afflicted with these griefs was in this manner comforted Take Aquae balsami one ounce aquae preserv two ounces oleum piperis six grains mix them well with a good spoonfull of the sirrup of Quinces and so she drunk it at the beginning of the heat CHAP. LXXIII Plurisie with spatting of bloud cured by M. R. FIrst there was made this purging preparative Take Senae six drams Carduus Benedictus half a handfull Sugar half an ounce Ginger half an ounce lay them to infuse one night in warm whay made of Goats milk one pound and a half whereof ye shall give morning and evening four ounces warm this purgeth gently and causeth to spat easily Then thrée days after they must bleed well on the liver vein and their drink at meals was the decoction of hysop violets liquorice and raisins with sugar A great and sore Plurisie cured by M. R. A Certain man of twenty four years old was vexed with a most grievous plurisie with pricking and shooting and a cough with a continuall feaver and inflamation of the tongue First there was good store of bloud taken from the liver vein on that side where the pain was Then were these syrrups that do decoâ—â— and and purge ministred unto him Take Sirupi de liquericia de Hysopo acetole of each one ounce Oxâ—mmellitis squillitici acetisquillitici of each thrée ounces make thereof a loch whereof in the morning he licked with a liquorice stick which caused him to spat easily and took away the heat or burning of the tongue being used with this decoction Take French Barley thrée ounces Carduus Benedictus one handfull Roses Violets of each one pound Liquorice scraped thrée drams Figs three Raisins of the sun stoned one ounce and a half Sugar Candy two ounces boil them in sixteen pound of water till two pound be wasted and so drink it cold Also his diet was light and thinne as broth and drink c. Plurisie with inflamation of the tongue and costiveness of the body cured by M. R. First they were purged with Aromatico and then used this gargarism Take Sempervive or Howsléek two handfulls boil them in a quart of water till a third be wasted Then strain it and put thereto two ounces of wine vinegar wherewith they gargarised warm oftentimes Then they used Mel-rosarum which took away the blacknesse of the tongue Their diet was moist and cooling as followeth Take French Barly half an ounce Figs seven Raisins of the sun stoned four ounces boil and strain them and put thereto oleum vitrioli so much as will make it tart and so drink thereof Plurisie in a woman cured First she was purged with Aromatico Leonardo then unto her side there was applied this unguentâ— seven or eight times a day which took away her pain Take unguenti de Althen two ounces oil of sweet Almonds half an ounce mixe them together the next morning she was let bloud in the basilike â—ein on that side where her pain was Her diet was the same that was spoken of before After meat she used a Lochsanum before prescribed for this purpose and so in short time she was cured Another woman cured of the same disease by M. R. First there was ministred unto her this potion Take the water of Carduus benedictus half a pound oleum vitrioli enough to make it tart like a Pomegranate The next day she was let bloud in manner aforesaid about ten ounces After she had bled she took this potion folllowing five days together morning and evening which caused her to sweat well and there upon she was quickly cured The Diaphoreticall decoction Take Cardui benedicti two handfull Liquorice scraped three ounces Figs five Raisins two ounces Sugar candy one ounce and a half voil them in a sufficient quantity of water and strain them to drink A Plurisie broken with a potion For the breaking of his Aposteme there was ministred unto him Aromatico Leon with honied water The next day the basilick vein on the Pleuriticall side was opened His drink at dinner and supper was this decoction Take Isop dried one small handfull violets two handfuls six Figs Liquorice scraped half an ounce Raisins four ounces boil them in nine pound of water till one pound be wasted then strain this pectoral decoction and use it Another cured in this manner First he took Aromatico Leonardo and thereupon drank the water of Carduus Benedictus The next day they let him bloud on the same side where the pain was His diet was moist and cooling and he drank Barley-water mixed with syrup of Roses and oleum vitrioli and shortly after was cured CHAP. LXXIV An inward impostume or bastard Plurisie cured by M. R. A Man having an Impostume in his side which would have turned to the Plurisie was thus cured Take a good sweet Apple and cut off the crown take out the core and fill it with powder of Olibanum bind on the crown again and rost it under the embers till it be soft Then mixe with it thrée or four drops of oleum vitrioli and let the patient eat it and sweat thereon Also with the same medicine at the same time there was a boy helped that had a plague sore on his neck Pain in the side with a cough cured by W. T. after this manner Take Floris Sulphuris two drams the extract of Enula Campana one dram Ireos and Liquorice of each one ounce Honey so much as will make it in form of an slectuary Before it be made up put thereto half a scruple of Oleum sulfuris and use it morning and evening CHAP. LXXV Pain and wind in the body cured by I. H. A Certain woman twenty eight years of age being often troubled with a griping pain and wind in her body was presently eased by taking four or five grains of Laudanum nostrum in Malmsey with two or thrée drops of oil of Aniséeds After this manner divers persons have béen cured Provided always that the body be loose else must it be moved either with some gentle glister or suppositary The expelling of wind out of the body by L. F. THis course following hath been divers times proved most effectuall against the wind in the stomack and other parts of the body First let them take a dose of Aromatico Leonardo Then let them take morning and evening half a dramme of this composition thrée or four dayes together either in potions or pills Take the essence of Gentian three drams the essence of Ginger oil of Aniséed Fennellseed of each half a scruple make thereof a masse and kéep it to your use CHAP. LXXVI An excellent Electuary to expell wind revive the spirits it also purgeth melancholly and choller and comforteth the stomack with a most excellent and soveraign Plaister to be made by the Apothecary and applied outwardly to the stomack Administred and Applied by D. E. TAke Aq. melis menth of each sixe drams theriacal still cap. ceru of each three
cold cause by which means thou art in a good measure enabled to find out the grief or disease and apt to prescribe a proper remedy against iâ— If thou findest it convenient and profitable for the Patient to be let bloud thou must have respâ—ct to the time of the year the age of the party the sign that governeth the strength of the Patient and the disease In purging also thou art to take notice and consider what humour is to be purged and how far it aboundeth and have as speciall regard to suit the medicine to the humour that thou wouldest purge as to the time and the quantity thou givest thereof But chiefly and above all I hold it necessary in all sicknesses or diseases you should observe the time when the Patient falleth ill and what Planet governs and what the aspects are for by that you may judge whether it be a convenient time to minister Physick as for example R. H. findeth himself ill this present day being the first of Aprill 1651 and seeketh unto me for remedy I find at this time Saturn in opposition with the Moon and Mars with a quartille 12 degrées a sextile with Venus 6 degrées by which I adjudge if not a good time to minister Physick and the next day like unto it therefore unlesse I perceive the Patient to be in great necessity I perswade him not to take his Physick untill the third day which I find favoured with better aspects These kind of observations are of great antiquity and were in high esteem among the most learned Philosophers the practise whereof is of that singular use in these times that some in London and other places which soar with the highest on the wings of same give judgements this way rather then by the vrine and therefore I suppose thou wilt not think it losse of time if I am the more large on this point If thou wilt therefore be expert in this art thou must be throughly informed concerning the course of the heavens and the celestial bodies and what the signs and aspects be which thou hast more lively represented by this Figure An Aspect of any of the Planets is a certain distance betwéen the centers of two Planets wherein they notably help or hinder prosper or afflict for by good aspects as the Sextile and Trine they assist and prosper but by a Quartile and opposition they vex hinder and aflict so that by this thou mayest perceive the conjunction is good with good and evill with bad By a Trine you are to understand a third part of the Air a Quarilâ— is the fourth part of the air a Sextile a sixth part of the air An opposition is when one Planet is right against another the half part of the air and a conjunction is when they méet But that which is of the chiefest use in matter of thy study and practiseis the knowledge of the twelve houses which Astronomically are deciphered thus In each house thou findest characterized one of the 12 Signs yet note that they do alter and change according to the Quotidian and course of motions Thrée of these signs be of the nature of fire three of air three of water and three of earth The thrée fiery Signs are Aries Leo Sagitarius the thrée of the ayr be Gemini Libra and Aquarius the three of the water are Cancer Scorpio and Piâ—ces and those of the earth are Taurus Virgo and Capricornus And when 2 Planets are in one sign and one degree of the Zodiack there is a conjunction Therefore as it is necessary that theu shouldest know what the sign is when thy Patient falleth sick so must thou likewise know what Planet is Lord of the house then observe what the Aspects are described