ought that to be obserued which hath bene said before in the losse of the taste where it beginneth thus Afterwards he is to hold in his mouth c. For this vse serue also these things to wit preserued blacke Cherries preserued Raspises and whatsoeuer else is made of them preserued Peaches Barberries and their sirupe the preserued red Cherries with their sirupe and such like moe sirupe of Mulberies of Nutshels conserue of Roses conserue of water Lillies and many more such like as is shewed in hote diseases and pestilentiall Feuers Diatragacanthum frigidum is very good in this and in all other hote diseases whatsoeuer For this purpose serueth also Sugarcandie the muscilage of Fleawoort of Quince kernels and to wash the mouth often with warme water Vineger and Rosewater If there be any tumour with it then vse the Iulep of Violets and of Roses dried Prunes dryed Cheries iuice of Licorice sowre Dates Manna or which of them you please but if the toung were fast some where then is it to be loosed with some instrument and afterwards to bestrew the place with Ginger and Allume Lastly if a péece of flesh should grow vnder the toung as if it were a frogge then doth the same procéede of a grosse and tough humour when the tongue is lifted vp then may you sée it very red and it is otherwhiles little or bigge like vnto a little toung It is also somtimes round like a Hasell nut and bigger whereby both the speech and eating is hindered Here must the patient first be purged let bloud vnder the toung and obserue a good diet as in any other impostume of the head that might also procéede of fleagm Afterwards is the frogge to be rubbed with Salarmoniack Gals Salgemmae or parched salt or else you may prepare this for it Take Pieretrum Ginger of each two drag Salarmoniack Salgemmae of each a drag and a half Marioram Calmus Ireos Daffodils Mastick of each halfe a dragm make a powder of them Of this powder may you take one part and with the white of an egge make it into Trocisces and when thou wilt vse them dissolue them in Aqua vitae and so annoint the frogge vnder the tongue with it With this water following may you also wash the mouth very often Take Marioram Mints Penniroyall Nettle rootes of each one M. Piâ—retrum two drag boyle them together in a pint and a halfe of water till the third part remaine But if this maladie do once inueterate and waxe old then it is to be cured with those things that are described hereafter in bleeding of the gums amongst which this following is rehearsed Take Sugar Allume Verdigrease of each a like much mixe them with honie and rub it therewith Item if this infirmitie waxe too big then it is to be cut taken away and healed as all other sores of the mouth Some do counsell to burne it which is vncertaine in this place but this is to be obserued if this frog be hard and blacke then it is doubtlesse the true Canker which is altogether incurable For the Alcola or hardnesse and cliffes in the tongue THis Alcola of the tongue procéedeth of the foresaid hote and drie causes when the toung waxeth blacke drie hard and full of cliffes For this must the patient first be purged with this purgation following Take Rubarbe thrée drag Spica halfe a drag Squinant one scrup of the decoction of fruites called at the Apothecaries Decoctio fructuum which shall hereafter be described eightéene ounces let them infuse in this decoction a whole night in the morning presse it out take foure ounces of the Colature sirupe of Pomegranates one ounce sirupe of Limons halfe an ounce temper them together and so take it thrée mornings together If these potions haue not sufficiently purged for they be very gentle then take of these pils Cochiae Foetidae Aureae of each one scrup and of them all one dragme make seuen pilles of it gargarise after that purging with warme Goates milke and eate fiue or sixe Cherries after it And because wine is very hurtfull in such a heate this water following shall be very méete for it Take halfe a handfull of Barley thirtie drie Prunes Barberies Cinnamome of each halfe an ounce boyle them in foure pintes of water vntill the fourth part be consumed In like manner may you vse this potion for to coole Take the iuice of Quinces one ounce and a halfe Rob de Berberis halfe an ounce water of Purslaine thrée ounces temper them together For this purpose serueth also whatsoeuer hath bene written in the first § of the corruption of the mouth but especially the gargarismes Of the tumour and swelling of the Toung THis is caused of bloud or of flegme that falleth downe out of the head It happeneth somtimes that the toung doth so swell that it lyeth before in the mouth wherby the spetting and all other her actions are hindered In this you are to purge the head with the foresaid pils If it then procéede of cold flegme which is discerned that the toung or face are alwaies white and the mouth alwaies full of moisture
then is the toung to be rubbed so long with the iuice of Onions of Citrons sirupe of Raspes or with sower Pomegranate wine vntill all the spettle and slime be gone away for these foresaid things do separate the matter Item take Ireos white Mustard seede Pieretrum and such like all of them or each a part boyle them and vse it in the washing of the toung Item boile Dates Raisins and Figs of each a like much in swéete wine This gargarisme is also good being vsed oftentimes Take Fenegréeke Raisins Fennell séede Lilly rootes and Figs of each halfe an ounce boile them together in a quart of water vntill the third part be wasted afterwards temper thrée ounces of hony of Roses amongst it Item take Squils and Oxymel thrée ounces mixe them with the decoction of Beuercod Or boyle Rue Cypers rootes and Pepper together or which you please in vineger But if heate be cause of this tumor that will be perceiued by the rednesse and swelling vp of the face and toung without any spettle and with swéetnesse of the mouth for this you shall presently open the head veine then vnder the toung for this asswageth the paine and cooleth the bloud If it be néedfull then purge with the Electuarie de Succo Rosarum sirupe of Roses or with Cassia fasten boxing cups in the necke that the affiuent matter might somwhat be withdrawn Also the patient is to gargarize with sower and astringent remedies as with the iuice or sirupe of Raspes and of Limons the iuice of Lettice is also good for it likewise the iuice or wine of Pomegranates Of the impostume of the Toung THe toung doth otherwhiles impostumate through aboundance of bloud which is knowne by the rednesse the tumour the sweetnesse in the mouth and by the puffing vp of the face with rednesse If it procéede of Cholera then it is perceiued by the great burning vehement paine and bitternesse of the mouth Or if it be caused of flegme that may be séene by the palenesse by the small store of paine and much spettle without any great swelling being spread ouer the whole toung When this infirmitie commeth of Melancholie then groweth the toung hard ash coloured and with small paine But if it procéede of heate then purge the patient as hath bene shewed in the tumour of the toung and Alcola and in the beginning make gargarismes of cold things as of Gourds Shepherds purse Purslaine Endiue and especially of Lettice Milke Rose water or the decoction of Roses and rub the tong with a Peach which is very profitable for this purpose But if by these meanes it do nothing amend then vse oftentimes honie milk and the decoction of Lilly roots and Raisins Fenegréeke and of Fennell séede For his meate he may vse Colewoorts Orage drest with oile of Almonds or of Oliues Figs Raisins and Lineseede chewed and spet out againe with the slime When this tumour or impostume is broken vp then take any one of these things following to wit Butchers broome Barberies Myrtle séede of each halfe an ounce Agrimonie one handfull boyle them in a pint of water vntill the halfe then adde Meade or honie vnto it two ounces and gargarize therewith often It preuenteth great harme that might ensue Old wine is also very good being held in the mouth and spet out againe But if it procéede of cold then purge the patient with pils Cochiae or with the confection Diaturbith and make this gargarisme following for him Take Fenegréeke Lilly roots and Fennel séedes of each one ounce ten Figs Currans one ounce and a half Bay berries one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water let him hold this in his mouth wash his mouth with it very often It easeth the paine and ripeneth all impostumes of the mouth and throate especially if you adde honie vnto it This impostume is accounted the middlemost thing betwéene the vlcers of the mouth and the Squinancie for they do agrée together both in their causes and their remedies as hath bin shewed before in the first § Of the losse of speech BVt if of any of the foresaid causes the spéech is hindered or taken away and yet the voyce remaine and that the patient could not vtter his mind then is he to take twice a weeke one drag and a halfe of Hiera logodion with the decoction of Rosemarie A Gargarisme TAke a drag of Coloquint Harts toung two dragmes Ginger Galingall Costus rootes Greines of each halfe a drag boile them together in a pint and a halfe of water euen to the halfe wring it out hard and temper with it Oxymel of Squils sixe ounces and let it boile a while longer afterwards hold it warme in thy mouth and wash thy mouth therewith This will not deceiue thée Take Mithridate or Treacle two drag water of Sage of Marioram gentle and Rosemarie of each thrée ounces or which of them you can come by wash thy mouth with it in the morning and at night and spet it forth againe and thus much for the tongue Of the Gums and Mandibles §. 7. IT is sufficiently knowne that children are borne with the Gums and Mandibles whence first the téeth do grow wherefore it is first néedfull to write of the roote and then of the trée These Mandibles haue their situation one neare to the other called by the Latinists Praesepioliae that is little mangers for so in the old time were the mangers of beasts wont to be parted In them are the téeth fastened with veines and sinewes at the bottome These Mandibles or Gums are subiect vnto many infirmities as impostumes putrifactions corrosions aquefactions bléeding increase and decrease of the Gums the which are caused of the rheumes in the head or else of vapors ascending out of the stomacke of the which and first of all of the impostume now shall be spoken Of the impostumation of the Gums IF with this impostumation be great pain admixed so that the impostumated Gums be red then it is caused of heate In this case is the head to be purged with water wherein Prunes haue bene decocted and Rubarbe or Manna mixed with it and afterwards to vse mild Clisters also to open the head veine and to be let bloud vnder the tong lastly to fasten boxing cups to the shoulders and to hold this following in the mouth a good while Take hony of Roses one ounce and a halfe Vineger halfe an ounce when you spet it out you are to take in fresh again If then any other sores do happen vnto them they are to be opened with a fleame and then to wash it thrice a day with water wherein Allume Myrrhe or Salt is sodden Item take halfe a pint of the water of Knotgrasse Allume halfe an ounce dissolue it in the water wash the téeth and Gums with it Afterwards take Pomegranate pils beaten dippe a cloth in them and rubbe them gently with it In like manner you may also find in the first § those things that
also highly commended to be very good for the same first put aboue vpon the head a meetly great boxe or cup vnpickt vpon the same on the seame of the scul the haire being cut off before the place that the cup is fastened vnto must be first wel rubbed till it be red and let the cup draw it well Afterwards lay this plaister following thereon Take Laudanum Gummi Heleni Sandaraca Frankinsence white and red Storax and Rosin of each a like much melt the Laudanum Rosin and the liquid Storax togither and temper the other with them But if it be hard then make it softer with oyle of Lillies plaisterwise The second is more forcible than the first Take Aloe wild Mints and Citron pils of each a like much mixe them togither with Laudanum in a warme mortar with asmuch iuice of Sloes as will make it soft Of Rheumes that proceede of cold §. 1. THe cause of these rheumes are strong cold Northerne winds and chiefly if there did blow before that a mild moyst Southwest wind as hath bene told already Also to lie bareheaded in the nights when it is cold whereby the moysture is forcibly driuen togither and chiefly if warmth follow after as hath bene heretofore shewed of the Spunge Also moyst fruits do cause these distillations as Cherries Apples Peares Peaches and such like These Rheumes are knowen by these signes following as wearinesse and heauines of the whole bodie sléepinesse heauinesse of the head and forehead palenes of the face with full veins stuffing of the head or nose bereauing of the sense of smelling swelling vp of the eyes paine in the throat motion to vomite dropping of the nose and swelling of the Almonds In like manner is the head also in the féeling found cold and the rheume is neither sharp nor biting at all The which is commonly ingendred and maintained if the complexion the time the age and the weather be cold As for example If that any one do runne into the cold ayre bareheaded out of a bath or after any other great warmth especially in the nights and begin to get a tickling in the nose then is it a sure signe that he hath alreadie gotten a defluxion and then must the patients head be couered so long with warme clothes that he féeleth manifestly that his head beginneth to warme inwardly or in stead thereof he shall lay these things following vpon his head Take beaten Millet foure ounces Salt one ounce parch them in a panne and lay this vpon his head as hote as may be suffered Or take a good quantitie of Salt powre thereto as much Wine as is requisite to dissolue the same Salt and being a little sodden wet clothes therein presse them out and lay them very drie vpon his head this drieth and is safe You may also prepare this salue Take Pigeons dung wild Rue Beuercod and white Mustard séede of each one drag oyle of Rue thrée ounces Euphorbium halfe a drag Waxe as much as will suffice for a plaister but let the forepart of the head be shorne and the place annointed therewith where the sore is it is forcible and dryeth much Will you now haue more plaisters and salues for the same then looke into the first part of the description of the cold paine of the head for these things are also very commodious for this paine Yet note this that all that is here discoursed is to be spéedily effected for if this disease be to be maistered the same must be done at the beginning when as the patient is incontinently to haue a veine opened on the right hand betweene the thumb and the forefinger letting out foure or fiue ounces of bloud Clisters AFter the full dispatch of letting of bloud minister a Clister vnto him at night Take Branne Mallowes rootes of blew Flower deluce Beetes of each one handfull seeth it all together in sufficient water and then take of this decoction 12. or 16. ounces confection of Beuercod a drag and a halfe prepared Cassie and Tho. Sugar of each fiue drag oyle of Lillies and Cammomill of each one ounce and a halfe Salt one quarter of an ounce mingle them all together and minister it méetly warme The next morning following giue these pils take pils of Hiera composita two scruples Cochiae one scruple make seuen pils and vse them at one time Against the euening let him be rubbed with rough warme clothes euen as is said not long ago in the first Chapter and 5. § of the paine of the throat And this is to be obserued certaine dayes euery morning and euening Gargarismes If therefore these rheumes be cold thin and wateris then can you not do better than to make the same thicke the which may be performed with Mastick Frankinsence Cypers nuts and such like if one do gargarize oftentimes therewith or vse this following Take Myrrhe and Frankinsence of each one ounce Cypers nuts Nutmegs and Masticke of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and boyle them in twelue ounces of red Wine vnto the half and gargarize therewith Cakes to be holden vnder the Tongue TAke Masticke Nutmegs Cypers nuts of each halfe a dragme red Storax and Frankinsence of each one dragme and a halfe fat Raisins the stones taken out Sugarpane of each one quarter of an ounce make a dough therof with Meade and then make Cakes thereof as big as small Beanes the which you are to hold continually day and night vnder the tongue Syrupes and purgations FOr a sirupe Take Sage Cypres leaues of each one ounce Lignum Aloes one quarter of an ounce clarified hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces and let them séeth togither in a sirupe as hath bene often taught Another It is also very needefull that in such diseases the head be well purged whereto this sirupe following serueth wel Take Elecampane rootes Ireos Currans Licorice of each one ounce Hyssope Adiantum of each a handfull Masticke Frankinsence of each one dragme Nutmegs Cypres nuts of each half an ounce séeth this togither as is beforesayd with Sugar and giue him certaine dayes continually two ounces wich thrée ounces of this water Take twenty Iuiubes thirty Sebestes Currans one ounce and a halfe dried Violets halfe an ounce cut Licorice fiue dragmes and ten figs seeth them all togither in a pinte and a halfe of water vnto the halfe afterwards straine it out and let it settle You haue also here before in the first part for the cold pain of the head sirupes and other things that serue for these rheumes For purging these pils following are speciall good as Hiera Composita and Cochiae Three dayes after purging there is to be set aboue the buttockes two great boxing cups vnpickt two howers before supper and let them draw wel and the next morning take of this confection following the quantity of a Walnut Take Ginger two ounces Licorice one quarter of an ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Cardamom of each one drag and 18.
are hard of digesture and their fat is windie Other parts are much easier of digestion and warmth of nature reasonable fat flesh is easie to be digested the wings or pinnions and the legs are good for him at noone being sodden and at night are good rosted but fryed in a pan is not for his dyet All fowles as Capons Cocks and chiefly Hens wild and tame Pigeons which are not fully feathered and haue béen killed a day or twain before and are well drest these may he eate franke and fréely Yong Peacocks Geese Ducks shall he also refraine or at least eate of them very seldome and that rosted Of all wild birds these are good for him Partridges Fesants and small birds as also Stares Finches Nightingales Larkes Sparrowes Snites Dishwashers and such like by reason that all their flesh is much drying Swallowes Magpies and Woodpigeons are not to be vsed Quailes shall he also abstaine from in regard they are hurtfull for the stomacke and breed loathsomnesse No kind of fish is to be vsed but in case that he wil eate them then let them be hard broiled to wit Roches Pikes Gugeons Perches and such like and they will hurt the lesse if they be drest with Parsley and Mints and they are alwayes better broyled or fried than sodden and stued also the salt fish is better than the fresh The Eele the Tench and the Creuets are also forbidden Likewise Milke and all that is drest therwith but he may eate â—eare egs out of their shels or poched but hard egs are naught Of all manner of Pottages there is onely allowed of Panicum red Pease and Rice The herbes that are commodious for this must be in operation drying and warming as Sage Fennell Mints wild Thyme Rosemary Marierom gentle Basill Dill. Contrariwise he must forbeare Lettice Endiue Spinage Cherries and all that are cold and moyst In like manner also Radish Léekes and Onions after what manner soeuer that they be drest shall he forbeare Rapes or Turneps haue much superfluous moisture therefore are not to be vsed but Oliues and Capers are good for him He must auoid all cold and moyst fruits parched Hasell nuts Almonds Figs Raisins Pinapple kernels Pistacium may he vse without danger All meates that are betwéene sower and swéete in like manner that which is drest with Ginger Annis seede Fennell Parsley Saffron Cinnamom Nutmegs and Mace are very commodious for him and the rather if they be swéetened with hony than with Sugar Item a Sallad made of Parsley Mints wild Thyme Vineger is very profitable for him His best drinke is hony water or Meade Cinnamom and Licorice wine amongst which are to be tempered some of the foresayd waters And if he will néedes drinke wine without mingling it at all with water then is to be taken as is said a thinne and pleasant white Wine the which ought to be drunken delayed with steeled water Lastly is the patient after meales to vse somwhat that closeth the stomacke that the vapors ascend not into the head as prepared Coriander toasted bread rosted Quinces or such as be confected with hony In the morning fasting to go or walke on foote or to ride a horsebacke softly is very commodious for these Rheumes And if the patient be not so strong then may one vse in stead thereof to rub him with warme clothes euen as is oftentimes afore sayd and after meales to kéepe himselfe quiet two or thrée howers Of watching and sleeping THis patient must wholly forbeare sléeping on the day time vnles he be otherwise distempered and must forbeare it at the leastwise two howers after meate first he must lay himselfe on the right side and then on the left side and not on the backe for how hurtfull the same is hath bene shewed sufficiently before The heate of the sunne and of the fire must he auoid and forbeare lowd calling and speaking And to conclude touching these cold and stifling rheumes we will tell how they are to be preuented the which may be effected through these meanes following And for that this disease proceedeth of a cold and moyst stomacke and braines all things measurably warme and dry are good for it as these confections following These Species Diatrion piperion Aromaticum Rosatum of each halfe a drag Mace one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom one drag and a halfe Sugar three ounces sirupe of Roses fiue ounces the Sugar and the sirupe séeth till they be méetly thicke afterwards mixe the other spices amongst them in a mortar take euery day foure houres before meales as much as a Nutmeg And this must you continue a moneth together and afterwards three times a weeke as long as you please Or make this confection to be vsed after meate and take thereof thrée dragmes at one time Take Species Diâ—mbrae de xylo Aloe of each one drag and a half Violets Water Lillies Sorrel seedes and Endiue seedes of each one scrup Sugar foure ounces seeth it in water of Violets and make Manus Christi of them A plaister for the stomacke TAke Laudanum and Rosin of each fiue drag prepared Corall and Yuorie small Endiue seede and Purslaine seede of each one scrup The two first you shall dissolue in sharpe vineger and put thereto molten waxe as much as is néedfull and thereof make a plaister or twaine for the stomacke and weare them all the winter vpon it When these rheumes are a diuiding then must you prepare a drie bath as hereafter followeth Take a sweating tub make it méetly wet with wine and Rosewater afterwards haile the same ouer a glowing fire till that it be through drie then make the same wet againe with a sponge or cloth as before and do this so long vntill that the tub be through hot and then set the patient therein and couer the tub ouer with clothes which must stay vpon the hoopes yet holding his head without and let him sit so sweating one houre or twaine Hote Rheumes §. 2. AS in the beginning is generally treated of rheumes so are there also declared certaine causes of the hote rheume therefore it is néedlesse to rehearse the same again These rheumes are much prouoked through idlenesse through sléeping a daies through superfluous eating and drinking Also if the head be too hot couered great labour ouerheating of himselfe and such like The signes and tokens that one hath the rheume are these to wit the face is red mixt with bleaknesse or pale colour great heate in the nose with itchings when as the mouth and the throate are full of bitternesse and sharpnesse And if the head be hote in feeling the which rheume is thus to be cured First it hath not bene a little disputed of amongst the learned whether a veine must be opened or not but for the most part they affirme it some would open the head veine other the median and some the Liuer veine But this letting of bloud must be effected according as the rheume falleth more on the
each one scrup Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce water Lillies one drag and a half Cloues halfe a drag temper them together being all beaten small and therewith bestrew the crowne of the head and euery other day when you will strew other powder thereon brush off the first This following is more cooling Take Roses Myrtle séede or leaues Corall and Butchers broome séedes of each a like much This being powdred small vse it as before The order of Diet. THe best meate that this patient may vse when he is not ouerweake are paps of Barley of Spelt of Starch of Oten meale and alwaies adde some Sugar pennets In like manner may he eate these hearbes following drest or sod with other meates as Spinage Orage Purslaine Mallowes and Béetes also Melons Gourds Cucumbers But if he be weake then is he to eate Kids Hens and such like sodden with these foresaid hearbs and mildly salted reare egges Oyle of swéet Almonds and all small birds are very méete The best that he may vse for drinke is Barly water or Sugar water and both hauing Licorice sodden in them Item cleane fresh Well water tempered with sirupe of Roses or Violets He must wholy forbeare wine but if that will not be then must he vse a thin wine tempered with a little veriuice It is also good counsell for all rheumaticke persons to sléepe as little as is possible and that with the head vpright The which together with the whole bodie must be well couered and in the meane whiles if any sweat follow he must let the same haue his course It is also thought good that the forehead the temples and the whole brest be annointed with oyle of Violets water Lillies and Roses mingled together or with each a part Or that his breast be annointed with oyle of swéet Almonds and fresh Butter When as the sicknesse is declining then is the patients head to be washed if euer he vsed the same with cleare lye wherin is decocted or stéeped Marioram gentle Roses Cammomill and Melilot and afterwards he is to be combed and dried with warme clothes Of Rheumes with agues §. 3. IF in case that through the foresaid remedies the rheume will not be stayed which happeneth often through the aboundance of humours then befalleth oftentimes a cough and ague to follow it whereby one may well guesse that the same procéedeth of a cholericke humor that lyeth still hidden in the veines Therefore is the letting of bloud very néedfull for this and especially in the liuer veine Afterwards you must purge the bodie with Cassia and Manna or concerning the same take the counsell of a learned Phisition For this also must continually be vsed those Losinges wherein is no Ireos And for to take away this hurtfull matter of the rheume it is specially aduised that the same be deriued from the brest into the nose where the same may be the better euacuated To this end take Ammoniacum halfe an ounce small beaten Pellitorie of Spaine one quarter of an ounce make this with the iuice of blew Flower deluce into dow and thereof take a little on a knife and put it in the nose and foorthwith you shall sée the water to run out of the nose This is a secret Item take the iuice of the roote of blew Flower deluce one ounce beaten Stauesacre and Pieretrum of each one drag make some cotton moist herein and so put it warm into his nose He must also be preuented and kept from eating of flesh and drinking of wine as long as the ague and the cough endure Barly water tempered with Iulep of Violets and sirupe of Violets must be his drinke for this suppleth moistneth and cooleth the breast and maketh the matter thicker But if it procéede of cold then are you to boile Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice amongst them When as then the ague and cough begin to cease which one may féele as the drouth and spettle beginneth to cease then are you to prepare this water following Take fiue fat Figs ten Iuiubes twenty Sebestes Raisins the stones taken out one ounce and a quarter Licorice cut small fiue drag let them séeth well together in sufficient water Afterwards straine it and take thereof thrée ounces sirupe of Violets fiue drag temper them all together and you shall giue him this potion if the rheume procéede of heate but if it procéed of cold and the flegme or spettle will not be loosed then seeth Venus haire and Currans with the foresaid things and leaue out the sirupe of Violets If the Rheume would not passe through the nose §. 4. TO conclude we are to adde this following to the rest If so be this rheume do stop the nose a great while and that there is no heate with it then are fumes to be vsed for it And héede is to be taken that if the moisture that issueth out at the nose be subtill sharpe or yellow make a smoake with a little Sulphur that hath bene stéeped in a little vineger and is dried againe or with husked Barley or Beans péeled that were also stéeped in vineger and are dried againe and beaten to powder For this also serueth Saunders and the Fume of Sugar Or you may prepare this following Take grosse beaten brimstone one quarter of an ounce séeth it in 8. ounces of red vineger and receiue the vapor of into your nose Or sprinkle the Sulphur with wine and lay it on a hote stone Item make a vapor of sodden Barley water Lillies and white Poppie séede Also you may sprinkle vineger alone vpon an hot iron For this is also good the vapor or smoke of Partriges feathers But if there be no heate nor rednes in the face then make a fume of Costus roots and Frankinsence Or take Gith séedes steeped in wine and so sprinkle it on a hote stone Take also Lignum Aloes Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much being powned together and receiue the vapor thereof Likewise is commodious for this Sandaraca stéeped in vineger and the same sprinkled on a hote stone and the vapor thereof receiued into the nose And for as much as there is very much written at this present of this rheume and shall be more discouered thereof in the description of the rheume of the cough and pursiuenesse therfore will we here make an end of this Chapter The third Chapter Of the formost part of the Breast Thorax THat which we generally call the Breast hath his beginning there where the necke endeth downewards vnto the lower rib albeit that Aristotle ascribeth the whole bodie from beneath vnder the necke without the armes euen to the priuities below vnto it yet this Thorax includeth the foremost and hindmost part of the bodie from the necke euen to the midriffe The foremost part is in the middle of it downwards somewhat lower and heightened againe where the breasts or paps are euen so in the hinder part downe along the backe bone it is lower and on both the sides higher
is not here néedfull to be written In like manner that the smaller the Lights be in ones bodie the more swifter can they indeuour and bestirre themselues This noble and necessarie member is subiect to many grieuous and deadly sicknesses wherof we will speake hereafter But first of all we will begin with the Cough Of the Cough §. 1. FOrasmuch as the Cough is a messenger of all the diseases of the Lights and of the Brest and that through the grossenesse drouth moisture spettle and other excrements whereby men may easily adiudge how the brest and lights are made within therefore it is aduised first of all to write thereof The auncient Phisitions do write thus of the Cough The Cough is a naturall motion of the Lights the which by the aire and mouing vertue of the muscles that are within the Breast is méete and made for to cough vp all that which hurteth the lights The mouing and breathing in the breast is appropriated by nature as the néesing for the braines and the digesture for the stomacke But before we go any further we will speake first of the Rheume the which prouoketh the cough most of all Of the Rheume or Catarrhe which falleth vpon the Lights §. 2. HEre before in the second part the first Chapter and 4. § and afterwards in the description of the Squinancie there are written many things of this Rheume of the lights which may as well be vnderstood of the Rheume in the lungs as of the Squinancie For the perill of stifling is euen as much whether the lights were stopt or the throte were shut vp Such things happen oftentimes through a tough slimie matter which falleth out of the head vpon the lights and into the breast the which is very ill to be gotten out and there resteth and abideth We will therfore first shew by what means all such stoppings of the lights are to be remedied and cured And for that these Rheumes are more incident to children by reason of their moisture therefore we will expresse certaine necessarie things that are requisite for the said young children Take Lineséede which is beaten mollifie it in cleare honie giue it to the child to lick thereof it driueth out the slime it separateth it openeth the breast and purgeth mildly whereof giue him fiue or sixe times according as it purgeth much or little but if so be that the child will not eate any thing at all then is there no hope of health to ensue But then rost an Onion in warme ashes wring out the iuice put thereto as much Hens and Capons grease as there is iuice and temper it by a soft fire and annoint the childs breast therewith Item take Mastick Frankinsence and Citron pils of each a like much and make thereof a powder and rub the Child softly therewith aboue vpon the future of the Scull Also you may let him lâ—ke oile of swéet Almonds tempered with Sugar candie for it mollifieth the breast and looseth it These losinges following are not onely very good for children but for aged people whether the same be vsed in losinges or in forme of any confection â„ž Agarici albi â„¥ 18. Spec. Diambrae â„¥ 5. Diaâ—reos Solomonis drag 1. Spec. Diatragacanthi scrup 4. Polypodij quercint â„¥ 1. Omnia in puluerem redacta cum Saccaro incorporentur ad placitum But with men in yeares it hath another respect They that be sixteene or eightéene yeares old who are infected with this disease they shall rule themselues according to this regiment following Concerning the order of diet you haue here before in the first Chapter and 4. § and god aduice and instructions afterwards Also it is very good that the Liuer veine be opened and fiue ounces of bloud letten out Afterwards two scruples or one scruple of the pils Cochiae to be taken and to sléepe one houre after them and fiue houres after that to drinke a draught of sugred Barly water and then to eate somewhat This so done he must vse this Potion following warme in the morning Take sirupe of Endiue Honie of Roses and sirupe of Stechas of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie and of Endiue of each one ounce and a halfe tempered together But for this accident are Clisters more profitable like as these be following which are recited and put for an example Take Poppie heads small Housleeke Mallowes and Bran of each halfe a handfull Asarabacca and Betonie of each halfe so much seeth all together in sufficient water then wring it out well and take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oile of Violets and of Saffron of each one ounce and a halfe Hiera Picra and S. Thomas Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce these Clisters are you to vse before noone He may lay rosted Millet with Salt and Cammomill vpon his head and to set oftentimes cups or boxes vpon his shoulders and buttockes without picking is highly commended Or if that the partie be full of bloud then ought they to be picked Also if by nature he be subiect to the Piles then ought they to be opened by rubbing with rough clothes or Figgs leaues so also is the Oxe gall very good for them Afterwards must he be washed euery day with sharpe Ley and therefore vse conuenient Sope and let him be well dried continuing this ten dayes together but in the meane time shall he take the pils Assaiaret and refraine the cold ayre and kéepe his head well couered This Salue following is very commodious if the shorne head be annointed therewith it raiseth many blisters and thereby draweth out all the moisture from the braines and strengtheneth the head excéedingly Take one ounce of Nep Beane meale and Pease meale of each thrée ounces stamped roots of Costus and Mace of each halfe an ounce Mustard séed one dragm Pigeon dung two ounces Marioram gentle stamped thrée quarters of an ounce séeth these together in sufficient water to pappe and vse it as is said for this purpose serueth also oile of Masticke Item take oile of sweet Almonds and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Saffron one scruple and therewith annoynt the throate and the breast To this end may also this sirupe following be prepared take fiue Poppie heads with the séedes of panis diui Iohannis clensed from the kernels one ounce and a halfe Myrtle séeds halfe a dragme prepared Licorice one ounce and a halfe séeth them in a pint of water vnto two parts wring it out and straine it and put afterwards therto Sugar candy and Sugar pennets of each two ounces seeth it as thick an honie And if the rheume fall vehemently on the breast that it séemeth to strangle one then take halfe an ounce of Agaricus letting it stéepe 24. houres long in sixe ounces of the water of Venus haire afterwards wring it out and put as much Sugar vnto it as you please And seeth it to the thicknesse of Hony for your daily vse whereof is
Cinamome and Fennell are baked Of flesh is to be chosen good Mutton Veale Lambe Kids Hares Conies Roe buckes and the lungs of a Foxe Of Foules these are very commodious Hens Pullets Capons yong Pigeons Phesants Partriches Blackbirds wild Ducks rather boiled than rosted Also there be good for him Broths Coleworts Parsly Fennell Mints Sage and Hyssop which are to be vsed often but Turneps and Spinage very seldome drie Figs Raisins and Currans eaten before dinner and supper are much commended And his meate is to be drest with Fennell séedes Annis seede Comine Carawayes Pepper and such like things moe Pease porredge Beane broth is also good for him to vse likewise Raisins decocted in Almond milke or Goates milke To haue his meate drest with Sugar and honie is very good Vineger or Veriuice tempered with any kind of Spice as Saffron Ginger Nutmegs Cloues Cinamome or Cardamome In stead of Sallad oile is fresh Butter Barrows grease and Goosegrease good for him Further all that be grieued in the breast shall occupie much these hearbs in their drinks and otherwise as Venus haire Hyssope Horehound Elecampane and Saffron For his drinke Wine is not vtterly forbidden but he may drinke some small draughts and that the oftener Swéet and pleasant Wine is most wholesome for him tempered in the Sommer with Well water and in Winter with decocted water notwithstanding that good swéete red Wine were as good But if the patient will not gladly drinke Wine then is this meade following to be prepared for him Take three quarts of the water of Cinamome and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Hyssope one dragme seeth it so long vntill the fourth part be sodden away then put thereto twelue ounces of honie and seeth it againe till the third part be sodden away skumme it and then let it runne through a cloth Of all wines the Renish wine is most commended brued a little with water for it fumeth not into the head but hasteneth towards the bladder and caryeth the matter with it Sweet Limons Pomegranates and Quince peares being well sugred are also permitted for the appetite but Marmalade strengtheneth much the breast and lights This is then the order to be obserued in this sicknesse chiefly when as it proceedeth of flegme and not for any short time but the same is stil to be continued for as we haue alreadie shewed this sicknesse is of long continuance and perillous so that if one do his very best therein yet it is in young persons very hard and in old folkes almost vnpossible to be cured And although there be many sicknesses of the breasts like as is alreadie rehearsed and shall be yet againe spoken of hereafter yet is there no euidenter meanes for to know whether the Lights be infected or fraighted then through the Cough and by that which is cast vp in coughing It is also to be noted whether the breathing be vneasie slow and wheasing c. For the troublesomnesse of the paine and of the fetching vp of the flegme do bewray the matter which causeth the disease and vlceration of the Lights therefore must all Phisitions looke diligently vnto it for when the matter is knowne then is it easily to be discerned whereof this griefe in the breast is caused This may suffice for this present Of the breast oppressed with Phlegme §. 11. WHen any such sicknesses do light vpon men then must they be knowne and discerned as is alreadie recited therefore we will write first of Phlegma as of the most common infection of the breast In this sicknesse is first the Basilica to be opened in the right arme letting out foure or fiue ounces of bloud and afterwards this drinke following to be vsed Take tenne or twelue Figs Dates Smallage seedes Fennell seedes Venus haire Hyssope and Horehound of each fiue dragmes seeth them together vnto about the half take about three ounces thereof and temper therewith this Confection following and take such once in euery three dayes or once in euery foure fiue or sixe dayes for it exceedingly expelleth the superfluous matter from the breast Take the iuice of Licorice Hyssope and Venus haire of each tenne dragmes Pepper bitter Almonds Aristologie Cresses séedes and Nettle séede of each three dragms Hony as much as is needefull for to make a confection the Hony must be boyled and clarified But aboue all it is to be aduised that after letting bloud he take one dragme or foure scruples of Pillulae de Agarico which are much commended for this sicknesse Or vse these pils following Pillulae de Hiera compositae Aurearum of each two scruples make therof seuen or nine pils with sirupe of Roses and take therof twaine early in the morning and fiue houres after that take a draught of leane Hen broth and then one houre afterwards breake your fast The next day take in the morning this preparatiue Syrup de Bizantijs de Calamintha de Glicyrrhiza of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie of Violets and Balme of each one ounce temper them all together and drink thereof eight daies long fasting When this is done then take this purgation following Take Electuarij Indi two dragmes De Psyllio half an ounce temper them all together in a little warme wine and drinke it in the morning early Some do counsell also that after purging héede be taken that one vomite with beaten Mustard séede and Honie for that doth vehemently expell the matter off the stomacke And if that you perceiue the matter be to be cast vp then take the water of blew Flower de luce Hyssope and Marioram of each one ounce water of Folefoote two ounces Sugar halfe an ounce temper and vse them euery morning for the space of one whole wéeke afterwards take thrée ounces of new Cassie and water of Folefoote wherein two scruples of Rhapontica and Spica halfe a scruple were stéeped drinke it warme and fast sixe houres after it This vnguent following may also be vsed euery day annointing the belly warme therwith couering it with a peece of warme fur Take oyle of Saffron oyle of Cammomill of each thrée quarters of an ounce Ducks and Badgers grease of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron half a scrup white Pepper Ireos and Rue of each one quarter of an ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull thereof to make an vnguent or salue Here is also to be noted that all sowre and egar things and all that is drest therewith as sowre Pomegranates Orenges Limons and such like are very hurtfull In like maner is also grosse sowre wine and Sallad oyle very hurtfull These pils following are to be prepared Take good pot Aloe thrée dragmes Agaricus and the roote of Polypodie of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one drag Spica Ginger and Indie salt of each halfe a scruple beate them all together and steepe them in the iuice of Roses and of Endiue of each two ounces keep it in a warme place stirre it
about till it waxe drie then afterwards powre thereon againe two ounces of the iuice of Marioram gentle and let it drie also Thirdly temper therewith two ounces of the iuice of small Endiue and halfe a scruple of Saffron when it is drie then take the waight of a drag thereof make pils of it of which take alwaies one euery fift day before supper and one more two houres after This may euery such patient vse all his life long in all countries The like also when he vseth the preparatiue Potions if he be bound in his body he may freely take one of them in the euening before meate These pils haue great force to preserue health for they cleanse the breast the stomacke and the liuer He must eate euery weeke a peece of greene Ginger and fast at least foure houres after it In winter time must he strew vpon his head twice a weeke this powder following Take Lignum Aloes one dragme Mace one quarter of an ounce Stechas Marioram gentle and grosse Marioram of each one scruple Roses Iuorie and Sandaraca of each one drag and a half beate all small and temper them together For a confection take Spec. Aromatici Rosati Trociscos de Rosis de Spica of each halfe a drag sixe ounces of white Sugar make thereof Tabulates and eate thereof after meate If you vse not greene Ginger then is also good for you the Tabulats of Diaireos Salomonis and moe confections that serue for this end euen as it is described in the discouerie of Asthma There is a fume also to be made for this patient with Myrrhe Costus rootes Saffron Cassia wood Aristologie or Galbanum which liketh him best each alone or mixt together Also he is euery euening to wash his feete euen to beneath the knees in warme fresh water wherein Roses and Violets of each two handfuls Mints Marioram and Stechas of each one handfull haue bene sodden Of the right pursiuenesse with a sore old Cough through tough Phlegma in the Breast which is called with one word Asthma §. 12. BY this name Asthma some later Phisitions comprehend the thrée foresayd species of pursiuenesse to wit Dispnaea Asthma and Orthopnaea for that the breath in these thrée sortes is hardly drawne which is peraduenture because all the diseases of the breast and the Lights haue a naturall participation togither that they are very hardly to be discerned euen as may be well obserued out of these desciptions following where the lights and breast commonly are comprehended togither neuerthelesse they haue partly their difference whereof we as farre as is possible shall giue good instructions It hapneth also oftentimes that these plegmaticke humours do fall out of the head into the lights and breast that they fill them full and if then that nature be not so strong that she can auoyd or consume the tough slime then wil it corrupt there and conuert into that wherof then if it be not looked to the Hectica or Phthisis which is the consumption is wont to follow as hereafter shall appeare Therfore is this Asthma to be alwayes preuented for when it beginneth to be confirmed then is there no more helpe to be done nor cure to be wrought As much as then concerneth the order of liuing in this sicknesse he must as much as is possible rule himself according to these foresayd ordinances for which all they that are vexed with Asthma are to haue twice a wéek cups fastned on their buttockes without picking what is further fit as to open the breast and to bring vp phlegme you haue good remedies in the second Chapter of the Cough and yet moe not long before in the 8. § that may stand also in some stead for this purpose Now follow diuers confections and other medicines that are good for Asthma Take Sage Venus haire Folefoote leaues Lungwort Violet leaues and Hyssop of each a handfull Penniroyall and Thime of each halfe a handfull floures of Buglosse Violets Burrage and Cicorie of each halfe so much Annis séede and Fennell séede and séedes of Mallowes of each halfe an ounce Elecampane and Licorice of each thrée quarters of an ounce Parsly and Polypody rootes of each halfe an ounce ten or twelue Figs Currans foure ounces prepared Agaricke thrée dragmes Spica Squinant Galingall and Cinnamom of each halfe a dragme Ginger and graines séeth this altogither with a mild fire in sufficient water vntill there do remaine about a pinte wring and straine it well out then put as much Sugar vnto it as you thinke good and let it seeth to the thicknesse of Hony vse this Lambatiue and lick thereof as much and as often you please Confection of Currans The Confection of Currans which are vsed of all Apothecaries is thus prepared Take Piony rootes halfe an ounce dried Hyssope Baulme and Harts tong of each halfe a handfull Licorice cut small halfe an ounce séeth these al togither in sufficient rayne water wring it hard out and straine it through a cloth Put into this decoction washt Currans that be well powned séeth it once againe with the decoction and straine it through a cloth or a hairne scarce put thereto a pound of Sugar and let it seeth into a confection it is speciall good to open the breast to swage the Cough and to maturate the phlegme Another Take washt Currans or Raisins fiue ounces seeth them softly vntill that they swell powre them into a sieue and presse them through put thereto twelue ounces of Sugar and then seeth them togither into a confection This Confection following is good for the common people take Colewort leaues with the red stalks cut the stalks ribs stamp them in a wodden mortar an straine out the iuice let it séeth and take as much Hony as there is iuice seeth it all togither vnto the thicknesse of Hony stirring it alway about If you wil haue it stronger than temper some Saffron amongst it Another Take Hollyhock roots one ounce Elecampane half an ounce let them seeth togither in water of Violets stamp them to pap temper therewith one dragme of Cheruill seed and make therof a confection with sodden Sugar let them seeth togither in water of Violets stamp them to pap temper then therewith one dragme of Cheruill seed and make thereof a confection with sodden Sugar let them seeth togither vntill they be thicke Or take one dragme of Rubarb oyle of fresh Almonds three ounces and two ounces of the creame of Milke temper them togither boyled on warme ashes vse thereof often for it is very good Some put thereto one dragme of Rubarb more which is not to be discommended Yong children may haue this kind of powder prepared Take Masticke Frankinsence and Citron pils of each a like much beate it small togither wherewith rub the child softly in the seame of his scull Afterwards giue him hereof to licke take fresh oyle of sweete Almonds temper therin white Sugar beaten but if the obstruction of the
in his breast and in all the bodie Yet do these signes alter through diuers occasions so that you must note the meate and drinke that the patient hath accustomed himselfe to vse before time How this disease is to be remedied and cured you shall find in the first part the twelfth Chapter § 8. of Madnes of Melancholia and all that is said in the third part of the foule melancholicke bloud Of the shortnesse of breathing or Pursiuenesse through wind §. 16. WHereas there is any short breath or heauinesse in the breast through wind the same will be alwaies augmented through meates and medicines that ingender wind as may well be noted through the rumbling and course of the wind in the breast and other places more For this must be vsed Rue and Penniroyall of each one ounce and a halfe Serapinum Opopanacum of each one dragme Comin one ounce and a half all this being beaten together make therof a salue with molten Waxe and annoint the breast therwith very warme This salue is also very good for all heauie breathing that proceedeth of grosse tough matter and that is impacted into the Lights for it separateth and consumeth the same What further might be done for this that may you sufficiently perceiue by all the forementioned Treatise wherein hath bene spoken of this sicknes For this short and sore breath through wind cannot be alone by it selfe but there must be with it either Cholera or Phlegma or Melancholia or bloud of all which there is sufficiently written Of the spetting bloud through some disease of the Lights §. 17. THe spetting of bloud may come of many occasions of the braines which are woont to be eased through bléeding at the nose whereof is written in the first part the eight Chapter and 7. § Secondly through any hurting or brusing of the throte or the mouth for which you are to looke in the first part the 13. Chapter Thirdly through hurting of the gums whereof we haue sufficiently mentioned in the first part also the saâ—e is sometimes caused of the Lights brest and stomacke also of the Liuer and of the mother c. This spetting of bloud do the Greeks call Hemoptoin whereof we will write at this present The cause of this bléeding may happen through falling thrusting and such like outward occasions of the breast or of any horsleach drunken through great heate or great cold strong coughs to crie loud to vomit much and vehemently through long vse of hote peppered meats or through vse of onions and garlicke through much subtil bloud through neglect of accustomed letting bloud and through some disease of the lights or when a veine chanceth to breake whereof hereafter we shall discourse in particular The signes of this spetting of bloud that commeth out of the breast or out of the Lights are that when the same procéedeth out of the breast then will there be felt great paine in the same and contrariwise when it procéedeth out of the lungs there will be felt very little paine the spetting bloud out of the breast is not so perilous as that from the Lights But when there is a veine broken opeÌ„ then runneth it most abundantly If it be caused of any other inconuenience as of impostumations bruses or hurts then commeth vp but little bloud and that full of scum When as then a sick man through haking without coughing fetcheth vp bloud it commeth from some little veines about the throate where you may easily come by it with any kinde of remedies but the patient for this disease must forbeare to eate excessiue meate and drinke by reason that thereby much bloud is engendred whereby through the superabounding in the veines the throate openeth but if he be prouoked to such bléeding through vomiting then it is a signe that it commeth from the stomacke the which is not much to be feared for that the same is to be easily preuented through letting bloud setting boxing cups opening the mother veine or opening their termes or flowers in like sort by taking some astringent things as the seedes of Sumach sower grapes and such like Item through this potion following Take fine Bolus Gum Dragon bloud Pomegranate blossoms Frankinsence of each a like much powne them togither to powder and take thereof thrée dragmes and temper it with sodden iuice of Quince peares For meate is very good Starch péeled Beanes Lentils Pease vnleauened bread Turtle doues and common Pigeons Of fruites all that binde as Medlars Seruices Quince peares Prunes Peares and such like For drinke milke wherein are quenched glowing pibble stones steeled water thicke red wine a little now and then sirupe of Poppie heads tempered with water wherein Quince kernels and Myrtle seedes are decocted It hapneth oftentimes that such spetting of bloud commeth of it selfe without any cause at all wherby the patient is neither hindred nor harmed at all and is to haue his course but if the same do chaunce through coughing which is a signe that the same ascendeth from the lights and the breast then is it to be feared that it will be Phthisis that is the coÌ„sumption which then ensueth bicause one cannot come to this place with necessarie remedies Then for this sicknesse it is best to let bloud immediatly at the first and that in the Liuer veine whereby the bloud may be deriued from the Lights Others do first of all open the Saphaea on the feete that the bloud might be drawne downwards and alwayes on the same side that it is adiudged the disease to be The third sort counsell for this disease to set boxing cups on their buttockes This being all done the patient is to be layd in a coole chamber where he may be as quiet as may be without much stirring of himselfe and must keepe from him all that might inflame his bloud as anger crying copulation laughing hot couerings hot and salt meates and drinke bathing and such like There are also no red colours to be brought in his sight Aboue all this binding is one of the principallest remedies against abundant bléeding therefore is that also here to be vsed as in other places is sufficiently taught There are ordained many mo remedies against this spetting of bloud euen as hereafter followeth whereof you may choose that which liketh you best Take Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each thrée dragmes and one scruple of yellow Amber one dragme prepared Bloudstone and sealed earth of each ten dragmes Allume two dragmes and a half flowers of Pomegranats thrée dragmes Opium two dragmes Rubarb one quarter of an ounce make thereof 18. trocisces with sirupe of Poppie heads then temper euery day one in Purslaine water and so drinke it And if this spetting of bloud be too violent then may the patient take one more at night These things following are more certaine because of the Opium Take Mumia Mastick fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each alike much being all beaten small togither make trocisces thereof with
be that there be neglect thereof then is there danger of neuer more to be holpen And if so be that such forcible bloud will not be stayed then are you to open out of hand the Liuer veine in the arme of the same side where you thinke that the veine of the Lights is broken and then to let no more but two or three ounces of bloud And if you perceiue that there is any Cholera run out with it then is the bleeding of the nose not bad for the same But if this wil not helpe then is the head veine to be opened betweene the thombe and the first finger and let out about two ounces of bloud There is good for this to purge choler with Cassia soure Dates Manna and such like To draw the bloud downward the patient is to be rubbed softly with warme clothes in the outward members also to set great boxing cups vnpickt on the top of the buttocks and if the piles could be made bleede that will do it much good Salues TAke beaten Gals Acornes Butchers broome seedes and the iuice of Sloes of each halfe an ounce Myrtle séede séedes of Plantaine and of Purslaine of each thrée drag Dragagant Gum Isinglas Glew of each fiue dragmes Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Starch Mill dust of each one ounce Saffron one drag séeth it in red wine which is somewhat mild and make pappe thereof and lay it vpon the breast and renew it once euery foure and twenty houres And in case that the pap cleaue hard on the breast then must you lay a fresh thereon Item take Sorrell water water of Balme Cicorie and Rose water of each sixe ounces Trociscos de Spodio de Rosis of each two scrup red and white Behen Doronicum Harts bones and Pearles of each one scrup Malmsey halfe an ounce temper it together and seeth it a little then dip a foure square wollen cloth in it and lay it lukewarme ouer the left breast in like manner one more on the same side of the backe bone and refresh it euery day once For stanching of bloud there are many sundrie remedies described in the first part the eight Chapter in the 7. § where we haue spoken of the bléeding of the nose yet is there here cammanded to be vsed if néede require these things following Take Henbane seede and white Poppie séedes of each fiue drag sealed earth and red Corall of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone one drag and conserue of Roses foure ounces temper them all together and make a confection thereof Vse a little thereof and that with great héed For this also may be taken the oile of Rosin distilled with Ireos and prepared Sulphur two ounces Ireos one drag beate it together very small and vse thereof euery day three or foure graines Yet it is to be vnderstood that this is not to be done but after all the foresaid things as letting of bloud and such like Afterwards it is very good once in eight daies to take one quarter of an ounce of Turpentine with a little Ireos rowled with powder of Licorice This following is to be laid vnder the tongue Take cold Dragagant tabulats two ounces prepared Bloudstone Amber Glew red Corall and Pearles of each one dragme temper them all together with Looch de Papauere as much as all the rest and hold at all times therof in the mouth the bignes of a Beane Order for meate and drinke IT is very néedfull in this disease to obserue a certaine order in eating and drinking therefore he is to feed with that which cooleth measurably which thickneth the matter and draweth it together From the first day to the fourth the sick body is to be kept soberly afterwards is his meat to be drest sod with one of these things following as Dragagant Gum or a little cleane Glew or a pappe of Starch of Mill dust or at the leastwise other meate strewed therewith Pap of Goats milke that is prepared with pibble stones or stéele is good for him Sodden Calues féete or Lambes feete Pullets broth or Capon broth drest with Isinglas are very commodious for him There may also sometimes a péece of a Tench or an Eele with other intrailes of fish be sodden in other meates for it is certaine that those things for this sicknesse are very commodious In like manner are the Lentils sodden with Wheate and drest for this sicknes very méet for this is also fit Iuiubes Dates Barly thick milke fresh Cheese all kind of flesh wherein is little bloud as Wood Pigeons turtle Doues and Partridges prepared with binding things as with Quinces Barberies Raspes and such like If this spetting of bloud be caused through heate then dresse his meate most with Lettice Purslaine Gourds Melons Daisies Shepheards purse and such like For his drinke this following is very good Take twelue ounces of very good Hony foure pints of water that is twice stéeled with steele being well sodden together temper amongst it Dragagant and Gum of each one drag and a halfe Saffron one scrup let it seeth againe vntil the third part be sodden away But if one will not drinke thereof alone then is good red wine to be tempred amongst it But let him drink what he will if Isinglas be sodden in all his drinks or the powder thereof be mingled amongst his drinke it is the better He may also otherwhiles take a draught of Rose water or Purslaine water Raine water is commended aboue all other sorts of drinks if a veine be broken in the breast and chiefly if there be a little fine Bolus or burnt Iuorie tempered amongst it This following is praised for a precious and an approued powder Take the seedes of Plantaine Butchers broome seeds and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag prepared Pearles red Corall Amber Blondstone and Dragon bloud of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus three quarters of an ounce Dragagant Gum and Frankinsence of each three drag temper and beate it together You are to take one scruple of this powder with Purslaine water foure times a day one houre before breakfast one houre before supper and likewise two houres after For congealed bloud §. 19. WHen it is thought that after the veine is stopt in the brest there is yet stil a little clotted bloud behind then are these things to be vsed thereto For which is fine Treacle highly commended if thereof be taken one dragme or a dragme and a halfe with three ounces of water wherein Licorice and Venus haire haue bene sodden Or take old Treacle one drag one ounce of Vineger two ounces of Rosewater temper it together and giue it him For this is also good the water of Larks spurs billet coles one quarter of an ounce beaten smal and giuen to drinke in Vineger is a generall medicine for all clotted or brused bloud So is likewise the renning of all young beasts especially good for all clotted or brused bloud If then any body
hath caught a great fal or is hard strucken or thrust and afraid of any clotted bloud then giue him euery morning and euening each time two or three ounces of the iuice of Cheruill Item take Cheruill water and Louage water of each one ounce and a halfe or two ounces drink it at a draught Or take of Rubarbe halfe an ounce Lacca one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus sealed earth of each one dragme Rubarb halfe a dragme if you put thereto some burnt Sponges it wil be so much the better make a powder therof and vse it as is aforesaid Another Take fine Bolus halfe an ounce sealed earth one dragme Dragon bloud and Spermaceti of each half a dragme make a powder thereof and giue him a dragme of it with white wine This plaister following may also be made Take Goates milke hony let them be well warmed togither then temper amongst it as much fine Bolus vntill it be as thicke as a plaister and so lay it vpon the breast it wasteth the clotted bloud If any be afrayd that through falling or thrusting he haue broken any thing in his body or feare to haue any clotted bloud within him then is he to drinke one dragme of this following with warme wine or beere Take foure ounces of the roots of red Bluglosse cut them in péeces and let them séeth in a pot of red wine vntil they be soft then take them out and beate it to pap put thereto two ounces of Spermaceti and one pound of fresh Butter let them melt togither with a smal fire and therewith annoint the place where the paine is greatest and chiefly about the breast Lastly in the middle of the spetting of bloud take one ounce of the iuice of Plantaine tēper therein two or three graines of Opium and giue it to the patient Or make these conserues following Take white Pepper and Henbane séede of each fiue dragmes sealed earth and Opium of each one quarter of an ounce péeled Hempe séede and Saffron of each foure scruples Beuercod Spica Euphorbium Pieretrum Pearles Amber Zeduary and Doronicum of each one scruple Campher sixe graines sodden hony as much as is néedful giue of this halfe or a whole dragme with one ounce and a halfe of Plantaine water tempered with halfe an ounce of wine Comfortable things in and after the spetting of bloud §. 20. FOr to kéepe nature by her might and power these confections following are to be vsed Take the flesh of Capons that are sodden with Dragagant in stéeled water sixe ounces white and red Corall Dragagant Gum both a little tosted of each one dragme and a halfe fine Bolus Amber sealed earth Mumia and Bloudstone of each one dragme Purslaine séede and Plantaine seede of each three dragmes Almonds steeped in the iuice of Quinces three dragmes Iuiubes Sebestes so drest also of each one ounce Specierum Electuarij Regum one quarter of an ounce Species of the cold Dragagant Tabulats foure ounces white Sugar and Sugar candy of each one pound and a half or so much as you please seeth the Sugar with Pullet broth and mixe all the rest amongst it and make of them morsels Another TAke Species de Gemmis which are set foorth in the description of the hart one dragme and giue it with sirupes of Apples this strengtheneth the hart and the Lights it is very good for those that after spetting much bloud be so faint harted that they seeme to haue no more pulse For conclusion for this spetting of bloud we will here present some particular things to be vsed for the same where there is neither Phisition nor Apothecary neare hand bitter Almonds with Starch are passing good for this and also for all cold coughes Agaricus one quarter of an ounce steeped in sixe ounces of Purslaine water and wring it well out and so in one day at two times taken Flowers of Pomegranates Hippocistis and prepared Corall of each one dragme with the white of an egge and Gumme tempered togither to Trocisces and so holden vnder the tongue The iuice of Quinces Centorie burnt and washed Harts horne prepared Amber Lycium sealed earth fine Bolus Myrtle seede Myrrhe or a little of all of them thrée or foure graines at one time taken with wine is passing good Likewise the iuice of Mints or of Purslaine is highly commended for this disease For this is also good the white Henbane seede but not aboue three graines at once to be taken The yellow seede of Roses white Brier and many other things moe that are aboue rehearsed amongst other compounds which are to be vsed alone are very good Of the infection of the Lights which is called Peripneumonia §. 21. THis name is as much to say in Gréeke as Phlegma which is phlegme slime or corruption of the Lights which matter infecteth the lights maketh them swell and bringeth an hote Ague with it This is caused chiefly of Cholera or of Phlegma that which falleth through the veines or out of the head into the lights and may be caused of the matter that prouoketh the Pleurisie or Squinancie and falleth into the lights And although the Peripneumonia as an impostume of the lights hapneth to breake out whereby the lights are wounded yet is it notwithstanding therein seuered from the Phthisi that this infection of the lights is rather placed betwéene the small skin which couereth the lights than in the substance of them where it can procure an exulceration where contrariwise the Phthisis which is the right consumption harmeth impostumeth and rotteth the very substance of the lights The signes of this Peripneumonia or maladie of the lights are these namely a troublesome breath as if one would choke whereby the sicke body is compelled to lift vp himself his breath is alwaies hote so that he doth alwayes cal for cold ayre This phlegme is somtimes somwhat browne and otherwhiles pure red and sometimes greene and blacke and scummy They do feele a wringing and paine in the breast that reacheth from the ribs to the backbone There is also a strong Ague commonly therewith the tongue is red and will be in time slimy and black so that when one toucheth it with the finger it cleaueth thereto They cannot lye neither on the backe nor side but must sit alway vpright the chéekes are alwayes so red as if they were painted If then these signes all or in part do appeare then is it most certaine that there is an impostume in the lights the which otherwhiles causeth such a strangling and Apnaea that the patient can get no more breath and that it cannot be thought otherwise but that the patiēt must stifle and all this without any great stitch or féeling of great heate which neuerthelesse is very great ouer the whole body The remedies for this sicknesse are that the head veine be opened and afterwards the meanes be vsed which here before in the fift Chapter in the 5. § are prescribed The remedies for this
giue the patient thereof sixe ounces He may also vse this Cocke water following the which is thus to be prepared when as the greatest extremitie is past and when the patient beginneth to recouer then giue him a good Cruce ful of this broth following for certaine dayes continually Take a Cock of thrée or foure yeares old course him so long vntill he lye still afterwards kill him and stuffe him with Currans Figs Licorice wild Saffron Venus haire white Mints Penniroyall Fenegréeke if you cannot get all of them take the most part of them of each a like much let them séeth in a great kettle that you néede to powre no more water vpon it drinke of this as is sayd But the third day take sixe ounces of this Potion and séeth therein two cut Figs vnto thrée ounces then put thereto a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple washt Turpentine one dragme and a halfe and then take it all at one time This order must he obserue certaine daies togither albeit that it should last one whole yeare which would be the better Likewise there is good for this sicknesse Turpentine taken with Hony and prepared Foxe Lights for it openeth the Breast cleanseth the same and healeth the Lights Another Cocke water Dresse the Cocke as he ought to be and stuffe him with Hyssope Licorice and Venus haire of each halfe a handfull Currans halfe an ounce let them seeth well togither and lastly put a dragme of Thymus vnto it vse this broth as is aforesaid Item melt a drop of Ammoniacum in a spoonefull of the water of life and drinke it fasting Of the consumption Phthisis a disease of the Lights §. 23. THis Phthisis the which by reason of her nature is called the Consumption and of the Latinists Tabes is an vlcer of the Lights of the Breast of the throate or of the mouth of the stomack wherewith is alwayes a Cough or a small ague wherby the whole body consumeth away and waxeth impotent Or Phthisis is an exsiccation and weakning of the body whereby the whole body will be consumed euen as the Gréeke name sheweth Item Phthisis is a sicknesse of the Lights that dryeth away and consumeth the flesh marrow and all other powers of the body In fine Phthisis is all that harmeth the Lights or deuoureth them This disease is also of such nature and qualitie that it seldome infecteth the very young the very old and aged persons but most of all as Hippocrates testifieth those that are betwéene eightéene and 35. yeares of age and this is the cause that the eager and sharpe matter in this age be it through naturall or accidentall causes doth as then raigne most of all in these kinde of bodies First this Consumption can procéede of many causes as of a sore Cough whereby any veine doth breake in the Lights or of any eager brackish rheume that falleth vpon the Lights and there through his eagernesse doth arrode some veine of the Lights as a drop of water through continuall falling pierceth a hole into a hard stone Secondly this can also be caused through an impostume of the throate the which breaking falleth into the breast and there annoyeth the same Thirdly of any impostume in the breast which after the Pleurisie inflāmation of the Lights or spetting of bloud is not wel cleansed and taken away Like as of Empyema which is the infection of the Lights hath bene sayd Fourthly such can also be caused through some obstruction of any accustomed course of womens Flowers or course of the Hemorrhoides which being closed vp by their vapors do endamage the Lights Fiftly it commeth through extreame outward heate or cold raw windes and especially in the falling of the leafe Also straines wounds pestilent ayre through long vse of many hote spices Oinions Garlicke and other things moe which do ingender much and subtill bloud whereby a veine quickly commeth to breake whereby afterwards the bloud putrifieth there and turneth to an impostume These sicknesses can also be well prouoked through long conuersing in quicksiluer the vapor whereof harmeth and putrifieth the Lights These also are the commonest signes of this sicknesse to wit when the sicke mans nose waxeth small and sharpe when the temples of the head fall down their arme pits do strecth out like wings whereto commeth afterwards a small hot Ague Cough after meate oppression of the brest grieuous breathing matterie spettle the which is alwayes a little died with bloud which if it be cast ouer hot coales yéeldeth a stench or if one cast it in a kettle of water doth sink to the bottome The chéekes of the patient are alwayes ruddie the nailes on the hands and feete will be crooked he is sometimes hot and otherwiles cold In fine they that are oppressed with this wretched sicknesse are alwayes very raging and vnpatient so that no body can do inough for them c. When as then besides all these signes the bloud beginneth to consume to dry away and the haire to fall off then is he very far spent Now for to come to the meanes whereby all such sicknesses are to be holpen then is there first an old saying that the old and ripe consumption is not to be cured The cause is that all such vlcers of the breast do corrode too deepe Secondly because the Lights must be in continuall motion where notwithstanding all cures haue néede of quietnesse Thirdly through continuall motion doth race and eate in the déeper Fourthly for that the disease lyeth so deepe in the body that Phisicke can hardly or slowly come to it Fiftly if hot remedies be to be vsed for it then increaseth the Ague if cold remedies then haue they but small force to pierce to the place infected Or if there be drying medicines vsed thereto then do the same oppresse and putrifie there These sicknesses may be setled a long time in children and old folkes in corpulent and fat folkes and specially in women but if the sicknesse do draw to an end that besides all the sayd signes the stomacke faileth and the laske approcheth with it then is there small hope more at hand notwithstanding although this sicknesse as it is sayd is very dangerous and long continuing yet are the due remedies that serue for the same not to be despised nor abiected And before al as much as concerneth this disease the eyes are to be fixed on seuen kind of things First to see that the Rheume be stayd for the which you may here before finde diuers remedies in the Squinancie in the twelfth Chapter and 2. § Also in the fifth Chapter 2. § Secondly heede must be taken to the vlceration of the lights for which in this present description of the lights very many remedies are prescribed moe shall be herafter specified Thirdly to driue away the Ague and for that to this sicknesse many kinds of Agues are incident as may appeare in the sixt part of this booke Fourthly
therein the moist Pistacia and afterwards the rest beaten small whereof is to be taken the space of sixe weekes euery morning the bignes of a Walnut This powder following is to be strewed vpon the meate Take Cinnamom halfe an ounce Saffron one dragme Zeduary thrée quarters of an ounce beate and mixe them all togither The Zeduary hath a speciall power for to strengthen the Hart. And there is to be drest alwaies in his meate Buglosse and Baulme Cordiall waters To this end are prepared diuers cordiall waters as hereafter followeth Take Cinnamom and Cloues of each one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs one ounce red and white Roses of each ten handfuls Lauander flowers seuen handfuls hyssope two handfuls powre then thereupon a quart of Malmesey temper them all together cut them small and let it so stand nine daies together and afterwards distill it Item take good wine fiue quarts two rases of Ginger fortie Cloues Cinnamom thrée quarters of an ounce Mace one quarter of an ounce Spike two handfuls If you will haue it more forcible then put two Nutmegs cut vnto it let it steepe all togither sixe or seuen wéekes long and afterwards distill it Thus haue the auncient Phisitions done Or take fower quarts of good wine Spike thrée handfuls gréene Marierom gentle two handfuls Mace Cloues Cinnamom and Nutmegs as much as you thinke good temper them togither and set them a whole moneth long in the Sun in a glasse This may you kéepe so or distill it Another Take Lauander thrée handfuls stéepe it in a pint of wine or Malmesey stop it tight then set it for the space of thirty dayes in the Sun and afterwards distill it Of all these foresaid waters may a little be giuen him when he beginneth to get the swouning or hath the same already This iuice following is iustly praised Take a Capon or a Partridge rost it leisurely baste it with Rose water and Muscadell or any other good wine wherein Cloues haue béene stéeped then presse the iuice out of the said bird and giue him some thereof and the rest let him eate now and then some And that this iuice may continue good the longer temper it with as much hard Sugar as you thinke good But will you haue another then wring likewise as much iuice out of a Pullet or out of yoong Kids flesh take two ounces thereof new pressed iuice of Quinces one ounce and a halfe and one ounce of good milde wine temper them all togither and giue the patient to eate thereof For this is also commodious all Aquae Compositae which are described in the eighth Part. For this swouning may be vsed outward remedies after many maners first through shields Take Burrage flowers and Violets of each one handfull Cordiall shields red and white Saunders red and white Corall red and white Behen and Roses of each one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme burnt red Silke 15. graines Camfers Muscus Ambra of each two graines poune them all together and mixe them in a red silken bag and so lay it on your left breast Another Take Ireos halfe an ounce tame or wild Baulme Citron pils Buglosse flowers of each one dragme Mace one quarter of an ounce yellow white and red Saunders and Lignum Aloes of each halfe a dragme temper them with the powder of the capitall bags which are described in the first Part the twelfth Chapter in the beginning where is mention made of the Braines take thereof as much as is néedefull for a bag to lay on the Hart. The same is also wonderfull good in time of the plague being laid vpon the Hart. Item take Ireos three ounces and a halfe Damaske Roses sixe ounces Marierom Cipers rootes and red Styrax of each halfe an ounce Cloues one quarter of an ounce Calmus halfe a dragme Muscus two graines vsed as aboue This following is a very precious cordial shield Take Burrage flowers Buglosse flowers red and white Saunders red and white Behen Nutmegs and Couchenell Lignum Aloes Saffron Seduary white Diptamus Cucubes Basill seede Baulme and Citron pils of each halfe a dragme Galliae muscaâ—ae one scruple Muscus and Ambra of each sixe graines beate them all together grosse and put it into a red Crimson bag and lay it ouer the breast Here follow diuers moe Take Iuniper berries powre thereto water of Sage poune them to pap and then bind it luke warme vpon the Pulse Item take Cinnamom Mace Saffron Cloues as many as you will put Malmesey vnto them and lay it all vpon the Pulse Take vnpouned Saffron fasten it in the left hand one hower at the least it strengtheneth much the Hart. Take cleane burnt Baulme Peniroyall Cloues water of Sage and Roses temper them and annoynt therewith the patient especially on the Pulses vnder the nose and vpon the temples of his head The auncient Phisitions do rub the hart with fresh Burrage flowers it is very good but it is very weake All odoriferous things which are hot by nature are to be vsed against the swouning through heate But Hyssope is chiefly to be commended for it and all those who are subiect to this swouning are counselled to smell oft vnto it This Baulme following was ordained for the Emperor Ferdinandus A precious Balme to comfort the Hart first ordained for the Emperor Ferdinandus Take a pound of Turpentine sixe ounces of Virgin honie twelue ounces of water of life euen as hereafter be diuers described in the eight part Lignum Aloes Turbith yellow Saunders Sage rootes of blew Flower deluce and Chamedrys of each one dragme Nutmegs Galingall Cucubes Cinnamom Masticke Frankinsence Cloues Spica white Mustard seede Saffron Ginger Rue séedes and Costemary rootes of each thrée dragmes Muske one dragme Amber one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse togither and let it stéepe all togither one day and a night in the water of life But the Muske and the Amber are to be broken alone in some Muscadell wine Lastly temper the Turpentine therewith and distill it in séething water A good Salue TAke Amber Zeduarie red and white Corall Blaettae Bysantiae Basill séede red and white Behen and Rosemary flowers of each one dragme and a halfe Mace one quarter of an ounce Sorrell small Endiue and Cicorie of each halfe an ounce Roses and water Lillies of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rosin one ounce and a halfe Laudanum halfe an ounce white Waxe thrée dragms melt the thrée last things togither and as they begin to be cold then mingle the rest amongst it afterwards let it be spread on a round cloth and layd vpon the left breast If it be too hard then make it softer with oyle of Roses both which are good as is said against the swouning and faintnes of the Hart. Yet is the Balsam much hotter then the salue for it is temperate and therefore you may know how to vse it accordingly When you haue made it softer then annoint the whole breast therewith
This capitall powder following may also be vsed for this Take Indie Spica Ameos Bay berries Marierom gentle of each one dragme Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe beate all apart and mixe them togither with fiue graines of this powder You must euery euening when you goe to bed strewe it on your head Of the beating or panting of the Hart. §. 3. THe Grecians do call this disease Palmos the Latinists Palpitatio Tremor or Saltus Cordis which is a trembling or panting of the Hart contrarie to the common custome It is caused euen as we haue taught in the beginning of this Chapter of the abundant moysture which is in the closet of the Hart. With these there may be yet moe other inward causes as the paine of the stomack vexation offence of the Hart of the Liuer the Lights the Milt or Mother Also of winde ill damps corrupted blood such like The outward causes are commonly great heate sodaine and great cold great emptines great sorrowe fright great feare and other motions of the minde Further of venime taken biting of venimous beasts pestilent Agues corrupted ayre stinking dwellings like as in prison Mines or other such like which are vnder the earth of belly wormes and all other things that vexe the Hart the which are well to be vnderstood of the patient himselfe The inward signes are these If the panting of the hart procéede of wormes then is the beating of the hart bigger before meate then after but if the same come of a bad stomacke then may it easily be marked through paine in the same place if the same be wroong Also by the wambling and vomiting If it come by fulnes of the same then is the disease most grieuous after meate but if through emptines then it is most sore before meate If it procéede of fright sorrow and such like you must vnderstand and learne that by the patient If it come of winds then it is very suddenly vpon one and soone gone away againe If it be prouoked of heate then is the pulse swift and the breath is strong and disordred If it procéede of bloud then is the vrin grosse and the pulse beateth spéedily and strong his face will be red and about the hart is alwayes great heate the patient is alwayes light harted the which is much augmented through meates that make and ingender much bloud Or if this disease be caused of Cholera then is his vrin yellow and thin the pulse beateth continually swiftly with great thirst possibly through daily meate whereby the Cholera is increased or of former paines taken If this be caused of Phlegma that appeareth by the white and thick vrin of small slow and disordred pulse the patient is sléepie faint-harted This is also woont to be caused of meates that procure Phlegma Likewise in winter time when this panting of the hart is caused of Melancholy then is the sick bodie fearefull the bodie decreaseth and falleth away and that most of all in Haruest with many moe melancholick signes that are elsewhere described This panting of the hart doth often haunt both yong and aged people whereby the occasion is hardly to be adiudged and in all such it is found that the letting of bloud hath not only eased them well but also throughly holpen them and chiefely if therewith they haue obserued a good order in eating and drinking and vse all such medicines as haue abated the bloud and other humors howbeit the same hapneth very seldome that aged people be cured thereof for that they most of all chaunce to dye of a hote Ague or of swouning and that commonly betweene fortie and fiftie yéeres Thus much for the beating or trembling of the hart Of the panting of the Hart through heate §. 4. IF by the panting of the hart there be discerned a swift pulse and an Ague then is it a signe that it commeth of bloud or Cholera the which is not without danger for it often hapneth that then they do fall into a swoune thereby immediatly remaine dead Now for to remedie this must the sick persons face hands féete and pulse veines be forthwith sprinckled and rubbed with these compounded waters take Rose water foure ounces Mints water two ounces Roses burnt Iuorie red white Saunders of each two scruples Muscus and Ambra of each two graines Vineger two ounces Malmesey two scruples mixe them all together and when you will vse thereof then stirre it well about Secondly take pleasant Wine and water of Buglosse of each one ounce Specierum Diamoschu dulci one scruple temper it and giue it to the patient warme to drinke Thirdly he shall cōtinually smell to odoriferous bags that shall hereafter be described Afterward as soone as is possible ought the Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and foure or fiue ounces of bloud be letten out but not before that the sick person hath gone to stoole The next day following he shall take this potion take sirupe of Citron pils one ounce small beaten Rubarb and prepared Agarick of each two scruples sirupe of Roses halfe an ounce Ginger and Spica of each sixe graines Sal Gemmae two graines temper them all together with thrée ounces of the water of Burrage and so drinke it luke warme and fast thereupon foure howres You may also cause him to be purged with Cassia Tamarines yellow Mirobalanes Manna and Rubarb putting to either of them some Agarick As for example you may take this Purgation following Take water of Buglosse one ounce and a halfe Cicorie water two ounces Rubarb one dragme and a halfe prepared Agarick one dragme the iuice of Roses halfe a dragme Spica one scruple Ginger fiue graines let this stéepe 24. howres in a warme place and making it hote in the morning you must straine it through a cloth and so drinke it warme and then fast foure howres after This being done he must eight dayes one after another take euery morning this drinke following Take sirup of Apples sirup of Citron pils and Oxysacchara of each halfe an ounce water of Balme and of Buglosse of each one ounce Cicorie water one ounce and a halfe temper them all together to a potion And it were not ill that he take euery fourth day one of these pils following Take Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rubarb one dragme Agatick foure scruples red and white Behen Saffron Mace and Indy Salt of each three graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Buglosse sixe to a dragme If there be greater heate approching then is it aduised that at the first euery day be taken halfe a dragme of Trociscos de Camphora with sirupe of Pomgranats dissolued and so continue foure dayes together And if this will not help then must the patient drinke new Buttermilke with all these purgations and letting blood It is also highly commended to carie a sober life in eating and drinking yet to take héede that the patient remaine by his strength We will
