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A59200	The sixth book of Practical physick Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick	Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing S2541A; ESTC R221050	55,611	126

These are specifick Organ given in Vinegar and honied Wine Li●ivium of Vine ashes or Fig-tree ashes with sweet Wine and Treacle or Mithridate from half a dram to two drams in Sa●k Chap. 2. Of Vitriol AMong Salts we reckon Vitriol Chalcitis Misy Sory Melanteria it participates of the nature of Brass or Iron and mineral Clay this is not properly poyson for good medicines are made of it in which there are no signs of venom and if it be given a dram with Honey it kils the flat worms and with water it is the Antidote against Mushrooms The Symptoms and Signs It causeth loathing and vomiting and corrodes the stomach except it be perfectly cast up it torments the guts and causeth a Dysentery and great thirst Let it be presently vomited up with the Decoction or Oyl of Dill or Wormwood water after vomiting take much Butter or warm Milk with Sugar if there be a gnawing in the guts give Clysters of Barley water Mallows and oyl of Roses If you suspect malignity give Earth of Lemnos or sealed Earth with mucilage of Quince seeds a dram with Barley water or red Coral with Wine Chap. 4. Of Aqua fortis THis kils by corroding rather then by poyson it is used by Gold-smiths to seperate and corrode metals Symptoms and Signs It pierceth so that it burns the tongue like fire and corrodes the tunicles of the Stomach and Guts a Maid died by it in great torment The mucilage of Quince seeds is good for it lenifies and keeps the parts from corrosion by its sliminess Or the eclegma of the mucilage of Althaea and Quince seeds Gum traganth made with Rose water Honey of Roses and Violets Or a Gargarism of Quince seed Althaea Cowcumber seed Roses Violets and Moulin and of Self-heal Lungwort Sanicle boyled in water with Honey of Roses By this a Mariner was cured when he had dangerous symptoms from Aqua fortis Chap. 5. Of Antimony ANtimony is reckoned by many among poysons from its moving of such horrible vomiting of water and because it leaves such great weakness after it but good medicines are made of it though it be not free from malignity as appears by the vapors that fly from it when it is melted The Signs and Symptoms For when the Chymists melt it if the vapor be taken in at the nose it causeth Suffocation Palsie and Epilepsie and other symptoms If it be taken crude it causeth Vomiting Convulsion Colicks and fainting To keep evil vapors from hurting such as use Antimony let them eat Bread and Rue Or take Bezoat water with Bole. Or this Take Walnuts a handful beat them with Honey add Treacle an ounce Zedoary half an ounce Clov●● Nutmeg each two drams with Honey make an Electuary this is a preservative and it may be used to anoint the nostrils If it be given crude or ill prepared it causeth evil symptomes then give Bailey water with syrup of Roses to clense and clensing Clysters then strengthen the Guts and Stomach with Wine wherein Cloves and Mastich is boyled the Antidotes are Treacle and Bole Armeniack two scruples Chap. 6. Of the Load-stone SOme reckon the Loadstone among poysons others say it makes people youthful but that I believe not because it is a mineral and hath the nature of a metal and if it lie long in the body you must do as hath been shewed in other cases as if it stop in the Stomach vomit if in the Guts use lenitive Clysters and then give Antidote as the Smaragd to be drank in Wine thrice in nine daies with Harts-horn and Coral Also Treacle is good Chap. 7. Of the Diamond THere is the same reason for the Diamond as for the Loadstone of which we spake but there are more that think it not to be poyson of this we spake Lib. 3. Part 2. Sect. 2. Ch. 7 Quest. 2. now I shal speak of the Symptoms and Cure of such as have taken Diamonds into their bodies Signs and Symptomes After taking Diamonds there is a vehement pain in the Stomach and Guts and then follows fainting and death It is by vomiting as the other then give Goats blood with fat Broath and then from a scruple to two drams of natural Balsom and if these prevail not use the general Antidotes Chap. 8. Of Lapis Lazuli MAny say that Lapis Lazuli burneth and ulcerates and putresies it is therefore not to be reckoned among things that are simply poyson but among those Purgers that are not without malignity because they are vehement The Arabians say it purgeth melancholy strengtheneth and cleereth and therefore it is put into Confection Alkermes but then it must be wel prepared Symptoms and Signs This Stone not wel prepared or taken in too great a quantity causeth turning of the Stomach Vomiting want of appetite and pain of the belly sadness and Sorrow It is cured as other corroding poyson by Vomits and clensing emollient Clysters The corroding quality is taken away by Asses milk warm drunk for seven daies together Two drams of Amber is the Bezoar or Antidote against this Stone Chap. 9. Of Arsenick Orpiment Sandarach and Realgar or Ratsbane Arsenick both natural and artificial yellow and red is of the same faculty Yellow Arseni●k and Sandarach by sublimation make white Arsenick or Ratsbane Realgal and Risagallum are made of Orpiment and Sulphur with quick Lime and Salt Signs and Symptoms All the kinds of Arsenick bring grievous symptomes which kill presently except they be opposed as griping of belly and guts vomiting unquenchable thirst driness of tongue jaws and throat and roughness and then Dysentery and stoppage of urin Cramp and Palsie and Death the white Arsenick is most dangerous Histories confirm that Arsnick doth not only destroy by being taken in but hurts by being carried about Therefore they that have taken it are in great danger or they that handle it carelesly or apply it to cure the itch or for other causes for they either die or run mad or have a Cachexy Provoke Vomit presently and often with fat things and such as obtund or allay the sharpness of the poyson as Butter with warm water or decoction of Turnep seeds Arrage with fresh Butter oyl of Linseed or Roses or other fat broath in great quantity If the belly be griped give Clysters of Mallows Althaea Violets Vervain Line seed with Cassea and oyl of Violets or of fat Broath cream of P●isan Asses milk and mucilage of Fleabane seed And after give Milk in great quantity and Butter and oyl of sweet Almonds fat Broath Rice boyled in Milk The specifick Antidotes against Arsenick are a dram of pouder of Crystal with oyl of sweet Almonds or three drams of oyl of Pine kernels Or Take Pine nuts beaten four ounces infuse them in a pint of water strain and give it to be drank Or give ten grains of oriental Bez●a● Chap. 10. Of Brass and its Verdigreece and

