dry and binde it ought to be of a slimy substance he must eat sparingly he may drink wine and water mixed together he must shun all exercise he must breath very gently for violent breathing is offensive he must not sleep in the day time his sleep at night must be moderate his belly must be kept loose by art or nature perturbations of his minde must be avoided especially anger The Postscript COurteous Student observing my indisposition of Health to encrease and still seize more powerfully on me I have so ordered through the trust I have imposed in some of my best Friends that these Papers preserserved for the publique good should out-live me in which as the old Saying is I have inclosed Homerâ— Iliads in a Nut-shel in these few Pages epitomized the Mystery of the Skill of Physick in this small Looking-glass representing to thy clear view above forty of the most dangerous and desperate Diseases that chiefly in this Life afflict ouâ— frail Bodies It cannot be expected that having confined my self to such narrow limits that I should have annexed there more particular Cures they having been so seriously and I hope through Gods Blessing successfully treated of in my foregoing Treatises I acknowledge in these my last Endeavors that I have in part made use of an excellent Manuscript amongst others some years since that came happily to my perusual whether it were 〈◊〉 Original a Coppy a Translation or the Authors Name I know not but whosoever he were I so approved of his admirable Reason that I thought it fit to joyn the best Experience of my own continued Practice to it Vis unita fortior It is â—â—t out of any arrogance or prerogative of my own fancy that I have stiled these three Diet Reaâ—on and Experience Doctors those that know 〈◊〉 rightly can determine that I was never so inmoured with that Title but onely to inform my â—istaken Countrey-men that it is not the Cowl â—â—at makes the Munk the shaking of the Vrinal â—e stroaking of the Beard hard Words the Plush â—loak a large House with a Monster in the first â—â—om to amaze the Patient but deep grounded Reaâ—â—â—n and tried Experience that commences a Physiâ—an with Diet Reason and Experience The three â—â—re-mentioned Authentick Doctors I have conâ—lted I commend their Advice to the well affectâ—â— and judicious for others I care not Nicholas Culpeper Chymical INSTITUTIONS DESCRIBING Natures Choicest Secrets in Experienced Chymical Practice shewing the several Degrees of Progression in the Physical Cabinet of that Art BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Chymical Institutions Describing Natures Choicest Secrets in Experienced Chymical Practice shewing the several degrees of Progression in the Physical Cabinet of that Art Chap. 1. Vinegar of Squills TAke of Squills the outward skins and hard root at the bottom being cast away one pound slice them with an Ivory or Bone Knife for Iron spoils them then put them into three quarts of strong Vinegar stop them close and in one moneth they will be ready for use and then if you please with Honey you may make them into a Syrup * According to the quality of the Patient strength of nature of the disease so let the Dose be 3 and therefore no certain Dose can generally be determined The Dose is one spoonful in the morning â—sting and walking an hour after it It preserveth the body in health even till exâ—eam old age as Samius recorded by Gallen â—oved whom he affirmed to live one hundred â—â—d seventeen Years in health using no other â—edicine but onely this It causeth good digestion long winde clear â—â—ce acute sight good hearing it expelleth winde and makes a good colour it suffers no offensive thing to remain in the body Winde Choller Phlegm Dung nor Urine but bringeth them forth brings out filth though it lies in the bones it hath been known to cure such as have been given over by all Doctors it cures hardness of the Liver and Spleen takes away Gouts and all swelling of the Limbs In a word I commend it for a wholesome Medicine for soundness of body conservation of health and vigor of minde The Colledge of Physicians of London laid all their heads together to hammer out the time when this Squill must be gathered or taken out of the earth and the result of all their consultations was this That it must be gathered at the rising of the Dog-star and so they very learnedly quoted it in that stately piece of Wit their Pharmacopeia but which of the two Dog-stars they mean whether Cyrius or Procyon or whaâ— rising whether Comiscal Acronychal or Heliacal I know not I nor I think themselves neither so that a childe in Astrology cannot chuse buâ— admire at their learned ignorance Chap. 2. Elixir Vitae TAke of Cloves Nutmegs Zedoary Giâ—ger Galangal Pepper white and blacâ— Juniper-berries Citron pills Orange pills Sagâ— Basil Rosemary Mints Marjoram Bay-berrieâ— Penniroyal Gentian Calamint Elder leave Roses white and red Spicknard Cubebs Aloe Hapatique the seeds of Mugwort and Marjoram of each two drams Figs Raisins Dates Almonds Pine-nuts of each six ounces white Honey a pound Musk one dram fine Sugar four pound bruise the things that may be bruised and infuse them all together in fifteen pints of Aqua vitae for ten dayes or thereabouts afterwards still it in a bathe