them all togither to powder If you will make Sugar plates thereof then séethe it with Rose water as hath béene taught The like confection or powder may be made also of the Species De gemmis or any other that like you best And alwaies for one ounce of Species you must take 12. ounces of Sugar Of such things as are to be applied outwardly for it FOr this are highly commended the cordiall waters and to that ende we will expresse many Take water of Buglosse sixe ounces water of Cicorie twelue ounces water of Balme fower ounces Species de gemmis the cold Laetificantes Almansoris of each one scrup Species Triasantali one drag and a halfe white vineger halfe an ounce and Malmsey two ounces let it séethe a little and then make a scarlet cloth wet in it a quarter of a yard square wring it out and lay the same on his left breast fower or fiue times before and after meate and twice againe before he go to bed Take Rose water and Sorrell water of each thrée ounces of Buglosse two ounces red Corall red Saunders and Roses of each one drag Muske Amber of each thrée graines Saffron one scruple Vineger one ounce and a halfe temper them together and then lay it diuers times luke warme vpon the left breast Item take Species Diamoschu Laetificantes de gemmis the cold of each two drag Malmesey foure ounces water of Buglosse Sorrell water of Cicorie and Violets of each one ounce temper them together and lay it thereon as before The chiefest Phisitions of Augusta Vindelicorum haue these things following in vse Take water of Burrage Sorrell Buglosse Balme and Rose water of each eight ounces two kinds of Species de gemmis of each halfe a dragme Harts bones and burnt Harts horne of each halfe a dragme Saffron seuen graines Rose vineger one ounce and a halfe temper them all together Another Take Burrage water the waters of Buglosse Sorrell Roses Balms and Violets of each two ounces Vineger of Roses one ounce and a halfe red and white Behen of each halfe a dragme floures of Burrage Buglosse Violets of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme thrée Harts bones Lignum Aloes yellow Saunders and burnt Harts horne of each one scruple prepared Perles one dragme burnt Iuorie and Saffron of each ten graines Spec. Diamargariton one drag temper them and vse them as aforesaid Another Take two kinds of Spec. de gemmis of each one dragme Diamoschu dulcis halfe a dragme Cordialium one dragme Saffron Indie Spica red and white Behen and Spec. de Canna of each one scruple prepared Perles halfe a drag yellow Saunders two scrup Muscus two graines two Harts bones one ounce and a halfe of Vineger of Roses water of Balme Sorrell Burrage Buglosse Rose water of each three ounces water of Melilots foure ounces temper them together and vse them as aboue Take red Saunders halfe an ounce Citron pils white Saunders Roses red and white Corrall Amber and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Harts bones and Saffron of each halfe a dragme Spec. Laetitiae Galeni Diamargaritonis of each two scruples Camfer ten graines powder these all together and temper them well and when you will vse them then take the foresaid water which beginneth Take Burrage water as much as you please c. Item take Rose water and the water of water Lillies of each sixe ounces the iuice of sowre Apples thrée ounces water o◠Balme Buglosse of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger halfe an ounce red Saunders Citron séede and Sorrell séede of each halfe a dragme Camfer fiue graines Cinnamome foure scruples temper them all together This following is of a temperate nature take water of Balme Buglosse and Sorrell of each foure ounces water of Cicorie Roses and Willow leaues of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron fiue graines Vineger one ounce Malmsey thrée dragmes temper it well and vse it as before These following are more cooling Take water of Buglosse small Endiue Burrage and of Violets of each sixe ounces of Rose water eight ounces Spec. de gemmis the cold one ounce and a halfe Camfer halfe a scruple white Corrall foure scruples prepared Perles one dragme and a halfe beaten Gold leaues eight Malmsey two ounces For shields to lay vpon the out side you may take all the foresaid things For shield◠except the Sugar and Rose water Item take Roses floures of Buglosse and of Burrage of each two dragmes and a halfe Citron séede burnt Iuorie Mirtle leaues white Corrall and Coriander of each one dragme and a halfe Campher one quarter of an ounce red and white Saunders of each foure scruples make a shield thereof to lay vpon the left side of the breast Or take red and white Saunders red and white Corall of each one ounce Balme Buglosse Citron pils Hart bones and burnt silke of each one dragme Spec. de gemmis the cold and Saffron of each halfe a drag Campher one scruple mixe them together The same vertue that these shields haue is also in the Plaisters for which these following are highly commended as well to coole the panting of the hart as the pulse and therewith for to strengthen the breath hart and all naturall powers Take Doronicum Harts bones red and white Behen of each one dragme and a halfe red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie leaues of wild Grapes red and white Corall of each one quarter of an ounce Roses thrée dragmes water of Buglosse and Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Saffron two scruples and sixe graines foure ounces of Malmsey oyle of Saffron halfe an ounce molten Rosin halfe an ounce and make a plaister thereof Another TAke red and white Behen Harts bones Doronicum Iacints Smaragdes Saphires of each two scruples Perles one quarter of an ounce fower leaues of beaten gold Rosin one ounce and a halfe boyle the Rosin in thicke red Vineger make a plaister and spread it on a red woollen cloute and then lay it on the left breast For these sicke persons it is also very commodious like as is already expressed to hold at their noses continually odoriferous things that are cold of nature For which be vsed the Pomanders which are described in the sixt Part or these following Take Basill Roses Violets burnt Iuorie and Harts bones of each two dragmes Camfere two scruples Muske and Amber of each fower graines red and white Saunders red and white Corall of each one drag beate each alone and being tempered binde them all together in a red peece of silke and smell thereon continually These simples also are very commodious especially if there be an Ague with it as Violets Roses Saunders water Lillies Rose water Vineger and such like as hath before béene shewed Clisters to comfort the Hart. It is very profitable also for the patient euery morning to vse these Clisters following for it doth not onely loose the body but also strengthen the Hart. Take Mallowes Violet
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
each one ounce birdlime thrée ounces Gips two ounces Rosin 18. ounces make thereof a plaister with the iuice of Celendine Item take Pitch one ounce Litharge of gold red and white waxe Iewes lime Ammoniacum and Galbanum of each one dragme and a halfe Birdlime one ounce Turpentine washt with vineger both kinds of Aristology Gals of each two ounces and two scruples of Cipers nuts Myrrhe Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Gips of each one ounce Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce Dragon blood and Momy of each halfe an ounce mingle them well together to a plaister Another Take the gum of Cherries dissolue it in Sallad oile put thereto Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much melt it and boile it to a plaister Yet another Take Gum Dragagant Masticke fine Bolus Dragon bloud Isinglas and common Glew of each one dragme Frankinsence one dragme and a halfe Iewes lime halfe an ounce Pitch and Momy of each one dragme and a halfe Tar one quarter of an ounce First melt the Pitch then adde the Glew and Tar and temper then the other things amongst it beaten small When it is cold then annoint your hands with oile of Roses and worke well this salue This following is taken for a secret Take Dragon bloud half a dragme Myrrhe Sarcocolla Opopanacum Brimstone Amber Mastick and Comfrey of each two dragmes and a half Mirtle séed yellow Mirobalans of each two dragmes the bark of Pineapples and Cipers nuts of each foure scruples foure or fiue garden Snailes out of their houses Dragagant dissolued in red vineger one dragme fish lime molten in vineger also as much as is needfull for to make the foresaid things to a plaister afterwards dry it by a small fire Sixe houres after drinke thrée ounces of this water following Take Comfrey Tormentil of each one quarter of an ounce Codwoort Sengréene Cinqfoile Mugwoort and herb Trinity of each two handfuls Garyofillata Verbascum and broad Plantaine of each two drag and a half Roses Horsetaile of each halfe a handful cut and powne it grosse and put thereto red seething wine and Aqua vitae of each sixe ounces or so much as wfl couer it well let it so stand fouretéene houres afterwards straine it through and wring it out make it swéet with sirupe of Mirtles But if so be that thrée ounces be too strong to drinke at once then is he to take but one or two and this potion may be tempered with somewhat else A plaister called De pelle Arietina Hereafter follow thrée kinds of plaisters De pelle Arietis which is commended aboue all other plaisters as a certaine remedy Take pitch two ounces Litharge of siluer Ammoniacum Galbanum Mastick of each one ounce white and red waxe Iewes lime Aloe and both Aristologies of each one ounce and a halfe Birdlime fine Bolus of each three ounces Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine which is washt wel in vineger prepared earth wormes Comfrey Sengréene of each two ounces and a halfe halfe a Rams skin made cleane from the haire and wool and cut smal the blood of a red bearded yong and healthful man sixe ounces prepare them al together as herafter followeth Take the cut rams skin let it séeth to tough slime then wring it out hard and temper amongst it common glew and fish lime or Isinglas of each one ounce and a halfe afterwards let it séeth well together You must dissolue the gum in vineger and you must powne all that is dry in like maner also the gréene roots herbes and earth wormes to pa◠you must worke the birdlime amongst the blood till that it dry and the plaister waxe hard then are you to preserue this plaister in a glasse stopt tight The second Take Pitch Waxe Iewes lime both the Aristologies Earth wormes prepared Turpentine and Aloe of each one quarter of an ounce Litharge of gold Ammoniacum Opopanacum Galbanum Bdellium Sagapenum Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each thrée drag Birdlime Bloudstones Dragon bloud Frankinsence Gips and Myrrhe of each thrée drag mans bloud thrée quarters of an ounce and the fourth part of a Rams skin séeth this to lime and straine it through and dissolue the Gum therein séeth it all together and mixe the rest amongst it The third Take Pitch Aloe Henbane Aristology Behen Saffron and Chickwéed with red flowers of each two ounces white Waxe and Iewes lime of each one ounce a half Litharge of gold Galbanum Ammoniacum Momy Opopanacum Mastick Cipers nuts Dragon blood of each one ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces and a halfe Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine of each two ounces and a half birdlime and mans blood of each twelue ounces temper these with the glue or muscilage of a shéepes skin and of sodden Hollihock rots Many haue bin cured only herewith You haue also before in the second part the first Chapter 1. § a plaister which beginneth thus Take Pitch hafe an ounce c. the which is also very good for this purpose But note before that you lay the plaister vpon the rupture rub it with water that is distilled out of a shéepes skin when the wooll is off Item some other things more to lay thereon Take the iuice of Sloes séeth it in water and lay it on the rupture and bath the same therwith it healeth without cutting For yong children in stéed of this plaister are pultises also to be made as herafter followeth Take meale of Lupins and burnt linnen of each a like much and make with wine a pap or pultis and lay it betwéene two fine clothes vpon the rupture A milder plaister for children Take Beanes as many as you please and steepe them in warme water péele them and let them dry againe afterwards stampe them to powder and take thereof two ounces small filed Oken wood one ounce Comfrey sodden treatably in wine and then stamped thrée ounces let all this séeth méetly thick and spread it on a cloth and lay it thrée times a day on the rupture and a nights but one time and let it be well fastened with a trusse do this foure or fiue wéekes space vntill the rupture be cured and the skin pretty strong Another Take Consolida Saracenica Gariophilata Plantain Fennel Sanicle broad Plantain and Pauls betony of each one handful chop all small and let the plaister séeth vntil it be thick then lay it on the rupture and tie it as behooueth It hath bin told before in the first Chapter how wonderful good this herbe Perfoliata is for all ruptures which oftentimes hath bin by experience found and approoued Here follow some salues Take womans milke 16. ounces Badgers grease Capons grease Harts suet and Comfrey of each two ounces the innermost rind of a Cherry trée cut small one ounce and a half let it séeth so long as a hard egge straine it hard through a cloth and therewith annoint the rupture foure wéekes long morning and
Trocisci are very good taken with halfe an ounce of the spirit of wine They are also to be fed with light meates which haue but little moysture and superfluitie Also their meate must be strewed with Galingall Pepper Ginger Cloues Ameos and such like Before meate the patient is to exercise himselfe well they that vse this water must alwaies drink more thereof after meate than before After meate he must sléepe much drink neate old Renish wine but eate lesse than he was woont for the weaknes of the stomacke cannot digest much meate Meates which be requisite for him are Muttons Kids Hens Pullets fowles Partridges Fesants Pigeons Quailes and such like yet rather rosted than boyled and drest with spice also rere egs and such like But if this weaknes of the stomacke hath long continued then may be vsed one of these Sugar plates following which one will one quarter of an ounce or more at once Or if so be that it be made after the maner of a conserue then to take one ounce at a time daily with wine viz. Diatrion Pipereon Diagalanga Dianison Diamentha Caryophilatum Rosata nouella Diacyminum Diaolibanum also the warme Dragagant cakes the which also do strengthen the stomack and procure digestion But especially is the Confection Diacinamomum commended for a blessed medicine for all moyst bad and spoiled stomacks as that consumeth all superfluous humiditie helpeth digestion and strengtheneth the eyesight therefore be there two sorts here described Confectio Diacinamomi Diacinamomum TAke of the most purest Cinnamom fiftéene drag grosse Cinnamom Comin and Elecampane of each halfe an ounce Galingall seuen drag Cloues long Pepper Cardamomum Greines Ginger Lignum Aloes Mace and Nutmegs of each thrée drag Saffron one drag white Sugar fiue drag When you will make Tabulats thereof then take one pound of Sugar one ounce and a quarter of the foresaid spices and séeth the Sugar in Wormewood water as behooueth Another with Rubarbe Take excellent Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Angelica Rapontica of each halfe a drag Cinnamom thrée drag Nutmegs one drag and a halfe Cardamome long Pepper white Diptamus and Zeduary of each halfe a drag Galingall two scruples Calmus halfe a drag Ginger two scruples Pimpernell rootes Masticke and Cucubes of each one scrup Saffron ten grains Sugar eight ounces boyle the Sugar with Wormewood water and cast a plate of Sugar of it In like manner is the confection of Aromaticum rosatum not only commended for the debilitie of the stomack but also for many other diseases like as here and there the same be discouered for which purpose it is also prepared after sundry sorts like as be some héere expressed Confectio Aromatici rosati TAke fifteene dragmes of red Roses Licorice seuen dragmes Lignum Aloes and yellow Saunders of each thrée dragmes Cinnamome Mace Cloues of each two drag and a halfe Gummi Arabicum and Dragagant of each one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs Cardamome Galingall of each one dragme Muske one scruple Indie Spica and Amber two scruples temper them all together and if you will then cast a plate of Sugar of it take one ounce of these Species and twelue ounces of Sugar decoct them in Rose water as is accustomed Thus is this confection at the Apothecaries made and not only for his pleasantnes but also for his commodiousnes vsed daily for that besides that it doth strengthen the weake stomacke and comforteth the hart the braines the head and the Liuer it driueth out also the bâ—â— and superfluous humors of the stomacke it helpeth the digestion of the stomacke and especially in them which be a foote againe after a long continued and lingring sicknes Another which is common at Augusta Vindelicorum TAke Roses one ounce Licorice thrée dragmes Cinnamome two dragmes and a halfe Cloues Mace of each one dragme and ten graines red Corall Cardamome Galingall of each halfe a dragme Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis one scruple Indie Spica long Pepper of each ten graines Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe Greynes eight graines shauen Iuorie one dragme Gum Dragagant of each thrée scruples and a halfe Nutmegs 2. scruples Muske ten graines Amber one scruple make a subtle pouder thereof Or if you will haue Sugar plates of it then do as before Item take beaten Calmus halfe an ounce the iuice of Wormewood as much as is néedfull to make plates of Sugar and if you desire to haue this strong then séeth it in Wine and giue it him at two or thrée times Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Ginger Nutmegs Cardamome Galingall Cloues of each one dragme Mace Lignum Aloes of each halfe a dragme Annis one dragme the skins of Hens mawes washed with Wine and dryed thrée dragmes white Sugar 34. ounces séeth the Sugar in good Wine and thereof cast Sugar plates Another TAke Cinnamome thrée dragms Galingall one dragme Sugar sixe ounces but boyle the Sugar with one ounce of Rose water this Confection doth make also good appetite to meate In like manner you haue also in the first part the twelfth Chapter and 12. § a confection Diamargariton calidum which is very good for this Item take Ginger one dragme Cloues and Galingall of each halfe a drag Pepper prepared Coriander of each one scruple Annis Fennell Ameos Spicanardi Cardamome of each thrée scruples and a halfe confected Citron pils one ounce Rose water one ounce and a halfe Licorice halfe a dragme Sugarcandie halfe an ounce Currans one ounce powne all that is to be powned but chop the Citron pils and Currans very small then seeth the Sugarcandie and ten ounces of white Sugar with Rose water and so make tabulats thereof Confected Annis seeds are also very good for all debilitie of the stomacke it helpeth digesture it expelleth the paine and winde of the stomacke the same doth Fennell séed also But there is yet a better for this to wit confected Comin and Caruway seed for that the same haue also power to warme the stomacke Certaine Powders for meate TAke prepared Coriander and Cinnamome of each halfe an ounce long white and black Pepper Cloues Galingall and Ginger of each one dragme and a halfe Annis Fennell of each thrée dragmes Saffron one dragme Sugar as much as all the rest make a powder thereof or a confection which you had rather haue Item take Cinnamome Mace Cloues Pepper Cypers rootes of each alike much Sugar as much as you please Item take Cinnamome two ounces Nutmegs one dragme prepared Coriander séeds Roses red Corrall of each one scruple Sugar fowre ounces temper them all together it is of a temperate nature For this may also things be vsed which are described in Aromatico rosato beaten to powder Heere follow now certaine stomachicall medicines against all coldnes windines and humidities of the stomack and all other inward parts of the bodie Take Annis Fennell and prepared Coriander of each one ounce Caruway halfe an ounce Licorice beaten small one ounce
appetite Asarabacca wine Wormewood wine are very good especially if there be any Mastick decocted in the common wine Betonie wine Gillofloure wine are very good against windines The herbe Bennet wine and Clary wine are also very good for this purpose Item take Must as much as you thinke good let it worke fowre dayes one after another then put therein a small bag with the leaues of the right wilde Vine and let them also worke togither as before whereof will be a very pleasant wine You haue the like before in the second part the sixt Chapter and 5. § of the panting of the hart through cold a spiced wine beginning thus Take Ginger two ounces c. What a vertue also the Elecampane wine hath which is very common shall be amongst other discouered in the eight part Héere haue you also some mo such like drinks for a proofe Take sirupe of Mints one ounce Cinnamome water thrée dragmes and a halfe oyle of Cloues two drops oyle of Vitrioll thrée drops temper all together The oyle of Vitrioll is very sharp and perilous as is rehersed in the description thereof Take water of Currans fower ounces temper therein as much Saffron as the bignes of a Pease drinke it lukewarme in the morning likewise also after noone and after supper it is especiall good against all paine of the stomack The wine may also be tempered with Currans water Item séeth Wormwood in wine or water and drinke it it is very good for poore folks Item in the second Part the fift Chapter and 5. § you shall haue a pectorall water beginning Take new Figs c. which also doth clense the stomacke from all excessiue humiditie In like manner doth also a forcible Capon water in the second Part the sixt Chapter and 4. § which doth strengthen the stomacke and the hart maruellous mightily Charuell water Laâ—ks spur water mixed or each apart strengthen the stomacke The vitall waters and other waters are very requisite also for this whereof many be described in the eight Part. Of sirupes which do strengthen the stomacke Sirupe of Citron péeles doth strengthen and helpe digestion sirupe of Wormwood doth make appetite sirupe of Mints is good for all diseases of the stomacke which proceede of cold sirupe of Fumitorie helpeth all obstruction Oxymel Compositum and of Squils be good to breake all tough slime Ginger and Calmus stéeped in wine or vineger are also very good if one eate a spoonefull thereof Some do put Gentian rootes vnto it for such as can away with bitternes Also twice a day you may eate sixe or eight peeled Almonds therewith to drie the stomacke and euery third day once to eate a few water Cresses tempered with wine Also if there be any new Figs to be had then eate fower or fiue in the morning fasting Amongst all these foresaid remedies there be many which may be vsed as well to the old as the new diseases of the stomacke like as each one may know for to rule himselfe thereafter What then belongeth to the order of life we haue spoken thereof at the first but if néede were whether it be of superfluous moisture binding the bodie or other debilitie of the stomack to purge then must good héed be taken of such things as be contrarie to the stomacke and might distemper it to wit wilde Saffron séed Polypodie rootes and séeds of Palma Christi which are enimies to the stomacke and accounted but Quacksaluers remedies but in this is prouidently to be dealt and after the taking of some preparatiue potions he is to vse the last mentioned Sirupes or these insuing and such like purgations Take Hiera Picra one ounce Turbith halfe a dragme Ginger one scruple and thrée ounces of the before mentioned wines Make also a potion thereof also there may be put into this a little Cinnamome for the tastes sake Another TAke of the Confection of Diacatholicon fiue dragmes Diaphenicon two dragmes sirupe of Ireos and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme Spica two graines both beaten small temper them with Decoctione Fructuum which is described before in the third Chapter 5. § wherein some Spikenard is decocted If you had rather vse pils then take pils De Agarico Hierae Picrae or Indae Item other that be lesse laxatiue and do strengthen the stomacke Take Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi Rubarbe Cinnamome Cardamome Cloues and Galingale of each one dragme Aloe one dragme and a halfe these being beaten small togither temper them with the iuice of Mints wherein Agaricus hath béene fower and twenty howers steeped of these pils may one swallow two or thrée morning and euening especially if the paine of the stomacke haue long endured These following do strengthen and asswage the paine of the stomacke Take Pillulae Alephanginae one dragme Opij and Beuercod of each one graine make fiue pils thereof with Oxymel Item take washt Aloe one scruple and make two pils thereof take them one hower before meate and especially before that he be purged Pils which will not purge but onely strengthen TAke beaten Mastick and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like quantitie set it couered close in a warme place vntill it be drie that one may make pils of it whereof euery day two howers before noone you may take one pill Now we will declare what is to be vsed outwardly for such bad stomackes for which we haue expressed many plaisters as hereafter do follow Take Pitch Rosin of each one ounce Masticke Mints and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Trocisci de Bolo and De Terra sigillata Amber Bloudstone Dragon bloud Hypocistis and Mommy of each one dragme Gallia Muscata and red Styrax of each halfe a dragme the iuice of Quinces as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it This is not only good for the stomacke but is also much better for that fluxe which cannot be stopt nor staied Another Take red Styrax Spica Squinant Wormewood Calmus Masticke of each a like much temper them with old wine and the iuice of Quinces vnto a plaister and lay it on the stomacke Item take Masticke Galingale Zeduarie Ameos Mints and Wormewood of each halfe a dragme Turpentine and Waxe of each halfe an ounce temper them with the oyle of Masticke to a plaister Or take oyle of Masticke oyle of Wormewood of each one ounce oyle of Mirtles halfe an ounce Cloues Cinnamome Galingale of each halfe a drag Lignum Aloes and Ginger of each one scruple vineger one spoonefull Waxe as much as will suffice Another Take Bayberries and Masticke of each one drag Cinnamome Lignum Aloes Cypers rootes Saunders and Cucubes of each halfe a drag Mints Wormewood and Roses of each fower scruples Spica Mace of each one scruple Gallia Muscata one drag Galingall Calmus Comin Frankinsence of each two scruples Laudanum one quarter of an ounce Rosine and oyle of Masticke as much as sufficeth to make a plaister then spread it on a peece
the séede of Butchers broome blossomes and rindes of Pomegranates Mirtle séed Sarcocolla Masticke Cammomill and Melilot of each a like quantitie make a plaister thereof with the iuice of Quinces or of wild and sower Peares and spreade it on a cloth But if the scowring be stronger then the parbraking then lay it warme vpon the belly But if the parbraking be sorest of al then lay it vpon the stomacke Others do make two plaisters as hereafter followeth Take Laudanum Masticke of each one ounce and a halfe Frankinsence halfe a dragme red and white Saunders red Corrall séedes of Butchers broome of each one scruple yellow Rose séeds the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossomes and pils of Pomegranates of each halfe a scruple beaten small togither as much as is néedfull for a plaister spread thereof vpon a cloth and lay a great plaister therof ouer the stomacke before and behind vpon the backe about the Kidneies Item take the iuice Plantaine and Rose water of each thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce Masticke Frankinsence of each halfe a dragme Lentill meale as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister withall Another called de Crustapanis Take Masticke Mints burnt Iuorie red Corall De Crusta panis red and white Saunders of each one dragme Crusts of white bread two ounces stéepe them halfe an houre in Vineger afterwards beate them all togither and temper amongst it oyle of Masticke and oyle of Quinces of each one ounce Barley meale as much as doth suffice for a plaister and lay it warme vpon the stomacke This taketh away the parbraking within the space of halfe an houre Hereafter follow moe salues and oyles TAke oile of Masticke and oyle of Roses of each a like much temper therewith a little Vineger and annoint the stomacke with it Item take oyle of Masticke of Quinces and of Mirtles of each halfe an ounce Roses red Corall and Mints of each halfe a dragme Nutmegs Mirtle seed of each two scruples and a little Vineger temper them all with Waxe and make a salue of them or a plaister You haue a salue also here before in the tenth Chapter the 5. § beginning thus Take Comin and Caruway c. which is especiall good against parbraking being rubbed warme vpon the stomacke and the Nauell You may also rub alone vpon it the iuice of Plantaine tempered with Rose water but to make it thicke mingle therwith Lentill meale Take oyle Wormewood one ounce oyle of Quinces Mints and Masticke of each halfe an ounce Malmesey fiue dragmes let them boyle vntill the wine be wasted and when it is almost cold then temper therewith Species Diagalangae Aromatici Rosati de xylo aloes of each one dragme and Waxe as much as sufficeth for a plaister Item take red Saunders and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Gallia muscata and Camfer of each one dragme Rose water sixe ounces temper and then lay it on the belly for it asswageth and cooleth Item Rose water alone made cold in snow and layd vpon the belly and when it is warme layd cold againe vpon it is very commodious for this purpose Another Take Bayberries Medlar leaues Frankinsence Tormentill grosse Marierom or them that one can best get of each halfe an ounce cut and séeth it in red wine and afterwards lay it as a warme plaister vpon the stomacke with Tow wetted therein This is especial good for al them that cannot kéepe in their meate This ensuing is also accompted to haue a maruellous operation Take the iuice of Crabs make a double cloth wet therein if his body be hot with an Ague then lay it cold vpon it but if the body be cold then apply it lukewarme vpon it Item take tosted bread beaten small foure ounces Masticke one quarter of an ounce make it meetely hot and lay it warme in a bag vpon the stomacke It taketh wind away and also the Collike in the belly Another Take Roses blossomes of Pomegranates of each one handfull and a halfe Gallia muscatae one dragme an a halfe the iuice of Sloes Mirtles Frankinsence of each one dragme Wormewood Hypocistis Cypers rootes Cloues Masticke of each halfe a dragme red and white Corall Spica of each one scruple tosted bread half an ounce Camfere halfe a drag beate it small togither and then put it into a bag and so apply it In the mixture of other things is oftentimes mention made of the Trocisci of Gallia muscata or Alipta muscata And because that their description is but briefe we will here adde it vnto the rest Gallia muscata Gallia muscata is made thus Take Lignum Aloes fiue dragmes Amber thrée dragmes Muske one dragme Dragagant dissolued in Rose water as much as sufficeth for to make Trociscos with it Alipta muscata and kéepe them well The Alipta muscata is thus prepared Take pure Laudanum foure ounces liquid Styrax one ounce and a halfe red Styrax one ounce Lignum Aloes halfe a drag Amber one dragme Camfere halfe a dragme Muske halfe a scruple and a little Rose water and prepare them thus In the Dog dayes must you set the Styrax and Laudanum with the Rose water togither in the Sun let them there dry togither vntill they be hard as dow afterwards stamp them in a mortar and temper the rest amongst them then forme Trocisces of them and keepe them very well like as you do the other For this parbraking is also vsed fomenting vpon the stomacke therefore make or chuse your selfe that which you desire of these things which be prescribed Take the things which we haue ordained for the first bags beaten grosly séeth them in the iuice of Quinces and in Rose water of each sixe ounces red thicke Wine eight ounces Vineger two ounces make therin a cloth or sponge wet wring it wel out and hold it very warme vpon the stomacke Another When the stomacke is vtterly spoyled so that the patient can neither abide meate nor drinke then may it be strengthened againe with these fomētations ensuing Take Balme Wormewood grosse Marierom field Mints Fennell and Dill séed of each a handfull Mastick Galingall Nutmegs Squinant Mirtle seed and Coriander of each thrée dragmes wild Vine leaues and the blossomes halfe a handfull beate all grosse togither and séeth them in thicke wine and vse it as aforesayd Item take garden Mints Balme Wormewood and Roses of each one handfull Cammomill wild Vine leaues Betony Rosemary of each halfe a handfull Calmus halfe an ounce beaten all togither grosse put it in two bags each one a quarter of a yard long then séeth them in red wine and a little water and then layd vpon the stomacke sometime the one and sometime the other This fomenting must be so continued the space of a quarter of an houre and afterwards are you to vse the prescribed salue with the spices and weare one of the foresayd plaisters vpon it But if so be that the scowring or laske of the belly will not stay
or cold of the time The inward causes may proceede out of the head as if any humors do fall out of the head into the lower parts of the body be it into the stomacke or into the vppermost or vndermost bowels likewise also into the small veines Mesaraicae into the Liuer Milt and sometimes also into the whole body like as when the same is too full of humors or too much wasted away euen as it may be séene in the consumption Phthisi Hectica and the pestilent Feuer out of all which the expert Phisitions do take and discerne sundry signes and obseruations Of the Laske Lienteria of Cholera and Heate §. 14. THis is an infirmitie of the retentiue vertue of the stomacke with the slipperinesse of the guts wherby it hapneth that the meate taken very suddenly without digestion like as it was receiued passeth away by the stoole The cause of this scowring may be great cold and moysture which doth so benumme naturall heate that the meate cannot digest neither can the stomacke retaine and kéepe it Contrarywise may this laske be also caused through outward heate which doth so discusse the naturall warmth and cause it to euaporate that thereby the digestion is vtterly ouerthrowne In like manner also this flixe commeth through stripes falles thrusts and bathing in cold water distemperature of the stomacke and of other parts debilitie of the retentiue and strength of the expulsiue vertue a cold complexion for that it is seldome caused through heate impostumes of the stomacke which expelleth the meate and drinke as things whereby the stomacke is hurt Item it doth also come to passe that the vowels be too slipperie or that there is too much meate or that it be hurtfull whereby it doth make a great disturbance in the guts If so be that the meates be not kept or holden in the stomacke but before the due time without great alteration through the laske be expelled with a gnawing in the stomacke and with thirst and when before meate there commeth forth a little corrupted matter then may it be well concluded that it is Lienteria which is caused of Cholera To cure this and all other scowrings of whatsoeuer causes they procéede this common rule following is to be obserued to wit that all those things wherewith you purpose to stay it are to be vsed before meate then doth the same presse the meate downewards and increaseth the laske like as in the former 13. § hath bene taught But to procéede with this laske wherein the meate is not digested first giue to the sicke body the iuice of Pomegranats burnt Iuorie and Roses of each one dragme For this is also good boyled Veriuice Raspes Butchers broome and the iuice of Quinces Whilst that the body is strong inough and the sicknesse hath not as yet gotten the maistry and that he may tollerate it then must the Cholera be purged and especially with yellow Mirobalanes afterwards he is to vse cooling astringent and binding things and to be forbidden all that is hote These Sirupes ensuing are passing good as namely sirupe of Veriuice Quinces Peares Apples Pomegranates and Raspes moreouer certaine Simples also which are worthy to be remembred like as Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Gals iuice of Sloes Roses Araby Gum sealed earth fine Bolus burnt Iuorie Camfer Pomegranat séedes without iuice Purslaine séede séedes of Sorrell Coriander Plantaine and Mirtles the yellow séede of the Rose Saunders Corrall Dragon bloud Poppie séede Horstailes Knotgrasse wild Vine leaues the iuice of sharpe Plantaine and the séede and chiefly when they be parched and such like moe The Fruits which are fit for this disease be Quinces Seruices Medlars wild Peares blacke Cherries vnripe Mulberies and such like Fruits more which do bind and coole You may also giue Trociscos de Spodio two or thrée dragmes mingled with the water of Knotgrasse or Plantaine and because that we haue before spoken much of them and shall be vsed often hereafter we shall here learne how to prepare them Take Roses burnt Iuorie which is Spodium whereof they haue their name Sorrell seedes the séedes of Butchers broome Trocisci de Spodio blossomes of Pomegranates and Gum of Araby of each a like quantitie make thereof Trociscos each of the waight of a quarter of an ounce and giue it them to drinke as is sayd with one ounce of the iuice of Quinces Another Take Roses one ounce and a halfe burnt Iuory one ounce a quarter the séedes of Sorrell thrée quarters of an ounce Purslaine séede prepared Coriander seedes and peeled Butchers broome séede of each two dragmes and a halfe Starch blossomes of Pomegranats and Barberies of each one quarter of an ounce parched Gum one drag and a halfe temper all togither with Veriuice These Trocisks are good for all Agues which be caused of Cholera that haue a laske admixed also for all tumors of the stomacke and continuall thirst Other Trociskes Take fine Bolus sealed earth Corrall Saunders Sumach Barberies Quincekernels blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Gals of each one dragme beate them all small togither and temper them with the iuice of Plantaine and of Wormewood and then forme them into Trocisces when you will vse them then take a dragme or twaine thereof with Milke wherein glowing pibbles are slaked But if then this scowring and the Ague do not weare away with all the vse of these foresayd things then take fine Bolus sealed earth and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Amber Roses blossomes of Pomegranates the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis and Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe make them into powder take thereof fiue dragmes Buttermilke sixe ounces and giue it him at one time to wit before noone If so be that the stomacke be hurt through the choler which may be perceiued hereby if there come any corruption or matter with the stoole then take Barly water and Hony water of each thrée spoonfuls and giue it the sicke body to drinke it cleanseth all that is excoriated Afterwards he shal vse this following to heale withall Take Dragagant Gum Mastick Frankinsence Amber of each one dragme stamp all these into a subtile powder and make therof pils with the iuice of Wormewood whereof he is to take twaine euery morning Plaisters are also very requisite for this whereof here follow twaine Take the iuice of Medlars Seruices gréene Pomegranate pils and the flowers of each one ounce 15. or 16. Prunes whereof the stones be taken out the iuice of Quinces red Wine of each sixe ounces oyle of Mirtles and Quinces of each thrée ounces Masticke Colophonia yellow Rose seedes Sloes and Rye meale of each one quarter of an ounce the middlemost pils of Chestnuts thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is needfull and a little Vineger spread it on a cloth and lay it ouer the whole belly The second Take the iuice of Plantaine thrée ounces Rose water Vineger of each one ounce Butchers broome séede Barberries
red Vineger then let it séeth well againe and straine the decoction then stamp that which is boyled with all the rest Lastly temper halfe a dragme of Camfer with it and make a supple plaister of it and lay it ouer the whole Belly If so be that this scouring procéede from the stomacke euen as it may as well as from the Liuer then hath the same the like cause to wit Phlegma and Cholera And hereby it may be discerned that it procéedeth from the stomacke if so be that there appeare no féeblenesse of the Liuer and if so be that which the patient doth auoyd be very white and thin and that the stomacke be grieued The chiefe cause is that many superfluous humors do aggrauate the same or that there is much meate and drinke togither in the stomacke and especially when as both these things do concurre to wit many superfluous humors and much meate and drinke So that then the meate and drinke is of necessitie for a time expelled out of the stomacke be it through weakenesse of the retentiue or through the efficacie of the expulsiue vertue or that the digestion be of it selfe so faint that the meate thereby as halfe digested must passe through the stomacke And to finde good aduice for this the stomacke must be strengthened and heated for which is very méete Marmalade with Spices but especially this powder following Take dry Pomegranat kernels parched and beaten small one dragme Caruway Coriander both stéeped in Vineger dried and parched of each two ounces and a halfe Lignum Aloes blossomes of Pomegranats and Butchers Broome of each one dragme make powder of all these and giue a dragme of it at one time Item take Mirobalani Chebuli which be a little parched one quarter of an ounce Mirtle seede one drag sirupe of Mirtle one ounce vse this as occasion serueth Item take the shales of yellow Mirobalans which be parched one quarter of an ounce beate them small giue them to drinke with two ounces of Plantaine water In fine all sorts of Mirobalans a little parched are good for all scourings of the belly of whatsoeuer cause they do procéede Afterwards you are to vse the confections of Diacalamintha In like manner also Annis séede and rosted hasell nuts Of the foresaid hasel nuts one may make milke with stéeled water and also the same being confected with Sugar Afterwards you must annoint the stomacke with oyle as namely with the oyle of Masticke or Frankinsence so couer it warme The patient must seeth Mastick with red Wine and drinke the same if so be that the same go not cleane against him But if this scouring do come through Cholera it may be perceiued by the yellow excrements which do smart much in the fundament as also by the thirst and by the Ague Then are you to giue him Trociscos de Spodio with parched Barly broth which is made as followeth Parched Barley broth Take parched Barly beaten and powre so much water vpon it vntill it be well couered then let it boyle vntill it be very thicke and afterwards wring it out Of this decoction are you to take foure ounces and two or three dragmes of these Trociscos and then mingle it with so much Iuorie and Gum as one can drinke at one time Item take one drag and a halfe of yellow Mirobalanes Chebuli and Indi of each one scruple parched Rubarb foure scruples Dragagant halfe a drag steepe all these in two ounces of the iuice of Quinces one ounce of Endiue water and halfe an ounce of the water of Pellitory wring it out hard and take it luke warme Item take Rubarb one drag or one and a half parch it and powne it to powder and drinke it with thrée ounces of Plantaine water Take of the best Rubarb one drag and a halfe parch it and beate it to powder the pils of Mirobalans Chebuli one dragme Masticke thrée dragmes the iuice of Quinces halfe an ounce the water of broad Plantaine thrée or foure ounces temper them togither and drinke it fasting in the morning Some that be prone to this scowring do accustome euery wéeke two times to eate one drag of Rubarb parched Item take the confection of Micleta one ounce and a halfe Trociscos de Spodio one dragme temper it with thrée ounces of raine water and drinke it early in the morning Take yellow Mirobalans and Rubarb of each one dragme Dragagant and Gum of each one scruple parched togither Cucubes fine Bolus of each halfe a scruple beaten small togither then temper with it sufficient sirupe of Mirtles and when as then you will vse of it breake it as is aforesayd A powder wherewith the patients meate is to be strewed Take good Rubarb one dragme and a half yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce both parched fine Bolus one dragme yellow Saunders red Coral of each one scrup prepared Pearles one dragme Trociscos de Spodio one dragme make thereof a subtile powder You may also take the waight of one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water For this be also Clisters requisite as hereafter follow Take the broth of a Lambs head and a Calues head one pinte séeth oaken leaues in it broad picked Plantaine of each one handfull and a halfe parched Barley halfe a handfull let them séeth vnto the halfe then take of this decoction and put vnto it the yolkes of a couple of Egs brayed well oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Violets two ounces and then minister this Clister warme Item take prepared Coriander Mirtle séede Acorne cups the séedes of Plantaine and iuice of Sloes of each one handfull Fennell Comin Annis of each halfe a handfull pils of Pomegranates two handfuls let them séeth togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oyle of Roses thrée ounces Hony of Roses one ounce Déeres suet two ounces melt it and make a Clister of it Also the decoction of Rice is good if the cause of this laske be in the lower guts Hereafter be described commodious pils Take the stones of all Mirobalanes beate them when they be well parched Rubarb parched fine Bolus and Amber of each a like quantitie make a masse of pils of it with Dragagant and Gum dissolued in Plantaine water but if there be an Ague with it then vse Barley water Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarb which is parched burnt Iuorie one dragme make pils of it as is before sayd Item filed steele one dragme Cypers nuts one quarter of an ounce Masticke Amber Comfrey Daisies Plantaine séede of each one scruple Gum and Dragagant both parched of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Galingall and Graines of each two scruples make pils thereof with the iuice of Plantaine for they do bind much Others mo Take vnsalted Deeres rennet one dragme Trociscos de Spodio De Carabe De Terra Sigillata of each one scruple well parched Rubarb Plantaine séede also parched of each halfe a scruple beate
or one dragme with red Wine Item take small beaten Bloudstone well washed in Plantaine water thrée drag red Corall one dragme and a halfe rootes of Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauē Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme beaten them all small and take two dragmes of this powder in the morning with Wine You may also strew the meate with the same Item burne Frogs to ashes in a pot and vse thereof as before for they haue a maruellous operation to staunch bloud In like sort may for many purposes be vsed Mirtle séede the séedes of Butchers brooome Pomegranate kernels sealed earth fine Bolus and other binding medicines which are to be beaten to powder and as the case requireth may be vsed well inough for the red flixe Here followeth now a notable confection against all species of scouring and the same may be vsed after what sort one will Take pils and blossomes of Pomegranats Gals and Acorne cups of each one quarter of an ounce Raisin stones Mirtle séeds burnt hasell nuts dry Pomegranate kernels yellow Rose séede the iuice of Sloes Butchers broome séede of each two ounces red Corall Frankinsence Masticke white and black Poppie séede parched Gum the séede of Fleawort Starch Dragon bloud of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces temper them well togither whereof you may make a confection with Sugar or with Plantaine water or Tabulates or strew the powder alone vpon the meate You may also make pils thereof which are to be vsed in the morning betimes and in the euening two houres after supper but of the confection may be vsed thrée or foure times a day like as necessitie requireth at each time one quarter or halfe an ounce Here followeth yet another which may be vsed after the same manner Take Butchers broome seede fine Bolus and Gum of each thrée dragmes and one scruple Dragon bloud and burnt Iuorie of each one dragme and seauen graines Cloues strigs Annis of each foure scrup Hypocistis one scruple and thrée graines Bloud stone two dragmes a halfe red and white Corrall of each two scruples Amber one quarter of an ounce Comfrey Daisies Roses of each one quarter of an ounce and one scruple blossomes of Pomegranats Dragagant of each one drag and seauen graines Mirtle séed thrée dragmes and one scruple Quince kernels white Poppie séedes of each fiue dragmes Knotgrasse Sorrel séedes yellow Rose seed broad Plantaine séeds and Calmus of each one dragme and seauen graines one pound or more of Marmalade dissolued with Sugar or Hony and the other spices tempered amongst it Another Take Marmalade boyled with Hony and white bread well tosted of each foure ounces red beaten Saunders one ounce then put therto a little red Wine and powne them all togither whereof the patient may take otherwhiles the waight of halfe an ounce Spread it also vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the stomacke This hath bene oftentimes approued Take old conserues of Roses and Marmalade mixe them both togither vnto a confection made with steeled Goats milke Item take confected Quince Peares or Marmalade thrée ounces Masticke Mints and Mace of each one dragme temper them all togither with a little of the iuice of Quinces and make Trocisks therof halfe an ounce in waight and you shall alwayes take one of them before meate Or take old conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a half red Corrall one dragme Tormentill Bistorta Trociscide Carabe fine Bolus of each halfe a dragme prepared Bloud stone one quarter of an ounce temper all togither with the sirupe of Mirtles Item take old conserue of Roses three ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserue of Buglosse and Burrage of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a half Corrall and Roses of each halfe a dragme prepared Pearles two dragmes and a halfe Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples beate them all small and make a confection of them with the sirupe of Quinces It is to be noted that the old conserue of Roses is very good for all manner of loosenesse of the belly Some commend that which is made with Sugar alone and not with Hony Others vse both kinds according as the scowring is with heate or with cold Rob de Cornubus Conserue of Cornus called at the Apothecaries Rob de Cornubus hath great force in binding for all kinds of loosenesse of the belly and also for womens excessiue menstrual fluxes and for all other sorts of bléedings and it is thus prepared Take ripe Cornus fruits boyle them so long in red Wine vntill they may be driuen through a hairen Searse or strainer and then let that which is strained séeth vntill it be thick by a mild fire stirring it about continually vntill it be a thicke conserue and preserue the same Mithridate and Treacle do also stay the scowring like as doth also the conserues of water Lillies if there be great heate withall In like manner conserues of Barberies vsed with meate in manner of a sauce Hereafter follow yet other things moe which may be taken for this confection Take Trociscos de Carabe thrée dragmes Dragon bloud and fine Bolus of each half a dragme Plantaine seedes or Endiue séedes halfe a dragme Sugar foure ounces séeth them all togither with Rose water and make Tabulats of it This ensuing is taken to be a very good and approued remedie Take a Nutmeg burne it at a Waxe candle vntill the oyle drop out powne it to powder temper with it the whites of two Egs and as much Beane meale as will make a dough Afterwards make pellets of them as big as a Nut and put them on a sticke and rost them softy vntill they be throughly drie whereof giue to the patient in the morning and also at euening But if you will haue the scowring spéedily stopt then take the more Nutmeg and the lesse meale In like manner are also highly commended hard sodden egs eaten out of vineger strewed with powder of Nutmegs But some preferre rosted egs alone Dried Peaches boyled in water and eaten do stay the red flixe Peaches preserued Others do confect Peaches in this manner Cut the Peaches in two péeces and take out the stones tye them to a thréed and dry them in an Ouen And when you will vse them then infuse them in water Then be they good for the stomacke stay the scowring quench thirst moysten the throate and drought of the tongue Concerning the drinke and such like stéeled milke is very good for children Item Rose water sixe ounces Cloues Masticke Butchers broome seed of each one dragme powne them smal and put it into a glasse and let it séeth in water and giue the children a spoonefull of it Another drinke Take Glew that is burnt in a baking Ouen foure pound poune it small and powre faire fountaine water vnto it let it séethe a
places been séene yet hereafter ensueth a very notable and safe confection of Cassie and Manna for to kéepe the bodie open Take Damaske Prunes one ounce Violets one dragme and a halfe faire well water nine ounces séethe them together vnto the halfe and temper in this decoction Cassie two ounces sowre Dates halfe an ounce Manna one ounce sirupe of Violets two ounces Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce bruse the sowre Dates in the decoction and then boyle them thicke with other confections powre then the dissolued Manna vnto it that through séething it lose not the force This confection is requisite for all daintie persons which be bounden in the bodie for it hath no vnpleasant taste it doth loose very gently expelleth Choleram and asswageth an Ague Also for a gentle laxation one may eate Cassie out of the pipe one ounce casting away the stones For the same purpose are these Confections following also fit Take a quart of good Rhenish wine stéepe therein the space of sixe howres halfe an ounce of Sene husks and one ounce and a halfe of Sene leaues let them boyle well temper afterwards in this wine Currans pouned small one pound fat Figs three ounces rub these thorough a Strainer which being done put foure ounces of Sugar candie vnto it and then let it boyle vntill it be méetly thick Lastly you are to mixe with it halfe an ounce of Cinnamome whereof you are to vse halfe an ounce at a time These laxatiue confections following are commonly ordayned in Minerall bathes Take ryndes of yellow Mirobalanes of Indie of each one ounce bruse them well with Currans Sene husks two ounces Polipody rootes one ounce and a halfe let this seethe together vnto the halfe in the water of Betonie Sage and Buglosse of each sixe ounces water of Mints thrée ounces temper amongst them Agaricus one dragme and a halfe Rubarb one quarter of an ounce Ginger one scruple Thyme and wilde Thyme of each halfe a handfull When it hath sodden méetly well then let it stand a night and in the morning wring it out then mixe foure ounces of Cassie amongst it the iuice of Currans which is Looch de Passulis two ounces beaten Cinnamome one ounce Spec. laetitiae Galeni one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces séethe them with Betonie water vnto a sirupe and make a confection of it Sowre Dates be also a blessed medicine for they purge very mildly and therefore they be seldome vsed alone but what force and vertue they haue is sufficiently shewed in the first part of this booke The laxatiue confection of Prunes called Diaprunis lenitiua is very pleasant and méete Diaprunis lenitiua it doth not only loose the belly but delayeth Choleram it quencheth thirst and is good for all heate but especially when the Ague is in his prime and it is thus prepared Take fiftie Prunes the stones pluckt out seeth them in sufficient water then bruse them thorough a Strainer that the skinnes may tarie out afterwards put the broth or liquor into the same pot where they were sodden on the fire againe and put vnto it thrée quarters of an ounce of dryed Violets and let it séethe vp twice or thrice then strayne out the decoction and put it vnto the foresayd brused Prunes This being done put sixe ounces of Sugar vnto it and let it séethe againe vntill it be thickish and then take some of the liquor remaining and therewith temper Cassie and sowre Dates of each one quarter of an ounce lastly mixe all together and let it boyle softly vntill it be as thicke as a confection Item take powned Rubarbe halfe an ounce fresh conserue of Roses two ounces temper and vse thereof about one quarter of an ounce at a time There is scant any confection which is not onely more méete for this matter but in many other causes moe then that which is called at the Apothecaries Electuarium de Sebesten and is therefore worthie to be rehearsed Electuarium de Sebesten Take Sebesten and Prunes hauing both of them their stones taken out of each two ounces and a halfe Violet water sixe ounces water of blew flowers deluce and Pompeon water of each thrée ounces Mercury water two ounces Sugar pennets foure ounces Rob de Prunis six ounces péeled Melon seede Pompeon séede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber seede of each one ounce Diagridion one dragme and a halfe beaten small boyle these fruites in the waters then driue them thorow a strainer and boyle them with the Sugar and when it is almost cold then adde the séedes cut very small and the Diagridion beaten finely This confection is very good for all hote Agues for it easeth thirst watching and bitternesse of the mouth and doth cause much vrine to be auoided Diaturbith cū Rhabarbaro There be also many kinds of Spices prepared wherof Confections other things be made of which we wil here describe some to wit Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro which is thus prepared Take Turbith and Hermodactyli of each one ounce Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Diagridij halfe an ounce white and red Saunders Violets and Ginger of each one dragme and a halfe Annis Masticke Cinnamom and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar foureteene ounces and a quarter of an ounce make of all these premisses a powder or Confection Another Take Rubarbe halfe an ounce Cloues and Galingall of each one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli and white Sugar of each thrée dragm Diagridii sixe ounces Sene leaues one quarter of an ounce Indy Spica Saffron Ginger Annis and Masticke of each one scrup lastly make a powder of it Both these are fit for to purge all bad humors be they Cholera Phlegma or Melancholia Tabulats of Ginger laxatiue The purging Tabulats of Ginger be made thus Take beaten Ginger one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom and Cloues of each one dragme Nutmegs and Galingall of each one scruple Saffron fourtéene ounces Turbith halfe a dragme Diagridion one dragme Sugar two ounces make Tabulats of it exhibite not aboue one quarter of an ounce at once for they be meetly strong The like purging Confections you may find very many at well furnished Apothecaries to wit Diaphoenicon de succo Rosarum c. Take Epithymum Polipodie rootes and Thyme of each one dragme Sene leaues thrée quarters of an ounce Argall thrée dragmes Cinnamom and Annis of each one dragme the powder of Dill leaues one quarter of an ounce make them into powder take a dragme of it tempered with fresh broth The powder Pasaphan In Italy they haue a powder called Pasaphan which is there much in vse and is thus prepared Take Sene leaues thrée dragmes Turbith one quarter of an ounce good Rubarbe one dragme Licorice Annis Fennell of each halfe a dragme Indy Spica fiue graines these being all powdred and then giuen one dragme at the most with wine or with any kind of water This powder
is very common at some Apothecaries and is thus prepared Take Turbith halfe an ounce Cinnamom and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Galingall Masticke Cardamome Cloues of each halfe a dragme Annis one dragm Hermodactyli Diagridion Sene leaues of each halfe an ounce Sugar three ounces temper these together and giue him a drag of it at the most Medicamen de Turbith Medicamen de Turbith is also common whereof here do follow two sorts Take white Ginger Masticke and Turbith of each halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce and a halfe mixe these to a subtill powder The other Take Turbith halfe an ounce Ginger one quarter of an ounce Masticke tenne graines Sugar three dragmes this being beaten small and tempered well together purgeth slimie humors of the which may well be giuen to yong children women in child bed old folks and all dainty persons one dragme at the least at one time Of which may all be giuen according to the abilitie of the person more or lesse Sene powder called Puluis Senae praeparatae is not onely laxatiue Puluis Senae praeparatae but also purgeth maruellous well the head Take Sene leaues one ounce and a halfe Ginger and Nutmegs of each two dragmes Cinnamom and Argall of each one dragme and a halfe make a powder of it and giue one dragme of it at once A powder Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger Cinnamom Mastick Galingal Cardamome Cloues Annis Hermodactyli and Diagridij of each one dragm Sene leaues halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce or put vnto them as much Sugar as you thinke good for without Sugar it is not to be taken aboue one dragme Item take Sene leaues halfe an ounce Ginger and Cinnamom of each one dragme Sugar one quarter of an ounce take the halfe thereof and strewe it vpon a slice or shiue of tosted bread that hath bene stéeped in wine and so eate it But if it do not loose then eate another slice of bread and the rest in a morning It is surely good Amongst the things that one doth eate some mixe Mercurie leaues in a Sallad for they do easily loose them that be apt to go to stoole Item Dates Mirobalanes stued Prunes strewed well with Sugar do loose the body very mildly Likewise also Damaske Prunes stewed with Raisins do loose also if one sup vp the broth withall fiue or sixe Figs eaten before meate do open the bodie Item Currans washt in swéet Wine and stéeped therein and afterwards dried and strewed with Sugar are also very good for this purpose Or take Raisins as is said which be steeped half a pound beate them and wring them thorough a hairen strainer Sugar two ounces Sugar of Roses and Hony of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe seeth them well by a mild fire vnto a confection then take of it as often as you will the quantitie of a nut Also you may steepe these Currans in oyle of swéet Almonds strewed with Sugar and then eaten for much Sugar hath a laxatiue nature and especially in young children Now will we write of certaine laxatiue potions of which be diuers readie at all well furnished Apothecaries to be had and albeit you may vse the same alone yet notwithstanding haue all Phisitions ordained that the same shall be commonly tempered and taken with purging medicines whereof here shall follow some which the Apothecaries at Augusta haue at all times in a readinesse First they haue a drinke which they call Decoctionem communem Decoctio communis which is a common decocted potion made after this manner Take ten or twelue Prunes Licorice Currans Annis séede and Fennell of each half an ounce floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one dragm and a halfe powre a quart of water vnto it séeth it so long vntill a third part be wasted then straine it thorough This drinke ensuing is of a temperate nature for it is somewhat more cooling and the same is to be vsed in Sommer Take Currans Licorice Prunes Iuiubes Violets Barley péeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourd séede and Cucumber seede of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them together in water like as is said before Take Fumitorie Betonie Mints Mugwort of each halfe a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each halfe a dragme Annis Fennell Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce wild Saffron seede thrée quarters of an ounce Calmus one ounce Polipody rootes Agaricus of each one quarter of an ounce Sene leaues one ounce the seeds and rootes must be beaten grosse letting them séeth first a little afterwards put vnto it the herbs floures and Agaricke and so let them seeth again when it is then cold wring it out hard kéepe it well very close stopt in a coole place In like manner there is prepared a stronger which is called Decoctio aperitiua maior Decoctio aperitiua maior and is made thus Take Endiue Cicorie Fumitorie of each one handful Agrimonie Windweed and Harts toong of each half a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce Thime and wild Thime of each two dragmes and a halfe rootes of Fennell Smallage Parsly of each halfe an ounce Annis Fennell séede Melon séed of each one quarter of an ounce sliced Licorice halfe an ounce rootes of Cipers rinds of Tamariske of each thrée dragmes Sene leaues two ounces Polipodie rootes one ounce Agaricus halfe an ounce seethe them all together in water like as is said before then wring it well out You are to steepe in this decoction Rubarb thrée dragm and a halfe Indy Spica one scruple Sal Gemmae halfe a scruple Cinnamome two scruples let them stand together to stéepe all a whole night afterwards séeth it once in boyling water straine it very well out and put sixe ounces of Sugar vnto it Decoctâ—o Senae A decoction of Sene leaues called Decoctio Senae Take Sene leaues two ounces and Sene husks one ounce rootes of Cicorie Agrimonie Hyssope of each half a handfull Polipody roots one ounce séeth them together in a quart of water vntill the third part be decocted away then wring it out and kéepe it in a coole place I susio Senae Another Insusio Senae This decoction is much vsed for the Pockes at Augusta in Germany for which it is most méete Take the huskes and leaues of Sene of each fiue dragmes Ginger two scruples Burrage flowers Violets Roses of each one scruple Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Currans halfe an ounce ten or twelue Sebesten sliced Agaricus halfe an ounce powre vpon them sixtéene ounces of boyling water and let it be stéeped the space of ten houres by the warme ashes afterwards wring it out and kéepe it well whereof is commonly thrée or fowre ounces taken and sirupe of Fumitorie or De Bizantijs one ounce and a halfe or two ounces tempered together three or fowre dayes one after another There be also vsed many other
wel and powne them togither and temper amongst it half an ounce of powned Cammomill the yolks of two Egs and lay it against the fundament For this may you also take Garlick boyled to grout the heads of Leekes fryed in Butter with oyle of Roses and a little Waxe made into salue may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also requisite the fume and vapor of diuers things as the leaues of a Pearetree of Medlars Quinces Dragon bloud fine Bolus blossomes of Pomegranates and sealed earth whereof you may seeth which you please with Wine When as then the patient hath bene at stoole then is he to receiue beneath the vapor of this wine powred on a hote stone Item take a hote brick sprinkle it with Wine and Mastick vse it as before Or make a fume with Colophonia or Pitch This confection also following may be vsed Take Mirtle séeds Pomegranate blossomes Roses and Pomegranat pils of each halfe a handfull Butchers broome seedes Sorrell seedes the séed of Plantaine yellow Rose séedes Barberies white Saunders Mastick burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Annis séedes of Endiue Cypers rootes and Frankinsence of each one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander Cinnamome red Corrall of each halfe a dragme the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis Storax Cypers nuts parched Gum of each one drag white Poppie séede thrée dragmes powne all that is to be powned and with dissolued Sugar make thereof a confection you are also to put vnto it some iuice of Pomegranates Item take the bones of the head of a fresh taken Pickrell the waight of a dragme and a halfe stamp them small and drinke them with Wine or any fresh broth This is taken for to be a most sure experiment Suppositories which are to be vsed are these Take Frankinsence Myrrhe Gum Linséede of each one quarter of an ounce Opium Saffron of each halfe a dragme temper all these with the white of an Egge and make thereof short suppositories then bind theron a strong threed so that you may pluck them out whē you wil. Some do put Smallage vnto it These are now the principall remedies for this scouring but if so be that there be other causes with it as wormes obstructions and swellings wherof we haue here before made mention you may reade of either in his proper description And for a conclusion all bitter sharpe and sowre things are to be refrained for that all such make the going to the stoole gnawing excoriating painfull Pullet broth Barley pap oaten pap and such like light meates are very commodious for him and aboue all things must he beware of cold Of the paine in the stomacke in generall §. 22. THese kinds of lasks and bloudy flixes haue awhile seduced me from the infirmities of the stomacke and because these lasks as hath bene shewed for the most part procéede from the weaknesse of the stomack with an infection of the Liuer other parts moe it would in no wise haue bin decent to haue treated of them elsewhere But now we purpose to procéede with our intent and write of the paine in the stomacke and of all that appertaineth vnto it This paine of the stomacke may be caused of diuers and sundry meanes to wit of some outward blowes fals wounds of a pirrcing cold or extreame heate of a bad digestion that hath long continued of ouermuch meate or drinke eating either too hote or too cold things or of windes contained in the stomacke and in fine of all the foure humours of the body also with or without an impostume And indéed in this paine of the stomacke and also in all paines of the Liuer it were very needfull to vse the counsell of an expert Phisition that might discerne and know whence these infirmities procéede and whereon each symptome dependeth For if in this point any error be committed then is this maladie imparted vnto all the parts of concoction Wherefore great héed must be taken what ought to be vsed in euery accident for as their causes be diuers so also do they differ in their signes If this infirmitie be procured by some outward occasion that is to be knowen of the patient himselfe or if the cause be a bad digestion of the stomacke that is perceiued by the sower belchings If it come by ouerlading of the stomacke and bad digestion then doth the patient find a heauinesse in the stomacke with wamblings and vomitings and good ease after them If it be caused of heate then feeleth he a gnawing heate drought and sweetenesse in the mouth because it procéedeth of bloud If it be procured of choler then hath the patient a bitternesse and a tast of Verdegreace in his mouth The paine that commeth of phlegme hath alwayes a salt tast with it Also the spettle may shew what the cause is whence this infirmitie might procéede Melancholie is knowen hereby that there is neither heate nor paine with it but onely a sower and a bad sauour in the mouth which also otherwhiles is perceiued by that which is brought vp by vomit vnto this is commonly adioyned a hardnes in the spléene and a paine in the left side But if this paine of the stomack procéede of winds then may you perceiue a wambling and belching or breaking of wind vpward These are the commonest signes of all paines in the stomacke and first we will write of the paine in the stomacke that is without an impostume Of the paine of the stomacke without impostumation through heate §. 23. FOr all paines of the stomacke where there is great perturbance great wambling parbraking and vomiting it may be iustly adiudged that it doth procéede of an hote occasion for which vomiting by taking of lukewarme water is to be prouoked or if the same be too weake then to put some Sallad oyle vnto it or oyle of Dill or oyle of Violets the same doth also the séede of Orage tempered with Vineger But there be in other places other remedies moe described for to purge the patient by vomiting and if this ease him not then it is néedfull that the patient be purged but first he is to take some preparatiue potions euen as hereafter follow Take husked Barley two ounces Endiue and small Endiue of each one handfull Roses seede of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Pompeons and the iuice of Pomegranats of each one ounce Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it vntill there remaine about twelue ounces giue alwayes two ounces of it at once with Barley water or Endiue water For this is also Oxysacchara good made with the iuice of Limons or the iuice of Roses wherein is decocted a little of the iuice of Wormewood taken with Barley water When as these potions be taken then is to be giuen for a purgation one ounce of Hiera Picra with Endiue water or if the patient feare the bitternesse then may he take this following Take Violets and Burrage flowers of each halfe an ounce nine or ten Prunes
the meate oftentimes with vehemencie or that the expulsiue force be too extreame strong This maladie commeth commonly after a feruent Ague and much vomiting It doth also happen through ouermuch heate of the stomacke that is long continuing whereby it digesteth much and alwaies desireth more The other principall occasion is cold which sticketh fast in the mouth of the stomacke wherof commeth also an vnnaturall desire of meate And how much greater that the cold is so much the greater is the hunger and that so long vntill all the vertues of it be weakened The third occasion may be some sowre humor or of Phlegma and Melancholia which may be retained in the mouth of the stomacke and doth there prouoke this lust and desire of meate The signes of this vnnaturall hunger which is caused through warmth of the time through great labor and such like are discouered before also through vnnaturall cold much watching c. and all other outward accidents which are to be demaunded of the patient himselfe Or if this disease be caused through wormes such hath likewise his sure signes which be mentioned in their place If so be that this hunger then do procéede onely through heate of the stomacke or through heate of the whole bodie then is there great thirst with it And if it be caused through any humors debilitie of the retentiue or vehemencie of the expulsiue vertues it may be to be séene by the meate that auoideth vndigested through the stoole But if this disease be caused through melancholy then is there with it a pricking or gnawing with a drouth of the mouth the patient sléepeth but little and that with terrible dreames and hath ill fantasies in his head When as then this maladie cometh through cold then doth the patient alwaies féele himselfe troubled after meate and he must by and by vomit vp the same againe or the same passeth from him downewards vndigested Present regard is to be had that the body be not filled ful of bad humors wherby the Consumption might at last ensue and Lieuteria yea the Dropsie it selfe And if this should so continue a certain time then followeth at last Bulimos and afterwards Syncopalis whereof we haue spoken before which taketh people out of the world If so be then this vnnaturall hunger be caused through any outward or accidentall occasion the same are to be preuented with contrarie remedies to wit with alteration of cold dwellings into warme of great labour into rest and sléepe c. In case then that this hunger be caused through coldnes of the stomack then are warme things for purging and other warme remedies to be vsed which might expell the cold matter from the stomack wherof we haue written herebefore in the 5. § and of all that strengtheneth the stomacke For this it is also required by all the learned that these kinds of patients should eate boyled Rice with the fat of Mutton stued or that is dropt off from rost meate All fat things moderatly vsed are very good for him as Sallad oyle and such like But if this maladie do come through cold sowre Phlegma then it is good that he boyle Marioram in all his meates He may also vse Mustard Honie Nuts Almonds Onions and Garlicke he may also the space of certaine dayes eate Goates milke with the oyle of Violets because that these fat meats do driue aboue in the stomack therfore they do supple the mouth of the stomack and do make a lothsomnes to feeding The second It is then passing good that such do drinke much old and strong red wine at their meales which is also very good to slake hunger with Also for this Dogges hunger are warme Confections to be vsed as namely Letitiae Galeni Diapliris cum Moscu Diatrionpipereon Triphera magna good confects Ginger Hippocras and other spiced wines moe made sweete rather with Honie than with Sugar But this is not spoken of the hunger which commeth through long fasting of great scouring of the bloudie flixe or of strong purgations but onely of this vnsatiable hunger which is called Dogs hunger If so be then euery such patient shall obserue this decréed order then will this hunger abate very much and also be thoroughly cured in time But in case that this hunger procéed of heate and the meate do not molest him neither yet is cast out aboue nor beneath like as it was wont to be if after a lingring sicknesse he were ouercharged with meate and if the stomack and all the whole bodie be waxen hote they are to be fed with meates which be not easie to be digested as namely old Béefe Mutton Porke and also all kind of pottages of Pease and Beanes of Rice and Wheate boyled in milke great fishes Tripes féete and Liuers of all beasts also hatd sodden Egs and in fine with all that is hard of digestion which lyeth long in the stomacke and wherewith the stomacke may be cloyed Also his meates ought to be drest with some cold things for which Melons Cucumbers and Gourds be very good He is to kéepe himselfe also in the cold ayre His drinke must be alwaies good Claret wine And for a conclusion he must eschue all spice and strong wines But if so be the stomacke be too much ouercharged and too much burthened then is the patient to be forced to vomit through such meanes as be herebefore oftentimes expressed The stomacke is outwardly to be annointed with cold oyles likewise also with vnguent of Roses with the cooling salue Galeni with the white Camfere salue with Vineger and Rose-water wherein is a litle Allume dissolued And if so be that the same be not any thing which hindreth it then let the patient bathe in cold water And if so be that this hunger be caused through melancholy then prepare this sirupe following Take the rootes of Sperage Fennell Parsly Smallage Butchers broome Thyme Comin Burrage Buglosse Harts tongue Raisins the stones taken out flowers of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Fumitorie halfe a handfull Hony eightéene ounces make a sirupe of them and giue him each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces For to purge vse the Confection of Sene leaues or this potion following Take Sene leaues Polypody roots Annis of each half an ounce Currans one ounce let them seeth together in eight ounces of water vnto the halfe then temper therein beaten Epithymum one quarter of an ounce Sene powder and prepared Agaricus of each halfe a dragme Cloues halfe a scruple make thereof a potion And if neede be open the Saluatella vpon the right hand He is also to be ordered in his diet as is before rehearsed and all things are to be forborne which may prouoke appetite as hath bene shewed before in the 9. § It is also said that hard rosted Egs after other meate be very méet for this purpose And it happeneth also very well like as is briefly spoken of before that if one recouer after
Also there is paine in his right side and he féeleth a debilitie in the whole bodie which may best be knowne when one must ascend staires or hils and that then the breath is very short with other signes moe wherof we shall admonish where we shal write of the impostume of the Liuer Albeit that we shal hereafter make mention of the order of dyet in a hote or cold Liuer and that we here but in generall do write of the disease of the Liuer yet will we here notwithstanding briefly rehearse this rule To wit that all they that haue any obstruction in the Liuer are not to eate any thing but light meates as young Mutton Hens and such like which is often shewed before and shall be hereafter shewed againe Also all their meate is to be drest with Parsly roots and herbs They are also to vse much Pease porredge And if this disease proceede of a cold cause then are you to adde Parsly Fennell Southernwood Sperage or Capers His meate must be boyled rather then rosted Also he must beware of all grosse meates old flesh great fishes of all fishes which haue no shels He is to vse no bathes plaisters nor any thing else vntill the second digestion be past All strong motions or exercises immediatly after meate must he eschue And although he were verie thirstie yet must he forbeare as much as is possible and chiefly from drinking of Wine howbeit neuerthelesse a cleare white and well sauoring Wine is in some sort permitted This may suffice at this present The causes of a hote Liuer are many as namely the hote time great labour in the heate of the Sunne especially without drinking excessiue Venerie application to hote medicines suffocation of the mother or wombe continuall vse of all hote meates as Spices or Wine made with Spices These are now the signes of a hote Liuer to wit a red yellow vrine yellow ordure great thirst loathing of meate a swift pulse All cold things are acceptable to the patient warme things be noysome He is much enclined to vomiting and that which he parbraketh is lead coloured and sometimes yellow and gréene Also the heat of the Liuer may be felt with the hand They which be of hote nature and young withall and in a hote time of the yeare are most subiect to this disease And when to this heat there commeth drought that the mouth the tongue be dry then is it well to be séene that this disease procéedeth of an vnnaturall heate whereby there followeth forthwith Obstrutions Impostumes Exulcerations Tumours schirrosities of the Liuer and such like diseases Of the oppilation or obstruction of the Liuer through heate §. 3. FOr this obstruction of the Liuer these simples are good amongst which notwithstanding some be moderately warme but they can thereby do no hurt bicause that they be forcibly deoppilate They may be mixed with other things viz. with tame and wild Endiue small Endiue Priests crowne Lyuerwort Melon seede Pompeon séede Gourd séede Cucumber seede Lettice seede séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and small Endiue water of the rootes and herbe of Cicorie Sorrell Cicorie Burrage Venus haire small Houseléeke Harts tongue and field Cypers of all which one may prepare what he will Item the sirupe of vineger drunken with Endiue water In like manner may be giuen to the sicke person to drinke Barley water the iuice of cooling herbes as of Endiue Nightshade and Cuscuta with the sirupe of Sorrell and Sugar for that these things do open the obstructed Liuer and coole the same You may also vse for this purpose these things ensuing Take Oxysacchara and sirupe of Violets of each thrée ounces sirupe of Endiue twelue ounces temper them togither and if you thinke that the choler is tough and thicke then temper amongst it one ounce of vineger and vse therof as often as you please each time one ounce a halfe with some of the foresayd waters Or take the sirupe of vineger the sirupe of Endiue of each six ounces temper them togither If the body be sore bound then put therto one ounce of the sirupe of Violets Or if you thinke that the Cholera be burnt then put the iuice of Burrage and of Fumitorie vnto it And if there be any Ague with it as it commonly doth happen then is this obstruction not onely commodious but also most necessarie that the bad cholerike humours may the easier be expelled for which these things following are very méete viz. the sirupe of Diarrhodon de Byzantijs de Radicibus de Cichorea taken with the distilled waters méete for them to wit water of Venus haire of Harts tongue of Agrimony of Wormewood of Endiue of Cicorie or with the waters wherein the foresayd herbes are decocted Item Cassie with Hiera Picra Electuarium lenitiuum Rhabarbarum Agaricus sirupe of Roses laxatiue Pillulae de Rhabarbaro But seriously to take in hand this matter it is aboue all workes néedfull to purge which is thus to be effected Take the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse Violets Currans and Endiue séedes of each halfe an ounce boyle them togither as behoueth of this decoction take thrée or fower ounces and temper therein thrée dragmes of Cassie sower Dates fiue dragmes beaten Rubarbe one dragme these being tempered take them in the morning early Sower Dates are especiall good for this bicause they cleanse the hot Liuer and also coole it Or take the flowers of Violets of Burrage Prunes and sower Dates of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi one scruple let them seeth togither in sufficient water Then take thrée or fower ounces of this decoction and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie and one dragme of Rubarbe steeped in Endiue water make a drinke of it If so be that the sicke person be méetely strong then in steade of the Rubarbe you may temper with it three or fower dragmes of the confection Succo Rosarum Another Take sirupe of Violets halfe an ounce Barly water three ounces Rubarbe one dragme stéeped in a little Endiue water Spica thrée dragmes confection de Succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce temper them togither and giue it him in the morning betimes If the humor be grosse then take in the steade of the Rubarbe Agaricus and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme for the Agaricus hath an especiall operation in the opening of the obstruction of the Lyuer For this is also requisite diuers Sirrupes which be daily vsed at most Apothecaries and also described in this booke to wit aboue all other both sorts of Oximel the Oximell of Squils sirrupe of Endiue of Barberies their confections and all that is made of it Oxysacchara sirrupe of Violets and of Ribes and principally if there be tempered with Roses burnt Iuorie and Saunders Item take sirrupe De Bizantijs two ounces Hony of Roses one ounce water of Endiue Fennell and of Wormewoode of each two ounces make a Iulep of it to take at two seuerall times