in the first Globe or Sphear and it will not a little direct thy iudgment both concerning the disease the remedy and the time of continuance or abatement thereof Also the knowledge of the Planets is the more desirable for that it is the â—udgement of the wise Philosophers that they have not onely influence upon the bodies of men c. but also upon all Hearbs Plants and Vegetables for the Sun hath a speciall influence on the Bay-trée and other trées of that nature and we find by good experience the effects answerable of which more in the virtues of herbs the study whereof will very much enable thée in the right ministring and applying such things as in thy practise thou shalt find requisite to be made use of for Aâ—comes the Phylosopher chose to make his powders whereof he giveth such large commendation when the Sunne entered the first degrée of Aries I shall now therefors procéed to set down certain generall remedies by way of Purgations Vomits Glisters Drinks and Waters with divers other hidden secrets for the curing of any disease or malady of the body either internall or externall CHAP. CLVIII An excellent Purge TAke Diacatholiacon one ounce Confection of Hameck one ounce mixe them very well together and put them into half a pint of White-wine and drink it CHAP. CLIX. Pills to purge Melancholy and Choller TAke half an ounce of Aloes Sackatrina and beat it to powder very small then take a dram of Rubarb and slice it very thin and dry it in a sancer upon embers then beat it to a fine powder and of powder of Steel half as much in measure as the Rubarb and with a little Claret-Wine temper them together till they be like past and then make them into pills whereof take one every night 2 hours after supper and in the morning drink some broth CHAP. CLX To purge the head of grosse Choller and Phlegm TAke Pillule Masticka Fermely I dram and a half of oyl Teijme Chymicall seven drops of the spices of Aromatica seven grains mix these well and make them into ten pills an hour before dinner and an hour before supper and use them as you have need CHAP. CLXI A Speciall powder for the Memory and to purge the Brain TAke thrée ounces of Senae leaves Sednarij Commiâ— Parsley and Dill séed of each an ounce Ginger one ounce and a half Cloves Nutmegs Calimus Galingal Pimpernill Roots Sage Rue Valerian Annis-seeds of each one quarter of an ounce Sagar three ounces pound all these small and temper them together and take thereof morning and evening one dram at one time CHAP. CLXII Another excellent Purgation Take the flowers of the Peach-tree infused in warme water for the space of ten or twelve hours then strain them and put thereto more of the flowers and put to the said liquor to infuse after the same manner six or seven times then put thereto as much Suger as it will require and boil it to the thicknes of a sirrup whereof take two spoonfuls in the morning and it purgeth the belly better then Rubarb or Agrick for it worketh exceedingly upon moist and waterish humors without pain or gripings CHAP. CLXIII To make Pills of Liquoris to be taken
ounce of Mace and as much Sinamon two races of Ginger sliced two ounces of Annis-séeds picked and rubbed of Angelica-séeds two Drams and of Cardus-seed two Drams of Turnsole one ounce and of fine Suger a quarter of an ounce Stéep all these in the Aqua-vitae for the space of sixtéen days shaking of it twice every day then take an Hipocras bagg and let it run through and so put it up for your use and put thereto an ounce of Annis-seed Comfits and an ounce of Amber Comfits an ounce of Manus-Christi and one grain of Musk and take foure spoonfuls thereof fasting or at night when you go to bed CHAP. CLXXXII For heat and pricking in the eyes FIll an Egg-shell newly emptied with the juyce of Seengreen and set it in hot embers take off the green scum that riseth to the top then it will be a water strain it and keep it in a glasse and put some of it into the hot eys four or five nights together and it will ease the pricking and burning CHAP. CLXXXIII An excellent Water THe water of Marigolds doth help all diseases of the eyes and taketh away all pains of the eyes and takes away all pains of the head and the juyce of Bay-leaves dropped into the ears takes away deafnesse or other strange sounds CHAP. CLXXXIIII To break the Stone TAke Hawthâ—rn flowers or for lack of them Haws and distill them the flowers in May and the berries when they be ripe take of this water three spoonfulls with three spoonfulls of Malmsey a quantity of Ginger and drink it warm CHAP. CLXXXV A Water to be made when Couslips are in their prime TAke six handfuls of Couslip flowers one handfull of Rosemary-flowers half a pound of Reasons of the sun stoned half a pound of Liquorice bruised a quarter of a pound of Aniseeds grossely beaten put all these into thrée gallons of good ale or lées of Wine over night the next morning distil them in a limbeck and when you have a quart of water kéep it by it self two or thrée spoonfuls of this water is good for an ill stomack that is weak of digestion and for the spléen and other infirmities of the stomack CHAP. CLXXXVI To make Barley-water for a Fever or an Agueâ— TAke a little handfull of Barley and stéep it in a porrenger of fair running water the space of two or three hours then pour away the water from the Barley and take a pottle of the like water and boil the Barley in it then take it from the fire and put the water from the Barley then put the Barley in three pints of fresh water with a Parsley root and a Fennel root the pith taken out then being boyled to a pint strain it and use it thus Take thrée or four spoonfulls thereof mixed with two spoonfulls of sirrup of Vinegar and use to drink thereof every five hours upon your good day and keep your body soluble with a suppositary once a day if nature do not this office Drink also of it in your sick days also the day after your fit at six of the clock in the morning Take half an ounce of Liquorice and a good handfull of Annis-séeds grossely bruised and boiled with a wine pint of the broth of a Chicken let it lie so till it come to a full good draught then strain it hard out and make it sweet and so bloud-warm let him drink it up at one draught and neither eat sleep nor sweat five or six hours after and so the Fever will away CHAP. CLXXXVII A most excellent Water for the Stone IN the moneth of May â—hen Oxen go to grasse take of their Dung neither too new nor too dry then distil it fair and softly into some vessel or glasse of which you shall have a water without any ill savour which will take out any spot or blemish in the face if you wash therewith dayly Keep the same Water in a vial or glasse close stopped then take three or four Radish-roots cut them in pieces and fill the vial with good Muskadel they being put into it let it stand so in the sun one day and a night then take one part of the Wine two parts of the Water of the Dung a pint of Strawberry-water three or four drops of the juyce of Lemons or Citrons and let there be of these waters distilled and preportioned together half a glasse full or somewhat more into the which you shall put a piece of Sugar or a little Honey and so give it the Patient to drink and you shall sée a wonderfull effect and present remedy Probatum est CHAP. CLXXXVIII This Water is very pretious for frantick and mad-men very often proved TAke of the flowers of Rosemary of Burrage and of the roots of Fuglesse of each half a pound of Saffron two drams of Quinces four ounces of the best White-wine two pints mix them altogether and let them stand so for the space of a natural day after that bury the glasse wherein all the same is in Horse dung for fifteene dayes and then take it out and distil a water thereof according to Art two or thrée times over kéep this Water as the apple of your eye for it is very piecious and well proved in all melancholy sicknesses very effectually and the pain and trembling of the heart The quantity to be given at one time is a dram which is the weight of seventy two Barley-corns if you will prove it you will praise it And this in the new Jewel of Health with many more excellent things CHAP. CLXXXIX An excellent approved water for the Stone TAke a gallon of new-milk from a red Cow and put thereto one handfull of Pelitory of the Wall one handfull of wild-Time one handfull of Saxafrage one handfull of Parsley and two or thrée Radish roots sliced steep all these in the milk one night the next morning distill the milk with the hearbs with a moderate fire the best time to distill this water is in the end of May or beginning of June use it in this manner take of the water eight spoonfulls and of Rheâ—ish or White-wine five or six spoonfuls a little Suger Nutmeg sliced make it luke-warm and drink it fasting and fast three hours after it using temperate exercise take this two mornings and two nights together to bedward every fourteen dayes at the full of the Moon and at the decrease or as often as need requireth CHAP. CXC A Water for the falling sicknesse TAke the water of garden Lillies and give a child to drink a spoonfull thereof at the appearing of the sicknesse and when it is therewith visited but to an older person thrée or four spoonfuls Probatum est CHAP. CXCI. An excellent water good for the stomack and head TAke a pottle of white-Wine a handfull of Balm a handfull of Bittony a handfull of Couslip-flowers and a handfull of Rosemary flowers clean picked put all these into an earthen dessell with the wine close covered