till the feces be dry Take this water and stop it close in a glass let it stand in Horse-dung two Moneths then have you the first water good Then take out the feces and distil them in sand with a strong fire and there will come out a water red like blood and thick which will stink admirably place this in Horse-dung as the former this is the second water of the nature of fire The first water if a childe take a dram of it every third day in the morning it keeps its body sound from diseases it cureth wounds at three times washing with it or four at the most it helps all infirmities in the eyes a drop being put into them the face and breast being washed with it it preserveth Youth being taken inâ—ardly it provoketh Lust and makes barren women fruitful The latter water a spoonful will recover and revive a man that is half dead it helps pains in the Matrix and cures Pleurisies being used by â—nction it cures pains of the Chollick helpeth â—ardness of the Spleen pains in the teeth stinkâ—ng breath Feavers of all sorts being taken inwardly and powerfully prevails against humors of all sorts if any one be so sick that he cannot speak give him a drachm of this with a drachm of the former water and so soon as it is in his mouth he will speak This Dr. Floravantus saith he hath proved an hundred times yet if it lack not above half the number it is no matter Chap. 3. Aqua Mirabilis TAke of Turpentine one
the Palsie and Vertigo of the Head Chap. 28. A Precious Water for the Head Brain and Memory c. THis following Water was found out by a learned German it is an excellent and noble Water of Life having many egregious operations to comfort and preserve the whole body from Diseases especially the Head Brain and all the inward parts of the Head to expel and dissolve all infirmities proceeding from coldness and moisture to exhilerate the Instruments of the Soul and quicken the five Senses for it marvellously comforts the four pincipal Members with the Reins and Intestines It procures also the best digestion in the Stomach gives great comfort to the outward Members by its onely odour by taking one part of this Water and two parts of the Water of of Sage Lavander and Rosemary mixed together and wet a spunge therein and foment the Members therewith morning and evening and let it dry in of it self Or if you drink three or four drops thereof in a glass of Wine a little before dinner or supper it comforts the Stomach It is good also to comfort the Head take of this Water one dram with half an ounce of betony-Betony-Water and drink it morning and evening or dip a Crust of Bread in that Water and eat it every morning fasting For the Brain and Memory take of this Water one dram Waters of Rosemary and Marjoram of each half an ounce and use it in like manner as he last For the Breast take of this Water one dram Water of Hysop and Maiden-hair each two drams use it in like manner For the Heart take of this Water one dram of Borage and Bugloss Water each two drams take it as the former For the Stomach take of this Water one dram of Mint and wormwood-Wormwood-water each two drams use it in manner aforesaid For the Lungs take of this Water one dram adde to it cycory-Cycory-Water one ounce and use it as the former For the Spleen take of this Water one dram Waters of Tamarisk and Scolopendrie of each one ounce use it in like manner To comfort all the Members of the Body use one part of this Water in four parts of Wine The way to make this Water is thus Take pul Diamargarit frigid Diarrhodon Abbatis species Diambrae Dianthos laetificans Galleni an two drams Cassiae fistulae noviter extract Zacchari candidi an half an ounce Syrup de Liqueritiâ one ounce Syrup Stechados half an ounce florum R rismarini one dram Moschi Alexandrini one scruple Upon these Species pour two pound of simple Aqua vitae well rectified by a treble distillation in Balneg Mariae distil them in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire so that you may tell six or seven between every drop the Musk ought to be tied in a piece of Silk and put into the vial with the distilled water and is not to be distilled with the rest Some putrifie with the aforesaid Species Bugloss-water one pound Balm-water half a pound Rosemary-water two ounces and afterwards distil it in Balneo Mariae Chap. 29. To make a Celestial Precious Water called the Secret of Secrets WE come now to declare unto you the Secret of Secrets a most precious Water called Celestial by the Philosophers because of its heavenly operation the way to make it is thus Take Salviae cum floribus suis Rorismarini Darseni Zinzib albi Garioph Nucis Muscatae gran Paradisi Galangae Calami Aromatici Macro-pip Zedoar an half an ounce Macis Cardamoni Cubeb fol. Rutae fol. Majoranae flor Lavendulae Ros Rub. an two drams Theriac Andromachi Mithridat an a dram and a half Ol. Laurini cort Citri florum Buglossae Borraginis Rorismarini Angelicae Rapentici gran Juniperi Mentastri Menthae Matricariae an a dram and a half Castorei verbeciae cum flor suis Betonicae Ligni Aloes Spicae Indicae gran Peoniae seminis Feniculi Ceori an half a dram Ambrae Moschi an half a scruple Let all these things following be put to digest with Aqua vitae in Balneo Maria four dayes and as many nights