flowers Hyssope Betony Lauender Marierom Sage are altogither very requisite To all which you may ad Miua Cidoniorum both Treacles to wit the great Diatessaron and Mithridate are very commodious for this disease For the obstruction of the cold in the Liuer be these pils following very good and especially if there be feare of the dropsie Take Indy Spica 2. dragmes a halfe Spica Romana one drag Rubarb Agaricus Ameos of each one drag and a half Cinnamom Cloues and Squinant of each halfe a drag Aloe 5. drag make pils thereof with old wine and vse thereof as often as you wil one drag at once For this obstruction are these things following especiall good Take Couchenele beaten halfe a drag make thrée pils thereof with the iuice of Limons then take them fasting as you please Some aduise that there must be tempered amongst it the herbe Centorie and then make pils of it with the iuice of Agrimonie Potions and such like WIne is for this cold obstruction of the Liuer as in that of heate not forbidden For there be sundry wines of herbes ordained for the same viz. wine of Eiebright of Auence of Betony of Harts tong Marierom wormewood Hyssope and Asarabacca and such like which be described in the last part But if it be néedfull that the wine must be tempered then prepare a water wherein Annis Cinamom Coriander Fennell rootes or any of these were decocted you may also seeth Mallowes and Cuscuta in wine and sometimes drinke thereof Of spiced wines are some described before and hereafter which do serue for the Liuer very well For which be highly commended Cleretum Aromatites and wine of Zeduary Besides the foresayd sirupes may these ensuing be vsed to wit the sirupe of Fumitory of Wormewood and Mints And if so be that the Phlegma be very tough then all the Oxymels are fit for it vsed with water meete for the purpose Of the outward Applications TAke Agrimonie two handfuls Cammomill and Venus haire of each half a handful Cipers roots Masticke Squinant Spica of each one dragme red and white Saunders Calmus and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuory one scruple muscilage of Hollikocke rootes three ounces oyle of Masticke Spica and Barly meale of each one ounce and also a little Vineger then make a plaister of it with the decoction of Agrimonie The foresayd plaister is good for all hote and cold tumours of the Liuer and to be vsed at all times the plaister of Melilot the plaister of Bay berries and the knowen gray plaister Diachilon are all verie good for th is Schirrosity of the stomacke of the Milt and Liuer Item take Roses fiue drag Wormewood halfe an ounce Masticke fiue dragmes Indie Spica two dragmes a half Waxe one ounce oyle of Roses foure ounces and a halfe afterwards melt the Waxe and oyle and wash it with water lastly temper all other things beaten amongst it This plaister strengtheneth openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and the stomacke swageth the paine which procéedeth of cold maketh appetite and assisteth the digestion These oyles following are also maruellous good against all Oppilations of the Liuer to wit the oyle of Elder of Bay of Spike and of Wormewood tempered or each alone annoynted vpon the place of the Liuer It hapneth also verie well that through the obstruction of the Liuer the intrailes are annoyed For which you are to take the right sealed earth and temper it with Annis or Fennell Spica of Indy with Cinnamom of each a like quantity as the cause requireth vse halfe a drag of it at once with wine But of this shall be written more at large where we shall discourse of the guts In generall Oxymel is good for all oppilations of the liuer if there be any sharpnesse of the vrine with it amongst which some expert Phisitions do temper these things following which do take away the sharpnesse of the Vrine as Annis wilde yellow Mustard séede Siluer mountaine Mallowes Hollihocks Fleawort Dragagant and such like whereof we shall speake hereafter to wit in this third Part. The order of Diet. BEsides all the foresayd remedies it is necessarie that we do also write what diet this patient is to obserue First of all whatsoeuer cooleth and moisteneth is to be eschewed to wit all habitations which lie low by the water also the South wind All that here ensueth is hurtfull for him as Spinage Beetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons as also all that is made of dough Fish also is not good for him vnlesse it were seldome vsed All slimy parts of beasts is he also to forbeare as fat Trypes c. vnleauened bread fresh fruits all pottages Notwithstanding Pease pottage broth of Lentils made with Mints Parsley Spike and Galingall be speciall good He must also refraine from drinking water if it be not tempered with wine Also all grosse wine is naught for him Butter and swines suet is also not much commended But Sallet oyle is in some respectes permitted Item all kinde of milke and all that is boyled with it grosse old flesh and all that bindeth is also forbidden For his drinke he is to vse méetely strong wine which is cleare and of a good taste and is somewhat swéete He may also vse otherwhiles good warming aromaticall wine like as we haue shewed of late Vineger Veriuice Limons and Orenges must he vse with other meates but alwayes a little and rather these The Pomegranates Cinnamom Pepper Ginger Galingall Annis seede Comin Fennell and such like odoriferous things are verie meete for him In like manner also the herbs and rootes of Parsley Hyssope Thyme Marierom field Mints Southernwood Sage Basill Costus rootes yellow Rapes and all other Turneps drest with oyle he is to vse In like sort Oliues Capers Of all flesh Hens Pullets Doues Partridges Fesants field foules and sucking Kids be very good to be eaten for they may all be drest with spice and especiall good to be drest with all meates be Parsley and wild Turneps Some do commend much for this sicknes the Vineyard Snailes and of all fruits the bitter and swéete Almonds Pistacia and Currans Of a schirrous Liuer §. 5. OF this obstruction of the Liuer it doth otherwhiles waxe schirrous and hard that one may feele the same with the hand on the out side without any great trouble to the Liuer the which maladie the learned do call Scirrum and the Greekes Schroten This disease is not to be cured but at the first for when it is waxed old then it is too late These patients do some dye suddenly and some lingringly for the Liuer cannot tollerate so strong medicines as the Milt This disease is to be remedied as here ensueth This sicke person is alwayes euerie second day to take one scruple of Ammoniacum with Oxymel made into pils If it shall be néedefull his liuer veine is to be opened and afterwards he is to purge with Manna and Rubarb
tempered with Agrimonie water Wormewood water is also good He is certaine dayes afterwards to take one dragme of prepared Wolfs liuer tempered in foure ounces of Agrimony water to vse this certaine dayes one after another It is also good aduise that this sicke person do vse things which do prouoke much vrine and do breake the stone in the Bladder whereof shall good instructions be found in his proper place For it is consonant to reason that such things will also resolue and deobstruat the hardnesse of the Liuer Also he is to drink daily a dragme of the séed of Agnus Castus tempered with Comin and Fennell water Outwardly be the forementioned plaisters and especially the plaister de Meliloto and Diachilon to be applied vpon it Also you may make if you will a plaister of these things following Take Cammomill one ounce Roses marrow of Oxe bones or of Harts bones Ducks grease Hens grease and oyle of Spike of each halfe an ounce beaten Wormewood thrée drag Fenegreeke Linseede meale of each one ounce swéete Costus rootes thrée dragmes and Waxe as much as sufficeth Or seeth Figs and Raisons poune them to grout and temper amongst it Fenegreeke meale beaten Cammomill Rue and Melilot afterwards mingle it with the oyle of Cammomill as much as will suffice for a salue Item take Barly meale two ounces Cammomil and Melilot of each halfe a handfull the muscilage of Hollihock roots fiue ounces Cypers rootes Squinant Mastick and Spica of each one quarter of an ounce red Saunders Calmus Agrimonie and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuorie one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce foure or fiue dry Figs oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one quarter of an ounce make a plaister thereof Some haue taken the venemous herbe Hemlock and layd it as pap vpon the Liuer for it doth mollifie schirrositie and hardnesse By this is also to be vnderstood that all which is good for the obstruction of the Liuer is also very méete for this disease Of a cold Liuer without obstruction §. 6. THere befall also cold diseases in the Liuer without any obstruction of the same yet are all the forementioned remedies verie good for this intent by reason that they do all heate the Liuer and other inward parts but these Plaisters Salues and other things ensuing are especially ordained for this Take Mastick Spica Cypers rootes Squinant Calmus Saffron and Mirrhe but the Mastick and Mirrhe are to be dissolued in Wine then temper the rest amongst it vnto a plaister and lay it vpon the Lyuer Item take the iuice of Agrimonie twelue ounces Vineger one ounce Spike and Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe wet a cloth in it and lay it also ouer the Liuer You may also put vnto it foure ounces of Wormewood water Or take oyle of Quinces oyle of Mastick halfe an ounce oyle of Spike one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses Squinant Cuscuta Cinnamome and Spike of each halfe a dragme Saffron fiue greynes and Waxe as much as is néedefull Lastly stirre a little Vineger amongst it and with this salue annoynt round about and vpon the Liuer twice or thrice a day that is vpon the right side euen to the ribs Another Take oyle of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one ounce red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie Squinant and Comin of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme Agrimonie and Calmus of each two scruples Masticke and Indie Spica of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger one spoonfull Waxe as much as is needfull for a salue But if so be that there do remaine any paine then may you vse these things following take Wheatē bread which is well boulted put it into a bag and so lay it warme vpon the liuer But if the paine will not be as yet asswaged with it then take two parts of Milet and thrée parts of Bran and one part of Salt make them togither warme and vse it as aforesaid Or set a great boxing cup vpon the same place Item Take Cammomill Balme Dill séede and Annis séede of each two handfuls Mace Fennell Mallowes Hollihocke séeds of each halfe a handfull and two or thrée Poppie heads Séeth all these togither in a good deale of water vntill the third part be decocted and fill a great bladder or twaine with this decoction and lay it on the place of the paine and when one is cold then lay another Lastly Take foure ounces of Brand Venus haire Dill séede Burrage séede and Comin of each halfe an ounce Cammomill and Melilot of each thrée handfuls Seeth them al togither in white wine then poune them to grout and temper therewith one ounce and a halfe of Barly meale oyle of Cammomill two ounces then make a plaister of it and lay it warme vpon it it is very good to asswage and delay the paine Of the impostumation of the Liuer §. 7. THe Liuer may be also annoyed through many kinds of impostumes inwardly or outwardly which be ingendred of many causes as through falles thrusts or by going too narrow girt whereby all such issues and impostumes are caused Also these impostumes may be well caused through some cholerick humour through an ouerhot stomacke through the vse of too much spices or any other hot meates whereby the digestion of the stomacke is inféebled and wholly spoiled For this is especiall good all swéete things as Honie Sugar Figs c. But if this moisture be through cold then doth there come a cleane contrarie cause The commonest signes of al the impostumes of the Liuer be these paine in the right side tending vpwards towards the ribs and shoulder blade as it were the Pleurifie The sicke person can hardly lye vpon his sides especially on the right side his face is very blacke he léeseth appetite his vrin is bloud-red especially if the impostume be hot otherwhiles the cough cometh with it as also the hickcough parbraking short breath retention of vrine and great thirst Now for to the cure these impostumes we will first discourse of them that come through heate for this is first the liuer veine to be opened if the patient be able and to let out much bloud but if the partie be weake then but a little and then the oftener If so be that he be hard bound then be gentle clisters to be ministred and this thing insuing to be layd vpon the liuer Take red Saunders Roses of each thrée dragmes the iuice of Endiue and Nightshade of each two ounces Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce make them togither luke warme and then wet clothes therin and apply them vpon the liuer and renew them once euery thrée or foure houres and continue this thrée or foure dayes This sirupe following is also to be prepared which is as well good for the ague as for to open and loose the body Take the iuice of small Endiue
of great endiue of Agrimonie Smallage and Fennell of each thrée ounces water of Parsley rootes of Smallage and Venus haire of each two ounces cleare wel water twelue ounces Sugar eightéen ounces white vineger two ounces Séeth them al togither and clarifie them well then put vnto it Squinant Spike burnt Iuorie Melon séed Gourd séedes Cucumber séede Pompeon séede and red Saunders of each one dragme Wormewood three dragmes then make a sirupe of it take at each time two ounces of it with the decoction of Pease or with Endiue water The third day after that such impostumes be knowen then is the soft pap to be layd vpon it Take Barly meale stewed Figs Dates beaten to pap and tempered all togither with oyle or Roses and Vineger For this sicknesse one must not purge at the first without great néede be But when the sicknes is at the prime or declining then are you to do the same with Manna Cassie sowre Dates and to exhibite it with the decoction of Violets Squinant Prunes and Wormewood In like manner vse loosing meate drest with Burrage Mallowes Hops and such like herbs But if the impostume be broken out and that there do come a gentle laske or scouring wherewith corruption also auoydeth then is nature to worke But in case this scouring get the maistrie then is the same to be stayed with the Trociscis de Berberis and de Terrasigillata But if these impostumes do come of thrusts or such like occasions then open a veine as is sayd already and lay this plaister following vpon it Take Mirtle seed Roses and Bayberies of each halfe an ounce Calmus Mirrhe Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron one dragme oyle of Lillies and Waxe as much as is needefull and if you feare any hardnes of the Liuer then vse the mollifying things whereof we haue spokē in the 5. § Or make this following Take Cammomill Melilot Rue Wormwood Ireos Marierom Calmus Hyssop Roses of each one ounce and a halfe Endiue Hollyhock rootes Lineséede and Fenegréeke of each one quarter of an ounce let them boyle all togither in wine and water make a sponge wet in it then lay it warme vpon it Item in the declination of the sicknesse is this plaister following to be vsed Take liquid Storax and Waxe of each one ounce and a quarter Masticke Saffron Ameos of each half an ounce oyle of Mastick and of Roses of each fiue dragmes Wine six ounces temper and vse it warme the Barly for his meate the water for his drinke is amongst other cooling things verie necessarie meate and drinke But if so be that these impostumes do proceede of cold then do they make shew with intumifactions and debilities they bring also rather heauinesse and oppression with them then paine For this take héed of letting bloud and strong Clisters but mild Clisters may be vsed and also milde purgations Amongst other is good for these Clisters Wormewood Barly field Mints Centorie or which you will decocted with a little Coloquint You may also vse well suppositories for to keepe the body soluble and to draw downe the tough and grosse slime Prepare also these Trocisks following Take Roses fiue dragmes Barberies halfe an ounce Annis Smallage seede Squinant Cassie wood and Calmus of each thrée dragmes Mastick Spike Cinnamome Asarabacca Rubarb Mather and Lacca of each one dragme beate them all togither make fouresquare Trociskes thereof with the iuice of Fennell the waight of a dragme and giue thereof one in the euening with this potion following Take the rootes of Smallage Parsly and Fennell of each one ounce séedes of Smallage Annis Fennell and Comin of each halfe an ounce Squinant Agrimonie field Cipers Germander Mather Cassy wood and Balsam wood of each one quarter of an ounce white Vineger one ounce and a halfe Hony thréee ounces séeth them all together in sufficient water clarifie it as behoueth Further annoint the place with oyle of Spike oyle of Sesamum or oyle of the séedes of Manus Christi and lay this plaister following vpon it Take the séedes of Smallage Ameos Annis and Cardamome of each halfe an ounce Squinant Aloe of each thrée dragmes Spike Amaranthus Mastick Saffron and Mirtle séed of each one dragme and a halfe Turpentine Rosen of each three dragmes Waxe as much as will suffice for to make a plaister with melt it with a little oile of Spike and of Costus and then temper the rest amongst it But if so be that you will you may take and put vnto it Oxe dung and Goats dung When the impostume breaketh that may be perceiued if the patient about the same time fall a shiuering and quaking with a swouning and vomiting and that bloud auoyd both through the stoole and the vrine then is this plaister following to be vsed and if peraduenture the opennes be not yet explete yet doth it ripen and asswage the paine and strengtheneth the Lyuer Take Barly meale Fenegréeke meale of each one ounce Linséede meale three dragmes Mill dust Elecampane roots the roots of Smallage and of Wormewood of each fiue dragmes Cammomill Melilot Violets Roses of each thrée dragmes white Lillie roots Pigeon dung Spica Romana of each one dragme oyle of Cammomill and of Violets as much as will suffice for to make therewith a plaister afterwards giue him a drinke for to cleanse him decocted of Barly and Figs or let him vse Mellicraton which is Meade Of the laske of scouring through weaknesse of the Liuer §. 8. WE haue sufficiently written thereof before in the eleuenth Chapter where we haue spoken of all manner sorts of Lasks and bloudy Flixes Of diuers things which be very commodious for all infections of the Liuer §. 9. HEre before in the 3. § is highly commended the water of Venus haire for all diseases of the Lyuer For this is also good M. Tristanis water for it doth preserue and cure the Liuer from all diseases Item take the séede of Endiue of small Endiue and of Lettice water of Venus haire and Liuerwort red and white Saunders of each one dragme seedes of Melons of Pompeons and Gourds of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuorie halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie one dragme roots of Fennell of Parsly and Smallage of each one quarter of an ounce rootes of Endiue three dragmes and a little Vineger Sugar one ounce and a halfe let them seeth all togither in three pints of water vnto the halfe This is especiall good for a stuft Lyuer which is caused through heate and also for the yellow Iaundies Many kindes of golden waters and vitall waters be also good for this and especially for cold causes Looke also in the first part the 12. Chapter and 1. § where you haue a very good powder beginning thus Take the iuice of Wormewood c. mixe it with Sugar and vse it ten dayes togither it helpeth all maladies of the Milt and Lyuer it preserueth also from the yellow
small Endiue of Agrimonie of Liuerwort of each two ounces Barly meale as much as will suffise to make a plaister withall It happeneth also very often that in this Ascite the patient is hard bound in body who if he be knowne of sufficient strength then is he to be often purged as is already said that which may be effected through sundry meanes as through Pils Potions and through Clisters whereof there be many herebefore described for the obstruction of the Lyuer and are also very requisite for this purpose and amongst the rest these following may also be vsed First let pils be made with Rubarb which be acuated with a litle Mezereo and be giuen vnto him once a weeke Also the pils of Mezereo are very good for this vse but they must be taken in hand very circumspectly for that the Mezereon is maruellous sharpe as herebefore in the introduction you may well perceiue Item Take of the foresaid Mezereon leaues which haue bene stéeped two daies and two nights before in the iuice of Quinces and Vineger dried againe half a drag make small pils thereof it expelleth water wonderfully The like haue you before in the 4. § good pils in the obstructiō of the liuer beginning Take Spica c. The iuice of wild Cucumbers or Elaterium is also good for this but it must be giuen with great circumspection for there is no man so strong that may take aboue halfe a scruple Our Phisitions do seldome take aboue foure graines at once as is amplier spoken of in the Introduction Item take clouted Goats milk thrée ounces the iuice of blew Flower-deluce halfe an ounce séeethe it on a small fire vnto the halfe or more strain it temper it in a litle Suger so take it Or take the iuice of blew Flower-deluce which is very cleare one ounce drink it with some Sugar or with some Goates milk once in euery 4. daies the daies betwéene both is he to drinke a good draught of Béere decocted with Wormewood or Wormwood powder with 2. ounces of Sugar cast into sugar plates eate therof In Italy they haue an herbe called Soldonella the iuice wherof is much vsed for the dropsie also the water powder of the herbe or in stead thereof may be vsed for the dropsie of the said blew Flower-deluce for that Soldonella with groweth neare the sea all salt places is giuen with wine wherein Rapontica with a litle Wormwood is decocted What force Wormwood hath in this disease is sufficiently shewed in the end of the 9. § Also what vertue the wild Saffron séed hath for the Dropsie looke for the same in the Introduction the like also of the éedes of Manus Christi A powder to purge withal Take beaten Ireos thrée dragmes Ginger two scruples Annis Masticke of each one scruple white sugar Candie one dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Diagridion sixe graines take one dragme therof it expelleth the water and the going to stoole very vehemently But if there be any heate withall then are these mild purgations to be vsed Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitorie of each halfe an ounce Licorice Iuiubes Currans and Wormwood of each one quarter of an ounce eight or ten Prunes Spicanardi one dragme séethe them all in whay of Goates milke and stéepe therein halfe an ounce of the shels of yellow Mirobalans for a potion Item take sixe ounces of the whay of Goates milke and fresh rootes of the Flower-deluce which be well cleansed from their shels halfe an ounce séeth the same vntill two parts remain then temper them together for a purgation Clisters as is before discoursed are also maruellous good for all such dropsies whereof certaine do follow Take Ebulus Cammomill and S. Iohns wort of each one handful Let them séeth sufficiently in water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces Sallad oyle thrée spoonefuls halfe an ounce of Hiera Pachij or Hiera Picra Salt one dragme temper them then together Item take the broth of Tripes or any other fresh flesh broth Pease pottage or any other that one hath readie in the stead of common water and in the stead of Hiera take prepared Cassie for Clisters This following doth loose more Take Mallowes Hollihockes Beetes Cammomill and the herbe Mercurie of each one handfull Seeth it in water or in any of the foresaid brothes and take thereof twelue or sixteene ounces Salt Oyle Hiera or Cassie Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxatiua of each halfe an ounce temper them together and minister this Clister very warme This following draweth from the head Take Rosemarie Betonie Cammomill and Saint Iohns wort of each one handfull Polipodie wild Saffron seede grosse beaten of each half an ounce and seeth them well This being done take as much broth and do as is beforesaid there may also be vsed in stead of common oile the oyle of Linseede If there be great griping of the belly with it then may also be vsed with the foresaid herbes Annis Fennell Caraway all together or those that one can get Take the waight of an ounce thereof beaten all together grosse Clisters are not onely good for the Dropsie but also against all griping of the belly against the grauel against the obstructions against the yellow Iaundise shoorings and such like But in case that with this Dropsie there be any scouring or red flixe then are Trociskes to be giuen to the patient of Barberies with Vineger for these Trociskes do coole supple and strengthen the liuer and stay the scouring The same do also Trocisci de Spodio de Sandalis and the iuice of Quinces and all that is made thereof Item the Conserue and confected rootes of Cicorie by reason that they a binding and cooling operation But if so be that the Ascites be without an ague and there be no rednes séene in the water then may these pils following be giuen Take prepared leaues of Mezereon and Sagapenum of each one scruple and make this to pilles with the iuice of Wormwood but giue no more at once then the fourth part onely for they expell and purge very forcibly What things do moue Vrine IN the beginning of the description of the Dropsie it is amongst other things thus declared that the chiefest meane for to cure this sicknesse is to expell vrine and to auoide the same in great abundance the which may be atchieved through these meanes following Take Rue S. Iohns woort Peniroyall Sage Marioram gentle Wormewood Licorice Annis Fennell and Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of Wine but not too long then drinke thereof in the morning thrée ounces and as much more in the euening Item take Garlicke and S. Iohns woort of each one handfull séeth them together in a pint of Wine vntill a third part be decocted afterwards straine it thorough and when you please drinke a litle thereof at one time it dryeth vp the water and expelleth the
Prunes of each eightéene ounces Sugar foure and twenty ounces Honie of Roses sixe ounces let them seeth to a sirupe These things following are reputed for such as expell Melancholie and do purge viz. Epithymus Mirobalani Indi Chebuli Polypody roots prepared Esulus Bolus mountain Mints Cassie Sene leaues Fumitory Hony suckles Hops blacke Néesewoort Indy salt wild Saffron séeds Sal gemmae The compounded medicaments are Diasena Hiera Ruffi Hiera logodion and such like Item take Sene leaues Thymus Epithymus Cuscuta and Burrage flowers of each one ounce Annis Fennell and Smallage séed of each halfe an ounce Harts tong Maiden haire Chamedryos and Agrimonie of each one handfull let them all séeth well and take thereof foure ounces steepe therein Mirobalani Indi halfe an ounce and Chebuli thrée dragmes all the night afterwards straine it well out and temper therewith Diasena thrée dragmes Cassia one ounce washt azure stone two scruples giue the same vnto him in the morning and there may lesse thereof be giuen at once When as melancholie appeareth then is the Liuer veine to be opened for that surpasseth al other things and the same is to be done more then once and that alwaies according to the abilitie and strength of the patient Item care must be taken to open the piles be it with rubbing with the Launcet or lastly with Leaches For this it is also very needfull that this patient be often purged but he must first alwayes vse some kind of sirupe as is herebefore expressed Also he must vse according as the cause requireth the sirupe of Burrage of Buglosse Apples de Epithymo and Diarrhodon of Cicorie Wormwood of Roses hony of Roses Oxymel and sirupe of Vineger And for to purge he must take Mirobalani Indi Chebuli and Citrini of each halfe an ounce the outward rinds of the blacke Néesewoort thrée dragmes powne them together very small and séeth them in sufficient water straine it and put into this decoction Epithymum Thyme Polipodie rootes and Sene leaues of each thrée quarters of an ounce the seedes of Citrons one quarter of an ounce then seeth them againe vnto the halfe and so let it stand all a night afterwards straine it out and wring it hard and put as much Sugar vnto it as you thinke méete This being done seeth it againe and clarifie it with the white of an Egge Lastly temper amongst it the sirupe of Citron pils one ounce and drinke foure or fiue ounces of it early in the morning But this is here to be noted that if this sirupe be giuen to any bodie that is infected with the Poxe the same partie is first to be purged with the confection called Lenitiua mixing with it thrée dragmes Confectionis Hamech Afterwards giue vnto him this Sirupe following and then the decoction of Guaiacum whereof we shall write hereafter more at large This patient must often before meate take Cassia for it cleanseth the bloud and taketh away the sharpnes of it For this are méete also the Pillulae Indae Aggregatiuae and De Lapide Lazuli Item Sene leaues steeped in Henbroth strewed with a little Cinnamom or Sene leaues stéeped in Whay Item the same boyled with the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Balme and with the rootes of Parsly The Sene leaues may also be stéeped with Wormwood and with Wine and it is good during the space of a whole moneth alwaies euery other day to drinke two or three ounces of the decoction or infusion of Sene leaues both which are described in the eleuenth Chapter the 20. § and temper amongst it two ounces of the laxatiue sirupe of Roses the decoction of Sene leaues as much vse this fasting You haue also herebefore a powder for to purge melancholy and two kinds of Confections Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro Item whay wherein Epithymus hath bene infused or Polypody rootes haue bene decocted doth more prepare to purge How the melancholicke bloud is to be purged §. 6. AMongst all these foresaid medicins there be diuers which do cleanse the bloud And the drift of all Phisitions in this sicknes is that all the heauie blacke and vncleane bloud might be purged diminished and corrected Howbeit there is somewhat else which is here to be signified to wit for this doth Venus or Maidenhaire first serue that educeth all bad humours and slime out of the Liuer maketh good colour lengtheneth the breath cleanseth the stomacke the lyuer and the milt and also breaketh the stone Item take the whay of Goats milke stéepe Fumitorie in it or mixe the iuice of the hearbe amongst it and drinke of it certaine dayes ensuing other at each time a good draught or in the steade thereof take the Sirupe or Conserue of the same hearbe for both of them be very good Also make pils of powned Masticke and the iuice of Wormwood There be also certaine Wines for the cleansing of the bloud prepared as hereafter ensueth Take Currans three common pounds Maidenhaire fiue ounces and one quarter of an ounce black prepared Hellebore two ounces and a halfe and one dragme of Polipodie and Hermodactili of each foure ounces prepared Coriander and Sene leaues of each fiue ounces and one dragme and a halfe Pockwood sixe pound rinds of the same eightéene ounces These being all well beaten together then powre thereon two almes of Must and halfe an alme of Well water then let them stand and worke together at the fire about sixe dayes space stirring it wel euery day about When it is setled the space of three dayes and fallen downe then straine it out cleare and keepe it vntill occasion serue to vse it Of this foresaid wine must the patient drinke at meales in the stead of other wine the space of two moneths or at least euery other day This openeth the bodie very easily and therwith expelleth all grosse humors and Cholera out of the bodie And if this wine cannot be brooked by it selfe then may the same be tempered with other common wine drunken moderately It expelleth melancholy and all heauinesse of mind it maketh merrie and of good cheare In like maner of all herbe wines these are highly cōmended for this sicknes viz. wine of Burrage Buglosse and of Harts toung and of Tamariske which not onely take away melancholick humors but do withstand the quartaine Ague which is caused by them Of Confections you may vse Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromaticum Rosatum and Dyanthos Likewise Conserue of Violets of Roses of Buglosse and of Rosemarie Treacle and Mithridate taken the waight of one dragme is very commodious for this for that they do both diminish melancholie and take away the heauines of the mind feare and such like that may procéed of Melancholy The confected Citron pils do repugne all melancholicke accidents Confected Nutmegs do make fresh bloud For meates in stead of other sauce Sugar is to be vsed We haue before discouered that bathing in swéet water is very profitable So are also boxing cups set vnpickt vpon the sides
to make a powder then prepare this following Take Ginger halfe an ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce and a halfe Mace Galingale Cucubes and Nutmegs of each one dragme This being beaten all small then put as much Sugar vnto it as you please This powder consumeth all wind and hindreth also the generation of other You haue also herebefore certaine grosse powders for the stomacke which be also very good In like manner do Annis Fennell seede Caraway and Comin either bare or confected and taken before meate consume all paine in the guts The sirupe of Wormwood expelleth also winds For this are also very conuenient clisters if they be made of such things as do cause wind to auoide as this following Take Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues Bearefoote and Béets of each one handfull Centorie Rapontica Calmus white Mints Marioram Southernwood Rue and Hyssop of each halfe a handfull Séeth them all together in sufficient water and take fifteene or sixtéene ounces thereof hony of Roses and oyle of Rue of each thrée ounces Hiera Picra one ounce Benedicta laxatiua halfe an ounce then temper them all together Yet this clister is to be diminished or augmented according to the abilitie of the sicke person Suppositories may also be vsed for this which are thus to be made Take Rue and Comin or Caraway of each one handfull Swines bread one roote and a halfe Boreas one dragme clarified Hony thrée ounces make Suppositories thereof Another Take Beuercod Hony Oxe gall and oyle of Violets of each a like quantitie let them séeth somewhat thicke afterwards wet a suppositorie in it bounden at a thréed and vse it as before it consumeth wind excéedingly and purgeth very much Potions and such like TAke the rootes of Smallage of Fennell and of Parsly of each two ounces Raisins the stones taken out two ounces and a halfe ten or twelue fat Figs twentie or foure and twenty Iuiubes Séeth them all together in two quarts of Water euen to the halfe and take thereof thrée or foure ounces tempered with the foresaid confection The common people and husbandmen do commonly vse slight things which they can best get amongst which may this potion following be reckoned Take fresh Cow dung about halfe an ounce temper it with good wine and wring it thorough a cloth and then drinke thereof it is much commended Other do ascribe this to sheepes dung also Chickwéede is commended for the same boyled in water and so drunken Likewise also Wormwood wine or Wormwood sodden in water also Meade being drunken is very good for this paine Wine measurably drunken driueth not only the wind out of the bowels but also out of all parts of the bodie The wines of Harts toung and Marioram gentle are also much commended for these paines in the guts and mo other aromaticall wines as of Galingall Nutmegs and Cloues Item take Species Iustini one dragme and drinke the same twice a wéeke with one ounce of Rosewater it is also good against the grauell Master Tristrams Water is also good against all paines in the guts likewise is also commended one dragme of Beuercod drunken with one ounce of Mellicraton In the meane time may outward things also be vsed for this one may take the herbes the séede and other ingrediences whereof Clisters haue bene made wring them out hard stampe them and temper them with butter with Barrowes grease and oyle of Cammomill vnto a plaister and so lay it warme ouer the belly it is very good But if one will lay any thing vpon the maladie then must the belly be warmed well before with warme cloths for this may be made also the foresaid bags of Millet and Salt or take vnbeaten Millet Oates and Fennell or Bran which you can get parch them in a panne and apply it warme vpon the paine Item Take parched Linséede sixe ounces parched Comin one ounce Bran halfe a handfull beate them all grosse and make a bag thereof then let it séeth in water or wine a good space afterwards wring it out and lay it very warme vpon it Item take the oyle of Scorpions oyle of bitter Almonds and Turpentine of each sixe ounces let them melt all by the fire afterwards temper halfe a dragme of Saffron amongst it Lastly dippe shéeps wooll in it and lay it warme vpon the griefe or take Pellitorie and powned Linseede of each one handfull powre two ounces of the oyle of Scorpions vnto it and let them be made hote together afterwards put a little Saffron vnto it and vse it as before Warme bread laid vpon the belly or the stomack asswageth the paine and is good against the suffocation of the mother or wombe Another Take Hony Butter Salt and Vineger of each a like quantitie let them séeth all together a good while vntill it begin to be somewhat tough then spread it on a cloth and bind it warme vpon the belly Item take wild Thyme Marioram Caraway leaues Cammomill Wormewood and Sage which you will cut it small and put it into a bag then make it moist with wine or water and let it warme in a pan and vse it as before Or Cow dung and Butter of each a like much temper amongst it halfe so much beaten Comin Wolfs dung is also very good for this vse a plaister being made of it For this is also good the plaister of Bayberries which is described in the eleuenth Chapter and the 5. § Item another salue also which is described in the third Part in the tenth Chapter and the 5. § Take Comin Caraway c. Or prepare this following Take Goose grease and oyle of Scorpions of each thrée ounces Saffron one scruple Waxe as much as suffiseth These oyles following are also to be vsed for this disease viz. oyle of Lillies of Cammomil of Rue of Dill of bitter Almonds of Spike of Bayberries and Elecampane rootes of Peniroyall and such like oyles which be warme of nature and chiefly if Ameos and Masticke be boyled in them The bathing and fomenting is also very profitable for this sicknesse which may be made as hereafter followeth and may be prepared according as the cause requireth The bathes of swéete waters are very good to asswage the paine and they be especially commended after the cholick and after purging and that fasting After bathing is some Troacle or Mithridate to be vsed and taken and to sweate after it For this be also good Sulphurie bathes which be warme by nature Now will we declare all the foresaid things that expell wind and consume it and especially those which may be vsed for Bathes and Fomentations viz. Rue Dill Rosemarie Fennell Chamedryos and field Cypers Amongst the seedes Annis Fennell Comin Caraway séedes of Rue Ameos and Dil séed Note ye that the patient must sit no déeper than to the breast in this bath and also may not tarrie long therein that he fall into no swound Otherwise the bath is very profitable for it openeth
and all his whole gouernment cooling and moistening as followeth hereafter Take Mallowes with the rootes Hollihocke rootes Bearefoote and Violet leaues of each one handfull Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglos of each halfe an ounce foure or fiue Prunes séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéen ounces and temper with it two ounces of Cassie oyle of Violets thrée ounces of Hony one ounce then make a Clister of it This is also especially commended being made with Gotes milke Cassie and oyle of Almonds When as then the impostume is broken vp then are you to vse for to cleanse it Clisters Barly water and Hony and afterwards consolidating medicins But if so be that one perceiue any parings of the bowels in the stooles and that with great paine then are these following to be vsed Take somewhat lesse then a pound of stéeled water and séeth therin broad and picked Plantaine and Roses of each one M. euen to the halfe Take twelue or sixtéene ounces thereof and melt therein one ounce of Deere suet thrée yolkes of Egs well beaten oyle of Roses two ounces Thomas Sugar one ounce and temper them all together Another Take broad Plantaine wild Tansie and Comfrey of each one handfull Pomegranat pils one ounce seeth them all together in a pot of steeled water euen to the halfe then melt in this decoction two ounces of Deere suet Trociscos de Carabe De Terra sigillata of each one quarter of an ounce then make a Clister of it For plaisters take the sodden hearbes and the other things of the former Clisters powne them to grout and temper therewith halfe an ounce of powned red Saunders Barly meale two ounces and oyle of Violets as much as doth suffise for a plaister and then lay it warme ouer it it doth abate the paine very much Another Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes with the herbes of Nightshade Violets Cammomill and Melilot of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper therewith oyle of Violets of water Lillies and Ducks grease of each thrée dragmes Linseed meale one ounce and then make a plaister of it If need require to purge more then may the same be done with the conserue of Prunes But if so be this paine of the bowels be with a cold tumor then must stronger Clisters be vsed as there be sundrie set foorth in the 6. § against the paine of the bowels through Phlegma But first are the oyle of Cammomill with Vineger and the oyle of Roses that it may pierce and strengthen the bowels for to be vsed after the Clisters expressed before in the fift § may this plaister following for mollification be vsed for to ripen and asswage the paine Take Linseede meale Fenegréeke meale Wheaten meale and Barly meale of each two ounces sixe yolkes of Egs oile of Cammomill and good wine as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister this must be laid warme vpon it Another Take eightéene or twenty Figs séeth them well in water crums of white bread two ounces White meale one ounce and a halfe vnsalted Barrowes grease and oile of Cammomil as much as is néedful for to make a plaister let them all séeth a litle together and then lay them warme vpon it you may also put warme vnto it one ounce of beaten Cammomill It happeneth also sometimes that in these impostumes the vrine is retained backe because that the conduits are stopt through the tumor therfore if that befall the Saphea must be opened and the kidneys and the priuities annoynted with the oyle of Cammomill and oile of Violets and also are Clisters and Plaisters to be vsed like as shall hereafter be further spoken of in the prouocation of vrine Of the paine in the bowels through heate and Cholera §. 10. THis is the last cause whereby as is discoursed before in the fourth § the paine of the guts may be ingendred and when it commeth with heate and an ague it is not then so hurtfull or lingring as that which procéedeth of Phlegma For this must the patient first of all be purged with sirupes and such like things as do coole and further be kept with necessarie meate and drinke He is lastly to vse clisters in this manner following first of all he is to take certaine daies together preparatiue sirupes as both the sirups of Vineger Oxysacchara sirupe of Violets of Roses of Endiue and of water Lillies with some decoction wherein the same herbes haue bene decocted wherof diuers be described in the thrd Part. For purging TAke fresh Cassie one ounce or one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Endiue well clarified and skummed thrée or foure ounces then make a potion of it and giue it him warme or in stead of the iuice if one cannot get the same then take Endiue water Another Take eightéene or twenty Prunes and fiue or sixe fat Figs seeth them all together in sufficient water and take of this decoction thrée or foure ounces temper Cassie therein and oyle of swéet Almonds fiue or sixe ounces tempered with Sugar and the same drunken at once loose the bodie very gently and is also most sure that one may giue to the children newly borne Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Prunes and with Sugar is also very requisite to loose and coole Concerning the meates he must be restrained like as in other hote sicknesses and must chiefly eschew alwaies meates which make wind But oyle of Almonds vsed in his meate be very meete for him All his Clisters must be made soluble and cooling like as be these following Take péeled Barly Mallowes Hollihock roots and Violets of each one handfull Prunes Sebestes of each eight or ten the séedes of Melons of Purslaine of Gourds of each one ounce Branne halfe a handfull Séeth them all together and take of this decoction and put vnto it oile of Roses and of Violets of each one ounce and a halfe Cassie for the clister one ounce Electuarium de Succorosarum fiue dragmes then make a Clister of it like as hath bene sufficiently shewed But here is to be noted that if any parings auoid with the guts then must oyle of Roses be most of al vsed yet oyle of Violets doth asswage the paine of the guts if the same come through any sharpnesse or any heate Or take Mallowes Hollihocks Bearefoote Violet herbes and Béetes of each one handfull Barly and Branne of each halfe a handfull let them seeth all together and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces and temper Cassie in it one ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua three dragmes oile of Violets thrée ounces Salt one dragme or twaine minister it as is accustomed This ensuing is also speciall good if any bodie haue bene bounden certaine dayes together Take twelue or sixtéene ounces of Cow milke temper one ounce of Cassie amongst it and minister it warme There
Nardus séed Gallia Muscata Southernwood Oxe gall Lignum Aloes of each one scruple burnt Harts horne one quarter of an ounce Endiue séed one dragme Waxe as much as sufficeth for a Salue Another Take oyle of Wormewood and of Mirtles of each halfe an ounce beaten Aloe prepared Coriander sealed earth and Nardus séed of each fiue dragmes the iuice of Quinces and Oxe gals of each halfe an ounce séeth them with the oyle vntill all the moysture be consumed afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it This Salue following is very good and common at the Apothecaries Take the oyle of Wormewood thrée dragmes oyle of bitter Almonds one ounce oyle of Mastick one quarter of an ounce Mirrhe Aloe and white Diptamus of each one scruple Waxe as much as néedeth The salue of Oranges whereof we haue spoken before is thus prepared Take a sowre Orange cut it vp at the top and wring out the iuice then annoynt the temples with it the hart and the stomack the same is especiall good for yong children Item take oyle of bitter Almonds of Wormewood Oxe gals and white Diptamus of each one dragme Mithridate and the iuice of Oranges of each one quarter of an ounce temper them together and annoynt the Childe therewith vpon the Hart Stomack and Nauell Put also vnto it one dragme of Aloe it is a good and safe salue especially if there be an Ague present with it Another Take Southernwood one ounce Wormewood and the rindes of the Bay trée of each one dragme Sugar Colewoort séeds of each halfe a dragme Bayberies one quarter of an ounce Aloe halfe an ounce burnt Harts horne one dragme white Diptamus two scruples seeth them all together in Vineger and Oyle then strayne it thorow a cloth and vse it as the other Or take Linséed oyle one ounce Rosen more or lesse according to the age melt it at the fire and annoynt therewith the temples of the head the stomacke and the belly Some do much commend the same although it séeme slight Item take Aloe halfe an ounce white Diptamus and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them with a little sharpe Vineger afterwards spread it on a leather and binde it on the Nauell Take fresh beaten Wormewood wet it with Vineger and lay it warme vpon the stomacke Take the marrow of Stags bones temper it with a little molten Waxe and annoynt therewith the whole back bone and then lay it beaten vpon the Nauell The iuice of Radish spread vpon the Nauell is also good for wormes In like manner the oyle of Wormewood rubbed into the Nauell chiefely of yong children is also good for wormes Item there is also often to be vsed Petrolium for the same Héere do also follow certaine plaisters which be good Take Wormewood two ounces Euphorbium one dragme burnt Harts horne and the gall of a Hare of each halfe an ounce Hony as much as sufficeth for a plaister Item take Nardus séed two scruples Aloe and red Corall of each one dragme Wormewood and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce make powder thereof Item take Rye meale thrée ounces Lupin meale fiue dragmes Saffron one dragme Vineger and the iuice of Rue of each two ounces the iuice of Wormewood foure ounces then make a plaister thereof Another Take Mirrh Gentian Aloe and Diptamus of each two dragmes and a halfe Wormewood seeds of Purslaine and of Orage Lupine meale filed Iuorie and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Saffron one dragme Barly meale one ounce the iuice of Garlick foure ounces temper them all together and put two graines of Muscus vnto it Item take Mints and Wormewood of each two ounces Centorie Agaricus of each halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rose water one ounce Lupine meale as much as all the rest make a plaister of it for to lay vpon the stomacke Another Take Lupine meale the iuice of Wormewood Mints Peach leaues and the iuice of Quinces of each two ounces sealed earth prepared Coriander Mastick Mirtle séed and Aloe of each halfe an ounce Oxe gall one ounce and red Wine Item take Nardus one scruple Aloe one dragme prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe Wormewood Masticke of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall one dragme make a powder thereof and temper it with the iuice of Wormewood and with Vineger wet a cloth in it and lay it vpon the belly Another Take the water of Mints and of Hyssope of each sixe ounces the water of Grasse twelue ounces Malmsey eight ounces Gentian Mirrhe Saffron of each one drag Lignum Aloes Wormeséed of each three quarters of an ounce Muscus fiue graines Vineger fiue spoonefuls vse this as is aforesaid If it be so that the patient be very weake then may this following be vsed Take Sorrell water and the water of Buglosse and of Grasse of each thrée ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum one dragme water of Wormewood and of Hyssope of each two ounces the water of Broome floures three ounces Gentian and Diptamus of each halfe a dragme Saffron halfe a scruple mingle them together One may also vse these bags following Take Mints Penniroyall Wormewood white Mints Southernwood Roses and Plantaine of each halfe a handfull beate them all grosse afterwards put them into a little bag and weare it on the stomacke The patient may also smell oftentimes to black Nardus séed and likewise to tosted bread which hath béene steeped in Vineger Of the wormes Ascarides which do keepe in the Arsegut §. 14. MOreouer we will héere for a conclusion of this Chapter discourse of the small wormes Ascarides which do kéepe themselues in the Arsegut These wormes may be perceiued by the great itch that they cause there And for to remedie this dip a little wooll in the oile of Abricocks or the iuice of white water Mints Also you may mixe Aloe and Oxe gall amongst it and so thrust it into the Arsegut But first the bodie must be purged with Rubarbe afterwards are Suppositories to be made of fresh Porke and put vp into the Arsegut and all the little wormes will stick fast vnto it Some doe take for this poudred Porke Also one may annoynt the stalke of Coleworts with Oxe gall and vse the same as a Suppositorie But aboue all other things is much to be commended Quicksiluer mixed with Barrowes grease and to dip the finger in it and so grease or annoynt the Arsegut within with it But for Children may Suppositories be prepared with Hony and Salt peter putting them vp and plucking them foorth againe immediatly Also there may a small Clister be ministred of Milke with Hiera Picra and Cassi◠Olde folks are to haue Clisters after this manner following Take Southernwood and Wormewood of each one handfull the séeds of Cuscuta parched Comin and the séeds of Smallage of each one ounce Wormeséed one quarter of an ounce Bran halfe a handfull oyle of Peach kernels one ounce and a
afterwards drinke this warme When these kinds of potions haue beene vsed then is he to purge againe after this manner Take Aloe halfe an ounce Agaricus Coloquinte and Bdellium of each one scruple Ginger halfe a scruple Sal Gemmae fiue graines forme eight or nine pils of one dragme thereof and take them betimes in the morning Or take the confection of Bayberies one dragme Electuarium Indum thrée dragmes and a halfe tempered with wine and vsed as before This confection following is also good for this Take the séeds of Endiue of Smallage and of Sorrell of each one dragme Millet one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome Ginger Cloues and Mace of each one dragme and a halfe Oxymel Compositum sixe ounces hony of Roses thrée ounces Sugar two ounces temper them together and take a spoonefull euery morning before meate foure howres and so continuing it the space of two moneths You haue before in the twelfth Chapter and 11. § a good iuice against the yellow Iaundies beginning Take Gentian c. which is also very good for this purpose But if you had rather haue a confection then take Spec. de Seminibus one dragme and a halfe Milium Solis Licorice Cinnamome Ginger Annis and Fennell of each halfe a dragme white Sugar foure ounces being dissolued with Fennell water make Tabulats of it then take thereof thrée dragmes alwayes before meate and that induring the space of a moneth Sauine drieth and warmeth well it is good for the Kidneyes but women must not vse it much The sirupes which be fit for this are these to wit Oxymel compositum Miua cydoniorum aromatica Oxymel scylliticum compositum de Radicibus all these sirupes do deopilate the obstructions of the kidneies The plaister of Bayberries is especially commended for the cold kidneies Item Take Barley meale Frankinsence and Masticke of each one ounce Myrtle séed Roses Cammomill of each a like much for to make a plaister withall lay the same warme vpon the Kidneies This plaister strengtheneth dryeth mollifieth and suppleth and doth hinder that the disease cannot corrode any further and it is very good to incarnate or to ingender new flesh For a salue take oyle of Nardus one ounce and a halfe Saffron and Pepper of each halfe an ounce the salue of Aragon one ounce white Waxe thrée dragmes melt them and make thereof a salue With these salues is the patient to be very well annoynted morning and euening in the warme Sunne all ouer the back bone Another Take oyle of Rue and of Saffron of each two ounces the salue of Aragon thrée ounces temper them together and let the backe bone be annoynted with it euery euening and morning and fume the back with Laudanum and then lay a warme cloth vpon it Also to set boxing cups on the buttocks with picking is much commended for this disease because that the veines which feede the conduits of the vrine do there end themselues in the very buttocks And if so be then euery such patient do recouer his health through the foresaid remedies yet is he notwithstanding to vse the foresaid salue and two or thrée Clisters more And if so be that the sicknes will not auoid with this then take Spelt Millet of each thrée handfuls made very warme in a bag and lay the patient warme vpon his back thereon vntill it begin to be cold and then annoynt him on his Kidneies with this salue following made very warme Take oyle of swéet Almonds of Costus and of Lillies of each one ounce oyle of Euphorbium one ounce and a halfe Beares grease and Badgers grease of each one ounce Hens grease one ounce and a halfe Sagapenum Stechas Costus rootes Mirrhe and Saffron of each one scruple Waxe as much as is néedfull to make a plaister withall If you occupie it then warme as much as you meane to occupie at one time Of the paine of the Kidneies through winde §. 2. THis paine doth not appéere in one place only but spreadeth it selfe abroade and hath no signes of any impostume neither of the stone nor ague for the paine is more after that one hath eaten well than before and it is especially augmented through windie things when the meate is halfe digested Now for to remedie this paine through windie things then must he beware of all kinds of Pottage of Pease of Beanes c. Item from all manner of fruit from Chestnuts from Rice from Rie bread and from Béere for all these do ingender winde in the bodie Against which are all things to be vsed which be light of digesture and expell winde as Annis Fennell Comin Caruway the séeds of white Sesamum Agnus castus and Rue seed likewise the confection of Diacyminum Diacalaminthum is very good for this He is also to be outwardly annoynted vpon the place of the kidneies with oile of Rue of Costus of Lillies with oile of Sesamum and afterwards to weare this plaister vpon it Take Parsley Smallage leaues and rootes white Watermints Marierom of each one handfull Comin Caruway and Dill séed of each one ounce beate them and frie them in the oile of Dill and of Rue then make a plaister thereof and laie it vpon the kidneies it is not onely good for all cold paines of the kidneies with winde but also for the grauell and for the stone and against all obstructions of the same which do proceede of cold Of the obstructed Kidneies §. 3. OVt of these forementioned reasons may easily be discerned that the most causes of the paines of the kidneies be none other than coldnes and obstructions for this cold applications may be vsed as the conserues of Marierom gentle which doth open all obstructions of the inner parts In like manner also conserues of Betonie confected rootes of Pimpernell Eringus roots and Calmus Of wines be fit for this Elecampane wine Hyssop wine aromaticall wine and chiefly all spiced wine as Claret wine and Hippocras Item Betonie wine Asarabacca wine and wine of Marierom gentle In like sort also all the distilled wines or Aquae vitae of these herbes also Meade and Hony water But he is much to be restrained from all puddle wines for that they not only obstruct the kidneies but also all inward parts they ingender grauell and the stone Item there is also a potion described in the twelfth chapter and eleuenth § of certaine rootes decocted which be also verie commodious for this disease The great Treacle or Diatessaron if it be knowen how to giue them in good sort are highly commended for this purpose This powder following is also verie good and méete for to open the obstructions of the kidneies and to expell the cold Take Annis Fennell Millet Smallage seed of each one quarter of an ounce Spica romana halfe a dragme Licorice three dragmes Dragagant Gum of the Cherrie trée of each one quarter of an ounce beate them to powder and take thereof about the second day alwaies one dragme with wine This sirupe following
Poppie seed Tassell iuice of Quinces broad Plantaine and such like The compounded things are the sirupe of water Lillies of Vineger and all that cooleth the liuer and the spléene whereof is written before Afterwards you haue in the third part in the beginning of the eight Chapter sundrie things which are also good and verie méete therefore are you not to leaue them vnread But if you will haue yet more then looke what is written of Diabete If any body then do méete with this disease or feare to get the same then must he take the vtmost gréene pils of Beanes and distill water of them and drinke thereof two ounces tempered with Sugar Other do temper amongst it as much water of Hounds toong and so vse it euerie daie Take oile of Violets of water Lillies and such like cooling things and annoint therewith the kidneies You haue also in the beginning of the foresaid eight Chapter a salue called Anodyna which asswageth all paines Item Take the oile of Violets two ounces oyle of Sesamum and of swéet Almonds of each one ounce and a halfe Butter one ounce Saffron one drag and a halfe Waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill séed Cammomill Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce thrée yolks of Egs temper them all togither and make a salue thereof Another Take Elderne oyle one ounce oyle of Roses and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ceruse one ounce and a quarter Rose water one ounce two yolks of Egs Waxe fiue ounces The oyle and Waxe must be molten togither and let them séeth a little when it is almost cold then mixe the other things amongst it and at the last the two yolks of egs and ten dragmes of fine Bolus and afterwards stirre it well about This salue is maruellous good for all ouer heated Kidneies and especially if one after the annoynting do lay water Lilly leaues vpon it Likewise doth the Saunders salue expell all hot matter and distemperature of the Kidneies like as the same is described in the sixt Chapter and 1. § Item take the Saunders salue and of that which is called Comitissae of each halfe an ounce oyle of Violets one quarter of an ounce temper them all togither and annoynt the Kidneies with it twice or thrice a day The Rose salue which is described in the first part the second chapter and first § and other moe which be noted in the second part the fourth chapter and 3. § are altogither méete for this purpose Item take Roses Purslaine of each one handfull séeth them in Cow milke and stampe them to growt ad vnto it red Saunders powdred two dragmes oyle of Roses as much as you will for to make a salue of it Item take oyle of Oliue and fresh Butter of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Veronica of Milium Solis and Marierom gentle of each thrée dragmes let them séeth togither vntill the iuice be consumed This salue is much commended Or take the foresaid herbs and séeth them in oyle or grease and wring them through a cloth Take Rose water and oyle of Roses of each one ounce Vineger one spoonefull the white of an egge and bray them well togither and lay it blood warme ouer the Kidneies If the paine will not thereby be eased then let him weare a leaden plate full of holes vpon the Kidneies continually it taketh away the heate and venery If one perceiue any grauell in the Kidneies then cut a Radish in thin slices and frie it in Goose grease lay it on the kidneies In fine for all such enflaming of the Raynes there is nothing better then to bathe and chiefely in all such waters as do run ouer iron mines You are also to looke how to strengthen the stomacke in this disease looke for that in the eleuenth Chapter and the 4. § vnto the end thereof where is shewed at large what strengtheneth the stomack with heat or with cold For this also is conuenient all that hereafter shall be written of the grauell and the stone of the Kidneyes Of an hard Impostume in the Kidneies §. 6. THe Grecians do call this disease Scleros The same may also be caused through two manner of meanes First if the matter of the impostume begin to harden through great heate and to alter into a stone Or that at the first it be an impostume of Melancholicke humours which is especially caused of cold that hardneth the matter The signes of the said impostumes are sorenes or heauines about the place of the kidneies with little or no paine at all whereby the members do grow leane The vrine is wholly cleare rawe and verie little and although it be as many famous Phisitions do affirme that this disease is not to be holpen yet are you to vse all things for it which be here before described for the hardnes of the Milt and Liuer And first of all he is to be purged the Saphea or Liuer vaine is to be opened and afterwards the kidneies to be annointed with Hens grease with the marrow of Neats féete or with the salue Althea And afterwards this plaister following is to be applied vpon it Take Linséed and Fenegréeke of each fiue dragms Mallowes Hollyhocke seed Dill séed and Cammomill of each halfe an ounce Gum Bdellium and Turpentine of each thrée dragmes First dissolue the Gum in warme water afterwards temper the rest amongst it and so make a plaister of it If so be then the patient haue any went of stooles then is Cassie or Manna to be vsed for it This disease of the kidneies doth make also oftentimes that one cannot hold his water yea that otherwise it passeth away from the patient vnwittingly in his sléepe whereof we will hereafter speake and discourse a part Of impostumes and vlcers in the Kidneies §. 7. WHat difference is betwéene the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneies it is sufficiently declared in the eleuenth chapter and twentie nine § bicause that the kidneies be subiect to both of these maladies Therefore we will discourse of them seuerally and speake first of the impostumes and therewith also shew all that concerneth both these diseases Notwithstanding that both these diseases of Hippocrates of Galen and of all other learned be thought to be incurable or that at the leastwise the same could not without great industrie and long time be holpen for which they alleage many reasons yet are there neuerthelesse many kind of meanes found whereby the paine may be asswaged And if so be that the same maladies thereby could not be thorowly and perfectly healed yet may one staie them that they do not grow and waxe worse Now then concerning the outward remedies of this disease you haue for it salues plaisters and other meanes before for to laie vpon it wherewith is this remedie also much commended which is that one is to laie tow ouer all his priuities being wetted in the braied yolks of egs and to refresh and renew the same often We must also speake
make a sirupe of it and temper a little of the iuice of Nightshade with it and drinke it so with Barly water This sirupe cooleth and therefore it is very good against the Ague which is alwayes present with this hote impostume it relaxeth clenseth and asswageth the paine Afterwards is the bodie to be purged with Cassie sowre Dates Manna and such like The Dyet ALl such patients as haue a hote impostume in their Kidneyes must as it is sayd kéepe themselues very sober in eating drinking and must eate none other but Barly paps Hen brothes made sowre with Veriuice stoued Spinage Mallowes Orage Lettice Burrage Almond milke and yong Pullets decocted with Gourds c. And this is to continue so long vntill it be openly séene and knowne that the impostume is ripe If so be then the patient betwéene meales be troubled with any great thirst then must be giuen vnto him sugred barly water to drinke But if so be that the Ague be very small and that the impostume be through cold Phlegma then must he rather drinke Meade But if there be great heate with it then must he leaue flesh and wine alwayes at the first But if the same be caused through cold then may watred wine be allowed but no flesh at all chiefely Porke and Beefe also Cheese Pease Beanes vnleauened bread and Rice be forbidden But all field fowles rere egs riuer fish drest with Parsly rootes and salt are permitted for him Of Impostumes in the Kidneyes through cold §. 9. WE haue admonished before that all such impostumes of the Kidneyes may also procéede of cold and whereby the same may be knowne For this impostume are Clisters fit to be adhibited and then to make afterwards this potion following Take water Mints Hyssope Wormewood rumpled Mints Reisons Ireas of each one ounce Caruway Fennell Endiue small Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice halfe an ounce Hony nine ounces prepare it then and vse it as other potions And if so be that after eight dayes there be many humors present then first open his Lyuer veine afterwards the Saphea and purge the Phlegma with Diaturbith and vse Clisters of hearbs which be mentioned in the first potion but put Mallowes vnto it Hollyhock rootes and Cammomill also oyle of Cammomill and of Nardus After the taking of this Clister the patient is to lye very high with his tayle that the Clister may the better runne towards the Raynes Of the Exulceration in the Kidneyes §. 10. THese Exulcerations may as well come in the Kidneyes as in any other places of the bodie where they with their matter and corrosion do take away the naturall operation of the Kidneyes The causes of these vlcers may be blowes falles wounds and such like as also bloud and other humors which descend thitherwards and do there exulcerate and open the Kidneyes and the bladder through their sharpnes Item if that any impostumation of the Kidneyes be not thorowly healed Item through the grauell and the stone that do bruse the Kidneyes within also of the vse of all hote meates and spices and of eating salt and by doing ouergreat labour in the heate of the Sunne All these former causes may ingender some sharp humors which fall afterwards vpon the Kidneyes and there do corrode and exulcerate them The signes of these vlcers are corruption and bloud with tough slime as if they were small vaines péeces as it were flesh which do passe away with the vrine If so be that there be any â—eate with it that is knowne by the thirst and by the féeling The signes of the Stone are to be found in their proper place If so be that the disease of the Kidneyes and the bladder with other mo such like diseases do agrée so néere together that the same may be hardly discerned yet we will neuertheles discouer certaine especiall signes of it For the diseases of the Kidneyes there is no griefe in making water like as there is in the disease of the Bladder wherein the water is made with paine and longsome In the vlcers of the Kidneyes are alwayes found in the vrine small péeces of flesh like small red Corans where to the contrary in the vlcers of the bladder there auoid great and white péeces If so be that any skalines be pist out with bloud and corruption which stinketh then doth such come out of the bladder like as contrarywise that which commeth froÌ„ the Kidneyes doth not stinke In the exulceration of the Bladder is losse of a little bloud but in the vlcers of the Kidneyes much If so be then that the Kidneyes haue any disease then doth the patient feele paine about the Raynes and in the disease of the bladder there doth the patient féele paine aboue the priuities The corruption which commeth out of the Kidneyes is mixt together with the vrine and doth settle in an howres space not to the bottome of the glasse where contrarily all that which commeth from the bladder doth separate it selfe forthwith from the vrin setling to the bottome of the glasse We are also to alledge certaine common rules for this as first if there be any yong cholerick person which feeleth paine in the water conduits that the same must be forbidden Wine Secondly for as much as these vlcers do chiefely procéede through the falling downe of any sharpe humors then it is needfull that their sharpnes and heate be alayed with swéete things Thirdly one must refraine from all hote sharp salt bitter and sowre things and to vse all that is to the contrary of them Fourthly to drinke too much whether it be Wine or Béere is hurtfull that one be not thereby constrained to make much water Fiftly Venerie great labour and exercise be very hurtfull for this disease for that the parced Kidneyes cannot be thorowly healed without rest and quiet Sixtly if so be there be nothing that may hinder the letting of bloud then is the same very profitable as be also all great purgations Seuenthly by reason that vomiting maketh the matter to haue recourse vnto another place therefore is it not to be taken to be vnprofitable for this disease Eightly if there be great paine with this vlceration then must diligence be giuen first to asswage the same paine and afterwards looke well how to cure and cleanse this disease Ninthly for to heale this disease one must first begin with things which prouoke vrine gently whereby the Kidneyes may be a little clensed Tenthly all medicins which are to be taken for the diseased Kidneyes whether it be by vomit or otherwise must be alwayes done fasting and he must also fast long after it Eleuenthly after the mundification of the vlcers astringent and healing things are to be taken tempered alwayes with exsiccatiue medicaments Thus for to heale these vlcers these are the right meanes If so be that the patient be hard bounden then is he to be loosed with gentle Clisters Accordingly if he be full of
the seed of Purslaine of Endiue of small Endiue of Lettice and Cretae Marinae of each one drag Lapis Lyncis Sponge stones and burnt Glasse of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as is needfull for to make a Confection One may take a dragme or two thereof with a little water all according to the importance of the cause The Confection of horse Radishes is thus to be prepared Take well clensed horse Radishes The cōfectiō or electuarie of horse Radishes cut them in round slices and let them stand a steepe in Vineger vntill that they be very soft Or poure strong wine vpon it and renew the same euery day and that the space of fiue or sixe dayes at length seeth them away therewith and rubbe them through a strainer Afterwards take thereof one pound and one pound and a half of clarified honie then let them seeth together by a gentle fire stirring them alwayes about vntill they be decocted as behooueth for a confection Afterwards let it be somewhat cold and put the spices vnto it which hereafter in the eight part in the first chapter of Calmus are described Or take in the stead of the same halfe an ounce of Cinnamom Ginger three quarters of an ounce Cardamome Cucubes Cloues and Nutmegs of each one drag and a halfe temper them together therewithall the fuming of the horse Radishes in the head is abated and taken away This confection is not onely good for the stone and grauell but also for the stomacke it warmeth the inward parts and delayeth the paine in the belly which proceedeth of cold it is a right Treacle for the common people and an especiall medicine for the Scuruie There is also another confection prepared for this called Electuarium de Cineribus The confection of ashes which is a confection of ashes as followeth hereafter Take ashes of burnt Scorpions one quarter of an ounce Cantarides without heads and wings one dragme prepared Buckes blood one quarter of an ounce burnt glasse ashes of vnset Coleworts Hares ashes ashes of Wagtayles and ashes of egshels whereof Chickens haue bene hatched or each two dragmes Iew stones stones of Oxe galles Pepper wild yellow Rape seede Caraway Hollihocke seede Gum Saxifrage and Gromell seedes Seseli Balsam fruites and the wood India Spica Maidenhaire Mallowes Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourd seedes of each one dragme of Roses as much as sufficeth for to make a confection of it take thereof morning and euening the quantitie of a hasell nut at once tempered with the decoction of Cicers Item take Mithridate or new Treacle halfe or a whole dragme with the decoction of Cicers they expell and breake the grauell and the stone and also ease the paine especially if it be vsed after bathing Amongst all other confected things are especiall good for the stone and grauell chiefly if one want warmth the preserued Elecampane rootes Pimpernell rootes Calmus yellow Rapes Parsneps conserue of Gilloflowers and of Pionie the water Cresses eaten for a sallad expelleth the stone the grauell and vrine There be diuers powders made for this which follow hereafter Take prepared Buckes blood halfe an ounce Lapis Lyncis Lapis cacrorum and peach kernels of each one dragme the seed of Parsley and Smallage of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper them all together vse thereof in the morning at noone and in the euening halfe a dragme or more at once with that kind of Beane water which immediatly is described hereunderneath and that so long vntill the stone auoid and that you perceiue no more grauell Item take Saxifrage Annis Pepper the seed of Smallage Gromell séed and Sperage séede of each a like much beate them all together very small and let them passe through a scarse then take thereof halfe a dragme or a whole dragme with honywater or with wine This following hath oftentimes bene approoued Take parched Peach kernels halfe an ounce Medlar stones one ounce powne them very small and then giue him a dragme thereof with the water of Saxifrage wherein Cinqfoile hath bene decocted There is also one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Oximel to be put thereto and to temper the same with any water that also expelleth the stone but one must beware therein for vsing any hote things This drinke is also very requisite for this Take wild Thistle rootes which be the rootes of Tassel and rootes of Smallage of each one handfull Annis halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quart and a halfe of water vnto the halfe Item take Sponge stones Iewes stones burnt glasse prepared Buckes blood and Sugar of each a like quantitie giue one dragme thereof with Oxymel or with the water of Smallage when he hath the paine Both these foresaid are by reason of the great help and cure that they do called the hand of God Item take the rootes of Burres one dragme and a halfe burnt glasse one dragme rubbe the same with vineger with the water of Smallage or with any other such like distilled waters this is maruellously praised of all auncient Phisitions Another Take Gromell seed one dragme Licorice one quarter of an ounce péeled Melon séed halfe an ounce gum of the Cherrie tree one ounce powne them all to powder and giue thereof at each time halfe an ounce with a little distilled water Or take Gromell seed Annis Fennell Parsley seeds and péeled Melon seed of each one dragme Lignum Aloes winter Cherries red Saxifrage Sponge stones and Iewes stones of each one scruple the seed of Broome and of Saxifrage of each halfe a dragme Cinnamom prepared Coriander and red Saunders of each thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues Galingal Ginger of each thrée dragmes white Sugar two ounces make a powder of it and take one dragme at once thereof with Mallowes water and pease broth Another Take Gromel seed and the seed of Saxifrage of each one dragme the séeds of Lettice of Henbane of Pompeons of white Poppies of Melons of Cucumbers of Gourds all together péeled of each two scruples powned Licorice foure scruples Trocisci Alkakengi which is of winter Cherries one dragme and a halfe the seed of Pimpernell of Broome of each two scruples Sugar two ounces make a powder of them In like manner there be good for this disease powned Medlar stones and powdred Earth-wormes of each one dragme and a halfe well weyed and take Fenelike with Saxifrage water Item séeth a Crabbe like as they be vsed to be sod and wash the same with Wine and let it drie then beate it cleane to powder with his shels and take one quarter of an ounce thereof with wine Or take the powder of Maidenhaire one quarter of an ounce and drinke it with the water of Strawberries or the water of Mallowes or the water of Parsley it is also especiall good Take halfe an ounce of the shales of hasell nuts beaten small Sugar also as much temper them together and vse thereof
euery time a dragme or more fasting in the morning with the water of Lillies and women may drinke it with wine or any thing else in stead of Lilly water The stone which is cut out of one beaten small and halfe a dragme thereof taken euery day with the water of Saxifrage or Radish water doth also breake the stone of the bladder Item take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each ten graines Fennell seed Ameos Mirrha Annys the seed of Mallowes péeled Melon seed Pompeon séede chopt small together of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme beaten small together there is the waight of a dragme thereof to be taken with any of the foresaid waters There may also be prepared for this these pilles ensuing Take burnt glasse ashes of a Hare Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each a like much make pils thereof with the water of Saxifrage also thrée round slices of Radishes eaten euery morning be very good In like sort also the small bird the Wagtaile rosted powdered or taken as one will is maruellous good for this like as here before is specified already It is also taken for a certaine experiment if one do accustome to eate Nettles that thereby he should be freed of the stone and grauell Now we will write of certaine potions which be méete for the stone and the grauell Potions for the stone Take Turpentine which is washed with Mallowes water thrée quarters of an ounce Species Iustini two scruples Benedicta Laxatiua halfe a dragme let the Turpentine and decoction melt afterwards temper the rest with it and so drinke it as warme as you can Another Take Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Iuniper berries one ounce the barke of the Cassie thrée dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome Galmgall and Masticke of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace Cloues of each halfe a dragme spirit of Wine one pint and Malmsey three pints set them all together the space of three moneths in the sunne there to distiâ—l and of this distillation giue two ounces early in the morning or being in the bath it is a maruellous and approoued remedy Another Take Rubarbe Gâ—nger berries Cassie wood and Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one dragme Licorice fiue dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome and Cloues of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Mastick one dragme put all these together beaten in a glasse and poure thereon thrée pound of the spirit of Wine or Aqua vitae then stop it tight and set it the space of fiue dayes in the sunne stirre it all together very well then poure as much Malmsey vnto it and let it stand againe eight or foureteene dayes in the sunne stirring it euery day well about afterwards straine it and kéepe it well when as the grauell beginneth to pricke then take a spoonefull thereof euery day and you shall find amendment out of hand This same may be distilled like as the former Another Take a pint of Aqua vitae more or lesse as you will Malmsey foure ounces Sugar-candy eight ounces the water of Strawberries foure ounces Parsley water two ounces mixe them together and take a spoonefull thereof or as much as you please It is also here to be marked that you need not be afraid of Aqua vitae burnt Wine or any other strong wine for all learned do require to drinke strong wine as Vinum punicum Malmesey Muscadell and such like against the grauel or the stone yea when the paine is at the extremest yet with moderation Some that loue distillations do very much commend this potion following against the grauell Take oyle of Mace and cléere Turpentine of each ten or twelue drops Annis water and Fennell water of each one quarter of an ounce the sirupe of Licorice one ounce oile of Vitrioll thrée or foure drops then temper them well together afterwards proue it and if so be that it be not so sower that it set the téeth on edge then it is méetly and if it be not sower enough then put two drops of the oile of Vitrioll more into it It is somewhat perillous to deale with the oile of Vitriol therfore good héed is to be had and taken like as is declared in his description Take Nettle seed two ounces and a halfe poure wine vpon it and drinke thereof This wine is accounted maruellous good for the grauell and for the stone Here before is oftentimes admonshed of Beane water which is thus made The water of Beanes when they begin to be ripe or when they be in their full iuice then is onely the outtermost gréene pods or péeles to be taken where the Beanes do lie and the leaues and all their moisture is to be distilled out of them in séething water This being done then take one ounce and a halfe thereof prepared Bucks blood one dragme or foure scruples and giue the patient therof in the morning when he riseth and at night when he goeth to bed And this is he to obserue and continue so long vntill that the stone or grauell be cleane expelled and no more grauell can be perceiued this is of all auncient and latter Phisitions taken to be a famous and certaine experiment Item take womans milke about two ounces stéepe therein cut sprigs of Cipers and let them stand and stéepe the space of thrée or foure houres in a warme place and then drinke it Item take Knotgrasse halfe an ounce red Pease and peeled Melon séede of each one ounce let them séeth in twelue ounces of water euen vnto the halfe and giue thereof one ounce at once tempered with a little Sugar the meade or honywater is an especiall medicine against the grauell and the stone In like manner also wine or water wherein Harts toong and Mallowes be decocted and also of both these distilled waters Item take a good handfull of Watercresses séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe and drinke thereof morning and euening each time thrée or foure ounces and do this the space of eight or ten dayes together Some do also much commend Limons water Take the rootes of Cheruill and Saxifrage of each a like quantitie séeth them in wine and drinke oftentimes thereof it breaketh the stone and causeth well to make water Or take Maidenhaire one handfull winter Cherries and Gromell séed of each two dragmes boile them in a pint of white wine vntil two thirds remaine take three or foure ounces at once and especially after a bath the water of Larkes spurre Likewise also the water of Carduus Benedictus if one do drinke thrée or foure ounces of it is very good for the stone Item so are all these waters insuing good therefore viz. the water of Saxifrage of Pellitorie of Cinqfoile of Watercresses of Fennell of Radishes of Maidenhaire of Strawberries and of Cammomill Item take a fresh Radish
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâ—agora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegâ—t crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
from the application of those remedies as may séeme méete for him wherefore it is specially aduised first to delay the paine or at the least to diminish it for the which these remedies following are especially commended All gentle Clisters easie purgations and aboue all others baths of warm◠water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Nettle rootes Gromell séeds or any such like mollifying things and Saxifrages are decocted wherein these patients are oftentimes to bathe themselues euen to the nauell Item take Colewort leaues Southernwood Rosemary pigeon dung wild Saffron séedes beaten grosly séeth them all together in water for a bath Or take Mallowes Hollihock leaues Pellitorie of the wall Southernwood Creta Marina Fenegréeke séed Hollihock séed of each two handfuls séeth them all together vnto a bath Afterwards annoint the kidneyes with the oile of Scorpions or with any of the foresaid salues With this bath may this powder following also be vsed with the decoction of pepper Take the séeds of Purslaine and of small Endiue of each halfe a dragme Dill séed two scruples Marierom halfe a scruple giue this to the patient when the paine is present Note also that these two meates be very good both for the retention of the vrine and also for the strangurie And if so be this be holpen then will the paine which is in the end of the Yard seene cease In the description of the kidneyes there may you sée many plaisters salues and oiles as that of Anodynum and others moe which are very méete for this purpose Of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue expulsiue §. 3. IF any one be hindered in the making of his water or that the same be altogither stopped without any swelling vlcer or paine of the Kidneyes it is then to be censured that the same should come through the debility of the vertue expulsiue against the which such things shall be vsed as are diureticall or that do prouoke vrine as these pils following Take the seeds of Smallage Saltpeter Madder great Smallage Iuniper berries Asarabacca Ameos Fennell Spica and bitter Almonds of each one ounce and a quarter Melons fiue dragmes Cantharides the heads and wings cut away halfe a dragme Ammoniacum one dragme and a halfe dissolue your gum in wine and mixe all the rest being beaten small amongst it then make pils of them of the bignes of peason giue thrée of them at one time These pills haue an especiall efficacie for to drie the bodie so that they are accounted very good for the Dropsie The Electuarium Ducis is also very good for this purpose if thou giue one quarter of an ounce of it with pease broth or wine which thou wilt There was not long since one cured with this remedie following who for the space of fiue dayes could neuer make his water first he tooke this clister Take Pellitorie of the the wal two handfuls Mallowes and Cammomill of each one handfull boyle them together then take of this decoction the accustomed quantitie and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie oyle of Cammomill thrée ounces Turpentine one ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce minister it warme Secondly this following was also ordained for him take Cassie and Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua two dragmes prepared Iewes stones one dragme make an Electuarie thereof with Oxymel At night he tooke two ounces of Oxymel with the water of Maidenhaire and presently after this he made water Item take foure or fiue ounces of the iuice of Pellitorie of the wall and clarifie it with the white of an egge then séeth it with sugar to a sirupe and vse three ounces thereof euery morning with the water of Mallowes or with any such like distilled liquor This done giue vnto the patient a purgation of Cassie Thirdly take Coriander séedes halfe an ounce Mallowes one handful one head of Garlicke powne them altogether and séeth them with good white wine vntill that one third part be consumed and giue him thereof thrée ounces to drinke Peach kernels and the kernels of Cherrie stones do also prouoke vrine Item preserued Pimpernell rootes Calmus and the rootes of Eringus are also very good for this purpose confected Louage séede Annis séedes Fennell séedes Caruway séedes Comin séedes and Saxifrage séedes these do expell all vrine grauell and stone Treacle and Mithridate do also cause one to make water Item the confection of Cherries with their kernels beaten in péeces and rubbe it through a strainer is also méet for this vse also halfe a dragme of dried Grashoppers is very fit and a great secret in this disease Item the stone which is cut out of a liuing bodie and vsed as before hath bene shewed in the expulsion of grauell is also very conuenient and commodious for this intent Take Tormentill Pionie Bistorta Acornes and wild Flaxe of each a like much powne them all together and take thereof in the euening and morning one dragme with wine The Spanish flies do expell vrine most violently but beware of them because they be very sharpe and exulcerate the vreters but the Grashoppers are somewhat milder Item take the rootes of Pimpernel beaten small as much as one can containe betwéene his two fingers and drinke it with wine The powned shels of Hasell nuts do the like also and the iawes of Pickerels if thou take of each of them a like quantitie But if the vrine be stopped by reason of the stone in the bladder then giue vnto the patient two small drops of the oile of Sulphur with wine or Agrimonie water or beate a Radish very small presse out the iuice of it and take halfe an ounce thereof with wine it prouoketh vrine immediatly and breaketh the stone also Item drinke in the morning thrée or foure ounces of Radish water very warme and fast two houres after it In like manner also two in the euening two houres before supper and walke after it Another Take Mallowes and Garlicke of each a little séeth them in wine vntill the third part be wasted away drinke thrée or foure ounces of this decoction at once Or take Balsamina altera and the lesser burre leaues boile them together in wine and drinke it as before Take a great Onion cut it small and Mallowes one handful boile them in wine and drink oftentimes of the decoction being warmed If a child could not make his water then take ten or twelue bitter Almonds and ten or twelue Peach kernels and two ounces of Currans stampe them all together straine them through a cloth with water like to Almond milke and giue it the child to drinke like Almond milke Amongst the herbed wines are especially commended for the prouoking of vrine the wine of Elecampane of Harts toong of swéete Marierom of Cherries of Assarabacca and of winter Cherries which are also mentioned before in the treatise of the grauell But if any one might not drinke wine at all or that he had it not