eye with a knife healed by W. H. A Child of seven years of age had a pundure in the eye with a knife which was cured by dropping therein balsamum sulfuris warm and laying a defensative round about it Another cure performed in like manner by W. H. ONe George Clark servant to the right worshipfal M. Butler of Denham then high Sheriff of Bedford was healen of a puncture in the eye with the foresaid medicine CHAP. XVII An hand flat squatted and contused healed by W. H. AN old man called Thomas Smith of Carlton in Northamptonshire husbandman in lopping of a trée had his hand caught betwéen two boughs and was squatted in pieces this contused hand was presently put close together and anointed with oleum philosoporum de Tereb cera and through Gods goodnesse was perfectly cured in eight days CHAP. XVIII A wound or puncture through the Arm I. P. A Young man called Hudson a Carpenter of Carlton in Northamptonshire being thrust through the arm with a pitchfork was thus cured First there was infected magno licore as hot as he could avide it into the woūd Then there was a linnen cloath wet in the same oil applied unto the wound upon the which cloath was also laid a pledget of cerocum magistrale this wounded man was healed in five or six days CHAP. XIX Five wounds in the brest A Certain man that had five stocadoes into the body was thus cured First there was put into the wounds the Quintaessence of wine then were the wounds dressed with balsamo artific which caused him to vomit and to avoid much bruised blood After that he drank every morning a little aqua balsami and in short time by Gods help was perfectly cured Verbum sapienti sat est and a man may know by the half what the whole means By these few experimented secrets you may proceed unto the cure of any wound contusion or puncture in what part of the body so ever they shall be The things wherewith you are to work as balsamum sulfuris oleum philosophorum de Terebinthinae cera cerotum magistrale c. therefore let us proceed unto the experimented secrets concerning Ulcers and Sores either simple or complicate with diseases as they have been observed by those which have proved them CHAP. XX The healing of sore mouthes THe Ulcers and Sores that have béen in the mouths of young and old have been healed by the lotion or gargarism made with plantain water honey suckle water and barley water mixed with saccarum Saturni CHAP. XXI An Ulcer in the upper lippe A Certain Porter of London having an Ulcer on his upper lip which was like a Cancer some called it Noli me tangere continually running with filthy stinking sanies was thus cured First he was purged with Turpetum minerale then was the sore dressed with this medicine Take Aloes lotae half an ounce salis preparati two drams Mellis four ounces misce utere CHAP. XXII An Ulcer in the throat ex Morbo Gallico A Young woman that was much troubled in the throat with a grievous Ulcer was thus cured First she was purged with Aromatico and twice or thrice with our Quintaessence solutive mixed with syrup of roses then was the sore touched with aqua realis two or thrée times with a little lint lastly she used this gargarism Take Mellis rosarum two ounces Diamorum two ounces and a half of honey suckle water sixe ounces oleum vitrioli as much as will suffice to make it tart this hath been often proved in dangerous cases CHAP. XXIII The healing of a scald head A Woman had all her head covered with a most filthe scab which was dry above and moist underneath very noisome to behold who could neither be healed by purging or locall medicines that were used till this medicine was applied unto her Once in a day oleum ligni guaiaci was applied and in short time the scal fell away like a scull of an head and there began hair to grow underneath it this cure was performed in twelve days Another cure performed upon a scald head A Maiden of eighteen years of age having a huge great scal upon her head was cured after she had taken one dose of Aromatico by often washing the part affected with Mater balsami Fioravante CHAP. XXIIII An Ulcer on the thumb ONe had such a filthy stinking vlcer on the thumb that the Chyrurgians would have cut off the whole thumb This party was afterward cured by the application of Fodicationum emplastri CHAP. XXV An Ulcerated legge swoln A Young boy that had an ulcerated leg wonderfully swoln was thus cured He received at two several times Quintaessence solutive with syrup of roses Then were the sores washed with salt of vitrioll dissolved in plantain water a cloth being wet therein and applied thereto morning and evening CHAP. XXVI Two putrified Vlcers on the leg healed by I. P. FIrst this patient was purged with Aromatico Leon once or twice then his ulcers were dressed with this unguent made of rubified vitriol and a cerot called the great Cerot This was applied unto the ulcers with a pledget of lint was suffered to lie 24 hours which mortified the sores Then was more of the same unguent applied with an instrument the escare was loosed round about and in three or four days the escare came away easily with a pair of Mullets then he healed it up with magno licore saccarum plumbi within a while after CHAP. XXVII Three Ulcers in the leg healed by W. H. A Certain woman of Bedford had thrée ulcers in her leg who had sought her cure at the hāds of divers the space of 4 years but could find no help yet she was afterward cured in this manner first she took in the morning fasting Aromatico Leonardo which evacuated her stomack and belly Then was there applied unto y◠sores saccarum plumbi thrée or four days together which caused every day a certain thin skin to come upon the ulcer◠much like the film of an egg the same skin was takē away every day With this medicine following it was dressed the fourth day which caused it to look fair and red the next dressing and so in short time it was perfectly cured To one spoonfull of magno licore was put as much saccarum Saturni as would lie upon a thrée pence and so it was incorporated warm ye sores were dressed therewith every day CHAP. XXVIII The cure of old rotten sores by W. R. A Certain old woman did in this manner help divers old sores in the body first she purged the patients and then she applied this unguent to the sores Take a pot of strong ale and set it to boil over a gentle fire till it was thick like a salve and then use it At the first this medicine will smart and be somewhat painful to bear neverthelesse it will cleanse and heal Also a
and melt a drop of it into the ear and so continue four or five drops and anoint the Ears round about and stuffe it with unwashed wool round about and keep it warm this will ripen the Impostume CHAP. CXLVI A singular medicine for any stopping at the stomack TAke four ounces of Lynseed and boil it in a quart of milk till it come to a pint and anoint the breast therewith then take a peece of scarlet and wet 〈◊〉 throughly in the milk and when it is wet lay it on your breast without warming CHAP. CXLVII An Oyntment to clear the Lungs TAke the pap of rosted apples as much oblibanum as a bean twice as much Sugar candie as oblibanum mingle them together being beaten to powder if the patient be far goue put to it a little oyl of sweet Almon and anoint the breast outwardly with oyl of Almonds CHAP. CXLVIII An Oyntment for deafnesse TAke an English Onion of the greatest you can get and cut of the tip of it then take out some of the meat and fill it up with the best Sallet-oyl then wrap it up in a brown paper and rost it in the â—mbers when iâ— is rosted you must peel it and then strain it through a fair cloath this you may drop with a feather into your ears luke-warm morning and evening and your head must be kept very warm CHAP. CXLIX An Oyntment to break a sore TAke two drams of Cantarides a quarter of an ounce of Pepper and so much vinegar as will make it a perfect oyntment lay this upon a brown paper and apply it CHAP. CL An excellent oyntment for scalding or burning by Mr. Iohn Burghesse which will do more in six weeks then another in three moneths TAke Bacon that is very fat cut of the sward and cut it into Collops very thin and fry it till be black then pour the liquor into water take it out of the water and put it in the pan and fry it again till it be black then pour it into the water again then take it out of the water and put it into the pan and fry it till it be black then pour it forth again and beat it with a little water till it be white put your water clean from it and put your liquor into a posnet take a reasonable quantity of Onions pilled and chopped small put them to the liquor and boil them together and strain it through a cloath and keep it to your use this cured a man that was scalded in a Brewers vessell CHAP. CLI For a burning or scalding SAlt dissolved in water or brine presently takes away the pain and heat of any burning or scalding if it be anointed therewith and especially if it be bathed with linnen cloths dipt therein to heal it that it be not séen Take sheeps suet and sheeps dung the inner rine of elder and boil them through a course cloath and when you use it warm it and lay it on the burnt or scalded place with a feather CHAP. CLII. An Oyntment to take away a Wen. MAke powder of unslackt lime and mire it with black Sope and anoint the Wen with it and the Wen will fall away and when the root is come forth anoint it with oyl of balm and it will heal it perfectly CHAP. CLIII An oyntment for the Shingles TAke Adders-tongue in the moneth of May one pound and three quarters of a pound of fresh clarified Hogs grease and stamp the Adders-tongue very small in a Morter then boil them together and stir them till they become a salve then put it into an earthen pot and anoint the Shingles and spread some of it upon a cloath and lay it upon the Shingles so far as they go this is good against any biting or stinging of a Serpent or â—adde Dogge by anointing the place very hot CHAP. CLIIII An Oyntment for the cold Sciatica or Benummednesle in the thighs or legs TAke a pint of Aqua vitae a pint of Wine Vinegar a quarter of a pound of oyl of Bays the juyce of four or five handfulls of Sage a sawcer full of good Mustard the Gall of an Ore and chase them in the bladder an hour or more that the oyl may be well mingled with the rest and anoint the place therewith against a good fire and let him go warm into his bed and sweat Probatum est CHAP. CLV An Oyntment for the Gout and to comfort the joynts TAke a Fox put the guts and skinne away and cut him in small pieces and take â— gallon of Sallet-Oyl seeth them together with a soft fire and put therein a handfull of Mugwort shred small