viz. Sage Rosemary Rue Marjoram Lavander Roses Mithridate Treacle Oyl of Bayes Bugloss Borrage Angelica Rapontick Juniper-berries Mint Calamint Mother-wort Vervain Betony Castoreum And when they are putrified distil them in a Limbeck in ashes with a gentle fire so that you may number one two three between every drop when these are distilled take the other things viz. Cinamon Mace Nutmegs Grains of paradise Galangal Calamus Aromat Pepper Zedory Cubebs Cardamomi Lignum Aloes Citron Pills Spikenard Piony-roots and seeds Coriander prepared pulverize all these grosly and put them into the distilled water and let them digest together fourten dayes then distil them again by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae afterwards adde the Camphire Rhubarb Saffron Amber and Musk. If you would have the water yet better and more costly adde Pul. Diamargarit Nicholai Diapliris cum moscho Nicholai Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamoschi Mesnae Spec. Diambrae Letificans Galeni pul Dialigni Aloes an half a dram adde twenty leaves of Gold white Sugar half a pound let them stand three dayes in Balneo Mariae keeping the water of the Bath warm afterwards distil it by filter in glass Retorts let one glass stand somewhat higher then the other cut small forms of a filter and hang therein and by them the matter will be distilled let the glass be well luted that no Air may evapâ—rate and this is the most excellent way of distillation of all others There are some Physicians who to comfort the Stomach have invented a green water which they use with the Aqua viae above prescribed or with the Claret following The green water is made on this manner Take Aqua vitae four times distilled by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae four pound Balm dryed three ounces Balsamint two ounces infuse the Herbs in the Aqua vitae eight dayes and then use thereof Note that the Herbs are not to be dryed in the Sun for then the water will be obscure but in the shade and the water will be of a fair green colour and pleasant to the drinker The Claret is made in this manner Take of the best white Wine four pound fine hard Sugar four ounces Cinamon one ounce Coryander prepared three drams Cloves two drams Grains of Paradise and white Ginger of each one dram and a half black Pepper two scruples Zedory half a dram Make them all into powder and afterwards use it as you make Hypocras This some use to take with the Water before prescribed The Vertues of this Water are these IT is good for the memory taking every day half an ounce mixed with rosemary-Rosemary-water half an ounce water of Marjoram and Balm of each two drams For madness or grief in the brain proceeding from cold take of this water half an ounce betony-Betony-water two drams dip a Linnen cloth therein and apply it to the head For the Vertigo of the head take hereof half an ounce water of Lavender and Sage an three drams and take every morning fasting Diapliris cum moscho Nicholai For deafness drop of this water every
drink in warme White Wine they wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys and bladder of Gravel and provoke Urine exceedingly 8 Take all the blood and the whole skin of a Hare put them into a new pot that hath a cover lute it up close and burn it in the fire to ashes the Hares skin and blood I mean and not the pot Give the Patient a small spoonful of these ashes in White Wine it mightily breaks and drives out the Stone 9 The Stone that hath been taken out of a man or the Gravel which men void being taken back again inwardly a drachm at a time doth wonderfully break and bring away the Stone and is indeed the most exquisite remedy that I know 10 A Tode-stone being beaten into powder and a little of the powder given to the Patient causeth the Stone incontinently to break and come away 11 Take Snails dry them to powder slime and shells and all you shall finde it a most exquisite remedy being taken inwardly to break the stone 12 Egg-shells dryed and beaten into powder is a good remedy and so is the Juyce of Mugwort if you drink the quantity of a quarter of a pint in the morning fasting 13 The Gum of Cherry-trees and also of all Plum-trees being dissolved in White Wine and drunk breaketh the Stone and cleanseth the Kidneys and Bladder of Gravel 14 Take of Goats Blood the Liver Lungs Reins Yard and Stones of the Goat make puddings thereof in the great Gut of the said Goat order them well and boyl them as you do Hogs puddings and let him that is troubled with the Stone eat them as meat not as Medicine their wonderful effects in breaking the Stone will be admirable in your eyes 15 Sometimes it is a difficult matter to know whether the Stone be in the Reins or in the Bladder in such a case thus do take a handful of Chickweed and boyl it well in water then strain it out and apply it to the neck of the Bladder if the grief increase the Stone is in the Bladder else not 16 Goats piss drunk breaketh and expelleth the Stone 17 Take two or three young Liverets drown them in Vinegar that they may dye there then put them into a new pot lute them up close and burn them in the fire to ashes these ashes taken inwardly is an excellent remedy for the Stone 18 If a man that is subject to the Stone would use