helped very much with this Methridatū drunken with stilled waters palsies sickenesses in the midriffe the liuer reines and bladder be cleansed therby it prouoketh the menstrual termes in womē being drunk with posset ale If Isop or Germander bee sodden in the said ale it is excellent against the pestilence or poison if it be drunke but a little quantitie thereof according to the disease strength or age of the person It is very good against the stone or for womē which haue a new disease peraccidents called the gréene sicknes there is nothing better against the biting of a mad dogge than to drinke of this and to annoint the wound If it be giuen in drinke to any sicke bodie a little before the accesse or comming of the olde fittes of quotidians tercians or quarteins so that it be drunke with wine temperately warmed This Methridatum is a medicine of no small price Democrates hath a goodly composition of it an other excellent composition is of Cleopatre as Galen writeth An other and the most excellent is the description of Andromachus phisition vnto king Nero but the chief father of this act was king Mithridatus the noble king of Ponthus after whose name it is called Ioh. Indeed this is an excellent medicine but I pray thee where shall I buy it Hum. The blind fellow Iohn doe eate many a flie and the plaine meaning man is oft deceyued There is no trust in some of the Apothecaries for although the vsurpation of quid pro quo is tollerable for their Succidanes yet to abuse their simples or compounds it is not onely theft to rob simple men but also murther to kill the hurtlesse Ioh. Of late time we haue beene so afflicted with sundrie sickenesses and strange diseases that in many places we could get no physitions to helpe vs and when men be sodainly sicke 200. miles from London Cambridge or Oxford it is too late for the patient to sende for helpe being infected with the pestilence I pray thee tel me some good regiment for me my family if it please God that it may take place Hum. I shall be glad forasmuch as thou hast taken paines to heare me all this while to teach thée a pretie regiment for the pestilence Ioh. Reade it faire and softly and I will take my pen and write it Hum. Certainly the occasion of this most feareful sicknesse commeth many waies as the change of the aire from a good vnto an euill qualitie taking his venemous effect of the vital spirits which incontinent with all spéede corrupteth the spirituall blood And sodenly as it were an vnmercifull fire it quickly consumeth the whole bodie ouen vnto death vnlesse the wholsome medicine doe preuent and come to the heart before the pestilent humor And because it is a very strong sicknes it is requisite to haue a strong curing medicine For weake things will not preuail against so strong a matter Therfore I pray you note these six sayings as aire diet sléepe or watch quietnes or trouble and finally medicine First walk not in stinking mists nor by corrupt marrish ground nor in extreme hot weather but in fair cleare aire vpon high ground in swéet fields or gardens hauing fire in your chāber with swéet perfumes of the smoke of Olibanum or Beniamen Frankensence being cold weather And in hote weather roses willow branches sprinkled with vineger often shifting the chamber is wholsom fléeing the South winde Secondly diet moderate eating meate of good digestion as all that haue pure white flesh both of beasts and foules good bread of wheate partly leauened Eate no raw hearbs purslein Lettise yong Lettish or sorrel except with vineger Drinke of cleare thin wine not chaunged and vse often times vineger with your meates and mingle not fish and flesh together in your stomacke to drinke a tisant of barly water rose water sorrell water betwene meals is good eight spoonfuls at once Thirdly beware you sléepe not at noone it bringeth many sicknesses and giueth place to the pestilence and abateth memory For as the marigold is spred by the day and closed by the night euen so is man of nature disposed although through custome otherwise altered vnto great domage and hurt of body Eight hours sléepe suffiseth well to nature but euery complexion hath his proper qualities to sléepe vpon the right side is best euill vpon the left and worse vpon the backe Fourthly vse moderate exercise and labor for the euacuation of the excrements as swift going vp hilles stretching forth armes and legges lifting weightes not verie ponderous for by labour the first and second digestion is made perfite and the bodie strengthened and this is a mightie defence agaynst the pestilence and many mo infirmities wheras through idlenesse be engendered all diseases both of the soule and bodie whereof man is compounded made Fifthly aboue all earthly thinges mirth is most excellent and the best companion of life putter away of all diseases the contrarie in plague time bringeth on the pestilence through painefull melancholie which maketh the body heauy earthly Company musicke honest gaming or any other vertuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heauinesse of mind Sixtly medicine the partie being chaunged in nature and condition trembling or burning vomiting with extreame paine in the day colde in the night and strange imaginations c. Apt to sléepe when these signes doe appeare giue him medicine before xij houres or else it will be his death Take therefore with all spéed sorrel one handful stamped with Rew Enulacampana Oringe rindes Citron seedes the great thistlerootes Geneper berries walnuts cleane picked of each one ounce stampe them all together then take pure sharpe vineger a quarter of a pynt as much buglesse water as much white wine and temper your sayde receytes with these licours Then put in two ounces of pure Methridatum and romachi which is an excellent triacle and two drams weight of the powder of pure Bolearmein mingle them all togither in a verie close vessell and giue the pacient a spoonefull or more next his heart and etfsoones asmuch more let them that take this not sléepe during twētie hours or else take pure triacle and setwel mingled in posset ale made with white wine wherein sorrel hath boyled a good draught and let an expert Chirurgion let the pacient bloud vpon the middle veine called Mediana or the heart veine Basilica a good quantitie according to the strength and age of the pacient except women with childe and children For the retaining the said bloud would all turne to venom and incurable poison And note this that blood bee lette vpon the same side that the sore doth appeare If any appeare for many causes and sléep not viij houres after and vse this most excellent pill oftentimes Take pure aloes epatik and myrre well washed in cleane water or rose water of each 2. drams and one dram of the powder
hearbe is hote and dry and prouoketh vrine clenseth the matrix stoppeth the bloud in a wound If it be put in a pigge it dryeth the humours that would engender fleugme it is good against the paulsie oftentimes eaten or sodden in wine it will helpe and clense itch scabs and filth from the pudent and secret members Aetius doeth greatly commend this hearbe and the excellent regiment of Salern where it saith Cur moritur homo cui saluia crescit in horto enquiring why men doe die that haue Sage growing in gardens But truely neither Phisicke hearbe nor cunning can make man immortall but assuredly Sage is holsome for old folkes to be put into their meates for it clenseth fleugme from the sinews which fleugme will relax the sinewes The wine of sage drunke vpon an emptie stomake is holesome for fleugmaticke persons or them which haue the falling sicknes or dropsie Ioh. What is Polopodie that groweth vpon the Oke tree Hum. If this hearbe bee sodden with Beetes and Mallowes in the broth of a henne and drunke it will loose the belly and clense fleugme the roote of this hearbe beeing drie and beaten into fine powder and drawen into the nostrilles helpeth a disease called Polipus Ioh. I haue hearde talke of Hoorehound I would faine heare of his working Hum. It is a hearbe hote and drie if it be sodden with faire water suger or hony and streine it this drinke doeth clense the stomake from stinking fleugme it is an excellent hearbe for women to clense their moneth tearmes the water of this is good to helpe them which haue a moist rewme falling from the head vpon the lunges beeing often drunke but it is hurtefull to the bladder and reines the sirope thereof doeth clense the kings euil and also put into the eares doeth greatly comforte the hearing if the eares be troubled and stamped with hony and applied into the eies it clenseth the sight Ioh. What is Verben Hum. It is called the holy hearbe it dryeth and bindeth if it bee sodden with vineger it helpeth a disease called saint Anthonies fier oftentimes waâ—hing the pained place the leaues of Uerben and Roses and fresh swines grease stamped togither will seace paine and griefe in euery wounde and will keepe woundes from corruption it is good for people that haue the tertian or quartaine Agues and thus saith Dioscorides moreouer he saith the weight of a dram of this hearb with three halpenies weight of Olibbulom and put in nine ounces of olde wine tempered togither and drunke fortie daies of this quantity fasting it wil helpe a disease called the kings euill or paine in the throate Ioh. What is Rew or hearbe Grace Hum. I tell thee this hearbe is verie hote and bitter and doth burne because of his hotenes in the third degree if a littie of this Rew be stamped and sodden with wine and drunke it is an excellent medicine against poyson and pestilence with Roses and vineger and Rew stamped togither and put in forred cloth or biggen applied vnto the temples of the head or forehead doe cease grieuous paines itn the head And in like maner it healedh the bitings of serpentes or dogs stamped with vineger many nice people cannot abide it crying fie it stinkes The seede of this hearbe beaten in powder and put in fresh clarified butter and pitch melted togither is good for them to drinke