two onnces of Dill in powder seeth it again in a pound of oyl Olive and a pound of fresh butter seeth it till all the water be consumed then strain it and anoint the joints therewith CHAP. CLVI An Oyntment against the Palsey TAke Ivy-berries and Capons grease three ounces and the roots of Celendine a handfull of Sage of oil of Bays two ounces of oil Olive half a pound beat the hearbs and roots small seeth all these together upon a small fire so strain it and anoint the place grieved this is very pretious There is Flos Vnguentorum or the flower of Oyntments sold by the Apothecary which hath very rare effects for the curing of all old Fistulaes and festred sores of long continuance it draweth any broken bone splinter or thorn out of the flesh It cureth aches or pains in the joints or bones and being rightly made is above all others the most pretious unguent as experience dayly teacheth I have already shewed you many hidden secrets or rare experiments in Physick and Chyrurgery which thou must needs acknowledge to have produced wonderfull great effects yet are they nothing in comparison of these that are behind the reading and right use whereof will render thee a true imitator of him who by his unparallelled wisdome and morall Philosophy knew the virtues and use of all herbs and vegetables from the tall Caedar of Libanon to the Hysop that groweth upon the Wall And foras much as there is none that can with assurance of good successe undertake any cure in Physick without observing certain Rules as hath been already proved unto you in the practiso of Chyrurgery Before I speak of Purges Vomits Waters Drinks and Hearbs in generall I shall recommend some particulars which I always observe in the ministring of Physick CHAP. CLVII Certain Rules to be observed by the learned and expert Physitian A Skilfull Physitian is a continuall Votary or serbant of nature for the right ministring and applying such â—it and proper remedies as may help defend and sustein nature and wast or destroy the malady or disease which that thou mayest effectually perform search diligently to know the cause from whence the distemperature or disease ariseth whether of Phleghm Choller Bloud or Melancholly and whether it be seated in the Stomack Head c. or from a hot or
the dimness of the eyes and cléereth the sight and taken inwardly is very good for the back also the herb infused in warm water and applied plaister wise dissolveth all kind of swillings espâ—ially in the joynts But it is the more effectual if you aâ— thereto Mallows and Smallage The vertues of Pellitory of Spain THis heab is good against the Megrim the Vertigo or the giddiness of the head the Apoplexie the Faling sicknes the Palsie and is singular good for all cold infirmities of the head and sinewes The vertues of of Tobacco TObacco is of singular use both in Phisick Chiurgery Oil of Tobacco is good to anoynt the Stomack and for many other griefs of the body it healeth all manner of wounds and sores if you make a salve thereof thus Take oile of Roses oile of St Johns-wort of each one pint the leaves of Tobacco beaten small in a stone morter two pound boile then together to the consumption of the juice strain it and put it to the fire againe adding thereto of venis Turpentine two ounces of Oblibanum and Mastick of each half an ounce in fine powder put thereto so much wax and Rosin as will make it into a Salve Tobacco is also the â—est medicin that is for deafnes if you use it in this manner Take a quart of runing water and put if into a new piâ—kin and put thereto 3. ounces of Varinus Tobacco opened into the leaf and boil it to a pint then strain it hard and kéep it a glass vial for your use When you go to bed warm a little of this water bloud warme then soak therein a little black wooll and put it into both your ears do thus every morning and evening as you find occasion This cured a Lady that was deaf sixtéen years Of the use and virtue of Ebulus or Dane-wort TAke the buds of this vegetable when they are young and green perboil them in water and make thereof a sallad and give unto those that have costive bodies and it will provoke them to stool It is an herb very profitable for the sinews it comforteth the weak parts and preserveth such as are weak in the joynts from many accidents it purgeth phlegm which for the most part causeth debility of the nerves Whosoever useth to drink of a sirrup made of the berries thereof shall not be troubled with ye Gout nor any disease in the articular parts The seed dried is profitable against all infirmities caused of humidity The use and vertue of black Ellebore THe root of black Ellebore being dried and kept two years may be safely used without other preparation and may be ministred against any infirmity that hath his originall of a melancholy cause Therefore it is most appropriate against the feaver quartain lunatick persons vexed wt melaÌ„choly The use and virtues of the hearb called Gratia Dei a kind of Geranium in English blew Storks-bill TAke of Gratia Dei dried in the shadow and beaten into fine powder one ounce Cinamen â— dram Cloves one scruple Wheat-flower one pound Orenges-condite one ounce make thereof a paste with honey and bake it in the Oven with bread but take great heed that it burn not Of this you shall give one ounce to purge against many infirmities but above the rest against Scrophulae against scabs and the white scall For it evacuateth onely the superfluous humidity of the body it drieth and is appropriate for such kind of infirmities Howbeit you must note that all soluble medicines are not fit for one disease or complexion for chiefly and properly Rubarb purgeth choller black Elebore avoideth melancholy Danewort dispossesseth the body of phlegm and this herb cleanseth the bloud Therefore every one hath his peculiar propertie though sometime either of them may work upon more causes than one yet not so properly or simply but by accident and in regard of circumstances Two drams of the powder of this hearb drunk in wine or broth provoketh vomite and siege and is very good for such as are lunatick It helpeth or at the least delayeth the extremity of the feaver it is good against griefs in the stomack and wind in the belly A decoction thereof made with lie helpeth putrified vlcers if they be washed therewith for as it purgeth the stomack so it cleanseth the sore and healeth it quickly if you wet a cloath in the said lie and apply it thereunto The virtues of Rubarb THe hearb called in ye Italian toÌ„gue Lappacia maggiore or Rombice domestiee is a kind of Rubarb which among the learned Herbarists is termed by the name Rha recentiorum whereof one dram when it is new will lose the body evacuate choller as the Rhabarbarum doth It is very good against the â—ppilations it purgeth the bloud and taketh away scabs You shall have a most precious medicine thereof if you mix the gréen root with Honey Cinamon Saffron Ginger and the powder of Roses If you rost the root in the embers and mix it with condifed Sugar it breaketh the Scrophulae and mundifieth them and healeth them in short time Some do mix it with the gum called Ammoniacum and so do bring it into the form of an unguent and apply it unto the parts affected with the Scrophulae The virtues of Tithymale GAther the hearb Tithymale called Spurge in the moneth of May take forth the juyce and mix it with Sugar-roset or Sugar-violet in fine powder theÌ„ make of theÌ„ both a moist past keep it in a glasse close stopped When you purpose to use it minister two scruples thereof in broth or any other convenient sirrup It purgeth without pain helpeth all feavers that come of heat working not only by ye stool but provoking of sweat also It resolveth all continual and quotidian fevers when the parties affected therewith be hot and their sweat cold yea though they be brought very low it wil by Gods help deliver them of their troublesome adversary Laurcola doth also move the body by vomit and siege but it may not be used in any continuall feaver or quotidian because it will inflame too much The virtues of Soldanella THis herb groweth in Sandy and salt ground and is hot and dry It purgeth vomite and siege and is excellent against the dropsie all windinesse and unwholsome moisture in the body Being taken in lozinges with Aromatico the quantity of one dram it sendeth forth all the noisome waterinesse out of the body drying and heating those parts in an excellent manner The virtues of Cyperus THe herb Cyperus called in English Galingal being put into new wine giveth it an excellent good taste smel prevailing against inward passioÌ„s caused of wind It is good for such as are bursten for it resolveth the wind if you take the powder thereof being stamped very small and make a plaister thereof with other things appropriate thereunto applying the same to the rupture and changing it once every day Also if the patient do once a day