rootes of Smallage of Parsley of Sperage or of Ruscus be decocted Of the retention of vrine through some obstruction of the conduits §. 5. IF so be that it happen that this retention or painful making of water do vexe or paine a bodie and yet neuerthelesse the bladder is ful of vrine that the patient had pist any blood or matter before then are those remedies to be giuen him which do open and which do attenuate the clotted blood and corruption in the bladder and make it fluxible therfore one must first begin to wring the priuities hard that thereby the lowermost passages may be opened and the vrine may run out Now if so be that this obstruction do come of clotted blood of matter or of slime then are Sperage water Saxifrage water and Radish water especially good for it In like maner is also very good the broth of red Pease of Fennell rootes of Parsley rootes and of Smallage of each apart or boiled together Also Limon water is very much commended for this vse Item Treacle good Mithridate and most of all that which is declared in the retention of the vrine Also Salt water or this following may be spouted into the Bladder which may draw out the vrine through their sharpnes take burnt ashes of Ferne Vine ashes and lime of each a like quantitie poure as much water vpon it vntil it be couered let it stand so the space of thrée daies afterwards poure it through a tight cloth and spout a little thereof into the bladder This can also be done with the oile of Scorpions Item take the séeds of Carrots the séed of stone Parsley and of Parsley of each one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli thrée dragmes make a powder thereof and giue one dragme thereof at each time Or take the séed of Smallage of Parsley of Pionie of Broomes and of Saxifrage of each one quarter of an ounce Fennell seed Caruway and Annis seeds of each half a dragme Gromell seedes Spica Cinnamome péeled Melon séedes Pompeon séedes Gourd séedes and péeled Cucumber séed of each one dragme Licorice thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce and a half make a powder thereof and giue of it euery day one dragme with some diureticall decoction If so be that the sicke person haue no stooles then is the matter first to be prepared with Oxymella diuretico or with Oxymel of Squils and afterwards to purge with Medicamine Turbith and with Agarico or with Benedicta Laxatiua whereunto are added Hermodactyli also these ensuing clisters may be vsed Take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Cammomil of each one handfull séeth them all together in water and take twelue or sixteene ounces of this decoction Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce Cassie and Hiera piera of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Rue thrée ounces make a clister thereof For an outward application take two handfuls of Rue leaues powne them a little and frie them with butter or with oile of sweet Almonds or oile of scorpions and lay it on the priuities Another Take Dock roots as many as you please seeth them in wine frie them and vse them as before Or take wheaten bran let it séeth to pap with oyle of Nuts and vse it warme Item take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Diptamus of each one handful Fennel and Annis séeds of each half an ounce séeth them together in white wine and wring it out hard put it betwéene two clothes and lay it on the priuities You may also put the same decoction into the bladder and so apply it warme vnto it Of the first mentioned may also a bath be made whereunto diureticall medicines shal be added as Cammomill Stechas Marierom Mints the buds of Colewort stalkes Pigeon dung and let the sick person bathe therein as long as he can suffer it Another Take Colewort leaues Hollihock leaues water Cresses and garden Cresses Pellitory of the wall Clauicularis Cammomil Smallage and Parsley rootes of each three handfuls seeth them all together vnto a bath and then lay the decocted herbes vpon the priuities For a salue you are to vse Dogs grease and wild Cats grease of each one ounce Ammoniacum halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Scorpions one ounce make a salue of it with Waxe and vse it like as the other salues Or take the salue which is described in the 3. § beginning thus Take oyle of Scorpions c. Item temper Balme and oyle of Roses of each a like much with Waxe Further of all these oyles following may also salues be prepared as of the oyle of Scorpions of bitter Almonds of Lillies of the kernels of Cherries and of Pepper or one may also vse them as they be For this disease are all things meete that be ordained for the stone of the Bladder and of the Kidneyes Of the hote and scalding vrine §. 6. THere happeneth also otherwhiles such a burning with the vrine that the patient thinketh none other than that fire passeth through his yard The cause of this is that there be mixt with the vrine some hote cholerick or salt humors which make this scalding in the passage This cometh commonly of great labour of much and long walking or trauelling through heate of the Sunne through much venery through long vse of many hot meates or for that the conduits of the yard haue such exulteration within This infirmitie is indéed not to be regarded slightly for if it continue long then doth it excoriate the yard within The signes thereof be sundry to wit when the patient auoideth in his water sometimes matter small skales like bran and otherwhiles also blood These kinds of sicke persons are to beware of all sharpe salt sower and such like meates because that thereby the paine will be augmented But he shall contrariwise vse all cooling and moistening things as well boyled Barley Spinage Lettice Purslaine Mallowes Apples Melons Pompeons Gourds Prunes Peaches and Cherries c. Item Lambe Hens and Partridges drest with the foresaid herbes are the best meate for him Buttermilke and that sodden is also very good for him He is to take for his drinke Barly water Buttermilke watered wine and fresh water tempered with sirupe of Violets or sirupe of Roses Almond milke or Shéepes milke which is most méete for him if there be one dragme or two of fiue Bolus tempered amongst it Item giue him sirupe of Violets with water of Melons or if you haue it not then beate the séedes and make thereof a decoction afterwards drinke it with the other meates in the morning and euening vse this powder following Take péeled Melon séedes fiue dragmes péeled Cucumber séedes Citron séeds and péeled Pompeon séeds of each one drag and a halfe Henbane séed one dragme Sugar the waight of all the rest then temper them all together take thereof euery morning and euening the waight of thrée dragmes with Iulep of Roses Another Take péeled Melon séeds séeds of Pompeons of
Gourds and of Cucumbers chopt smal of each one ounce the séeds of Purslaine of Henbane and white Poppie séeds Licorice and Currans of each one dragme sugar thrée ounces temper them together Item take Lettice séeds and the seedes of Purslaine of each halfe an ounce powned Sugar two ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in all meates and drinkes it is maruellous good yea for all old folkes also These Trociskes following do coole and cleanse the kidneyes and the bladder of all such matter which doth inflame or ouerheate the conduits of vrine Take péeled Melon séeds Pompeon séedes Gourd séedes and péeled Cucumber séedes of each halfe an ounce Dragagant red Saunders of each one dragme and a halfe Purslaine séeds white Poppie séeds of each thrée drag white Henbane séeds one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the muscilage of Fleawort afterwards take one dragme of them and breake if in Barly water giue it early in the morning and at night going to bed You may also make an electuary of it Cassie taken with Turpentine is also espcially good for this purpose The oile of swéet Almonds asswageth and cooleth also the heate of the conduits of vrine If in case then the patient because of the sharpnesse of the matter ought to be purged more then is the same to be done with sower Dates Manna and Rubarb stéeped in Endiue water or with the decoction of Violets if there be salt phlegme with it then giue him Cassie tempered with the whay of Goates milke wherein Polipodie roots Annis Violets and Burrage flowers haue bene decocted When he hath thus bene purged then is the Liuer veine to be opened and the foresaid powder to be diligently vsed If so be that a child hath this disease then take Mallow séedes Dragagant Licorice of each a like quantitie seeth them in water according to the importance of the cause and let him drink none other drinke If his vrine be very sharpe and hot then take so much the more of the séedes And in ease that a child through the sharpnes of the vrine had gotten some exulceratioÌ„ then vse this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe halfe an â„¥ Barly meale or Beane meale one â„¥ temper it to a soft vnguent with the oyle of Roses spread it on a cloth and then lay it where it is néedfull The brayed white of an egge may also be spouted into the priuities or take the muscilage of Fleawort and of Quince kernels of each one dragme temper them with womans milke Or take the séed of Fleawort thrée quarters of an ounce the séede of Quinces fiue dragmes péeled Melon séeds Pompeon séeds Gourd séeds and péeled Cucumber séedes of each one quarter of an ounce white Poppie séedes one dragme and a halfe séeth them all together in a pint of water vntill the third part be wasted then straine it through a cloth that it may be like a muscilage and spout thereof into the yard it cooleth and asswageth the paine You shall vse outwardly red and white Saunders the séedes of Ruscus burnt Iuorie and Myrtle séedes of each one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Plantaine and Rose water of each one ounce Barley meale as much as sufficeth then powne them all together and make a soft pap of it you may also put vnto it two whites of egges But if one desire to haue it stronger then is the iuice of Sloes and Hypocistis of each one dragme to be tempered amongst it and so to be layed vpon it If so be that the yard haue an exulceration within then is a cloth to be made wet in Rose water and layed vpon it If any one be forced against his will to make his water §. 7. ALthough this disease which the learned do call Diamnem be somewhat like vnto Diabetes and especially in this that in both sorts of these diseases the vrine passeth away against ones will and pleasure yet is there neuerthelesse a great difference betweene them for that with the disease Diabetes is a great heate of the kidneyes her attractiue vertue is against nature whence followeth a great thirst and great quantitie of vrine all which is not with the disease Diamnes For Diamnes is none other but a continuall fluxe of the vrine against a bodies will without any paine or heate and also without any feeling of it The occasions of this maladie may be when the muscles of the necke of the bladder be perished like as otherwhiles hapneth in cutting of the stone This can also chaunce through falles through blowes or through great cold as to fit vpon a cold stone through cold sicknesses as the Palsie or Litharge item through immoderate and excessiue drinking and through great binding in the bodie They may likewise happen vnto women with child when the child oppresseth the bladder too hard Lastly also through some impostumes about those parts The signes of this disease are apparant to wit that all warme things are acceptable to the patient and cold things contrary are hurtfull When these diseases as often befalleth are caused through cold then is this electuary very good which hath efficacie for to stay this fluxe of vrine Take Cypers nuts the rinds of Cypers Frankinsence and the rinds of the same Mirtle séed Comin Mirobalans both fried and drie pigeon dung of each thrée dragmes Amber red Coral and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce sirupe of Quinces as much as is néedful for to make an electuary therewith whereof is to be taken euery morning noone and euening the hignesse of a Chestnut with a decoction of Cipers nuts Sage Mirtle seede and such like This electuary is also good for the laxes called Diarrhaea and Lienteria Another Take Mirobalani Chebuli Emblici and Bellirici of each thrée dragmes Acornes thrée dragmes and a halfe which haue laid foure and twentie houres stéeped in vineger Cypers rootes Mirtle séeds Frankinsence dried Glecampane rootes red Storax red Corall and yellow séeds of Roses of each two dragmes and a halfe Myrrhe one dragme and a halfe stampe them small and make an electuary thereof with clarified honie For this is also good Treacle Mithridate and burnt Oxe bladders each taken alone with wine Item take the dried kidneyes of a Hare stampe them to powder and Dill séede 〈◊〉 each halfe an ounce the séede of Smallage one quarter of an ounce make a powder thereof and giue it be twéene two and thrée dragmes at once with a little cold water boyled Hedge hogs flesh is also very commodious for this purpose If so be that the patient haue any néed of stooles then is this clister following very commodious for it for when he keepeth it very long then doth it strengthen the necke of the bladder and draweth it together that it doth afterwards kéepe the vrine the better Take Sage Rue Glâ—â—cularis field Cypers Cammomill Stechas Nuts flowers and rinds of Cypers of each half a M. then let them seeth together and vse this Clister like as
in sufficient water then make thereof a bath for the raines of the backe or a fomenting for the bottome of the belly The boxing cups whereof wee haue also spoken before draw the blood downewards Like as doth also the strong binding of the legges The third meane is as hereafter followeth thrée houres after the rising of the Sunne shall the Saphea of them be opened on the right foote which haue not the flowers and about fiue ounces of blood drawne The next day after is this purgation following to be giuen Take Agaricus Turbith and Rubarbe of each one dragme Indy Spica Ginger and Mace of each sixe graines Salgemmae one graine Agrimonie Mugwort of each one ounce and a halfe let them be stéeped foure houres afterwards wring it through a cloth and temper amongst it thrée dragmes of Benedicta Laxatiua and then drinke it betimes in the morning The third day afterwards you are to begin to vse this potion Take Fennell rootes Parsley rootes Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and of Smallage of each halfe an ounce these being all cut smal together then séeth them in a quart of well water vnto the halfe afterwards swéeten the decoction with Sugar and then drinke thereof fiue ounces and so continue this the space of eight or ten dayes In the meane time is the body to be kept open with gentle clisters or else they are euery euening after supper to swallow a pill of Alephanginae or of Aloes Afterwards it is very good that thrée times in foure and twentie howers all the backe bone be annointed with this salue ensuing Take the oile of wallflowers two ounces oile of Saffron one ounce the grease of Badgers and of Hens of each halfe an ounce Saffron Indie Spica Lignum Aloes and Mugwort of each halfe a scruple Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue After the foresaid potions are these pils following to be vsed Take Pillulae foetidae two scruples de Hiera composita one scruple make seuen pils of it with the confection Benedicta And if so be that through all this aduice the termes do not appeare then are the tops of the thighes hard by the priuities to be bounden hard but if that will not helpe set immediatly hot cups behind on the calues of the legs setting them vp and off Lastly then make this bath following Take Penniroyall white water mints Marierom and Smallage of each thrée handfuls Sauine sixe handfuls Opopanacum Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce Hartwort Rue of each thrée handfuls séeth them all together in sufficient water vntill about the halfe but leaue the herbes in it and then make a bath of it for the raines euen to the nauell and sit therein the space of halfe an houre or as long as you can When you haue rested somewhat then put some cotten being dipped in the iuice of Mercury vp into the place and without doubt it will prouoke the termes Euery such woman is also to beware of all slimie meates which is from all hard meate like as all that is made of Dough of Pease of Beanes of Chéese of Milke and all that is drest with them from all salt cold and binding things and from thicke raw red Wine but Cinnamom Saffron Ginger and Smallage séedes and rootes Annis Fennell Parsly séed or any of all these is she to vse alwayes with her meate But if so be that this retention of the termes be caused therof for that a woman had but little blood did great labour were weake leane not long recouered from a long lingring sicknesse or had liued a long time in hatred malice great sorrow and such like then is such to haue those meates which nourish much and she shall omit all hatred sorrow and such like She is to bathe oftentimes in water to sléepe much to take rest and to be merrie She must also refraine from letting of blood except it be a very little But she is to vse Pistacies Pingles Almonds and other nutritiue things as is before said And although it appeared that her termes must be alwayes quickened through Phisicke yet it must be begun with the mildest meanes like as hath bene counselled before How that the excessiue course of the Flowers is to be stopt §. 3. WHen this course of womens termes getteth the mastery then be there very heauie sicknesses to be feared to wit the dropsie the consumption Hectica the paine of the backe the paine of the stomacke feeblenesse of naturall digestion lacke of appetite and such like diseases moe This issue is commonly caused of outward or inward occasions the outward may be fals blowes thrusts great running leaping dauncing walking in great heate and such like all which maketh the blood subtile and fluxible Item if there breake a veine open in the matrix or wombe through vnnaturall and vntimely birth through any vlcers or through any other brusings in the neck of the wombe through long vse of many hot spices or of any subtile meate and drinke The inward causes may be the strength of the expulsiue or the debilitie of the retentiue vertue This may also be caused of some disease of the Matrix and through the moisture of the same But concerning the part it selfe the same may be too féeble too slippery too wide and too much open yet in case the moisture of this part be caused of it then is the fluxe of blood so great that the Matrix and the parts adiacent cannot containe the humors or these humors be so sharpe so subtile so hote so venemous so salt so biting so cold or so waterish that the same cannot be retained The outward causes may be enquired of the patient her selfe But if this disease be caused of the debilitie of the retentiue vertue then is the woman bleake or pale of colour and weake The signes of the same part be when as it waxeth leane and consumeth each humor may be adiudged out of the propertie of the body like as we haue taught the same elsewhere as heate of the fulnesse of the veines thirst itch ilfauoured or lothsome colour of the face and of the whole bodie If then such procéede out of blood then doth the colour of her termes alter and will be whitish or if the same procéede of Cholera then are the flowers somewhat yellowish and if of Melancholia then darkish blew or black By the foresaid colours one may easily come vnto the full knowledge what humors might be the only cause of this excessiue moisture whereby may be knowne how to choose of these remedies following wherwith the excessiue course of the termes may be stayed But first of all there be for this purpose certaine rules to be noted First you must neuer bathe for this excessiue course of the termes neither yet vse any kind of things which bringeth heate with it Secondly when this kind of issue commeth by reason of the fulnesse of the bodie as it were an vnburthening and cleansing of the same
it were some few dayes before her child-birth for then is it very commodious as hereafter shall be shewed more at large All maner of cold all kind of stenches all sharpe and bitter meates as Capers vnripe Oliues Radishes French beanes Lupins red pease Rue white water Mints Penniroyall and whatsoeuer else might prouoke her termes is hurtful to her Contrariwise she may vse all maner of wholesome accustomed meates and drinke good red wine or méetly strong Béere for the red wine is méeter for her than the white Item ripe fruits that are somewhat astringent and that do strengthen the stomacke are very méete for her as Quinces Peares c. if she desire any other commodious meate she shall not so strictly be kept from it but that she may vse a little of it at once But if so be that she do long for some vnnaturall and vnaccustomed meate then is she to be dealt withall as hereafter in this next § that be shewed For to strengthen her serueth the warme confection of Diamargariton for it comforteth the stomacke and the Matrix For the same purpose serueth also this wine following a litle draught otherwhiles taken of it Take Ginger Cloues of each one drag rootes of Louage Spikenard white pepper of each halfe a dragme Comin Galingall Annis séedes of each halfe an ounce red Wine thrée pints Sugar as much as you please make Hipocras If the woman be hot by nature then do lay that wine with the decoction of Currans what she ought to obserue beside this may you find euery where in the discourse of conceiued women Of the strange longing of women with child §. 6. ALbeit that this disease of this vnnaturall appetite which otherwhiles hapneth to women with child of some foule or vnusuall meates as Chalke Coales Lime earth Tarre raw flesh fish and such like which is sometimes rather an imagination and an idle or vaine conceit of some vntoward women neuerthelesse the Philosophers do alleage a certaine naturall cause thereof and affirme therewith that this vnnaturall lust doth also come sometimes vpon them which be not with child yea also that men be otherwhiles plagued with it although very seldome wherefore this longing by good reason may also be reckoned amongst the vnnaturall hungers and may be called a corrupting as we before in the eleuenth Chapter haue moued somewhat thereof and haue alwayes hitherto determimed to write somewhat thereof This vnnaturall longing do the Gréeks call Cittam the Latinists Picam and Malaciam that is a desire of bad meate and is thus described Citta is a bad action of the stomack wherein the partie is gréedie to eate vnnaturall and foule things The causes of this vnnaturall desire are very bad humors and especially Melancholia which lieth in the stomacke where the same is excitating this vnnaturall longing In women with child the matter of the termes doth cause it which cometh into the stomacke and because the same is of sundrie natures therefore do they also get diuers lusts But in those that be not with child it doth come through retention of the termes when those humors happen to ascend into the necke of the stomack or by the obstruction of the liuer or the milt whereby the said melancholicke humor doth stirre vp this vnnatural longing The same bad melancholike humors may also be burnt in the stomacke as may appeare in the quartaine ague And for to remedie this disease especially in women with child must first héed be taken to their meate and drinke Rosted Lambe Hens Pullets Partridges and all kind of field fowles are very méete for her yea also otherwhiles buckes braines and shéepes braines whether they be rosted or sod Her drinke shall be good white wine After meate shall she eate rosted Peares Hasell nuts Marmalade confected Pomegranats and Chestnuts Giue her also oftentimes Marmalade with spices which you shal find described in the last part Of the confection Diantha is euery morning about halfe a quarter of an ounce to be vsed Item giue her oftentimes the Syrupum de Montha In like maner is good for her the Mina of Quinces temper them both as much as you please and take thrée spoonefuls thereof before meate It is also much aduised for this woman that she must otherwhiles incline her self to parbrake and vomit as with cleere warme water and sirupe of Vineger wherof we wil hereafter speake more at large because that women conceiued are much addicted vnto it But in case that they incline themselues to vomit then is their stomacke to be annointed with this salue following Take Masticke and oyle of Spike of each a like quantitie Vineger a little lay this plaister following vpon it the flowers of Buglosse of Baulme of Saunders Citron pils of each a like quantitie with oile of Masticke and waxe wrought together or a bag made of the foresaid except the oile of Masticke and waxe and so layd vpon the necke of the stomacke But if it happen that they at any time desired that which might nourish them and that they were detained from it or that the same could not be gotten whereby it came to passe that they were disquieted or vexed then take presently a spoonefull of Hony scrape a little Nutmeg in it and so giue it her If so be that any man or woman being not with child were taken with such vnnatural lust they are to take these things following fasting as Oxymel compositum two ounces with water of Cipers rootes or the decoction of Cardamome or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel of squils with the foresayd water afterwards to prouoke vomit are they to vse this Hony water following wherein Mustard séede the seede of Orage of Dill Onions and Radishes is decocted For to purge take Pillulas Stomachicas or de quinque generibus Mirobalanorum which you will one dragme whereupon these confections following are to be vsed viz. Diapliris Diamoschu and Diambra The stomacke is to be strengthened with these things following Take Acorne cups one quarter of an ounce Raisins with their stones seuen dragmes Annis thrée dragmes Mirobalani Indici Bellirici Emblici of each fiue dragms prepared refuse of iron one ounce and a quarter foure quarts of wine which is somewhat strong and as much water séeth them all together vnto the half and then straine it through a cloth and let the patient drinke it out now and then in the space of eight dayes Item take Cardamome Graines Cucubes of each a like quantitie white Sugar as much as all the rest giue thereof euery morning one dragme and a halfe with luke-warme water afterwards vse the foresayd confections and annoint the stomacke and kéepe your selfe with eating and drinking like as is said before Of the vomiting in women with child §. 7. WIth this vomiting are commonly women with child oppressed vntill that they do begin to feele the milke and about the time they were wont to get their flowers or whē the childs haire beginneth
to grow then haue they it most grieuous Also it is the more troublesome for that as then all strange lustes do come vnto them Neuerthelesse it oftentimes hapneth not long after they haue conceiued that they as then are most inclined vnto it It is also otherwhiles commodious for them as we haue shewed before But if so be that it do get the mastery and that thereby the foode be drawne away from the fruite then must one do his best for to strengthen the stomacke and to remedie the vomiting for which there be many remedies in the eleuenth chapter and eleuenth § described against the debilitie of the stomacke out of which may easily be chosen what is méet for women with child but especially these things following be aduised for safe things as the sirupe of Raspes Marmalade and sirupe of Quinces which the ancient Phisitions do so highly commend if a woman with child do vse the same much then wil the fruit be subtiller and whiter Annis Fennell Coriander whether they be confected or not are good against vomiting Item take a hard sodden egge and kéepe it very warme vpon the mouth of the stomacke For this is also passing good the sirupe of Veriuice When a child is weake in his mothers wombe §. 8. FOrasmuch as there is no doubt that the conceiued children be also sicke in their mothers body therefore it is no small question how they are to be holpen For séeing all sicknesses are knowne through féeling and sight the which cannot be done by children in their mothers wombe for this cause this matter is troublesome to the Phisitions But amongst other signes whereby it may be knowne whether the child be sicke in his mothers body or no it is the very certainest if that the woman with child haue her termes oftentimes and much for that there can follow none other thereof but a debilitie of the child because that his sustenance and nourishment is taken and drawne from him Secondly when the milke runneth from women with child then is it a sure token of the debilitie of the child also that the child is not strong enough for to draw his nourishment vnto it Thirdly if a woman do get a strong scouring then is it much to be doubted of a mischance but it dependeth specially on two things vnder which al other accidents be they how they wil are contained which is heate and cold by which all the rest may easily be adiudged First for to write of the debilitie of the child through heate and dryth is the mother to be purged of Cholera viz. with this following and such like Take conserue of Prunes without any other addition halfe an ounce warme whay of milke thrée ounces giue it vnto her in the morning betimes and let her fast vpon it the space of fiue houres Or take prepared Cassie one ounce with foure ounces of Sorrell water or Barley water If you will haue it stronger Take two ounces of Manna temper them together in thrée or foure ounces of whay and vse it as before Or if you wil you may stéepe in the former a dragme of Rubarbe and wring it out well or halfe a dragme of Rubarbe beaten to powder giuen without stéeping All these medicines be very safe for the child and the mother Concerning the order of diet it is to be cooling and moistening as with Lettice Béetes c. like as is oftentimes admonished Also Barly water and Barly paps are to be vsed the fresh is to be drest with vineger and veriuice with the iuice of Limons and such like that she eateth Afterwards she is to drinke euery morning a good draught of whay in sommer colde and in winter warme Or take water of Endiue and of Violets of each two ounces Or if you will haue that which cooleth more take sirupe of Roses of Endiue of each halfe an ounce Succorie water two ounces temper them together These things following are yet more forcible than the former Take sirupe of Vineger half an ounce sirupe of Citrons one ounce Buglosse water and water of Sorrell of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together You may also drinke one ounce of the conserue of Violets tempered with thrée ounces of Endiue water The clisters with those things which force vrine and blood and also all things which cause vomiting must be forborne But if it be néedfull that one purge more then shall the former suffice But these thrée things are especially to be shunned One must also do his best for to defend resist all bad properties and to strengthen the same which may be done in this maner following to wit that the woman euery day thrée or foure times do drinke halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Limons with Barley water it cooleth and quencheth thirst Item take water of Citruls and of Violets of each sixe ounces water of Sorrell twelue ounces red Saunders Roses burnt Iuorie and séed of Sorrel of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger thrée spoonefuls temper them all together and make a cloth wet therein afterwards lay it beneath on the priuities and behind on the rump Also take then one ounce of small cut Pompeon péeles oile of Roses and of water Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe small fresh Housléeke one ounce temper them all well together and annoint the foresayd places with it thrée or foure times a day But if this debilitie do come through cold and moisture then is this thus to be remedied Take Buglosse water the séedes of wild Saffron grosse beaten Agaricus and Hermodactils of each one scruple Cinnamom Ginger Roses and prepared Coriander of each foure graines let them stéepe together one whole night afterwards wring it out and drinke it in the morning early Another Take the water of Feuerfew and of Balme of each one ounce and a halfe Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce white sugar halfe an ounce temper them together and let them stand the whole night afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as the other For this is also a good order of diet to be obserued wherefore these patients are to vse nothing else but that is warme and drie of nature And she is to boile in all her meates Sage Mints Rosemary and such like which haue no nature of opening Their drinke is to be méetly strong red wine tempered with a little stéeled water for it hath power to strengthen all the inward norishing parts and all veines One must also deuise how to amend and clense these bad humors which is thus to be effected Take Sage water foure ounces Miua of Quinces one ounce then mixe them all together Item take Sirupum de Myrto one ounce water of Baulme wherein Masticke is decocted thrée ounces temper them together and so giue it her to drinke A better Take Miua Citoniorum aromatica one ounce water wherein Mirtle séed is decocted thrée ounces temper them to a potion There may also be vsed
woman with child be burthened with an Ague and that a mischance be doubted then take Barley meale the iuice of Sloes and of Housleeke as much as you please make it to a plaister with vineger and then lay it oftentimes vpon the belly this plaister doth defend the fruite from all accidents in the Ague this sayd plaister is also to be layd vpon the liuer In case that now the woman with child be assayled with pricking then haue you before in the second part the fourth Chapter and 12. § how that might be remedied stamped Crabs the iuice thereof wroong out and tempered amongst womans milke it defendeth also the vntimely birth of women and it is said that it is a sure remedy for it If so be that a mischance be feared through much wind then giue one dragme of good Mithridate with the water wherein Comin hath bene decocted twice a weeke for thereby will the fruite be preserued and retained These confections or tabulats following are to be vsed Take Pearles and Pyretrum of each one dragme Ginger Mastick of each halfe an ounce Zeduary Doronicum the séed of Smallage Cassie wood Cardamome Nutmegs Mace and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen long and black Pepper of each three dragmes Saffron one dragme sugar eighteene ounces or lesse decocted with the water of Buglosse or water of Mints How a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe §. 11. FOr this we wil first haue remembred all that is described before in the 19. chapter and 14. § of the vnnaturall excrescence Mola in the Matrix whereof that in the second § of prouoking the termes and before of the mischances and all that is discouered of the preferring of the birth is also meete for the expulsion or deliuery of a child so that betwéene these is none other difference than that this following is ordained rather for perfect children of which women do commonly lie in within fiue or sixe moneths Now for to preuent the same are these remedies following commanded to be presently vsed but first of all you must know whether the child be dead or not to the end there be not a sicke child expelled for a dead child the which is to be knowne by this and especially if it hath bene dead two or thrée dayes First the mother doth get a great paine in the sinewes of the eyes which be Optici nerui Secondly she doth also féele paine behind in the necke stretching downeward along the backe bone because that the Matrix is fastened vnto it Thirdly shée doth féele great anguish and paine beneath Fourthly if a woman lie from one side vnto another then doth the burthen alwayes follow towards the lower side which is of all other a sure token of a dead child and that the ligaments of the secundine haue no more force to hold the dead fruite in one place Fiftly there is a great paine about the priuities and ouer all the necke of the Matrix Sixtly the thicknesse of the belly which was aboue is wholy sunken downe Seuenthly they do féele continually a cold about the priuities Eightly if one hold a warme hand long vpon the belly and féele no stirring then it is a sure token that the child is dead These be now the signes of a dead child before it begin to putrifie When it hath bene dead thrée dayes then beginneth it to stinke the woman is full of agues and getteth a stinking breath out of the Matrix runneth a foule stinking matter the belly will be heauy and stinking winds which do arise in the mother cause swelling thereof and last of all there will be foule and stinking péeces of flesh expelled through the necke of the mother When al these things be séene then hath a Phisition none other thing to do but to driue out the dead child It is also néedfull before all other things to preserue and strengthen the heart from al filthy stenches which may be brought to passe with this powder following taking the same oftentimes with broths for that it strengtheneth the vitall spirits and also the heart it doth also withstand the ascending vapors Take white Diptamus one dragme and a half Citron péeles and the péeled séeds of the same of each halfe a dragme prepared pearles foure scruples prepared Coriander one scruple Roses two scruples sugar two ounces and a halfe temper them all together to powder and vse therof about one quarter of an ounce at once Or take this following Take white Diptamus and Zeduary of each one scruple prepared Pearles and Species de gemmis frigidis of each halfe a dragme mixe them together and giue it her to drinke at thrice it withstandeth all stenches that they infect not the heart The fine Treacle doth also driue dead children out of the mothers bodies In like manner also the iuice of Verueine or the herbe stamped and drunken with wine driueth forth also the dead fruite so doth Hyssope also Take Trociscos de Gallia one dragme giue it with small white wine they expell the dead child and the secundine and make an easie birth Item take the innermost skins of the mawes of Hens or of Capons wash the same in wine drie them and powne them to powder giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe thereof with a draught of Wine or with some broth or with Rosewater Or take Betonie and Rue with the rootes of each one handfull poure thereto one ounce of the iuice of Salomons seale white Wine one pint let it séeth well then straine it through a cloth and so giue it her to drinke Séeth Iuniper berries in Hony temper some wine with it and so drinke it together Another Womans milke drunken should also expell the dead child likewise also the precious stone Iaspis This is a common medicine which followeth hereafter Take Boreas one dragme and a halfe Cinnamom and Saffron of each one scruple stamp them togither and giue it with swéete wine or Mugwort water to drinke it helpeth much to beare easily It is also said that Linséed passeth all things to make women to be easily deliuered for if they drinke the water which is decocted therewith and put the same with clothes beneath into the bodie or bath therein then must the dead fruit auoyd Or take Mirrha as much as the quantity of a hasell nut stampe it and giue it with wine or with water of Mugwort the same expelleth much whether that the child be dead or aliue The same doth also dogges milke tempered with hony Item take one ounce of Goates milke dissolue therein two scruples of Galbanum and so giue it it expelleth maruellously Or if the woman be strong then giue her as much of the iuice of Garlicke as will go into halfe an egshel with wine or hony If from a woman through frighting or otherwise the child auoid then take a Crab stampe it and wring out the iuice and then temper it with the water
you put Annis vnto it then will it be the better Certaine later Phisitions do aduise and that with good reason that these patients should drinke the decoction of Guaiacum and how the same is to be prepared that shall you find described hereafter in the fift part in the discourse of the Pocks Out of these forementioned reasons is it easily to be noted and marked that it were very good vtterly to forbeare wine but if it cannot be then to chuse a thin red wine or the sirupe of Betonie and Oxymel of Squils decocted with Annis water Further it is not very good to sléepe much and chiefly in the day time immediatly after meate for that ingendreth much slime and other tough moistures One hower and a halfe after supper is he to go to bed to lie first vpon the right side afterwards vpon the left Through much lying vpon the backe do the defluxions fall to great preiudice behind in the necke and in the backe bone His sléepe shall also not indure longer than seuen or eight howers and the rest of the time is to be spent in watching Of the paine in the Hippes or Sciatica through heate §. 1. TO remedie the manner of this paine is but a little different from all other ioint diseases because that they alwaies for the most part procéed of cold and do lie déepe in the ioynts of the Hippes For the which in this disease all diureticall medicines be hurtfull because that therby the matter will be made so much the grosser and tougher so that afterwards it can by no meanes be consumed Now when this disease is caused through heate wherein commonly a cold flegmaticke matter is mixed with Cholera yet notwithstanding Phlegma getting the maisterie the same may easily be perceiued by the high coloured vrine and other signes moe Therefore for a beginning is the liuer veine to be opened in the arme and that in the same side where the pain is afterwards the veine which is named of the disease Scia and standeth as is described in the Introduction vpon the foote and to let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud But good héed is to be taken therein vnto the strength and power of the patient for that like as we haue said in other places the veines in the lower parts do weaken the bodie more when they be opened than those in the vppermost parts Other do counsell that first the veine in the foote is to be opened and if so be that the paine do not cease in some dayes after it that then the same veine should also be once opened in the other foote and beware of going the space of eight dayes Likewise is also much commended to set boxing cups vpon the Hips or aboue the Hips according to the importance of the disease Of the paine in the Hips or Sciatica through cold §. 2. BVt if so be that this paine of the Hips procéed through cold like as for the most part it is wont to do the which the bleaknesse of the face the lingring paine the belching of the stomacke the wambling and the falling downe of all cold humors doth shew then is the patient to be respected and taught to order himselfe accordingly yet haue you for an example this ensuing For a preparatiue of the matter make this sirupe following and then take thereof about two ounces at once according to that one is bound or loose of the bodie and so fast foure houres after it Take Fennell rootes Sperage rootes Parsly rootes Smallage rootes and Polipodie roots of each one ounce the séede of Ruscus wild Sage Gromill seedes Nettle seed the roots of Sarifrage and the séedes of stone Parsley of each one ounce Harts tongue two ounces Iuniper berries thrée drag Hermodactyli and Turbith of each halfe an ounce Hony 18. ounces Radish water 24. ounces make a sirupe thereof Item take all the foresaid things and put vnto it Ginger wild Saffron séede of each one ounce and a halfe Agaricus thrée dragmes stone Salt two scruples Mace two scruples and a halfe Sirupus de Stechade thrée ounces Honie as much as before Rosemarie water of Calmus and of Sage as much as will suffise afterwards séeth a sirupe thereof At the last put a little Cinnamom Masticke Cloues Nutmegs and Mace vnto it also a little Muske and Amber For to purge Take the Confection of Inda thrée dragmes or halfe an ounce de Succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe water wherin Ginger is decocted thrée ounces giue this betimes in the morning and then sléepe one hower after it afterwards take a draught of Barly water after it But if you had rather take Pils then take Pillulas foetidas and Hermodactylorum of each apart one dragme or mixed of each halfe a dragme This also ensuing is to be prepared Take the water of Pionie rootes and the rootes of Narcissus of each two ounces drinke this for the space of certaine daies early in the morning Thereupon you are thrée howers after it to swallow these pils following take Pillulas foetidas and de Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme Swines bread one dragme make thereof twelue pils with the iuice of Smallage Other do take washt Aloe halfe an ounce Agaricus one drag make thereof with the sirupe de Acetoso composito 35. Pils then take of it about the third or fourth euening iust before supper according to the qualitie of the cause Sharpe Clisters with Salt with Hiera with Coloquint and other appropriate things be excéeding requisite for this as also are these ensuing Take vnwormeaten Hermodactyls one ounce field Cipers Stechados Saint Iohns woort Carui and Rue séede of each one handfull and a halfe Cammomill Melilot and Dill séede of each one handfull Saffron flowers one dragme seeth them all together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixtéene ounces of this decoction Beuercod oyle thrée ounces Indie salt one quarter of an ounce Hiera Colocynthidis halfe an ounce temper them and set it meetly warme These Clisters are very méete for to draw the cold matter from the hips and to expell wind Another Take Coloquint halfe an ounce Turbith wild Saffron séede and Polypodie rootes of each halfe an ounce Asarabacca field Cipers Stechados Pionie white Pepper and Rue séede of each one dragme and a halfe seeth them all together and take of this decoction as before and put vnto it oyle of Costus and of Beuercod of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter foure scruples but vse it not too hote The third Take the pickle of Herings or salted Limons twelue ounces oyle of Beuercod thrée ounces minister this Clister like as the rest These Clisters be much commended of all later and auncient Phisitions but they bruise otherwhiles the Arseguts within which are hardly to be healed afterwards The fourth which is not too strong Take S. Iohns woort Cammomill Centorie Dill Malowes Brionie rootes and Fenegreeke of each one ounce Annis three dragmes Coloquint one quarter of an
halfe and if one will drinke wine then is there one halfe of this foresaid water to be tempered amongst it or to drink some middle sort of cleare Beere Further he must forbeare all Hony meates and all flesh Also he is to eate and drinke very litle but he is to sustaine himselfe with Barly pap Oaten pap bread and butter and such light meates But what greater damages be found in this disease through surfetting is sufficiently shewed before The members also which are accustomably plagued with this paine are to be restrained from ouermuch motion or from wearying himselfe too much and that especially if the patient be grosse and full of bloud and hath not a long time bene let bloud nor purged Of diuers meanes whereby to free one from the Podagra §. 2. THese Pils following are very highly commended as that through the vse of them many gouty people be not onely fréed but also healed altogether Take Myrrha Aloe Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Masticke and Rubarbe of each one quarter of an ounce Muscus fiue graines make 36. or 40. pilles with Oxymel or as many as you please whereof you are to take two or thrée euery other day and to continue thus the space of thirtie daies afterwards take euery wéeke once as much more But if so be that the Podagra do come in the meane while then are the pils to be vsed after the first manner First take Aloe Rubarbe Species Hierae Galeni Pillulae sine quibus of each one dragme and a halfe field Cipers foure scruples stéeped in wine make pils thereof with Lauander water and vse them as all the rest they be stronger than the former These Pils following hath the Emperor Carolus vsed against the Podagra Take yellow Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi of each one dragme oyle of swéet Almonds one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Roses of Burrage and of Fumitorie of each two ounces temper them together and let them stand in stéepe 24. howers afterwards make it hote and wring it well out This being all well done then stéepe therein againe half an ounce of Rubarbe Indi Spica halfe a scruple Malmsey a spoonfull Woormwood water one ounce let it then stand thus together stéeped the space of ten howers and afterwards wring it out hard Thirdly take Agaricus one ounce stone salt foure scruples Ginger one scruple Hony of Roses thrée scruples Oxymel of Squils one quarter of an ounce stéepe all together 24. howers in white wine and wring it well out Fourthly take Aloe which is washed with Endiue water and Manna of each one ounce fresh Cassie two ounces Bdellium two scruples temper them well together in the foresaid boyled and stéeped Colatures Lastly all being well tempered then set them all together in the Sunne stirring it often about and when it is well dried then forme pils thereof Of these pils shall you take one euery morning they haue a maruellous efficacie in preuenting the Podagra so that it is said if one do not ryot that one shall be holpen thereof in fiftéene dayes In the first part of this booke in the twelfth Chapter in the description of the Balsam you haue a very costly salue beginning thus Take Bayberries c. which fréeth one maruellous much of the Podagra Item if one set his féete in warme Smiths water or foment them ouer the vapor of the same water it is also very good to chew euery morning a litle Masticke How the Podagra is to be purged §. 3. IF so be that the Podagra be caused only through Cholera and heate then is this Sirupe following to be prepared Take Endiue three handfuls Roses one ounce and a halfe red white and yellow Saunders all together one ounce seeth it well and wring it out then put vnto this decoction twelue ounces of Sugar and séeth it to a sirupe like as all other sirupes be decocted giue thereof one ounce and a halfe with Endiue water foure or fiue times together and then take these purgations ensuing after it Take of the Electuarie of the iuice of Roses fiue dragmes with the foresaid water which is especiall good for the ioynts Or take fresh Figs halfe an ounce Currans fiue dragmes the rinds of yellow Mirobalans one ounce let them stéepe a whole night and seeth them a little then take of this decoction three ounces and temper therein of the foresaid confection of Roses and giue it very warme early in the morning Or if you had rather haue pils then take Aloe one dragme Diagridij fiue graines Roses thrée graines Hermodactyli halfe a dragme make pils of it with the iuice of Roses they be much commended If there happen great paine with this kind of hot gout then may two kinds of plaisters be prepared for it whereof one is to be layd vpon the place of the paine therewith to stop the defluxion and the other on the top of it for to asswage the paine The first is thus made Take Mirtle séed the séed of Ruscus and Bolus of each halfe an ounce red and white Saunders the iuice of Sloes Pomegranat blossomes and péeles Gals of each one dragme Rose water and Plantaine water of each thrée dragmes oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as will suffice for to make a plaister or pap The other Take red and white Saunders Starch and washt Ceruse of each one quarter of an ounce Poppie séed halfe an ounce Camfer one scruple oyle of Roses thrée ounces vnsalted Butter one ounce and a halfe the séed of Fleawort one dragme and a halfe and two yolks of egs temper them all together and lay them vpon it as is before said An easier Take the oyle of Roses thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce temper them all together and annoynt the place of the paine with it it asswageth the paine and hindereth the defluxion Now when as these defluxions do first of all begin then be Salues Oyles and other things moe vsed and applyed vnto it for which you may take one of these ensuing which you please Take small pouned Bolus two ounces Rose water and the water of Nightshade of each one ounce two or thrée drops of Vineger temper them well together and strike it thereon with a feather or dip a cloth in it and lay it ouer the swelling when it is dry then take fresh but alwayes warme Item take oyle of Roses seeth Earthwormes in it Mastick is also especiall good This following should be a speciall secret seeth Earthwormes and Frogs in oyle of Roses vntill they be almost all consumed then wring them out hard through a cloth and annoynt it very warme on the place of the paine This ensuing is not vnlike to the former Take of the oldest Sallad oyle that you can get twelue ounces and twelue water Frogs chop them very small and seeth them well when they be almost sodden ynough then temper therewith the iuice of Housleeke and the iuice of Stonecrop of each two
the matter be fluxible of it selfe then is this following to be prepared Take Calmus and Gentian of each two ounces Hartwoort one ounce Saint Iohns woort Sage field Cipers Cowslips Bayberries and Chamaedrios of each one handfull Annis Fennell and Pionie séede of each one ounce Basâ—il séede Cinnamome of each half an ounce séeth them all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe afterwards wring it out and make it with sixe ounces of Hony and nine ounces of Sugar vnto a clarified sirupe giue then one ounce and a halfe with some distilled water in the morning fasting For a purgation is this following to be vsed Take Turbith halfe an ounce Hermodactyli one quarter of an ounce Diagridij one dragme Masticke halfe a scruple Sugar one ounce then make a powder of it and giue thereof the fourth part at once but no more for that it is very strong If you wil you may make pils thereof without the Sugar but the pils of Hermodactyli exceed all other pils viz. in purging all phlegmaticke humors They haue also an astringent vertue whereby they obstruct the conduits where the defluxions take their course Treacle and Mithridate are to be taken of goutie men one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with great auaile twice a weeke Item Take field Cipers powned small halfe a dragme Turpentine thrée dragmes temper them together and take it with a wafer or with fresh broth it is also good for all lamenesse These patients are also to be bathed and fomented with this ensuing Take Sage Rosemary Penniroyall Rue Mints Horehound Marioram gentle Marioram Lauander and Pomgranate péeles of each one handfull séeth them all together in good wine afterwards straine the broth through a cloth and put three ounces of butter vnto it and then put the féet therein whether it be with paine or without paine and lay the decocted herbes very warme vpon it Item when the place of the paine is fomented with boyled Fenegréeke then will the paine be thereby asswaged Or take stinging Nettles séeth them in water and foment with the dampe of the same and so lay the herbes warme vpon it The oyle of Foxes is also maruellous good for the Podagra and for all paine of the ioynts like as is also the oyle of Tiles and oyle of Sulphur which be both hote and piercing Hereafter do mo plaisters and other things insue to be laid vpon it and that after the place of the disease hath bene fomented or annointed with any salue and the affluxe of humours is somewhat ceased Take boyled Alehoofe and lay it therein and hold still the feete Further it is much aduised that for the cold Podagra there shall be two kinds of Plaisters prepared First take Cipers nuts Mastick Myrrhe and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Gum Dragagant of each thrée dragmes Sage water sixe ounces Vineger halfe an ounce powne all small that are to be powned and then make a meetely soft pap of it or a plaister with Barley meale and lay it vpon the place of the paine Another Take the muscilage of Fenegréeke and of Linséede of each one ounce salt Butter oyle of wite Camelina or oyle of 〈◊〉 and burnt ashes of Colewoort stalkes of each two ounces Waxe as much as will suffâ— to make a plaister or salue of it lay it or spread it vpon the paine of the disease it asswageth paine the plaister Diachilon is also to be vsed for it Item take soft Storax Beuercod Euphorbium Myrrha Aloe and the iuice of Sloes of each a like quantitie Wine as much as you please let it séeth well together and then wet a cloth therein and lay ouer it Or dip a cloth in the warme decoction of Ebulus Before certaine plaisters are described of the crums of white bread temper with one of the same one dragme and a halfe or two dragmes of the powder of Hermodactyli and so lay vpon it Item séeth Onions in water and make a cloth wet in it and lay it thereon Or rost certaine Onions stampe them very small spread it on a cloth and lay it thereon The common people do vse Cow dung and lay it thereon in stead of a plaister Also the distilled Cowdung may be laid vpon it Item take the decoction of Rape and lay it thereon You are also to powne Turneps and to temper them with oyle of Roses and to lay the same vpon it In like manner temper sodden stamped and well salted Turneps with about so much Bran as Turneps with sufficient oyle of Violets make a plaister of it Item take a bag filled with Linseede seeth it well and lay it ouer the paine These be now simple things which warme the ioynts to wit S. Iohns woort Hermodactyli Ammoniacum Euphorbium Myrrha Squils Asarabacca Beuercod liquid Storax Cresses Cowdung Marioram Mints white Mustard séed Pine apples Capers rootes field Cipers Cammomill Elecampane rootes Gailia Radish Rue Sagapenum and Vineger of Squils c. Some do aduise that for the Podagra there be made an issue which is a running hole into the leg which is alwaies to be kept open whereby the matter may haue issue How this is to be done shall be taught in the sixt Part in the discourse of the Plague Others do raise blisters the breadth of foure fingers vnder the knées on the outside of the leg opening the same and letting the water to run out whereof we haue in other places mo of this booke made declaration An especiall and well approued remedie for the Gout §. 5. FIrst is this powder to be prepared Take two kinds of Chamedryos which is field Cypers and Chamedryos Gentian Centorie flowers Rapontica the right Aristologia rotunda wherof is sufficient store brought out of Switzerland of ech a like much stampe each apart afterwards temper them together and vse it thus After the necessarie purgation whereof we haue sufficiently spoken before take the space of fortie daies together one dragme euery morning of this said powder in the Sommer time with small Beere and in Winter with Wine or Meade Afterwards vse no more but halfe a dragme and so prosecute this course the space of a whole yeare If so be that the bodie be bound in the meane while then is the patient to vse twice euery moneth these pils following take Masticke Myrrhe Cinnamom Aloe and Rubarbe of each one scruple being all powned small then make ten pils thereof with hony of Roses and take two or thrée at once They be very weake so that one may vse the more thereof if he please In the meane while the patient must order himself very moderatly in eating drinking Through this be many goutie persons throughly healed of the Podagra The direction for the Gout sent to Charles the Emperor §. 6. THis aduice or remedie was sent to the Emperor Charles his Maiestie of famous memorie from Francisco Toralto a Lord in the kingdome of Naples who had lien most miserably the space of
Sene leaues of each one dragme Fennell water and water of Hyssop of each two ounces make it warme and stéepe the rest the space of 24. houres in it afterwards drinke it warme in the morning early Or if so be that these melancholicke humors do bruise the Liuer most of all and the rest of the intrailes then is this following to be vsed Take Annis Spica Violet séede Cuscuta seed Sorrell séed and Masticke of each halfe a dragme Roses and the leaues of the wild Vine of each foure scruples séeth them all together in sixe ounces of water euen to the halfe take of this decoction and temper therein of the confection ad melancholiam Auicennae These be now the things whereby all such noysome humors may be diminished First it is to be considered how the grosse melancholike blood might be drawne from the vitall parts to the outside for this is very good after the vse of the former purgation that the patient do forcibly stir and exercise himselfe viz. to go a foot and to clime vp to the mountaines whereby natural heate might be prouoked and the matter consumed Secondly it is very good that he be rubbed from the necke along the backbone downewards and from the shoulders to the hands and from the thighes to the féete with hote clothes vntill the skin be very red Thirdly he shall bathe in this bath following morning and euening Take fresh or drie Fumitorie twelue ounces the Elecampane leaues Violet leaues and small Housléeke of each sixe ounces Cammomill Melilot and Spica Romana of each eight ounces séeth them together in so much water as is néedfull in this shall the patient bathe and be softly rubbed Fourthly prepare this salue following Take oyle of Sesamum sixe ounces Cammomill Dill séed Burrage flowers and Fumitorie of each one dragme flowers of Elecampane Dock seed of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all small steepe them and seeth them all together in the foresaid oile vnto the halfe afterwards annoint therewith the bodie twice or thrice a day and especially the whole backbone and also all other parts which are infected There is also vsed for this hote and blistering herbes viz. pouned wherewith the members may be rubbed whereby the bad humors be drawne outward toward the skin these herbes be Marierom Penniroyall wild Thime Nepe and Crowfoote which haue an especiall power for to draw out the melancholike humors towards the skinne changing them into water through the blisters which appeare after this chafing Some do vse Cantharides but they are too strong for they expell vrine very violently yea that the blood followeth with it and do excoriate the conduits of the vrine if the same be vsed at any one time in many places For this is also good boxing cups set on the outward members and the skin picked If so be that there be any other sorenesse or impostumation with it then haue you before in the second § how the patient is to parbrake the which is very méete for this But in these cases there is nothing better than to open the hemorrhoides which may be effected by the rubbing of fig-leaues or by the rubbing with the leaues of Comfrey also with rubbing with an hairen cloth which is stéeped in an Oxe gall There may also a small boxing cup be set vpon the fundament and when as the arsegut doth appeare and come forth then may the veines which do as then appeare be opened with a lancet and to let them bleed so long vntill that the thicke and grosse bloud do alter into cleare and thin bloud This is also to be done foure times a yeare for it is very commodious For to expell the matter of this sicknes by vrine §. 5. AFterwards it is also verie méete that this noysome matter be driuen out thorough the vrine for which you are to vse one ounce or more of the potion of Epithymo or of the water wherein Epithymus is decocted whereof the patient is in the morning and also at afternoone to drinke for that it driueth out a blacke and melancholike vrine Or take in the morning early one ounce of the iuice of Smallage Item take three ounces of the iuice of Pease or the decoction wherein Pease be boyled There is also Azure stone sodden in the water of Millet and take thereof three ounces Take Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Mirobalani indi thrée dragmes séeth them in nine ounces of Fennel water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth and wring it out hard and then drinke it The floures of Broome be also taken for this Madder Valerian and Mew of each one handfull let them séeth all together in eightéene ounces of water vnto the halfe and then drinke thereof foure or fiue ounces with powned Licorice and Gromell seed of each halfe a dragme tempered therewith Wherewith the Mouth and other parts are to be washed §. 6. TAke the decoction of Linséede foure ounces and Oxymel compositum two ounces temper them well together and wash the mouth ofteÌ„times with it alwaies twice before supper and two houres before diner You may also after the same manner chew Swines bread and spit it out againe or in stead thereof chew Agaricus which is more forcible and more safe Item prepare this gargaâ—isme ensuing Take Mirobalani Indi Violets Burrage floures and Buglosse floures of each one dragme the rootes of Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Indie salt one dragme the huskes of Sene one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together in twelue ounces of water euen to the halfe and vse it warme alwayes one houre before noone and an houre before supper to wit ten or twelue times together This ensuing is also much commended for the Leprosie if it be often washed therewith in the beginning Take Mirrhe and Sarâ—ocolla of each thrée dragmes Ireos rootes of Fumitorie of Mew and Hartwoort of each thrée quarters of an ounce blacke Helleâ—ore two ounces the séeds of Mallowes of Hollthocks of Fumitorie and the leaues of Elecampane of each thrée handfuls cut them and stampe them together afterwards let them séeth in two quarts of water vnto three pintes In like manner there is also much commended for this the golden water if that one do take a little and oftentimes thereof and do annoint the Leprosie therewith The oile of Tiles is also much commended in the beginning of the Leprosie But because the most principall cure of this Leprosie consisteth in consuming of the melancholike matter of this sicknesse and that the bloud must be well cleansed therefore will we to that end describe certaine good things beginning first with the least Whereby the bloud in the Leprosie shall be cleansed §. 7. TAke the water of Hops and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together and giue it in the Sommer cold and in the Winter warme Item Take the whay of Goates milke or of Sheepes milke and drinke thereof
The wounds are also to be kept open long and if so be that they be too narrow then make them wider to the end that all bad matter may run out Besides that all diligence is to be vsed for to asswage the paine If now there be any sinew pricked in letting of blood or otherwise then take oyle of Cammomill of Roses and oyle of S. Iohns wort of each one ounce thrée well brayed yolkes of egges and Saffron one scruple temper them all together and lay it thereon For the paine §. 2. IF so be that there be any great paine in the wounded sinews then vse the salues Anodyna whereby the paine may be asswaged whereof you may find sufficiently written in the first part the 4. chapt and 12. § in the second part the 7. chapter in the third part the 16. chap. and 4. § also in the third part the 17. chap. and 2. § This ensuing is also very meet for it Take oyle of Lillies one ounce and a half oyle of Dill and of Cammomill of each one ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue Another Anodynum Take Walflowers thrée ounces oyle of swéete Almonds and oyle of Sesamum of each one dragme and a halfe fresh Butter one ounce Saffron halfe a dragme white waxe one dragme and a halfe oile of Dill of Cammomill and Duckes grease of each one quarter of an ounce one wel brayed yolk of an egge then temper them togither vnto a salue For this you haue also before in the third chapter and 7. § a salue beginning thus Take oile of Roses c. and other things moe which do much asswage the paine Item take the marrow of Calues bones and very old Sallad oyle of each foure ounces Earthwormes washt in wine two ounces séeth them togither in water meetely well afterwards straine the broth thorow a cloth it is maruellous good for the sinewes for that it asswageth all paine and mollifieth the sinewes These foresaid things be not only good for the paine of the sinewes which be caused through wounds but also for all other paine of the sinewes as this following is also Take Henbane seed halfe an ounce black Poppie séed one quarter of an ounce Saffron one ounce Hermodactyli two ounces and a halfe small brused crums of bread foure ounces temper them all togither and so lay this warme vpon it and that thrice in foure and twenty houres afterwards annoint the place with oyle of Foxes or with any such like oyle which shall hereafter be discouered After that strew the powder of Earthwormes vpon it or temper the powder with Honie and vse it as before It is also good for all paine of the members and hardning of the sinewes There may also a plaister be made of the foresaid Earthwormes and apply it Cow dung tempered with oyle and laid warme vpon it is also good Item take oyle of Foxes thrée ounces Sallad oyle foure ounces Earthwormes washed in Wine two ounces let them séeth all togither like as is said before it strengtheneth maruellous much all brused sinewes and warmeth also the same when they be wounded Oyle of Bricks is good for all paine and all diseases of the sinewes In like manner the thrée sorts of Balsam oyle which be described in the last part When the Sinewes be resolued and limber §. 3. TAke Turpentine which is many times washed with Rose water two ounces pouned Frankinsence and Cornes of the same of each two dragmes and a halfe make a salue thereof This doth also a salue which is made with washed Lyme and Sallad oyle or oyle of Saint Iohns wort Item there is also good for this all vitall waters For Sinewes that be shrunke or for the Crampe of the Sinewes §. 4. ITem take one ounce of the plaister Diachilon Ammoniacum and Bdellium of each one quarter of an ounce stéepe these two gums foure and twenty houres in Vineger and afterwards let them séeth vntill all the Vineger be spent then mixe the playster amongst it and also fiue dragmes of Beares grease when it is now sufficiently boyled then worke it well togither with the hands the hands being first made wet in Vineger This Plaister doth mollifie and digest Or take the féeds of Hollihocks of Flaxe and of Fenegréeke of each two ounces oyle of Lillies and of Oliues of each one ounce Waxe as much as is needfull for a salue this salue softeneth all manner of hardnes of the sinewes and of the ioints it asswageth the paine it strengtheneth the extenuated members Take oyle of Bohen two ounces Ammoniacum Bdellium of each two dragmes Saffron two scruples white Waxe as much as will suffice for a soft oyntment at the last adde one ounce of Neates foote oyle vnto it Item take oyle of Spikenard oyle of Saffron of each sixe dragms Beuercod Ammoniacum Sagapenum Badgers grease and Beares grease of each three dragms marrow of Oxe bones halfe an ounce Waxe as much as will suffice besprinkle them all with Vineger of Squils If you would haue it digest and drie stronger adde vnto it Pellitory of Spaine Beuercod Euphorbium and rootes of Costirs of each two dragmes Saltpeter halfe a dragme make it all into an oyntment This oyntment is good for the Palsey and coldnes of the sinewes but especially for the shaking in the fit of an ague The salue Dialthaea is very good for the contraction and shortning of the sinewes Item take Cammomill floures sprigs of the Iuniper trée Sage Mallowes Southernwood and Nettle rootes of each one handfull shread and beate them very small and put vnto them 16. ounces of fresh Butter Dogs grease 12. ounces boile them together vntil all the iuice of the herbs be consumed then straine them and adde vnto them molten waxe thrée ounces Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one ounce dissolue the gums in Vineger mixe them with the rest when it beginneth to coole stirre amongst it oyle of Beuercod 6. drag oyle of Cammomill 2. ounces oyle of Bayes 8. ounces lastly temper them well together The Apothecaries do call it Vnguentum Neruinum Vnguentum Neruinum but it is not vsed euery where Item take Waxe Pitch and marow of Oxe bones of each one ounce oyle of Roses two ounces mixe them all together and put vnto them the powder of Earthwormes and so annoynt the place agréeued with it As concerning the Cramp which is nothing else but a contraction and conuulsion of the sinewes hath béene spoken in the first part the 12. Chap. and 15. § where also I shewed what might be vsed for it And this following is very méete for the same Take the iuice of broad Plaintaine boile it with strong wyne and binde it vpon the place where the Cramp is Item take the rootes of water-Lillies cut them in round slices and so apply them it hath béene approued oftentimes When the Cramp commeth in one foote then bend back one of your toes or bind it hard with a whipcord but the best
twelfth chapter and eighth § and in the second part the fourth chapter and ninth § Item in the fifth chapter and fiftéenth § also in the third part the eleuenth chapter and 28. § and in other places moe Concerning the cleane blood thereof hath bene written not long ago in the tenth chapter and third § so that we by good right may also write of the Phlegma because that the same doth no lesse penetrate the bodie than the other This bodily humor which is called of the Grecians Phlegma and of the Latinists Pituita is a waterish moisture which runneth through the veines of all the bodie with the blood whereby the braines the neck the members the sinewes and other parts which draw that humor vnto them be nourished moistened and cooled wherefore it were not good that the same were wholy expelled by purging Also Phlegma doth appeare by the slime matter snot spettle and such like that man aâ—oydeth In fine all that is cold of nature and moist saith Galenus we do call Phlegma it preserueth also his nature in such proportion that it is no moister nor colder in the bodie and although the same be also throughly concocted yet neuerthelesse doth it remaine alwayes cold and that not only in the body but also when it is driuen out of the body with purging medicins so that it can be warmed by no meanes This cold moistnes next to the blood is the highest estéemed as it is because of the forementioned reasons most needfull to all liuing creatures But this is onely spoken of that kind which the Phisitions do call the swéete Phlegma for that it is of sundry natures viz. thicke thinne and like to molten glasse or gips that which is tart and sower is vndigested and crude The salt waterish moysture or Phlegma when it is putrified then doth it cause sundry sicknesses as vnhealthinesse of the whole bodie cold swelling sluggishnesse much sléepe and head-ach and especially where it doth abound greatly then doth it cause sower belchings of the stomacke the gowt and disease of the sinewes all which sheweth that this waterish moysture must be purged what Phisicke ought then to be vsed to expell Phlegma is sufficiently declared ouer the whole booke But for the better satisfaction we will here describe the best of them First there is nothing more fit than that all men that spend their life in daintines and idlenes whereby they do gather much waterish humors might obserue such an order of diet which might be cleane contrarie to their former life as you shall finde described in the discourse of the sicknesses which be caused through Phlegma These be the simple things which consume Phlegma viz. Penniroyall Marierom Nepe Sage Marierom gentle Hyssop wilde Thyme Rue Fennell rootes Smallage Parsley rootes Sperage rootes Pepper Ginger Cloues Maydenhaire Hony Squils Vineger and most of all whatsoeuer is warme and dry by nature Aloe doth also purge Phlegma Cassie doth by a secret vertue expell it gently Agaricus hath power to driue out all slimines to attenuate the thicke and to open all obstructions the hot Gumme Euphorbium is vsed only at the greatest neede the iuice of wilde Cucumbers Elaterium expelleth waterish humours most forcibly but it cannot well be vsed without danger aboue the quantitie of foure graines In like manner also the leaues of Mezereon foure graines or sixe at the most The seeds of Palma Christi do some vse to the number of thirtie when they be péeled but it is verie much they do purge the Phlegma very well but with great paine and torments of the patient for that they do purge vpwards downewards and are very hurtfull to the stomack Now when the Phlegma lieth deepe in the body and in the ioints then will it by Coloquinte be drawen foorth best of all The Mirobalani Chebuli Emblici and Bellirici doe purge very mildly and that chiefly from the head and the braines The seed of wilde Saffron doth expell all moysture and especially the dropsie one quarter of an ounce or thrée dragmes giuen at one time Turbith is also especiall good for it but it is seldome vsed alone but tempered with other things that hereafter insue viz. with Sene leaues Polipodie rootes Sal gemmae Stechas Ireas Behen Hermodactyli Nettle rootes Ginger Coleworts broth Sugar Hyssop Agrymonie Pepper Hartwoort Centorie Hellebor Pieretrum burnt Squils Sarcocolla Opopanacum and Sagapenum Amongst mixed and compounded things which do expell Phlegma be first these sirupes following as both the sirupes of Vineger both the Oxymels and Oxymel of squils Oxysacchara Hydromel Syrupus de Calamintha de Prassio and sirupe of Wormewood all these do expell Phlegma through the vrine Item you haue more in the second part the fift chapter a very good potion for the breast in a drie cough called Decoctio Pectoralis which doth consume the cold slime The confection Benedicta Hiera Picra Pillulae foetidae de Euphorbio Cochiae sine quibus de Hermodactylis maiores minores all these do expell and purge Item Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro and Medicamen de Turbith and other moe For a purging potion is this insuing to be prepared Take Harts toong Agrimonie and Maydenhaire of each one handfull Annis Fennell séed Epithymum Agaricus Cuscuta Parsley séed wilde Saffron seed Turbith seed of Smallage and Sene leaues of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them togither in sufficient water or take Mirobalani Chebuli and Emblici of each halfe an ounce and lay it all togither in a warme place to stéepe afterwards wring it out and make thrée potions thereof then temper of the foresaid sirupe or Oxymell therewith one ounce or an ounce and a halfe and take thereof euery morning There is also prepared for it this laxatiue confection Take Cinnamom Cloues and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Mace Cardamom and Lignum Aloes of each one scruple Ginger one dragme Turbith thrée quarters of an ounce Diagridion thrée grains Sugar sixe ounces dissolued in the iuice of Quinces boyle it to the thicknes of Hony and then temper the rest amongst it when it is now almost cold then take thrée dragmes thereof or halfe an ounce at once but in hot weather it is not to be vsed it purgeth Phlegma and Cholera maruellously These things following be also very good to wit conserue of Rosemary of Sage confected Ginger Calmus and Nutmegs c. Item Treacle and Mithridate one dragme thereof taken otherwhiles Tysane or Barly pap is also very good For drinke is wyne méetely good to be dronken for that it consumeth slime and amendeth all diseases which spring of Cholera the same doth also Betonie wine Elecampane wine the wine of Auence of Hyssope of Rosemary of Sage and of Wormewood the Claret wine and other spiced wines wherof shall be spoken more at large in the last part likewise also all vitall and golden waters the sower iuice of Pomegranates vsed in meate or tempered in drinke is very good In the first part
the patient thereof thrée or fowre times to wit when the Ague beginneth to assaile and haue regard that he vomit it not vp againe This do all the Phisitions vse but hereafter follow many better and fitter things Out of the foresaid things easie it is to be noted that for all hot agues these waters ensuing are passing good as water of Endiue Cicorie Burrage Cuscuta Sorrell Maidenhaire and such like All Aguish diseases may fréely vse these sirupes or any of them which one listeth as sirupe of Vineger of Veriuice Violets Cicorie with Rubarb or without of Citrons Roses Endiue or of Sorrell Item Syrupum de Iuiubis de Byzantijs Acetosum compositum de Radicibus Oxymel and Melicratum and if there be not much Cholera abounding then vse the Honie of Roses which is good for all Agues take thereof which you will and mingle it with the water of Lyuerwoort of Endiue and Fumitorie Sorrell or with the water of Maidenhaire and such like Of these confections following you may vse which you please as Diarrhodon Trisantali Trociscos de Spodio cum Semin◠Acetosae de Eupatorio de Berberis powned and mingled with any of the foresaid waters and drunken And the whay of Milke is chiefly commended These are the meates that an Aguish bodie may well and commodiously eate and vse Of the lothing of meate in them that be assayled with the Ague §. 5. FOr as much as in all hote Agues the appetite of féeding is taken away whereby nature is suppressed and waxeth faint and thereby scarce able to resist the Ague therefore it is very requisite that herein good counsell be had and taken For this you find in the third part the eleuenth chapter and ninth § what is to be done herein likewise you may vse for it any of these things ensuing Take Conserues of Roses two ounces confected Citron rinds sirupe of Apples as much as you thinke good mingle them together and vse thereof fasting at each time halfe an ounce There is also a confection or compound that is called the Kings sauce the which is very good to prouoke appetite and the same is to be made with Sorrell Cinnamom Cloues and Vineger Others make it of Vineger Sorrell Fennell and Parsly The third sort take the iuice of Parsley Sugar and Vineger Item one may compound sirupe of Vineger with Oxymel In like sort there is good for it both the sirupes of Mints After meales it is very good to vse prepared Coriander séede Annis séedes and Almonds confected Item Cinnamom Marmalade Conserues of Roses and honie of Roses rosted or baked Peares are also excellent good Euery such patient is to be outwardly annointed with the salue of Saunders on the place of the Lyuer and on the Kidneys with the cooling salue of Galen This water here next following is also very soueraigne to be vsed thereto for the washing of the féete Take Sage Cammomill and Bayberries of each a handfull Marioram halfe a handfull Citron rinds and Orange pils of each halfe an ounce a pint of strong wine and common Ley as much as will suffise let them all séeth together and vse it oftentimes for it will prouoke appetite For the thirst in hote Agues §. 6. BEcause continuall Agues prouoke great thirst therefore we will not cease to giue some knowledge and caueat how the same may be holpen and remedied the which will be effected with Barley water and with cold and moist things and also with such losinges as be prepared made with the muscilage of Fleawort the muscilage of Quince kernels and with Dragagant Sugarcandie and the kernels of Pomegranates are also very often to be vsed and he shall receiue the cold and moyst ayre Before in the third part the twelfth Chapter 10. § there are also diuers things declared being all very good to slake or quench the thirst Item take sirupe of Violets one ounce Barly water thrée ounces Cinnamom water one ounce oyle of Vitrioll three or foure scruples mingle them together they will become a red potion with a tart or sharpe tast but because there are other more pleasanter things do I counsell you to leaue out the oyle of Vitrioll Of purging and such like §. 7. ANd for the expulsion of this matter or corruption in the best manner thereto is very soueraigne washt Aloe which is described in the Introduction The common plague pils be also passing good for the same the which pils are called de Tribus and are to be mingled with Rubarbe Also once a weeke at the least let the patient take in some cooling and laxatiue medicine as namely conserues of Prunes and Cassie the which are good in old maladies and therefore is commonly to be giuen an ounce and a halfe with halfe a drag of Rubarbe Manna is excellent good for it and the confections of Diamanna cum Rhabarbaro the which are to be had in all well furnished Apothecaries shops There are some that giue counsell and that very well that the next day following the patient is to take thrée ounces of laxatiue sirupe of Roses mingled if it please him with some distilled water Also there is good for it the losinges de succo Rosarum Diaphoenicon de Psillio Diacatholicon or vse this potion following Take sowre Dates one ounce breake them in Cicorie water and straine it through a cloth This done mingle Cassie and conserue of Prunes of each halfe an ounce halfe a drag of beaten Rubarbe and fiue graines of Spica amongst it Take this in the morning early and thereupon fast afterwards sixe houres There are also cooling clisters vsed for it which the Phisitions do call Lauatiua that is cleansing Clisters by reason that they are for none other purpose but to strengthen the bowels to make them slipperie and to warme them as these ensuing First take Barley water and Sugar or broth made of a shéepes portnance wherewith is mingled fresh Butter or Hogs grease otherwhiles Béetes and Mercurie Likewise there are many clisters of Sallad oyle and oyle of Violets and also in the paine of the belly of Linseede oyle without putting any other thing thereto but twelue or sixtéene ounces taken at one time for one clister And when the going to stoole and vrine are to be prouoked then vse thereto fresh broth that is most common and fit wherein Barley is sodden and is mingled with oyle Or if you will haue it stronger then take an ounce of any of these confections mingled amongst it as de Sebestis Hiera Diaprunis Cassie Thomas Sugar oyle of Violets Hony of Roses or of Violets For the vomiting in the Agues §. 8. ALl that lie of hot Agues may easily be brought to vomit and that chiefly after their taking of any medicine and to preuent it looke into the third part the 20. chap. 7. § For the losse of Sleepe §. 9. THey that are plagued with the Agues are easily barred from their naturall sléepe and to further the same looke into