that are brused Ioh. What is burnet Hum. It is of the nuture of fiue finger drie and binding and not moist as many saith stampe it and put it to the eies doeth take away the dropping and pricking and doth heale woundes and is good to drinke for the tercian Ague Ioh. What is Dandilion Hum. It is trmperate colde and drie with Roses and vineger tempered togither it helpeth the head in hote diseases The sowthistle called Soncus hath the same vertue and so hath Suckery if they be sodden they lose the belly and quencheth heat which burneth in the stomake and defendeth the heade from hote smoking vapours and purgeth yellow choller and rebateth venerous aâ—d fleshly heat and is good to be sodden and drunke in hoate burning Agues though this hearbe be commonly knowen and counted of many as a vile weede yet it is reported of Dioscorides to be an excellent hearbe Ioh. What is Spynnage Hum. An hearbe much vsed in meate colde and moist in the first degree it mollifieth and maketh softe the belly it is good for them that be hote and drie and ill for fleugmatike men Ioh. What is Cucumbers Hum. They be truely in the seconde degree very moist and colde The seedes be good to be giuen in hote sickenesses the powder of the said seedes drunke in cleane wine is good against diuers passions of the heart this fruit wil cause one to make water well the roote dried in powder therof drunken in water and hony prouoketh vomite if they be moderately eaten they bring good blood tempered with hony and annointe the eies that helpeth a disease called Epinictidas which troubleth men with strange sightes in the nightes the best of this fruit is which beareth the best seedes the sauour of that is not holsome mellons citrons pompons and this kinde of pepons or great apples be much vsed in England and are more common than profitable because they vse to eate them raw English men being borne in a temperate region inclining to colde may not without hurt eate rawe herbs rootes and frutes plentifull as many men which be borne far in the South partes of the world which bee most hote of stomacke therefore let them eate these fruites boiled or baked with hony and pepper and fennell seedes or such like there be an other hote kind of bitter cucumers which do purge Ioh. What is garlike Hum. Garlike is very hote and drie in the fourth degree it troubleth the stomacke it is hurtfull to the eies and head it encreaseth drienesse but it will prouoke vrine and is good to be laied vppon the biting of a snake or adder it is good for the emeroids applied to the sore place being first stamped if it be sodden the stinke is taken from it but the vertue remaineth to be eaten against the coughes and paines in the lungs it cutteth and consumeth corrupt fleugme and bringeth sleepe It is not good for hote men nor women with childe or nurces giuing milke to children but Galen calleth it the common peoples treacle if sanguine men do eate much of it it will make them to haue red faces but it is a speciall remedy against poison Ioh. What is onions Hum. They doe make thin the blood and bring sleepe they be not good for chollericke men the long onion is more vehementer than the round and the red more than the white the drie more than the greene and the rawe more vehementer than the sodden or preserued in salt although they doe cause steepe very painefull and
troublous hoate in the third degree and warme in the stomacke clenseth the stomacke and bringeth good colour vnto the face and helpeth the greene sickenesse prouoketh vrine openeth the emeroides If they bee sodden in vineger and laide warme to them peele off the rinde and cutte it at both the endes and cast it into a faire warme water and let it lie an houre or two and then slice it this taketh away the vehement sharpenesse of of it Rew Salt Hony and one onion stamped together is a goodly plaister to lay vppon the biting of a dogge leekes doe purge the blood in March and paine the head and be not greatly praised for their ill iuyce A doge saieth Dioscorides the head being annoynted with the iuyce thereof keepeth haire from falling there is much varietie of this onion amongest writers saieth Plinie but this shall suffise Iohn What is Lettice Humfrey It doth mightily encrease milke in womens breasts and therefore is called Lettice as Martiall saieth first shall be giuen to the vertue and power to encrease milke in the breastes euery houre Lettice is a hearb colde and moist and is comfortable for a hote stomacke bringeth sleepe mollifieth the belly the drier it be eaten the better it is I meane if it be not much washed in water adding thereunto some cleane Salleâ— Oyle Sugar and Uineger it abateth carnall lust and much vse of it dulleth the sight the seede of it is very precious There is an hearbe called Rocked gentle which partely smelleth like a Foxe the which is very hote an encreaser of seede which hearb must alwayes be eaten with Lettis The roote thereof sodden in water will drawe broken bones and will helpe the cough in yoong children