because his poyson is not in the first qualities But the Serpents communicate poyson to men divers waies 1. By a horrid look that frights them and by a deadly bite 2. By Spittle 3. By breath though they touch not but by a Medium as a Spear 4. By touch only without biting as Gesner writes Hist 1. 4. of the poyson of German Darts 5. Their blood poysons when they are cut or wounded Moreover they creep in at the mouth when people lie sleeping The Symptoms and Signs There is from the biting of a Serpent a tumor pain and heat in the part first good blood flows out then matter or serum that stinks the face is yellow and blew after two or three daies the whole body is whiter and the hair fals off and commonly they die on the fou●th day Also many die that are poysoned by breath when a part is infected by spittle or blood there are red spots and the flesh is corroded First let the part be bound hard above the bite and the part bitten be s●a●i●ied deep and c●pped to draw out the blood and poyson then wash the wound with spirit of Wine with Treacle and Mithridate dissolved in it or apply yong Pigeons split to the part or Fi●s or Garlick bruised or Serpents grease ● or the head of the Serpent bruised or the gall of the Serpent which is best Also in the mean time give Antidotes and provoke sweat with Treacle and Mithridate Some give Strawberry roots and leaves and Pauls Bettony boyled in Wine or a dram of Castor with cardus-Cardus-water Or Take Gentian long Birthwor● Bayberries Myrrh each two drams bitter Costus Rue each a dram Spike two scruples Saffron a scruple make a pouder and with Honey an Electuary give a dram or two keep the Patient from deep sleep least the spirits being drawn in the poysō go with them If poyson be from breath do accordingly If any part be infected by spittle or blood sprinkle this pouder often upon it Take herb Cancer gathered in June an ounce and half Ashes of a Mole an ounce two Snakes skins make a pouder sprinkle it often upon the part If a Serpent get in at the mouth or be in the Guts or Stomach you must tempt him out with the vapor of sweet milk and he wil come up by the Gullet if the Patient bend forward with his head down when he is in the Guts give a decoction of Ash roots small Centaury Carduus Wormwood and Scordi●m and other bitter herbs and Clyster of warm milk Chap. 3. Of the Aspi● or Adder VVHether he be hot or cold I shall not argue for he hurts by an occult quality the wound is no bigger then that made with a needle yet it kills a man presently with little pain and he kills not only by biting but by spittle Gal●n writes ●hus The Adder called Ptyas lifts up his neck and with a pause as if he were rational without any fear spits venom upon you Symptoms and Signs They who are bitten by an Adder have heaviness of head dim sight dull senses astonishment slowness sleepiness pale faces chilness of body cramp convulsion and die in three hours time except they have remedies The symptoms that follow the spitting of a Viper are the same but more gentle The Swallow-Adder kills presently the Earthy Adder kills in three hours and the Ptyas or spitting Adder kills slower or at longer distance Draw the poyson out at the wound by ligatures and Scarifications and apply green Centaury bruised with Mirth or Treacle beaten with Rue or a clout dipt in Spurge milky juyce Give Treacle also Or Take round Birthwort Gentian each a dram Rue two pugils Castor Cassia Lignea each two drams Anise Citron seeds peeled ea●h a dr●m and half make a Pouder give a s●ruple or a dram with Wine or Vinegar If the par● be spit upon wash it with spirit of Wine and Treacle Let them that are bitten by Adders sleep little Chap. 4. Of Cerastes TH●s Serpent hath two horns like a Snail the ●ound he makes is not painful but deadly by the violent poyson though it continue nine daies Symptoms and Signs There is a tumor like a nail and matter comes out at the wound pale or black there are blew pustles and somtimes the whole body is blew the lips swel the mind is troubled the strength fails the yard stands and Death follows If it may be the best way is to cut off the member hurt otherwise cut off the flesh about the p●rt scarifie and cup and wash it with spirit of Wine and Treacle Or use a Cataplasm of Orobus meal Squils Figs Garlick Salt and Pitch give things internal as before Chap. 5. Of Haemorrhous THe name signifies a flux of blood and he gives a deadly wound which is known by a violent flux to be from him for the wound doth not only bleed or the Haemorrhoids Nose Womb but the Ears and corners of the Eyes the Gums the roots o● the Nails the mouth by vomit and coughing and all the p●res of the body as Lucan shews The Veins in all the members are full found And all the body is but one great wound Also the part bitten is black and there is great pain at the stomach difficulty of breathing the voice is stopt the teeth fall out and at length they faint and die There is little hope therefore take off the member if it may be or cup and scarifie or burn the part or use a Pultis of Vine leaves boyled in Honey and Purslane with Bran. Apply medicines to stanch blood As Tormentil Shepheards-purse Purslane Plantane Bole sealed Earth Bloodstone with a little Treacle Or use Garlick Treacle Raisons and Raspberries or Bramble berries Chap. 6. Of Dipsas THey that are bitten by this have a great thirst and all parts are inflamed and though they drink much they find it not quenched Because the uretery passages are dried up and the drink cannot pass but lies in the cavity of the belly so that it breaks to the Groyns and the Patient dies thirsting It is as that of other Serpents only give Diureticks also of the cold seeds and opening roots Restharrow Chervil Shepheards-purse Peach kernels Barley and the like and Clysters to purge water see Aetius Chap. 7. Of Amphisbena and Scytale THese Serpents are so like that they are scarce to be distinguished only Amp●ishena moves forward and backward but ●●●tale only forward both hurt the same way with a very little wound which makes inflammation pain and redness and somtimes an Imposthume and other symptoms like those of a Viper See the cure of the biting of a Viper Chap. 8. Of a Basilisk GAlen in his Book of Treacle to Piso c. 8. describes him thus He is a S●rpent a little yellow with tumors in his head and kils those that see or hear him when he hisseth and if any creature touch him when he is dead it dieth