himself to eat no other food but the flesh of Foxes and anoint the Region of his Bladder with the grease of the same beast it would in a short time cure him 19 A Hedge Sparrow the feathers pulled off and the guts pulled out and the body converted into Mummy or else salted and eaten raw is an excellent remedy for the Stone 20 It is an excellent good way to break the Stone often to anoint the Region of the Bladder with a strong Spirit of Camomile drawn in Allembick 21 Lignum Aphrituum cut in small pieces and infused in strong spirit of Wine the longer you infuse it the better make an excellent good drink for such as have the stone provided you drink it but moderately 22 But Lapis Nephriticus is far better being either born about one and beaten into powder and given inwardly whereby it appears that there is far more vertue in the Mineral kingdom then there is in the Vegitable the Stone is very scarce to be had in London if it be to be had at all because it is never used by the neglect of our Colledge of Physicians CHAP. 7. Of the Strangury IN the Strangury the Urine comes away by drops with much pain with a great desire to piss 2 Ox dung mixed with honey and applied warm to the neck of the Bladder is very good 3 The Decoction of English Galanga provoketh Urine much 4 The neck of the Bladder anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog is exceeding good to open the stoppage of Urine 5 And here by the way give me leave to quote one experience of my own though it be something out of course not a year before the writing of this I had a Patient who had layen a long time sick of the Stone I gave him the water of a Hedge-hog distilled in an Alembick so much of it as I had which was about a pint of which he took a quarter of a pint every morning during the time he took it the violence of his pain ceased and he avoided such an incredible deal of Gravel which was wonderful to behold but that being gone no more to be had nor to be procured by reason of the season of the year his pains returned and not long after followed his dissolution being open'd there was two great stones found in his body in each Kidney one 6 Apply Galbanum being spread upon a Plaister upon the Belly under the Navel My Author saith it causeth the Patient to make Urine presently any that please may try it I can give no reason for it 7 Raddish-roots scraped clean and sliced thin and infused all night in White Wine and stopped close and a quarter of a pinte taken the next morning is a mighty great provoker of Urine but it hath no very pleasing taste 8 Herbs that are held Medicinal for this disease are Fennel Parsley Gromwel and Saxifrage both Seeds Leaves and Roots the Leaves and Bark of Hazel and the Leaves of Plantane 9 Warm Eggs applied to the neck of the Bladder wonderfully provoke Urine 10 The Roots of Filupendula being dryed and beaten to powder and taken inwardly are excellent good for the Strangury It is called Drop-wort whether it be because it cures them that piss by drops or because the roots hang like drops by small strings it matters not the one is their vertue the other shews that it is so 11. The best remedy in the world against the Strangury is this to save all the water the diseased party maketh and let the diseased party drink it down back again and that in very few dayes will cure him CHAP. 8. Of Vlcers in the Yard THe causes are clearly sharp and gnawing humors 2. Make a decoction of Sage in white Wine and inject it often into the Yard 3. If the Yard be swelled anoint it with warm Oyl of Roses 4. The juyce of Plantane injected into the Yard helpeth the Ulcers thereof 5. If you boil the Milk of a Goat or of an Ass with its equal quantity of juyce of Plantane till you have clarified it well and now and then drink a spoonful of it it helps not onely Ulcers in the Yard but also in the Kidneys and Bladder 6. If much sharp humors resort to the place â—s usually there doth in such cases take of those Cakes called Trochisi albi Rhazis with Opium â—ne dram plantane-Plantane-water four ounces beat the â—roches into powder and mix them with the â—lantane-â—lantane-water and inject it into the Yard with â— syringe a little at a time not all at once CHAP.
afterwards circulate it in a pellican forty dayes and reserve it for your use others distil it oftner and it is the better Chap. 21. To make an Aqua vitae Composita for men of a cold Complexion or Region HAving already discoursed at large of Aqua vitae Simplex we now proceed to give you the way of preparing several compound waters and first of such as ought to be administred unto men of a cold complexion or unto such as labour under any disease proceeding from a cold cause which is this Take Zuiziberis albi Cinamomi Cubeb Recent Gariâ—ph Nucis Muscati Macis electi Cardamomi Zedoari Galangae Piperis longi of each equal parts bruise them grosly and to one part of these Species adde six parts of simple Aqua vitae put them in a long Cucurbite placing thereon a blinde Alimbeck and let it stand to digest fourteen dayes afterwards distil in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire then put the feces again upon the distilled matter and let it digest eight dayes more It may also be distilled without an Alimbeck but that way is