Iohn What be mintes Humfrey Mintes be of two kindes garden and wilde mintes they be hote vnto the third and doe drie in the second degree Garden mint is best the poulder of this with the iuice of Pomegranates stoppeth vomites helpeth sighing cleanseth hote choller Three branches of this sodden with wine doeth helpe repletion drunke fasting This iuice tempered with good triacle and eaten of children in mornings will kill wormes and stamped with salt applie it to the biting of a dogge and it will heale it It is wholesome sodden with windy meates and sodden in posset ale with fennell it helpeth the collicke it encreaseth vitall seede It is not best for chollericke complexions but good for fleugmatike and indifferent for melancholy and it will stoppe blood stamped and applied to the place The iuyce of mintes is best to mingle in medicine against poison the poulder of Mintes is good in pottage to helpe disgestion and to make sweete breath Iohn What is fennell Humfrey It hath power to warme in the third degree and drie and maketh sweete the breath the seede eaten oftentimes vpon an empty stomacke doeth helpe the eie sight the rootes cleane washed be very wholesome in pottage and are good in tisants the greene or redde tufts growing vpon the stalkes sodden in wine pottage or ale helpeth the bladder the reines and breaketh the stone encreaseth milke in womens breastes and seede of generation It is good for to vse Endiue or such like with it because it is very hote and good in Barbars baâ—hs washing water and with balme sauerie It is good to wash ones feete to bedward the sirrope is very wholsome it helpeth a fleugmatike stomacke Iohn What is Hisope Hum. An hearb commonly knowen growing in gardens and hote in the third degree it hath vertues to make humors thinne and warme sodden with figges rew and hony in cleane water and drunk it greatly helpeth the sickenesse in the lungs olde cough and rotten humours dropping vpon the lungs sodden with erius and graines of paradise called the Cardamon it mightily purgeth and bringeth good colour Figges salt Nitrum and Isope stamped together and applied to the splene helpeth it much and taketh away the water that runnes between the skinne and the flesh sodden with Oximel it cleanseth fleugme Iohn What is Sention Hum. It is of a mixt temperament it cooleth and partly clenseth if it be chopped and sodden in water and drinke it with your pottage it will heale the griefe of the stomacke and purge it from hote choller his downe with saffron and colde water stamped and put in the eies it will dry the running droppes and stamped plaister wise it helpeth many greeuous woundes Ioh. What is Pursleine Hum. Colde in the third and moist in the second if it be stamped with steeped barly it maketh a goodly plaister to coole the head eies and liuer in agues burning heate To eate of it stoppeth flixes and quencheth burning choller and extinguish venerous lust and greatly helpeth the reines and bladder and will kill round wormes in the belly and comfort the matrixe against much fleugme And the iuice is good to drinke in hote feuers it may be preserued with salt and then it is very good with rosted meates Plinie saieth it is supposed to make the sight blunt and weake further hee saieth that in Spaine a great noble man whome hee did knowe did hang this pursleine roote in a threede commonly about his necke which was much troubled of a long sicknesse and was healed Ioh. What is mugwort Hum. Mugwoort and fetherfoy and tansey be very hote and drie in the second degree Muggewoorte Spurge and the oyle of Almondes tempered plaisier-wise and applied colde vnto the sicke pained stomacke will bring health It is good in baths saieth Galen it is wholsome for women it cleanseth and warmeth and comforteth and breaketh the stone Plinie saieth It is good against serpents and wholesome for trauailing men if they carry it it comforteth them from wormes Tansey doeth mightily cast woormes from children drunke with wine A colde plaister stamped and laied vppon the belly of a woman whose childe is dead within her it will separate the dead childe from the liuing mother causing her to neese with betony leaues Iohn There is an hearbe commonly vsed to the great reliefe of very many called Cabbage is it so good as it is reported of Humfrey Cabage is of two properties of binding the belly and making laxatiue the iuyce of cabages lightly boiled in fresh beefe broth is laxatiue but the substance of this hearb is hard of disgestion but if it be twise sodden the broth of it will also binde the belly if it be tempered with allum This herb hath vertue to cleanse a new red leprosie laid on the sore place in the maner of a plaister But to conclude of this hearbe the broth of it hath vertue to preserue from drunkenes as Aristotle Rasis and Auicen do report eaten before drinking time Ioh. What is Philopendula Hum. It is an hearbe hot and drie if it be sodden in white wine drunk It drieth vp windy places in the guttes and clenseth the raines in the backe and bladder Ioh. What is Agremonie Hum.