Sallad oyle and oyle of Sesamum of each one ounce and a halfe mingle them all together and exhibite this Clister at least an hower before meate For the prouoking of vrine there is a potion to be made wherin Smallage or Dill hath bin stéeped If you would vse stronger then looke in the third Part the eightéenth Chapter and the first § c. When as the humor is purged through Clisters and is expelled through the vrine then do some famous Phisitions giue counsell that the patient should open the Saluatella vpon the hand and afterwardes to purge him with mild and cooling medicines as hereafter followeth Take sower Dates and Cassie of each a quarter of an ounce Rubarb one scruple Whay of milke thrée ounces mingle them together and drinke it and fast sixe howers after it Take of the decoction of fruites called Decoctio fructuum foure ounces stéepe two dragmes of Rubarbe in it all a night early in the morning wring it out hard and mingle therewith two ounces of Manna one quarter of an ounce of Diacatholicon take it fasting but of the Diacatholicon may you take more or lesse according to the abilitie of the patient There are moe such like in the description of the continuall ague After purging let him drinke fiue or sixe daies one after another of this potion following take Oxysacchara one ounce sirupe of Violets halfe an ounce water of Sorrell and of Cicorie of each one ounce and a halfe and mingle them together But when as you perceiue that the corruption beginneth to be concocted then may be giuen to the sicke bodie without feare the iuice of Wormwood drest in this manner Take the highest sprigs of Wormwood powne them to pap and then straine out the iuice and afterwards take euery morning hereof a spoonefull and fast two houres after it so do also at nights two houres after supper Some vse to stéepe the Wormwood in Melicraton and drinke thereof This following is an especiall medicine for the griefe in the stomacke of Cholera to wit to vse often bathing in fresh water for thereby is the Cholera wasted cooled and moistened if the same be vsed twice a day he may remaine therein so long as it liketh the patient but it must alwaies be vsed with moderation and at oportune times Secondly he must obserue such an order of diet wherby the Cholera may be auoyded wherof is sufficient mention made in the description of the Gall and Stomacke But briefly to expresse the meaning of Galen which is that in Tertiana exquisita such gouernment is to be kept that the patient drinke no wine so long as the disease indureth but the disease being cleane gone that then wine is first to be taken watered All cold and moist meates are perfect good for this maladie wherewith the patient may cherish himselfe as long as he thinketh méete and as his stomacke can digest them Amongst all greene herbes these be good Orage Blites Dockes Mallowes Lettice and Gourds Likewise also Barley paps and all riuer fish and amongst fowles let those suffice as haue soft flesh and of other the wings onely Item all wood fowls the brains and féet of hogs rere sod Egs and especially the yolkes be better than the whites He may vse all fruites that are not hard of digestion but he must forbeare at any hand Honie Mustard salt meates and all hard meates All this hath Galen left behind and described for a diet in the mixed tertian ague Here is to be noted that at all times the patient shall eate at least foure or fiue howers before that the ague approcheth that it may find an emptie stomacke and in like manner he shall not eate vntill two or thrée howers be past after it The sixt Chapter Of the counterfeit and bastard Tertian that is a false third dayes Ague THe third daies Ague which the Latinists tearme Notham Spuriam that is a bastard Tertian is so called by reason of her due cause which proceedeth not of méere Cholera and because that the Cholera is mixt with Phlegma so that both of them are conuerted into one kind of humour And the difference of them which is betweene the late described Hemitritaea and this Notha is that the first appeareth in the beginning with two kinds of humors and the Notha commeth with one onely and hath but one kind of putrifaction of two seuerall humors The signes whereby this counterfeit tertian may be knowne from the exquisite tertian are these First this Notha as is aforesaid is not exquisite but mixed The exquisite tertian commeth not aboue seuen times except the patient or the Phisition haue committed an errour whereby it is continued And the bastard tertian heateth not the bodie so greatly and all the symptomes are not so vehement as accustometh in all other Agues for this Ague lasteth longer than twelue howers and otherwhiles remaineth two moneths specially in old phlegmaticke persons and that in winter season These signes also following do manifest how to know the difference betwéene it and the right tertian Ague to wit that the humor or matter of this Ague departeth not so soone and abateth not the bodie so quickly neither doth this Ague end with such a sweate These are the common rules to be obserued for this Ague First euen as this counterfeit tertian Ague differeth from the right tertian Ague so require they seuerall kinds of cure Secondly as the same is mixt with Cholera and Phlegma so must also the medicines that serue for the same be mingled and must be both digestiues and purgers Thirdly for that the sirupe of vineger doth attenuate Phlegma and doth digest Choleram therefore is the same very commodious to be vsed for it Fourthly because the same Ague commeth not so spéedily to the state or highest the patient may eate and drinke moderatly least for want thereof he lose his strength and may expect the state of the Ague And to speake farther hereof it appeareth plainely that touching these Agues the old prouerbe may be verified wheremen vsually say the Ague hath thrée deadly enemies namely purging fasting and letting of bloud which three in truth do not only gall these bastard tertians but also all other Agues But in this Ague whereof we haue spoken which is not so exquisite and pure as the former there must be regard taken that the sicknesse increase not lest thereby the sicke persons be quite ouerthrowne because as aforesaid there are two sundrie kinds of impediments at hand it is scarce possible therein to kéepe a meane yet specially is abstinence good that the more the same is vsed so much the more will the sicknesse be discussed and spent but the same féebleth greatly the strength of the patient for how much the greater it is so much the more doth it abate and weaken the patient But to the contrarie the more that the patient séedeth so much the more doth the maladie increase wherfore speciall care is to be
and the whole body often with this water following Take twelue ounces of Rose water one quarter of an ounce of Camfere Puâ—slaine séedes and red Saunders of each a dragme one quarter of an ounce of starch mingle them all together This drinke following is also highly commended Take sixe or seuen riuer Crabs lay them in a quart of water then cast therein a hanfull of ashes and let them stand foure houres long afterwards rub then wel therwith and wash them cleane with faire water thrée or foure times and so seeth them and take the tayles of them cut them very small and séeth them againe with a quart of barley water till they be almost consumed then straine the broth through a cloth and giue thereof thrée or foure ounces euery time to the patient to drinke when you will But if you will haue this water to coole more and nourish lesse then séeth the Crabs whole and vncut and not so long time as is aforesaid After this maner may you also dresse a Tortoyse that liueth in fresh water and is excellent good for this disease The small fishes that are taken in fresh waters are very commodious for this disease if they be taken without spice In the description of the consumption Phthisis in the second part the fifth chapter and 22. § are many kinds of remedies prescribed for this Hectica and afterwards also in the sixth chapter of the panting of the heart through heate are diuers cullises described that are very good and profitable to be drunken You may also prepare these confections following for the same take of the white flesh of a yong Hen or capon sixe ounces starch one ounce and a halfe new oyle of swéete Almonds sixe ounces fiue whites of new layd egges let the oyle starch and egges séeth together on a soft fire vntill it be thicke afterwards mingle the flesh of a Capon being chopt small amongst them and make cakes thereof whereof the patient may vse a little at each time and as often as him pleaseth which also is as good as if he tooke much at once seldome and better Or prepare this following take white Poppie séedes péeled séedes of Melons Citruls Cucumbers and of Pompeons of each a quarter of an ounce Almonds Hasell nuts Pistacies all of them shaled and Sebestes of each thrée dragmes Pingles that haue bin stéeped 24. houres before in Rose water fiue dragmes conserues of Burrage Buglosse and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one quarter of an ounce conserue of Roses fiue dragmes Manus Christi with pearles and sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce rosted Capons flesh two ounces white flesh of Hens that is stuft and drest with Buglosse Baulme Burrage and Endiue thrée ounces cut both of these small and then mingle therewith Species Diambra and de Gemmis of each halfe a dragme Doronicum Saffron Cinnamom Roses and red Coral of each fiue dragmes Species Diatriasantalon and grains prepared pearles a quarter of an ounce sugar sodden as thicke as hony as much as néede requireth for to make a confection mingle them well and vse it as aforesaid one quarter of an ounce at once There is also vsually made for this a confection of oyle of swéete Almonds starch and sugar The preserued Gourds are also wonderfull good against this vnnaturall heate Of the Ague Hectica with a paine in the breast Empyema and Phthisis §. 1. IN this compounded Ague which is placed amongst the Putridas or putrified Agues there doth appéere besides the former signes cold and a very stifnesse of cold which commeth at vncertaine times sometimes by day and otherwhiles by night and that alwayes vnstedfast which hapneth by the diuersitie of the humors whereof now the one and then the other is stirred vp and inflamed The corruption which is gathered together in the breast out of the head or out of the veines doth chiefly cause this consumption which lieth there putrified and mingled with the blood iâ— cast out and expelled and albeit that this kind of consumption and also the former be incurable yet you must be maruellous diligent by these meanes following to accomplish health is far as it is possible First therefore you must refraine and shun all things that are sharpe and salt as Mustard Radishes Onions Garlicke and such like Item all flatulent and windy things and all that is cold by nature and hard of digestion as vnsodden milke porredge of pease or beanes vnleauened and dough baked bread Veriuice and Limons c. His drinke must be good common cléere Béere or any thin red swéete Wine but he must refraine from strong wine and béere but if he cannot beare wine nor béere then giue him to drink good sugred Barley water Yong lambes flesh yong swine Muttons of a yéere old and calues are very wholsome meate for him Also Larkes wood fowles Partridges Fesants and Hares and specially riuer Crabs sod in barly water or milke are passing good Coleworts sodden stewed Barley drest with starch Calues féet sodden in vineger the lights of all beasts but chiefly of Foxes and Hogs rere sodden egs or the same drest with other meate fresh butter and chéese but little salted milke pap thrée or foure drie figs eaten before meales and sweete Pomegranates rosted in the warme ashes are all of them much nourishing After meate let him also eate thrée or foure rosted Hasell nuts and Saffron and Cinnamome in his meate measurably These confections following are also most commodious for him Take white Poppie séedes an ounce rosted flesh of a Capon foure ounces starch thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Pingles foure ounces péeled Almonds three ounces Roses thrée dragmes yellow Saunders and Mace of each a quarter of an ounce Cinnamome thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounces Lignum Aloes two dragmes and a halfe Nutmegs a dragme Amber two scruples Musk sixe graines fresh oyle of swéet Almonds foure ounces sugar which is sodden with Rose water and Baulme water as much as néede requireth for a confection mingle all these well together beaten and shread small take thereof euery morning and euening halfe an ounce euery time before meate And when as this disease falleth out of the head into the breast and that this Ague Hectica hath from thence her beginning then must special care be had for to comfort the braines which may thus be compassed First let the head be shorne bald and then vpon the naked shorne head lay this plaister following Take Laudanum a dragme and a halfe Rosin and red Storax of each thrée quarters of an ounce Masticke Roses and white Corall of each halfe a dragme Sandaraca a dragme and a halfe Mace two scruples Cloues one scruple dissolue the gum and rosin in vineger that is not too eager then mingle it all together with molten waxe and make thereof two round plaisters which you may lay thereon now one and then another Secondly take a little péece of Masticke chew the same once a day
at the least a long time and then spet out the moisture and about the third euening let him alwayes after meate swallow a peece of Masticke Thirdly the fift night when he goeth to bed let him take a dragme and a half of this confection following Take of the confection Diapapauer halfe an ounce Frankinsence Sandaraca of each eight graines and mingle them all together Fourthly take of the confection of Loch de Pino and de Papauere of each an ounce prepared Foxe lights one quarter of an ounce Ireas two scruples flowers of Centorie halfe a scruple make a confection thereof with Vine cuict wherof the patient is to take euery morning two or three dragmes and likewise at night as much more to wit two houres after meate Also you may drinke it mingled with warme barly water or with swéete wine and so drinke it Also the patient may take of this confection into his mouth and so swallow it vp oftentimes Fiftly take two ounces of Currans a dragme of sliced Licorice Hyssope and Horehound of each two scruples yellow séedes of Roses two dragmes prepared Foxe lights one dragme and a halfe Dragagant and Gum of each a dragme melt the gum in Vine cuict halfe a scruple of Saffron white pepper fiue graines and white sugar thrice as much as all the rest do weigh make it to powder whereof let him eate a spoonefull after dinner and supper Sixtly when as the patient hath vsed ten dayes long the foresaid thrée things then let him take these things following other ten dayes Take distilled Colewort water two ounces water of blew Flower deluce flowers and of Horehound of each half an ounce poudered Elecampane rootes and Mouse eare that groweth on the mountaines of each a scruple which the patient must take luke warme early in the morning and fast foure houres after it Seuenthly take Knotgrasse Mouse eare Roses red Corall Bloodstone and yellow Amber of each one scruple Dragagant halfe a scruple Hony of Violets and Sugar pennets of each thrée quarters of an ounce afterwards séeth the Hony and Sugar till it be thicke and then mingle them with it and take thereof an houre before supper a spoonefull and againe as much more at midnight Eightly this being done you must vse this confection following Take fresh rootes of blew Flowerdeluce one ounce fresh Elecampane rootes halfe an ounce Comfrey Daisies iuice of Sloes Dragagant and Gum of each a scruple Frankinsence Masticke and Sarcocolla prepared with womans milke of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone yellow Amber Dragon blood prepared Foxe lights Centorie flowers Mirtle séede Knotgrasse Mouse eare and Brionie of each two scruples dissolue all the Gums in the muscilage or slime of Sebestes that were stéeped in warme Hony water let them séeth therein scumming it alwayes and when it is sod to pappe to wit the herbes and the rootes then straine out the iuice through a cloth and put thereto two ounces of swéete wine Currans halfe an ounce and ten or twelue Dates powne all the same very small and mingle then the Gums with the rest of the foresaid things Also halfe a dragme of Saffron powdered Saxifrage a dragme and halfe whereof giue the patient a spoonefull in the morning and halfe an houre before both his mealetides halfe as much and let him swallow it downe by little and little This cleanseth the breast ingendreth flesh and withall damnifieth not the breath Ninthly when the patient hath vsed this confection foure dayes long then let him take nine of these pilles following to wit in the morning betimes three and thrée more before noone and also before supper other thrée more This must he continue foure dayes together or longer euen as the cause requireth Take Lungwort Knotgrasse Comfrey Daisies of each a dragme Saffron Licorice Saxifrage of each one scruple Starch sealed earth prepared Tutie and Dragagant of each two scruples make pilles thereof with the iuice of Comfrey and forme eight to a dragme Tenthly if occasion serue that the heart must also be strengthened and to quench and refresh all drouth and to coole and moisten all heate for which you shall take new conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses séeds of Endiue of Purslain and Lettice of each a dragme and a halfe peeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourds séeds and peeled Cucumber séeds of each fiue dragmes sugar pennets two ounces starch one ounce prepared crabs tailes as in this chapter not long ago is taught foure ounces powne all very small and mingled into a confection then when he hath vsed the pils let him take a spoonefull thereof and that in the morning early and likewise againe an houre and a halfe before both mealtides and after them halfe as much Last of al this patient must lay this smal bag vpon his left breast Take Violets waterlillies burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Corall Harts bones and Doronicum of each a dragme and a halfe the Iacinth stone the Smaragde stone and Saphire stone of each halfe a scruple pearls a dragme and a halfe thrée leaues of beaten gold and Mace one dragme and a halfe saffron a a scruple Cardamome and Galingall of each fiue graines powne each alone and then mingle them all together and lastly make it into a silken cushion or little bag But if you couet to haue the braines strengthened then looke in the beginning of the first part for the paine of the head and after that where the braines are described The twelfth Chapter Of the Ague Marasmode OF this Ague and of the nature thereof we haue in the former described Hectica made a plaine demonstration This is of some taken for to be a second Hectica In fine they are both such kind of Agues that there is smal help of man to be had against them This properly is that which the Phisitions cal Senectam that is the old age to wit a consuming of the whole body The causes of this is that the heate and the drouth get the mastery which might be caused when one is fasting and hath a cold stomacke In like maner also when one is ouerheated and straightway drinketh cold water vpon it Also the hot aire and the heate of the time may well prouoke and raise that which wasteth drieth vp and oftentimes expelleth the naturall heate whereby the body is sustained whereof the cold and drouth do follow Moreouer this sicknesse may be caused of the debilitie of naturall heate which cannot nourish the whole body and in like maner of cold vapors that ascend towards the heart and ouer-coole the same Likewise of all cold causes that lie hidden in the body as may be séene by very old folkes These are signes of this malady that it is without any Ague but with a slow pulse with an extenuation of the whole body without heate and in feeling may a generall cold be perceiued the vrine is thin white and waterish In fine there are no other
dragmes Saffron one dragme Rubarb a quarter of an ounce prepared Agaricus one dragme Cloues Citron séedes and the péels and Spica of Indy of each a scruple Tormentill and red Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe fine Bolus thrée dragmes Camfer ten greines powne them well all together and make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons Item take the iuice of Sorrell the iuice of Buglosse and of Cicorie of each two ounces fine Bolus one ounce mixe them all together and stirre them often in 24. howers afterwards adde these things following Aloe thrée ounces Camfer two scruples Saphirs Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple Pearles one drag Citron seede a quarter of an ounce Paradise wood Basill séede Amber red Corall and Zeduarie of each eight greins Roses Violets Sorrell séede Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglosse of each half a scrup stampe them all together mingle it well and afterwards set in the Sunne or in any other warme place till all the iuice be dried away This being done then powre more iuice thereon againe and do so thrée times Now when you desire to vse hereof then make 7. pils of one drag with some Aqua composita and take hereof euery morning or euery euening one pill and that before meales These following are also highly commended Take of the common plague pilles that are herebefore described foure scruples prepared Agaricus halfe a dragme Zeduary and Angelica of each one dragme Rubarb one scruple Trociscorum Alhandali fiue greines then make pilles hereof with water of Carduus Benedictus take of these pils one drag once a wéeke thrée howers after supper and in the morning drinke a good draught of the decoction of Pease and eate somwhat three howers after Some vse these pils following Take Aloe and Agaricus of each one dragme Myrrhe and fine Bolus of each a quarter of an ounce Saffron a dragme then make pils hereof with Baulme water or water of Buglosse and so vse them as hath bene said These pils following do not purge but defend the hart and all inward parts from al bad infection take Paradise wood halfe a dragme burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one dragme Tormentill Citron séede Terra sigillata and red Coral of each halfe a scruple Sorrell seedes Diptamus and Zeduarie of each a scruple fine Bolus three dragms Species de gemmis frigidis a dragme and a halfe Lignum Balsami halfe a dragme Camfere foure greins then make hereof pils with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes These following are yet more forcible Take Paradise wood halfe a dragme Tormentill two scruples Diptamus one scruple Zeduary and Lignum Balsami of each halfe a dragme Saffron one scruple Cloues fiue greines Verueine halfe a drag burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one scruple red Corall and Sorrell séedes of each half a drag fine Bolus three ounces Species de gemmis frigidis thrée drag Camfere foure greines make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes Others that are good for the heart Take Citron séedes two dragmes Iacincts Smaragdes Doronicum and bones of a Stags hart of each one scruple Zeduarie wood of Paradise of each two scruples the rootes of fiue-leafed grasse or Cinquefoile of each a quarter of an ounce then make pils hereof with the sirupe of Citrons Of all these foresaid pils may be vsed which you please and when you please therewith to comfort the heart and defend it from all ill ayre There are also diuers Confections prepared for preseruatiues that you may vse in stead of pils to wit morning and euening whereby nature is ayded thereby the better to withstand the pestilent ayre For these take Terra sigillata white Diptamus fine Bolus Myrrhe Wormwood Rue Scabious Pimpernel Sorrel and Zeduarie of each a dragme Aristology Tormentill and Bay-berries of each a dragm and a halfe fiue or sixe kernels of Walnuts ten or twelue new Figges Mithridate and Treacle of each an ounce Saffron and Camfer of each a scruple Vnicornes horne prepared Pearles bones of a Stags hart burnt Harts horn and Smaragds of each one dragme and a halfe peeled séeds of Citrons halfe an ounce Mace one dragme powne all that is to be powned and then temper all together with sirupe of Citrons to the consistence of a confection This Consection killeth all venime of the plague and preserueth men very maruellously from her infections if they take thereof in the morning and euening to wit in winter time with a draught of Malmsey and in Summer with Rosewater But if you haue not these confections then vse that of Nuts and Rue that herebefore is described in the 11. § Another confection that is most excellent take Iuniper berries Cloues Elecampane rootes and Nutmegs of each one dragme Aristology and Gentian of each thrée quarters of an ounce Purslaine and Sorrell seedes Doronicum red and white Behen Spodium de Canna bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood red white Corall shauings of Iuorie Bayberries Mastick and Rue of each two scrup Figs Raisins and Dates of each one ounce Saffron two scruples Cinnamom and Licorice of each halfe an ounce Tormentill and rootes of Auence of each thrée dragms white Diptamus Almonds Pingles peeled Melon séede Gourd séedes Citrull seedes and peeled Cucumber séedes of each one ounce prepared Agaricus thrée quarters of an ounce the roote of Peucedanus Terra sigillata terra S. Pauli and fine Bolus of each two drag Momy and Zeduarie of each one dragme Camfer halfe a dragme Species Diatriasantalum and Diarrhodon of each two dragmes Citron peels Smaragdes of each a dragme Muscus a scruple Treacle Diatessaron and Mitridatium of each an ounce powne all that is to be powned and hereof make a Confection with sirupe of Citrons Item take conserues of Roses of Violets of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Smaragde Iacinct and Pearles of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart filed Gold Citron seedes fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each halfe a dragme powne all that is to be powned and then make thereof a confection with sirupe of Citrons Another Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse of each an ounce and a halfe Doronicum bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes Saphirs of each halfe a scruple yellow Saunders Cinquefoile and Paradise wood of each thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce wine of Granado and sirupe of Limons of each halfe an ounce ten or twelue gold leaues then mingle all together to the consistence of a confection Another that is very good and approued Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse and of Burrage of each sixe ounces Doronicum Zeduarie Basill séede Mace Saffron and Adiantum of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphirs of each a scryple Pearles one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold sirupe of Apples and of Citron peels of each two ounces Violet water three quarters of an ounce white Sugar foure ounces seeth the
of Indie thrée greins Amber sixe greines Muske two greines Camfere sixe greines Sugar as much as all the rest do weigh temper them well together and make them into a subtill powder and vse it as before Another like vnto this Take fine Bolus very small beaten two ounces Tormentill Doronicum Diptamus and red Saunders of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Iuorie and Citron péeles of each halfe a drag Pearles two scruples Rubies Emrods Granates Saphires and Iacincts of each one scruple bone of a Stags hart a dragm Vnicornes horne halfe a scruple temper them together and giue halfe a dragm hereof at once You may if you will put Sugar vnto it Item take Citron séedes and Sorrell séedes of each two dragmes Diptamus Gentian and Tormentil of each two dragms and a half fine Bolus and Cinnamom of each one ounce Pearles Saphirs and bones of a Stags hart of each one dragme red white and yellow Sanders and small Basill séedes of each a dragme and a halfe make powder therof But if you wil make a Confection of it then take an ounce and a halfe of the foresaid powder and twelue ounces of Sugar and when you haue taken of it then drinke a draught of Sorrell water after it Montagnana writeth that he neuer saw any that haue died of the plague which diligently vsed this medicine Of all these foresaid powders may also Manus Christi or Sugar cakes be made The common custome is to take one ounce and a halfe of powder and twelue ounces of Sugar When the Arch Duke Maximilian that now is Emperor of Rome tooke his iourney into Spaine then was this powder following ordained for him as a preseruatiue against all bad ayre take Zeduarie Cloues Nutmegs Myrtle kernels Cinnamom Ginger of each a quarter of an ounce Gentian Diptamus Tormentill Elecampane rootes and Aristologie of each a drag and a halfe Nutmegs Sage Rue Balme Pionie seedes Citron séedes Sorrell séedes Basill séedes Bayberries Masticke Doronicum Frankinsence fine Bolus Sealed earth and burnt Iuorie of each half a drag bones of a Stags hart red Corall and Pearles of each one scruple conserue of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe an ounce Rosewater and Scabious water of each thrée ounces then mixe with them ten greines of Camfere and boile them with eight and twenty ounces of white Sugar to the consistence of a confection and when the same beginneth to be cold then temper the species with it and so make Manus Christi of it These Sugar cakes following are very common at Heydelborough in high Germanie Take Species Diamargariton a quarter of an ounce Liberantes foure scruples Zeduarie and Citron peeles of each one dragme Doronicum Angelica and Pimpernell of each halfe a dragme Couchenele two scruples Cinnamom a dragme and a halfe Cloues one dragme Vnicornes horne halfe a dragme Smaragdes ten greines Muscus two graines beaten Gold thrée leaues white Sugar nine ounces dissolue the Sugar in water wherein red crimson silke is sodden and make hereof Manus Christi This following do the Phisitions call Alexipharmacum that is such a medicine that can expell all manner of venim and whatsoeuer els is hurtfull to the body Take Sallad oyle of one hundred yeares old or more if you cannot get such oyle then boyle it vntill it waxeth eager sharpish thirty ounces Turpentine 3. ounces â—uphorbium and Beuercod of each halfe a drag dew or raine Wormes washed in Wine halfe an ounce afterwards put therein eightie or nintie Scorpions and in the Dog daies take the Adder that is called Vipera cut in péeces and let the oyle seeth in boyling water the space of foure howers afterwards set it ten daies in the hot sunne This being all done adde to it Zeduarie Gentian Tormentil white Diptamus Aristologie and Rubarbe of each halfe an ounce Hollihocke leaues Saint Iohns woort Danewéede and Rosemarie of each halfe a handfull Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce then powne all that is to be powned and temper them together then being close stopt burie it in horse dung for the space of thrée moneths Lastly presse it through a strong strainer and all that you can get out shall you reserue in a pelter bottell This medicine must be vsed in manner as followeth to wit that you take it cold and not warme It suffiseth also to annoint the hart the pulses and the temples of the head but thrice a day leauing two howers only betwéene euery iuunction At Pisa is a custome that the Magistrates euery yeare giue to the Vniuersitie two prisoners that haue deserued death for to anatomize which is a good meanes to proue this medicine When as they giue vnto one of these prisoners one scruple of Rats bane and eight howers before his death annoint him with this salue as is aforesaid then find they indéed that such men might afterwards liue fiue daies longer These foresaid receits haue bene of others described but falsly This mixture following is highly commended to annoint withall Take Amber halfe a dragme Annis séede halfe a scruple Paradise wood Laudanum red and white Behen of each a quarter of an ounce Mace and Citron péels of each two dragmes and a half Nutmegs white Corall red and white Saunders of each one dragme beaten Gold six leaues Basil water water of Saffron flowers and Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued of each fiue ounces Vineger two spoonefuls Malmsey two ounces temper them well together a great while and annoint oftentimes the pulses therewith the temples of the head and the face and reserue it being stopt very close In Saxonie they haue a salt of Wormwood called Sal Absynthij which will free and defend men from the plague without any further care We will also here describe certaine drinkes against the plague First it is not vnknowne what power there is in the compounded Aqua vitae against the plague and against al venimes as is sufficiently rehearsed in the eight part An approoued water Take Tormentill Valerian Pimpernell Dragon Diptamus Sealed earth fine Bolus dry Vineger dregs and long Pepper of each half an ounce Saffron a drag Amber halfe a drag Treacle one ounce Nux vomica and Carduus Benedictus of each thrée quarters of an ounce pown them all small together and powre as much thin white wine vpoÌ„ them as you please let it so stand fowre dayes and of this drink a spoonefull at once sweate vpon it and fast fiue howers after it For the common people you may prepare this following Take Valerian the roots of great Burs Bardana Diptamus of Candy Gentian Bistorta Tormentill and Pimpernell of each a like much beate all together grosly and powre Aqua vitae vpon it as much as wil couer it insolate it fourtéene daies long stirring it about euery day This being done then must you not take aboue a spoonefull of it at once Also you may distill it and vse it by it selfe but by my counsell this should not be
wherefore the hunters during these thirty dayes ought to giue to their hounds meate tempered with hens dung This madnes ceaseth also of it selfe when it beginneth to fréeze and that but seldome The signes of a mad dog are these he wil neither eate nor drinke and he fometh at the mouth and nose beholdeth euery one ouerthwartly and with a heauie looke and biteth as well men as beasts If a man be bitten by him then is there at the first no other accident perceiued but only that the wound cleanseth it selfe and is very painful Afterwards there followeth thereby a maruellous extremitie which the Gréekes do call Hydrophobos which is the feare and fright of the water which oftentimes in the dogges and in men is so forcible that they come out of their wits Notwithstanding that they feare most of all the water yet neuertheles they throw themselues into it and drowne themselues This feare of the water they get not all at one prefixed time but they get chiefly the same that neglect the bit most about the fortieth day some after the sixt moneth yea some also very well a yéere afterwards The auncient Phisitions do write that this franticknes of the biting of mad dogs hath manifested it selfe seuen yeeres after that they first were hurt by them They that are infected with this disease do also get a conuulsion in all the sinewes of the whole bodie and chiefly of the face it will be red and thereby cometh a great sweat and extreame féeblenesse Some can abide no light and others are vexed with an intolerable headach many houle like Dogs and bite all others that they can come by who will be afterwards as mad as they The auncient Phisitions write also that they be very few that do recouer Yet for this hath bene found many wholesome remedies whereof we shall speake hereafter There are two kinds of meanes the one common which is good against all bitings and stingings of all venimous beasts the second that is good alone against all biting of mad dogs if one do but presently put it in practise But if it be deferred too long it is vsed in vaine First there are some things that a body must prouide to haue alwaies in a readinesse that the same may immediatly be adhibited Take for this Creuets and burne them with as much of the rootes of Brionie to ashes then powne them small and preserue them Secondly haue alwaies in a readinesse some smal beaten rootes of Gentian and then if there be any bitten cast in twelue ounces of strong wine two spoonefuls of the ashes of Creuets and a spoonefull of the foresaid rootes and then drinke this at foure times to wit in the morning early Item for this is also commended the shels of the Lobster if they be powdered in drinke Item one other more that is made of Creuets and is very like to the former to wit as herafter followeth Take Crduets that are taken in Iuly and August burne them aliue to powder in a luted pot and then giue the powder in drinke with Treacle to wit one dragme and a halfe with water of Scabious Take also two or thrée dragmes of this powder and drinke it certaine dayes together with the water of Fumitorie Another Take Gentian and Myrrhe of each one dragme Ashes of Crabs a quarter of an ounce giue thereof euery morning with wine or if the patient be full of heate then take fountaine water in stead of wine Item the iuice of Balme is also very good for this or to beate the leaues to powder and drunken with wine In like manner one may also twice a wéeke take a dragme in waight of the great Treacle or of the Treacle Diatessaron be it wiih Wine or any other distilled water You haue also in the sixt Part the fiftéenth Chapter and twelfth § a water of the great Bur which is also wonderfull good against the biting of a mad dog Now a daies is much commended and that by experience the iuice of Quinces if one take thereof once a day thrée or foure ounces that the same will maruellously preserue one from this venime And now to preserue this iuice you must let it seeth so long by a mild fire till that the skum is separated and taken away then you may preserue it in a glasse with a narrow mouth and powre thereto a little Sallad oyle it is also good for all other venimes It is also written that clarified Hony taken daily should preserue one that he cannot be annoyed with the biting of mad dogs In like maner if one eate the Lyuer of the same made dog that the same should preserue the bitten person from all symptomes The wild Roses powdered and drunken are also found very good for it Besides all these foresaid remedies one may vse things that cleanse the infected bloud which one may do with these medicines following if the same be drunken fourteene daies together Take sirupe of Fumitorie of sweet Apples and Pomegranates of each halfe an ounce water of Fumitorie Buglosse and Cicorie of each one ounce mingle them together and drinke it fasting Afterwards vse this purgation take new Cassie three quarters of an ounce confection of Hamech one quarter of an ounce Inda one dragme make a Bolus or bit thereof with Cinnamom and Sugar swallow it downe in the morning and fast sixe howers after it For this is specially commended Hiera with Coloquint For this is also good thicke milke called Lac scistum for that it looseth and doth withstand the venime And as soone as the bodie is purged and after that all the foresaid remedies haue bene vsed it is then requisite that one think vpon the biting or wound First the biting is not to be healed but it must be well rubbed with Garlicke vineger and salt so long till it come to bléed apace Some bind thereon liuing hens and pullets but looke what is written thereof in the discription of the Plague whereas we haue spoken of the Plaguesore Make also a salue of the iuice of Onions iuice of Rue Vineger and hony wherewith annoint the wound three or foure dayes together keeping it cleane the which will bring all things in securitie This doth also Garlicke fried with Butter and layd thereon Or an onion made hollow and filled vp with Treacle and rosted in the ashes whereof we haue before admonished And you may also take two handfuls of Rue frie it twice it butter and apply it twice a day to the wound Others take Garlicke Rue salt Frankinsence Mirrhe of each a like much beaten all together and a plaister made thereof with wine Take Cheruil seed seeth it in faire water and drinke thereof wash the wound also therewith this is good without and within The powder of Verueine is also commended for it that is gathered betwéene both our Ladie dayes for to strew on the wound There is also good for it all Nettle waters drunken likewise the Nettle séed stamped to grout and
BEcause that the right Balsam is no where to be gotten or although it be brought vnto vs yet common people cannot haue the same by reason of the dearenesse wherefore haue many Phisitions endeuoured themselues for to distill such an oyle which might haue the same efficacie and vertue and verily the Phisitions and Chirurgians haue found therein an especiall operation wherefore I cannot pretermit the description of some of them First this ensuing is a very precious remedie against the poxe against all diseases of the mother and of the stomacke Take faire cleane oyle of Turpentine sixtéene ounces stop it very close afterwards take Lauander Sage Betonie Roses Rosemarie Mints and Bayleaues of each a small handfull rootes of Angelica of Ireas of Valerian Elecampane rootes and Diptamus of Candy of each one dragm flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Lauander and flowers of Spike flowers of Sage of Cammomill and Stechas of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one drag and a halfe Piony rootes Licorice and Spica of Indy of each one dragme péels of Citrons and of Oranges of each two scruples stampe them all small together and then powre vnto it the oyle of Turpentine and so let it stéepe the space of a whole day with meetly much water with it that it be couered therein afterwards distill it out againe in water at the first with a gentle fire vntill it be warme and that so long as any oyle or water doth come out of it afterwards separate the oyle from the water Secondly if you will distill it once againe then put to the foresaid water and oyle 3. ounces of liquid Storax and distill it as before Thirdly take red Storax two ounces Frankinsence Myrrhe Lacca Masticke Bdellium and Benzoin of each one ounce and a halfe stampe them all together and distill it as before Fourthly take Ginger Galingall Zeduarie and Gentian of each one quarter of an ounce Cubebes Cardamome Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe selected Rubarbe and Saffron of each halfe a dragme Nutmegs Mace Cloues and Calmus of each one ounce stampe them all small together and put it into a glasse bodie then put vnto it againe the foresaid oyle and water let it so stand and stéepe and distill it afterwards then separate the oyle from the water and kéepe it well stopt You haue also in like manner in the second part the sixt Chapter and third § an artificiall Balme which was ordained for the Emperour Ferdinandus and another in the first part the twelfth Chapter called a Hypobalsamum This following is also highly renowned Take selected Myrrhe Aloe Indy Spica Dragon bloud Frankinsence Bdellium Balsam fruit Saffron Mastick Gum Stechas red Styrax Laudanum and Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Turpentine thrée ounces and a half yellow Cowslips halfe a handfull further distill them all together as is before said These thrée last be very forcible against all Palseys if the lame members be annointed therwith and if that one do drink a drop or twaine thereof with wine it is also very good These Balmes be also good for all fresh wounds so that they may be healed in two or thrée daies therwith They be also very good against all diseases of the sinewes Another which is common with all Chirurgians Take selected Myrrhe Aloe Spica of Indie Dragonbloud Frankinsence Momy Opopanacum Bdellium Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Laudanum Balsam fruites Saffron Masticke Gumme and liquid Storax of each one quarter of an ounce fresh Beuercod two dragmes and a halfe Muscus halfe a dragme Turpentine foure ounces and a halfe powne all that is to be powned and adde the Turpentine vnto them with a little water and distill all together in séething water as is said afore Of Beere §. 1. COmmon Béere is made in this countrey of many kinds of Graine as of Oats of Barley and of Wheat whereby it is also of sundry natures That which is made of Barley is cold of nature in comparison of wine that which is made of Barley and Oates is lesse binding and maketh also fewer winds and doth also nourish lesse that which is brewed of Wheate or of any other grain is hotter warmer and more binding the thicker it is the worse the thinner the better that which is well Hopt causeth one to pisse fréely and looseth the body but it is not wholesome for them that haue weake braines and that is vnwholsomer wherin the seeds of Rue be decocted for that the drunkennesse of such Béere weareth away much flower then the drunkennes of wine for that it maketh grosse vapors in the head and a tough flime which will hardly be digested If it be not well sodden then doth it cause much wind puffeth vp the belly But very old and well sodden beere doth make people fat increaseth the bloud and in women that giue sucke the milke and that especially if the same be brewed of good corne Thus for to kéepe beere long take about halfe a pound of prepared Coriander vnto a barrell of béere and seeth the same in two quarts of the same béere afterwards straine it and wring it out and powre it warme into the vessell yet make it tight and let it stand so still a day and a night Some do take a new earthen pot knocke the same in péeces and cast it into the vessell and put also vnto it a new laid egge The 3. Chapter Of Clarret wine Hyppocras and Herbwines THese aromaticall wines and such like haue no certaine prescription for that each one maketh them according to his owne good liking and pleasure the one putteth much spice vnto it the other much Sugar and another lesse of the one or of the other Some do also make them with Hony like as hereafter some do follow for an example Take elected Cinnamom thrée ounces clensed and smal cut Ginger and Greines of each one ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues Cardamome and Cucubes of each one quarter of an ounce being powned al together grosly powre a quart of wine vpon it and stop it tight afterwards set it a whole night in a warme place This being all done then take foure quarts of wine and one quart of cleare skummed Hony powre the Hony vnto a litle wine and so let it seeth softly together afterwards then powre the foure quarts of wine vnto it and all the stéeped Spices and let it coole a little then powre it so thorow a straining bagge and that so oftentimes together vntill the wine runne cleare thorough it This Claret wine may be put into a little vessell and the spices thorough which the wine hath runne are to be hanged in the vessell in a long bugge then will it remaine good a long time This potion is very good against all cold and moist diseases of the head of the braines and thee stomack It is also good for all cold women and for all old people it strengtheneth the digestiue vertue prouoketh naturall heate and
in the Table Syrupus de Eupatoria of Agrymonie §. 25. THe opinion of many learned men is that our Agrymony is the true Eupatorium Of this is also a sirupe made which is very troublesome to be made wherefore we will not describe the same here It hath a speciall power for to helpe the cold and obstructed liuer to expell all Dropsies and such like sicknesses for to make all grosse slime thin and to strengthen the liuer it also moneth vrine Looke further of her virtue in the Table of Agrymony Syrupus de fumo Terrae of Fumitorie §. 26. TAke the iuice of Fumitory and of the sprouts of Hops of each one pound clarifie it and temper it like as we haue taught and then decoct it vnto a sirupe with one pound of Sugar At the Apothecaries there is an other made of many sundry things which here we will not describe These sirupes be both good for to open all obstructions of the stomacke and of the liuer for to strengthen the same also and to cleanse the blood that thereby all scabbednes all had sores and such like accidents may be suppressed and auoided Wherefore they be also good against the Pocks against all old vlcers Leprosie and other such like diseases moe Syrupus de Glycyrriza of Licorice §. 27. THe common people do make this sirupe thus Take a pound of small sliced Licorice and powre thereon two pots of water afterwards let it seethe so long vntill the vertue come out then straine it and put to this decoction one ounce of Dragagant and let it séethe togither vntill it be thicke enough This sirupe is very good for the Cough and for all toughnes of the brest But this following is the right sirupe of Licorice Take small sliced Licorice one ounce Maydenhaire halfe an ounce Hyssope one quarter of an ounce put a quarte of water vnto it and let it all togither infuse the space of fower and twentie howers afterwards put vnto it â—â—ere Hony Sugar pennets and white Sugar of each fower ounces Rose water three ounces seethe it togither vnto a sirupe This sirupe clenseth the breast and the lights it is very good for all cold coughes and also for the pleurisie as you may reade in the table of Licorice Syrupus Granatorum of Pomegranates §. 28. IT is a great abuse to wring out the sower and swéete Pomegranates togither by reason that the sower and the swéete each a part are méete for sundrie diseases but the foresaid mixture we will leaue alone for Cookerie thus take two quarts of Pomegranates wine and seethe it so long vntill it be well clarified then temper amongst it halfe a pound of Sugar and so set it in the sunne vntill it come to worke and then afterwards preserue it in a sellar And for to write a part of the sowre Pomegranates Take thereof fiue pound of the iuice and white Sugar three pound seethe it togither to a sirupe skumming it alwaies about This sirupe is verie forcible in all hot agues which be caused of Cholera The sirupe of swéete Pomegranates is prepared in all sorts as the former like as the same is taught in the table at large of the Pomegranates and euerie one may direct himselfe accordingly Syrupus de Hyssopo of Hyssop §. 29. YOu must take dry Hyssop the rootes of Smallage of Fennell Parsley and of Licorice of each fiue dragmes peeled Barley one quarter of an ounce the séede of Mallowes of Quince kernels and Dragagant of each one dragme and a halfe Mayden haire three dragmes Iuiubes and Sebestes of each fourteene or fiftéene Currans thrée quarters of an ounce Figs and Dates of each fiue or sixe Sugar pennets twelue ounces then make a sirupe thereof This sirupe is verie forcible for all the diseases of the breast and of the lights it causeth all tough slime to auoide which may hardly be coughed vp like as shall be more at large taught thereof in the English Register vnder the name of Hyssop Syrupus de Ireos of Ireas §. 30. THis sirupe is made as in the third Part the tenth chapter and ninth § is taught whereas it is ordained against the dropsie Tympanites like as also the table vnder the name of Ireos doth giue to vnderstand Syrupus de Iuiubis §. 31. OF Iuiubes take thirtie or thirtie sixe the séede of Violets and of Mallowes of each two dragmes and a halfe Mayden hayre péeled Barley and Licorice of each halfe an ounce Quince kernels white Poppie séede the séede of Mellons of Lettice and Dragagant of each one dragme and a halfe séethe them togither in well water and to this decoction strayned put twelue ounces of Sugar and then let it séethe to a sirupe The same sirupe is good against all hoarsnes against the cough and against the pleurisie and also to other diseases moe like as the table doth expresse Syrupus de Limonibus of Limons §. 32. THis sirupe is made of fresh Limons euen as the sirupe of Oranges is made but it is far stronger then the sirupe of Citrons like as the same may be seene in the register vnder the name of Limons Syrupus de Lupulo of Hops §. 33. TAke the iuice of the sprigs of yong Hops one pound and thâ—â—â— of Fumitory halfe a pound which be both very cleare decocted and skimmed afterwards séethe them with a pound and a halfe of Sugar vnto a sirupe The iuice of Hops may also be taken alone This sirupe cooleth much it expelleth the yellow Iaundise moreouer all slimines and also the Dropsie through the stoole and is also good for all other things like as is sufficiently declared vnder the name of Hops in the Table Syrupus de Menta of Mints §. 34. THere be two kinds of Sirups of Mints as the same and also their virtues are described in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 17. § where it is also admonished that it is especiall méete for the Laxe For what causes moe the same is profitable that may you reade in the Table vnder the name of Mints Syrupus de Myrto of Mirtle seede §. 35. IN the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 17. § is this Sirupe also specified which is very commodious for many things like as you may reade in the Table Syrupus de Nymphaea of water Lillies §. 36. TAke of the white leaues of waterlilly floures one pound let them waume vp in water afterwards wring them hard out through a cloth and then séethe this decoction skumming it with a pound of Sugar to a sirupe This sirupe is very méetely vsed for all hot sicknesses like as before is taught in the fourth Chapter and 39. § It moysteneth it cooleth and furthereth sléepe Another which is commonly prepared at all Apothecaries Take the leaues of white water Lillies one ounce yellow water Lillies halfe an ounce seedes of Fleawort and of Sorrell of each halfe an ounce the séedes of Melons of Citruls of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together
peeled of each one quarter of an ounce the séede of Lettice of Endiue of small Endiue and of Purslaine of each one dragme Fennell rootes halfe an ounce shred it all together very small and let it seethe in Barly water afterwards strayne it thorow and wring it out hard Now being clarified then put sixe ounces of white Sugar vnto it Vineger and the iuice of sowre Pomegranates of each one ounce then let them séethe all together againe vnto a sirupe at last temper yellow Saunders with it and Indy Spica of each two scruples This sirupe doth maruellous much withstand the hot Cholera and besides all hot Agues and procureth also sleepe it is also to be vsed for moe other things like as the Table vnder the name of water Lillies doth set forth Syrupus de Papauere of Poppie heads §. 37. THere be two kindes of these sirupes made the one called Compositum is thus made Take black and white Poppie heads which be very fresh of each 25. dragmes Mayden haire seuen dragmes and a halfe Licorice 22. dragmes Iuiubes fiftéene dragmes Lettice séede two ounces and a halfe Mallowes séede and Quince kernels of each thrée dragmes séethe them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe afterwards wring it out and séethe this decoction againe with Sugar and sugar Pennets of each foure ounces vnto a sirupe This sirupe is very good against all dry Coughes against the Consumption Phihisis and against all rheumes it maketh sléepe and is also good for moe other causes like as the Table maketh mention Syrupus de Persicis of Peaches §. 38. THis sirupe is made of the iuice of the selfesame fruits hir virtues are described in the fourth chapter and wherefore it is further good looke for that in the table of the Peaches Syrupus de Plantagine of Plantaine §. 39. THis sirupe is very seldome vsed and besides made with greater trouble it is also vsed but once to wit in the obstruction of the Pyles it is made onely of the iuice like as all other sirupes Syrupus de Pomis of Apples §. 40. OF Apples there be two kinds of sirupes made like as the same be described in the second part the sixt chapter and fourth § their vse is declared in the register vnder the name or title of Apples Syrupus de Portulaca of Purslaine §. 41. THis sirupe is also made of the iuice of the herbe but vsed very seldome like as one may reade in the register vnder the name of Purslaine Syrupus de Prassio of Horehound §. 42. TAke Horehound one ounce Licorice halfe an ounce Maydenhaire and Hyssop of each thrée dragmes Currans Annis Rootes of smallage and of Fennell of each two dragmes and a halfe of the greater Pimpernell séede of Fenegréeke and Ireos of each one dragme and a halfe Linseede and Quince kernels of each one dragme Currans one ounce eight or ten Figs Sugar pennets and Sugar or Hony of each twelue ounces then make a sirupe thereof like as is taught before This sirupe is very good against all diseases of the breast and of the lights which be caused of cold tough slyminesse and be hard to be expelled but it is especiall good for all olde and auncient people which haue stuffed breasts The register teacheth further for what this sirupe is méete Syrupus de Pyris of Peares §. 43. THis sirupe hath the same power which the sirupe of Peaches hath it is also made and vsed for the selfe same sicknesses Syrupus de Radicibus of Rootes §. 44. THere be also two sorts made of this the one of twaine and the other of fiue kinds of roots like as the same in the third part the 20. chap. and 20. § are described where be also their vertues discouered But whereto the same be further méete looke for that in the register vnder the name of the sirupe of rootes Syrupus de Ribes of Raspes §. 45. TAke thrée pounds of the iuice of Raspes and two pounds of good Sugar séethe the same vnto a sirupe For what it is good looke before in the fourth chapter where it is described how that the same is to be made after sundry fashions Syrupus infusionis Rosarum of Roses §. 46. TAke fresh Rose leaues twelue ounces put them in a pot and powre vpō it thirtie ounces of hot Rose water afterwards stop the pot close and so let it stand a stéepe the space of eight howers this being done then wring it out and put fresh Roses vnto it againe then let it stand a stéepe as before then being wroong out againe put twentie ounces of Sugar vnto it séethe it togither softly vnto a sirupe this Sirupe is especiall good for to slake thirst to coole all heate and hot Agues and also to strengthen the stomacke It withstandeth all rotten humors wherefore it is also very good 〈◊〉 the Plague it withstandeth windes and other diseases moe like as the Table maketh mention at large Syrupus de Rosis siccis of drie Roses §. 47. ALso there is a sirupe made of drie Roses which looseth not but bindeth but it is not much vsed and is made like as in the first part the thirtéenth Chapter and fourth § is shewed looke for this in the Table vnder the title of hony of Roses Syrupus Rosatus solutiuus purging sirupe of Roses §. 48. ALso there be sundrie sirupes of Roses laxatiue prepared as liketh each Phisition best whereof in the first Part the second Chapter and seuenth § are described the two commonest sorts and their virtues and operation added vnto it For what they be now further to be vsed looke into the Table vnder the name of Roses Syrupus de Rosis albis of white Roses §. 49. ALthough this sirupe be very profitable neuertheles it is not much vsed it cooleth much more than the red sirupe Some doe commonly take onely the iuice wroong out of the flowers and they seeth it short with Sugar vnto a sirupe to the end that it might the better retaine his virtue Looke further into the Register of white Roses Syrupus sapor Regum §. 50. TAke the iuice of Buglosse and of Burrage of each sixe ounces the iuice of swéet Apples nine ounces let them stand and settle and afterwards put one ounce of Sene huskes vnto it let them so infuse 24. howers and then let it séethe a waume or twaine and afterwards séethe it with nine ounces of Sugar vnto a sirupe further hang with a little bag halfe a dragme of Saffron in it and wring it oftentimes out This sirupe is onely to be occupied in Melancholia Syrupus de Stechade of Stechas flowers §. 51. HEreof be two kindes described but we will commend them vnto the Apothecaries they be also good for all cold diseases of the braines and of the sinewes also for the Palsey for the falling sicknes for the Crampe for the conuulsion of the mouth for the shaking they do strengthen the stomacke and all other
out of it then powre it againe in the body by all that which remained therein to the end it may be soft againe and in this manner distill it seuen times togither Other be of opinion that as often as it is distilled that then it is to be set againe in horse dung Some suppose that it ought to be but thrée times distilled and that at the most put the dry feces into a Retorte and distill it with moderate fire and then will it yéeld a stinking oyle Afterwards powre oftentimes water vnto it and distill this oyle as many times with the water vntill it loose her sauour or stench This water is to be giuen in three or fower times a yéere each time one ounce but not aboue three or fower drops of the oyle Each one may beléeue this as far as he will Concerning all other drinks as Béere Claret wine Aromaticall wines Barley water Iuleps Almond milke Meade and such like of them we haue written elsewhere In the end of this booke we will admonish and discourse of moe other herbed wines The second Part of this Chapter of certaine powders for Meate WE will not here admonish of any powders which be seruiceable méete for any sicknesses but we will only speake of them that are vsed for pleasure and for to warme the stomacke or that may be strowed vpon wine sops as this ensuing Take elected Cinnamome one ounce and a halfe Ginger thrée ounces Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each thrée drag poune all verie small togither Sugar as much as you please and according as that you desire to haue it strong Item take Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace Greines and Cloues of each halfe a drag Sugar as much as you please Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace and Greines of each halfe a drag prepared Coriander and red Roses of each two scrup Sugar as much as you please but not too much These powders be very good vsed as well at meales as afterwards Another take blacke white and long Pepper of each halfe a drag Thyme Annis and Ginger of each fiue greines Sugar fiue ounces then temper them altogither This is speciall good for all cold stomacks The third part of this Chapter of Trociskes TRociscus is a Gréeke name and is as much to say as a round shiue or round Cake like as these Trocisci be made but the Apothecaries doe commonly make them now adayes fower square and about the waight of one dragme which is of small importance These Trociskes be made diuersly whereof be many mentioned in this our booke whereof wée will onely describe the name and force of them that be too troublesome to make to the end the same may be asked for at the Apothecaries when there is vse for them Trocisci de Absinthio of Wormewood §. 1. THese be ordained onely against the obstruction of the Liuer and be described in the third Part the twelfth chapter and 4. § Trocisci Adulphi §. 2. THese doe take their name of the Sulphure like as you may finde written in the second Part the fift chapter and fiftéenth § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke §. 3. THese Trociskes are found prepared at all Apothecaries to the end that the bad qualitie of the Agaricke may be taken away thereby The manner to prepare them is described in the Introduction Their vse shall you finde in the Table vnder the name Agaricke Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint §. 4. THe preparation of these Trociskes is also described in the Introduction of this booke for to strengthen other purgations with it like as stands admonished in the Register vnder the name of Coloquinte Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries §. 5. THese be also troublesome to be made they be good for all diseases of the Raines and the bladder and for Dysuria Looke further in the Register vnder the name of winter Cherries Trocisci de Berberis of Barberries §. 6. OF the iuice of Barberries take one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuory Lignum Aloes Sorrell seede Masticke Gallia Moscata and Indy Spica of each one ounce Gum thrée dragmes Roses fiue dragmes and Rose water as much as is needefull for to temper them togither You shall find their vse vnder the name of Barberies Trocisci de Bolo Armeno §. 7. THese Trociskes be in no vse but they are aduised to be vsed for a cold stomacke Trocisci de Camphora of Camfere §. 8. FOr that these Trociskes be very much vsed therefore we will describe the same Take Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuory and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce péeled séedes of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers Dragagant Saffron Gum and Indy Spica of each one dragme yellow Saunders two dragms and a half Lignum Aloes Cardamome Starch and Camfere of each two scruples white Sugar and Manna of each thrée dragmes then fashion them with the Muscilage of Fleawort which is made with Rose water These Trociskes be very good against all hot Agues against all inflaming of the blood and Cholera against a bad stomacke and bad liuer and also against thirst which is caused thereby they be also good against the yellow Iaundies against the Consumption and against the dizzines of the head like as you may further perceiue in the Register vnder the name of Camfere Trocisci de Capparis of Caper rootes §. 9. THese Trociskes be very seldome made They be good against the hardened Milt like as you may further reade in the same place of the hardened Spléene Trocisci de Carabe of Amber §. 10. TAke a quarter of an ounce of yellow Amber burnt Harts horne parched Gum burnt Corall Dragagant the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Masticke Lacca parched blacke Popie séede of each two scruples Frankincense Saffron and Opium of each halfe a dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the slime of Fleawoort These Trociskes stop the blood out of whatsoeuer place it should flowe as womens termes the Piles and excessiue making of water it healeth also all inward exulceration viz. of the Liuer and of the Lights looke further in the Table of Amber Trocisci de Chelidonia of Chelidony §. 11. THese Trociskes are vsed alone in this booke for fowle flesh in vlcers Trocisci de Corallis of Corrall §. 12. THey be very troublesome to be made and be very seldome vsed they be onely good against the Piles Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrimony §. 13. TAke the iuice of Agrimonie and Manna of each one ounce Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie thrée dragmes and a halfe Indie Spica thrée dragmes Rubarbe Asarabacca and Annis of each two dragmes and a halfe poune them verie small to powder and temper them togither with water of Cuscuta then dry them in the shadow These be especiall good for all obstructions of the lyuer and of the spléene and also
Hyssopo of Hyssope ibid. The 30. § Syrupus de Ireos of Ireas ibid. The 31. § Syrupus de Iuiubis ibid. The 32. § Syrup de Limonibus of Limons ibid. The 33. § Syrupus de Lupulo of Hops 767 The 34. § Syrupus de Menta of Mints ibid. The 35. § Syrup de Myrto of Mirtle seed ibid. The 36. § Syrupus de Nymphaea of water Lillyes ibid. The 37. § Syrupus de Papauere of Poppy heads ibid. The 38. § Syrupus de Persicis of Peaches 768 The 39. § Syrup de Plantagine of Plantain ibid. The 40. § Syrupus de Pomis of Apples ibid. The 41. § Syrup de Portulaca of Purslaine ibid. The 42. § Syrup de Prassio of Horehound ibid. The 43. § Syrupus de Pyris of Peares ibid. The 44. § Syrupus de Radicibus of roots ibid. The 45. § Syrupus de Ribes of Raspes ibid. The 46. § Syrupus infusionis Rosarum of Roses ibid. The 47. § Syrup de Rosis siccis of dry roses 769 The 48. § Syrupus rosatus solutiuus purging Syrupes of Roses 769 The 49. § Syrupus de rosis albis of white Roses ibid. The 50. § Syrupus sapor Regum ibid. The 51. § Syrupus de Staechade of Stechas flowers ibid. The 52. § Syrupus de Thymo of Thyme ibid. The 53. § Syrupus violarum of Violets ibid. ¶ The fourth part of this Chapter of the Species and of Losinges 770 The 1. § Species de Ambra of Amber ibid. The 2. § Species de Aniso of Annis ibid. The 3. § Species de Anthus of Rosemary ibid. The 4. § Species aromaticum rosarum ibid. The 5. § Species de Calamintha of field Mints ibid. The 6. § Species de Capparis of Caper rootes pag. 771 The 7. § Species de Caryophyllis of Cloues ibid. The 8. § Spec. de Cinnamomo of Cinamom ibid. The 9. § Species Cordiales for the hart ibid. The 10. § Spec. Diacostu of Costus roots ibid. The 11. § Species de Croco or Crocoma of Saffron ibid. The 12. § Species de Cumino of Comin ibid. The 13. § Species de tragacantha of Dragagant pag. 772 The 14. § Species Ducis ibid. The 15. § Species de Galanga of Galingall ibid. The 16. § Spec. de Gemmis of precious stones ibid. The 17. § Species Hierae simplicis ibid. The 18. § Species de Ireos of Ireas ibid. The 19. § Species Iustini ibid. The 20. § Species de Lacca 773 The 21. § Spec. laetificantes laetitiae Galeni ibid. The 22. § Species liberantes ibid. The 23. § Species lithontribon ibid. The 24. § Species de Margaritis of Pearls ibid. The 25. § Species de Mentha of Mints ibid. The 26. § Species de Moschu of Muske ibid. The 27. § Species Nere. 774 The 28. § Spec. de Olibano of Frankincense ibid. The 29. § Spec. de Papauere of Poppy seed ibid. The 30. § Spec. de Penidio of Sugar pennets ibid. The 31. § Species de Paeonia of Pyony ibid. The 32. § Species Diaphoeniconis of Dates ibid. The 33. § Species Philanthropon ibid. The 34. § Species pliris Arcoticon ibid. The 35. § Spec. de Prassio of Horehound ibid. The 36. § Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of Roses 775 The 37. § Species Electuarij de succo rosarum of Roses ibid. The 38. § Species Rosatae nouellae ibid. The 39. § Species de Seminibus ibid. The 40. § Species Triasantalum of Sanders ibid. The 41. § Species Trion pipereon of Pepper 776 The 42. § Species Diaturbith of Turbith ibid. The 43. § Species de Xyloaloe ibid. The 44. § to make strong water ibid. The 45. § Spec. Berchtoldi ibid. ¶ The 16. Chapter 777 The 1. § Decoctiones Aperitiuae Potions that do deobstruct ibid. The 2. § Decoctio Epithymi of Dodder ibid. The 3. § Decoctio fructuum a Potion of certâ—â—â— fruits ibid. The 4. § Decoctio pectoralis the pectorall potion 777 The 5. § Decoctio infusio Senae a Potion of Sene leaues ibid. The 6. § a water of mans blood ibid. ¶ The second part of this Chapter of certaine powders for meate 778 ¶ The third part of this Chap. of Trocisks ibid. The 1. § Trocis de Absinthio of Wormewood ibid. The 2. § Trocisci Adulphi ibid. The 3. § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke ibid. The 4. § Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint 779 The 5. § Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries ibid. The 6. § Trocisci de Berberis of Berberis ibid. The 7. § Trocisci de Bolo armeno ibid. The 8. § Trocisci de Camphora of Campher ibid. The 9. § Trocisci de Capparis of Caper roots ibid. The 10. § Trocisci de Carabe of Amber ibid. The 11. § Trocis de Chelidonia of Celandine ibid. The 12. § Trocisci de Corallis of Corall 780 The 13. § Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrymonie ibid. The 14. § Trocisci de Lacca ibid. The 15. § Trocisci de Myrrha ibid. The 16. § Trocisci de Olibano of Frankinsence ibid. The 17. § Trocisci de Rhabarbaro ibid. The 18. § Trocisci Diarrhodon ibid. The 19. § Trocisci de Rosis of Roses ibid. The 20. § Trocisci de Santalis of Saunders 781 The 21. § Trocisci de Spica ibid. The 22. § Trocisci de Spodio of Iuory ibid. The 23. § Trocisci de terra sigillata ibid. The 24. § Trocisci de Violis of Violets ibid. The 25. § For to make writing Inke ibid. The 26. § For to make common Vernish ibid. The 27. § of Painters Vernish 782 The 28. § for to make odoriferous Vernish ibi ¶ The 17. Chapter ibid. ¶ The 18. Chapt. of all kindes of Wine ibid. The 1. § of wine in generall 783 The 2. § of sundrie natures of wine ibid. The 3. § of Must ibid. The 4. § of Wine cuict or decocted wine pag. 784 The 5. § of burnt wine or spirit of wine ibid. The 6. § of Vineger ibid. ¶ The 19. Chapt. of herbed wines and such like ibid. The 1. § the wine of Elecampane rootes 785 The 2. § Eiebright wine ibid. The 3. § Wine of whole Grapes ibid. The 4. § Wine of Auence ibid. The 5. § Betony wine ibid. The 6. § Burrage wine 786 The 7. § Wine of Asarabacca ibid. The 8. § wine of Frambois ibid. The 9. § wine of Harts toong ibid. The 10. § the wine of Hyssope ibid. The 11. § winter Cherry wine 787 The 12. § Cherry wine ibid. The 13. § Lauander wine ibid. The 14. § of Malmsey ibid. The 15. § wine of Marierom ibid. The 16. § wine of Cinnamome ibid. The 17. § Muscadell wine 788 The 18. § Wine of Gilloflowers ibid. The 19. § Wine of Buglosse ibid. The 20. § wine that purgeth ibid. The 21. § Wine of whole Grapes ibid. The 22. § Vinum punicum ibid. The 23. § Rosemary wine ibid. The 24. § Wine of Sage 789 The 25. § Wine of Clary ibid. The 26. § Wine of water Lilly
such time as that the Pitch do no more smell as it was woont to do and be molten againe together then let fall one or two drops vpon a cold stone and if it being cold thou canst rub it to powder betwéene thy fingers it is sufficiently prepared Turpentine After the very same manner is also Turpentine Rosine and such like things prepared Rosine Pearles shall be beaten very small and searced thorow a lawne searce Pearles Precious stones then moule or grinde them on a mortar or marble stone with rose water vntill thou find or féele no sharpnesse or sandinesse betweene thy fingers then let them drie in such a place where no dust can come at them On this manner are all other precious stones prepared Lead being burned to ashes is vsed to many purposes and it is thus to be burned Lead calcined Take as much Lead as thou wilt put it in a little pipkin stop it very close set it in a potters fornace there let it glow burne whiles his pots be a baking then let it coole if it be not calcined or burned inough lute it and set it in the fornace againe and so burne it till it be so fine as ashes Lead is also washed and prepared thus Take Lead and beate it in a leaden morter Lead washed put raine water to it and beate them both togither a good while till the water begin to be very thicke and troubled like puddle straine this through a cloth very well and let it drie in a warme place Take Bloudstone which now is in vse at the Apothecaries is the myne of Quicksiluer Bloudstone powder it and searce it finely then put it in a mortar powre cleare fresh water on it stir them well togither and let it settle to the bottome then powre away the fowle water on the top and put more cleane water to it and do as before till it be cleane washed but much better it is to wash this stone with plantaine water The preparation of Bucks bloud is this In the sommer time wheÌ„ the sunne is in the Lion Bucks bloud thou shalt then take a black bucke or he goate that is some three or fower yeares old kéepe him by himself the space of three wéekes féede him with nothing else but these herbs as Smallage which is so good for the grauel that of some for that cause it is called the hand of God Parsley Mallowes Pimpinell Iuie of the oake Paules Betony Saxifrage Saxifrage of the wall and such like herbes with their rootes Item Straberie leaues Beane huskes the lesser branches of the vine giue him these herbes one after another Thou shalt also giue him red wine to drinke but euery third day giue as much faire water as he is able to drinke Now when he hath thus béen fed three weekes togither he shall at the first full moone be killed or stucke The first bloud shalt thou let passe away and receiue that which is the middlemost or second drie this in the sunne vntill thou canst powder it or else if it cannot be done at the sunne drie it in an ouen and so reserue it in some drie place c. Those that take great delight in distillations do féede the bucke with meate and drink The distillation of bucke bloud as is before sayd onely excepted that they giue him no water at all They take ten pounds of this bloud fiue pounds of wine vineger that hath bin twise or thrise distilled one pound of salt of Radish of Cicorie Pimpinell of each of them three ounces Valerian Cichorie rootes Ginger Winter Cherries white Amber Sulphur viue that hath bin well washed in wine Cinnamom Anniseedes Fennell seede Commin seede Wilde Rape seede Parsly seede of each two ounces of the iuice of Agramonie Rue Penniroyall and of Paules Betonie of each six dragmes These things being cut somwhat small and well mixed togither they shall be put into a pot close luted and stopped and buried in horse dung for one fortnight or three wéekes then distilled in a glasse limbecke The first water that distilleth is very cleare so soone as the colour of the water altereth thou shalt change thy recipient or receiuer this iterate in changing of recipients as often as thou séest the colour of that which distilleth to change Others distill it all ouer togither into one receiuer and afterward reiterate or repeate their distillations twise or thrise till neither the tast nor the smell do offend them In the first and second distillation ascendeth also some oyle with the water which shal be let alone with the liquor and albeit the liquor do séeme nothing troubled or thicke thou shalt not regard that for it is but so much the stronger This liquor and oyle togither if it be kept close stopped remaineth good and vertuous two or thrée yeares after the first making of it Of this mayest thou giue at one time two dragmes or half an ounce in wine or meade against grauell and dropsies before meate it doth also wonderfully prouoke sweate Bolus Armenus or Bole Armenacke is a red stone or earth that is brought from Armenia Bole Armenacke This hath an especiall vertue to purge melancholie the waight of a crown at once is sufficient for it purgeth somewhat violently but if it be washed thou mayest exhibite the waight of two crownes at one time for then purgeth it gently Beate as much of this Bole as thou wilt powre vpon it Rhenish or French wine or faire water stir and mixe them well together let it settle againe powre off the humiditie or water or wine and put on fresh and stir it againe as before this do as long as thy water cometh coloured from it which will be some sixteene or twentie times after this wash it yet tenne times with rose water Some there be that do adde such things as do comfort and strengthen the hart which in very deede is not to be misliked Camfire Camfire will in no wise be beaten to powder except it be rubbed and chafed in a morter in the which morter hath first bene beaten some péece or part of an almon or almons according to the quantitie of Camfire which thou wilt prepare Caâ—â—ia Cassia which is in the pipe quill or cane is one of the best purging medicines and is sufficiently knowne The best pipes are chosen by waight in which the kernels do not rattle which is a sure signe that the pith or marrow in them is succulent and moist and nothing withered or dried It is vsed on this manner Take as many of the pipes as pleaseth thée beate vpon them softly from one end to the other vntill they rend or split asunder take out all that is in it with a knife into a hairen strainer lay it ouer a boyling pot of water that the hot vapor may come to it When the Cassia is reasonable warme take off the hairen
it seemeth to burne in the nostrils and prouoketh néesings it stoppeth the breth as if it would choke one if the dust of it be receiued Therefore great héed is to be giuen for two or thrée dragmes of it is ranke poyson In extreme diseases of flegme and dropsies when no other remedies will helpe thou mayest vse it from foure graines vnto twelue but no more Masticke and Spike of India do greatly diminish his hurting qualitie The ancient Phisitions did minister it with meade or honie water Sewets and marrowes of sundry beasts are prepared as followeth Sewets Marrowes First wash them cleane and often in cold water then chop melt them togither with a little fire in a seuerall pot with boiling water and wine or else with rose water after this presse straine them thorow a cloth and kéepe it in a vessell or pot of pewter in a cold place The marrow must especially be taken out of the bones in the beginning of winter Iuorie is thus prepared take of it in quantitie as you please cut it in thin chips Iuorie put them into a new pot and stop him close with a pot lid that is vnbaked put him into a potters fornace amongst other pots to be burned When your pot is cold take out your Iuorie beate it to a small dust or powder and searce it thorow a fine hairen searce put it into a leaded or glassed pot powring as much rose water on it till it be cleane couered Afterwardes take for euerie twelue ounces of Iuorie half an ounce of Camfere moule or grind them on a marble togither and when it is hard like dow forme or make little square cakes of it called Trochises kéepe them in a glasse well stopped that they lose not their smel Note also that if thy pot he not very closly luted and couered that thy Iuory cannot be burned white and that it loseth a great deale of his vertue This is vsed against all manner of poysons Hermodactils Hermodactils some suppose it to be our Daffodils and indeed I do take it to be a kind of them but the Gréekes do call their Hermodactilon Ephemeron and Colchicon of the place where it groweth And although this roote may kill a man in one day as also our Daffodils do excitate a fluxe or laske in the belly euen till the very bloud do follow yet hath it his vse as in other places shal be shewed This roote shall be digged vp out of the earth in the beginning of the sommer and those that are sappiest and whitest within shall be reserued Those that are withered and soft haue lost their vertue such as grow in wet watrish and low ground are verie venemous And albeit that they be verie cleane and drie yet shall they not be vsed in halfe a yeare and are verie seldome in request One dragme or one dragme and a halfe at the most is sufficient at one time Cinnamom Ginger Mastix long Pepper do greatly correct their venemous qualitie they are giuen in the vineger of Squils honie of Roses or Oximel Hartshorne 〈◊〉 Hartshorne is prepared as is aforesayd of Iuorie Lacca the gum or sap so called do we not vse verie often notwithstanding that we will not passe ouer her preparation which is as followeth Take of Hartwort of Fenegreeke of each one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill the fourth part be consumed and that there remaine but ten ounces being strained put into this liquor eight ounces of the aforesayd Lacca boyle them togither on a little fire till the water become as red as bloud and all the best of the gum be dissolued in the water then straine it thorow a cloth and let your bloudy liquor boile in a glasse in water till it become thick vnto a sirupe and more thicker and harder make it vp into little cakes and drie them Agaricus Agaricus a kinde of well knowne Mushrome the white compacted light and soft is alwayes the best that which is hollow full of holes and blacke is reiected The one is taken to be the male and the other the female kinde the best is at the first in tast swéete but presently afterwards very bitter Being giuen by it selfe one dragme or one dragme and a halfe is inough at once but being boiled in drinks or other decoctions thou maiest vse halfe an ounce It is hot in the first and drie in the second degrée It doth purge tough flegme and openeth all obstructions When thou wilt administer it thou shalt adde a litle salt Gem and Ginger to it also Oximel and honie of Roses by the which his venemous qualitie is verie much delayed The Apothecaries do diuersly prepare this Agaricus as followeth Take of it as much as thou wilt cut it small mole or rub it in a mortar for it will not be beaten to powder make it in forme of a dow with wine in which ginger hath beene steeped eight or ten howers and then make little cakes or Trochiscos of it The other manner of preparing is this Take Malmesey or Muscadell fower ounces vineger of Squils three dragmes white ginger two dragmes Spike of India halfe a dragme let them boyle togither with a soft fire straine it and stéepe in this liquor thrée ounces of the beaten Agaricus but not too fine powdered and let it stand and drie verie well in a glassed pot when it is almost drie make little cakes of it with the flime of Polipodie They purge the head and the brest of superfluous and stinking humidities they are called at the Apothecaries Trocisci de Agarico Manna Manna may we call as it is indéed a deaw of heauē séeing that this precious liquor falleth in the morning with the deaw from heauen This is now in great quantitie very good brought vnto vs out of Calabria situated beyond Italie The best is that which is a little yellow and somewhat perspicuous or cleare like Masticke in tast swéete and without any filth admixed This Manna is an easie harmlesse cooling and fine purging medicine which may be giuen to women in childbed to yong children with distilled waters or any broth of meate from one ounce and a halfe vntill two ounces and more at once when it is moulten in the waters on hot coales straine it thorow a cloth that all the vncleannesse might be separated It needeth no correction for it hath no venemous or bad qualitie at all with it Mirobolani Mirobolani these are strange fruits of the which there are fiue sorts of some of them are the rindes or barkes dried of others is the whole substance dried and brought vnto vs. All of them do purge and draw tough flegme from the head they drie the braine c. But euery one of them hath an especiall and seuerall vertue which ought to be noted Curini these are yellow hauing a thicke skin or rinde with a hard stone or stonie kernell They purge cholericke and
vineger and then dried Sugar is vsed in many things as hereafter in this booke may appeare Sugar but to boyle it there be diuers and sundrie wayes and first of al shall be shewed how the common and course Sugar must be seuered from his filth and dregs and clarified for sirupes and other necessaries in phisicke Take for example two pounds of common Sugar put it into a certaine quantitie of water How to clarifie Sugar set it on the fire vntill it be readie to boyle or séethe then haue in a readinesse the white of fiue egges beaten to water with a litle rod and sprinkle them with thy rod into thy boiling Sugar let it boyle afterwards a pretie while then doth the filth of the Sugar adioyne himselfe to the whites of the egs then set it from the fire and when it ceaseth boiling take away the filth from it with a skimmer boile it againe besprinkle it and skim it as before so often vntill thou find it bright and cleare For sirupes and other confections let this Sugar boile somewhat longer let two or thrée drops of it fall on a cold stone dip thy finger in them and sée if it do string or glue or draw out in a threed which is a signe of a sufficient cocture Manus Christi For to make Sugar cakes or Manus Christi the foresayd Sugar must boile yet longer and if thou wilt know if it be sufficiently boiled for this thy purpose take a litle of it on spattens or skimmer and throw it from thée into the aire if it flie very white and fierie from it then is it boyled enough set it from the fire stirring it continually vntill it begin to be stiffe or hard then adde and mixe those things with it which thou wilt then very spéedily cast it on a cold stone whereupon a litle flower hath bene cast or sifted before lest they should sticke or cleaue fast to the stone Saccharum Penidium called Sugar pennets is best made of the whitest sugar that is brought from the yland of S. Thomas Take of this if thou canst tell how to worke it from two vntill fiue pounds at once powre vpon it a good pretie quantitie of water and if it be very vncleane clarifie it as afore continue the boyling easily vntill it begin to be thicke and that it rise vp in great bubbles then haue a spindle or the like litle round sticke being wet with cold water thrust it into the boyling sugar about a fingers breadth that some of thy sugar may cleaue to it and coole it in cold water if then it easily come from thy spindle or sticke if it be reasonable hard and if in the biting or chewing it sticke and cleaue not to thy teeth then it is readie to be wrought Take it from the fire let the bubbles settle themselues powre it out vpon a stone or table that is moistened all ouer with the oyle of Oliues when it is run flat or abroad take vp the ends corners or edges of it and throw them vpon the middest of it this continue vntill such time as it all do remaine in a heape or lumpe then dippe thy hands in fine floure lest the sugar sticke to them hang or fasten the whole lumpe of sugar vpon a strong hooke or crooked naile fastened in a wall and drawe one part of thy sugar towards thée about a cubits length fasten the end in thy hand on the hooke againe and pull againe thus continue pulling and fastening vntill thy Sugar become very white There must at the least be a couple to work it that the one being wearie the other may go forward with it besides that by reason of the great heate of the sugar it is not possible that one should doe it well alone Now when it waxeth white and cold thou shalt draw it out in long ropes and lay them on a table whereupon a little flower is sprinkled and so make it vp in rowles This whole worke must be done in hast for otherwise the sugar will waxe too hard which notwithstanding it is not spoiled But if thou wilt bring it into Sugar pennets againe it will be somewhat blacker than otherwise it would be This shall suffice at this present concerning the principall purging simples and after what sort they are best prepared and corrected and those things that haue as yet not bene spoken of shall hereafter as néede shall require be shewed and intreated of at large Addition Succus rosarum the iuice of Roses or their infusion purgeth choler gently and cooleth withall It may be giuen from one vnto two ounces very safely Serum lactis whay of milke or of cheese is a lenitiue and laxatiue medicine it doth also purge choler It is exhibited from three vnto fiue ounces Mechoacha in English Mechecan is an Indian roote of some called white Rubarbe It may be taken in substance from two scruples vnto one dragme with broth wormewood wine or sweet wine as followeth Take Mechecan one dragme Gentian one scruple Cinnamom halfe a scruple beate them into a fine powder and exhibite it three howers before meales with wormewood wine It purgeth flegme and waterish humours without any molestation or trouble vnto the patient It is giuen for the paine in the head that hath continued long for agues for the collicke for the dropsie and for the shortnesse of the breath Opopanax is the iuice of the herbe Ferula The best is white within and yellow without bitter brittle and of a strong sent It is commonly giuen from one vnto two dragmes It euacuateth the grosse and tough fleagme that is inherent in the braine nerues breast and ioynts Sagapenum is a certaine iuice or gum so called of a darke yellow colour white within and strong in tast It may be giuen from halfe a dragme vnto a whole with the water of Rue or of Elecampane It doth in like maner purge grosse and tough humours Both these gummes are corrected with Masticke and Spica c. Taken out of Dioscorides Mathiolus Weâ—ereus and others The seuenth Chapter §. 1. A generall rule to be obserued in purging FOrasmuch as the especiallest point in sanation is to vnburden the bodie of man of abounding superfluities A rule for purging and cleanse it of all corruption and vncleannesse which indéed may be done either by prescribing a moderate diet in meate and drinke by leading a well ruled life or rather if in these any thing be wanting by purgations Therefore it séemeth néedfull here to set downe a generall rule which euery man is to obserue and kéepe that purposeth to purge as thus He must haue a great regard of the nature of the disease of the diseased of his age of the time of the yeare and such like And where as it is alreadie sayd all sicknesses and inward griefes do procéede of corruption of the bloud and bad humours as in this our worke doth appeare necessitie therefore doth require that such