the sight and hearing stinking breath and ulcers of the mouth and the like as the Quicksilver doth produce Precipitate causeth the same but worse and Sublimate the worst of all and by its touch like fire it destroys whatsoever is near with inflamation burning of tongue and swelling of the mouth fainting stoppage of urin difficult breath bloody-flux and death Some vomit first I think it best to purge first for if it rise upwards it is easily divided into smal parts and so cannot be expelled by vomit therfore purge strongly First give a Clyster of Hiera picra Oyl of Hydromel and Hens grease Then purge and give filings of Gold or Leaf-gold or Costus with Wine juyce of Burnet or three drams of Mirrh with Honey Wine after it When the fume of Quicksilver is taken in at the nose or mouth give Sage or Zedoary water Sweat in a hot House and rub the parts that are weak with a bag of Sage Groundpine Bettony Lavender and Iuniper-berries boyled in Wine If Sublimate or Precipitate be taken they are cured as corroding poysons by Vomit Clysters and new Milk with Fleabane seeds The pouder of Cristal is the Antidote against Quicksilver a dram with Oyl of sweet Almonds or Oyl of Tartar or two drams of Salt of Wormwood Strengthen the heart with Diamargariton frigid and de Gemmis If urin be stopt as it is often use a Bath of hot Water for the Pecten with a Spunge wet in the Decoction of Iuniper berries and Smallage seed And anoint after with Oyl of Rue or Iuniper Chap. 18. Of Cinnabar I Speak of that Cinnabar which is made of Quicksilver and Sulphur sublimed and is common The Symptoms caused by it are the same with those of Quicksilver Fernel in his Book of the Pox Chap. 7. and Schenk●us in his 7. Book of Observations speak of it from the relation of Dr. Iohn Physitian ●amic Cure it as Quicksilver for the same Symptoms require the same helps Spodium is held the best Antidote against Cinnabar made of burnt Ivory and given two drams Others say Spodium of Cane roots two drams is better Also the other Antidotes mentioned in the former Chapter are good THE SEVENTH PART Of Poysons from Plants Chap. 1. Of Opium I SHALL speak of four things cōcerning Opium 1. Whether Opium may truly be reckoned among poysons 2. Whether it be hot or cold whether it cause sleep or do hurt by manifest or occult qualities 3. What are the signs and Symptoms of Opium taken in 4. How they are to be cured that have taken too much Opium And how Opium may be corrected that it may be a profitable medicine The learnedest Writers say it is poyson The new juyce of the black Poppy being crude and not corrected must be counted a poyson For experience shews it though many as Turks and Aegyptians eat Opium without hurt for men by custom may be so familiar with poyson that it may not hurt them But hence it follows not that Opium is not poyson and works as poysons by hidden qualities though I shall shew it may work also by manifest qualities For the second there are many Arguments that Opium is hot which Scaliger Exercit. 175 affirms calling it by the Name of Amphiam or Aphioure and also Vesalius Mercurialis and Capivaccius and Erastus and they confirm it by reasons 1. It s inflaming and burning quality 2. It s strong scent 3. The bitter tast 4. It s burning the mouth and lips 5. It s causing thirst 6. Its heating the mind 7. It provokes Venery 8. It causeth itching 9 It causeth sweat All these are signs of great heat as the Learned shew in their Tractates of Opium Therefore in regard Opium is not cold and doth not cause sleep or death from thence nor from heat because other hot things have not the same effect we conclude that Opium doth it by an occult quality and propriety First they that work by manifest qualities are not more contrary to one part of the body then another But Opium is chiefly hurtful to the brain nerves and animal spirits therefore it doth not work by a manifest but hidden quality Secondly the effects of Opium are so wonderful as shall be shewed that they can●ot be referred to manifest qualities It kills a man in so small a quantity as no pure Element can do the like much less a mixed body Lastly if Opium hurt onely by its coldness or by its quality as Pepper and Saffron The Physitians and Chymists need not study so much to correct but only give it in a less quantity as they do Ginger and Pepper Thirdly let the Symptoms be reckoned that follow after Opium is taken none can give Opium unknown to the receiver by reason of its unpleasant scent though it hath been taken instead of another medicine After it is taken there follows great sleep and a Megrim and Itching over the whole body which is so great that it raiseth a man from sleep there is a strong scent over all the body like Opium the lips swel there is hickets little breathing the eyes are dim the nose is awry there are Convulsions somtimes If it be not prevented speedily it ki●s suddenly as Histories mention After general Evacuation as in other poysons by Vomits and sharp Clysters give the proper Antidotes against Opium as Assa ferida Castor or Organ and Castor boyled in Wine of these Dioscorides Chap. 2. Of Mushrooms SOme Mushrooms are venemous by experience for some have died by them and even whole families Seneca called them a Voluptuous Poyson They kill not onely when they are eaten but when they are smelt The Symptomes are when they are taken in too great a plenty they cause strangling or when they are not not well boyled or prepared they also puff up the belly cause hickets ulcerate the guts suppress the urin and cause horror cold sweat Syncope and somtimes Epilepsies pain and madness and death Those Mush●ooms that of their own Nature are poyson are more dangerous then such as by plenty eaten or by ill preparation do hurt Vomit presently Take Broom flowers Elder-flowers each two pugils bark of Dan●wort two drams Radish Dill Arage seed each a dram Agarick half a dram boyl them in Hydromel add to the straining Oyl of Rue an ounce make a Potion Make Clysters of Organ Hysop Rue Calamints Scordium Hiera with Agarick Honey of Roses Oyl of Rue These resist malignity Calamus Organ Hysop Rue Watercresses Wormwood Birthwort Garlick Treacle Mithridate Oxymel simple and of Squils But Honey is the proper Antidote against Mushrooms Chap. 3. Of Napellus IT is sudden poyson for after it is taken the lips and mouth swell and are inflamed with the tongue also so that it can scarce be thrust out There are Convulsions Faintings and Megrim the eyes are twitched the legs are weak the pulse is faint and death follows Few escape after