taken Preserued olifes in salt eaten at the beginning of meales doe greatly fortifie the stomacke and relaxe the belly cleanse the liuer and are hote and dry in the second degrée Ioh. I beseech thee shew thy opinion of the natures of some kind of flesh and first of the properties of beefe Hum. I will not vndertake to shew mine opinion to thy request but I wil declare the mindes of some wise and learned men first of Simeon Sethi which sayth that the flesh of oxen that be yong doe much nourish and make them strong that be fed with them but it bringeth melancholy and melancholious diseases it is colde and drie of nature and hard to digest except it bée of cholericke persons but béeing tenderly sodden it nourisheth much Much béefe customably eaten of idle persons and nice folkes that labour not bringeth many diseases as Rasis saith And as Auicen saieth that the flesh of Oxen or Kine be verie grosse ingendring ill iuise in y e body Whereof oftentimes come to scabs cankers biles but vnto hot strong cholericke stomackes it is tollerable and may be vsed as wee haue the dayly experience thereof The broath wherin béefe hath béene sodden is good to be supped halfe a pint euery morning agaynst the flixe of the bellie and running foorth of yellowe choler if the sayde broth be tempered with salt mustard Ueneger or Garlicke c. bée commonly vsed for the sawces to digest béefe withall for the saide sawces doe not onely helpe disgestion but also defendeth the bodie from sundrie inconueniences and diuerse sicknesses as dropsies quartains leprosies and such like The gall of an Oxe or a Cowe distilled in the Month of Iune and kept in a close Glasse doeth helpe to cleanse the eyes from spots if you put a droppe of this water with a fether into your eies when ye go to bed The mylt of a Bull dryed and the powder thereof drunke with red wine will stoppe the bloudie flixe Light powdered yong béefe is better than either fresh or much powdered In specially those Cattell that be fedde in faire and drie Pastures and not in stinking fennes The great learned man Gesnerus in his description of beastes doeth write more of the vertues of Bulles Oxen Kine and Calues than anie other hath done And thus to conclude the flesh of the male beastes is more better than the Female and the gelded beastes be more commodious to nature than any of them And the yong flesh more commendable than the olde for it is more moyst and a friend to the bloud as Haliabas saith Rosted flesh doeth nourish the bodie much for it is warme and moyst Baked meates be very drie Cleane boiled meates with wholsom hearbs and fruits be excellent to comfort the bodie if they bee nutramentall flesh Calues flesh doe greatly nourish and make good blood Ioh. Thou hast said well of beefe but what goodnesse may bee reported of porke I thinke verie little or nothing Hum. There be many goodly commodities in the flesh of Bores gelded swine and pigges for they be good for mans nature Ioh. For mans nature that is maruell For how can those bee good for mans nature which bee so vile of their owne nature Their foule feeding of most stinking filth and carion The noysome wallowing in the myre and durt the eating of their owne pigges and oftentimes pulling children out of the cradle for their dinners if the good wife be not at home Who is able to beholde such noysome spirites or helhounds Did not almightie God commaund the Iewes to eate none of them and the Mahomets at this day will kill that man that eateth of their flesh why should we then commend them for they are most vile Hum. All the ancient and wisest phisitions that euer were in this world did all consent that of al flesh the flesh of yong gelded swine partly salted or powdered was euer a meate of the best nourishing moysture and colder than other flesh for Isaack sayeth it is flesh verie moyst except it bee the flesh of lambes as Galen reporteth Yet it is not good to euerie complexion nor euerie age but vnto youth and middle age Whereas thou hast spoken agaynst the vile nature of swine calling them vnreasonable thou dost vse more words than wit for there is no beast that may bee called reasonable but man only And wheras God did prohibite the Iewes to eate swines flesh it was a figure to abstain from vncleane things which I leaue to the Theologians The Mahumites abhorre swines flesh because their drunken false prophet and Psewdo Apostle was torne and rent in péeces with swine being drunken and fallen in the myre So the one must giue credence to time and to learned Physitions The bloud of swine doeth nourish much as it is séene in Puddings made with great Otemeale swéete sewet and Fennell or Annis séedes Pigges be verie moyst therefore Sage Pepper and Salt doe drie vp the superfluous humours of them when they bee rosted They bée not wholsome to be eaten before they be thrée wéekes olde The Tripes and Guts bee wholsomer and doe nourish better than any other beasts guts or in-meates Bacon is verie