This is maruellous much commended for all scurfe and diseases of the skin A sharp ley The ancient Phisitions wil make a cleane head with sharp ley but I cannot aduise especially if one will often vse the same Take a pound of Argall beaten small and bind it in a cloth powre thereon a pint of water and let it lie so the space of halfe an houre afterwards lay cloth and all in the fire and so burne it thrée houres long then beate it againe and bind it vp as before and burne it two houres more beate it to powder and put it in an Hippocras bag poure the foresaid water vpon it let it runne through sixe or eight times and make a ley thereof it drieth vehemently and hath almost the sharpnesse of blew Tartary Of the plucking away of the scall MAke nine caps of blew cloth or blew linnen as big as the head is scallie annoint it inwardly with molten pitch and rosin and put it vpon the shauen head and so leaue it thereon thrée dayes afterwards plucke it off by force and it will take away with it the haire and all the scurfe But if there remaine any haires in it then plucke them out with small mullets and then wash the head with water like as is said wherein is decocted Fumitorie and Docke rootes c. And when it is drie then set another cappe vpon it do as before and so vntill nine times afterwards vse one of the foresaid salues Of the skinne of the head §. 11. FOrasmuch as the foresaid scall hangeth most on the skin of the head and the foresaid skin is not onely fastned to the head but also to the whole body couering it as with a clothing and is layd vnder the haire as his ground therefore are we somewhat admonished here and afterwards occasioned once againe to write thereof in the first part The skinne which couereth the head is not of one kind of nature for this whence the haire groweth is hard drie and thicke the skinne of the forehead as much as it is without haire hath her frée motion that which is vnder the eye cannot be separated but with great trouble and hath no motion like that of the forehead The skinne of the lippes is a mixture of the skinne of the muscles so that they may be called with both the names Thus much may suffice at this present time The fourth Chapter Of the Scull of the head BY this name we will not onely haue Cranium but also all the vppermost bones of the head to be vnderstood whereof there be seuen commonly told the which through fiue Suturas which is sewings or conioining very naturally are in each other knit together But for the same one may looke into the Anatomicos concerning this our purpose the head is parted into sixe parts whereof the first is Frons the forehead which is beginning from the eye-browes till there where the haire beginneth on both sides euen vnto the eares it is but one proper bone called by the Chirurgians and other mo Coronalis like as men do vse to weare on this place of the head the garland The second is fast by it couered with haire they call it Sinciput it is with vs the former part and hath two bones which we call Parietalia the side bones they touch both of them the future that passeth ouer the middle of the head are thicke bored through with small holes and weake The third do they call Occiput the hinder part of the head the necke is a great strong bone with a great hole where the first ioynt Vertebra of the backbone hath his winding about The fourth is Vertex the crowne the height and middle from which as from a point or circle the haire doth spread abrode it selfe round about but that which is betwéene both the eares and eyes be called Tempora with vs the temples Lastly is all that beginneth vnder the forehead and the eye-browes vnto the end of the chin as eyes eares nose mouth called Facies that is the face These are now the outward parts of the head which do also comprehend the bones of which hereafter particularly mention shall be made As much as then concerneth the scull that is outwardly after diuers manner of meanes brused and perished as through stripes fractures wounds and such like which accidents do specially appertaine vnto Chirurgions neuerthelesse we are minded to discourse somewhat thereof And this for a beginning Of the compression of the skull in yong children §. 1. IT commeth to passe otherwhiles that new borne children haue their skuls doubled one ouer another or compressed for which lay this plaister vpon it Take Lodestone Pumice stone salt of each a like much bruised small and make with honie a plaister thereof Of the fracture of the skull §. 2. WHen it is time after the first dressing to looke to the wound of the head then take off the tow couer the wound with a fine linnen cloth made wet in this Aqua vitae following Take Aqua vitae made onely of Wine one ounce wherein put powned Aloe and Myrrhe of each one dragme Masticke halfe a dragme stop it fast then strew of the powder which is powned together of the thrée things vpon the wet cloth couer it with another cloth and annoint the wound round about with oile of roses couer the head gently with a linnen cap or kercher Item take womans milke that giueth sucke to a boy wet a péece of silk therein and couer the wound therewith afterwards take the well brayed white of an eg put powned Frankinsence vnto it spread it on a cloth and lay it ouer the wound aboue vpon the first cloth which is made wet in the womans milke and let it lie so thrée dayes if the braines be quiet then is it a good signe of life afterwards dresse him with the blacke plaister or salue that shall hereafter follow but if the wound stanch not bléeding then is this powder following maruellous good Take Frankinsence two dragmes Aloe one dragme and therewith strew the bleeding wound A water Take Rosemary with the flowers Sage Betonie of each one M. steepe them 24. houres in good wine and distill it put thereto Myrrhe halfe an ounce Aloe one ounce Saffron ten graines Sarcocolla Frankinsence of each one drag This you are to kéep in a fast closed glasse vntill you haue néed to vse it After that the wound is dressed and that it hath not bled much some do aduise that the head veine is to be opened and that is very truly aduised that for all such wounds the head veine once at the least should be opened and the patient purged for it happeneth oftentimes that the paine of the head impostumation or other mischances may thereby be hindered and preuented But to returne againe to the Chirurgery It hapneth oftentimes that there befalleth with it paine of the throte and of the almonds for which is méete this gargarisme Take Masticke
Saffron one dragme beate them all vnto an impalpable powder and with the muscilage of Fenegreeke make it into trocisces vse it with womans milke it doth mundifie the eyes apparantly In like manner the Seiff de Plumbo doth ingender flesh where there be small sores and spots and it is thus made Take burnt Lead Antimonie prepared Tutia burnt Copper Gummi Dragagant of each halfe an ounce Opium fiteene graines make it very subtile and forme Trocisces thereof with rayne water It is verie good for all diseases of the eyes it cleanseth and driueth the matter out of the eyes when it is mixt with Rose water it taketh away all manner of vncleannesse out of the eyes and stayeth the defluxion also but preserueth especially the sight of the eye Item take Litharge of siluer brused verie small Comin Bayberies Gallingall Ginger Aristologie Cloues Nutmegs of each one dragme beaten small put a pint of Malmesey vnto it or any other strong Wine stirre it well about thrée or foure dayes afterwards straine it through a cloth into an other glasse and preserue it well stopped for it is good for all spots of the eyes and also for al fractures of the bones it draweth the wounds togither without stitching First take water that droppeth from distilled honie two ounces Sugarcandie one quarter of an ounce Vertues of Sugar candy Water of Rosemarie for the eyes drop it twice a day in the eyes Sugarcandie is good for all diseases of the eyes and for the sight Rosemary water made vnder the earth is also verie good for these blemishes of the eyes the which some do thus prepare Fill a glasse with Rosemary flowers stop it with waxe on the top and burie it in the Dogdayes about halfe a foote déepe in the earth fortie dayes long and then yeeldeth it a water When the pearles or Velmes be new WHen the pearles or spots be new there are foure kinds of waters to be vsed for thē First of all as is somtimes admonished let womans milke be dropped into it afterwards fine brused Cuttle bone blowne into the eyes Secondly take the iuice of Corneroses and of Centorie of each one ounce honie two ounces Thirdly take Swallowes dung brused small and drie halfe an ounce honie as much as it néedefull For to make a dough let it dry take thereof one dragme and a half Eybright water two ounces temper them togither this is wonderfull but as is already sayd perilous Fourthly take Cuttle bone two dragmes Sugar one dragme make a subtile powder thereof and let some of it be blowne into the eyes But if the fleckes be out then are they to be fomented with womans milke or with the decoction of Hollihock rootes Mallowes Barley or Oate straw afterwards this following is good Take fresh egge shels burne them a little the dung of a gréene Lizard Spuma maris Sarcocolla that hath lyen certaine dayes in the iuice of Celendine washt Ceruise of each one dragme prepared Tutia Sagapenum Galbanum of each halfe a dragme Cuttlebone Ginger of each one scruple Kites gall two scruples powne all that is to be powned and temper it with the water of Celendine For this serueth also the foresayd Rosemary water which is made vnder the earth Fourthly take Verdigreace one dragme Frankinsence two dragmes Vitrioll halfe a dragme Spuma maris Celendine Rue Roses Rosemary of each one ounce and a half séeth well the last foure vntill there remaine about foure ounces mixe the other powders with this decoction and let it drie Afterwards beate it againe and temper it as before do this foure times togither Lastly make a subtile powder of it and vse it vpon the pearles It doth strengthen the sight and taketh away the white pearles without paine but if it be thicke or old so that none of these will helpe it then is the last meane to take it away with the needle which belongeth onely to the manuall operators or Occulists Of the Fistula in the corner of the eye §. 11. THere be many Chirurgeons that describe these Fistulaes amongst other vlcers of the eyes in which place namely in the fift part of this booke we shall describe their natures and what vlcerations they be but we will here onely write of this Fistula which is woont to appeare in the corner of the eye The causes of this are badde humors and for the most part cold which do a long time in this place settle themselues putrifie and lstly impostumate The signes thereof are humours of the place and if any wring it then it doth paine one it is somewhat reddie giueth afterwards gréene matter and it happeneth that it oftentimes hurteth the eyelids and the nose But before that the Fistula be touched with any application or cauterie the patient must be prescribed an order of diet and must purge well For diet first he must beware of all fatte and strong sauouring meates of milke moist fruites Onions Garlicke Mustard and all that is much salted In like sort all that may replenish the head with hote vapours as Spices sléepe immediatly after meales and doing violent exercise For to purge one drag of the pils of Hiera Composita is to be taken Make fiue or sixe pilles thereof with the sirupe of Calamintha If you will first vse preparatiues then take of the foresaid sirupe one ounce Oxymel Compositum halfe an ounce decoction of Mace three ounces Are you afraid of the heate of the liuer Take some cooling things therewith as Cicorie water or any such like One may vse foure of these potions in the space of eight dayes in the morning and at the same time that the bodie is stopped He is to take euery other day or euery day one pil of Aloephangine before meate or washed Aloe After the taking of these foure potions these pils following are to be vsed Pil. de Sarcocolla two scrup Cochiarum one scrup make with the sirupe of Roses seuen pils of them afterwards you are to vse euery morning this Collyrium following and after that apply this plaister on the corner of the eye Take prepared Antimonie Frankinsence of each one scrup prepared Sarcocolla one drag Licium Dragon bloud burnt Iuorie parched Dragagant prepared Iron drosse of each thrée drag Rue Nightshade and Celendine waters of each one ounce let this drie vntill one may forme dowe thereof when you will vse thereof then dissolue it in the foresaid waters and put two or thrée drops thereof in the eyes For a plaister Take Mommy fine Bolus the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence Hippocystis Masticke of each thrée drag Acorne cups Cipers nuts Gals that are woorme eaten Isenglas Dragagant Gum of each one ounce The Isenglas must be dissolued in red vineger and temper the other ingredients amongst it and make thereof a plaister If it be then perceiued that the corner of the eye watereth and if one wring or presse vpon it there come matter out of it then it is a Fistula and the actuall cauterie
an ounce séeth these vpon a mild fire and therewith annoint your taints which you thrust into the nose it hath a speciall vertue of healing and drying The other meanes if this were not sufficient then burne the disease with an iron that is flat before thrust it through a copper pipe which is wrapt in clothes wet in Rose water to the end that the sound part of the nose be not burnt do this so long vntill one can perceiue no remanence of it more Afterwards annoint the cauterized place with butter vntill that the escarre falleth off heale it with Basill and the ointment of Ceruse or with the salue that is described in the 2. § in the vlcers of the nose with Tutia The third meane to expel this accident Take a long and strong horse haire thrust it into the nose vntill you bring it out of the mouth againe fasten it on both ends and plucke it hitherwards ouer the accident and that so often times til it be cut out at the bottome This being accomplished stanch the bloud with this powder take Mirrhe Sarcocolla fine Bolus Dragon bloud of each one dragme prepared Tutia halfe a dragme this powder must be blowne in the place where it bléedeth or strew a taint with it and stop it into the nose now the bloud being stanched heale it with the foresayd salue Of the Canker in the Nose §. 5. THe causes of this Canker in the nose and the signes thereof are discouered before First it sheweth it selfe small like a corne of wheate but afterwards will be as big as a hazle nut or almond it yéeldeth seldome matter and remaineth alwayes as is said hard and dry it will abide no strong things as actuall or potentiall cauteries but it must be softly medled with and easie remedies vsed thereto as to let blood laxatiue things and Master Tristrams water which is described in the fift chapter and first § Also oile of blew Flowerdeluce annointed thereon and chiefly Treacle and Mithridate thrust into the nostrils and to hold the same in the mouth eate it Also it is very good to purge the head with this potion Take Mirobalani Indi one ounce and a halfe Sene Epithymum of each one quarter of an ounce Sugarcandy foure ounces séeth them together in nine ounces of water euen to the halfe straine it then through a cloth and temper it with Manna and sower Dates amongst it of each one ounce In like sort may one purge also with the Pillulis foetidis or Siomachicis The place of the accident is also to be twise a day at the least strengthened with the oile of Roses wherein Camfere is tempered and lay a cloth therein dipped in them or made as it were into a salue and annointed therewithall Yet in stéed of this he may vse the iuice of Nightshade The patient must much beware of all pottages chéese hard flesh and all which ingendreth melancholike blood but must vse drying meates His drinke must be wine tempered with water For the defluxion Ozena which the Canker bringeth with it is this following very meet Ozâ—â—a Take one ounce and a halfe of oile of Roses halfe an ounce of white Waxe a little vineger and the brayed white of an egge milke one ounce washed Ceruse one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Lettice of Plantaine of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce stir them together the space of two or three houres in a Leaden morter Of the Murre §. 6. WE haue taught in the description of the Nose that it is by nature ordained for a channel thereby to cleanse the moisture of the head and of the braines like as is brought to passe through this course of the Murre the which the Grecians do call Catarrhum especially this murre which falleth downe into the nose do they call Coryzam of the other two kinds whence commeth so much badnes which be salt catarrhes or rheumes which descend into the throte and vpon the brest shall be taught at large in their places We will onely here now discourse of all those maladies that concerne the nose that this course or running procéedeth out of heate and cold which is Cholera and Phlegma that shall be shewed at large in the discourse of the paine in the throte in the second part where is spoken of the catarrhe or rheume Here is no other thing discouered but onely of the murre how that that is most caused when one commeth suddenly out of great warmth into cold and to the contrary out of great cold speedily into warmth like as when one runneth bare headed out of the bath into the wind or as one runneth out of the great cold into the warme stew and this is also the cause wherefore the people for the most part in the latter end of winter or summer are plagued therewith Now when this murre or sniuell is salt and biting then doth it soone cause these accidents Ozena Cancer or Polypus therefore the sniuel is not to be estéemed so smal but rather endeuor by and by to prouoke and moue this defluxion to the end the matter may be caried out whereto this fume following is conuenient Take Cloues Myrrhe Frankinsence odoriferous fruites and herbes as Quinces and their parings Rue Marioram gentle and such like Lotions for the feete are also very fit for this purpose like as followeth Take Sage Lauander Betony field mints or any other thrée or foure handfuls séeth them in water and put the féet therein vse it oftentimes and méetly deepe The cleansing of the head IN all the former cases the most principall remedy was alwayes to cleanse the head and the braines whereto this water following is very good Take foure ounces of the iuice of wild Cucumbers Salarmoniacke powned small halfe an ounce tempered in a glasse and fill it halfe ful with water stir it oftentimes about and snuffe it vp into the nose in the morning fasting fiue or sixe times together warme and do this alwayes about the second day This openeth all obstructions that hinder smelling whether it be in impostumes or vlcers of the nose it draweth also the matter out and consumeth it and it strengtheneth all the instruments that are created for smelling Item take the iuice of Marioram and Penniroyall of each one ounce Muscus two graines vse it as before Make also this powder following Take Penniroyall Marioram and Nep of each one drag Graines thrée drag powne all and bind them in a fine cloth and smel oftentimes to it Take oile of Violets oile of Saffron of each thrée drag Ireos long Pepper Euphorbium of each two graines make a salue thereof with a little waxe whereof you shall take the quantity of a pease and annoint it in the nose when you go to bed it purgeth and clenseth the braines Some do vse Hellebore or Pepper for the nose but it is not without danger for it troubleth too much the braines but how and through what meanes the head is to
as also to vse white prepared Mustard séede therewith For this is also very good the bloud of Turtle doues drunken This sicknesse commonly appeareth with a new and full Moone against which you are to prepare these things following Take good Treacle thrée quarters of an ounce Beuercod one quarter of an ounce and temper it with Lauander water and take it in the morning fasting But if so be there appeare any beginning of this sicknesse then do many aduise and that rightly that then the thumbe and great toe are to be hard rubbed chafed and stretched out and likewise to rub with warme clothes the necke and the backe bone downwards that the bloud may be drawne from the head and from the heart Also there must be a little Treacle thrust behind in his throate Beuercod holden in the mouth and vnder the tongue is also very good Some do also giue Beuercod and Pepper to drinke of each one drag For this is also much commended Asa foetida whether it be taken inwardly vsed on the outside or in gargarismes and if you would take the same then is one drag and a half enough with Pepper and Rue of each halfe a drag tempered with wine This is good for all diseases of the sinewes The distilled water of blacke Cherries is also much praised for this sicknesse at the first and especially if one put thereto as much Lauander water and so take thereof thrée or foure ounces at one time The common order of this sicknesse is that all remedies for this disease are applyed to the hinder part of the head and in the beginning before the fourth and seuenth or also before the fourtéenth day to vse no strong medicines but onely preparatiues And if so be that the sicke person will yéeld vnto it then it were not amisse that he drunke no other thing the first foure or fiue daies and did eate almost nought else but only hony water yea also if it be possible to suffer hunger and thirst with it The fourth day he is to haue giuen him one drag or a drag and a halfe of Treacle or Mithridate with waters méete for this disease It is also found by experience that all they that be burthened with this disease shall get great ease if they accustome to drinke euery morning thrée ounces of Rosemarie or Lauander water with three drag of the powder of Pieretrum tempered amongst it Item take the water of the blossomes of the Tillet trée of May Lillies and of blacke Cherries of each one ounce giue it him so to drinke In like manner also stilled womans milke is highly commended for it and all kinds of Aquae Compos Take â—â—ced Licorice and Annis seedes of each one ounce Elecampane halfe an ounce Pyonie rootes one drag Nutmegs one ounce Spirit of wine sixtéene ounces Hony eight ounces temper these all together and conserue them well In winter put thereto one quarter of an ounce of long Pepper vse thereof euery morning a spoonefull or twaine This is maruellous much commended for a speciall remedie Another TAke Lauander water sixe ounces water of the May Lillies thrée ounces Elixer vitae and the water of wild Poppey of each two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce and a halfe temper it in a glasse and then set it in the Sun the space of eight dayes whereof in time of néede take a spoonefull and annoint therewith the temples of the head M. Tristrams water is also very fit for this purpose Of Purging FOrasmuch as purging is very néedfull in this sicknesse therefore for example will we describe here a purgation But it is aboue all aduised that the sick body drink euery morning foure or fiue daies together fiue ounces of Rosemary water and fast foure houres vpon it Afterwards he is to take halfe an ounce of Hiera logodion tempered in two ounces of Agrimonie water in the morning and to fast fiue houres after it or to vse these pils following take Agaricus a scrup Asa foetida half a scrup Ginger twelue graines Diagridion one graine make pils thereof with the iuice of Hyssope When the patient is purged then he is to vse this potion following for the space of eight daies together Take the water of Agrimonie and of Sothernwood of each two ounces put some Sugar amongst it Other do rather aduise this following Take Calmus halfe an ounce Cowslips thrée M. Saint Iohns woort field and garden Sage Betonie Balme Rue Bay leaues of each one M. Siluer mountaine Balsame wood Balsame fruite and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice Corants Lauander flowers Amaranthus of each one ounce clarified Honie sixe ounces rayn water which is clarified with the white of an egge twelue ounces let all these séeth together vnto a sirupe Another TAke Calmus sixe ounces Sage thrée M. Stechas thrée ounces clarified hony sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces séeth them together in eightéene ounces of raine water vnto a sirupe wherof you may take one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once tempered with Sage water Also you may vse the sirupe of Stechas for all they be very commodious for this disease Afterwards take the former purgation againe or the pils of Euphorbium de Serapino de Opopanaco And if the patient by drinking of these potions do remaine bound in bodie then is he euery euening before supper to swallow one of these pils following Take of the pils of Alephanginae one drag Trocisci Alhandali Agaricus of each halfe a scrup Indie salt fiue graines whereof make sixtéene pils Clisters TAke Sage Rue Stechas Centorie Mallowes Mercurie and Bran of each halfe a handfull let them séeth all together and take twelue ounces of this decoction temper amongst it Hiera logodion halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces minister it warme But for them that haue newly gotten this dead Palsey there is to be sodden in these Clisters halfe an ounce of rootes of Brionie or of Pyonie for both these are good for the disease Powder for sauce to meate THis powder is he to strew vpon the meate in stead of spice Take pickt Cinnamom one ounce an a halfe prepared Coriander Cloues Galingall Pepper Cucubes Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Calmus two ounces Coutchenell halfe an ounce Sugar sixe ounces this is to be tempered together Another TAke Pepper two drag and a halfe Cloues Cardamome long Pepper Seduarie of each one dragm Indy Spica Mace Saffron of each one scrup Sugar as much as you please temper them well together Item about the third day is the patient before the rising of the Sun to take one dragm of Treacle tempered with the water of wild Sage This medicine is most highly commended of diuerse Phisitions Of Bathing IN this sicknesse is also bathing much commended whereof there be two kindes naturally as sea water or that is sulferish by nature Others which be prepared with herbes and such like For the herbe bath Take
afterwards gargarize with Barley water and hony of Roses For all impediments putrifactions and exulcerations of the mouth are thrée diuers gargarismes prescribed and ordained whereof some are specified hereafter wherewith is also declared how that commendable iuice of Mulberies honie of Roses and moe other things are to be prepared Of outward exulcerations and contractions of the mouth hath bene spoken in the twelfth chapter and § 14. Of a stinking mouth and breath §. 3. THis infirmitie procéedeth not onely from the mouth but of many other accidents moe which the learned comprehend in the number of eight first when the gums doe putrifie and stinke secondly bad and hollow téeth thirdly stinking humors that fall down from the head into the pannicles of the mouth and there make the spettle to stinke fourthly stinking slime of the stomacke fiftly the corruption of the lights sixtly stinking matter and purulencie as in Phthisi seuenthly stopping in the nose or some exulceration of the same as in Ozena eightly the corruption before mentioned of the mouth Of the foresaid infirmities haue diuers Authors sufficiently spoken as also hereafter in many places shall appeare Here we intreate onely of the corruption of the mouth in the which we may comprehend the three last causes And first of all if this stench procéede from the braine and settle it selfe in the tunicles of the mouth which most commonly commeth of heate then is there present a great itch heate thirst and drought For this shalt thou open the head veine set boxing cups in the neck purge the head with Pillulae aurea or Cochiae wash thy mouth often with Plantaine water or water of shepheards purse receiue the vapor of decocted Mallowes or Lettice and smell of Roses Violets Waterlillies Willow leaues Saunders or of Cammomill If it procéede of cold then vse some daies together potions of Oxymel Compositum or Oximel of Squils purge with pill Cochiae and gargarize with this water following Take Ireos Cypers rootes Iuniper berries Marioram gentle field Mints wild Time garden Mints all of them or as many as you please vse it often you may also draw it vp into the nose you must beware of Fruites Fishes Beanes all hard meates and such as putrifie spéedily in the stomacke If the corruption of the mouth do cause this stinking breath then shall you gargarize very often with the decoction of Agrimonie and Oliue leaues adding as much Honie vnto it as you thinke good Item take Vineger and extinguish it in gold made red hote a good many times with Cloues decocted in it wash the mouth with it this taketh away the stench also gold only held in the mouth is very good so likewise doth chewed Ireos Take gréene oken leaues beate them to powder and take of this one drag euery day fasting with Wine it taketh away the stench In the 12. Chapter and first § in the description of the Memorie you may find a good powder which beginneth Take Sene leaues Seduarie c. Item take Cinnamome Cloues Sage Marioram gentle Balme Nutmegs Angelica rootes and such like odoriferous things eate and chew them in thy mouth spet them out and take in fresh they take away all bad sauours and stenches Of what cause soeuer this infection procéede these simples following are very commodious for it each by it selfe to wit Auence Cypers rootes Frankinsence Lignum Aloes Cinnamome Citron séeds Rape sédes Cloues Myrrhe Blatta byzantia Mastick Cardamome Agnus castus Spica Squinanth Citron leaues Roses Saunders Campher water Lillies Rosewater prepared Coriander odoriferous apples Quinces Tormentill rootes and such like Take white Saunders Roses of each fiue drag red Saunders Citron pilles Squinanth Gallia muschata of each two drag make a powder or little bals thereof to hold in thy mouth A Gargarisme for all infections of the mouth §. 4. GArgarismes are commonly made for all infirmities of the mouth throate and lippes to cleanse to heale and to cure them but because we haue described many such accidents and haue promised to shew some gargarisme for them which shall be done at this present and for that in all gargarismes thrée principall things are tempered as the sirupe of Mulberies hony of Roses and the iuice of Nut shels we will therfore first of all shew how they are to be prepared The Sirupe of Mulberries Diamoron THis Sirupe is diuersly prepared The common people take halfe Mulberries and halfe Blackberries and boyle them like to a Conserue of this do they giue in hote diseases to comfort Others take onely the iuice of blacke Mulberies wringing them through a strainer as soone as they are gathered and so with Sugar make it to a sirupe The Apothecaries prepare it thus Take sixe ounces of the iuice of Mulberies 12. ounces of the iuice of Blackberries both the berries as yet being not full ripe clarified hony 11. ounces swéet wine three ounces let them séeth together ouer a gentle fire till it be reasonable thick and kéepe it in a pot The fourth and best meanes Take iuice of Mulberries Blackberries Framboys and of Strawberries of each foure ounces clarified Honie eight ounces boyle them with a mild fire till they waxe reasonable thick But note as alreadie hath bene said that the berries be not altogither ripe and bicause the Framboyes Strawberries be ripe before the rest their iuices are to be sodden with halfe as much Sugar and so to be kept vntill the rest be red all these sirupes haue an especiall vertue to cure all infirmities of the mouth to cleanse to coole and to dry for which cause also they are good to be vsed against the Squinancie and all infections of the throte But if thou wilt make it stronger then temper Allume Myrrhe Saffron and Veriuice of which thou wilt amongst it according as the cause requireth Honie of Roses THis hony of Roses is also made diuersly but commonly as followeth Take Roses that are not fully blowen cut off the yellow tops and to one pound of Roses put three pound of hony which hath bene clarified very well and so place it in the sunne One that is stronger Take Rose buds as before one pound beate boyle them in a pinte and a halfe of raine water wring it out hard ad to the expressed liquor foure ounces of the iuice of Roses clarified hony two pound boyle them togither till it be thicke inough The third manner Take clarified hony two pound and a halfe iuice of Roses new made foure ounces set them on the fire when it beginneth to boile mixe one pound of chopped Rose leaues amongst it let them boyle till all the iuice be consumed afterwards straine it through a cloth and kéepe it close stopped for the older it is the better it is This hony of Roses hath an easie astringent vertue it cooleth and is very good in all sharpe rheumes that fall from the head into the mouth it withstandeth all putrifactions corrosions and white exulcerations in the mouth it
bloud then is first the head veine after the veine vnder the tongue to be opened and a good diet to be kept and all manner of cooling things to be vsed He is also to be purged with a potion of the sirupe of Roses of yellow Mirobalans or with these pils following Take of the Species Hierae one dragme and a halfe shales of yellow Mirobalans thrée drag Diagridij and Annise séede of each halfe a drag temper them with sirupe or the iuice of Roses and giue a dragme of them at once more or lesse according to the ability of the patient Or take fiue dragmes of the Electuarie of the iuice of Roses or some such like matter afterwards is he to hold in his mouth vineger mixt with the iuice of Pomegranats otherwhiles also the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine muscilage of Fleawoort and of Dragagant made with Rose water held in the mouth a long time somtimes Rose water by it selfe vsed as before These pils following are also to be made and holden continually in the mouth Take Roses burnt Iuorie and Bay-berries of each a quarter of an ounce pilled Melon séedes Gourd seedes Cucumber seedes Pompeon seedes Lettice seedes Purslaine seedes Endiue seedes Dragagant of each one drag make it into pils with the Dragagant dissolued afterwards he is to gargarize with the iuice of Endiue and of Nightshade or with the decoction of Roses Verueine and Myrtle séedes Thou shalt rub his tongue with péeces of fresh Melons or Gourds All these things alter the bad sauour and tast of the mouth in a hote cause But if the losse of tast procéed of heate and drought with any humor with it which may be perceiued if the tongue be drie red and without any spettle then are contrarie things to be vsed for it to wit cold and moist remedies Contrariwise if it be caused by cold then note if there be any affluxe of humors with it or not if there be as commonly it befalleth any superabundant humors with it and if the bodie be full of bloud then is purging and letting of bloud as oportunitie serueth to be vsed if not minister vnto him Oxymel compositum or of Squils with the decoction of Hyssope Marioram Sage and Stechas afterwards purge him with the pils Cochiae A Gargarisme for the same TAke Hyssope and Licorice of each an ounce twenty sappie Figs Honie sixe ounces boile them in water and gargarize therewith and hold it a good while in thy mouth If there be no agues with it vse this gargarisme Take the iuice of Squils one ounce Vineger twelue ounces Well water and Honie of each sixe ounces let it boile a while scumming it If the patient do abhorre euery thing supposing them to tast very vnsauorie then he is to be purged with an ounce of fresh Cassia with Oxymel and with the afore mentioned water For this purpose serue also sharpe meates as Onions Garlicke Leekes Mustard séedes with vineger iuice of Limons iuice of Citrons mixt with other meates also otherwhiles salt meates Of a heauie and slow Tongue THese infirmities are of two sorts the one naturall and the other accidentall as when the tongue cannot pronounce the letters aright but in pronouncing the vowels A E I O V is no want in it because that the tongue then néede not much to be stirred also in the saying of B M P Q wherein the lips do the greatest labour But in these letters following must the tongue be most of all vsed to wit in C D G H L N R S T X Z. In the naming of F must the breath be blowne out betwéene the vpper téeth and the lower lippe If any of these be any hinderance then may the same be ascribed to the tongue especially if the same be inueterated through a long custome which after remaineth for euer incurable The other that procéedeth of outward causes and lurketh in the sinewes of the tongue may be cured by Phisicke Both these infirmities are caused of foure sundrie occasions The first af a cold matter that lieth in the sinewes of the tongue which is to be perceiued if they cannot pronounce perfectly the letters aboue shewed in the third row and especially the R. Besides this also their sight and hearing decreaseth or when one would speake hastily and therewithall dribbleth against his will the which is a messenger of the dead Palsey Secondly it is also somtimes caused of hote agues then can the patient not draw his tongue backward and it waxeth blacke and rough Thirdly this infirmitie may procéed of the toughnesse of the humor that stayeth the tongue as if it were fastened vnderneath and therefore could not be put foorth by the patient Fourthly it is otherwhiles caused of certain flesh that groweth vnder the tongue the which if the tongue be lifted vp apparantly may be séene The first which groweth of cold and without an ague is thus to be cured to wit that after the patient hath bene purged he open also a veine and afterwards wash his tongue with this water following but he is to take great héed he swallow none of it downe Take Salarmoniacke Pepper Ginger white Mustard séedes Pieretrum Licebane Borras Salt salt of Indie Marioram séeds of Nigella Marioram gentle of each one drag boile them al together in a quart of water vnto the halfe and vse it as hath bene said Item boile Pieretrum in vineger and gargarise therewith Looke also that these things do not excoriate the throate and make it raw for the Pieretrum is very strong and therefore it is commaunded as often hath bene said to tye it in a fine peece of cloth and to chew it A Powder AFter the long continuance of this gargarization take Salarmoniacke Pieretrum Pepper and white Mustard séedes of each a like much make it into powder and rub the tongue often with it but childrens tongues may you rubbe onely with the powder of Sage or wash it with Oxymel Item take honie of Roses two ounces Sal gemmae two drag mixe them together and rub the tongue often with it Also make this gargarisme following Take Sage Hyssope Calmus of each a like quantity boyle them in water Take Costus rootes that are swéet white Pepper Ginger Licebane Rue séedes of each one drag Pieretrum thrée drag Graines halfe a drag Masticke dissolued in vineger one ounce temper them together and make pils of it of the bignes of small Nuts Take one of these in thy mouth otherwhiles and chew it they are very méete to draw the phlegmaticke matter out of the tongue which there hindereth the spéech But of the bereauing of the spéech by reason of the dead palsey haue I shewed before how the partie so troubled is to be purged and dealt withall yet notwithstanding that I will procéede in teaching all what might happen vnto the tongue If the same séeme to be caused of a cold and moist matter then is the tongue to be often rubbed with Hiera Picra tempered with a
drie or of some cold qualitie of the Breast that the bloud which shold alter into Milke be dryed out Likewise both these infirmities may also be cause of some infection of the liuer yea and sometimes of the whole bodie that if their complexion be too drie that then the increasing of Milke is not to be effected but of pure bloud Item the want of Milke may also be caused through want of meate or by the vse of such meates as make much bloud as if they be cold and drie Much bléeding be it by what meanes soeuer it will and the bad digesture of the stomacke and Liuer sore labour or if the child sucke too little may be a cause of the want or scarcitie of Milke The signes of this infirmitie are euident and apparant as when the Breasts are wrong and the Milke doth not issue foorth Also if the child haue not enough to sucke Item whensoeuer that the mother which giueth sucke be fretting by nature be leane be not long since recouered of some long sicknes sweateth much and is without all exercise But if the infirmitie do procéede of bad meates and drinkes it is then good counsell that they do eate good wholesome meate that is light of digesture as Hens Partridges Capons young Mutton Egs brothes of good flesh and drinke good wine Some women are accustomed to increase their milke that they drinke a good draught of milke wherein Fennell séede hath bene stéeped But if the infirmitie be through too much bléeding by what means soeuer that the same come to passe then are you to preuent the same through méete and necessarie remedies as is sufficiently shewed in their proper places But if the women be of a hot nature as full of Cholera then are they to drinke Barley water and Almond milke and to eate Cocks Hens and Partriges drest with Lettice also to vse coole fruits and their séeds fish of running waters Burrage Spinage Goates milke Cow milke Kids flesh and Lambe sodden with veriuice they are also to refraine from wrath and sorrow and to be alwaies merrie But if these mothers that doe giue sucke be flegmaticke of nature and haue lacke of Milk then is their foresaid meate to be drest with Saffron Cucubes or Cinnamome and other spices also to eate it being sodden with Fennell rootes and seedes Pistacia and Pine apple kernels Whether the maladie do then procéed of heate or not it is alway néedefull that the stomacke be comforted for the which these things may serue as Annis and Fennell feedes confected but chiefly Caraway and Comin also confected To eate Fennell séede gréene helpeth also greatly for the augmentation of milke Likewise Caraway séede Annis and Fennell séede sodden in water are very commodious for this purpose also to eate gréene Marioram fasting in the morning is much commended for the same And I cannot here pretermit to rehearse diuerse other remedies moe that are prescribed of others for the increasing of milke like as hereafter may appeare Take tenne earth woormes wash them in Wine séeth them in flesh broth straine them and in the morning giue thereof a draught to drinke It is also holden for certaine that if these Wormes be dried and beaten to powder and if you giue to the patient halfe a dragme to drinke in flesh broth that thereby the milke will be much increased For this also you may take this Plaister following Take Parsley rootes and the hearbes Déeres sewet of each halfe an ounce red Storax thrée dragmes new oyle of swéete Almonds thrée ounces Barley meale one ounce and a halfe let the rootes séeth well and stampe them to pap and then mingle the rest amongst it and lay it warme vpon the Nipples for it increaseth the milke Item take beaten Annis séedes two dragmes and a halfe temper them with the broth of Colewoorts and giue it to the partie to drinke when she goeth to bed Item take Barley water séeth therein gréene Fennell and Dill make it swéet with Sugar and drinke thereof at your pleasure The like doth Linséede sodden in the broth of fresh meat and drunken Some beléeue that if a woman do drinke a dragme of fine powdered Christall with Hony or Barley water that therby the milke will maruellously increase Some impute the like operation to be in the prepared Saphire stone if the same be tempered with water and the breasts wetted therwith I account neither of them good but they that will may trie them for the cannot be hurtfull Against the superfluitie of Milke §. 5. IT commeth oftentimes to passe when women haue lien in that their Breasts doe happen to swell through the aboundance of milke and do bring mo inconueniences with them namely that sometimes the whole bodie thereby wasteth for the greater abundance there is of milke so much the more bloud is thereby consumed if it be not suckt out then doth it clod and cougeale hardneth and turneth at the last with great paine into an impostume The causes herof are superfluous bloud much eating and drinking and especially such kinds of meates as ingender bloud Therefore must the same be in the beginning preuented and those kinds of meates refrained and to eate and drinke but little And in case there be much superfluous bloud then in the mother veine to be opened that therby the bloud may be drawn downwards Otherwise there be two meanes to take away this superfluous bloud The first meane is through the vse of Rue and chiefly of wild Rue with their séeds Basil and Comin stampt together if one take of them euery day one quarter of an ounce the same drieth the milke The herbe Rapistrum is very forcible for the same the which may appeare in Swine for when they eate of this herbe then are they rid and quit of all their milke whereby the Pigges are constrained to sterue You may also lay these hot things on their Breasts But these following are more sure Take Rosin as much as you thinke good temper it with the Creame of milk spread it on a cloth and lay it lukewarme ouer the Breasts Item take eight ounces of Hony and two pints of water let them séeth well together and scum it well and then wet therein a thréefolded cloth and lay in on the breasts and when it is cold take another this driueth away the Milke Item take Chickwéede let it séeth in Goates milke or in water lay it ouer the Breasts Also the water of Knotgrasse or Venice sope water are both very good vsed as before Item take one drag of Saffron eight ounces of Malmsey wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Breasts as aforesaid Item take gréene garden Mints stampe them and mixe them with oyle of Roses and do as before And for this purpose is the oyle of Mints also very good Item take Beane meale mingled with vineger and sodden to a pap or grout tempered with oyle oyle of Roses to a plaister and lay it on the Breasts Take Beane
and Violets After purging some do giue Mithridate and Treacle for old coughes thereby to consume the matter Also for old Coughes the Treacle Diatessaron is to be vsed but take what you please giuing him a dragme at one time according as the person is young or old with a little Barly water The Breast is also to be kept warm and the same to be annointed wherto this following serueth Take Muscilage of Fenegréeke and Lineseede of each two ounces fresh butter one quarter of an ounce oile of swéet Almonds one ounce and a halfe Waxe as much as is néedful For this is speciall good the salue Althea and when you haue rubbed the brest warme therwith then couer it with carded shéepes wooll Further these things may be vsed outwardly to wit that in the morning there be laid on his head a bag of parched Millets and salt or a bag with Penniroyall Marioram and Mints laid vpon the head Or in the steade therof Styrax wild Mints Myrrhe Sandaraca of each a like much beaten to powder and cast vpon the fire and the vapor or fume thereof receiued into the nose and mouth For this is also good Nigella seede or Sandaraca each alone Item take Rosemarie Penniroyall Cammomill white Mints and Sage of each a like quantitie let them séeth together and receiue the vapor or fume You may make also of these things following a cap and weare the same continually on the head it is very commodious for old folke Take Stechas Amaranthus Cammomill Melilot Agnus castus and Rue of each a handfull and a halfe Annis seede Fennell Comin prepared Coriander of each halfe an ounce then lay this Cap vpon a hote stone which is sprinkled with wine and so set it warme on his head The patient is also to hold Myrrhe a long time in his mouth and afterwards swallow it downe for it hath a maruellous operation in all cold coughes A bath to wash the feete is also very commodious for this take for the same Thime Roses Cammomils and Salt of each one handfull let them seeth together and put the feete therein euen to the knées This may he vse thrée dayes long and then renew the same Other things moe that are very requisite for this purpose FOr this is also good all that warmeth the breast whereof there are many sortes as two kinds of Diâ—ireos the which in the first part the 14. Chapter § 1. are described Likewise Diatragacanthum calidum which is also there described in the 2. § Meade is also very goâ— against the cold Cough and all diseases of the Lights which is taught to be prepared diuersly in the eighth part What pectorall potions the Apothecaries haue in vse the same is shewed is the second part the second chapter and 2. § Elecampane wine taketh away all cold diseases of the brest The same doth also oyle of Lillies of swéet Almonds oile of Poppy heads trocisces of Diapenidion Looch de Pino which is a confection of Pine apple kernels Looch sanum chiefly Looch de Scilla tosted Figs Dates the decoction of an old Cock with wild Saffron seed wherin Hyssop Ireos Raisins or Nettle séeds is decocted Elecampane Saffron and all that is prescribed for the cold rheume And because that these Losinges Looch or confections are many times rehearsed in this our booke of Phisicke therfore it cannot be misaduised that we describe them and other such like here Diapenidion and begin first with Diapenidion which is made thus Take Sugar pennets two ounces swéet and bitter Almonds and white Poppie séede of each thrée dragmes and one scruple Cinamome Cloues Ginger iuice of Licorice Dragagant Starch Gum seedes of Melons of Gourds and Cucumbers all pilled of each one drag and a halfe Camfere seuen graines make thereof small powder being al beaten and chopt and with an ounce of this powder 12. ounces of Sugar and séeth it away with water of Folefoote vnto losinges and then let it melt in your mouth This Sugar is very good for al old coughes for hoarsnesse for digestion and coughing vp of phlegme Looch de Pino is thus prepared Take fresh Pingles fiftéene dragmes Looch de Pino stéepe them all a night in the water of Folefoote swéet Almonds parched hasell Nuts Dragagant Gumme Licorice Starch Venus haire and Ireos of each one quarter of an ounce 17. or 18. Dates one ounce and a half of bitter Almonds Hony of Roses fresh Butter and white Sugar of each one quarter of an ounce 18. ounces and thrée quarters of clarified Hony cut and powne all that is to be cut and powned and then temper them togither with the sayd Hony this is passing good for all cold Coughs There is also another Looch or confection Looch Sanum expertum the which is called Sanum expertum which is haill and approued Take Cinnamom Hyssope and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes of each fiftéene Currans Figs and Dates of each one ounce Fenegréeke two ounces and a halfe Venus haire halfe a handfull Annis seede Fennell Ireos Linseede and white Mints of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them togither in 24. ounces of water vnto the halfe part then straine it out and put to this decoction twelue ounces of Sugar pennets seeth this togither againe vntill it be through thicke afterwards mingle the other things therein cut and beaten small prepared Pingles one ounce and a quarter as is afore sayd peeled Almonds iuice of Licorice Dragagant Gumme and Starch of each one quarter of an ounce rootes of Violets one dragme stir them well togither vntill it be white It is very good against the Cough and hoarsenesse that commeth of cold it melloweth and emptieth the breast of all phlegmatick matter Looch de Scylla which is of Squils is very forcible to cleanse the Cough slime Looch de Scylla and phlegme out of the brests and to separate the same it swageth all paine and smart of the brest and it may be thus prepared Take the very best and purest part of a Squill parted asunder with a wooden knife stampe it with a wooden pestell and wring out the iuice take so much Hony as there is iuice and seeth it togither vntill it be thicke inough Of an old Cough §. 7. IF the Cough be waxen old and so fierce that it will not let one sleepe then doth Rasis ordaine to take Myrrhe Styrax and Opium of each a like quantity and to make pils thereof and take one or two of them It is often shewed before how hurtfull the Opium is whereby euery man may know how to deale therewith this following is safer Take Syrupe of Poppy heads halfe an ounce or more or eate a little Poppie séed with Sugar both of them make the Rheume thick and do stay the same that falleth into the breast Item take a handfull of Hyssope cut Licorice and Currans of each thrée ounces Fenegréeke and Linséed of each one ounce
fine Bolus the meale of Lupines and Barly meale of each halfe an ounce Gummi Helenij one quarter of an ounce Waxe and Turpentine as much as is néedfull for to make a meetely thicke plaister then spread it on a leather and lay it vpon the breast The vnguent Althea is very good to annoint the breast withall as the same is often here before commaunded to be vsed Item annoint the breasts with the oile of Wall flowers of Bayes and Dill tempered together or each a part Or take oile of Violets and of swéet Almonds of each one ounce Duckes grease and butter of each foure ounces Saffron two scruples white Waxe as much as needeth for to make a soft Vnguent Certaine excellent things in generall §. 13. THese things following are much commended for all diseases of the breast and for all coughes in generall First the gum Ammoniacum dissolued in Barley water and honie and taken Aristologie bitter Almonds oile of swéet Almonds drest with all meates Boiled Sothernwood Balsam wood the fruits of the same prepared Coloquint is wonderful good for this being vsed in pils Cypers decocted in wine confected Elecampane roots Galbanū the rootes of blew Flower de luce Myrrhe put into pils of Agaricus Coriander and Spikenard séede rere egs supt vp or Cawdles made thereof Léekes with Barly water and honie Nettles and their séede with Barley water and Hony Woodbind Sandaraca gréene Rue boyled in Vineger Squils are speciall good rosted or howsoeuer you will vse them for that they be commended and estéemed aboue all other medicines Saffron tempered in the broth of a Cock wild Saffron seed the gum Sagapenum giuen in with Rue water Sesely seeds Foxe longs prepared one dragme onely Hyssope and all that is prepared with this herbe is good for the lights and the whole brest confected rootes of the Star thistle Eryngton conserue of Rosemary and all that is made of Rosemarie Betony Gilloflowers and all that is made thereof Nutmegs that are confected do consume all superfluous humors not only of the Lights but also of all the inward parts albeit that some suppose that they are hurtfull for the Lights Walnuts that are confected in Sugar or Hony do warme the Lights and all inward parts for which this thing following is very good Take a sweete Pomegranate cut it in fower parts Strew the péeces with Sugar candy and bind them togither againe binding or wrapping them in a moist cloth and let them rost leisurably then take out the coare and eate it for a medicine Conserues of Eyebright openeth al inward members and all obstructions of the Lights like as doth also the wine which is described in the first Part against the diminishing of the sight Calmus which is confected hath a speciall power for the opilation of the Lights and to open all inward obstructions Comin doth also the same Caraway and Fennell confected or eaten raw likewise Fennell is good for all Coughes roughnesse of the throate and hoarsenesse Treacle and Mithridate are also very good for this Al Losinges of Diapenidion of Dragagant iuice and sirup of Licorice and all kindes of Oxymel as is already sayd are altogether maruellous good for this disease Siliquae rosted in ashes are also good against all shortnesse of breath and all kinds of Coughs M. Tristams water In like manner both the sirups of Vineger Simplex Compositus are also special good for this purpose Also all the forementioned Potions for the Cough and the brest euen as they are set downe in the second Chapter § 2. In like manner also a costly stomachicall powder which is described in the first Part the 12. Chapter § 1. that may be also vsed for Asthma Of shortnesse of breath through Cholera §. 14. IN the beginning of the description of this shortnesse of breath we haue shewed that the same is caused very seldome of Cholera and if the same should be caused thereby then is the same yet to be cured through the same meanes as in all places are expressed hereafter and before Therfore is here no speciall matter to treate of but onely the signes that are of this sicknesse through Cholera and afterwards to see wherewith to delay the heate As concerning the signes thereof it commeth with great drought heate and gnawing about the breast and the same rather in the right than in the left side with a yellow colour al ouer the brest wherwith commeth also a roughnes of the tongue and of the throte and especially about the time when the Cholera accustometh to moue and stirre which is from thrée a clocke vntill nine in the day time whereby the patient will also cast vp small store of flegme and that is yellowish In his sleep appeareth yellow things and fiery fantasies as lightning and such like The pulse is hard quicke and continuall except the patient had lost most part of his naturall strength the Vrine is thicke yellow and ruddie but in the bottome cleare and subtile yet do these signes alter with euery mutation of an accident according to the which euery expert person may know to direct himselfe These things following do coole the heate of the breast in general and the inflammation of the Lights as Cassia new Conserues of Roses Iulep of Roses sirupe of Roses and such like conserues of Burrage Buglosse and their wine if they be not expresly forbidden for some reason In like manner the Cherry wine which is of a temperate nature Item Conserue of Violets Iulep Conserues of Cicorie do cleanse all inward members of Cholera driueth it out through the stoole and doth withstand all Agues of Cholera Peaches confected in Sugar are also a speciall comfortatiue for all hot diseases for that they coole all inward members like as doth also the Conserues of water Lillies Take the iuice of Chickwéede and Verueine or the water wherein they are decocted if you please it is very good for al Coughes Sirup of the right Endiue is speciall good for hot Lights and for all inward hot parts Likewise also Manna of himselfe and his confection Electuarium de Manna which is ready to be had at all Apothecaries Of the shortnes of breath through Melancholia §. 15. EVen so it is also with Asthma through Melancholia which is through the heauie bloud that happeneth very seldome whereof these are the signes a right leaden colour of the face and the brest running eyes with great heauines of the spirits wherwith is also a fearefulnesse faintnes of hart desire to be solitarie especially from nine of the clocke in the day time vntill two or thrée in the night he complaineth also of more abatement or lacke of breath in the left than in the right side and of little sleepe he is also vexed with many heauie fantasies he cougheth vp much thin spettle and that with much ado his water is thin white and cleare his going to stoole is lead colored and hard There is heard much rumbling and wind
scruples Pomegranate blossomes Dragagant of each one scrup Mummy Dragon bloud and prepared Tutty of each one dragme Beane meale and Mill dust of each one dragme Plantaine Verbascum Willow leaues Mirtle leaues and Horse tayles of each one dragme and a halfe Camfer ten greines oyle of Roses as much as is néedfull therewith to make a salue spread thereof vpon a woollen cloth and lay it vpon the Fundament the bloud of the Pyles hath therwith bene stanched at sundry times when all other remedies had bene vsed and would not helpe vntill this aforesaid was applyed Item take Gips beate it small and make it to dough with the beaten white of an Egge this stauncheth bloud maruellous well and that in a quarter of an howre in what sort of bléeding soeuer it be Item take Aloe Frankinsence Dragon bloud fine Bolus and small cut haires of a Hare of each one quarter of an ounce beate them all small afterwards take a Cobweb out of a Mill rub it amongst it and make thereof a salue with the white of an Egge and annoynt the place therewith this also stauncheth much It is also good for rent or cut veines where the bloud cannot be staunched Or take the water of Hounds toung distilled from the herbe and root when the Pyles grow inward then are you to take euery morning therof foure ounces but if they be outward then cleanse the same and lay on this water with a cloth it healeth much Another Take the kernels of Abricockes one ounce and a halfe oyle of Mastick and vnripe Sallad oyle of each thrée ounces the iuice of Sloes Dragagant Gumme and Fish lime or Isinglas which haue bene long stéeped and are dissolued in the foresaid oyle of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them together and dip Cotton therein and hold it continually on the Fundament You may also prepare this following Take Masticke Spica Cypers rootes Squinant Calmus Saffron and Myrrhe of each a like much make a plaister thereof with red Wine and lay it ouer the Liuer Item take the iuice of Plantaine two ounces Rosewater halfe an ounce beaten séedes of Butchers broome as much as is néedfull for to make a mild plaister lay this vpon the Arsegutte Here now follow some Salues TAke oyle of Myrtle and of Masticke of each one ounce Trocisci de Carabe Paper glewe burnt Date stones burnt Iuorie Sandaraca and Bloudstone of each one dragme Waxe as much as is néedefull for to make therewith a soft salue annoynt therewith the fundament Or take beaten Plantaine Verbascum Willow leaues Mirtle leaues and Horse tayles of each a like much to an ounce and a halfe of this powder adde ten graines of Camfere and oyle of Roses as much as is néeedfull for to make salue thereof This stancheth bloud and dryeth gently A precious salue Take Comin Caraway Rue séed Ameos Seseli Galliae Muschatae of each one dragme and a halfe Rosin thrée dragmes oyle of Dill two ounces Sallad oyle one ounce Lignum Aloes and Cloues of each half a dragme melt the Rosin in the oyle and temper it with the other things being beaten small stir it then well about vntill it be a thicke salue This salue verily hath great vertues it stauncheth the excessiue Termes in women if they annoint the raynes and hips therewith being applyed on the Nauell and the stomacke it expelleth wind and taketh away vomiting and parbraking Wil you then haue it stronger to vse for the Pyles then temper amongst it two scruples of Saffron and one dragme of Opium Other good Salues moe TAke dryed Orange péels beate them very small put thereto a rosted Apple and bruise it in a dish then temper the foresaid powder amongst it vntill it be as thicke as a Salue then wash first the Pyles with Plantaine water and afterwards annoint it with the foresaid salue Take two ounces of new Waxe thrée ounces of Hony foure ounces of Butter melt them all together and straine it warme thorow a cloth then set it vpon the fire againe and stir therin as much Wheate floure vntill it be as thicke as pap and then lay it thereon Item take white Dogs dung that hath eaten nothing but bones burne it to ashes and make a salue therof with cleane Barrowes grease and annoynt therewith the Pyles and then strew thereon the powder of Hermodactiles Or take the stones of Indian Mirobalans burn them to powder thereof take halfe an ounce prepared Iron drosse one quarter of an ounce temper them well together with the iuice of Plantaine in a mortar and therewith annoint the Arsegut within and without If so be that these forementioned will not helpe then take two ounces of the iuice of Roses the brayed whites of a couple of Egs Gips thrée dragmes bruse them in a mortar one amongst another and vse it as aforesaid The like is also counselled when as this bléeding commeth too sore that the Basilica is to be opened whereby to deriue and withdraw the bloud and afterwards that he be bathed with water wherein Linséede and the séedes of Hollihocks be decocted or at the leastwise that he be well fomented therewith Lastly like as it is said already there must be layd thereon beaten Parietarie or Pellitorie of the wall For to foment withall take Pomegranate blossomes Roses Cipers nuts séedes of Butchers broome Pomegranate péels Mirtle seed the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce beate them a little and seeth them in thicke red wine and water of each a like much and foment the place with sponges or set the patient in water wherein Gals Pomegranate blossomes butchers Broome Mirtle seede and such like are decocted Item seeth Turnep leaues in water and therewith wash oftentimes the Fundament meetly warme Another Boyle Rose campion in thicke red Wine and foment the Pyles often therewith If so be that through all these remedies the bloud be not stanched then dippe a litle wooll in boyling oyle and lay it hot vpon it then will it cease Afterwards place him in water wherein Gals Pomgranat peels and the blossomes the barke of the Medlar tree Seruises Roses and Allume of ech one ounce beaten grosse were decocted but red wine were more forcible for this How that the inward Pyles are to be staunched OF this hath mention bene made at the first and for this purpose doe serue these foresaid remedies if they be to be had For the staunching of these Pyles if they do bleed excessiuely then is this salue especially to be ordained for them Take Pomgranate blossomes and peels burnt Mussell shels Frankinsence Masticke Dragon bloud sealed earth and Copwebs of each a like much make a powder thereof with dissolued Isinglas and common glew in steeled water make then a taint of Hares haire or at leastwise of wooll and lay it to steepe therein and put it into the Fundament refreshing it oftentimes What is to be vsed inwardly to staunch this bleeding FOr this excessiue bléeding of
the Pyles are these things following highly commended Take Mirobalani Indi Emblici Bellirici a little parched of each fiue dragmes Perles halfe a dragme temper them all togither with the iuice of Garlicke and vse halfe a drag thereof at one time with stéeled water the party is also euery morning to eate a couple of confected Mirobalans Chebuli and to fast fower howers vpon it and that during the space of ten daies or as long as the bleeding continueth A stronger Take the confection of Triphera ex parte Phenouis or de Scoria ferri of which you will one quarter of an ounce or lesse tempered in two ounces of Purslaine water Also the iuice of Yarrow may be taken for this one ounce and a halfe the same stancheth much Item take Wormewood Venus haire and Sorrell of each one handfull Sorrell séed and the séeds of Plantaine Melons Purslaine and Roses of each one dragme seeth them in fayre well water afterwards wring it out and put thereto the shales of yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce red and white prepared Corall Citron séed of each halfe a dragme let it seeth to thrée or foure ounces then mixe with this decoction Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Plantagine halfe an ounce take this certaine daies one after another in the morning betimes For this is also good one quarter of an ounce of Galbanum dissolued in water and dronken A very commodious confection for to be taken alwaies before meat Take Butchers broome seed parched séed of broade Plantaine the iuice of Sloes and Coriander of each one scruple Amber all beaten small and Sugar which is dissolued in Purslaine water thrée ounces take thrée dragmes thereof at one time Aboue all these astringent medicines you shall finde manie moe in the discourse of the excessiue fluxe of the Termes in women also in the first part where many are specified for the staunching of blood the which are altogither good for this purpose How that the Pyles are to be opened §. 6. WHat good this bléeding of the Pyles doth cause whē it commeth by nature and of it selfe and from what sicknes it will preserue a man it is partly declared in the 5. § Likewise what this bléeding doth procure if it be staunched contrary to the old custome also what inconueniences may come ensue thereof When as this bleeding discōtinueth the Pyles do vexe the patient with great paine and extuberation then are they to be opened for to let the blood haue his accustomed course for this preserueth one besides all the recited perillous maladies from all corroding vlcers wildfire cankers madnes melancholy falling sicknes enflaming of the Lights both the kinds of dropsies and consumption And if so be that this blood be staunched then is it to be feared that all the foresaid diseases may ensue thereby therefore when any body desireth to open them then are these things following to be vsed First put the sicke body in a bath whereby the Pyles may be mollified Or in the stéed therof make this fomentation Take Marierom field Mints and Mallowes séeth them in wine and receiue the vapor thereof from beneath sitting on a close stoole méetly warme the next day after open the Saphea or the Median The Saphea is vpon the hindermost part of the foot besides the héele whereby the melancholicke blood is drawen downeward afterwards annoynt the Pyles with oyle of bitter Almonds or oyle of Nuts also a little Cotton is good for this made wet in the iuice of Onions and laid thereon This may you effect also with the Gals of all beasts although the Oxe gall be especially cōmended aboue all the rest Secondly put Horsleaches into them through a pipe whereby they may fall right vpon the Pyles for by nature they do draw out the melancholicke blood which is contrary to the boxing cups Therefore if there be boxing cups set vpon it then must they be fastened vnpickt be it on man or woman and that betwéene the priuities and the Arsegut Thirdly rub the Arsegut with Fig leaues vntill it begin to bléede in like sort may the powder of Nep of Marierom of Fleawort of Swines bred of Pepper or any other biting powder as Cantharides and Esula also Flammula may be laid thereon But if you will haue milder things then take the iuice of Centorie or water wherein a good quantitie of Mallowes be decocted Item beaten Stauesacre tempered with Honie Fourthly this is the most certaine way viz. that two or thrée pyles be opened with the Flew and to the end they may not shut suddenly together againe like as their nature is then vse this salue following Take oyle of Peach kernels of Abricock kernels or the same kernels beaten and the iuice of Garlick of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue But if so be that these inward Pyles cannot be séene then must the patient be required once to strayne hard as if he would goe to the stoole Do not the Pyles as yet appeare thereby then let a boxe or cup with a wide mouth be set vpon the fundament when these haue pluckt out the Arsegut then open a veine or twayne that be fullest Fiftly vse this salue following Take small beaten Aloe one quarter of an ounce Oxe gals one ounce Vineger two ounces temper them all together put therein some Cotton or wet a cloth and rub it well therewith Item take Centorie Rapontica Stauesacre Flammula and white Néesewort of each alike much temper it with Oxe gall and the iuice of Onions let it then dry stampe it and once againe do as before Reiterate this fowre times together when you will vse this then wash well the Pyles with warme water and temper the foresayd powder with Oxe gall and annoynt therewith the Pyles Another Take two small Onions fowre heads of Garlick beate them together and temper them with the meale of Lupins and with very eager Vineger vnto a plaister which will open the Pyles immediatly Sixtly make a long suppository of Swines bread put it vp into the fundament kéepe it therein a whole night if it come out then put in another vntill the Pyles begin to bléede Also with the suppositories of wild Cucumber rootes do the like Item take Coloquint thrée drag bitter Almonds halfe an ounce sodden Hony thrée ounces and make suppositories thereof and vse another euery fiue howres so that the Pyles will then bléede immediatly Some do open these veines with hote yrons and some through Cauteries potentiall as Arsenicum and such like but because they are perilous it is better to rest with the former remedies Against the paine of the Pyles §. 7. IF so be that there be any impostume besides the paine of the Pyles outwardly on the Arsegut then must the patients Liuer veine be opened on the right hand and this plaister following laid vpon the Fundament thereby to asswage the paine Take the
somewhat of the signes and their difference When as now then the whole necke hath any disease then can the meate not be but slowly swallowed But if the disease be in a certaine place of the necke then remaineth the meate sticking in the same place But whether it come of heate or drought that shall be bewrayed by the drouth and thirst for that cold water is very acceptable vnto him But if so be it procéede of cold then hath the patient neither heate nor thirst but onely an anguish in the throate If so be that one can hardly swallow through excessiue moisture then doth the same appeare through much spettle and whitenesse of the tongue Or the same cometh through drought that maketh the drought of the tongue and the mouth knowne for the patient wil drink continually or wash his mouth with cold water If there be any impostume in these places then haue you the signes of Squinancie therewith wherof we in the second part the first chapter the 4. § haue mentioned Also when he would drinke then runneth the drinke out of the nose neither can he addict himselfe to lie but séeketh alwaies to sit vp Then cometh this disease through bloud Cholera that may be knowne by the pricking paine also by the thirst heate and Ague and to the contrarie when the same is caused through cold then is the paine small but with drought and the painefulnes of swallowing is felt in moe places then in the place of the tumor But if this impostume break out then do they cast vp matter and are very prone to vomiting whereby also they lose their paine in swallowing These impostumes are also to be knowne if that one do swallow down Vineger or any other soure thing or that is salt not onely into the necke of the stomake but also euen into the shoulder blade Or if the same be caused through any cricke of the necke then will the paine also be knowne there or there groweth a bunch either before or behind And if so be that the same be caused through the crampe then shut to the patients mouth and he shall féele the paine most of all in the Nipples and on the breast But before that we come to the remedies for this infirmitie of swallowing we must prescribe some common rules and first because that the necke and mouth of the stomacke are tender parts therfore héede must be taken that there be not vsed for it any sharpe or biting things that thereby they be not grieued nor hindred in their actions Secondly if these parts do ranckle or get any maladie like as often hapneth then must all sharpe sower and biting things he eschued vnlesse the same things be drying withall yet very little because such sharp things do augment the same paine do feeble the naturall power and enflame the whole throate Thirdly if so be that the necke of the stomacke be ouer cold then must plaisters be laid vpon the shoulders and there about But if this coldnes be in the mouth of the stomacke then must the plaisters other things be layd vpon the pit of the hart Fourthly if there be a hot impostume with paine and a cholerick body then must he be let blood purge and vse other remedies euen as hath béen said in the description of the Squinancie Fiftly the remedies that are to be vsed for the healing of the exulceration of the throate and to incarnate they are alwaies to be tempered with some tough slimie thing to the end that they may cleaue the faster in the throate and thereby also may haue the better operation Now to come to the remedies If that this impediment be only caused through heate or heate and drought then purge the patient with sower Dates Cassia and Manna tempered in some broth wherein Prunes Violets and Figs haue bin sodden for all these things do expell such matter and moysten the throate and the necke of the stomacke like as in this disease is required Therefore shall the patient and that oftentimes vse sirupe of Violets water Lillies and such like and swallow the same leysurely There may also be made a sirupe of Prunes as hereafter followeth take fower or fiue Damaske Prunes Violets two ounces séeds of Lettice Endiue small Endiue Purslaine of each halfe an ounce Sugar 18. ounces make a sirupe thereof like as before in the Introduction is taught Beneath vnder the neck betwéene the shoulder blades there must the patient be annointed with cooling oyles or any such like plaisters laid thereon that are tempered with oyle of Violets water Lillies and oyle of Roses afterwards take wheate meale thrée ounces the muscilage of Fleawort iuice of Housléeke of each one ounce and a halfe iuice of Purslaine one ounce stampe them togither vnto a plaister Take the iuice of great and small Housléeke Rose water of each two ounces Melon séede Lettice Gourds Cucumbers Purslaine and both kinds of Endiues of each one quarter of an ounce let this séeth al together vnto a plaister then stamp them to growt and vse it as aboue If there be no drought thereby perceiued then may be put thereto red and white Saunders and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce and one ounce of Vineger But if there be great drought therwith then vse the muscilage of Fleawort Dragagant the séeds of Quinces Violets and such like also he must eate cold herbs whereof the seeds are here aboue named fried with Butter and annoynt himselfe outwardly with all manner of beasts marrow In like maner are also very good for him conserues of Roses the cold losinges of Dragagant and Diapenidion without spices and new rere egs These ensuing pils are also to be prepared and to hold them continually in the mouth and lastly swallow them downe Take Dragagant Gum of Arabia Purslaine séede Mallowes and Quince kernels of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice one dragme and an halfe the gum of Cherry trée a dragme make thereof flat pils Barley water and Buttermilke are good drinke for this sicknes also he may drinke watred wine But if this impediment be caused through cold like as most commonly hapneth and if so be that néede require then giue to the patient some potions of Sirupo de Prâ—ssio de Calaminta or de Hyssopo and purge him with Diaturbith or Hiera logodion and if it be néedfull put a little Esula to it These tabulates shall he also hold in his mouth and then swallow downe the iuice of them to wit Dianison Diatrionpiperion Diaireos Salomonis Diapliris made with Muske and such like Vpon the shoulders must he be annoynted with the oyle of Costus or with the oyle of Rue For this is also good the salues Martiaton Agrippae and Altheae whereupon this plaister following is to be applied Take Laudanum the fat of Shéepes wooll Galbanum and Ammoniacum of each one ounce dryed Mints Sage Indy Spica Spica Romana and Cloues of each one drag Waxe one ounce oyle of Spikenard
powder Confections Plaisters Oyles and all whatsoeuer one will It hapneth also sometimes that with this vomiting a laske or flixe is adioyned For to stay the same are these things following good parched Cresses séede Cypers Nut leaues Mirrhe Lignum Aloes red Styrax Amber Laudanum Indis Spica Spica Romana Calmus Cloues Mints Wormwood Citrons Limons Oranges Frankinsence Mastick Rue Agnus castus tosted bread Gallia Muscata and Alipta almost all kinds of Spices Also Treacle taken with the iuice of Mints stayeth vomiting Item make a plaister of Mastick with a little sodden Turpentine and lay it on the stomack for this also are you to set boxing cups vpon the shoulders For this also is Marmalade with Spices very good and preserued Quinces and these are the common meanes against the vomiting through a weake stomacke be it through heate or cold You shall also finde many mo described in other places of this booke amongst diuers sicknesses as before in the second part the fift Chapter and 2. § is discouered for the spetting of bloud and such like We will now passe ouer to another manner of parbraking through Cholera Of Parbraking or Vomiting with the laske or scouring §. 12. THis maladie do the learned name after the humour whereby it is caused Choleram The later Phisitions call it Cholericam Passionem and it is thus described Cholera is a very sharpe troublesome and heauie disease which immediatly molesteth one with the Rheume whereby vomiting great flixe or scouring Collick paine of the bowels an Ague is bred Or Cholera is a violent sicknes with vomiting great scowring or laske with Cramp in the sinewes Thighes and Legs whereby all outward members are cold and the pulse is small and slow Or Cholera is such a maladie whereby one immediatly doth scowre and rid vpward and downeward many kinds of humors and slime with the meate so that he detaineth nothing in his body This sicknesse commeth first of spoyled and corrupted meate which remaineth to long in some place of the body as in the stomack or bowels and there causeth a bad alteration and also giueth little nourishment Also this sicknesse is sometimes caused of cold and waterish humors which gather themselues togither in the bowels and in the stomack that do debilitate the retentiue vertue of the stomack aboue and beneath But the sicknesse for the most part is caused through much Cholera and red gall that do so lye and bite in the stomack bowels that within the space of one houre the parbraking and going to the stoole do so haunt a body that otherwhiles the strongest body on the third day is depriued of his life and this is worse then all other The signes of a cold cause are these before the sicknesse be vpon one much windinesse is felt in the bowels also some dayes before the sicknesse he féeleth paine and shooting about the Nauell whereupon presently ensueth a vehement laske or flixe with vomiting of much slime and other illfauored matter This is also the sooner caused if the patient haue vsed great store of phlegmaticall meates That which is caused through heate is hereby knowne there falleth much Cholera into the stomack and bowels with great and mightie parbraking and also with great thirst and if one drinke cold water then doth the vomiting stay vntill that the water be warmed in the stomack The Fluxe is so vehement that the patient sometimes thereby swouneth and also vtterly loseth the pulse with an vnstedfast heate and bereauing of his senses When as then it hapneth that one feeleth a continual paine in the stomacke or bowels with great heauinesse of mind and perceiueth parbraking and vomiting then is such verily to be taken for Cholera for this there is to be giuen to the sicke body lukewarme water to drinke very often And if so be that this parbraking and scowring continue still then giue him warme water to drinke againe as before and that so long till you find that he haue auoyded some corrupted meates slime or some of the gall This will frée the patient of mo other sicknesses For this are moe other things to be vsed to wit that expell this sharpe matter so that Phlegma with things necessary for it and Cholera with those that helpe it might be taken in hand because parbraking will be cured by parbraking and scowring by scowring When as then the scowring is stayed of both ends then is the patiēt to bath one houre long afterwards to eate a little and that light meate because the stomacke is very much weakened After that he is to eate a little Marmalade which is tempered with prepared Coriander and so go sleepe He is to vse this Marmalade as long as the scowring or parbraking endureth His diet must be Hen broth decocted with Veriuice steeled Goats milke Barley and Oten paps sodden Lettice and Purslaine but principally if there be any heate and bitternesse of the mouth remaining but if so be that there be any cold in the stomacke then are these herbes at no hand to be vsed When as the patient beginneth againe to féede well then be good for him all field foules and chiefly Partridges which haue a proper hidden vertue to strengthen the stomacke Amongst other meates may well be vsed Limons Citrons Oranges Veriuice such like Item all sower fruits Seruices vnripe Medlars sower Peares Apples and Quinces Also he shal eate although not gladly sops of white bread in the iuice of Pomegranats and if so be that he vomit vp the same yet must he take more againe and do this so long till that he do hold and retaine it As long as he is not through wholethen is he to drinke stéeled water with sirupe of Quinces or old conserue of Roses When he beginneth to be whole then is he to drinke good relished wine which is tempered with the iuice of Pomegranates And if so be that he parbrake it vp then let him drinke of the same againe but a little at once that the stomacke be not ouercharged Here followeth now what is to be vsed for this scowring and parbraking and chiefly when it is seene that these diseases do increase For which one is not to be discomforted but much more bestir him to helpe the sicke person with these remedies following First you must giue him one or two dragmes of Trociscos de Olibano with water or iuice of Pomegranates and afterwards to bind his legs fast like as is taught before against the parbraking when the vomiting getteth the vpper hand so must his armes likewise be bounden when the scowring getteth the mastery But aboue all sleepe is passing good Item Rose water layd very cold ouer the legs or from the vpper part of the legs downward wetted and washed therewith and the féete set in it is also very good In like manner is this plaister ensuing forcible to asswage the paine to warme and strengthen Take rindes of the Medlar tree of Quinces and of an Oaken tree