presently Cardan saith th●se are fables because Galen 1. Simpt med f. c. 1. saith he never saw it and knew none that did But Dioscorides lib. 6. cap. ult describes the biting of it and saith the wound is a Gold-colour and was cured by three drams of Castor drunk Therefore let none deny that there is such a Serpent though not so bad as reported yet very venemous that if any touch him with a Spear he kils him The Symptoms and Signs After the biting of a Basilisk there follows great inflammation of the whole body and the part affected is yellow the flesh melts away and falls off by piecemeals he dies in a short space Aetius thinks it in vain to prescribe medicines against such a sudden killing poyson Chap. 9. Of the Viper THough a Viper be a kind of Serpent yet he differs from them all because they lay Egs but the Viper brings forth young the male Viper differs from the female for she hath four teeth with whi●h she squirts out poyson when she bites but the male hath only two they are hollow and lie at length in the Gums and are only lifted up when they void the poyson by biting Symptoms and Signs After the wound is made the first blood is pure the next is mattery froathy like Verdugrease the part bitten and the whole body swel suddenly red or green or black or purple as the humors are there is pain that runs about great heat with black pustles about the part there is vomiting of choler Hickets Megrim Astonishment Feavers stoppage of urin Bleeding cold sweats Trembling Fainting difficult breathing and death In some countries it is not very deadly but in ●ot Countries and in Summer and when the Viper is provoked and angry it kils in seven hours If any swound or bleed at the ears or be struck as with hail death is at hand Presently draw out the poyson at the part bitten as before with the same remedies the flesh of the Viper is the best remedy inwardly or outwardly taken Treacle or troches of Vipers or oyl of Vipers Rue Garlick give Antidotes presently Costus is the Bezoar against this poyson a dram with Wormwood-wine To all Antidotes add Rue to make them stronger Treacle and Mithridate are good two drams with four ounces of strong wine Mathiolus lib. 6. see Dioscorides for his famous water against all poyson Chap. 10. Of the Scorpion THere are many sorts and all kill by a sting which squirts out poyson they are more dangerous in some countries then in other Symptoms and Signs The Sting is small but very deadly for pain inflammation and tumors follow in the part affected and the whole body pustles arise about the wound like warts and all the body is as struck with hail there is cold sweat with paleness and sweat the hair stands an end the face is drawn aside they weep filth comes from the eyes in the corners like glew they foam at the mouth and the body somtimes hath black spots all over Women and Virgins chiefly are killed by Scorpions and men when they are stung in the morning I have found by experience that if the same Scorpion be bruised and laid to the part or if it be anointed with oyl of Scorpions it is speedily cured which is done by similitude for like wil to like a Garden-Snail bruised with the sh●l and applied allaies pain presently Or Earthworms Calamints Garlick wild Rue Scorpion-grass bruised often renewed after the part is washed with the decoction of wild Rue Sulphur Bay-leaves and the like Of compounds the best ar● Venice Treacle Diatessaron Aetius commends this Take Castor Succi Ciren●ici Pepper each half an ounce Costus Spikenard Saffron juyce of Centaury each two drams with clarified Honey make an Electuary take the quantity of a Walnut Let him eat Butter often and drink old wine as much as he can and eat no Smallage Chap. 11. Of a Crocodile HE hath a large mouth and causeth great pain by tearing First the blood that comes out is pure then it is mattery and stinking and there is tumor and inflammation with black pustles vomiting ●eaver cold sweat fainting and great symptoms and Death First draw out the poyson then wash the wound with Pickle or spirit of Wine with Treacle or Mithridate or Vinegar and Salt-peeter Anoint with Crocodiles grease or apply Niter Deers Suet or Goose grease Putte● and Honey and use the Antidotes mentioned Chap. 12. Of Stellio or a Lizard so called IT is a Lizard with Star-like spots on his back and the poyson of it is conveighed by biting or taken in to the hurt of man or beast Signs and Symptoms If his flesh be eaten or the liquor drunk in which he hath been the stomach and guts are afflicted as the Bladder is by Spanish flies taken with pain and burning with vomiting the tongue is inflamed the sight is dim the head akes and there are spots in the face and the flesh is blew about the hurt if there be a bite with other symptoms Giv● Vomits and Clysters presently if there be a bite apply Onions and Garlick and let them be eaten and wine drunk after and use Antidotes as before Chap. 13. Of the Salamander IT is a deadly destroying poyson for if he get into a Tree ●e in●ects the fruit and kills them that eat it for the poyson infects herbs and waters if he fall in as well as when he bites Symptoms and Signs The part bitten loseth natural heat and is black stinks and voids filth and the hair falls off the internal parts a●e inflamed the speech falters and the senses fail the body swels and trembles fainting and Death follows Scarifie presently and draw out the poyson with Garlick Onions Rue Salt and Honey or ●ith a Hogs dung or Goa●● with Vinegar hot ●f you eat any thing the Salamander hath spit upon vomit Omit not Antidotes as Mithridate Treacle Pine Rosin is good or Galbanum with Honey Or Take Iuniper berries Assa f●●da black Pepper each two drams with Honey make an Electuary give a dram or two with old Wine which may be his drink or new milk Chap. 14. Of the Spider THere are divers sorts some are worse poyson then others one sort hurts if he be burnt by the scent of him and in Vasc●nia the Spider sends venom through the soles of their shoes Symptoms and Signs If the poyson be taken in or you be stung there is a numness in the part bitten with chilness the belly swells the face is pale there is wind in the guts cold sweats a desire to piss but in vain they vomit or piss things like Spiders If a Spider be taken in first vomit thus Take Spurge roots Asarum each two drams Dill and Broom flowers each a pugil boyl them to four ounces straine● add a dram of Honey make a Vomit Then give Antidotes provoke sweat by a hot house with two drams of