eat of the root he shall in short space be helpen of that disease The virtues of Elder TAke the roots of Elder wash them clean and scrape them till you come to the wood stamp that sul stance and take the juyce and strain it boil it and scum it wel and for every ounce of the juyce take one ounce of Mel rosarum and drink it for it will cool the stomack help hot feavers quickly and purge the bloud The virtues of sweet Margerome TAke sweet Margerome and stamp it and take of the juyce one ounce oyl of bitter almonds one dram and one scruple of Mastich and snuffe it up at the nose thrée or four mornings together and anoint the head with oyl of egs This purgeth the head of all pains dissolveth tumorsrquickeneth the sight and provoketh sléep The use and vertues of Persicaria YOu shall understand that this herb doth work in a manner against all infirmities most strangely to behold For if you take the powder thereof and put it upon Copper molten it will in the projection become like gold and will draw if to a small quantity and make it malleable and soft like gold except the colour Also if you make a strong lie of the ashes of Perficaria and therein boil yellow brunstone it will draw out of it quick-silver which is the Phylosophers Mercury This herb doth also most notably preserve a man from many infirmities if one part thereof be taken whiles it is dry and one other part of Specia venetiane being both of them well incorporate together and used in your meats Of man and the Medicines that are made of him MAn is a rational or reasonable creature whereof we have written at large in our book called Phifica del Fioravante But here we will onely write of certain medicines that may be made or derived from him which are for the ease help and remedy of divers infirmities which are in men and women The reason whereof is very good for every like rejoiceth with and helpeth his like and therefore man serveth for man The fat of a man is as every man knoweth hot and penetrative and mollifying if you anoint the parts therewith where the sinews be hard and drawn together or contracted therefore it will quickl resolve them I have made the Quintaessence of mans bloud rectified and circulated with the which I have done most wonderfull cures for if you give thereof one dram it will â—estore those that lie at the point of death It is most profitable against the infirmities that are in the bloud for it correcteth the malignity of the bloud and preserveth it as well as the spirit of wine If you put a little of it into an hogs head of Wine it will purifie it and preserve it along time more then any other thing whatsoever So that this Quintaessence worketh more effects for the cure of great and dangerous infirmities then any other Also from the liver of a man will be drawn by distillation a water and an oyl If the water be drunk every morning together by the space of a moneth in the quantity of one dram with two ounces of Liver-wort it will recover such as are half â—otten through diseases of the liver and hath divers other properties whereof I will not speak at this time From the flesh of man distilled there will come forth a stinking water and an oyl which is most excellent to anoint wounds withall when they are badly healed and that there remain any hurt in these parts that they are not so sensible pliant as they were wont to be before this dissolveth them And it mollifieth and softeneth all hardnesse of tumor of what originall soever it shall come From the forepart of a mans scull there is drawn by distillation a water an oyl and a salt which is most profitably used against the falling sicknesse Of Bees and their medicinal use BEes are of nature hot moist having a generative property For it they be given to any barren creature they shall conceive in short time after Also if you lay dead Bees in a dry place to putrifie wetting them sometime wt wine they wil revive again though not as they were before but they will be much bigger and of another form These Bées if you bring into powder with as much Cantarides boil them a little with oyl of Camomil and anoint any part where the hair is fallen away and it shall quickly come again and in a short space a most strange thing to behold The use of Frogs THe skins of Frogs being boiled and made into the form of a plaister with wax and frankincense is very profitable for such as have any maligne or troublesome accident about their legs through heat The fat of Frogs is a wonderfull medicine against Fueco sacro or St. Anthonies fire a disease happening unto children and others through the great heâ—t that is in their bloud The use and vertues of the resine or gum called Tacca Mahacca TAke thereof as much as you will distil it in a reâ—ort of glasse and from it there will come both oyl and water Of which I have séen divers medicines made against sundry diseases Anoint the belly with this oyl cold when you go to bed and it helpeth against the crudity of the Matrix If the genitel part of the man be anointed therewith before the act of generation the woman shall be the more fit for conception for by this means some kind of sterility is taken away It helpeth and easeth pain in the head procéeding of a cold stomack It helpeth digestion and resolveth pain throughout the body in what part soever they shall come especially when they have their beginning of cold The water hereof dissolveth wind in the stomack helpeth digestion provoketh vrine mitigateth all feavers that come of cold The virtues of the gum Caranna and the medicinall properties of it TAke it and distill it in a retort with the yolks and whites of eggs and there will come forth oyl and water the oyl whereof will be black and the water red The water of Carrana helpeth Chilblains and all chopps or clifts in the lipps arising of cold in the winter It is a great ease for the sore breasts of women that give suck The oyl worketh wonderfull effects in wounds of the head arm or legs Anoint a simple wound therewith once or twice and it will very spéedily be healed Take a quantity of this gum and mix it with as much of the seed of Water-cresses and the white of an egge and make thereof a cerot to apply unto a rupture wherewith it wil in short time be healed all other circumstances being also observed Of liquid Amber and the medicinall vertues thereof TAke liquid Amber and distill it in a retort and from thence there will come a red oyl This oyl is used against all indispositions of cold and moisture or wind The same healeth scabs and is good for wounds If you anoint
a little kéep it close for thy use and when you will you may take a spoonfull warm in the morning and gargle therewith Another gargarism to purge the head and brain by Dr. Deodate Take six spoonfuls of wine vinegar and twelve spoonfulls of water and two spoonfuls of honey clarifie thâ—â— together and adde thereto one spoonfull of mustard aâ—â— gargle therewith CHAP. LX The Pin and Web cured by M. R. HE took a handfull of Centumpedes or sows stamped and strained them with ale and gave the patient to drink thereof three or four mornings and willed the patient to stop his nose and mouth and to hang down his head and therewith he was healed as I was credible certified CHAP. LXI A water for sore eyes proved by M. E. â— Gentlewoman with this water hath cured a very â—reat number of sore eys She took an egge hard â—odden cut in the middest and took forth the yolk and pot thereto as much white Coporas as a nut Then she closed it together and wrapped it in red Fennell and laid it to steep four and twenty hours in Rose water then she strained it hard through a cloath and dropped it into the eys morning and evening it was held 〈◊〉 a great secret Another manner or way to heal the Pinne and Web in the eyes Take nine of the Worms called Centumpedes or Sowâ— stamp and strain them with the juyce of Woodbine or Betony for thrée or four mornings together warm which being drunk will consume the web in the eye Another way to cure a Web or Pearl in the eye Take the white of a new laid egg beaten to an oil and the juyce of Deasy roots and leaves and of the juyce of the leaves and roots of brown Fennel and of the juyce of the leaves the roots of white hony-suckle with the three leaves and the figure of an eye in the leaf take of these juyces two good spoonfuls and put to the white of the eg and a little spoonful of pure honey and a spoonfull of womans milk and one spoonfull of Rose-water and a half penny-worth of Sperma city as much white Sugar-Candy beaten and as much white Coporas as a good Nutines made into fine powder work them all together with a silver spoon and scum off the foam and put it into a glasse close stopped and lying on your back with a feather drop 2 or 3 drops at a time into your eye using it so thrée times a day till it is well CHAP. LXII The staying of the bleeding at the nose done by M. R. TAke burnt Lome two handfuls sharp vinegar half a p 〈…〉 mixe them well and lay it between a linnen cloth and bind it to the forehead cold and in short space it will stint Another for the same by I. H. A man of fifty years of age had a great flux of bloud at the nosethrill which had continued a long time and could find noremedy till he used this order and medicine following First his ring finger was bound hâ—d with a thred then was the cataplasm following applied to his forehead and temples Lake burnt lome made in powder strong vinegar as much as wil suffice to make it in form of a cataplasm to be applied cold thus in few hours the bloud stinted Neverthelesse he took morning and evening the fame of Succinum album at the mouth and nose which stayed the flux and comforted the vitall and animall spirits His diet was cold and drying his drink was water or red wine wherein was put Crocus martis Another kind of curing the same performed by D. B. One bleeding at the nose a day and a night was thus helped he made a tent of lint and dipped it in Ink and put it into his nosethrils and laid a defensative over his eys and nose made with Sanguis draconis Bolealmoniack and a little vinegar Another way Many have been cured by applying unto their privities a linnen cloath wet in vinegar Another Some have had the bleading stinched by applying the harb Peruinca unto the nose Other ways to do the same Carduus Benedictus bruised and put up into the nosethrills Qinteth the bléeading at the nose The same it performeth in a wound The herb Geranium which hath a red stalk being put into the nosethrils or wound doth the same very often proved In like manner and to the same effect worketh Crocus martis Also the bloud of a man dried worketh after the same order both for the staying of bloud at the nose and in a wound CHAP. LXIII Spatting of bloud stayed by I. H. A Certain woman spat bloud three or four days in great quantity who was cured by drinking the decoction of mints in vinegar Another for the same Also five or six drops of oleum Machich drunk in Cinaâ—non-water staieth the spatting of bloud CHAP. LXIIII. The falling down of Vuula and the inflamation of the Almonds in such sort that they could not swallow their meat nor fetch their breath well cured by W. T. TAke white Amber grossely beaten I ounce and with a funnel take the sume thereof cast on a few coals morning