not so good And when it hath been distilled three times the first water is called Aqua benedicta the second Aqua vitae composita and the third Aqua balsami Some also adde to the composition hereof Fol. salviae Rutae Castorei recentis Corticis Citri Baccarum lauri Florum Lavendulae Florum Rorismarini ana two drams these are all to be distilled with the aforesaid species alwayes adding to one part of species six parts of simple Aqua vitae This water is good for all diseases of the head proceeding from phlegmatick humors to be taken in the morning the quantity of two drams in one ounce of the best Wine Some use to dip a crust of bread in this water and others to anoint the head with this water adding to half an ounce hereof Betony water one ounce But beware that you do not give this water in any disease or grief of the head proceeding from a hot cause unless some cold Medicine be mixed therewith which may temperate the heat of this water This water doth strengthen the memory being drunk fasting the quantity of half an ounce mixed with Rosemary water and the hinder part of the head being anointed or washed therewith and let dry of it self it is good also against madness if you cut off the hair of the head and apply to the head clothes wet in this water mixed with water of Marjoram and Rosemary you shall perceive a wonderful operation It is also good for the Palsie being mixed with Sage-water and the members often bathed therewith and it being drunk upon an empty stomach with water of Lavander-flowers It is good to take away all spots of the face and all infirmities of the eyes It hath a marvellous operation to take away all pains in the Teeth A Comb being dipped herein and the head combed therewith it adorns the hair and preserves them from becoming hairy it cures all scabs in the head recovers lost hearing Bombast being dipped therein and applied to the Ear. Wounds being washed therewith it heals them wonderfully and suffers no putrified flesh in a Wound Being taken fasting it is powerful against all Poyson against all Cankers Fistula's and the Dropsie and the Stone in the Bladder it helps Conception in a Woman being taken fasting if the obstruction thereof proceed from a cold cause Being drunk with Galangal and Gentiana and Bombaste wet therein and applied to the Matrix provokes the Tearms If this Water be put upon Fish Flesh or any other Meats they will not corrupt nor putrifie neither will flies blow thereon If the body be fomented therewith it is good against the Jaundies and all trembling of the Members and against all filthiness of the mouth and nose A Cloath being dipt herein and applied to the Stomach wonderfully helps digestion A Cloath wet therein and applied to the Stomach helps Convulsion fits Let those who labor under the Iliack passion drink often thereof it is good also against the Falling-sickness and the Hemerhodes It is much praised by Albertus Magnus for its wonderful operations in the Palsie Chap. 22. An excellent Compound Water used by the Emperour Frederick the Third TAke Aq. Vita simp rectificat four pound vini opt four pound Cinamomi three ounces Garioph nucis moscatae ana one ounce Zuizib albi one ounce and half Macis half an ounce Zedoariae half an ounce Galangae 2. drams Cubeb Hys an half an ounce Radicis benedictae 1. ounce Salviae florum Lavendulae an half an ounce Melissae iris Balsamithae an one ounce Rosarum albarum one ounce and half Bruise all these and put them in a great Cucurbite which will hold fifteen or sixteen pound adding Zachari albi three ounces Passular ficuum pinguium an six ounces Camphorae half an ounce Aquar Rosarum Endiviae florum Sambuci an two pound put them altogether into the Cucurbite luting it well and set it in the â—un twenty dayes viz. ten dayes before Midsummer day and ten dayes after Then strain out the water and distil it by an Alembick and keep it in a dry place it is a soveraign Cordial for a cold stomach and wonderfully preserves the whose body in health The Dose is the quantity of half a spoonful but let it not be given to a Woman when she hath her Menstrue Chap. 23. An excellent Compound Water against all Vlcers and Poyson c. TAke Salviae twelve ounces Nucis Muscat Gariop Zuizib albi Gran. Paradisi Cinamomi an four drams Ol. Laurini one ounce Castorei recentis one dram Spinae Indicae Rorismarini an half a dram florum Rorismar one dram Folior Rutae one ounce Fol. Majoranae one dram Corticis Citri two drams Let all these be new if you can get them but if you have them not new then take the old dried flowers and pulverize them and put to them the best white Wine you can get then set them in a digestive to putrifie a moneth This digestion may be made in Balneo Mariae in the first degree of heat afterwards distil it by an Alimbeck in Balneo Mariae then adde the water again to the Feces and distil it in Balneo again twice over afterwards distil it in ashes and reserve the water carefully in a glass close stopt The Vertues of this Water ANy Meat wet in this Water retains an excellent sapour and odour It is good against pestilentious airs and expels the venom thereof out of the body it cures all infirmities of the Eyes and defects of the Sight It marvellously cures Wounds they being washed therewith it dryeth up all hidropical humors It is good against all diseases of the Lungs Spleen and Milt of the intestines and of the head it takes away all spots out of the face filth of the Mouth and Nose mitigates the pain of the Teeth procures good digestion purifies the blood and consumes corrupt blood and