Hony shall be boyled vntill they be thick in the water of Hyssope and temper the rest amongst them take sometimes also halfe a dragme or one dragme of fine Treacle or Mithridate in good wine Potions and such like TAke an old Cocke or Hen stop it full of Cinnamom Cloues Ginger and Zeduarie as much as you thinke good let them séeth well and drinke of this broth euery morning eight ounces at one time Or drinke in the morning a good draught of wine wherein be stéeped Nutmegs Galingale and Cloues A little Aqua vitae is also very good You may likewise vse for this vitall waters Conserues of Betonie of Eyebright Gilloflower wine Betony wine and wine of Eyebright are very meete for all cold diseases of the stomacke Of sirupes are especial good for this disease the sirupe of Wormwood of Mints of Quinces and aboue all de Calamintha Or make this following Take Marioram rumpled Mints Wormwood and Penniroyall of each one handful Hony water foure and twenty ounces one quart of good white wine séeth the hearbes euen to the half then strain it and clarifie the broth put as much Hony vnto it as you thinke good temper afterwards amongst it Ginger Galingale Lignum Aloes Citron péeles and Spikenard of each one quarter of an ounce then make a sirupe of it like as in the first part and the 6. § is taught Also you may temper with it Commin Fennell Caraway Annis Cloues Mother cloues or Cinnamom For all these things do expell wind and strengthen the stomacke These pils following do not purge but expell wind Take Asarabacca Commin Fennell and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce the seedes of Rue rootes of Mandragora of each one scruple Beuercod one dragme and a halfe make as many pils of it as you please and vse one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of it at one time For when one will purge then take these pils following Take Indie salt halfe a scruple washt Aloes two scruples Pil. Alephanginae one quarter of an ounce temper them together and make seuen or eight pils of them and vse them at one time Suppositories which do draw downe the winds TAke Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum one dragme Waxe two ounces Turpentine thrée ounces Indie Salt one dragme and a halfe Saltpeter two ounces and a halfe Rue Caraway Siluer mountaine séed Cuscuta Centorie Coloquint Commin Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Colophonia one quarter of an ounce melt the Gum the Waxe and Turpentine and temper the rest being beaten amongst it Then make suppositories of it the bignes of a small finger Others do take Ammoniacum Galbanum Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce Sagapenum one dragme and a half dissolue them in vineger temper them afterwards in foure ounces of molten Hony and put Swines bread vnto it Coloquint Turbith and the rootes of Ferne of each one dragme Scammonie one quarter of an ounce parched Salt one ounce and a halfe then make thicke suppositories of it for this are you to abate or increase the described waight more or lesse according to the importance of the cause for they be very strong and draw downe the wind and the ordure very vehemently This powder following is also very good for all winds Take Marioram Rue Mints Ameos Masticke and Frankinsence of each thrée dragmes Cloues halfe a dragm make a powder of them and giue thereof one dragme at the same time Another Take Cinnamome one ounce Ginger thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounce Galingale one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs thrée dragmes Cardamome one drag and a halfe Mace one dragm Pepper one quarter of an ounce Spica one dragme Comin three quarters of an ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe Sugar one ounce and a halfe take one dragme thereof with good warme wine Here followeth that which is outwardly to be vsed TAke Millet and Salt parch them well then put vnto them Parietarie and Nettles and lay them warme vpon the stomacke Or séeth Rue Marioram Cammomill and Mints in wine and wet a sponge in it or a woollen clout wring it out and lay it warme vpon the stomacke You may also séeth the same herbes in Sallad oyle and annoint the stomacke with it and then lay it warme thereon with vndrest shéepes wooll Another oyntment Take Rue one handfull Beuercod one quarter of an ounce Annis one ounce Aristologie two ounces red Wine thrée ounces oyle of Bery foure ounces powne them all grossely that are to be powned and let them séeth vpon hote ashes vntill the wine be boyled away then wring it thorough a cloth and with Waxe make a salue of it for the stomacke These oyles following are very necessarie for him to wit oyle of Rue of Mandragora of Penniroyall of Dill of Spica and Bayberries mixt together or each alone This plaister following is very good for to consume the wind of the stomack of the lyuer and of the milt Take Ammoniacum Opopanacum Turpentine Rosin of each halfe an ounce Cardainome Cypers rootes Sauin trée Saltpeter Bayberies Cassie wood Melilot Fenegréeke meale Smallage séedes Marioram gentle of each one dragme melt and pown them as behooueth and then temper them with the oyle of Spike and of Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister spread it on a leather and couer it with Syndall and so lay it ouer the stomacke You shall haue also hereafter a good plaister against the obstruction of the lyuer with cold beginning Take Roses fiue dragmes c. which plaister is also meete for this purpose This fomentation is also maruellous méete for this Take Wormwood Mints Marioram rumpled Mints Fennell séede Dill seede and Commin of each one handfull a half Masticke red and white Corall Gallia Muscata of each one dragm Roses two handfuls Squinant Mirtle séede and Coriander of each one handfull and a halfe wild Vine leaues one handfull and a half but not Bryonie cut them all grosse and then séeth them all in thrée quarts of wine vnto the halfe except the Gallia Muscata this is to be put last of all vnto it when as the decoction is strained Then foment the stomacke with it with a great sponge These bags are also to be made Take the séedes of Smallage Annis Siluer mountaine Fennell seedes Stone Parsly and of Rue of each one handfull Marioram white water Mints of each one handfull and a halfe Hyssope Penniroyall Stechas Rue field Cypers of each one handfull Wormwood two handfuls Calmus Cinnamome and Cloues of each one quarter of an ounce Mace thrée dragmes cut it and beate it all together and afterwards put it in a bag Item rub the stomack with Aqua vitae This is also very good and commodious Item set a great boxing cup vpon the stomacke vnpickt c. But you shall incontinent hereafter see more of this where we do speake of the griping and paine of the belly because that they do
an ounce séethe them together and steepe therein one ounce of Mirobalani Indi the space of a whole night then wring it well out and temper with it one dragme of Azure stone prepared and giue it to the patient betimes in the morning There may also be vsed for to purge the confection of Sene leaues afterwards strengthen the stomacke with the confection Aromatico Caryophilato Diapliris cum Moscho Laetitia Galeni Diathamaron and annoint the same with the foresaid oyle His meate shall he strew measurably with spices he must drink but a little old Wine He must vse moderate exercise and bath often All that is outwardly to be done is to be taken out of the 24. § But if so be that there be any belching procéeding of vnnaturall heate which neuertheles chaunceth very seldome then is the patient to vse the sirupe of Wormewood or Wormwood wine or Wormwood water In like sort also he is to purge afterwards with Hiera Picra and not to disquiet himselfe for that these medicines be hote of nature because they do purge both Choleram and the stomacke Otherwise must this patient be ordered like as in the debilitie of the stomacke through heate is taught in the 6. § And good héed is to be taken that the digestiue vertue may be strengthened Set also a great boxing cup vpon the belly without picking the space of one houre yet otherwhiles taking it off and afterwards annoint the stomack with the foresaid oyle or some other oyle wherein Annis Comin Fennell Rue or Penniroyall is decocted The Aristology hath also a great power to expell all wind and paine of the stomacke And as concerning the order of life or diet there is alwaies to be vsed all light meates and white wine and that with sobrietie Of the paine in the stomacke through a hote impostume §. 29. THese impostumes which the Gréeks do call Apostema and the Latinists Abscessus are like a separation from that which is whole and firme in a mans body or is separated into two parts and doth make an exulceration which we do call in our common spéech an Impostume as a word lent vs from the Grecians themselues but in our English tong we do call an impostume a Botch or a Byle which commeth to an issue which breaketh out and healeth The difference betwéene an impostume and an exulceration is that the impostume breaketh out and healeth spéedily but an exulceration endureth long and corrodeth like as the same may also happen in the stomacke The causes of these impostumes may be blowes fals and other outward bruses all which do make paine in the stomacke which groweth afterwards vnto an Impostume through the falling downe of some bad humors into it so that if the foresaid humors be not drawne thence then there befalleth more harme vnto it And that we may write somewhat of it we will first begin with the hote impostume In case then that with the paine in the stomacke there be an Ague an impostume which may outwardly be felt through the heate and otherwise then may it easily be adiudged that this disease is caused through heate and Cholera It hapneth also that the paines is so vehement so intolerable and the heate so abundant that it séemeth that the patient would burne so that he loseth his senses and thereby hapneth also to fall into a frenzie or some other madnesse with a forcible vomiting and parbraking For this must the Liuer veine or Median be opened afterwards these Refrigerations to be forthwith layd vpon it Take Rose water sixe ounces the iuice of Quinces one ounce and a halfe red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Camfere one scruple temper them all together This is as it is said to be vsed at the beginning Afterwards if the cause requireth there must be sundry plaisters made readie The first is this ensuing Take red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce the séede of Plantaine of Purslaine and Wormwood of each one dragme and a halfe Barly meale two ounces Camfere one scruple oyle of Roses and of Quinces of each one ounce and a halfe let them séethe all together vntill it be thicke But in the increase of the paine then temper amongst this plaister the grease of Ducks and Hens as much as is néedfull and when as this maladie is at the highest put Smallage vnto it Dates Fenegréeke Bdellium and Vineger of each one quarter of an ounce and then mixe it as is aforesaid But if the disease begin to waxe old that the heate were gone yet there remaine neuertheles a hardnes of the stomack then be one of these plasters following to be laid vpon it take Violets two dragmes and a halfe Roses fiue dragms Spike and Masticke of each thrée dragmes Cipers rootes Squinant and Calmus of each one quarter of an ounce Fenegréeke meale two ounces and a halfe Cammomill Hollihocke rootes and Barly meale of each one quarter of an ounce temper them all together with the muscilage of Linséede vnto a pap This pappe is also good for all hard swellings of the stomack of the Liuer it asswageth the paine and ripeneth all impostumations Or in the steade of this you may also vse this plaister of Meliloto Diachylon or Ceroton de Hyssopo and foure howers after meate when the meate is digested the stomacke is to be annointed with the oyle of Masticke and Wormewood and further the place couered with sheepes wooll Item take Pitch and Rosin of each two ounces Colophonia one ounce and a halfe Mastick and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Aloe one ounce and a halfe molten Lard one ounce oyle of Masticke foure ounces gréene Waxe as much as suffiseth for a plaister you may also make a salue of it and it is very good both wayes It is also néedfull for to purge which must be effected with mild Clisters whereof diuers stand here and there declared Afterwards giue the patient one ounce of Cassie or two ounces of Manna dissolued in Endiue water And if this do not sufficiently relaxe then giue him euery day one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie And in case that the Ague do not remit then open a veine and purge once againe as before Take thrée dragms of péeled Gourd séeds make thereof milke with Barly water and thrée dragmes of Rosewater like vnto Almond milke Seuen dayes after giue him halfe a dragme of Trociscis de Rosis tempered with Endiue water He is afterwards to take euery day this ensuing Take of the water of Smallage and Fennell water of each one ounce the iuice of Wormwood one quarter of an ounce Masticke one dragme temper them together and vse one of the prescribed plaisters Barley paps Oaten paps and otherwhiles stued Spinage may he wel eate Or Burrage boyled in Hen broth and Almond milke is very méete for him Stued Peares Apples Quinces and ripe Plums may he also eate Water or
Cicorie and of Buglosse of each one ounce three mornings togither and one of the foresayd purgations after it The Oxymel is highly commended for this sicknesse These pils following are verie forcible for to auoide water take the iuice of wild Cucumbers which is Elaterium and the iuice of Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Rapontica one quarter of an ounce Aloe one dragme Diagridion one scruple Pease meale Cinnamom Spica Lignum Aloes of each halfe a scruple make pils thereof with the iuice of Smallage and giue him one dragme at once thereof at the most Now for to cleanse the head you are to vse these things following which you can get as the iuice of wild Cucumbers and of Swines bread of garden Cresses Horehound tempered with womans milke and drawne vp thorow the nose and afterwards to lye downe vpon the backs These things following do cleanse the grosse Cholera which remaineth still in the head doth take away all the yellow iaundise with them For this are verie necessarie all cooling and preparatiue potions with sirrupe of Endiue and of Purslaine tempered togither and chiefly if any obstruction of the liuer be present for which this sirrupe following is also verie fit Take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Cicorie Melilot Harts tong and Venus haire of each one handfull twentie or fiue and twentie Prunes séeds of Melons of Pompeons Cucumbers of Gourds roots of Cypresse of Capers Dragon rootes of each one dragme beate them all grosse and let them séeth togither in six and thirtie ounces of water euen to the halfe Afterwards séeth in this decoction fower and twentie ounces of Sugar or Hony and clarifie it vntill there be a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Cicorie of each a handfull wild Endiue and Priest crowne of each two handfuls séedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourds Lacca Spiknard Wormwood and the rootes of Smallage of each halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce white Vineger thrée dragmes Sugar twelue ounces and then make a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Venus haire of each two handfuls Fennell séed Parsley séede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi Spica romana of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please make thereof a sirrupe For the obstruction of the liuer in the beginning of the 4. § there is also a confection which is verie fit for this purpose Of all drinkes which this patient may drinke there is nothing more méete for this sicknesse then the whaie of milke whereof he is to drinke euerie morning three weekes togither a good draught at each time for this whaie doth clense the bloud especially if there be mixed with it the iuice of Fumitorie And the same is also good for all itches scurffes Item that the innermost skinne of a hens gissard also a Partridge dried and beaten to pouder giue him the waight of a dragme thereof in wine or Cicorie water and let the patient fast fiue howers after it Another The innermost skinne of a pullets gissard or crop and the rootes of Auence of each a like quantitie seeth them in wine the space that you would seeth an egge and drinke thereof morning and euening and fast an howre vpon it Item take fower ounces of Gentian Fennell rootes fiue ounces Smallage rootes two ounces and a halfe wash the same verie cleane and cut them in peeces let them séeth al togither with sufficient water afterwards wring them wel out through a bag and then let this decoction boyle vntil it be as thick as hony then giue therof two ounces at each time This medicine is also especiall good for all phlegmatick Agues wherewith the yellow iaundies be mixed Item for al dropsies all paine of the Kidneies paine of the wombe for all venome and it is to be giuen them that haue an Ague with any kinde of cooling water and when there is no Ague with a little Wine Some do séeth it also with Sugar the which is best of all Item there be moreouer good to drinke for this yellow iaundies the waters of Cicorie of Sorrel and of Wormewood but the iuice of these herbs be much more forcible These herbs be also decocted togither or each apart and the decoction dronken warme Item the yellow seede of the white Lilie dryed and powdred and one dragme thereof taken is an especiall thing in this disease The same vertue hath grated Iuorie After purging and the vse of all these foresayd things then may any outward things be vsed whereby to weare away the yellownes of the body and to consume it For this is also much aduised that all yellow colours are to be fixed before the patients eyes for nature doth the easier expell the yellownesse out of the bodie Also take Endiue water and Rose water of each foure ounces red and white Saunders of each one dragme temper them lay them ouer the Liuer Item vse the Saunders salue which before in the sixt Chapter in the end of the first § is described Or take a spoonefull of good Honie and boyle the same in a little pot in hot water and stirre it well about then put as much wheaten floure vnto it as you can take vp with two fingers and temper a good deale of Saffron amongst it yet more alwayes for an old man then for a young man spread of it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the Nauel when it is then dry take afresh againe And you are to continue this certaine daies togither to wit when the yellow iaundies be at the chief highest but one may not lye longer vpon it then vpon the other For bathing take wild Thyme watercresses Alehoofe Iuniper rindes Elderne floures let this séeth well togither and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones Item take Mugwort Marierom wild Thyme Iuniper sprigs of each one handfull chop them small and let them séeth in two bags then lay one vpon the belly and another behind vpon the raynes and therewith let the patient sweate Also this Lie following may be vsed for the head Take Betony Cammomill and Sage of each one handfull Marierom Spica Romana of each halfe a handfull Sene leaues thrée ounces Stechas two ounces chop all small and séeth them togither in a good deale of water and make Lie thereof it will continue good a whole moneth For this hote yellow Iaundies is good al that which penetrateth cleanseth and openeth the Liuer to wit Sorrell Endiue Nightshade winter Cherries Orage the iuice of Wormewood Venus haire roots of Cicorie and Sperage Verueine and the water of the same herbs decocted in well water and clarified with Hony or Sugar and so made into a Potion And for conclusion of this heate there is good heede to be taken whether the patient be abounding of bloud and hath full veines and also hath not bin let bloud
them well But if you haue not this iuice then take in steed thereof goâ— Vineger Item take prepared Coriander and the séed of Smallage of each one dragme an a halfe calcined bones of a Stags hart thrée quarters of an ounce red Corall one dragme Cinnamome halfe a dragme Calmus halfe a scruple prepared Perles halfe a dragme Diptamus Ammoniacum filed Iuorie and burnt Silke of each two graines eight or ten Bayberies Sugar thrée quarters of an ounce make a fine pouder of it and giue one drag of it more or lesse Burnt Harts horne alone two or thrée dragmes giuen with Meade doth maruellously kill the wormes Or take burnt Harts horne one dragme Pyonie séed Smallage séeds Coriander Cole woorts seed Nardus séed séeds of Plantaine and of Endiue of each halfe a dragme Diptamus one scruple red Saunders Corall and Pearle of each sixe graines Sugar as much as all the rest make a subtile pouder of it Another Take filed Iuorie which is a little parched one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one dragme and a halfe Diptamus one dragme and halfe a scruple Sealed earth one dragme temper them al togither Item Take Rubarbe Basill séed Plantaine séed Pomegranate pecles Caruway Butchers broome seeds Carduus Benedictus séed filed Harts horne filed Iuorie of each halfe an ounce rindes of Mulberrie rootes Colewoort séed Citron seed and rindes of Willow trees of each three dragmes Purslaine seed and Diptamus of each two scruples red Corall and Pearles of each one scruple make a pouder thereof and then giue one dragme or twaine of it viz. in winter when there is no ague with wine but in sommer and when there is an ague with Oxycrato Item Take burnt Harts horne one dragme prepared Coriander and Aloe of each halfe a scruple beate them all togither and giue it him with the sirupe of Vineger or grasse water In like manner is also especiall good for this the leaues of Smallage one dragme or take the seeds of Purslaine one dragme Muscus fower scruples red Corall and prepared Coriander of each one scruple Orage seeds one dragme make a pouder of all these and giue thereof with strong wine or with water wherein grasse rootes and Agrimonie haue beene decocted each time fower graines Another Take Orage seeds one dragme Wormeseed which is Semen one dragme and a halfe Grasse rootes flowers of Hyssop Southernwood of each halfe a dragme Licorice fower scruples Cinnamome and Diâ—â— seed of each halfe a scruple stamp each a part and afterwards mixe them togither and at the last put halfe a scruple of Muscus vnto it then giue thereof from three or sixe graines vnto halfe a scruple with warme grasse water Item Take the seeds of Orage of Purslaine wilde Thyme and Marierom of each halfe a dragme Wormeseed three dragmes Licorice and Lupines of each one scruple Muscus halfe a dragme Ambra halfe a dragme mixe them all togither and giue one dragme and somewhat more at one time with Grasse water Another Take the seeds of Plantaine and Wormeseed of each one dragme or somewhat lesse according to the age and giue thereof as before Item Take Plantaine séed calcined Harts horne and Wormeseed of each a like quantitie vse it as the other Or if you will make a confection then take burnt Harts horne one dragme prepared Coriander Pyonie séed the séed of Smallage Nardus séed the séeds of Plantaine and of Endiue of each halfe a dragme Diptamus halfe a scruple red Corall Sanders and Pearles of each fiue graines Sugar one ounce and a halfe then make Tabulats thereof with Grasse water Then take about one quarter of an ounce at once You haue before in the second part the third Chapter and seauen § of the hardning of the breast and in the third part the second Chapter and eleuenth § a preparation of earth woormes into pouder against the yellow Iaundise whereof may a drinke or confection be made But if the guts be distended and the heate not ouer great then lay this plaister following vpon the belly Take Linséed meale and Beane meale of each one ounce and a halfe Woormewood one handfull Aloe thrée quarters of an ounce and make a plaister of it with Meade or with the oile of Wormewood But if there be a small ague with the wormes then may be giuen to people in yéeres each according to his age Treacle or Mithridate for both of them do kill the wormes and expell them Item Take the séeds of Sophia one dragme calcined Harts horne and Pomegranate péeles of each halfe a dragme Diptamus Cloues Rubarbe of each one dragm Wormeseed halfe a dragme Saffron fiftéene graines Sugar nine ounces Séeth them all togither in Wormewood water or in Grasse water and then make Tabulats thereof or take Wormeséed one quarter of an ounce Knotgrasse and white Diptamus of each two scruples burnt Harts horne Peach leaues of each one scruple Rubarb one drag make them all togither into a subtile pouder and giue thereof one dragme or twaine at once But if you will haue a confection then take thereto thrée ounces of Sugar decocted in water of Knotgrasse and giue thereof from halfe an ounce vnto a whole according to the age of the patient Item other moe which be Laxatiue Take parched Rubarbe and Wormeseed of each one dragme prepared Pearles one dragme and a halfe burnt Harts horne one dragme Sugar sixe ounces make a Confection of it as before Or take Wormséed halfe a dragme Comin one scruple Cinnamome two scruples burnt Harts horne halfe a dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Sugar one ounce and a quarter make loosings thereof and giue about one quarter of an ounce of it Item take Cinnamome burnt Harts horne Centorie and Gentian of each one dragme Rubarbe one scruple Sugar sixe ounces decocted with grasse water make also loosings thereof They be very good and they be altogither easie The séeds of Rue should also be very good for the Wormes like as also is the vineger of Rue and the common good vineger Take in like maner the flowers of Feuerfew as much as you can gripe betweene two fingers and vse it fasting This hereafter ensuing may be vsed for children of three yeres of age Take white Diptamus Wormeséed Carlina and Rubarbe of each a like quantity poune them to powder and giue each time one dragme thereof more or lesse with wine according to the importance of the cause whereupon you are to vse for children the salue of Orenges which shall be described hereafter and after that this potion ensuing Take Rubarbe two scruples Carlini one scruple pouned small with Wormewood water In like sort also be very meete these pils following Take Gentian Mirrhe Diptamus Wormewood Mints and filed Harts horne of each one dragme Turbith halfe a dragme Agaricus one quarter of an ounce Sal gemmae one dragme Ginger and Cinnamome of each two scruples Aloe as much as the rest then make pils of it with the
halfe Salt one ounce Hiera Picra fiue dragmes the iuice of Léekes one ounce Of this decoction take not aboue eight ounces and make of it a Clister The sixteenth Chapter Of the Kidneyes IN the left side right vnder the Milt in the bodie of all beasts is the one Kidney placed and the other in the right side a little higher so that otherwhiles it doth touch a great part of the Lyuer The Kidney which lyeth in the right side is also in all beasts somewhat greater and fuller than that which is in the left side and is not couered with so much fat For because it is hoter than the left therefore doth it consume the same fatnes which groweth through moysture like as it is very néedfull for there is no part which sooner waxeth fat than the Kidneies Both of them be made fast very strongly to the back bone They haue sundry veines from the Lyuer whereby they draw bloud with water and also some part of the gall vnto them separating the same bloud from the water and keeping as much of the bloud as sufficeth for their sustenance collecting also the water together in their concauities like as in a pot which the gall dyeth yellow and then through the Conduits Vreters whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descendeth into the Bladder and from thence is eiected by the yard These Conduits or Vreters are whitish hard somewhat fleshy and of the nature of the Bladder whereby they may not suddenly be brused through the sharpnes of the vrine or through some other occasions The substance of the Kidneyes is of a tight well compacted flesh fashioned partly round and not vnlike to Oxe kidneyes the greatnes excepted These Kidneyes be also through many causes and sundrie sorts of sore diseases infected which the Grecians do call Nephrites which is paine of the Kidneyes But this paine of the Kidneyes doth come of many causes as of impostumes with heate and cold of the grauell and the Stone and further of many diseases and sharpnes of the vrine whereof we will hereafter directly write and discourse But héere before we goe any further we will make a generall declaration thereof First the learned do deuide all diseases of the Kidneyes into thrée principall sorts to wit if they be subiect to any bad complexion whether they haue it of themselues or be compounded with other diseases Secondly if they be not as they ought to be by nature If they from the time of their birth be too great or too small or fraughted and laden with grosse tough slyme which do oppilate and stop vp the conduits that do descend into the Bladder Thirdly there may be also impostumes and vlcers These thrée things may be very well compounded together whereby diuers diseases and paines of the Kidneyes may be caused The causes of these foresayd diseases may be as well outward as inward The outward may be blowes falles vnaccustomed exercise hard riding much going a foote great heate or cold about the Kidneyes to drinke puddle water to carie vnused packs excessiue lecherie long vse of diureticall meates and drinkes The inward causes are a bad complexion as if it be too hote or too cold too dry or too moyst the putrification of naturall seed or sperme impostumes and other paines of the Kidneyes The signes be apparant of themselues and to be knowne by the paine of each place as if the same be small meane or great This doth otherwhiles appeare through pissing bloud or the water which is like bloud euen as there were flesh washed in it But if these diseases assaile one with heate or cold therefore we will also according to our custome discourse a little of it and comprehend them in two especiall points Of the paine in the Kidneyes through cold and moysture §. 1. THe signes of the cold diseases of the Kidneyes are they which haue neyther heate nor thirst nor great paine and their water is not high coloured but is much in quantitie because the same could not be wasted through vnnaturall heate which Ague winter and the grauell augmenteth For these diseases must first a good dyet be kept All grosse slimy hard meates and all cooling things are to be eschued as Endiue Lettice Cicorie Spinage and Béetes c. vnlesse there be some hote things drest with them as Parsly Fennell Comm and such like Fish that he sodden are not good for this neither that which is drest with dough or milke Cheese is also herein forbidden Also cold cleere water thicke red wine and all fruits which make grosse bloud as Peares Apples Quinces Chestnuts Dates and such like In all other things he may direct himselfe according to his old custome but he must not swallow downe his meate gréedily nor vnchewed that the stomack be not cloyed Great exercise immediatly after meate is hurtfull vnto him He is to kéepe himselfe quiet one howre and a halfe after meate at the least without sléepe Also all moyst and cold dwellings are to be shunned like as néere to the earth or such as be vnder it or do lye néere vnto the water But he is to prouide himselfe of good clothes and of a good dry chamber He must forbeare all sorrow vexation anger lying long vpon the back riding and such like Concerning the remedies héed is first to be taken whether the Kidneies be obstructed but if so be that this be and that the patient be yong full of bloud and strong then is the Median veine to be opened on the right foote and to let out aboue foure ounces of bloud And afterwards this Clister following is to be set according to his age Take Béetes and Colewoorts of each one handfull boyle them as is accustomed then take thereof about sixteene ounces and temper in it Benedicta Laxatiua and the confection of Bayberies of each one quarter of an ounce course Sugar and Cassie halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and of Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together and then minister this Clister one houre before supper This foresaid Clister is alwayes to be vsed euery other day according to the abilitie of the person After letting bloud or after the second vse of Clisters then may this purgation following or such like be vsed Take the confection De Psillio and Sebeste of each two dragmes and a halfe temper them in thrée or foure ounces of the decoction of Parsly rootes and fast after it at the least fiue houres Or if you had rather haue pils then is the patient to take the pils Foetidae one scruple de Hiera Composita two scruples make fiue or seuen pils thereof and take them early in the morning Immediatly after purging is the patient to vse this following one whole wéeke or twaine alwayes betimes in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Calamintha halfe an ounce Fennell Annis and Wormewood water of each one ounce
here somewhat of the causes of the impostume and shew first that the kidneies and the bladder in this paine do depend so much one vpon the other that they cannot be discerned one from the other therefore all that we shall write hereafter is fit for both these parts These foresaid impostumes may procéede aswell out of cold as hot matter which commeth to fall vpon the Kidneies and the bladder and there to assemble But if any outward cause do happen vnto it as blowes fals ridings and such like that must be learned of the sicke person If the impostume be in the kidneies then is there great paine in the same place the patient cannot make his water and there is a small ague with it Or if the disease be in the bladder then doth there arise a very painfull swelling about the priuities like to womens pangs in child bed chiefly if it be a hot matter which causeth also an ague And if this do come through cold then is the paine and the ague more tolerable but the making of water very grieuous and this disease lingreth long But in case that the impostume be in the right kidney then doth the paine draw vpwards or if it be in the left kidney then doth the paine stretch downewards euen to the bladder the patient hath one while cold hands another while cold féet and his legs on the same side will be for the most part asléepe Also the sick person cannot lie vpon the whole side but must lie vpon his backe or his side where the maladie is There doth come also oftentimes great binding of the body with the first headach watching rednes of the eyes and face heauie breath and especially if the impostume be in the membranes And if the patient do stir himselfe forcibly then thinketh he that the impostume hangeth or sacketh But before we come to the remedies there be certaine rules which are to be obserued in such like impostumes First in the beginning he must beware of giuing too strong purgations Secondly only laxatiue things are to be vsed as Violets Cassie and such like Thirdly if so be that the patient be plethoricke of body you must open the Liuer vaine or Saphea Fourthly there must not be giuen vnto him so long as the impostume is not ripe any thing that forceth vrine for therby would the humors be driuen to sinke the more vehemently vpon the kidneies or into some other part of the bodie whereby the disease might be increased Fiftly one must endeuour that the humors which do flow towards the kidneies may be conueyed into the outtermost members Sixtly and that by reason that the kidneies should not harden Seuenthly when the impostume is thorow ripe which may be perceiued by the vrine then is there to be giuen him diureticall and strong things Eightly if the body be bound then must he not be let blood likewise also if he haue too many stooles but all accidents are to be preuented matched before Ninthly because that the kidneies be so far distant from the necke of the stomacke therefore are the medicines which are to be taken by the mouth so to be composed that their vigor through so long a distance and passage be not enféebled and abated Tenthly all they that haue any disease in the kidneies are to eate and drinke but little chiefly if there be many humors in the body present Eleuenthly if so be that the disease of the kidneies may be holpen with any milde things then must there be no strong things to knit draw them togither that they cannot come to any corruption Therefore are temperate things to be vsed vnto it and warme and cold things to be mixed togither Of the impostumation in the Kidneies through heate §. 8. ANd for to come to the remedies if so that this impostume be caused through heate then is it first to be opened with Clisters as hereafter followeth Take Mallowes Violet leaues and Hollyhocke rootes of each one handfull Linseed Fenegreeke seed of each two ounces seeth them all togither and take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces oyle of Violets three ounces oyle of Roses three ounces for to strengthen the kidneies make a Clister thereof and you are to vse the same three or fower times if it be needfull Or take Barly water alone with the foresaid oyle or Sallad oyle But if there be any laske or scouring with it then vse binding Clisters and such as do strengthen the intrailes whereof euery where be diuers discouered Also the lyuer veine is to be opened in those sick persons on the same side and that in the acme where the disease is Secondly if the patient may sustaine it the veine is to be opened in the hammes or bending of the knée Or if it be not to be found then to take or open the Saphea and that alwayes in the side where the impostume is Afterwards cooling salues are to be vsed or those plaisters to be laid vpon it which we haue lately described And if the sicknes come to diminish therewith then is it a good signe but if the paine and the Ague do continue still and the patient cannot make any water or that it passe too excéedingly away from him then is it a signe that there is an assembly of corruption in the Kidneyes against which you haue also a note before what is to be done in these hot kind of accidents For this is this plaister following good Take Roses one ounce the seed of Purslaine and white Poppie seed of each halfe an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces Barly meale as much as will suffice for to make a plaister Item take pouned Cammomill and Linseed oyle of each one ounce oyle of Sesamum foure ounces Bran as much as will suffice for to make a plaister these being made apply them on the Kidneies Item take the slime of Fleawort and of Quince kernels of each one quarter of an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces Endiue water sixe ounces the seed of Purslaine of white Poppie and Vineger of each halfe an ounce Barly meale as much as is needfull for to make a plaister Item take Holyhock rootes and Mallow rootes of each one handfull fresh Figs one ounce the marrow of Veale bones Butter and Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce oyle of swéete Almonds and of Cammomill of each one ounce and a halfe Cammomill and Balme floures of each halfe an ounce Barly meale and wheate meale as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This pap or plaister maturateth all impostumes In the beginning of these impostumes giue the sicke persons Barly water or Meade to drinke the water of Melons and Pompeons tempered with Barly water the space of one wéeke Other do ordaine this drinke Take the sirupe of Violets the muscilage of Fleawort of Mallowes of Hollyhock rootes and the seeds of Cotton of each halfe an ounce Reisons the stones taken out one ounce Licorice thrée dragmes Sugar eighteene ounces then
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
In like sort also of a foggie aire surfetting by meate or drink the feeding of ouermuch slimie meates the which do obstruct not only be kidneyes but also all other inward parts as hath bene said and hinder them that they cannot haue their right operation the which may euidently be seene in young children which are most subiect to this disease for that they eate much milke whereby the stone and grauell is most of all ingendred of which the grossest sinketh into the bladder with the vrine where the same lieth and drieth and is confirmed to the hardnesse of a stone like as we for example cannot otherwise liken this foresaid grosse matter of the stone then with the matter of a tile stone which is first a weake tough slimie earth afterwards dried and at last burnt and baked in an ouen to a hard stone The stone of the bladder differeth also much from the stone of the kidneyes for it is whither harder and greater then the stone of the kidneyes This foresaid stone or grauell is knowne by these signes Lieth he in the Bladder then must the patient often rub his priuities with his hand his member is alwayes erected Also in yong children they féele most paine about their priuities the vrine passeth from him with labour and very great vaine and otherwhiles the Arsegut thereby descendeth But if it be the stone of the kidneyes then do they feele great paine in the raines of the backe as it were the Colicke or paine of the guts because that the paine draweth downewards As sóone as they stirre themselues then doth the paine increase they are much inclined to vomiting and casting their body is bound their vrine is raw and waterish they are alwayes prouoked to pisse neuertheles they cannot be rid of it without very great paine therefore can this growing and confirmation of the stone in these parts of the kidneyes not be without great paine and griefe It is also euidently and sufficiently wel knowne to each mans eyes where the paine remaineth in one place that the vrine doth auoid withe grauell sand tough slime yea sometimes mixt with blood and other things and the kidneyes be full of heate Afterwards this griefe and paine stretched euen to the conduits of the vrine and principally in fat folks and before euen to the priuities and then especially when they would make water But because there be many decieued in the knowledge of the stone and adiudge otherwhiles the Colicke for the Stone and so come to vse contrary medicines therefore it is not without great néed that we make a declaration of both their differences The first is this that the paine of the Kidneyes is not so sharpe as the paine of the Colicke Secondly the paine of the Colick doth appeare beneath in the right side and stretched her from thence vpwards towards the left side Contrariwise the paine of the kidneyes doth begin from aboue and so descendeth softly downewards euen vnto the place where it doth settle it self and stretched her a little more towards the back Thirdly the paine of the kidneyes is much more forcible when he is fasting and the paine of the Colicke is by fasting and emptinesse eased Fourthly the Colicke commeth vpon a sudden and to the contrary the paine of the kidneyes commeth in a longer time Fiftly the Colicke will be taken and driuen away when the wind and the ordure may haue their expulsion or auoidance by Clisters but the paine of the grauell not Sixtly all Saxifrages and all other things that breake the stone are good for the kidneyes and not for the Colicke Lastly there is found in the vrine grauell and sand and not in the Colicke or paine of the guts By all these foresaid declarations one may easily adiudge whether this diseases be in the kidneyes or in the bowels For to hinder and restraine the ingendring and growing of the grauell and stone §. 1. ANd that we may orderly proceede herein héede is first of all to be taken how the matter whence the sand and stone is ingendred may be taken away and how that the vnnatural heate may be tempered the which is first to be done through those things that do purge the same matter as hereafter followeth Take Electuarium Indum thrée dragmes Agaricus one scruple Ginger fiue graines temper them with a little white wine drinke it vp and fast therupon foure houres then drinke a cruse of sugred Barley water and eate foure houres after it Or take Electuarium Diaphoeniconis one quarter of an ounce Turbith one dragme Ginger one scruple salt of Indy thrée graines giue it him with water wherein Milium Solis is decocted and then made warme with Sugar One more milder Take Turbith one dragme and a halfe Hermodactili one dragme Diagridij sixe graines Salt of Indie two graines Ginger halfe a scruple Annis and Masticke of each thrée graines Sugar pennets one ounce white Sugar halfe an ounce stéepe them all together in thrée ounces of the water of Smallage or the water of Maidenhaire throughout the whole night after that wring it out well and drinke it if so be that there appeare any phlegmaticke matter then may the patients veine be opened but if so be that the matter fal into the stomack then is it aduised that the patient be made to vomit and how the same is to be effected looke for that in the Register for that through vomiting the matter will be especially drawne away which would runne towards the raines For this vomiting be Radishes Orage séeds the middlemost peeles of Elder and Nux vomica to be vsed Some vse Clisters but they must be very easie and mild but Suppositories are much more praised for this disease Item all things which moue vrine do also let and hinder the growing of the stone or grauel But first the mildest are to be begun withall like as with these following as Licorice c. and where as is heate Melon séed pompeon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Sperage rootes or the water of them fresh fennell Hollihocke rootes and the flowers Afterwards are stronger things to be vsed as Smallage Maidenhaire drie fennell yellow wild Rapes Milium Solis Louage wild Smallage Hares toongs wild Thyme Pistacies Radish seed Tassels Thistlin séed and such like the ashes of Hares heads of Wagtailes prepared Bucks bloud Lapis Spongiae and Iewes stone of all these foresaid things may sirupes Iuleps confections powders pils salues baths and such like be prepared and because the vnnaturall heate is one of the chiefe occasions of the stone or grauel therfore are the foresaid cooling things to be vsed and also all such medicines which in this former chapter and 8. § be described To let the growing of the stone §. 2. NOw for to let that the stone may grow no more that consisteth in two kinds of causes viz. that one preuent the tough phlegme from growing which is the cause of the stone and that the vnnaturall heate get not
cut it to thinne round slices and poure thereon Vinum punicum or any other good wine afterwards drinke thereof sometimes a good draught You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and eleuenth § a good drinke against the grauell and the stone beginning Take Gentian c. Item take Maidenhaire Sperage Tassell leaues water Mints broade plantaine and red pease of each a like quantitie seeth them all together in water then take of this decoction fiue ounces and temper therewith two ounces of Oxymel afterwards giue it to the patient Further lay him a bed and let him sweate wel this openeth the conduits of vrine maketh altough humors thinne and expelleth them which cause the stone and the grauell Further there be diuers wines decocted and also vnsodden whereof we will discouer some Of all the most vsed are these following as the wine of winter Cherries wine of Elecampane rootes wine of Hyssop wine of Harts toong and wine of Assarabacca which is thus to be prepared Vrine of Assarabacca Take Must and to euery quart of Must halfe an ounce of Assarabacca the herbe being taken off when the roote hath bene a drying the space of two moneths Of this wine take euery euening and euery morning a good draught it forceth the vrine and the grauell it warmeth all inward parts it expelleth the Ague it is good for the Dropsie and also for the yellow Iaundies Another good Wine TAke Strawberrie leaues Pellitorie Water cresses and Gourd cresses of each a like quantitie séeth them in Wine vntill the third part be consumed then drinke thereof a meetly draught when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise This hath bene oftentimes found very good All Phisitions do conclude that all troubled and thicke Wine much and often drunken causeth the stone and the grauell speedily to grow Therefore must one alwayes beware thereof The Cherrie wine like as it by reason of the temperate nature may be vsed in all sicknesses so may the same also be occupied for this disease and especially when the Cherries with their kernels be stamped in péeces whereof it is made then doth it driue out the grauell the better We will here yet describe certaine sirupes which may be vsed with great commoditie for the grauell like as these ensuing Take the roots of Sperage of Ruscus and of grasse of each thrée ounces Harts toong with the rootes Creta marina Maidenhaire water mints Saxifrage Pimpernell and Yarrow of each one handfull red pease two ounces Vineger of Squils one ounce white Sugar and honie of each sixe ounces Lastly seeth a cleare sirupe of this and vse the same with diureticall waters Another TAke Fennell rootes parsley rootes the rootes of Smallage and of Sperage of each one handfull the séedes of parsley of fennell of Smallage of Annise of Caruway of Lettice of purslaine of small Endiue of Melons of pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers of each one ounce red and white Saunders Roses and Violets of each halfe a dragme fiue and twentie or thirtie dry prunes Harts toong Liuerwort Centorie and Maidenhaire of each two handfuls All these foresaid things séeth in sufficient water vnto the halfe and then wring them out vnto this decoction put eightéene ounces of Sugar and let it seeth againe to a sirupe and then clarifie it with the white of an egge What outwardly ought to be vsed FOr the grauell and the stone may diuers things be also outwardly vsed whereof we shall hereafter write and discourse sufficiently but we will first begin with the salue Take the fat of the kidneyes of a Weather stampe it very small and temper therewith a crusefull of the iuice of water Cresses or garden Cresses and let them seeth together this being done then straine it through a cloth and annoint you therewith In like maner is also good for all grauel and paine of the raines for the stone and the conduits of vrine and for all diseases of the bladder the precious blame or oile which in the last part of this booke is the first of all the rest that is described if one be annointed therewith For a plaister is this following to be vsed Take Hollihocke rootes with the séed Linseed figs and butter of each an ounce oile of swéete Almonds two ounces Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister and then lay it vpon the kidneyes afterwards you are also to annoint the place of the raines with the oile of Scorpions and to spout some of that oile therein Item take oile of Scorpions thrée ounces burnt sponge stones and burnt Wagtailes of each 3. dragmes Iewes stone one dragme make a salue or a plaister thereof with waxe Item in the former sixtéenth chapter and the fift § is described a plaister of Radishes which may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also good a pap made of the crums of white bread decocted with wine and a little Saffron put to it Item for to lay vpon it Take Pellitorie put some Scorpion oile vnto it oile of Cammomil and some oile of Camelina frie them all together in a pan vntill it be as thick as pap afterwards put amongst it powned Saffron and then lay it vpon the kidneyes Item take Pellitorie Spikenard Spica Romana Fennell seed parsley séed wild yellow Rape séed and Assarabacca of each one handfull powne them somewhat together and put it in a bag afterwards let it séeth in wine and lay it ouer the raines Of bathing and fomenting in the grauell AL they that can come to the warme sulphure bathes may franke and fréely vse them for these be very necessary for to breake the stone But if so be that one cannot come at them then let this following be prepared Take Hollihocke leaues Fennell parsley with the rootes Pellitorie and Linseed of each one handful put them together in a bag and séeth them in a great kettle of water afterwards let it be meetly cold without putting any other water vnto it then set the patient in it euen to the nauell as long as he can abide This is to be often vsed and so long vntill that the patient do find that the stone weareth away Another take Pellitorie Lauender flowers parsley seed Fennell séed wild yellow Rape séed seeth them all together as is aforesaid and bathe therewith The bag is also to be laid vpon the kidneyes Item take the herbe Horsetaile Mallowes wild Thyme the stalkes of Rapes put them all together in a bagge and séeth them in a great kettle with water and further let it be meetly cold of it selfe and vsed as before When one hath then bathed a certaine space then are diureticall potions and salues of the raines to be vsed made of such things as are described herebefore These are now the principallest things which of the ancient and latter Phisitions are described against the grauell and the stone of the bladder also whatsoeuer else is prescribed for the infirmities of
then may he drinke Meade or Hony water which is also very good What sirupes and other things might be vsed for the prouoking of vrine that hath sufficiently bene shewed before in the discourse of the grauell But Oxymel compositum and the sirupe of Vineger are for this vse very highly commended Clisters are of no small force in this disease but especially when they be made with Benedicta and the oile of Scorpions Amongst the outward remedies are the forementioned bathings the especiallest and the most highly commended Hereafter follow the descriptions of salues and plaisters Take a sliced Radish séeth it to pap and temper amongst it the oile of bitter Almonds and the oile of Scorpions with a little waxe then spread this very thicke vpon a cloth and so lay it vpon the priuities Item take Turpentine oile of Scorpions and of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie and a little molten waxe then temper them together and therewith annoint the whole priuities Another Take the oile of Scorpions of Costus of Lillies of Dill and Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce Pellitorie of the wall and Saxifrage beaten of each one dragme Comin thrée dragmes waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue For this you may also vse the balmes and oiles which are described in the eight part like as shall be shewed there more at large Here before in the affluxion of the humane séede is also admonished that the nauell is to be filled with a little old suet either of an Oxe or of a Hart the which is also an expert remedie for the making of water but that is oftentimes to be vsed The oile of S. Iohns wort should also expell vrine if one be annointed warme with it If now there be any bodie which cannot make water then cut two great Onions and put a spoonfull of Caruways vnto it poure then thereon some Sallad oile afterwards frie them all together and spread it on a cloth two handfuls broade and méetly long and so lay it as before vpon the priuities as warme as can be suffered do this sixe or seuen times together it helpeth euidently Item take Pellitorie of the wall frie it in oile and so lay it warme on the priuities Some do write that the fat of Conies annointed on the priuities on the kidneies should maruellously expell vrine Likewise also the oile of Bayberries of Cammomil of Scorpions The detension of the vrine of what cause soeuer it be caused this ensuing is good for it take liue or dead wood lice lay them ouer the priuities before then plucke ouer the foreskin these Cony fat are by some very highly commended also the foreskin is to be put ouer the annointing with cony fat This ensuing is also highly commended for women when they cannot make water Take fled Goates horne and Maidenhaire of each a like quantitie make them to powder and strew them on a new hot tile put this into a close stoole and set the woman vpon it then sprinkle wine â—n the tile to the end she may receiue the vapor beneath this is to be done twice or thrice a day according as the obstruction of the vrine is great But if this maladie séeme wholy to get the maistery then take the water of picked Plantaine make Almond milke with it and drinke thereof twice or thrice a day it is also especiall good And if so be that the sharpnesse of the vrine had made any excoriation then annoint the place with the oile of Egges And if a woman with child cannot make her water then is she to take yellow Rose seeds and seeth them in wine when the paine is somewhat asswaged then giue thereof to drinke afterwards make a little oile of Lillies warme and annoint therewith the Raines and ouer all the belly Item take Sage and Wormewood of each one handfull Rie meale one spoonefull seeth them all together and let the woman sitting on a close stoole receiue of the vapor You haue also in the fift Chapter and 1. § somewhat else which is also méete for this purpose Of the retention of vrine through falles or blowes §. 4. IF the retention of the vrine come of any outward cause as of fals or of blowes then must good héed be taken if so be that therby any coagulated or clotted blood not onely in the bladder but also in any of the inward parts came to putrifie like as in the stomacke in the breast and elsewhere then may great sorrow and trouble procéed of it yea death it selfe for that there follow great faintnesse after it great weaknesse of the whole body and the pulse will be so small that one can scarse féele it And to remedie the same is the Liuer veine of the sicke person to be opened and the brused place irrigated from on high oftentimes with warme water wherein Cammomill Melilot and Roses be decocted Afterwards is the sicke person to be annointed with this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe and Masticke of each one dragme oile of Roses one ounce oile of Dill halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull But if the paine will not abate and cease and that it appeare that the bruise will come to an impostume and heate and an ague sticke vnto it then open the Saphea If the patient be bound then are milder clisters and purgations to be vsed and the patient is to kéepe himselfe as sober in eating and drinking as may be possible the space of two dayes and afterwards to diet himselfe like as one that hath an Ague is wont to do The place is to be fomented with the foresaid herbes and thereupon to annoint it with warme oile of Violets and with oile of Cammomill The bladder is softly to be wrung from the top euen to the priuities also an Oxe bladder may be filled with this decoction following laid vpon the priuities Take Mallowes Cammomill Rape leaues Melilot Violet leaues and Linséede séeth them together and make a felt or sponge wet in it and lay it warme vpon it You may also make a bath for the loines thereof putting thereto some Hollihocke rootes Onions Garlick and Colewort leaues powned all together séeth them and wring them out well then put them in a bag which hath a hole in the middle to put the yard therein and that he may lie vpon it Item take Wormwood put it in a bag séeth it in wine and wring it well out then lay it vpon the priuities as is expressed and admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe to pisse oftentimes This ensuing is not only good foor the clotted blood in the bladder but also for all other places of the body be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Wormewood Fennell Smallage the séed of the yellow roote red Storax péeled Melon seed and Radish leaues of each a like quantity make a powder of them and giue thereof betwéene one and two dragmes with Asses milke or with water wherein Fennell rootes and the
made to vse in the wombe also plaisters salues powders oiles potions and baths all as the cause requireth and that necessitie compelleth like as there be many sundrie described hereafter and now we will procéede The first meanes for to prouoke the Termes is to be described somewhat at length wherein there be many sundry medicines of diuers and sundry Phisitions ordained and added together out of which each may choose what is méete for him but in the other twaine we will be somewhat briefer therefore one may take out of them all that might be wanting in this and so first begin with those things which be méete for this to bring the bodie vnto health and to shew therwithal how such obstructions and hinderances of the termes may be taken away for which this sirupe following is to be prepared Take Mather two ounces Louage rootes the rootes of Sperage Cipers rootes and Grasse rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Siluer mountaine two ounces Baulme two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same of each one ounce Spica of Indie halfe a dragme Licorice Currans Rosemary flowers and Stechados of each one ounce Honie sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces boyle a sirupe of it clarifie it and giue thereof two ounces tempered with the decoction of Céeres Another Take Mather two ounces Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and Cypers rootes of each one ounce Corne mints Valerian Sauine white Water mints and Penniroyall of each one handfull Baulme two handfuls Siluer mountaine two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same péeled Melon seede of each one ounce Spikenard halfe an ounce Licorice Currans of each halfe an ounce Honie and Sugar of each sixe ounces make a sirupe of it and giue thereof at each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces with the broth of Céeres Another Take the water of Smallage water of Lupins of Sperage and of Fennell of each sixe ounces Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome one dragme Ammoniacum and Opopanacum of each one dragme and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell séeds Ameos wild yellow Rape seede and Caruway of each one quarter of an ounce Gromell seed stone Parsley seed and Agrimonie of each one handfull Galingall Cinnamome and Saffron of each halfe a dragme sirupe of Violets two ounces Quince kernels Mallowes séede of each halfe an ounce seeth them al together in two quarts of Gourds water vntill the third part be wasted straine it thorough and then temper it with a litle of the foresaid water and the sirupe of Violets amongst it and boyle it with so much honie as you please Last of all strew some Cinnamome in it and as much vineger of Squils vntill it be somewhat sourish then vse it as the former this forceth very vehemently the Termes For this is also very good the common sirupes which be alwayes prepared at all substantiall Apothecaries as the sirupe of Mugwort of Maidenhaire of Cicorie with Rubarbe and the sirupe of fiue rootes When as now this sirupe hath bene vsed like as behooueth then must be procéeded and for to procéed orderly it is very needfull that women be purged of all superfluous humours which may be done very commodiously with the confection Benedicta or Hiera picra tempered with the decoction of Madder and of the foresaid confections you may vse thrée quarters of an ounce or an ounce each a part or together Afterwards are these laxatiue things to be vsed Take Sene leaues Penniroyall and Madder of each a like quantitie séeth them in small white wine and giue thereof about thrée ounces at once Or take Penniroyall Nep Southernwood Rue Centorie and Hyssop of each one handfull Sauin Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Opopanacum Ammoniacum Galingall of each one dragme Cinnamome Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together with a quart of water vntil the third part be wasted then take thereof two or thrée ounces fasting at one time Item take the rootes of Smallage of Sperage of Fennell of Parsley of Carduus Benedictus and of Butchers broome of each one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell Caruway and Ameos of each one dragme and a halfe Mugwort Penniroyall mints Horehound Feuerfew and Asarabacca of each halfe a handfull séeth them all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe wring it together through a cloth and mixe therewith the sirupe of the fiue rootes de Calamintha de Artemisia of each a like quantitie drinke thereof in the morning and at afternoone Another Take mints Balme Penniroyall Marierom and Southernwood of each one handfull Annis Fennell Caruway of each one ounce the rootes of Polipodie one ounce and a halfe Cicorie rootes one ounce cut the rootes of the herbes very small and séeth them in a quart of water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through and make it as swéete as you please Another potion with Wine Take Sauine and Mugwort of each one handfull put two quarts of wine vnto it and let them seeth together vntill the third part be wasted take thereof in the euening and morning at each time two spoonfuls Do you now desire to make a common potion then take Wormewood and Rue of each one handfull fiue or sixe pepper cornes séeth them all together in a quart of Wine straine it then through and drinke thereof In like maner may you séeth Mallowes in wine and drinke thereof it is also very good This potion following is very good and pleasant Take a pint of good Wine Sage halfe a handful Cloues Saffron and Mace of each halfe a scruple stamp them all together and bind it in a fine cloth and hang it a night and a day in wine wring it out oftentimes deuide it into three parts and take one draught of it fiue houres before meate the other draught after noone and the last after supper But this is to be done in the wane of the Moone and eate very little Item take Hartwort and Pepper of each one dragme poure a pint of wine vpon it and drinke thereof in the euening and morning it moueth much and clenseth the womb or Matrix from all bad humors Or take the herbe Caruway one handfull Mugwort one handfull and a halfe Arsmart one handfull Asarabacca one dragme séeth them together in two quarts of water vntill about the halfe and drinke thereof in the morning fasting a good draught Another Take Penniroyall one handful Marierom gentle as much also Mace one dragme and one quarter of an ounce of Bayberries beaten grossely bind them all together in a cloth and poure thereon twelue ounces of wine but let them séeth together in a Can in hote water the space of an houre afterwards wring out the cloth and drinke the halfe of this Wine in the morning and the other halfe in the euening after the mealetide Item take Mugwort Feuerfew Penniroyal Baulme and Mallowes of each one handful séeth them
proceedeth very seldome or also neuer through melancholy if it be not mixed with some subtill moisture then is there very litle paine with it and also litle help◠for it whatsoeuer is done vnto it for the place of this disease will be hard remaineth blacke without any rednes And it hapneth not but in old folkes about winter c. If this be caused of wind then is it swollen thicke without great paine which oftentimes remoueth from the one ioynt to the other and the patient hath vsed much meate and drinke before which do ingender wind If there be any humors mixed amongst these winds then must it be considered and passed vpon the forementioned signes whereby will very soone be perceiued what humor hath mixed it selfe amongst these winds according to which euery one may know how to dispose and gouerne himselfe Like as then hitherto in diuers places certaine common rules haue bene made so will we procéed here also whereof the first is For as much as the Goute Arthritis Podagra and such like appeare most of al in haruest by reason of the fruite eaten the whole sommer therfore must all fruits be eschued Secondly for as much as venery is so hurtfull for this disease and increaseth it very much the same is to be refrained as much as is possible Thirdly a quiet idle life sleepe by day time do hinder that the superfluitie cannot be consumed To the contrary too great stirring and exercise whereby the members be ouer heated are also oftentimes the cause of this paine of the members therefore is the same as much as is possible to be eschued Fourthly all Wine and especially strong wine is very hurtful for all them that be plagued with the Gout Fiftly all rioting and drunkennes make bad digestion whereby also the paine of the Gout is augmented Sixtly they that be hote of nature and addicted to the Gout are to refraine from all phlegmaticke meate which is drest with sundry things and also from all meate which doth make Cholera and bloud for that when these two humors come together then do they bring grosse and vndigested defluxions in the ioynts whereof then the Gout is caused Seuenthly there be some through purging letting of bloud that are fréed from this disease which may most commodiously be done in the spring of the yere Eightly the aire hurteth them much that be troubled with the Gout Ninthly all great grosse fishes and especially Eeles be hurtfull for the Gout Tenthly sucking Pigs all water fowles and old Hens are especially hurtfull to the lower members Eleuenthly milk and wine eaten together be very noysome for all members and very hurtfull for the head Twelfthly the drinke which is taken without thirst bringeth much hurt to the body Thirtéenthly like as great surfetting with meate is very hurtfull for all the ioynts euen so doth a moderate diet refresh them Fourtéenthly the going too much or wearie walking hanging downe of the legs especially presently after meate is very hurtfull for the ioynts Fiftéenthly to lie vpon the back is also hurtful Sixtéenthly anger is enemy to this disease Seuentéenthly the great sensibility of the ioints especially of the féet cannot suffer any paine The foresaid seuentéene rules are only ordained for this purpose to frée one from the Goute but as much as doth concerne the meanes whereby these ioynts are to be strengthened and preserued that the same do not receiue those defluxions whereon dependeth the principall meanes to frée one from it are in these rules following to be obserued Eightéenthly it is very requisite that the féet be often bathed in Allum water Nintéenthly Sage decocted in Béere and the same drunken oftentimes is commended as it were a very secret medicine and receipt which hath an ineffable operation in all diseases of the ioynts Twentithly Almond floure Cammomill Myrrhe Melilote and Roses be very commodious for the ioints Calmus and ground Iuie haue an especiall vertue for to strengthen all the ioints the same doth also the Indian Nut kernell One and twentithly Verueine laid fresh vpon the féet and so worne is very good for the Podagra These things following do strengthen much the sinewes The roote Behen and his oyle doth warme the contracted sinewes in like manner also Bdellium and Calmus laid vpon it with oyle of Citron péeles of Cammomill of Beuercod Cypers rootes Cassie wood and Cypers also oyle of Costus and such like oyles are maruellously praised commended for the sinewes and Centorie in clisters Item feet water made of the ashes of a Bay tree For a salue the mother of Sallad oyle is good and the dregs of the oyle of Lillies and of all other oyles which be warme by nature Opopanacum is also much commended but Pyretrum and Pepper aboue all other to warme the sinewes For this be also drie swéete bathes good or naturall Sulphur bathes After purging is Treacle and Mithridate much commended in all cold Goutes drunken with wine wherein Sage hath been decocted But as much as concerneth the curing of these ioint diseases it is not needfull to discourse any further of them bicause that we hereafter will write of this matter at length Therefore we will proceed in the name of God The fourth Chapter Of the Goute in the Ioints Arthritis THe second description which speaketh commonly of the paine in the ioints whereof we haue briefly admonished before is that which the Latinists do call Morbum articularem the Grecians Arthritim which is as much to say as the paine of the ioints or an inflammation of the ioints which procéedeth from within the bodie and the Tendones be annoyed hurt and pained In fine it is none other than a dispersed Podagra ouer the whole bodie the which at one time commeth behinde in the neck another time in the shoulder blades then againe in the back bone and in the hands in the fingers and in the elbowes the which also sometimes créepeth into the nethermost ioints as in the legs the knées in the feet and toes And although in this disease like as also in other diseases more there be many sundrie remedies sought by many sundrie carefull Phisitions according to the qualitie of the cause and place of the paine therfore is there but one generall rule to be obserued First how one shal be preserued from this disease Secondly how that the same is to be cured and taken away altogither And bicause the time of the yéere importeth not a little therein therefore is choise to be made of it In summer the matter is thus to be handled This kind of patient in the beginning of summer is to be purged with that which ensueth Take Agaricus one dragme Sugar one ounce Hermodactils one dragme and a halfe water of field Cypers thrée ounces make the water warme and stéepe the rest fower and twenty howers in it afterwards wring it hard out and drinke it warme in the morning and then fast sixe howers vpon it
ounce stone Salt halfe a drag Bran half a handfull oyle of bitter Almonds and clarified Hony of each one ounce mixe them all together For a fomentation you are to take Pionie séede Pionie rootes and Hermodactyli of each one ounce and a halfe S. Iohns woort Artichoke leaues Stechados and the herbe Calmus of each foure ounces and eight or ten heads of white Poppie séeth them all together in thrée pints of water euen to the halfe at last put vnto it one ounce and a halfe of Saffron-flowers and afterwards make a great cloth or a sponge wet in this decoction and foment therewith twice a day the hip and all the buttocke three or foure times together Immediatly after fomenting is the Hippe to be annointed all ouer with this following Take vnripe Sallad oyle or oyle of Roses foure ounces oyle of Costus and of Southernewood of each one ounce and a halfe Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence Hypocistis Pionie seede and Hermodactyli of each one quarter of an ounce Saltpeter and Saffron of each one dragme Serapium Opopanacum and Rosin of each one dragme and a halfe red Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue temper them all together by the fire This salue expelleth the paine The same is also well to be vsed without fomenting to wit at noone Another Take oyle of Foxes thrée ounces oyle of Pieretrum of Beuercod Badgers grease of each halfe an ounce Artichoke rootes Agaricus and Stechados of each one dragme Lettice séede Purslaine seede and the seedes of small Endiue and of water Lillies of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron one scruple white Waxe as much as suffiseth for to make a weake salue with it afterwards seeth it in foure ounces of the iuice of Salomons seale vntill the iuice be well wasted then annoint the whole Buttocks with it onely at night for it is somewhat cold of nature according to which one may know how he should gouerne himselfe Item take Turpentine and small powned Hermodactyli of each a like quantitie make a salue of it and vse it as the rest But if you had not this salue or desired not to vse it then may you annoint the place of the paine with the oyle of Lillies of Spica of Costus of Foxes and Bayes and such like warme oyles whether it be each apart or tempered together Of plaisters these following be good Take Apostolicon one ounce and a halfe de Muscilaginibus halfe an ounce Opopanacum and Galbanum of each one quarter of an ounce Pionie rootes Hermodactyli Calmus and white Henbane séede of each two scrup Saffron halfe a drag then make a plaister therof with wax spread it vpon two round péeces of leather a span in bredth as now lay one vpon it then another weare them alwaies vpon it vntil one wil vse the fomentation at nights Item take Ammoniacum sixe ounces Sagapenum Bdellium and Opopanacum of each one dragme and a halfe Swines bread and Hermodactyli of each one ounce and a halfe Coperas one dragme and a halfe Waxe as much as is néedfull make a plaister or salue of it When this sicknes beginneth to decrease and yet neuertheles there doth remaine some wearisomnesse or anguish in the ioynts then is this plaister following to be made and to be laid behinâ— vpon the rumpe and the whole buttocks and if the same do make an itch then is the same to be taken off againe and the place to be rubbed with rough clothes and then to lay the same plaister againe vpon it vntill that the ioynt be well strengthened Take Pitch sixe ounces blacke Sope one ounce and a halfe Hermodactyli and Pyonie seede of each one dragm Rosin one ounce Roses Masticke and the iuice of Sloes of each foure scruples Euphorbium one scruple burnt Coperas one dragme Waxe as much as will suffise for a plaister In fine all warming plaisters are very méete for this The nature of Turpentine is that it helpeth this Sciatica through a secret operation But because the same cannot be layed vpon it or annointed therefore is it to be tempered amongst the foresaid oyles first mentioned or any of them that one will as the oyle of Saint Iohns woort which is especially commended for it Some lay a shéepes skin vpon it like as it cometh out of warme lye wherein the leather Dressers haue it lying Item séeth Comin in water and make a sponge or twaine moist in this warme decoction wring it out and foment the Hippe therewith Or take Betonie Sage both or one of both séeth them in Wine or Must and whilst it is yet hote temper this powder following in it as Chamedryos Betony Centorie Hartswoort Gentian of each halfe an ounce vse them with a sponge as is beforesaid Another Take Elecampane rootes as much as you please séeth them well in wine stampe them in Swines grease and lay it vpon the place This is also good for all Byles of the Pockes This following is highly commended Take Elecampane rootes powned small 8. ounces of the best Sallad oyle that may be gotten 24. ounces Malmsey one quart seeth them all together vntill â—â—â—me be consumed and vse it as before Take a hote loafe and lay vpon it or let the warme réeke or vapor go vpon it vntil the place of the paine begin to sweat and do this certaine times together After all this foresaid fomenting annointing plaistering and applications it is firmely aduised againe to vse these pils not for the purging but onely to strengthen the parts diseased Take well boyled Turpentine halfe an ounce field Cipers one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli one dragme make of a drag sixe or seuen pilles and take one euery morning and euening Or take these following which be almost of the same nature Take Chamedryos field Cipers Hermodactyli of each one dragm boyled Turpentine halfe an ounce make pils thereof with the sirupe of Betonie and vse them as is beforesaid Further it is also néedfull that those parts which cause these defluxions be strengthened the which may be done as followeth For strengthening of the stomacke he is oftentimes to vse Mace Cloues Mints Indy Spica Squinant Cipers rootes and Lignum Aloes with his meate and to vse the Confection Aromaticum Rosarum and Diacalaminthum Betony Balme and such like with his accustomed meate The compounded things are the Confection Diambra Diamoschu dulcis and de Xiloaloe and that especially after supper The kidneys will be strengthened with Almonds Hasell nuts Pingles dry and salt Chéese and with meate which is drest with shéepes milke but they are to beware of much lying on the backe and much venerie especially presently after meate Item of diureticall things as Parsley séede Annis and Smallage séedes c. These be now the thrée principall parts and causes of the defluxions The other parts are not so highly to be regarded And for to consume these kinds of defluxions be all Phisitions of an opinion that there is no
fourteene yeares of the Gout Take cleane milke of a blacke Goate and turne it with Figmilke or if you haue it not wherewith you will straine out the whay and let the rest seeth in an earthen pot scum it well and let of thrée parts twaine seeth away then straine it once againe to the end there remaine no curds in it at all afterwards take the vppermost of Burrage a good part and according to that there is much whay with some other things moe which be meete for the Podagra and according to that thâ— â—gra doth procéede through heate or cold let it stéepe well therein afterwards straine it thorough a cloth and drinke of it once or twice a day But if so be that the paine be intolerable great then stéepe in the foresaid whay wherein the Burrage and other things be stéeped one drag or one drag and a halfe of Agaricus Take of this whay ten or twelue ounces according to the quality of the sicknes and according as he can easily go to stoole and temper amongst it Oxymel of hony of Roses or which is better Oxymel of Squils two ounces you are to drink of it in the morning as warme as you can and to fast foure howers after it at least Further he is in the meane time to exercise himselfe with walking and going afterwards he is during the space of fiue or sixe daies to drink of this whay without Agaricus and that is to be done once euery moneth And he is especially to indeuor himselfe to drinke this in winter for that it is sufficient if he do this twice a yeare And this is especially to be done when one perceiueth that the Podagra is instant thereby to be frée and although it appeared alreadie yet are you to proceed forward with it What remedies are then to be vsed for it may be seene and chosen out of the forementioned things The letting of bloud must be principally in the beginning of that spring and before the paine ariseth like as one may sée and reade more at large in the 2. § But aboue all things is a good diet commended for if the same be not kept then may all other things helpe but litle This is now the principallest and the total of all that Toraltus communicated to the Emperors Maiestie The order of diet which is to be obserued in this disease may you perceiue by all that which hath bene said before whereof also you shall find all things more amply described in the beginning of the sixt Chapter where we haue discoursed of the paine of the hips that aboue all other things Wine is chiefly forbidden vnto all goutie people as hath bene before expressed The decoction of Cinnamom Meade c. are they to drinke as is there admonished When any one doth go but ill after the Goute of the feete §. 7. THis debilitie of the féete doth sufficiently shew that there is still some flegmaticke matter present which ought to be expelled whereto these pils ensuing are to be prepared Take prepared Aloe halfe an ounce Coloquint one dragme Diagridion halfe a dragme Hermodactyli halfe an ounce temper them all together and make seuen pils of one dragme thereof Afterwards take euery fourtéene daies sixe thereof and fast sixe howers vpon it In the meane time is he alwaies the fift day to take one of them before supper Secondly he is to vse this Confection following Take Species de Xiloaloe Species Diatrionpipereon of each one drag white Saunders Violet and Sorrell séede of each one scrup Sugar sixe ounces decocted in water of Asarabacca or water of Parsley make Sugar plates thereof and then take daily before noone and after noone or at leastwise once a day of it three dragmes at the least and continue this the space of one whole moneth Thirdly take one pint and a halfe of Smiths water and seeth therein fiftéene or sixtéene Cipers nuts forty or fiftie Gals Hermodactyli and Pionie rootes of each one ounce vntill the third part be wasted away He is afterwards to rub the sicke person from the knees vnto the soles of the feete letting it be made moist to wit once a day alwaies before meate Fourthly take vnripe Sallad oyle one ounce Sandaraca Masticke and burnt Iuorie of each one dragme temper this together and therewith annoint after the former rubbing all the parts very warme which be weakened through the Gout and continue it thus with rubbing vntill they be thorougly strengthened againe and grow to be well Fiftly when the sicke person hath vsed certaine dayes to wash and annoint and findeth neuertheles no perfect amendement then is this salue following to be vsed like as the other precedent Take Dragon bloud fine Bolus Sandaraca the iuice of Sloes Mastick Frankinsence and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Sealed earth and Starch of each one ounce the iuice of Plantaine and of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe then temper them a long time together in a mortar vnto a salue These be now the very best and necessariest remedies which of all ancient and later Phisitions be prescribed for al the ioynts of the bodie God almighty the chiefe and best Phisition giue his blessing vnto it What things they be which conuey the medicines towards the ioynts §. 8. AMongst al other things which be written of the ioynts we haue yet to speake of this which be the things that conuey the medicines towards the ioynts amongst which the chiefest that are to be estéemed be rosted Squils Ginger Calmus which is the right Acorus Penniroyall Opopanax both of the kinds of Germander the séed Amomum and other moe The ninth Chapter Of the outward accidents of the ioynts and members FRom the third Chapter hitherto we haue discoursed of many kindes of diseases of the outward members which are most of all caused through outward causes and defluxions here will we now in this last Chapter adde certaine outward accidents as when the outward members or ioynts be beaten or strained Secondly we will also admonish somwhat of the fracture of the bones And because that by this there falleth otherwhiles some putrifaction of the bones therefore will we here also discourse somewhat of it and because that all this cannot be effected without great paine we will shew withall how that the same paine is to be asswaged Lastly how that the numbnesse and vnsensiblenesse of the members may be preuented and cured Of strayned members §. 1. IF any one haue strained any one member through falling or beating and the same hapned to swell without great heate then take the salue Dialthaea one ounce oyle of Cammomill and of Dill of each halfe an ounce Waxe a little and annoint the place therewith Another Take salue of Agrippa of Althaea and of the white salue which followeth hereafter of each halfe an ounce temper them together and annoint the place affected with it for which the Alablaster salue is also good Item take Barly meale Fenegréeke
small Pockes in generall §. 3. CHildren are for the most part subiect vnto these diseases and also auncient folks otherwhiles And like as the same be perillous in yong children so be they more perillous in ancient people They do come also through many kinds of meanes sometimes like red spots also with waterish blisters which outwardly appeare cleane ouer ones bodie vpon the skin as big as Millet seede which at last drie away and fall off These be also to tell the troth not without great danger especially if they happen through cold not to breake out or if they haue appeared alreadie vpon the skinne on the outside and be strucken in againe for thereby do they make a narrownesse of the breast a short breath hoarsenesse disease of the throate or of the mouth and anguish of the whole bodie with great Agues The learned haue sought out the causes of this breaking out of the small Pocks Measels and such like therefore be they of opinion that one bringeth the cause of this sicknes with him out of his mothers wombe when he is borne For that because as the fruit is nourished of the finest bloud of his mothers Termes so doth the vncleanesse of that bloud remaine in the pores of the children and in other places mo which nature afterwards driueth out in due time And because that all humane creatures be through such meanes and nourishment sustained and fed in their mothers wombe therfore doth it seldome happen that any kind of people can be old without getting these Pocks or Measels wherof this cōmon false opinion is spread and growne amongst many people that all children must once haue these Pocks or Measels wherby many mothers which haue many children if any of them get the Pockes or Measels let them runne one amongst another whereby one child is infected of another and so do catch the Pocks or Measels saying besides the truth that it is better that they get them in their childhood than when they be growne in yeares But this is none other like as I haue said but a false opinion for one may be fréed of this sicknesse through a good diet There be also other causes mo concerning these maladies viz. stinking ayre which doth heate the bloud and other humors of the bodie and troubleth them Like as to be long conuersant in the warme Sunne also to ouercharge him with such meate which quickly corrupteth in the stomacke as fish and milke eaten together through much bad bloud through omitting an accustomed letting of bloud and such like causes moe The signes of these sicknesses be paine of the backe itch of the eares and of the nose which come of the vapours of the corrupt matter and are partly pestilentiall therefore they haue a frightfull sléepe and the pricking may be felt ouer the whole bodie With this they haue also a slothfulnesse in all parts rednesse of the face and of the eyes and somewhat swelling and they be so long pinched with sléepinesse vntill the Pockes do breake out vpon them euery where And although like as we haue admonished the Measels and the Pocks haue one kind of cause yet we will discourse of each apart as much as is possible Of the Measels §. 4. THis is as we haue said a common infirmitie of children and it also assayleth auncient and full growne people so that they ouer the whole bodie some lesse othersome more are besprinkled with red spots There is also great heate oftentimes with it and a pursiuenesse in the breast In this sicknes must one beware especially of cold yea of open ayre and of hot meate and drink And auncient persons are to order themselues as we shall shew in discourse of the small Pocks Common people do especially commend the Conserue of Eldern flowers and the same rubbed vpon the heated parts But what is further conuenient for this purpose you may make choice thereof according to the importance of the cause out of the description ensuing of the small Pockes what shall like you best Of the small Pockes §. 5. WHen as Children be assayled with these foresaid Measels or Pockes and they will not breake out then take oyle of Cammomill and good Wine of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter one dragme séeth it together vntill all the Wine be wasted and annoint the whole bodie with it when it is very well warmed This potion following is very good for all aged people and also for all young children Take Citron péels one quarter of an ounce sower Dates one quarter of an ounce Cicorie roots halfe an ounce the flowers of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe a handfull séeth them together in a pint of water vntill about the third part be consumed afterwards straine it and temper amongst it Sir Acetositatis Citri two ounces de Corticibus Citri de Succo Acetoso of each one ounce giue oftentimes a little of it for it is very méete and pleasant Item take Oliue leaues two handfuls Agrimonie one handfull séeth it all together in good Wine and drinke thereof euery morning thrée or foure spoonfuls it drieth vp all affluent humors But when these Pockes begin to fal away then are these means following to be vsed according to the importance of the cause Take Ceruse halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Camfere the quantitie of a Pease Saltpeter halfe a drag and two or thrée péeled Almonds wherewith you are to chafe the Camfere Afterwards temper one amongst the other and therewith annoint the place of the Pockes Or take Sallad oyle and Ceruse as before then temper them together with a little Vineger and Rosewater and vse it as before Some do also aduise to take strong lye which is hereafter described against the burning of gunpowder Another sort of small Pockes which be called Swine pockes §. 6. LIke as we haue said before these kind of Pockes be much like to the other before mentioned and proceede also of the same cause sauing onely that these wherof we now write be bigger broader and also with greater anguish of the breast and of the breath therefore may all be vsed for this that is expressed for the trobled breast in the second Part the fift Chapter and 9. § aswell in old as in young people But especially is this salue following to be ordained for it Take fresh Butter oyle of sweet Almonds and Goose grease of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull Some do put vnto it halfe an ounce of Turpentine and one ounce of liquid Storax this is especiall good and also approued oftentimes Aged people be much aduised to eate none other thing but Barley pap or Oaten paps and to drinke Barley water Take fourtéene or fifteene Figs Pistacies one quarter of an ounce Fennell seede the seedes of Smallage and Lacca of each thrée dragmes Lentils one ounce and a halfe Dragagant halfe a dragme Roses Saunders burnt Iuorie and Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce
itch according to the nature of the humors which cause the same and are mixed with the bloud The cause of this infirmitie are the vses of all kind of hot sharpe salt and bitter meates as spices strong wine oyle hony want of change in apparell to lye or deale with them that be scabbed with many other inward causes that procéed of an inflamed and corrupted bloud The signes of all manner of scabbednes are apparant but of what kind of humor the same is caused shall appeare by these reasons following If it be caused of bloud that may be known by the repletion of the bodie rednes of the parts and if the bloud or matter do issue forth in the scratching The patient hath also commonly a swéet tast in the mouth But if this scabbednes be caused of a salt phlegme then is the skin yellowish scaly and reasonably full of matter the patient cannot be quiet for the itch and after scratching findeth great paine and smarting If it procéed of Cholera then perceiueth he not onely a great drought in the ioynts but also in the scabs themselues with pricking burning and small store of moisture or if it be caused of Melancholy then is the skinne blackish drie with many scales and without matter Now for to cure this common and well knowne griefe are these rules following to be obserued diligently First because the common cause of this disease is grosse and foule bloud first of all a veine ought to be opened Secondly after the letting of bloud is the bodie to be purged and especially with Mirobalans and Fumitorie Thirdly because the itch and scabbednes are ingendred of salt sharpe swéet and spiced meates are the same wholy to be forborne Fourthly venery is to be shunned because thereby the humor is drawne to the outside of the bodie where it doth raise hote and stinking vapors that disperse themselues vnder the skinne Fiftly bathing inunction and whatsoeuer else may be vsed outwardly doth smal ease vnlesse the bodie be first throughly purged Sixtly in eating and drinking refraine all salt sharp swéet and hote things Seuenthly sowre and moist meates that do not suddenly putrifie in the stomacke are good for him Eightly because Peaches and some other herbes also fish milke and such like do corrupt the bloud they are to be shunned Ninthly the patient must forbeare scratching as much as is possible for thereby little pushes are turned into great scabs Tenthly the moister that the scabbednes is the stronger remedies doth it require As concerning the cure of this infirmitie the opening of the Median or Lyuer veine is not to be omitted and that as long as the patient can indure it Then is the humor to be prepared with Oxysacchara sirupe of Fumitorie and Pease broth afterwards to purge with Cassy with sowre Dates with Mirobalans with Dodoer or with Rubarb infused or sodden in whay of milke but aboue all other things is Fumitorie commended whether it be the iuice the sirupe the conserue or decoctiue potions or whatsoeuer else may be made of it Sene leaues do the same whereof thou maist vse those two kinds of potions in this scabbednes which are described in the third Part and 20. § Item take powned Sene leaues one drag strew them vpon stewed Currans and so eate them daily vse them so long till thou be loose in bodie and as thy stomacke will suffer thee Some do commend the golden water which is described in the last Part if a little of it be taken either inwardly or annointed on the scabbednesse outwardly After that the bodie hath bene throughly purged it is a cōmon order to bath otherwhiles in faire water otherwhiles also in naturall drie baths each as you like it best But those that cannot intend to trauaile to the dry bathes may take Salt Allume Brimstone Argall and such like according as the scabbednes doth require and so with water make a bath of them There are also many kinds of salues and oyles ordained for it whereof diuers shall be specified at this present Take litharge of Siluer finely powdered two ounces Vineger foure ounces boyle them together vntill one third part be wasted then adde two ounces of oyle of Oliues vnto it one ounce of Ceruse then boyle them together vntill they be thicke stirring them continually Another Take Ceruse two ounces litharge of Siluer one ounce Masticke and Frankinsence of each two dragmes beate them all together to fine powder and mixe them with three ounces of the oyle of Oliues and in the tempering of them powre now and then foure or fiue drops of Rosewater and Vineger vnto them In like manner you haue also in the fourth Part the ninth Chapter and 1. § fiue kinds of white salues which one may also vse with all securitie for scabbednesse Item in the first Part the third Chapter and 10. § there is a good salue beginning thus Take Turpentine c. Item take Bayberries Vineger oyle of Oliues as much as you please and temper them all together to a salue it is very good and safe Take the rootes of Bistorta one dragme prepared Sarcocolla two dragmes and a halfe Sandaraca foure scruples prepared Tutia one scruple Turpentine washt with water of Fumitorie foure ounces Camfer halfe a scruple temper amongst it sixe ounces of the next following salue of Elecampane rootes Take the iuice of Elecampane rootes and of Dock rootes of each thrée ounces Saltpeter Sarcocolla the lytharge of Siluer and Masticke of each fifteene graines Coperas and Allume called lamemum of each two scruples mortified Quicksiluer one dragme Butter two drag and a halfe Turpentine one ounce and a halfe Pitch one ounce the Butter Pitch and Turpentine must you melt together and afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it and let it seeth with a soft fire vntill all the iuices be consumed you are then to annoint the patient therewith by a good fire and that especially on the places where the most scabbednesse is this salue draweth the corruption outward Another take washt Turpentine two ounces washt Butter one ounce Salt halfe an ounce the iuice of three Limons two yolkes of Egs brayed oyle of Roses halfe an ounce or as much as is néedfull for to make a thin salue then temper it all together it is a safe salue In the fourth Part the seuenth Chapter and 3. § you haue also a good salue beginning thus Take Sage Mallowes c. which one may vse very safely for all manner of scabs Or take Dock rootes powne them very small temper vineger amongst it and salt it well with this are you to rub your selfe well in the bath when you will go out of it without wetting your selfe after it Item take Dock rootes and Hollihocke rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Hellebore rootes one ounce Smallage halfe a handfull séeth them all together in fresh well water vntill the third part be wasted straine it and put into this decoction one ounce and a halfe of
wasted These be now the most vsuall manners to make this decoction yet may the same be altered according to the importance of the sicknes and according to the strength of the patient now followeth heere what order the Phisitions now adayes do obserue in healing the Pocks Another manner to heale the Pocks §. 3. BEfore the patient begin to drinke he ought first to be purged for which the Cassie is most méete also he is to be let bloud But especially this is the most fittest meane Take Sene leaues Polipodie rootes and Currans of each three quarters of an ounce séeth them all together in sixe ounces of Fennell water vntill the third part be wasted In this decoction are you to stéepe the space of a whole night Rubard and Agaricus of each one dragme afterwards wring it out and put vnto it one ounce of the hony of Roses whereof you are at least euery morning to take one draught thrée dayes together and afterwards to obserue this order following The next day after the taking of these potions must he in the morning betimes drinke foure ounces of the decoction of Guaiac as is taught before in the second § and that as warme as he may abide it then is he to sléepe or rest one howre He is to drinke so much againe and rest and do this the third time But after the third draught he is to arise and shall according to the old custome breake his fast and that of such meates which be light of digesture His drinke that he is to drinke on day times is thus to be prepared Take the wood and the rinds whereof the first drinke hath béene decocted and then powre water and wine vnto it as is sayd and let them séeth together vntill the fourth part be consumed and this must be his daily drinke but this may be altered diuersly according to the qualitie of the cause Against the euening is he to drinke of the first potion a good draught very warme and an hower afterwards he is to go to supper and so continue this vntill the fift day but the sixt day is he to take the potion with Rubarb The seuenth day he shall take none other but a spoonefull of this composition following Take small powdred Guaiac one ounce Mace half an ounce hony of Roses two ounces temper them together The eight day he is to begin againe as before to drinke of the first decoction and so continue the space of ten dayes together vnlesse it be found good to augment and increase it The eighteenth day is he to take againe the infusion of Rubarb and the two dayes following Then is he to vse none other thing but Hony tempered with the powder of Guaiac Afterwards is he euery day thrée howers after euery mealetide to take three ounces of this potion ensuing Take Iuniper berries and Bayberries of each two ounces Mustard séede halfe an ounce powne them all grosse and séeth them in foure pints of water vnto the halfe As long as one doth vse these things he must kéepe himselfe out of the ayre and remaine in a warme chamber for that thereby the matter of the Pocks is expelled outwards towards the skin and when you find that it breaketh out then is he to wash himselfe with these things following Take a quart of Vineger Allume and Verdigrease of each one ounce eight wel brayed whites of egs powne all that is to be powned and then wash him with this Vineger when he hath thus washed him therewith and especially where there be any scales then are they to be let drie and the scales will fal off of themselues Thus fareth it with this second cure which is very safe without any defect of the inward or outward parts by which meanes there be a great number cured And as we haue said his meate must be light of digesture viz. young flesh egs and all that is drest therewith also all other things which make good bloud but Milke Chéese Fruit and such like be very highly forbidden in this disease For this may also be vsed the golden water which standeth described amongst other in the last Part whether it be drunken or annointed outwardly vpon it So is also Treacle highly recommended for the same The third cure of the Pockes §. 4. THis cure ensuing haue I tried my selfe in a woman which had vsed many sundrie cures and could not be holpen but by this meanes following she grew to be so healthie that I knew her twelue years after alwaies in very good health without any hinderance of the same disease First of all in this disease like as in all other such like the patient is to be purged and that according to the abilitie of the person and strength of nature Further in eating and drinking he is to order himselfe like a woman in Childbed After the purgation he is to take a good warme draught of the first and strongest decoction which is before described Hauing taken the same then is he to be couered warme to the end he may sweate well euen so much as his power may well permit The sweate is to be dried well with warme clothes and it were very good that the clothes wherewith he hath bene once dried should be washed euery time and that he put on a cleane shirt euery morning for if the patient kéepe him warme and cleane then may the potion haue her operation the better At meales and throughout the whole day may he vse this potion following Take boyled rinds and Guaiac lay them to stéepe as before and séeth them This may also be done euen to the third time and then to mixe all the three decoctions together When one hath about two quarts of the very strongest decoction then must he set againe to stéepe fresh Guaiac and rinds to the end that one may betimes haue more drinke in a readines If so be that the patient haue any outward sore or scabbednesse then is he to wash the same with the dregs of this potion or lay it vpon it with a cloth and if so be that the sore be somewhat déepe then be pledgents to be layd into it which be made wet in the dregs of this decoction This is so to be done in the morning after sweating and in the euening one hower before supper And if so be that these pledgents were baked therein like as it hapneth also then are they to be wetted with a litle of the warme potion and then to lay fresh to it againe The clothes wherwith his sores be once drest are not to be vsed againe without washing Now when as these sores be almost healed and the flesh would grow too proud there is then a fine powder to be powned of the rinds and to be strewed oftentimes thereon and also to be letten lye vpon it vntill that there fall off drie scales this powder drieth much with all pain But if so be that it be a rich person that had néed of the
so linked one with another and befriended that one cannot continue without the other but death must presently insue Yea there is also none other thing that giueth shape in the beginning to all liuing bodies and afterwards causeth them to increase to the houre of death but this naturall heate which is borne with vs. This is the onely cause of all working and it is knowne that all that groweth and increaseth yea also all herbes and plants wust haue their nourishment thereby and each according to the right propertie of his nature which giueth to each thing according to his néed both moisture and dreuth but how were it possible that the same may be concocted and altered for the sustenance and increase of mans bodie if there be no naturall warmth with it This naturall warmth doth maintaine all health and consumeth all bad humors it consumeth also meat and drinke whereby all inward parts do receiue their power and strength and also are made apt to do all things whereto they were created The hardned skin will be mellowed and made thin through this naturall heate all wounds and vlcers be brought to naturall matter it swageth the paine it looseth and softeneth all contracted sinewes Item this naturall heate is that which causeth the wounded head to heale and freeth it from all his heauie accidents drieth the moisture of the same expelleth all corrupted bones and taketh away the venime of all corroding vlcers This naturall warmth doth warme all frozen members it helpeth all diseases of the Matrix and priuities c. The same naturall heate doth heale all broken bones But how may that be better séene than by dayly examples which we haue daily before our eyes and as it appeareth in old folkes for it is seene that how much the naturall heate abateth in them so much the weaker and the more incurable do they waxe of all diseases and most manifestly in the dying where it is cleerely séene that how much the more the naturall heate doth abate so much the nearer is death at hand Therefore must héed alwayes be taken that it be kept in his naturall being for if so be that the same be too great or too small in any body then can follow none other but heauie sicknesses and at length death it selfe The like may be séene in the Palsie and in the Plague Therefore we wil here discouer certaine things which sustaine this naturall heat and do increase and strengthen the same and afterwards shew what is to be vsed against vnnaturall heate First there be certaine spiced wines Claret wines Hypocras wines and such like commended for it but they must be vsed with prouidence to the end that according to the qualitie of nature and of the age they may be prepared that they heate not ouermuch for that the right nature of wine is that it being moderatly drunken doth preserue and sustaine the naturall warmth and strengtheneth the powers of men The same doth also Elecampane wine and confected Nutmegs vsed morning and euening after meate The conserue of Rosemarie doth warme all those which be halfe dead But what néed is it to write so largely thereof séeing there is no sicknesse which cometh through cold described in all this booke wherein hath not bene taught how this weake natural heate might be holpen Hereafter also shall be spoken of the Phlegma and by that meanes also of cold and what is to be done for these cold diseases where further aduertisement may be sought for Of vnnaturall heate §. 1. IN all hote diseases which haue bene discouered hitherto be means euery where declared wherewith this vnnaturall heate might be quenched and slaked But we will here not onely alledge the passages where the same is taught but also declare what may be méete for it For this are sundrie things described as the cooling salue Galem the salue of Roses the salue of Saunders and the Pomade For this is also good the Poplar salue all which you may mixe as you please or vse each alone In like manner these oyles following as of Poppie heads of Roses of Violets and of water Lillies which do coole more than the oyle of Roses or oyle of Violets For an outward application take the water of Corne Roses and of Nightshade of each two ounces sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one dragme Camfer ten graines temper them all together and lay it vpon the forehead or where the heate is One may vse inwardly the conserue of Buglosse of Burrage of water Lillies of Violets of Cicorie of red and white Roses confected Cherries and conserue of Barberries Item confected rootes of Cicorie Framboys confected Peaches which one may vse in all hote sicknesses and Prunes that be confected Item fresh Cassie is very necessary in all vnnaturall and sharpe heate The sowre Dates do coole and purge very mildly and they do also quench the thirst The simple things be Lettice Endiue Cicorie and bread that is stéeped in cold water Fishes Limons Oranges Pompeons Melons sweete wine Peares Apples and Cherries c. These foresaid things are not only to be vsed in hote sicknesses but also to take them moderatly being in health in hote times There is also a sirupe made of the iuice of Oranges of sowre Pomgranates of white Roses and of Sorrell the which do coole much in time of the Plague and in all pestilentiall sicknesses which do inflame the heart and the stomacke The sirupe of Roses laxatiue doth especially coole all heate of Agues likewise also the sirupe of Veriuice of Violets of Endiue and of Vineger In like manner also Oxycraton Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses and of Violets the honie of Roses hath a méetly cooling nature therefore the same may also be vsed in hote Agues When the patient desireth to drinke in great heate then be some of these foresaid sirupes to be tempered amongst it for which the sirupe of Violets of Burrage and of Roses be the most principall if the same be tempered with well water or any cooling potion The same doth also fresh well water alone Item Barly water or Henbroth dressed with Endiue watred wine Henbroth with Sugar and Barly and the water of Larks spur drunken thrée or foure times a day these beforesaid do take away the vnnaturall heate whether it be in the Plague or in any other hot agues Take water of Larks spur and of Buglosse of each two ownces Cicorie water one ounce drinke twice thereof morning and euening it strengtheneth and cooleth also the heart in all hote things Take a handfull of Raisins stampe them to pap and powre vpon it eight ounces of water of Buglosse Cinnamome one dragme then wring it thorow a cloth and afterwards take it or giue it to drinke with Almond milke But if so be that some vnnaturall heate do assaile you without any speciall sicknesse then is this ensuing to be vsed for it Take a blacke Cockrell of a yeare old chop it aliue one part from another take the
counsell is to arise presently and walke and to kéepe the foote warme Cramp rings are also worne for it but I finde no great good in them These oyles following are very commodious for the Cramp to wit oyle of Lillies of Rue of Wallfloures and of Turpentine which is made as followeth Take Turpentine 3. pound put it into a body make fast the head and the receiuer vnto it very close distill it in sand or ashes with an easie fire First there commeth ouer a cleare water with the oyle next a yellow oyle lastly a darke and grosse oyle kéepe each apart for they are good for all cold griefes and especially for them of the sinewes There is also good for it the oyle of Tyles oyle of Quinces which also comforteth the sinewes The oyle of Cammomill is not only good for the sinewes but also for all the ioynts The oyle of S. Iohns wort is especiall good for the same The ridge in the back being annoynted with the oyle of Iuniper restoreth motion into all parts Oyle of Bayes of bitter Almonds and of Beuercod haue an especiall vertue to soften the hard and contracted sinewes Now follow those things which may be vsed inwardly BOth the kinds of Treacle and the Mithridate are maruellous good for the infections of the sinewes Item take Calmus floures of Stechados of each thrée ounces Currans Fennell rootes Parsly rootes of each one ounce Centory Coloquinte Hermodactilis of each halfe an ounce boyle them in a quart of water vnto the halfe and straine them out hard then put 12. ounces of Hony vnto it and let them boyle together againe vntill they be reasonable thick afterwards put vnto them fine powder of prepared Agarick one ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Ginger and Diagridion of each one drag and a halfe Spike of Indie one drag make an Electuary of them This Electuary purgeth all plegmatick tough gréene and waterish matter from all the parts of the body both inward and outward It asswageth all paines of the ioynts sinewes and such like Giue of it at once foure or sixe dragmes with the decoction of Ginger if phlegme do abound Contrarywise in a cholerick bodie giue it with the water of Succory very warme and let him fast sixe houres after it and before he be set downe to dinner let him drinke a good draught of Meade For the same purpose also serueth the confection of Diacorum and especially the first of them which are described in the last part Likewise the conserue of Lauender of Spikenard of Sage and the preserued rootes of Eringus His common drinke shall be Meade or Honywater Amongst the herbed wines are these commended the wines of Elecampane rootes of Rosemary of Sage and of Wormewoode These wynes are all very good for the sinewes not only taken inwardly but also the infected places chafed and fomented outwardly Common clisters are sometimes vsed for to comfort the sinewes wherof there be diuers described almost euery where and such as may be vsed according to the place infected But a little Coloquint is for the most part added vnto them all This contraction and induration of the sinewes doth in time turne to a perfect lamenesse whereof hath bene spoken before in the fourth part the seuenth chapter and second § and after that in this fift part in the second chapter of the Pockes in which places you may find sufficient store of remedies to content your selfe These things following are very hurtfull for the sinewes the continuall vse of strong wines â—enery idlenes slothfulnes warme water and especially in them that are wounded in the sinewes The fourteenth Chapter Of the flesh and Muscles or Lacerts WE must now speake of the flesh of the body which couereth the bones veines sinewes and in fine all that is comprehended in the skin First in respect of those parts which we call Muscles or Lacerts the flesh in Latin called Caro is very little in quantitie for the number of Muscles is so infinite that it hath béene vnpossible for the auncient Phisitions to name them all Some did take them to be in number fiue hundreth Albertus 529. The flesh and muscles are ingendred of the bloud they are warme and moyst by nature and soft in handling and those that are coldish by nature without any euident heate they haue much and very soft flesh That which we call flesh is placed euery where betwéen the muscles only differing in this that the muscles are contained in a thin subtill membrane to the end that the sinewes with their small twigs might the better passe through it impart their motion vnto the muscles This flesh is otherwhiles changed into fat to wit in fat men or in them that liue delicately or else sometimes it decreaseth and the muscles also vpon diuers occasions They that are very fleshy haue also big veines full of black bloud with great entrayles and a big belly These persons are especially commanded by all learned Phisitions that they shall not purge themselues in Sommer time The other kind of flesh namely Muscles and Lacerts are peraduenture so called because they are not vnlike to the Euets for Lacerta in Latine is a Lyzard or Euet in English Aristotle Albertus Galenus with diuers others haue written very curiously of the veynes and sinewes and haue shewed how they are dispersed and spread abroade ouer all the body and how by the Muscles they moue and stirre euery member seuerally whereof we néede not at this present make any further mention But to speake of them in briefe the bodie of the muscles is made of thrée seuerall kinds of substance for their beginning and the very head of them is full of sinewes Their middle which is called the belly of the muscle is flesh Their tayle or the ends of the muscles is harder and more sinewie then the head whereof the Tendons are made In fine these Muscles do consist of sinewes of flesh of ligaments and velmes so that by the multitude of these sinewes are all the parts of the body moued inward and outward vpwards and downewards quickly or slowly too and fro all as a man will himselfe Besides this they are according to their situations of diuers proportions as long thick broad c. and so strangely coadunated and conioyned that their vse may easier be perceiued by their motion than by sight or by any other meanes whatsoeuer but especially in the face in the forehead and in the lips These muscles may not be wounded without great danger for by reason of the sinewes which passe through them by those wounds very great and heauy accidents must needs ensue But the greatest danger is wounding hurting or in any way harming them of the back for then can the patient neither make water nor go to the stoole nor do any other busines at all aright By these meanes commeth the Cramp the falling sicknes I wil not speake of the great misfortune that might follow if the same do putrifie Because
consumeth the Phlegma Another Take Species de gemmis frigidis thrée dragmes Aromatici Rosati one dragme Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce white Sugar seuen ounces good strong wine one quart stéepe them therein and powre it oftentimes thorough as is said before Of this Claret wine are they to drinke oftentimes which haue a weake stomacke and an obstructed Lyuer or to stéepe sometimes therein a péece of bread A common Claret wine Take Cinnamom Pepper and Greines as much as you please clarified Hony also as much as you list powre it then all together thorough a woollen bagge as before You may also take Cloues Nutmegs and other Spices in like manner also Sugar in stead of the Hony You haue also in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 5. § a Claret wine called Stelladia which is much vsed in Italy There is also another sort made which is almost like vnto some of the former but there be not so many spices taken for it to wit but halfe an ounce of powned Ginger Cardamome one dragme and Sugar halfe a pound or more vnto a quart of wine and so filtred together There is also an aromaticall wine which is called Hipocras made thus Take Cinnamom 2. ounces sliced Ginger one ounce Greines one quarter of an ounce Galingall Cloues Nutmegs Cucubes and Cardamome of each one drag of these grosse powned spices you shal take vnto a quart of wine one ounce and a halfe according to that you will haue the Hippocrasse strong Sugar halfe a pound or more then set it in a warme place to stéepe a whole night and afterwards powre it thorough the bag as al the rest There is commonly taken for this red wine This Hipocras hath the same vertue as the Claret wine hath yet are all young people to refraine from such like drinks and from Malmsey and Muscadell to the end that they do not increase heate by heate This Hipocras and Claret wine may also be well made for all weake bodies that it be somewhat laxatiue But if so be that there be any sick persons which be forbidden wine or if that he drinke not the same willingly by nature and that neuertheles the decoctions did not agrée with him then may this potion following be made called Hippocras fontis Take Cinnamom Figs Cloues and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Graines one dragme good well water a quart which is coloured well with red Saunders and then put the spices beaten grosse into it and let it boyle a little If you will haue this potion swéeter then put in some Sugar in the seething or some Hony and then let it distill thorough the bag as is said before You haue also in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 4. § another aromaticall Wine which might be placed among these In the end of this part shall moe aromaticall wines be described Of Clisters and their vse §. 2. IF one know how to vse these Clisters aright and to prepare them then can there be no more profitable nor yet safer medicine inuented Therefore there be before and almost in all sicknesses so many kinds ordained and thereby taught how that the same shall be prepared that it is almost néedlesse to write any more of them Neuerthelesse to prosecute this our methode we will here discouer certaine common and mild Clisters In smal Agues and when the patient is weake or scant as yet recouered of some long sicknesse then are these ensuing to be vsed Take Mallowes and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them well together take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces mingle Cassie Honie and course Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce with it oyle of Oliues thrée ounces Salt one dragme or somwhat more temper them all together and minister it reasonable warme for such like Clisters may you take Hen or Mutton broth Another that relaxeth and cooleth Take Violet leaues and Mallowes of each one handful Mercurie Béetes and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Lettice and Purslaine of each somewhat lesse séeth them in sufficient water and take thereof as much as is before oyle of Violets foure ounces Salt one quarter of an ounce and minister it méetly warme In hote Agues Take Béetes Mallowes Mercurie and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them all together in sufficient water and then take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces Cassie Hony Sugar Salt and Oyle as is said before When the patient doth complaine of great paine and wind in the belly then boyle therwith grosse powned Fennell séed Annis Comin and Caraway There is also an especiall Cassie prepared for a Clister in this manner following Take Violet leaues with the flowers Mallowes Mercurie Béetes and Melilot of each halfe a handfull seeth the same in a little water straine it and wring it out then wash therewith the Cassie out of the Pypes for to get all the black out of them and then afterwards séeth it short vntill it be thick when as then you haue sixe ounces thereof then put nine ounces of Sugar vnto it and let it séeth vntill it be thicke enough This Cassie doth loose very mildly Of confected Seedes §. 2. HEre we will now speake onely of all séedes which be confected with Sugar as Coriander séede Fennell séede Annis Comin Caraway and such like Item of some Fruits as Almons Pingles Pistaces Hasell nuts Cucubes and of other mo confected rootes which may be confected with Sugar and because the same by reason of the Sugar and otherwise are very pleasant whereby they will not onely serue for the Kitchin but also for Phisick wherfore we will here describe the nature and operation of them all We haue in the seuenth part often admonished of Coriander and giuen a caueat of his venim that the same ought not to be vsed vnprepared otherwise it is by all Phisitions aduised that morning and euening confected Coriander should be vsed for it dryeth vp the ascending vapors of the stomacke it strengtheneth and dryeth the brains it is good against all swimming of the head and against the Palsie it is good for the stomack and procureth sleepe insomuch as then these vertues be ascribed to the Coriander to which the Sugar addeth only the pleasantnes you may looke what the Table saith of all the other seedes The confected Annis séedes are good for them which haue a stinking breath and cannot sléepe it prouoketh vrine it quencheth naturall thirst it taketh away the windinesse of the belly it is good for all paines of the stomacke against all diseases of the Liuer of the Lights of the Matrix and it helpeth the digestion It is also good against all hoarsnesse shortnesse of breath and especially for all cold diseases of women and for all them which be much plagued with the Whites Lastly it augmenteth also much the milke in women The confected Fennell seede is good against all poyson and especially against the venime of Snakes it moueth
a like quantitie let all these steepe together in Vineger and dry againe and afterwards be pouned to powder They are vsed in all cold paines of the Kidneyes in the grauell and it moueth also vrine Species Triasantalum of Saunders §. 40. TAke red white and yellow Saunders Rose sugar and Sugar of each thrée dragmes Rubarb burnt Iuorie and the iuice of Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce and xv greines Dragagant Starch Gum péeled Melon seede Pompeon séede séeds of Gourds of Cucumbers and of small Endiue of each one dragme and a halfe Camfer one scruple temper them all together pouned very small This is especiall good against all heate of the Lyuer and of the stomack it is also good against giddines and the yellow Iaunders Species Trion-Pipereon of Pepper §. 41. TAke long white and blacke Pepper of each fiue dragmes Ginger Thyme and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce Indie Spica Ameos Ammoniacum or in stéede thereof Cucubes or Calmus Cinnamom one dragme Cassie wood the séedes of Smallage of Siluer mountaine Asarabacca Elecampane rootes of each halfe a dragme make a powder thereof This is verie good against all cold stomacks against all belchings against the quartaine Ague against all diseases of the liuer and also against the cough Species dia Turbith of Turbith §. 42. THese species be described after two waies to wit as they be ordayned in the third Part the eleuenth chap. and 20. § against the obstruction of the bodie Species de Xyloaloe §. 43. NOw for as much as these species be very common therefore we will not pretermit to describe them here Take Lignum Aloes and Roses of each one ounce Cloues Indie Spica Mace Nutmegs Gallia Moscata Cucubes Cardamome Greines Masticke Cinnamome Cypers rootes Squinant red and white Behen Spiknard red Silke Pearles red Corall Amber Citron leaues Basilicum Mints garden Mints Marierom long Pepper and Ginger of each halfe an ounce Muske one scruple Amber one dragme and a halfe poune it small and then temper them togither These species be good against all infirmities of the stomacke of the hart of the liuer and also against all other inward diseases which be caused of cold Item for all swounings for the bad digestion and for a stinking breath they do also make merrie as you shall find described in the Table vnder the name of Lignum Aloes To make strong Water §. 44. FOr a conclusion of this former Chapter we will adde vnto it this strong water Take Allome and Coperas of each one pound Saltpeter halfe a pound put them all togither pouned small into a bodie and then distill it in land Make first a milde fire and so a little stronger and stronger and whē the fume in the glasse receiuer beginneth to be red then giue it a stronger fire and when the rednes beginneth to be gone then draw out the fire and let it be cold then keepe it stopt very close Although not onely the Chirurgians but also the Goldsmiths and other moe do vse this water yet it is neuertheles very good against the paine of the teeth but it must be wisely taken in hand or else must be wholly omitted the Quicksiluer whereof the powder precipitate is made and also is calcined with it Species Berchtoldi §. 45. THe occasion wherefore we haue not adioyned this Species with other is therefore for that these species are onely vsed in the Kitchin and for fish the same is tempered with some good Wine they be not onely pleasant but also very healthie And to alaye the moystnes of the fish Take Ginger halfe an ounce long Pepper one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom thrée quarters of an ounce Greines one dragme and a halfe Galingall one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme Sugar ten ounces poune them all small and then temper them togither Another Take Cinnamome halfe an ounce Ginger thrée dragmes Greines halfe a dragme Cloues Galingall and Cardamome of each one scruple Saffron halfe a dragme Sugar two ounces poune them all togither and make it moyst with Wine afterwards temper it in a mortar and let it dry in a warme place then bruse it at last to powder againe The 16. Chapter IN this Chapter be certaine Potions described as also certaine powders for meate and Trociskes which here and there be ordayned in this present practise of Phisicke wherefore we will first begin with the Potions Decoctiones Aperitiuae Potions that do deobstruct §. 1. THere be some of these described in the third Part the eleuenth Chapter and twentieth § viz. called the common and with Rubarbe which be verie necessary for to keepe an open bodie notwithstanding that one may vse the same commonly for to mixe other Confections with it Decoctio Epithymi of Dodder §. 2. THis Potion is prepared as it is described in the first Part the twelfth Chapter and eighth § viz. in thrée kindes of wayes Her operation may you reade in the Register vnder the name of Dodder Decoctio fructuum a Potion of certaine fruits §. 3. THis Potion is described in the third Part the third chapter and fift § where we do speake and discourse of the Rupture Decoctio pectoralis The pectorall Potion §. 4. THis Potion is very good for all them which haue a short breath for the Cough and for the rheume whereof there be two discouered in the second Part the 2. chapter and 2. § and in the second Part the 5. chapter and 5. § For what the same is further vsed is to be found in the Register vnder the name of a pectorall potion Decoctio infusio Senae A potion of Sene leaues §. 5. THis Potion is described in the third Part the eleuenth chapter and 20. § where it is ordained for the obstruction of the belly as the Register doth witnesse the same vnder the name of Sene leaues A water of Mans blood §. 6. AFter the discourse of these foresaid potions I cannot pretermit to adioine with this a new inuention whereof some princes haue very great estimation and haue also vsed otherwhiles for to remaine thereby in their force and to liue long as they thought which was this viz. that one should chuse a yoong strong man which was as yet in his flourishing youth like as of 25. yeres which was somewhat cholericke by nature the same is to be fed the space of one moneth and be well dyeted with light healthie meates also with all kinds of spices and with good strong wine who also is to be kept with mirth this being so done then are both his vaines to be opened in his armes and so much blood to be let out as he may tolerate and abide and vnto sixe pound of blood mixe one handfull of salt then put these togither in a glasse body stopt well and tight and set it a whole moneth in horse dung yet euery eight daies in fresh horse dung afterwards distill this blood in ashes when the water is distilled
for all agues which procéede of it Item for the yellow Iaundise and dropsie looke in the register for Agrimonie Trocisci de Lacca §. 14. THey are verie troublesome to be prepared they open the obstructions of the liuer and spleene and cure the agues that are caused thereby they do also expell the dropsie Ascites by vrine as hath béene shewed in the name Lacca Trocisci de Myrrha §. 15. TAke Myrrha one dragme and a halfe Lupins two dragmes and a halfe Rue white water Mints Diptamus of Candy Comin Madder Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the iuice of Feuerfew These Trociskes do mooue womens termes and asswage all paine which may be caused by their obstructions such like Trociskes of Myrrh haue you described in the third Part the 19. chapter and 2. § looke further in the Table of Myrrha Trocisci de Olibano of Frankinsence §. 16. THe description of these Trociskes you haue in the third Part the 11. chap. and 12. § looke further in the Table vnder the name of Frankinsence Trocisci de Rhabarbaro §. 17. TAke good Rubarbe fiue drag the iuice of Agrymonie and bitter Almonds of each one quarter of an ounce Roses Indy Spica Annis Madder the séed of Smallage Wormewood and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme then make Trociskes therof with water of Fleawort These open the obstructions of the liuer they take away all paine and swelling of the same they be good against the dropsie and the yellow iaundise and also against all distemperance of the bodie like as you may reade in the Register vnder the name of Rubarbe Trocisci Diarrhodon §. 18. THese Trociskes doth Nicholaus describe and they be easily made Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie and red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe and seuen graines white Sanders one dragme and twelue graines Saffron two scruples and seuen graines Camfer two graines make Trociskes of them with Rose water They be verie little vsed like as is admonished in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Rosis of Roses §. 19. BY Rasis these be described in this manner following Take Roses halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes one quarter of an ounce Masticke one dragme and a halfe Wormewood Cinnamom Indie Spica Cassie wood Squinant flowers of each one dragme fashion them with â—ld Wine They be verie good against all paine and bad digestion of the stomacke against all cold agues and the beginning of the dropsie but especially they be very good for all them which lose their naturall colour looke further for this in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Santalis of Saunders §. 20. THese be not made but when the same be prescribed of purpose they be very good against the diseases of the liuer and against the dropsie like as our table of Saunders doth shew Trocisci de Spica §. 21. THese Trocisks be not vsed and there is mention made but once of them in this Booke and that onely against the pursiuenes of the breast Trocisci de Spodio of Iuorie §. 22. THese be prepared as they are described in the third Part the eleuenth chapter and fouretéenth § and ordained for the laske Lienteria for which they be further necessarie that doth the Register make mention of Iuorie Trocisci de Terra sigillata §. 23. OF more than twentie things be these Trocisks made wherefore we do leaue them to the Apothecaries They be very much vsed for that they be forcible against spetting of blood if the same be giuen with the water of Knotgrasse they be also good against the bleeding at the nose if the same be annoynted on the forehead and also for womens flowers if they passe away too excessiue fast likewise for the bléeding of the pyles and for pissing of blood if it be spouted into the yarde like as the same is mentioned in the Register vnder the title of sealed Earth Trocisci de Violis of Violets §. 24. YOu must take Violet leaues which be somewhat withered one ounce and a half Turbith one ounce the iuice of Licorice Manna and Diagridion of each halfe an ounce make Trocisks thereof with the sirupe of Violets They are very seldome vsed alone but sharpned with thrée greines or with any other pils if they be giuen to any bodie that is hard to be purged They are made also without Diagridio and they be also otherwhiles mixed with some other Trocisks looke further for it in the Register of Violets For to make writing Incke §. 25. WE must not pretermit the description of this Incke being a necessarie matter It is also made in sundrie manners but this is the commonest manner for to make Incke Take pouned Gall nuts one pound Coperas halfe a pound raine water fiue quarts seeth them all togither vntill the third part be wasted then let it settle afterwards straine it thorow a cloth put foure ounces of Gum vnto it and then stir it oftentimes about Some do not boyle it but let it stand and stéepe stirring it very often and well but take for it no more but thrée quarts of water and let the Gum be first dissolued in good wine Vineger vntill it be all dissolued and then put the other substance vnto it thus it is also best of all doth remaine alwaies without moulding For to make common Vernish §. 26. VErnish is made after sundry waies and there are also sundry sorts of them each for an especiall vse the one is made thus and the other so But we will here describe onely and teach how that it shall be most fitly made and for what it shall be requisite for each one First take olde Linséed oyle and séethe it so long vntill it be as thicke that if you do take a drop of it out and let it be cold when you presse vpon it with your finger it spinneth two or three threads or glueth to the finger This oyle being now so sodden put Rosin vnto it as much as shall suffice for to make the Vernish thicke enough then let the Rosin decoct togither with the oyle so long vntill it do stand wholly still This Vernish is good for the Smithes for the Trencher-makers for the Trunck-makers and further for to Vernish all slight things Of Painters Vernish §. 27. TAke olde Linséed oyle and séethe the same as is aforesaid afterwards put amongst one pound of the oyle halfe a pound of Masticke or somewhat more and so let it séethe togither a good while This being done then set it in the sunne in a leaden Basen and power one part of water vpon it and stirre it well togither then will the oyle come vpon the top and let it stand so clarifying in the sunne and ayre the space of two or thrée moneths But it is to be noted that you must alwaies take good héede of the faire weather and of the raine and also of the night for if so be that
water looke Vrines effluxion Wearisomnesse described 617 Whites in women 488 Wilde Cucumbers looke Iuice of wild Cucumbers Wilde Saffron prepared 13 Williams potion for the stone 455 Wines for the grauell and stone 460 Wine of Asarabacca 46 Wine forbidden in all infirmities of the sinewes 138. Wine of Eyebright to strengthen the sight 88 Wine of diuers sorts 782. 783. 784. 785. Wine for the cold headach 39 Wines amended that haue a fault 790 Wolfes liuer looke Liuer of a Wolfe Wombes description and vse 474. 475 Wombes descension looke Mother Good for childbearing women 502 How to know whether a woman be with childe ibid. And whether with a boy or a girle 503 What commonly appeares in women with child ibid. Womens priuities looke Places Women made narrow like maidens 290 Women with child 502. 503. for to comfort the wombs vertue retentiue 299 Women with child their strange longings 505 Wormes in the Arsegut called Ascarides 438 Wormes preuented 433 Wormes of the belly 432 Wormes of the teeth 180 Woundes and all that appertaineth vnto them 595. Wounds stitched 596 Wounds to make them matter 600 Wounds with proud flesh in them ibid. Wounds fresh 597 Y. YArd exulcerated in the act veneriall 374 Yards vnnatural erection called Priapismus and Satyrismus 275. 276. Yellow Iaundise 396. 397. c. The end of the first Table This second Index containeth all the Simples that are specified in this Worke as Rootes Herbes Flowers Fruites Plants Iuices Gummes Woods Stones Barkes Mettals Minerals and Earths Also all the parts of Beasts and of the body of man that are or may be vsed in Physicke A. ABrecockes or Peaches are called in Latine Mala armeniaca Mala praecocia and Bericocia others do cal them mala trecacina and the common sort name them Chrysomela but this is the right and true Latine name of the Orange it is a fruite sufficiently knowne and growing in this our countrie Adders toong is called of Plinie Lingua and Lingulaca of the Herbarists Echioglossum Ophioglossum Lingua viperina Lingua serpentina and Lingua vulneraria This herbe is to be gathered onely in Aprill and in May it groweth in moist medowes low grounds and that at no other time than in the abouesaid moneths It is vsed in vulnerall potions oiles and salues Alecost or Indish pepper in latine Lepidium Piperitis Alehoofe or as some say Harehoofe is called in Gréeke and in Latine Chamaecissus Selinitis Hedera humilis and Corona terrae by the Herbarists Hedera pluuiatilis and by the Apothecaries Hedera terrestris Allium alpinum it is also called Allium reticulatum Victorialis and Victorialis longa to distinguish it from Gladiolus segetalis which by diuers authors is called Victorialis rotunda although in very déede they differ greatly The leafe of this herbe is not much vnlike to that of Neesewort the roote is long and hairie twisted together as if it had bene done of purpose with the hand whereof two of them are layed crosse one ouer another as the legges of man or woman otherwhiles are placed This roote do the cosening Merchants I meane the Mountibanks and Quacksaluers sell for the right Mandragora or Mandrake saying that they haue digged it vp vnder the gallowes with great hazard of their liues thus doe they beguile and seduce the common sort of men with vntruths which ought by the Magistrates to be seuerely punished not for a small peece of siluer to be permitted otherwise I feare they shal be called to an account for it when it shall be said Redde rationem villicationis tuae Allum Alumen Alumen liquidum Alumen liparinum Alumen rubeum the Apothecaries do call it Alumen de Rocha Amber in Latine Ambarum Ambar Ampar Succinum orientale and at the Apothecaries Ambra it is a precious liquor or a kinde of swéete smelling earth Amethyst Amethystus a precious stone Ammie Ameos Ammium Ammi Cuminum regiū Hippocratis Cuminum Alexandrinum and Cuminum Aethiopicum it is a kinde of plant which beareth a sharp and sweet séed which the Apothecaris do call Ameos Anacardus or Anacardium is a strange fruit so called Angelica is called by diuers sundrie names for that there be diuers sorts of it as Hippiatricis Lasaron Gallaticon in Greeke Laser Gallicum Laserpitium Gallicum and of the Herbarists Imperatoria Ostrutium and Astrutium the Apothecaries do cal it Astrantia and Magistrantia Anthora is called of Paulus Aegineta Arnabo and of the Arabian writers Zurumbet of the Simplicists Zurumbetum It is a sweete smelling roote like to Ginger but it is bitter in taste It is commonly called Zedoaria but vniustly for there is no small difference betweene Zurumbet that is Anthora and Zedoaria of the Arabians as manifestly appeareth by the words of Auicen and Serapio who do write of these two in sundrie chapters seuerally wherefore the Zedoaria of the Arabians is not our Anthora although that it hath bene falsly vsed in many compositions for it but it is the roote of Zeduarie Anthora is an herb not much vnlike the lesser Wolfs bane but that it groweth somewhat higher and the flowers are a little lesse and yellow It hath two blacke rootes round like vnto an Oliue blackish without and as it were withered within white and solide It groweth in great quantitie on the hils in Sauoy and about Geneua also about Salmes in high Burgundy and on the hils of Switserland The latter Greeke writers call it Zadura Zaduaria Zedura Zudar Zaduara Zadur Zadera Zaduar and Zadar Serapio calleth it Zedoaria Auicen Zeduar Gieduar and Napellus Moysi The Simplicists name it Anthora Antithora and Anthullia wherefore whensoeuer you shall find Zurumbet in any composition then be sure to take Anthora but if you reade Zedoaria then take Doronicum Antimony in Greeke Stibi Stibium or Stimmi of Galen Gynacium and of Plinie Platiophthalmon it is called at the Apothecaries by the barbarous name Antimonium Plinie also calleth it Alabastrum which name is proper onely to Alabaster it is a minerall like to lead and knowne of all men Argentine Argemone altera Inguinaria Plinij Anserina Argentina Tenacetum syluestre Agrimonia syluestris Potentilla and Portentilla This herb is sufficiently knowne and much vsed for all paines and gripings in the belly which are without any binding Aristologie the round vide Hartwort Aromaticall wine is a wine made with spice and a kind of Hipocras Aromatites Hippocras is called in latine Vinum Hippocraticum the Claret wine Clarea vinum Claretum and at the Apothecaries Claretum Artichocks are called in Gréeke and in Latine Scolymus Cinara Cinarus Acantha Cactus Carduus Altilis Strobilus Carchofilus Articocalus and Articoca Ars smart in Gréeke and in Latine Hydropiper Piper aquaticum Piper caninum Herba pauonis Pauonaria and Persicaria of Hippocrates Polycraton or Polycriton It is a wel knowne and contemned herb but very good for wounds it is hot and drie The other kind which by the vnskilfull without any regard is vsed for
ascribe to their Melilot wherefore it is aduised to take the great Melilot Auicennae and it is vsed at the Apothecaries The white Melilot is not common in all countries wherefore it is sowen in gardens in many places The white is called at the Apothecaries Melilotus alba and the yellowe Melilotus lutea the Herbarists do thus distinguish it from Lotus satiua they call it Lotus alba Lotus lutea as they also call the Lotus satiua and Lotus caerulea Serapio hath also his proper Melilot to wit the lesser Vitches which after the flower is fallen away it getteth little huskes like bird clawes Some do vse the lesser small Melilot that grow in medows which is something lesse than the common Melilot calling it Melilotus minor we call it the lesser Melilot Diosc calleth his Melilot that groweth in Campania Sertula Campana and Cato Serta Campana Melons Melon Melopepon and Melo Mithridate Antidotus Methridatica Methridatium and at the Apothec Methridatum It is a pretious confection against all poyson which first was made by King Mithridate and hath called it by his owne name Mewe Anethum syluestre Anethon vrsinum Anethum tortuosum and Meum some do call it Seseli Creticum but care not for them for it is the true Meum of the auncients as euery one may see and find to be without deceipt that shal coÌ„fer it with the description of Dios Milke Thistle in Greeke and Latine Chamaeleon niger and at the Apothecaries Cardopatium some do also call it Carlina nigra Mill dust in Gréeke Polleu Farina volatica at the Apothecaries Farina volatilis Mill stone Lapis molaris of Virgil Lapis incusus Millet in Gréek Cenchros of Strabo Cenchris of Hippoc. Paspale it is euery where in Germanie well knowen is daily vsed in meates Millet of Indie it is called in Latine Melica of Plinie Milium Indicum of the Herbarists Panicum Indicum Meliga Sorghum and Saggina The Portingales call it Milium saburtum It is a plant not much vnlike to the Sugar canes and beareth a browne seede like a Lettice but somewhat sharpe It is now a dayes sowen in gardens Miscledene in Gréeke of Plinie Ixos and of Virgil Astilis of Hesichius Stear Stelis in Latin and of Virgil Viscum It is an excrescence of trées and groweth commonly on Peare and Apple trees also on the Hawthorne trée and Birch trées but that which groweth on Okes Tillet trées Chestnut trées or Hasels is commended aboue the rest in Phisicke It is vsed for the falling euill and swimming of the head Mosse in Gréeke Bryon Sphagnon Mnion and Amnion in Latine Muscus Muscus arborum and Lanugo arborum at the Apothecaries and of the Arabians Vsnea Mouse Mus a domesticall animall Mouse-eare Auricula muris The herbs that are called Mouse-eare are 4. in number although there be but one of them that is called so of the auncient writers the first and greatest kind is called of some Mouse-eare others Lungwort it groweth commonly in darke Béechen woods old wals it hath broad rough hayrie leaues that lie downe flat on the grounde and a stalke that is diuided into three or fower sprigs on the top whereof are yellow flowers this stalke being squised it yeeldeth a white milkie iuice like to the wild Lettice the Chirurgians do call it Lactaria consolida the Herbarists Pilosella maior Auricula Muris maior and Pulmonaria Gallica because it also serueth for the disease of the lights The second kinde is called Pilosella media and Pilosella or Mouse-eare by which name it is euery where knowen as also in this Booke it is called no otherwise The thirde kinde is called the lesser Mouse-eare of the Herbarists Flos Angelicus and Pilosella minor It groweth in barren groundes it hath faire white and purple flowers The fourth kinde is called the blewe Mouseare or blew Eyebright of Dioscorides Myosoris Auricula muris and of the Herbaristes Euphrasia carulea and Auricula Muris caerulea This herbe is nothing like to the former three kinds in operation and virtue for the water distilled of it is vsed for the dimnes and bléerdnes of the eies The auncient Phisitions haue onely vsed it for the bad eies But our common Mouseare is onely vsed in potions for woundes and ruptures and such like compositions notwithstanding that it hath his proper vse of it selfe Mouse of the Alpes Mus Alpinus whereof the grease is vsed against the lamenes and extenuation of the ioynts Mugwort Artemisia it is an herbe sufficiently knowen hot and dry in the second degree Mulberrie trée Morea Sycaminâ—â— in Greeke in latine Morus and Arbor sapiens the fruit is called Morum or Mulberrie Mummye Mumia there are two kinds of it the one is digged out of the Graues in Arabia and Syria of those that are Balsamed and is brought vnto vs it is called Pissasphaltum factitium of the Arabians Mumia at the Apothecaries Mumia Serapio calleth it Mumia sepulchorum to distinguish it from this kinde following The Phisitions call it Mumia Arabum for a difference from Mumia Graecorum The second kind is onely an equall mixture of the Iewes lyme and Bitumen in Gréeke Pissasphaltum in Latine Picibitumen and of the Simplicists Cera montana Cera terrestris Pissasphaltum natinum and Mumia natiua But as often as Mummie is named in this present worke is not the Iewes lime meant but the Mummie of the Arabians to wit Mumia sepulchrorum which is found at all Apothecaries vnder the name of Mumia Muscadine Vinum Apianum Vinum Musacatulum Vinum Muscatellinum and Muscatellum Muske Muscus Moscus Muschus it is the dryed matter of the impostume of a certaine beast which is called of the Barbarians Gazella Must in Gréeke Gleucos and Deucos in Latine Mustum and vinum Musteum the wine first prest out of the grape is called of Columella Mustum Lixiuium of Plinie Protropion This wine was woont to be inclosed in Tunnes and they well hooped to the end it should not clarifie and that it might coÌ„tinue swéete It is called of some Vinum coactum it is called of the Grecians Aigleuces that is semper mustum It is often vsed for physick but very seldome alone Mustard in Gréeke and Latine Sinapi Napi and Sinapis There are two kinds thereof the wilde and the tame Mustard They are both of them hot and dry in the fourth degrée the tame kinde is more commended for physick than the wilde Mustard séede the white or Rocket in Gréeke Eusomus or Eusomum in Latine Eruca there are foure kinds of it the first kind is sowen in gardens and is knowne euery where by the name of Rocket or white Mustard seede this is the true Eruca and Eusomum of the auncients The second kind groweth of it selfe in the fields not vnlike the former but somewhat lesse it is called of the Herbarists Eruca syluestris with vs wild rocket The other two kinds to wit the third and fourth do grow about the water side and haue
in the morning early for a strengthening halfe an ounce of confected Calmus Likewise Aromaticum rosatum Rosata nouella and conserue of Roses tempered with powder of Masticke and with Mints water being drunken If it be needfull for to purge then is one to vse the former purgations without giuing any stronger thing This ensuing is also very commodious Take the iuice of red Mints foure ounces Agaricus one dragme let it stéepe together two dayes and two nights then temper Ginger and Roses therewith of each foure graines Manna halfe an ounce let it stand drying in the warmth afterwards make pilles thereof and vse them oftentimes for they purge the watery humors without any anguish Now for to remedie the venemous matter for which you haue hereafter thrée kinds of applications Take Roses Cipers nuts burnt Iuorie and Sandaraca of each one dragme Rosin thrée ounces but you are to seeth the Rosin in red Vineger vntill that the Vineger be spent afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it and make two plaisters of it one quarter and a halfe of a yard long and lay the one behind and the other before vpon the place of the Mother One more forcible Take oile of Quinces of Roses and of Mints of each one ounce and a halfe Comfrey Bloodstone red Corall Sandaraca and burnt Date stones of each one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint therewith the place of the Mother and of the kidneyes both these haue so strengthened the fruit in sundry women that they haue fully borne the same which accustomed to lie in too soone of all their former children Thirdly take the water of Tassell and water of Knotgrasse of each sixe ounces water of gréene Cipers nuts or their decoction foure ounces the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie and Roses of each one dragme Frankinsence Sandaraca and Colophonie of each one dragme and a halfe the iuice of Quinces sixe ounces temper them well and make a cloth wet therein eight double and so lay it warme vpon the backe Of mischances or vntimely birthes §. 9. THis vntimely childbirth or mischance may befall at any time without any difference after that women haue conceiued as when the séede is not yet come to any perfect shape or when the fruite hath some members but yet before it come to be a perfect child or is brought into the world before the due time being not throughly borne or when it is violently or otherwise expelled And it fareth therewith as it doth with the fruits of trées when they begin first to bud and to fashion then do they hang on brittle stalkes so that otherwhiles they may be blowne off and spoyled with a small wind but being waxen greater then is there to come greater force of windes or otherwise before they will fall off lastly when they be waxen very ripe and seasonable then do they fall off of themselues In like manner doth it also happen with the conceiued séed or fruite which is at the first so weake and tender that if a woman chance to leape to fall or to labour hard the séede receiued is thereby diuers times eiected Wherefore also betwéene foure and seauen moneths she may purge most safely and vse phisicke if néede require for before the foure and after the seuen moneths must she forbeare it if possibly it may be for then it is perillous But to returne to our purpose We haue shewed before that if a woman hath retained humane séed the space of seuen dayes that it is a token of conception but if it vade or auoyd within seuen dayes then do the learned call it Effluxionem which is an effluence or running out But if so be that they detaine it any longer time and this effluence chance within fortie dayes then is it an Abortus that is a mischance and within this time of fortie dayes do most mischances happen Thus if a boy be conceiued and voyd away within fortie dayes then is there none other shape to be seene thereof but in case it be cast into cold water there doth it make shew as a small bladder and making it open then is the fruite found in it as a great Cricket with all his seuerall members and likewise also the humane member And if a maiden child conceiued chance to auoide or passe away within thrée moneths then can no direction or token be seene for that it consumeth in the water but in case that it do come to the fourth moneth then may some direction be séene thereby but it soone consumeth and passeth away for that as we haue said before the girles receiue their perfect fashion much later than the boyes as also they be borne for the most part in the tenth moneth But when they be now come both into the world the girles grow much faster than the boyes and also do come sooner to their time of generation and leaue off much sooner especially they that get many children one after another The causes of these mischances or vntimely births do the learned alleage to be of many sorts which may neuerthelesse be comprehended in foure principall articles viz. of outward causes which procéed of the conceiued fruite when the Matrix hath any kind of disease or if the humane séed be of no good disposition Amongst outward causes be these leaping running wringing and chiefly in lying together bathes anger sorrow feare trembling loud calling strong labour surfetting of meate and diureticall things as Fennell Parsley séed and all other things which expell the stone All hot spices as Ginger Galingall Cinnamome Annis and such like Item all that purgeth violently as Aloe Epithymus Coloquint Scamony and Euphorbium In like maner all scouring or laxes the bloody flixe or the fluxe of the termes The same may also happen if a woman haue any strange lust or longing which she cannot come at or get it and moe other such like causes whereof we haue spoken before whereof it is better to be silent than to disclose the same Also the conceiued fruit otherwhiles falleth downewards before her limited time whether it be for that it is sicke or dead or for that it remaineth not with the face towards the backe with the hands vpon the eyes and the elbowes vpon the knées as the naturall situation of it is Likewise also if the fruite through any disease of the parents be infected whether in the séed or otherwise wherewith also the fourth cause is approoued But if the conceiued séede find any disease in the Matrix be it whatsoeuer sicknesse or disease that it will then must the fruite inherite it This reason following is also occasion of an vntimely birth to wit when a woman is much and vnmeasurable leane conceiuing she will very seldome haue full birth but if the Mother be excéeding leane whence the fruite must sucke or draw his nourishment then will it be inféebled or diseased and constrained to passe away as hereafter shall be more ampler sayd and taught
séeth them all together in three quarts of Water vntill a third part be wasted and then drinke a good draught thereof in the morning and euening He is also to vse oftentimes Oxysaechara conserue of Roses conserue of Rasps the sirupe of Sorrell of Veriuice and of Quinces to make the bloud thicke with it and to coole it There is especially commended for this the water of Lentils when it is boyled in the third liquor to wit the two first being powred out If now it be feared that the Pockes should hurt the eyes then is this following to be vsed for it Take Lycium the iuice of Sloes and Saffron of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper this all together in Rosewater and drop it oftentimes into the eyes If so be that now any Pocks or any rednes be perceiued on the apple of the eye then vse Sief album and that according to the qualitie of the cause for which you may looke into the Register where you shall find also the manner to make it But if there do come any exulceration in the throate or mouth then cleanse the same with Barley water wherein sirupe of Mulberries wine of Pomegranates and such like be decocted and drinke the same also softly The iuice of Mints is also to be drawne vp through the nose tempered with Saunders Veriuice Vineger the same also fumed is good for it Now when as the Pockes do anguish the Lights then vse Diapapauer If there be any hoarsnes or roughnes of the throate then looke what is good for it in the place where we discourse of it For which is also this gargarisation to be made with Licorice Iuiubes Sebestes and Figs decocted in water and a litle Dragagant dissolued in it and then to cleanse the mouth with it and sometime to swallow downe some of it When as there is no ague with it then is it very good that one drinke warme Goates milke Now for to free the intrailes from the Pockes rosted Quinces are to be taken with Sugar or the sirupe of the same If a scowring happen with it looke what is described in the third part the eleuenth chapter and 13. § Lastly all renowmed and famous Phisitions do aduise against the opinion of the common people that one should about the seuenth day open the Pockes if they be ripe with a golden néedle for to let out the matter to the end that through their sharpnesse they should not eate inward and leaue great Cicatrises behind them Make also a powder with Salt Lentils meale Beane meale Pease meale litharge of gold and Ceruse strew the parts with it to the end that thereby the matter may drie All which cannot be hurtfull If so be that after healing of the Pockes there do remaine great dents pits or scars then may these things ensuing be vsed Take Sarcocolla Melon seede washed Rice whites of Egs Chalke Bolus or white Sugar temper them with the oyle of Roses or the oyle of Lillies and therewith annoint the Cicatrises Or in stéede of the oyle take Hens grease Item take the Caule of a young Goate or Kid powre Goates milke vpon it then set it so in the Sun and powre fresh milke euery day vpon it the space of one wéeke afterwards lay it the space of foure daies in Rosewater and then hang it vp to drie This being done shread it small and put it into a siluer beaker and set it in boiling water when it is molten then straine it thorough a cloth and annoint therewith the markes and small Pockes Of clefts in the Skin §. 7. YOu haue in the first Part the ninth Chapter and 1. § of the clifts in the lips Item in the third part the fift Chapter and 2. § in the description of the places in women And in the tenth Chapter and 11. § of the clifts in the Arsegut Also in the fourth part the first Chapter and 7. § of the clifts in the hands all which remedies there described may be vsed for this our intent and also all these that follow Take the gréene rind of the Elder stéepe it in a sufficient quantitie of Sallad oyle boyle them together wring them out hard and with Waxe make a salue of them This salue is also very good to be vsed against the burning fire Item take oyle of Roses white Waxe Frankinsence Masticke and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Ginger halfe a dragme melt the Waxe the oyle and the grease together and temper the rest amongst it Of the itch in the skin §. 8. BEfore we begin to write of the Scabs we will first intreate of the drie itch of the skin This is called in Latine Pruritus which is a desire to rub and scratch either the whole bodie or some part of it by reason of the great itch which is caused of some sharpe humors which do yet lie vnder the skinne Also if the humors which are stirred vp either by heate or by labour be so tough that they cannot transpirate through the skin and the pores of the same then do they cause an itch Also Lice Fleas Ants and Woodlice do cause an itch Item if one do but seldome change his apparell The inward causes may be an ouer great heate of the liuer which doth ingender sharpe and adust humors also debilitie of the vertue expulsiue as doth appeare in aged folkes The signs of this itch are manifest as that a bodie cannot sléepe for it and is hindered from doing his businesse aright Now to come to the remedies of the itch the patient shall haue a veine opened be purged and almost obserue the same order which hereafter is prescribed against scabbednesse A sweating bath and water baths are specially commended for this purpose which being once vsed and not turning away the itch shew that the humors in quantitie do abound which cause the same This bathing is to be reiterated and the bodie to be rubbed where it itcheth most with this receipt following Take white Roses two ounces beate them thoroughly with Vineger and adde one ounce of Bran vnto them The next day following bath againe and rub your bodie with powned Smallage with gréene Nutshels or with Fenegréeke These itchie patients are to forbeare all manner of Salt and hote things and especially all that might inflame or burne the bloud If this itch be about the yard or member of a man then take a quarter of an ounce of Ceruse Sulphur vife one dragme and a halfe Opium halfe a dragme make a salue of it with Vineger some do adde two scruples of beaten Licebane vnto it If this itch be in the Arsegut or in the wombe then take burnt Allume one quarter of an ounce Argall one ounce temper them with vineger spread it on a cloth and so apply it Of Scabbednesse §. 9. SCabbednes is of diuers kinds some with scales some with blisters some with matter and some without matter some dry and red but all of them with an intolerable
the second Chapter and second § be two pectoral potions discouered which be very méete for it Now for to vse outwardly you haue in the first part the second Chapter and thirtéenth § a salue of a rosted Goose which is maruellous piercing and consumeth the tough slime The salue of Roses doth also delay all flegmaticke defluxions Item oyle of Cammomill and oyle of Rue annointed on the outside or vsed with Clisters Thus much be now spoken of the cold Phlegma concerning the hote Phlegma that concerneth the pestilentiall Agues and other sicknesses which are caused through heate The 21. Chapter Of the cold diseases EVen as we haue discouered throughly in the discourse of the cold Phlegma what here and there throughout this whole booke hath bene declared to be fit for this purpose the same shall also be done in the discourse of diuers cold sicknesses of whatsoeuer occasion that they may be caused as of age of defluxions of the stomacke of the Matrix of the breast or howsoeuer the same might be first of all therefore we will here teach what might inwardly be vsed for them First there is good for it the conserue of Eyebright which drieth the braines Item the conserue of Hyssope and of Betonie of Gilloflowers of Lauender of Spikenard of Rosemary of Marierom gentle and of Sage In like maner also confected Ginger Calmus Elecampane rootes and confected rootes of the greater Pimpernell The confections be also good which be made of the horse Radish the Marmalade with spices both kinds of Treacle the Mithridate and confected Annis seedes be also good Rosemary wine is for this a very forcible and healthie drinke Item Elecampane wine Hyssope and Lauender wine and for moistnesse of the head is very méete the wine of Asarabacca rootes moreouer all other spiced wines as Hipocras and Claret wine be much commended for it and if there were any bodie which could drinke no wine he may drinke common Meade Oile of Spica is much commended annointed outwardly vpon it against all cold diseases of the braines of the stomack of the liuer of the spléene and of all the intrailes In like maner also these oyles following viz. of blew Flouredeluce of Beuercod of Bay of walflowers of Wormwood and aboue all others the oyle of Tiles or Bâ—ickes In fine all that is before described for the cold Phlegma and in other places for all cold sicknesses may serue for this intent and so we will conclude this fift part The sixt part of this Booke maketh mention of all such sicknesses as are incident to the whole bodie WE haue treated of many kinds of sicknesses in these former fiue parts of this booke of Phisicke all which pinch and paine one certaine part of mans bodie and also sometimes indéede the whole bodie for that nature hath so knit and combined all the members of the bodie one vnto another in vnmeasurable shape and vniformitie that as there is any member anguished with paine or any disease euen then all the other members impart therewith so that whensoeuer the head the heart the stomack the liuer or any other suffereth all the other members one lesse another more must be partakers of this foresaid anguish and in such measure are all of them grieued according to the quantitie of the infirmitie And forasmuch as the Ague is so spread throughout the whole body that as it is commonly said there is not so small a corner frée yea further as all famous Phisitions witnes and alleage for an infallible saying and Axioma that there is no disease so small which bringing with it an alteration of nature that is without the Ague or Feuer therefore will we comprehend them all in this sixt part that thereby we may also detect the noisome Plague or Pestilence which is also a spice of an Ague and also some other whereof hitherto in our former parts we haue not sufficiently declared The first Chapter Of all manner of Agues in generall THese very common and manifest diseases are called of the Gréeks Pyretos that is firie and with the Latinists Febris that is a seething or boyling and in our vulgar tongue we name this sicknesse the Ague that is a superfluous hurtfull and vnhaile heate that sometimes often and sometimes more vehement than before commeth againe and returneth Or an Ague is an vnnaturall mixture of naturall spirits in a hotter and drier nature than is necessary And in another place The heate which diseaseth the whole bodie we call the Ague Againe the Ague is an alteration of naturall warmth into a firie warmth and therefore is a hote and drie disease The old Maisters or Phisitions named all such sicknesses Agues when any stood and complained of griefe without any outward swelling without the Rose without anguish and to be briefe without any sore outward So if there were any that were pained with the stitch in the side with an inflammation of the lungs and such like then had they their speciall names whereby they account the Ague not to be a particular maladie but incident and casuall or casum so that they held opinion none to be right Agues but such where the bad humors in the veines were inflamed and yet the outward members felt not any painfulnesse And these Agues are of so many kinds that Hippocrates in describing them in a maner forgetteth his old and briefe custome of writing where he sayth thus Some are long biting and yet mild other without biting at all but comming againe some strong and mightie other that quickly inflame the bodie some continuing at all times are smal and drie other that bring no manner of belching or vomit with them Some are full of filthinesse and very ill fauoured other that take one with moisture and sweate In like sort they haue many kinds of colours ruddie Saffron yellow and some haue very bleake colours It is not then a great wonder that the cold with the heate do cease at certaine houres as at one time it continueth and at another time commeth againe the third or fourth day or twice on the third day so that otherwhiles it hangeth on a bodie a whole yeare yea sometimes ones whole life long Any one may decipher the species of Agues as he will yet neuerthelesse in truth there be but thrée sorts of mingled Agues and euen so they come also through three manner of causes that is out of Cholera out of a black and melancholick humor and out of Phlegma For euery one of these hath at the first two kinds of properties as an intermission at one time ceasing and remaining still or continuance at all times induring alike which are deuided into many sorts and also mingling themselues with others according as the matter or humor is much or little or more or lesse putrified and also euen as the places or parts be enclined whence the Agues grow and spring All such vnnaturall mixtures and Intemperies whereof we in the first part in the first Chapter 1.
medicines 600 Skins that couer the braines wounded 56 Sleepe procuring remedies in Agues 632 Sleepes description 618 Sleepes hinderances ibid. Sleepe procured to the franticke 128 Sleepe procured diuersly 618 Sleeping disease Lethargus 118. 134 Slime or Muscilage of seedes and rootes 49 Sloes preserued 723 Smell lost 100 Sope to take away her bad smell 33 Sope bals for a cold head 40 Sores of the head looke Head broken out Sores looke Vlcers Sore caught through carnall copulation 290 For all manner of old sores 564 Sores in the Pockes 581 Speech hindered looke Tongues slownesse Species liberantes 665 Species Hierae 360 Species of diuers kinds 272 Spetting of blood thorough Lights disease 242. Spleene veine looke Veine of the spleene Spleenes description 408 Spleenes obstruction with heate and Agues 409. Spleenes impostume 411 Spleenes obstruction without Agues but with paine ibid. Spleene pained 409. 411 Spleenes schirrositie 412 Spleenes externall remedies 415 Spleenes melancholicke humors 418. 419 Splinter looke Thorne Spots of fals 602 Spots taken out of cloth 729 Spots of the skin 601 Spots of heate remedied 602 Spots of the face cured 57 Squinancie looke Tumor in the throate Squintnesse looke Eies squintnesse Staines of the face 57 Steele prepared 15 Stench of the arme-holes how remedied 519 Stinking breath looke Breath Stitch in the breast looke Pleurisie Stomachicall confections 324 Stomachicall powders 325 Stomackes description 317 Stomackes mouthes desription 318 Stomackes digestion preserued 320 Stomackes debilitie in generall 323 Stomackes debilitie of cold 324 Stomackes debilitie of heate 332 Stomackes debilitie of dryth 334 Stomackes wambling looke Wambling Stomackes paine in generall 367 Stomackes paine of heate 368 Stomackes paine of cold 369 Stomackes paine of wind 369. 370 Stomacke swolne 372 Stomacke pained of melancholy 373 Stomackes impostume 374. 375 Stomackes paine through Phlegma 372 Stomacke exulcerated 376 Stomackes schirrositie or hardnesse 378 Stone of the kidneyes 451 Stone of the bladder hindered from growing 452. 453. Stone of the bladder 451 To breake and expell the stone 454. 455 Strong water 776 Suffocation of the Matrix 489 Sugar cakes made 737 Sugar pennets prepared 16 Sugar clarified 15 Sugar plates 16 Suppositories 360 Suppositories for windinesse 370 Sweating good for all Dropsies 405 Sweate in the Plague how to be procured 669 Sweate described 609 Sweate prouoked 610. 611. Swellings after an Ague 652 Swellings hard 560 Swellings of the Groines Arme-pits and Eares 563. Swelling of womens places 289 Swine Pockes 555 Swouning 258 Swouning called Syncope 260 Synouia how to stay it 600. T. TAbulates how to make them looke Cakes Tearmes in Women their description 476. Tearmes in women procured 477. 478 Tearmes in women to be stayed 484 Teeth that stand on edge 181 Teeth kept good 184 Teeth made white 184 Teeth cleansed 183 Teeth doubled ibid. Teeth drawne and fallen out 182 Teeth that are loose fastened ibid. Teeths description 176 Teeth in children furthered 177 Teeth that are hollow and rotten 180 Teeth with wormes looke Wormes Teeths gnashing 181 Testicles description 276. 288 Tenasmus described 366 The remedies for the same 367 Theriaca magna 735 Theriaca diatessaron 736 Thirst in hot agues 631 Thirst through dryth of the Liuer 395 Thornes or splinter how to be drawne out of the skin 595 Throate stopped of something gotten into it 189. Throate with a horsleach in it ibid. Throates tumor looke Tumor Throate exulcerated 194 Throwes in childbirth prouoked 514 Throwes after Childbirth eased 517 Toes their commoditie 526 Tongues description 167 Tongues slownesse 169 Tongue moistened 170 Tongues Alcola 171 Tongues impostume 172 Tongue swolne ibid. Toothach of inward causes 177 Toothach cured 178. 179 Toothach in the Pockes 180 Toothach by touching of cold things 181 Treacles vertues and operation 735 Trembling 684 Triapharmacon plaister 313 Triphera 736 Trocisci de Olibano 343 Trocisci de Myrrha 780 Trocisci diuersly prepared 114 Trocisci de Sulphure or Adulphi 239 Trocisci de Spodio 345 Trocisces of Roses 324 Tumor which is hard called Schirrus 571 Tumor after Agues 652 Tumor nodes byles and other hard swellings 560. Tumors of the skin in generall 559 Tumors of the throate or Almonds in the same 163. Tumor of the throte called Squinancie 190 Tumor of the throte with heate 191 Tumor of Womens breasts looke Breasts swollen Tumor of the groines 274 Tumor of the Cods through water looke Rupture Tumor of womens places 289 Turbith his preparation and vse 15. 362 Tutie prepared 15. 69 V. VEines which are to be opened in euery disease 24 Veine of the head ibid. Veine of the liuer ibid. Veine Median or Median veine 25 Veine of the Armepits ibid. Veine of the Spleene ibid. Veine of the hips ibid. Veine of the Mother ibid. Veine of the knees 26 Veine of the forehead ibid. Veine of the eyes ibid. Veine in the Temples ibid. Veine of the nose ibid. Veine in the lips ibid. Veine of the tongue ibid. Veine of the neck 27 Veine that is broken in the breast or Lights 245. Veines that are broken called Varices 524. 567. Veines description in generall 24. 604 Venemous beasts 694 Venemous mettals 693 Venomes of diuers kinds 685 Veriuice how to be made 706 Vernish how to be made 781. 782 Vineger of Roses 759 Vineger of Squils 624 Vlcers of womens places 290. 498 Vlcers in generall 564 Vlcers that runne and stinke 69. 566 Vlcers corroding in generall 568 Vlcer corroding called Herpes 570 Vlcers inflammation cured 573 Vlcer Cacoethe 592 Vlcers of the shins how healed 525 Vlcers in the Kidneyes 445 Vlcers outward of the Kidneyes 450 how remedied 450. 451 Vlcer of the Matrix 498 Of all manner of old vlcers 564 Vlcerations of the priuie members 69 Vnnaturall heate 608 Vnnaturall things that are sixe 28. 234 Vnguentum neruinum 614 Vomiting through weaknesse of the stomacke 338. Vomiting with a scouring 340 Vomiting in Agues 632 Vomiting of women with child 506 Vomitories 135 Voice described 185 Voice cleered 186 Vrine to moue in the Dropsie 404 Vrines abundance 462. 472 Vrine that scaldeth ot burneth 471 Vrines retention by obstruction of the passages 470. Vrines effluxion 462 Vrines effluxion through cold ibid. Vrines effluxion through heate 463 Vrines retention by the debility of the vertue retentiue 467 Vrines retention through fals or blowes 469 Vulnerall plaisters 598 Vulnerall potions 597 Vulnerall salues 599 VV. WAfers how to make them 728 Walnuts preserued 718 Wambling of the stomacke 337. 338 Warts 553 Warmth naturall of man described 607 Water that bindeth the body and stayeth the lask 34. Water of the Emperor Frederick for the eysight 88. Water of M. Tristram 57 Water for all manner of madnesse 127 Waterish moisture of mans body look Phlegma Waters for diseases of the Liuer 395 Water of Beanes 459 Waters to wash the mouth and other parts in the Leprosie 588 Waters called golden waters and elixers of life 726. Waters for to wash the hands 728 Water for lice looke Lice water For him that cannot hold his