noon and night Then take one ounce of old leaven and spread it plaisterwise on a cloath strew thereon a little Comminséed and the powder of white Ambar and apply it half an hand breath to the crown of the head the space of a whole day then at night lay on another and in short time it will take away the swelling often proved CHAP. LXV The cure of the hicket by W. B. ONe that was divers times grievously troubled with the Hicquet was cured by applying a brown faâ—â— warm to his stomack the tost was stéeped in Eriacle and Aquavitae Another Divers have béen cured by taking there of four or five grains of Laudanum nostrum in wine or Malmsey CHAP. LXVI The falling sicknesse cured by W. H. A Certain woman being a Barbers wife in Bedfordshire which was grieved therewith every change of the Moon was preserved by taking each day thrée drops of olcum Heracles with the extrad of Pione Another performed by I. H. FIrst you shall purge them with the extract of Helleborus niger the dose whereof is from eight grains to twelve being before well corrected and then drunk in some convenient liquor or potion That done he gave them morning and evening of this composition the which the longer that they use the better it will be for them Lake essenciae Peoniae conserve of Rosemary flowers of Betony of each so much as is sufficient mixe them together inform of an eleduary then adde thereto for every ounce of that composition of oleum cranij humani one scruple and half a scruple of oil of Kosemary flowers and twelve ounces of oleum vitrioli Hereof let them take half an ounce at a time either by it self or with some convenient liquor broth or potion Also the nuke of the neck must be anointed with oleum castorei when they
yet iâ— it a thing greatly to be regarded For many great personages that liâ—e easily and are tormented with the gout have also this grief in those parts but the order to cure them is this First you shall cut the nail on that part where it most grieveth them then take it away which you may do easily without any great pain to the patient for the nail is already separated from the grieved place Thus when the nail is taken away touch it with our Caustick whereof mention is made in our treatise of the plague Let it so remain thrée days together then dresse it every day with Magno licore untill it be whole which will be in a very short time CHAP. CXIX Of Eriâ—ipcla or tumour in the face or any other part of the body and the cure thereof THis disease as experience sheweth is caused of an hot and fiery moisture arising in the face arms and legs for where it is the pores are stopped yâ— the said moisture cannot have expiration whereupon cometh tumor as also a shutting and closing up of those pores by means of the ordinary anointing them with fats oils c. or other cold things a common course of common Chyrurgians Against this there cannot be found a more present remedy then the spirit of wine or Aqua ardens or bathing it with hot water and if you wash the parts afflicted with our Quintaessence the pores will be opened and it penetrateth and assubtilateth that humidity causing it to come forth Also you shall find that by drinking our Quintaessence and anointing the stomack with oleum cerae divers are cured of a certain heat retained in the stomack CHAP. CXX The cure of Warts THere is an herb called Herba di vento in the juyce whereof if you wet a cloath and bind it upon the warts they will wear away in short time after CHAP. CXXI For giddinesse in the head TAke the juyce of Prim-rose leaves or the flowers in the Summer or of the juyce of roots in Winter and put into your ear and stop it with black Wooll and lie down upon it CHAP. CXXII To help one that is deaf TAke the inner bark of an elder bough stamp it and strain it and put the juyce into your Ears stop your Ears with Wooll and keep you warm with it CHAP. CXXIII For Ears that run and are full of water TAke two parts of the Gall of a barrow hog half as much of the best honey boil these together in thick glasses in hot ashes till half be consumed and so use it prescribed by Dr. Nicholas for Henry Medlex CHAP. CXXIIII For sore Ears TAke the juyce of Knot grasse and seeth it with honey and wine and pour a quantity thereof into the patients ear and stop the ear with cotten and lie down on the contrary side In the next place I shall shew you many rare and hidden secrets for the making and use of our Balsamo Artificiato or the Artificiall Balsome often mentioned before and severall other excellent Balsomes Oyles and Ointments with the rare effects thereof CHAP. CXXV The making of Balsamo Artificiato or the Artificiall Balsome with a declaration of the effects and virtues thereof TAke of Uenice Turpentine one pound of perfect oil of Bays four ounces oil Galbanum three ounces of Gum Arabeck four ounces of Lignum aloes Galingal Cloves Consolida major Cinamon Nutmegs Zedoana Ginger Diptanum album of each one ounce of Olibanum Mirrha elected Gum Hedera of each thrée drams of the best Musk and Amber of each one dram of rectified Aqua vitae sir pound put all these in a new earthen pot and let them stand seven days close stopped that no air goesin then distill them in a glasse retortive in sand And the first water that cometh is white mingled with oil after you have drawn a sufficient quantity of this increase your fire and there will come a black oil and water which you are to take in another Receiver increasing your fire according to Art til it drop no more then separate the oils from the waters and the black oil is the Artificial Balsame The inventor of this Balsom will never want praise so long as Letters are printed and mens bodies subject to griefs and infirmities for besides the many great and rare virtues you find it hath in the various applying thereof according to the rules set down in the severall places of this Book The first water is excellent good to clear the eyes and preserveth the sight the face also being washed therewith it makes it fresh smooth and young The white oil breaketh and dissolveth the stone or gravel in the kidneys it being drunk it provoketh urine cureth all kind of wounds Sciatica's pains and aches in the joints The black water is called the mother of Balsame and cureth scabs botches scurffs and all sorts of Ulcers in any part of the body in a very short time There is an Artificial Balsomsold by the Apothecaries very good for most of the things before specified CHAP. CXXVI Another most excellent Balsom which cureth all wounds in a very short time it is good for all pains and aches for the Cramp stiff members shrunk sinews c. TAke of swéet oil Olive ten pound white Wine one pound boil these together till the wine be consumed let it cool and put it into a stone pot then adde unto it of the flowers of rosemary one pound and a half of Lignum aloes thrée ounces of Olibanum of Bdellinum of each five ounces then stop your pot well with cork pitch and bladders and bury it in the earth about the begining of August and there let it remain about half a year then take it out and put in these following things Take of Sage Rosemary Betony Rue Yarrow of the roots of Consolida major of leaves of Viâ—icella otherwise called Balsamina of the flowers of Tapsus Barbatus of each thrée handfuls of Galingal Cloves Nutmegs spica nardi Saffron of each half an ounce of Sarcocolla fanguis draconis Mastick of each one ounce of Aloes Epatica rosin of the Pins of each four ounces of Colophoina half a pound of the tops with the séeds of Hypericon of musk half a dram of yellow war of Hogs grease of each nine ounces of oil of wax and mans grease of each three ounces The hearâ—â— yâ— shal cut smal stamp the rest of the things to powder and put them all into the oil mingle them well and set them all the Summer in the Sun then boil them till the hearbs be dry then strain the oil put in some of the Apothecaries Artificiall Balsame the quantity of ten ounces and in the moneth of September put in of the fruit of Balsamina when it is red one pound then kéep it close stopped In defect of Balsamina you may take yâ— tops of the Madelin with the flowers it is not amisse to adde to your Balsame Gum Elemin or the oil of Gum Elemin distilled
if the gums it must be put in with the other Gume about four ounces if oil put it in with the Artificial Balsame about two ounces this Gum is most pretious CHAP. CXXVII An excellent Balsome to cure deep wounds and punctures made by some narrow sharp pointed weapon which Balsam doth bring up the flesh from the bottom very speedily and also healeth simple cuts in the flesh according to the first intention that is to glue or soder the lips of the wounds together not procuring matter or corruption as is commonly seen in healing of wounds TAke oil of roses oil of Saint John Wort of either one pint the leaves of Tobaco stamped small in a stone morter two pound boil them together to the consumption of the juyce strain it and put it to the fire again adding thereto of Uenice Turpentine two ounces of Olibanum and Mastick of either half an ounce in most fine and subtile powder the which you may at all times make into an unguent or salbe by putting thereto War and Râ—â—â— to give it a stiffe body which worketh well in maligne and virulent ulcers as in wounds and punctures CHAP. CXXVIII To make the Italians Belsam to heal a green wound preâ—ently It is that which they which are called Mountebanks use when they heal them whom they would and stab upon Stages It conglutinates and cements very suddenly any green wound by cut or thrust though never so deep in the flesh if it be not ranckled and festered TAke a pint of Sallet-oil and three ounces of Barrel-pitch two ounces of yellow Waxe an ounce and an half of Rosin and seeth them about half an hour upon a soft fire and mingle them very well upon the fire and then take them off and put them into little pots for your use and warm a little in a sawâ—er and put it not very hot into the wound but little more than bloud warm and take also a soft linnen cloth and put it into the Balsame and lay it over the wound and