wonderfully comforts and strengthens the memory This water also preserves youth makes a mix them together and make therewith a pastâ— of the Bole let it dry and powder it again anâ— make paste thereof again with the same waters repeating this over three times and thuâ— you have the Bole-Armonick prepared Chap. 25. A precious water used by the Count Palatine TAke Salviae recentis one ounce and halâ— Nucis moscatae Macis of each one ouncâ— Zinzib albi one ounce and half Gran. Parâ—disi six drams Cinamomi one ounce and an halâ— Zedoariae Galangae an half an ounce Camphorâ— two drams Rorismarini sem Feniculi of eacâ— one ounce and an half Lavendulae Marjoraâ— Rute of each one ounce Florum Camomilae oâ— ounce Matricariae two drams Rosarum ruâ—m 1. Betonicae one ounce Abrotani four dramâ— Castorei recentis one dram Spicae Indicae twâ— drams Macro-piperis one ounce Olei Laurâ— two drams Aqua vitae one pound and an halâ— Menthae Menchastri of each two drams Powder what is to be powdred cut thaâ— which is to be cut and bruise those thingâ— which are to be bruised and put them all in Cucurbite with a long neck then pour there upon eight pounds of the best Wine close uâ— the vessel and bury it in the Earth thirty dayeâ— then take it up and put it in another Cucurbitâ— placing thereon a Limbeck and distil it in Baâ—neo Mariae three times over alwayes puttinâ— the distilled water again upon the feces A◠〈…〉 you come to distil it the fourth time adde a good quantity of Sage-leaves fresh gathered And when it is so distilled reserve it for your use the older it is the better it is you may use it when you please it hath innumerable vertues against all distempers and infirmities of the body Chap. 26. A precious Compound Water of Life which may be used instead of a natural Balsom TAke Trupentine purified and washed in the best white Wine twelve ounces Honey also clarified with white Wine three pound mix them altogether then adde of Aqua vitae well rectified four pound put them in a Cucurbite afterwards take the Herbs hereafter named cut them small and adde them to the rest in the Cucurbite let them stand so eight dayes the vessel being well luted that it evaporate not afterwards distil it in ashes with great dilligence The Herbs are these Take Buglossae Boraginis Melissae Salviae Lavendulae an m. 1. Hissopi Florum Camomilae Card. Benedicti of each half a handful Rorismarini two handfuls Artemisiae half a handful When these things are distilled then adde these things following well powdred and set them to digest in horse-dung eight dayes or in Balneo three dayes The things which are to be added are these Take Ligni Aloes Xylobalsami Santalorum trium Calami Aromatici Stichados Arabici seminis Citri sileris montani Cimini of each one dram Macis Nucis muscatae Cinamomi electi Garioph Galangae Cubeb Zinzib albi Macro-piperis Croci orientalis Gran. Paradisi Cardamomi minoris an three drams Coriandri praeparati gran Juniperi Bacc. Lauri an half an ounce Bistortae six drams sem Feniculi Liqueritiae Visci quercini sem Anisi an one ounce Amigdal mundalarum passularum recent an one pound Take the glass or distillatory in which the matter is and set it in ashes well luting of it and make thereunto a gentle fire the space of four hours And when you see a clear water pass forth into the receiver take away that receiver and put thereto another luting it well as before and increase the fire until there distil forth a Cytrine Oyl into the receiver which reserve by it self Thirdly when you perceive a black Oyl begin to appear take away that receiver and adde another in which receive the black oyl till it be all distilled which Oyl keep by it self The first water ought to be thus prepared by putting into it Musk and Amber of each one dram leaves of Gold one scruple To comfort all the members of the body Take of Malmsey Wine one ounce adde thereto a spoonful of the first water mix them together till it turn white like Milk drink it fasting and fast two hours after it it wonderfully comforts and fortifies the whole body For pain in the head take one spoonful of the said water in water of Betony it comforts and strengthens the Lungs being taken in Winter-time with mulbery-Mulbery-water or sage water but in Summer-time take of endive-Endive-water one ounce and of this water one spoonful For infirmities of the Breast and a cold Cough proceeding from a Catarre take of Hyssop-water Borrage or Fennel-water mix them with the aforesaid water For the heart Take Bugloss or Borrage water half an ounce as much of the aforesaid water and as much Balme-water mix them and drink them fasting For the Stomach Give of this water in Mint or Wormwood-water For the Spleen Use the aforesaid water in water of Bugloss or Tamarisk For the Vertigo and Palsie Give the said water with Piony-water or water of the Herb and Root of Saint Johns-wort For the Stone in the Bladder Take Rhadish water one ounce and too spoonfulls of this