Treacle and Carduus or Scordium water and Wine Or give Bole and Vinegar this cured a man that was stung in the neck and was swollen and could not speak Or Take Assa faetida two drams Mirrh Ga●lick Pepper Castor each half a dram make a pouder for four doses with Wine before bathing every day If th●re be ● bite wash it with salt-Salt-water often or with a Spunge dipt in warm Vinegar or the milkie juyce of Fig leaves and give Antidotes Chap. 15. Of Cantharides or Spanish-flies THis poyson is chiefly against the bladder it corrodes all parts from the mouth to the bladder and inflames and causeth a feave● loathing dysentery ●ainting megrim and madness But the chief burning and excoriation is in the bladder the yard stands and there is a strangury and then a gangrene and death Vomit and give Clysters vomit with Hogshead broath or of a Lambs or Goats head with Oyl of Violets often Give Clysters of Barley Mallows Mercury Pellitory Faenugreek Linseed Rice Oyl of Lillies and Diaphoenicon For the passage of urin a Decoction of Althaea Linseed and Mallows with Oyl of Violets Then give Goats mil● fat Broaths Rice with Milk fresh Butter fat Meat Lettice Purslane boyled with Barley Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds and Lettice water Pennyroyal is the proper Antidote Or Take Troches of sealed Earth Alkekengi each half a dram give them with Breast-milk Use Baths of Mallows Althaea Violets Lettice Purslane seeds of Faenugr●ek Line and Epithems of Lettice Purslane Cowcumber Melón juyce● and Oyl of Violets laid to the parts pained Chap. 16. Of Flies Bees and Waspes GReat flies are poyson if ●hey set upon the carkasses of venemous beasts Waspes that have fed upon Serpents are most dangerous Bees sting worse when they swarm and fall upon any creature they have killed a Horse Symptoms and Signs Great pain till the sting be drawn out with swelling redness and pustles Draw out the sting with a Plaister of Ashes Oyl and Leaven if they do not then suck long wash with Salt-water Then use a Pultis of Barley meal Mallows and Plantane and Vinegar or Bole and Vinegar and Oyl the Bees stampt and applied draw out all venom If there be heat cure it as in malignant feavers Chap. 17. Of the Poyson of a mad Dog SEE Lib. 1. Pract. p. 2. c. 16. Chap. 18. Of the Brain and Blood of a Cat. SOme are frighted at a Cat in the Room though they see her not and have cold sweats and faint if the Cat be not removed Some say the brain and blood of a Cat are poyson and a History confirms that a Girl that had an Epilepsie was perswaded to take the blood of a Cat which made her of the nature of a Cat in voice mewing and leaping and creeping as a Cat when she mouseth Avenzoar saith that the breath of a Cat infects the spirits and causeth Marasmus Symptoms and Signs After the taking of the brain of a Cat there is a megrim astonishment and madness If it be in the stomach vomit it up if it be distributed purge with a scruple of the Extract of Hellebore then give half a scruple of Musk every week or give Diamoschu dulce Or Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers two ounces Piony-seeds Caraway Cubebs each half a dram Diamoschu dulce a dram with Syrup of Bettony make 〈◊〉 Chap. 19. Of Diseases and Symptoms which Poysons leave behind them SOme poysons have greater antipathy to some parts and therefore the evil disposition remains somtimes in one part somtimes in another as Cardan mentioneth Somtimes there is after poyson an evil habit of the whole body Leucophlegmacy Jaundies Consumption Strangling and Quinzie the teeth drop out there is melancholy sadness watching madness bad concoction the belly bound pain in the guts and stomach Dysentery spleen swollen difficult breath resolution of members or palsie hardness of joynts feavers fainting weakness of eyes or stareing convulsion pain of the whole body burning of urin and stoppage megrim loathing forgetfulness and the like The Cure consists in two things 1. By giving proper medicines to the evil disposition if it be known 2. By taking away the venemous quality which cherisheth that evil disposition or correcting it at the least For the reliques of the poyson are to be taken away before you use the ordinary Cure So after the French pox there are Symptoms as dropping of urin and the like which cannot be cured except you regard the malignant disposition If the kind of poyson be ●ot known give ordinary Antidotes with things that oppose the manifest disease THE NINTH PART Of Diseases by Witchcraft Incantation and Charmes The PREFACE AMatus Lusitanus shews that Physitians ought to know these Diseases because such come to them for Cure I shall from Philosophers Physitians Lawyers and Divines take such things as concern us and divide thi● Tractate into four Chapters 1. Whether there are Diseases from Witchcraft 2. How they come 3. How they are known 4. How they are cured Chap. 1. Of Fascination or Witchcraft and whether any Diseases come thereby FIrst the word Fascination is to be explained it comes from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to envy because the Vulgar people suppose that envious people hurt others by their looks chiefly It is a sort of inchantment by which through looks or by commendations not only infants and men but also Lambs Hens Horses and other beasts and also flourishing corn and plants are praised till they are killed or grow weak and feeble This Witchcraft is extended also to other things some fear when they eat g●eedily and others look stedfastly upon them and give part of their meat to them that so look upon them saying Do not bewitch me Some extend this to things without life Secondly Fascination is not onely by sight but by tongue and voice of which the Latin Poet Virgil Eclog. 7. When thou art prais'd let Baccar crown thy Head For evil tongues have Prophets murthered This Pliny observed writing that in Africa there are families of Witches by whose praise and commendations hopeful things perish trees grow dry and infants die Hence I gather a threefold Fascination the first is Poetical or Vulgar the second is Philosophical and the third Magical The two first I deny for the Poetical Witchcraft is fabulous and delivered from hand to hand rather superstitiously then truly according to which infants are said to be bewitched and other things only by the active look of the Witch as when any one praised another or looks malitiously upon him whom he hates Mothers and Nurses hang Amulets about their childrens necks to prevent this And the Poet Theotritus teacheth against this Fascination That they should spit thrice into their own bosomes that fear it Spit thrice in thy breast And Witches detest I suppose this Fascination is not only fabulous but superstitious and Divines have cursed the users and