use it fresh and new morning or evening and it cures presently CHAP. CXXIX To make a Balsome of St. Johns wort TAke White-Wine two pints Oyle Olive four pounds Oyl of Turpentine two pounds the leaves flowers and leeds of St. Johns Wort of each two great handfuls gently bruised Put them all together into a great double glasse and set it in the Sun eight or ten days then boil them in the same glass in a kattle of water with some straw in the bottom wherein the glasse must stand to boil which done strain the liquor from the herbs and do as you did before putting in the like quantity of herbs flowers and seeds but not any more Wine Dioscorides saith that the seed drunk for fourty days together cureth the Sciatica and all aches that happen in the hips The same Author saith that being drunk with Wine it taketh away Tertian and Quartan Agues CHAP. CXXX To make Oyl of Exceter good for all manner of aches or bruises TAke a pound of the flowers of Cowslips in May stéep them in oil Olive in as much quantity as they may easily be laid in then take Calamint herb John Red Sage Wild-Sage Sugar Sotherwood Wormwood Penyroyoll Lavender Pelitory Camomill Pelitory of Spain Bays Howes flowers of Lillies of either of the aforesaid herbs one handfull and these herbs must be gathered in June grind them in a Morter as small as gréen sawce when it is so done take the flowers of Couslips out of the oil with clean hands and put them in white Wine a night and a day and take as much Wine as they may easily stéep in then take the herbs with the Wine and boil them together with the oil Olive that the Couslips were steeped in and let it boil so long over a fast fire untill the Wine and the Water be wasted away When it is boiled enough take it off the fire and wring it through a strong linnen cloath then put it in a Vessel of Tyn of Glasse for no other Vessel will hold it This oyntment will last 3 years and it must be made in the moneth of June it is good for all manner of aches and bruises CHAP. CXXXI To make Oyl of Roses the best way TAke half a pound of red-rose leaves and stamp them very small and then take a pound of oyl Olive and mingle with your roses and put them in a glasse well stopped and séeth them in a Vessell with water the space of six hours and then strain them through a clean cloth and kéep it in a glasse and by this proportion you may make as much and as little as you will CHAP. CXXXII Another way of making Oyl of Roses TAke Roses and oil Olive of each alike quantity in weight shred them and put them in a Vessel of glasse stop it well and hang it in a vessel of water upto the neck two moneths and every day stir it oâ—câ— unsâ—â—p it again and strain it through a Canvas and put away the grounds so kéep it in a vessel of glasse well stopped fâ—â— this is a colder kind then the other CHAP. CXXXIII To make Oyl oâ— Lillies TAke Sâ—lleâ— oyl and put into it a good quâ—â—tity of the flowers of white Lillies then set it in a pot of 〈◊〉 water and let your oyl your Lillies boil a good whiâ—e then wring out your Lillies put in more Lillies and set them in the Sun and let them stand so long as you think convenient then take them out and put in more Lillies so change them once or twice more as you think good for want of flowers you may take the root and stamp it and boil it as aforesaid CHAP. CXXXIIII To make Oyl of Balm TAke oil Benedict one pound gum of Ivie séed of Balm then take chosen How 's Turpentine four ounces mingle them together on a little fire three or four times till it hath a little colour and shining and till it come to thicknesse of honey or Turpentine then kéep it pretiously This oil is good for all aching of â—nâ—ws coming of cold it kéeps dead bodies from rotting and corruption It is good for all other things for the Palsey and the falling sicknesse and the stone in the reins and in the bladder and to cure all corâ—ednesse of limbs CHAP. CXXXV To make Oyl of Worms for an ach TAke a pint of Sallet oil and a pint of red Worms a handfull of Rosemary and a handfull of Comphâ—ry then take these and châ—p them together very small thâ—n put them into the oil and let them boil till they 〈◊〉 enough then strain them through a linnen cloath and so keep them close covered the older it is the better when it is boiled enough then it will sâ—mber softly if it boil too much it will flame away CHAP. XXXVI To make Oyl of St. Johns Wort. TAke the leaves flowers and séeds of St. Johns Wort stamped and put them into a glasse with Oyl
made more easie but also she shall bring forth her child without pain Take of the great Treacle one sccuple which is the weight of twenty four barley corns the powder of Liquorice and the powder of Sinamon of either three grains of good white wine one ounce and a half mixed altogether and make thereof a drink and let it be given to the woman with child in such manner as is before sayed CHAP. CLXXV An excellent Drink to purge Melancholly and choller to cleanse the bloud and to comfort the heart TAke of Salsaparilla four ounces of Sena munda four ounces of China roots two ounces of Rubarb thrée drams of Epithamum half an ounce of Polipodium roots three ounces of Madder roots one handfull of red-Dock roots the pith taken out and sliced one handfull of swéet Fennell-roots and Annis-séeds of each half an ounce of Sinamon Mace and Nutmegs of each thrée drams of Scabius and Egrimony of each one handfull Then take your Salsaparilla China Rubarb Polipodium and Madder and scrape and slice them and beat them into grosse powder and powder the Fennell and Annis-séeds Nutmegs Mace and Sinamon And put the Epithamum Dock-roots Sena Egrimony and Scabions whole into a bag of course Boulter or Loomwork incompassing the powder in the hearbs in putting them into the bay And put the bag into an empty barrel and after put six gallons of Beer to it but let nâ—t the barrell be full lest it work over and stop it close and after it hath stood seven dayes drink thereof every morning a wine pint and the like quantity about four of the clock in the afternoon But put the bag first empty into the empty barrell and after put in the ingredients thereto CHAP. CLXXVI Doctor Deodats Scurbubical Drinke TAke Cardus Benedictus Roman-wormwood Brooklime Scurvey-grass Water-cresses Water Trefoil of each one handful of Doder Cetrach Scolopendria Burrage Bugalos Sorrel Spéedwel of each one handful of Elicompain roots one ounce to these hearbs clean picked and washed put thrée ounces of Reasons of the sun stoned fiftéen slices of Lemons and as many of Drenges Boil all these in as much white-wine as will well boil the hearbs and let it boil till it comes to a pint and a half A Scurbutical Sirrup to take with the former Drinke TAake juice of Scurvey grass Watercresses and Brooklime of each six ounces of the juice of Dranges and Lemons of each foure ounces First clarifie the juices then put to it a pound and thrée quarters of Suger let it boil to a sirrup then take two spoonfuls of it in foure spoonfuls of the Drinke at the houres of six in the morning and four in the afternoon CHAP. CLXXVII A Diet-Drinke for any disease that is curable prescribed by three Dutch Doctors TAke of Hermodactiâ—is two ounces of Salsaperilla four ounces of Séene Alexandr. four ounces of Saxafras wood two ounces of Liquorice one ounce of Annis-séeds one ounce of long Pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabius one handful of Egrimony half a handfull of Water-cresses and Brook-lime of each one great handfull of Sea Scurvey-grasse two great handfuls of good Nutmegs one ounce let all the woods be slit and cut small and the hearbs shred and put into a bag and hang it in a barrell with six gallons of new ale and let it stand and settle eight days then drink continually of it and no other drink while it lasteth and eat bakers bread with Corâ—ander-séeds and keep a good diet use this six weeks CHAP. CLXXVIII A Purging Ale TAke of the juyce of Scurvey-grasse four pound of Water-cresses two pound of Brooklime one pound of Water mints half a pound of the hearb of dry Wormwood four handfulls of the roots of Madder four ounces the roots of Muncks Rubarb three ounces Roots of Horse-radish one ounce and a half the roots of Saxafras one ounce of Sena four ounces Juniper-berries half an ounce of Anni-séeds Earni-seeds and Ginger of each six drams Another To a pint of the whay of Goats-milk put of Sena half an ounce of Ginger clean scraped and thin sliced of Anni-séeds and sweet Fennel-seeds well dusted and lightly bruised of each the weight of four pence let them stand so an hour or an hour and a half on warm embers in infusing the next morning to a draught hereof put a spoonfull of sirrup of Roses and as this agreeth with you take it two or three days together or every other day CHAP. CLXXIX An excellent Diet-drink TAke the roots of Monks Rubarb and red Madder of each half a pound Sena four ounces Anni-seed and Liquorice of each two ounces Scabius and Egrimony of each one handfull slice the roots of the Rubarb bruise the Anni-séed and Liquorice break the herbs with your hand and put them into a stone pot called a stean with four gallons of strong ale to stéep or infuse the space of three days and then drink this liquor as your ordinary drink for three weeks together at the least though the longer you take it the better providing in a readinesse another stean so prepared that you may have one under another being always carefull to keep a good diet It cureth the dropsie the yellow Jaundies all manner of itches scabs or breakings out of whole bodies it purifieth the bloud from all corruption prevaileth against the green sicknesse very greatly and all obstructions or stopping it makes young maids to look fresh and fair helpeth the stoppage of their monethly sicknesse CHAP. CLXXX The making of a very precious water TAke a gallon of good gascoin wine the roots of Galingal Nutmegs Grains Cloves Anni-séeds Fennell-seeds Caraway-seeds of each a dram then take Sage Mint red-Roses garden Time Pellicory Rosemary Wild-time Camomil Penny-royal Margerome then beat the spices small and beat the hearbs and put all into the Wine and let it stand for twelve hours stirring it divers times theÌ„ distil it in a limbeck and keep the first water by it self for it is the best then keep the second water for it is very good but not so good as the first The virtues of this Water It comforteth the spirits or vitall parts it healeth any inward disease that cometh of cold it is good against the shaking Palsie and cureth the contraction of sinews and helpeth the conception of women that be barren it killeth worms in children or elder persons it helpeth the cold gout it cureth the cold Dropsie it helpeth the stone in the bladder and in the reins of the back and whosoever useth this water now and then and not too often it preserveth him in good liking and shall make him look exceeding young and youthfull CHAP. CLXXXI A most excellent water for the Stomack and for a Surfeâ— TAke of the best purest Aqua-vitae you can get and put thereto thrée dozen of Reasons of the sun stoned thrée Figs sliced two Dates quartered and the white taken out a quarter of an ounce of Cloves a quarter of an