water For the Strangury Take water of Cresces Parsley or Saxifrage one ounce and one spoonful of this water For overflowing of the tearms Take water of Plantane and drink it morning and evening with one spoonful of this water To provoke the tearms Take Mugwort-water or Mugwort-seed with one spoonful of this water drink it about that time when the tearms are expected For Women who have received hurt by unskilful Midwives or such as cannot conceive by reason of the coldness of the matrix let them take one spoonful of this water in the morning fasting with water of Valerian Betony or Wilde Roses For the eyes Take water of Fennel and Eyebright of each half an ounce and of this water one dram drink it as aforesaid For Spots or Freckles of the face Take water of Bean-Flowers or pimpernel-Pimpernel-water one ounce and of this first water half an ounce mix them together and wash the face therewith morning and evening and drink of this water in Endive-water twice or thrice a week The second water which is Citrine and the third which is like black Oyl is excellent good against Fistula's Cancers and other Wounds and Sores and may be used instead of a Balsom Chap. 27. An Aqua vitae Composita Against the Vertigo of the Head and the Palsie TAke Salviae nine ounces Florum Lavendulae four ounces Hissopi Menthae an m. 2. Garioph Nucis Muscatae Cinamomi Zinzib albi Granorum Paradisi Zedoariae Galangae an half an ounce Calami Aromataci one ounce Cran. Juniperi one ounce Granorun Peoniae half an ounce Vini albi eight pound Digest them in horse-dung eight dayes or four dayes in Balneo Mariae afterwards distil them in an Alembick and reserve it for use in a glass close stopt it hath a wonderfull operation against
morning and evening into the ear and rest upon that ear that it may go out again For Worms in the ears take of this water half an ounce Juyce of Rue two drams or if you cannot get the Juyce take the distilled water thereof adding a little Aloes Epatick subtilly powdred And of this distil a little into the ear morning and evening lying upon the other side and after a little time turn and lie upon that side where the Wormes are and they will come forth and dye For the eyes take of the aforesaid water half an ounce fennel-Fennel-water and water of Valerian of each one dram drop thereof into the eyes For filth of the mouth or nose give every day half an ounce thereof with white Wine in which Mints and Roses have been boiled For the Epilepsie drink thereof every day half an ounce with peony-Peony-water one ounce or thus Take the Root and seeds of Peony Viscus Quercinus of each equal parts boil them in white Wine and give them to the Patient with the said water For the Palsie foment all the members with this water and drink thereof every morning one ounce For lost speech take of the said water half an ounce waters of Lavander Peony Sage of each two drams drink it and take of Mithridate one dram with Wine wherein Castoreum hath been boyled Against Melancholly take of the aforesaid water half an ounce with the waters of Bugloss and Balm each two drams waters of Harts-tongue and Borrage each one dram mix them together and drink it three hours before dinner Against the Dropsie take of the said water one part water of Elder-flowers two parts Fennel water three parts mix them together and take for a Dose half an ounce For the Stone take of this water one part saxifrage-Saxifrage-water wintercherry-Wintercherry-water Aqua Millii solis rhadish-Rhadish-water of each two parts Against Sterrility take of this water two drams of white Wine water of Rosemary and Mother-wort each two drams drink it morning and evening and twice or thrice in a week take Diamargarit sem Avicenna Many other excellent vertues hath this celestial water which I omit here for brevities sake leaving them to manifest themselves by experience FINIS The Table to the several Treatises of the whole Book The English Apothecary The transcendent sufficiency of English Herbs being fundamental Reasons PRoving our Medicines to be most congruent with our bodies and the great prejudice we daily receive by the use of forreign Drugs as also by their sophistication to which Fuchsius Martino Rulandus c. agree page 35 The correcting of Scamony of its malignity page 19 Of Mechoaca and Opium and the prejudice we receive thereby unless well corrected page 21 Of Rhubarb and its properties page 24 The inconveniency of drinking Wine and that of Honey may be made a better and more wholesome drink page 31 Of Milk and its vertues page 41 The cure of Poysons by venomous beasts with Peniroyal Treyfoil c. page 42 The cure of the Prench-Pox not onely with Sarsaparilla but with the essence of Primroses and Cowslips page 43 The rare vertue of Cink-foyl Worms Wood-lice or Sowes Lichenes c. For the cure of Tertian-Agues Falling-sickness Tooth-ach c. page 44 To cure the bitings of venomous beasts by the decoction of Frogs page 44 53 To cure Cankers by the juyce of Nightshade page 49 To cure the Leprosie with Plantane and its vertues page 50 To cure the Falling-sickness with Misleto Peony-root a mans skull c. page 50 The cure of Poysons in particular page 51 52 The cure of the Pestilence page 52 The cure of hot diseases by contrariety page 54 The cure of