yet you must not so much look at the manifest qualities as to that force which is in medicines to oppose poyson in the whole substance Therefore in hot poysons you may give Treacle and Mithridate and if the poyson will give leave first abate the Cacochymy Lastly let him that hath taken poyson either at the mouth or other waies sleep but little for he must constantly take medicines and observe whether the Symptoms increase or abate by the Bezoardicks more of which hereafter Chap. 7. Of the Cure of Poyson taken in at the mouth WHen any one thinks he hath taken poyson let him presently have a Vomit before the poyson exercise its cruelty and let it be repeated often and made of things that may dull the sharpness of the poyson as of fat Broaths Oyl Butter-milk boyled Broom Dill Iesamine flowers Radishes and the like to which you may add Bezoardicks so that they stop not vomiting Therfore make choice of things that bind not as Harts-horn Bezoar stone If the poyson get to the stomach and guts give Clysters As Take Mallows Pellitory Althaea each two handfuls boyl them in water strain them to a pint and half add Oyl six ounces Electuary of Fleabane two drams make a Clyster And purge thus Take Scorzon●ra roots two drams Sorrel half a handful Agarick two drams Zedoary Citron seeds each a scruple Cordial flowers a pugil hoyl them strain and ad to four ounces Manna two ounces strain it again and add Syrup of Citron-peels While these are doing anoint every third hour the heart feet hands and temples and places where you feel the arteries beat with Oyl of Scorpions of which Mathiolus it is excellent Let the reliques of the poyson be driven from the heart and bowels by sweats and leave not sweating til the evil disposition be quite conquered For diet give Milk for meat and drink and fat meats Butter and Oyl Borage Bugloss Figs with Cordials Harts-horn Coral Pearl Hyacinths Smaragds Zedoary Saffron Citron peels Chap. 8. Of the Cure of Poyson from without THat poyson may not creep in draw it out presently by Medicines and Chirurgery As Take Galbanum Sagapenum Mirrh Pellitory each half an ounce Pigeons dung three ounces Calamints a dram dissolve the Gums in Vinegar and with Honey and Oyl make a Cataplasm Or apply Chickens or Kids cut in two hot to the part where the poyson is These laid on work by a hidden quality oyl of Scorpions Spiders and the Creatures that poysoned applied to the part Galen saith that he knew the biting of a Crocodile cured by the grease of a Crocodile and the sting of a Scorpion by the Scorpion applied to the part These act by the likeness of substance You must continue the use of things that draw out poyson till pain evil colour and other Symptoms cease and there is laudable quittor in the part And to keep the poyson from runing inward or about tie the vessels above then cut off the part that is poysoned if it may be done with safety Give Antidotes at first to drive poyson from the heart and kil it and to take away the venemous quality that is in the body And 〈…〉 ulcer follow a bite or venemous sting keep it long open scarifie it and burn it as shall be shewed Poyson taken by scent must be opposed by contrary scent as Mirrh Amber Musk Ambergreece Civet Rue Asphaltum Wood-aloes Sanders Cloves Saffron Storax and the mouth being shut you must take the scent of these at the nose Of these we shall speak in the special or particular Cure of Poysons Sennertus concludes this general Doctrine of poysons with relation of diseases that come from fear and frights because they are like poysons and he reports out of Cardan that when a man is frighted by Ghosts or the like the heat is drawn in and the mind is troubled and he becomes dumb and if the fright be great the outward parts are cold and contracted and the hair falls off and if the body be cacochymick he is very sick and if strength fails he dies This he confirms by many Histories which I have left out only I shal relate one of which I was an eye witness When I studied in Physick in Oxitan Anno 1617. a woman that grew melancholick from anger hung her self the Crowner sitting upon her sentenced her to be hung in gibets about a mile from the City Another woman that was her familiar acquaintance seeing her ●ut of a window neat the place cryed out and fell into a great Diarrhaea suddenly with a constant dotage that could not be cured From whence I conclude that in these diseases from terror the heart is not only affected as Cardanus thought but the brain also Hence they usually give Epileptick Waters this is good for children Take Tile-flower water Piony black Cherry water each an ounce and half ●earl prepared Coral and Har●s-horn each a scruple Fecula of Piony half a scruple THE SIXTH PART Of Poysons from Minerals and Metals Chap. 1. Of unsleaked Lime VNSLEAKED Lime hath some venom in it though it is a stone and may be reckoned among poysons for its malignant quality also it hath fire in it that wil burn Symptoms and Signs This taken into the body afflicteth grievously for it corrodes and vexeth the stomach and guts and causeth unquenchable thirst bitterness of mouth and tongue ●oughness cough want of breath Dysentery stoppage of urin swounding and choaking A child of eight years old supposed it to be Chalk and eat much and died the sixth day with these symptoms Provoke vomit with things that abate the sharpness of the Lime give the warm Decoction of Violets Mallows Althaea Lineseed Rice Oyl fresh Butter and Mucilages of Lineseed Mallows Althaea Fleabane and keep the belly open with Cassia or a Clyster with Barley water and Mallows roots and all Mucilage of Fleabane Cassia lignea Waterlillies and the like The Antidotes are the gal of a Kid from a scruple to a dram and the gall of an Hart or Deer a scruple drunk with warm Water Earth of Lemnos two drams with Milk Give fresh Butter and sat Broaths in which Mallows is boyled Chap. 2. Of Gipsum THey who have drunk of this or eaten it with Wheat flour have all died The Signs and Symptoms A great cough driness of tongue and jawes great pain about the stomach hickets stretching of the Hypochondria binding of the belly dulness and dotage fainting and they die choaked Give warm Water with much Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds or Oyl of Lillies which will make them vomit it up But because it sticks fast give stronger Vomits as Hellebore If it be gotten to the guts give emollient Clysters Some give a dram of Scammony with two drams of Fleabane in a Iulep Then give Fat 's to make the passage slippery as the Decoction of Mallo●s Althaea Faenugreek seed fat Broaths Goats milk juyce of Mallows Decoction of Dates and Figs.