the stomack therewith it will exceedingly comfort the same for it is a thing uncorruptible and like unto Balsamum The vertues of Oak-Apples THe Oak-apples are good against all Flures of blend and lasks in what manner soever it be taken but she best way into boil them in red-wine and so prepared it is good against the excessive moisture and swillings of the Jaws and almonds or kernels in the threat The decoction of Oak-apples stays womens sicknesse and causeth the mother that is fallen down to return again to his naturall place if they do sit over the said decoction being very hot The same steeped in strong white-Wine vinegar with a little powder of brimstone and the roots of Frocus mingled together and set in the sun by the space of a moneth maketh the hair black consumeth proud and superfluous flesh it taketh away any sun-burning freckles spots the morphew and all deformities of the face being washed therewith The vertues of Crabs THe juyce of Crabs taketh away the heat of burning or scalding and all inflamation and being laid on in short time after it is scalded it kéepeth it from blisstring The juyce or verjuyce is astringent or binding and hath withal an abstersive quality being mixed with hard yeest of Ale or Beer and applied in manner of a cold oyntment that is spread upon a cloathfirst wet in verjuyce and wrung out and then laid to taketh away the heat of St. Anthonies fire allinflamations whatsoever it healeth scabbed legs burning and scalding whatsoever it be The virtues of Adders-tongue THe leaves of Adders-tongue stamped in a stone morter and boiled in oyl of Ovide unto the consumption of the juyce untill the herbs be dry and parched then strained will yield a most excellent green oyl or rather a Baisome for gréen wounds comparable unto oyl of St. Johns Wort if not far surpassing it by many degrées whose beauty is such that very many Artists have thought the same to have been mixed with Uerdigrease To make Salt of any Plant or Herb. TAke a good quantity of what Plant you please that is full of juyce beat it in a Stone morter and put running-running-water thereto then boil it to the consumption of the one half strain it very hard and boil this decoction to the thicknesse of a sirrup and set it in a glasse eight days and on the top you will find a kind of Salt like Sal Gem take that and wash it in the water of the herb whereof it was made and dry it In this manner you may make Salt of Wormwood Balm c. The vertues of Sow-bread THe root maketh the skin fair and clear and cureth all scabs and scurffs and the falling of the hair and taketh away the marks and spots that remain after the small pocks and meazels and all other blemishes of the face the root hanged upon women in travell causeth them to be delivered incontinently The virtues of Saxifrage THe root of Saâ—afrage drunk with Wine and Uinegar cureth the Pestilence holden in the mouth preserveth a man from the said disease and purifieth the corrupt air the same being chewed in the mouth maketh one to avoid much phiegm draweth from the brain all grosse and clammy superfluities asswageth Tooth-ach and bringeth speech again to them that are taken with the Apoplexie the juyce of the leaves doth take and cleanse away all spots and freckles and beautifieth the face and leaveth a good colour it is of excellent use against the Stone The vertue of Maiden hair MAiden-hair being green and stamped and layed upon a place that wanteth hair causeth it to grow The vertue of the Ash-tree THe Ash-tree for such as are too fat or grosse men use to take dayly thrée or four ashen-leaves to drink in wine to the intent to make them lean The vertues of Violets VIolets stamped and laied to the head alone or mingled with oyl removeth the extream heat asswageth head-ach provoketh sléep and moisteneth the brain it is good therefore against the drinesse of the head against melancholy and dullnesse or heavinesse of spirit The vertues of Hysop HYsop sod in vinegar and holden in the mouth asswageth tooth-ach the decoction thereof doth scatter congealed and clotted bloud and all black marks that come of stripes or beating and also cureth the itch scratch and foul manginesse if it be washed therewithall Gillow-stowers or Wall-flowers the juyce thereof dropped into the eye doth wast and scatter all dimnesse in the same The vertues of Oak-leaves OAk-leaves stamped very small do heal and close up green wounds and doth stop the bloud being layed thereupon The vertues of Hoar hound HOar-hound boiled in water cleanseth the breast and lungs helpeth the pain in the side is good against the Tysick and the ulceration of the lungs Of the Barbil and to what use she serveth in medicine IN the moneth of May the Barbil hath egs which are of a soluble quality and of some those eggs be eaten they shall be provoked to vomite They have a quality contrary to other purgers they must be dried in the sun mixed with a little Sena and then ministred in wine or water that is sodden When it hath wel wrought the patients must eat good meat to nourish them and may drink wine and when they are disposed thereto suffer them to sleep Of Centumpedees called in English Sows IF you minister the powder of these creatures in-wine it hath many excellent properties but chiefly it hath béen experienced greatly to prevail againss the stitch in the side for it will help that grief presently If you burn the little créeking creature called a cricket and minister the power thereof in some Diuretick liquor it provoketh urine Mallows Alkakengi Centum nodi Centum grava and the roots of Rapes are of like property being handled and used according to art There are oftentimes found in standing pools and putrified waters certain small creatures which are round like a cherry having a tail and two feet which are in Lombardy called Comazzi Take these and distill thereof a water or liquor wherewith you may very soon consume or break iron a very great secret observed in nature How to make a Plaister for the Rheum TAke of Dears-Suet Uirgin-War Rosen perâ—-osen a quarter of a pound of each Obliganum Benjamin Mastick take of each a quarter of an ounce two drams of Camphire beat these small take thrée pennyworth of Turpentine boil all these together in a pint of white-Wine except the Turpentine which must be put in after it is taken off the fire and stir it till it be cold then temper it in your hands and so role it up in roles and keep it close from fire CHAP. CCV The natures and temperatures of Herbs in generall THese herbs be of their own nature hot and very cordiall and comfortable for the heart and good against melancholy viz. Angelica Balm The flowers of Rosemary Cardus Benedictus Roman Wormwood Margerom Mints Winter Savory These herbs be in like manner hot but of a contrary quality that is they tend to the comsorting of the stomack and to help digestion Common Wormwood Lavender Camomilll Basell These herbs be in like manner hot but tend to the opening of the lungs Isop Elecampane roots Fennel Hoar-hound These herbs be in like manner hot but tendeth to the comforting of the brain and drying up of Rheum Bittony Pennyâ—riall Germander Time Sage Costmary Valerian These herbs be also hot and they be good for the obstructions of the liver and spleea and good against the Gout Camapitus Saxafrage Parsley Mugwort Motherwort Mother of Time Fennel Sallandine They are to be used in broth or to be distilled These be also hot and tend to the expelling of wind Alexanders Smallage Rue Maudline Fetherfew Saint Johns Wort. Ladies Mantel Lavender Cotten These roots be also hot and comfortable and likewise good to strengthen nature Sateions Orenges Parsnep These herbs of their own nature be hot and of a mean temperature good to cause solublenesse Mercury Beets Violet-leaves Mallows Dill. Holly-hock Dandelion These herbs be of mean temperature as the rest but good for to strengthen the back Comfery Knot-grasse Shepheards-pouch Plantain Arch-angel These be of a mean temperature and good against the Stone Saxafrage Pellitory on the wall Water-cresses Cammock-roots Wake Robin These are of a mean temperature good against all obstructions of the liver Centory Hops Cowslips Mugwort Harts-tongue Scabius Avens Doder Dandelion Liverwort Spoon-wort These be as the rest good to cleanse the throat Wood-bines Collombines Sinkfoyl These be of the same nature but tendeth to the opening of the lungs Colts-foot Setrack Maiden-hair These be of a cold property and tendeth altogether to the cooling of the bloud and quallifiing of the heat of the stomack Garden-sorrell Wood-sorrel Endiffe Succory These be in like manner cold of their own nature and to be used inwardly they provoke rest Lettice Purslay Field-Poppy These are as the rest but rather colder and are to be applied outwardly and not inwardly Night-shade Hen-bane Man-drake Penny-wort Great-Poppies These hearbs and oyl of Roses is good to be applied with cloths to the temples of the head FINIS Note Note