hard of digestion and much discommended and is hurtfull Onelie vnto a hote cholericke labouring bodie the fleshe of a Bore is more wholesomer than the flesh of any Sow The braines of a Bore and his stones or any part of them stamped together and laide warme vpon a pestilente sore in the maner of a plaister it will breake it incontinent Swines grease is verie colde and good to annoynt burning hote places of the bodie or a disease called saint An tonies fire and thus much haue I spoken of swine Ioh. I pray you tell me of the flesh of the Rammes Weathers and Lambs and how profitable they are to mans nature Hum. Simeon Sethi sayth Lambes flesh is partly warme but superfluous moist and euill for fleugmaticke persons and doeth much harme to them that haue the dropsie boneache or a disease called Epiolus which is spiâ—ting of fleugme like glasse Therefore if lambes flesh were sodden as it is rosted it would bring many diseases vnto the bodie without it were sodden with wine and some hote Groceries hearbes or rootes When a Wether is two yeares olde which is fed vpon a good ground the flesh thereof shall bée temperate and nourish much Hippocrates sayth that the lambe of a yeare olde doth nourish much Galen séemeth not greatlie to commende Mutton but that which is tender swéete and not olde is verie profitable as experience and custome doth dayly teach vs. The dung tallow and wooll be verie profitable in medicines as Plini sayeth And Conradus Gesnerus de animalibus and Galen in his third booke de alimentis Io. What is the flesh of goats or kids Hum. They be beasts verie hurtful vnto yong trées and plants but Simeon Sethi saieth that
good collours And this haue I proued it helpeth crampes and sickenesse in the sinewes being drunke in wyne sodden with sage it helpeth the splene the liuer and raines and will clense the secret termes of women and augmenteth naturall seede Ioh. What is ginger Hum. It is hot in the third degree and moist in the end of the first if it be vncollered White and not rotten it is verie good most chiefly if it be conserued and greene as Mesua saith it maketh warme a colde stomacke and consumeth windes helpeth euill disgestion and maketh meate goe easely downe into the stomacke Ioh. What is Setwall Hum. Hot and drie in the second degree and is good if the pouder thereof be drunke is most of effect against the pestilence except Methridatum It is good against poison winde chollericke and colde passions of the heart and doeth restraine vomites The weight of eight graines doth suffice to be drunke in ale or wine vpon an empty stomacke Iohn What is sinamon Humf. Dioscorides saieth there bee many kindes of sinamon but generally their vertue is this to helpe dropsies windes or stopping of the liuer and is hote and drie in the third degree Iohn What is Cassia Fistula Seneca and Rewbarb Humfrey Cassia Fistula if the cane be heauie and the Cassia within blacke and shining that is good Cassia if this bee drawen newe out of the cane halfe an ounce or more at one time and mingled with suger and eaten of a fasting stomacke in the morning it hath power to purge choller to cleanse the raines of the backe it will fret and consume the stone it purgeth very easily and is pleasant in taking and may bee taken of children weake women and sicke men in the time of their feuers the accesse of their fittes excepted Reubarbe doeth purge yellow choler by himselfe two or three drammes may be taken or a little more so that there be a dram of Spikenard or Sinamon put vnto it In Summer to drinke it with whey in Winter with white wine but the cleane yellowe rubarbe sliced and put into infusion al the night with whey white wine or endiue water and streyne it in the morning doth greatly purge the blood and liuer thrée or foure drams with Spikenard a dram or more Séeny Alexandria if it be sodden in the broath of a cocke or a henne doeth purge the bloud and melancholie verie gentlie and comfort the heart One ounce of the cleane small leaues of séeny without cods or stalkes halfe a quarter of one ounce of ginger twelue cloues finkle séede two drammes or else two drams of Sinamon tartar halfe a dram beaten al together in powder these do purge the head mightily to be taken before supper the weight of one dram in a little white wine Ioh. I would bee glad to learne the vertue of Aloes Hum. There be two kinds of Aloes one is named Succo trina which is like a liuer cleare brittle bitter coloured betwéene red and yellow this is best for medicines A little of this being tempered with Rose water being put vnto the eies helpeth the dropping and watery eyes Also it is put in many excellent medicines laxatiue as saffron myrrhe aloes mingled together In the forme of pilles is the most excellent medicine against the pestilence as it is written in this booke folowing Honie and aloes mingled togither doe take away the markes of stripes and also doth mundifie sores vlcers it doeth cleanse the abundance of choler fleugme from the stomacke It is not good to be taken