burnt Brass IF meat be kept in a Brass-vessel with Vinegar or Wine and eaten it disturbeth the stomach causeth vomiting and driness of tongue and corrosion and fluxes And Brass it self taken causeth moreover difficult breathing ul●ers of the guts and suffocation Burnt Brass flour of Brass scales of Brass and Verdigreece are all poysonous for burnt Brass taken turns the stomach makes fluxes and pain And so doth flour of Brass and also it straitneth the lungs and suffocates Verdigreece taken is a deadly poyson as Arsenick it causeth pricking grievous pain and corrosion in the throat and stomach and guts and constant vomiting and Dysentery and stoppage of urin and straitneth the throat and stops the wind and suffocateth It kills in one day in the quantity of a dram It must be cured by Vomit with warm Water and Oyl of Dill or Butter and by Clysters of Mallows Violets Barley Althaea Faenugreek seeds Fleabane with Honey Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds Then give Milk fat Broath fresh Butter Faenugreek Lineseed Fleabane Althaea and Mallow seeds Some commend Sheeps suet and advise that the bottom of the belly be anointed with hot Oyl of Roses and of Mastich For Antidotes use a dram of Bole or sealed Earth with Wine juyce of Mints or Small age two drams Or juyce of Acorus roots two or three drams with 〈◊〉 or two drams with Treacle Chap. 11. Of Aurichalcum and Bell-metal IT is most of Brass and therefore is poyson and communicates to meat and drink boyled in it which eaten brings the same Symptomes and must have the same Cure Bells are made of Brass and other Metals and the rust of them doth the same Horstius writes that a Noble woman that had taken the filings of Bells in red Wine by the advise of an old woman that promised her health by it vomited violently and her belly rose up and swelled her body as if poysoned and then she had headach Megrim and pricking and fell into a Frenzie and when she came to her self her stomach was corroded as if there were needles in it The rust was purged out of her which many saw And if this happen you must cure it as you cure Brass Chap. 12. Of Iron and its Rust and Scales IRon is not poyson except you take it in too great a quantity or stay too long in the body and then it hurts not as poyson but causeth belly-ach and driness of mouth and inflammation of the body and vomiting It is as that of Brass by Vomits and Clysters that are lenitive and clensing and by Manna and Stomach-pills and then Milk Butter and fat Broath The Loadstone is instead of Bezoar against it Chap. 13. Of Lead IF Lead be swallowed whole and voided it doth no hurt but if it be small and stay in the body long and melt it causeth great Symptoms Fernelius shews how it hurts In Lead not burnt when it gets to the guts and shews its malignity it is sufficient to abate sharpness and clense by Asses milk and other Milk Or the Decoction of Mallows Althaea Linseed Hydromel Oyl of sweet Almonds The Antidote against burnt Lead is Quince seeds bruised after they are husked with Wine two drams and two drams of Treacle every day with honied Water and Wine Chap. 14. Of Ceruss IT is made of Lead by corrosion with the vapor of Vinegar and causeth the same Symptoms which are these If it be taken into the body the tongue gums and teeth are white there is hickets and desire to vomit driness of tongue and roughness of the mouth a cough pricking in the stomach and belly stretching at the heart difficult breathing bleeding by stool needing the head is troubled and strange things flie before the eyes They are drowsie and dull cannot move hand or foot the urin is black or bloody the limbs are cold and they die Vomit presently with the Decoction of Arageseed and Rape seed Mallows Figs Water and Honey O●l of Lillies Orris Iesamine c. And give Clysters of Coleworts Pellitory Cardu●● Centaury Diaphaenicon Oyl of Lillies Then allay the sharpness of the poyson with hot Milk Decoction of Figs Mallow seeds Althaea Mucilages of Line and Faenugreek seed Fleabane Mallows Oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Iesamine Then use Clensers and Diureticks with Antidotes A Lye of Vine ashes and Ash leaves Walnuts Oyl of Angelica Treacle Mithridate Chap. 15. Of red Lead IT is made of common Lead and is of the same force with it and Ceruss and Litharge and causeth the same Symptoms Symptoms and Signs It hurts the stomach and guts causeth belching loathing vomiting fluxes and other Symptoms mentioned Give a Vomit presently of Rape seed Arage with Butter and Oyl Then give the Clysters mentioned or two drams of the Antidote of burnt Ivory in Wine or Treacle or Mithridate Chap. 16. Of Litharge A Gricola mentions five sorts of Litharge but we have only white and red and from their colour are called Litharge of gold and of silver Symptoms and Signs Dioscorides shews the signs from Litharge taken as heaviness of the stomach and guts with great pains The guts are wounded the urine stopt the body puffed up and like Lead The joynts burn the guts are ulcerated and there is a flux of blood sometimes the gut comes out The tongue is heavy there is iliack passion and the tongue is faltering They foam at the mouth the breath is stopt the tongue inflamed the body is blew and the patient is choaked Vomit presently to prevent corrosion and oppose malignity with the Decoction of Dill F●gs Dates with Butter or Oyl do it often Then give Clysters of Hydromel Centaury Dill St. Iohns-wort Hiera picra Oyl of Rue Hens grease c. Resist malignity and provoke urine with Mirrh Wormwood Hysop Smallage seed Or Take Smallage seed Mirrh each equal parts Wormwood half as much with Wine Chap. 17. Of Quick-silver crude or sublimated or precipitated VVEE have spoken of the occult and manifest qualities of Quicksilver we shall here shew how it is poyson It may be taken in crude sublimated or precipitated to the crude belongs a vapor that riseth from it Symptoms and Signs If Quicksilver taken in stick in any cavity or be mixed with any medicine that may keep it in the body it causeth great evils and death So doth the fume of it taken in at the mouth or if it be anointed outwardly and pierce into the body it doth hurt Precipitate is worse but Sublimate worst of all For Quicksilver not killed by its corroding malignity causeth wind and pain of the stomach and guts heaviness of body and stomach If it be kept long there is stoppage of urin and the whole body swells and the colour is of a Lead blew It causeth Palsie in the member where it is Epilepsie Apoplexy Syncope and death By its fume comes trembling contraction of nerves weakness of joynts palsie hurt of senses especially of