in Winter for Auicen doeth forbid it but in the spring time or haruest the powder thereof The weight of a french crown mingled with the water of honie or mead and so drunke in the morning it doth cleanse both choler and fleugme There is another grosse aloes which is good for horse tempred with ale and ministred aswell to other great beasts as horses the weight of half an ounce and thus much haue I sayd of aloes but if aloes be cleane washed it is the wholsomer many vnwashed aloes wil cause emerodes Ioh. Is the saffron that groweth in England as good as that that come from the other side of the sea Hum. Our English hony saffron is bâ—tter than any that commeth from any other strange or forrein land But to thy question of saffron it hath vertue either in bread or pottage to make the heart glad it warmeth the body it preserueth from druÌ„kennes drunke in ale or wine prouoketh acts venerous iuduceth sléepe purgeth vrine Myrre aloes saffron make an excellent pill against the pestilence 2. peny weight of saffron pouder rosted with the yolk of an egge very hard the said yolke beaten in powder 12 graines drinke in mornings is good against the pestilence saffron planten and iuory sodden The decoction drinke helpeth the yellow iaundeys it is drie in the first degrée and hath vertue to restraine Ioh. We plaine men in the country dwel farre from great cities our wiues and children be often sick and at deaths doore wee can not tell what shift to make wee haue no acquaintance with the apothecaries coÌ„monly we send for aqua vitae or malmesey whatsoeuer our diseases be these be our common medicines or else we send for a box of triacle and when these medicins faile vs we cause a great posset to be made and drink vp the drink thinkest thou these medicines to be good Hum. For lacke of medicine God helpeth the people oftentimes by myracle or else a great number of men should perish But because the almightie God hath couered the whole face of the earth with many precious simples whereof rich coâ—positions bee made therefore bee neither so rude nor barbarous to thinke these medicines good that thou hast rehearsed for all diseases although not hurtfull to some but because many doe receyue more mischiefe than medicine in counterfeite triacles I shall rehearse vnto thee what Valerius Cordus and others doe write vpon the vertue of the precious triacle called Methridatum Ioh. I would be glad to heare of that precious triacle and his vertues Hum. This excellent triacle Methridatum is next in qualitie and vertue to Theriaca and so differ but little but onely Theriacha is a little hotter and stronger against venom of snakes adders and serpents It helpeth all paines of the head of men or women if it be come of cold most chiefly of melaÌ„cholie and feare It helpeth megrime falling sicknes and all paines of the forehead dropping of eyes It helpeth toothake paines of the mouth chéekes if it be put in maner of a plaister or else annoint the pained place It helpeth paines of the throte called Squinancie and also cough appoplexia and passion of the lunges and manie grieuous dolors and pains within the bodie drunke with the decoction of the flowers of Pomgranats or Plantine it helpeth and stoppeth flixes in the Ilias and long guts winds or collicke The extention or cramps be
of saffron mingled with a little swéete wine tempered in a very small vessell vpon the coles vntill it be partlie thicke or els incorporate altogither in a morter then roll them vp in small round pils vse to swallow half a dram of these pils two times a wéeke in the pestileÌ„ce time a mornings thrée hours before meate Another medicine tormentill gentian setwell of each one dram spikenarde drams 2. nasticke drams 3. bole armin drams 8. giue 2. drams to the patient or any that feare the plague in the water of Scabeas or Carduus Benedictus then drinke the broath of a chicken or pure wine to ripe the sore rost a great onion take out the core put in triacle and warme apply it to the place thrée or four times renued warme and oyle Oliue blacke sope sowre leauen lillie rootes of each like quantitie boyled together put in the inice of Rew and make a plaister this will breake the said sore Capons grease yolkes of egs swines grease barlie floure inséede in powder incorporated together wil make a good healing playster Emplastrum diachilon magnum descriptione filij Zacharia doth resolue and quench the hot vlcer But in the time of the plague trust not vrines FINIS The Epilogue HEre I haue presented vnto thee gentle reader a simple Gouernment of health beseeching thee most heartily for to accept it as an argument of my good will as one vnfeynedly that greatly doe couet the good estate and happie health of mankinde which by dayly casualties surfets and age do decay and fall into many grieuous and painfull sicknesses For which cause although perhaps I cannot in all points answer to thy request in this little Regiment yet I shall desire thee to accept mee among the fellowship of the botchers which