it and if they do they fall into a Consumption After Vomiting and Clysters give B●oarstone sealed Earth with Butter and Aqua me●s or two drams of Smaragds or Bo●● Arme●nc● this is excellent Take the Flies of Napellus twenty 〈◊〉 Bole each a dram make a Pouder give it with rue-Rue-water Oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus must anoint the head Chap. 4. Of Aconitum A Conitum Cycoctonon and Lycoctonon so called because it kills Dogs and Wolves is like Pardalianches which kills the Panther To these the other kinds may be referred the juyce of the Root is worst and they are like Napellus Symptoms and Signs It is sweet upon the tongue then it grows brackish and stricks into the head and causeth heaviness Megrim Convulsion of the temporal muscles dotage trembling involuntary tears red eyes side-pain heaviness of breast difficult breathing biting at the Pilorus swelling as in a Dropsie and death Pliny saith it is the worst of poysons Others think Napellus worse They are worst in the Indies First vomit if it be gone lower purge or give Clysters then give Antidotes as Rue Southornwood Centaury Organ Horehound Groundpine long Birthwort Hares and Kids Runnet with Wine and Vinegar Eryngus Castor Treacle Mithridate Opobalsom a dram and use Oyl of Scorpions outwardly Chap. 5. Of Toxicum and Pharicum VVRiters do not explain these they are Plants with the juyce of which they poyson their Arrows Some have used Napellus and Aconitum for the same Chap. 6. Of Hemlock THey record that Socrates was killed with Hemlock for it acts not only by cold but by its whole substance and occult quality therefore it causeth dim sight and madness somtimes difficult breath Hickets Astonishment and death It is more deadly in some countries then in others After vomiting or purging give proper Antidotes As Rue Dictany young Laurel leaves Carrot Gentian Pepper Amomum Cardamons Ne●●e seed Wormwood Castor with Wine Treacle or Mithridate two drams Give Wine warm the body especially the heart make him move and run Chap. 7. Of the Colchian Ephemerum IT is called so from the Ephemerum that is not poyson it is a plant in every part of it hurtfull to man and grows much in Colchos The Symptoms If taken it presently corrodes and ulcers the lips and stomach and choaks as the Mushroom if it go to the guts it ulcerates and inflames them so that shavings of the guts are voided like washings of flesh and makes the whole body itch After vomiting and purging give Milk to drink Dioscorides saies that alone wil cure Chap. 8. Of Fle●bane THere are divers sorts and all enemies to the animal spirits they cause madness like d●●cards and they rail and think they are whipped and they cry and bray like Asses or neigh like Horses and have a giddiness and trembling of the whole body they toss to and fro or fall in an Epilepsie or faint they breath not and are seldom suffocated It yeilds easily to medicines while the party is strong and the medicines proper Vomit with Hydromel and oyl of R●e Or give a Clyster and then the Antidotes as Pistacha●s Castor Rue Wormwood Bay leaves and berries Ne●tle seed Garlick Treacle Mith●id●●e Give with meat Radishes Mustard seed Garlick Oni●ns Watercresses fresh Butter Pepper Pistachaes drink Wormwood-win● and provoke 〈◊〉 Chap. 9. Of mad Nightshade and Dorycnium TWo Boyes were killed with b●rries of Nightshade And though there are many sorts of it they are all poyson especially that called Bella donna but mad Nightshade is worst Symptoms and Signs A dram of the root of mad Nightshade caus●th strange imaginations not unpleasant if you take as much more it alienates the mind and four times as mu●h kils Honey'd water drunk plentifully or Milk and then Bole sealed E●rth Rue Treacle and Mithridate and things good against Opium and use Castor and Rue to the Nose Dorycnium is not the same for that is like milk sweet upon the tongue and when it is in the stomach it causeth constant Hickets and fainting the guts are ulcerated and they vomit blood You must vomit here as in other poysons but Honey water is best here and Milk sweet Wine warm with Aniseed and all Shell-fish are good raw or boyled Chap. 10. Of the Mandrake THe Mandrake and its Apples are also dangerous and though they hurt only by cold as some think yet their bitter tast and strong scent itching and burning in the skin and driness of the mouth perswade the contrary for all these are from venom besides they cause sleep Lethargies and when they are awaked they roar and and sleep again presently they ar● sad and dull and somtimes mad their eyes swel they are red with swollen faces there is ●urning the whole body the mouth and tongue a●e dry As for the Prognostick it kils slowly but if 〈◊〉 be not opposed they die by Convulsions ● et the Mandrakes be presently vomited or void●d by stool then give P●nnyroyal Wormwood O●g●n R●e S●●rdium Castor ●it● Vinega● 〈◊〉 a D●●●ction or in Pouder o● give Treacle 〈◊〉 with Salt three daies 〈◊〉 ●ouse hi● ●ive 〈…〉 E●thi●s of Castor Rue as in a Lethargie Let the drink be sweet or Wormwood wine Chap. 11. Of Smallage of Laughter or the Sardonick Herb. THese being taken because they hurt the nerves they make the mouth awry for the muscles that move the lips are contracted so that they seem to laugh There is a heat in the guts and stomach and throat and the whole body they are mad and some laugh constantly After Vomiting and Purging give Hydromel Milk Butter and fat broaths plentifully Emulsions of sweet Almonds the great cold Seeds Poppy seeds with Barley and Lettice water and Plantane water The Antidote is juyce of Balm with Vinegar Bole and Whey Anoint the neck with Oyl of Costus Castor Foxes St. Iohns-wort Aragon Oyntment c. Some make them drunk that they may sleep it out Chap. 12. Of Coriander THe venom of Coriander is not to be sought in the first qualities for it is hot but you must consider its malignity when green and the ripe seed is not without fault and must be prepared for Physick for it causeth a mad dotage so that they talk like drunkards obscoenly with a shrill voice they are sleepy and giddy and their body smells like green Coriander Vomit with warm Water or Decoction of Dill Oyl of Orris or Lillies Wormwood wine give fat broaths with Salt and Pepper The Antidote is Root of Smallow-wort with Win● or Treacle Give rear Eggs with P●pper and Salt Chap. 13. Of Ixia and Camaeleon The Symptoms and Signs IXia smells and tasts like Basil it inflames and exasperates causeth madness and want of breath binds the belly causeth pain itching and fainting Give the decoction of Wormwood Goats-organ in Wine or Vinegar or Hydromel ●ft●r a Vomit or a Clyster Or give the Roo● of Silphium or Indian