do helpe to repaire things that fall into ruine or decay Euen so bee the practitioners of phisicke no makers of men but when men doe decay through sicknesse then the counsell of the Phisition and the vertue of medicin is not to bee refused but most louingly to bee embraced as a chiefe friend in the time of aduersitie if thou readest this little booke and obserue it I trust it will pay as much as it doth promise And because I am a yong man I would not presume to take such a matter in hand although the wordes bee fewe but did consiliate and gather things together which of my selfe I haue practised and also read and noted in the workes of Hippocrates Galen Auicen Plinie Haliabas Auenzoer Rasis Dioscorides Leonhardus Futchius Conradus Gesnerus c. And thus I leaue thee to the companie of this my little booke wishing thee health and all them that shall reade it William Bullein Codrus Mydas Cap. 3â— Nestor Galen Arganton The Epicure desireth to liue altogither in bellie cheere Haeliogabalus court fit for belly gods The iust ceward of belly gods The fruites of inordinate banquets Uarietie of opinions among men An obiection against physicke God the authour of physicke The inestimable goodnes of God ordained hearbes for the health of man Salomon Eccle. 36. The praise and excellencie of phisicke Moises Adam Iesus Sirack cap. 38. Diodoro Test. Ouid. Meramor Chiron centaurus Podalirius Machaon Hippocrates Gallenuâ— Hippocrates in lib. de fla A definicion of physicke Hippocrates in primo Aphoris Theoricha Herodot Emperic Philinus Serapion Apolonii Methodici Asclepiades Dogmatici Hippocrates Galen de elemen de temp de facul Phisicke deuided into fiue partes Gal. lib â— de temp cap 4. Gal. in lib. 2 The 〈◊〉 methâ— The description of sanguine persons The description of the fleugmatike persons The description of the cholericks The description of Melancholie Hippocrates de Element Auic in cauteca The description of the .iiii. Elements Galen in li. 8. 〈◊〉 Hippocrates in lib. de na Ereaturs are compounded of more elements then one Elements felt and not seene Hippocrat in lib. de Natura humana Winter Spring Summer Haruest Auic in pâ—â— can Meates and medicine be knowne bâ—â—asting Colde Moist Salt Auic in pri â—ract â—antico Gal. lib. 1. cap. 2. lib. 2. cap. 3. lib. 4. cap. vlt. Sim. Med. Gal. lib. 5. Aphor. commen 9. An earnest briefe exhortation for the bringing vp of youth Galen in lib. Simp. The best time to prouide for age The foure humours naturall and vnnaturall are described Auicen in lib. can Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Galen in lib. 4. de tempor Arist. de Gene. Auicen Whether this be true let the married iudge Euery thing bringing his apparell with him sauing man A definition of members A part is called by the name of the whole and not the whole by the part What Annothomie is Foure things considered in the bodie of man Example Dropsy Helping the Emorodes Thereaca is an excellent triacle Use to eat Caâ—ers and take Pillule Iude Haly oâ— pillule de lapide Lazule Miracle helpeth but no medicine in this case Time for all things Hippo. in â— Affor 3. Aristot. in pri prob 56. Auic in 2. pri doct 2. cap. 6. Galen in lib. de flobothomia Rasis in 4. alman cap. 14. Rasis in 4. allmen cap. 14. The middle â—eyâ—e Hip. in 3. pri doct 2. cap. Vsurpation in medicine is euill In the morning is best to let bloud euill toward night Rasis in 4. alman cap. 15. Meates and medicines greeth not except pilsâ— before supper Time to purge Digges Kenningham Vomits and their profits Hip. Sent. in 4. Aphoris Custome of vomit weakneth the stomacke Auicen in 4. Pri. cap. 13. Of bathes and their properties The discommoditie of common hote houses To vse oyntments after bathings is good To bathe vpon an empty stomacke is perilous Of neesing Of suppositers Boxing doth much good to the bodye I will speake more of Glisters in my booke of healthful medicines Many practitioners of actes venerous Beasts and birdes vse frictions and â—â—nning them selues The profit which coÌ„meth in washing the handes with cold water Hot water is holsome to wash hands in Frication is holsom for the body Combing the head Cutting of haire and paring of nayles be comly for men A consideration to be had in eating and drinking A cause why the soule departeth from the body To eate both fish and flesh together hurteth the flegmatick Galen Hippocrates To féede of diuerse sorts of meats corrupteth the bodie Eccle. 27. A good diet prolongeth life What kinde of meates doe cause good blood What hurt commeth of an emptie stomacke when ye go to bed An order of dieting Galen me trite The Melancholie The Sanguine An order for the dieting of such as bee sicke of sharpe feners Of syrops and drinkes As the complexion is so man requireth The .iii. doctrine The .vii. chap. Moderat walk after meat â—rofiteth Galen in 6. de accedenti morbo i. cap. Auice in 13 theo 3. tract 3. cap. To helpe disgestion by diuers waies Hipo. in secundo Prim. doc 3. ca. 6 Haec signa declarant Note which