cold diseases by contrariety ib. The cure of moist diseases page 55 The cure of dry diseases ib. Rules to be observed in cures page 55 56 Of purgations and their manner both by vomit and stool page 56 Preparatives for the Humors before evacuation c. page 60 The cure of Wounds and the broken Bones by Herbs c. page 61 Of Anodines Causticks Emmolients c. page 62 63 The occult properties of sundry Herbs being appropriated to the Head Heart Liver Spleen Stomach Lungs c. ib. That the Brain is comforted by Herbs as well as by Spices page 68 The sovereign vertues of Carduus Benedictus with its use or manner of taking it page 71 Of the sovereign vertues of Angelica with its temperature and use page 79 A discourse shewing what members of the body are governed by the twelve Signs page 82 Of the members of the body and how they are governed by the seven Planets page 184 A brief accompt of some simples appropriated to the Heart page 186 The Chyrurgeons guide or the errors of unskilful Chyrurgeons page 195 The first error of their curing the Lues venerea or French-Pox page 195 The second error when the disease cometh to suppuration page 198 The third error is concerning Wounds in the Breast page 201 4. Of their applications of Trepans Terribelles for fractures of the head page 203 5. Touching the punctures of Nerves page 204 6. Of the abuse by Runners or Cutters of the Stone and Ruptures page 205 Of the eight kinds of Hernies or Ruptures page 207 Of the Hernie Intestinale page 208 Of the Hernie Zirbale page 209 Of the relaxation of the Peretoneum called Herni Inquinale page 210 Of the kinds of Hernies which be by similitudes or improperly called page 211 Of Hernie Verequose page 212 Of the Herni Ventose ib. Of the Hernie Humorale page 213 Phlebotomy Displayed or perfect Rules for letting of Blood page 214 With Physical cautions for Blood-letting page 219 Vrinal conjectures or brief observations upon the sick Patients staie or water page 222 Of Vomits page 225 Of the Excrements page 226 The Treasury of health or Salves for every sore with their cures page 227 For the falling out of the Fundament page 229 For the Liver page 231 For the Dropsie page 231 For the Spleen page 333 For the Yellow-Jaundies page 235 For the Stone page 236 For the Strangury page 239 For the Vlcers in the Yard page 241 For the Diabetes page 242 For the Swelling of the Gods page 243 For the Pleurisie page 244 For to provoke the Tearms page 244 For to stop the Tearms page 247 For the Fits of the Mother page 248 For the Swelling of the Breasts page 249 For Child-birth page 251 For the Gout page 453 Foa the Fistula or Vlcer page 256 For the Leprosie page 258 For the Warts page 259 For Thorns Splinters c. page 260 The expert Lapidary or a Physical Treatise of the vertues of Stones page 265 Of Jacinth and its vertues 265. The Saphir 264 Emrald ibid. The Ruby 265 Granat 266. Sardine ibid. Diamond 266 Amethist 267. Bezoar ibid. Topaz 268. Snakes-Stone ibid. Toads-stone 269 Alectorius ibid.
water or a dram of the powder In like manner being drunk it helpeth infants that are troubled with the falling-sickness The decoction taken in wine doth mitigate the pain of the guts and reines and other griefs of the belly it provoketh sweat it killeth the worms and is good against other diseases of the womb The Herb it self as well green as dried both drunk and laid outwardly to the grief doth heal ulcers On such exraordinary occasions it is mingled with the drink made of Guacum wine and water for the French Pox. Thus much Mathiolus Learned Writers affirm that it taketh away the stoppings of the inward bowels it provoketh urine breaketh the stone and helpeth them that are stung of venomous beasts They say also that they are not to be infected that take it in their meat or drink before they come into the evil air that it helpeth them much that are already infected Moreover most agree that it iâ— a remedy against the bitings of Serpents Finally to conclude late writers say That it cureth the pains of the head taketh away giddiness recovereth the memory being taken in meat or drink Also it helpeth festering sores especially of the Paps and Teats if the powder thereof be laid upon it Thus much Fuchsius By this we may in part understand with how great vertue God hath indued and as I may say blessed this herb To sum up all it helpeth the body inwardly and outwardly it strengthens almost all the principall members of the body as the brain the heart the stomach the liver lungs and kidneys I may say it is a preservative against all diseases for it provoketh sweat by which the body is purged of much corruption which breedeth disease It expelleth the venom of infection it consumes ill blood and all naughty humours whereof diseases are ingendred Therefore giving God thanks for his goodness which hath given us this Herb and all other things for the benefit of our health it will in the next place be convenient to consider how to make use of it in the application How Carduus Benedictus may be taken It is to be observed that we may use this herb and enjoy the vertues thereof four wayes First in the green leaf Secondly in the powder Thirdly in the juice And fourthly in the distillation The green leaf may be taken with bread and butter as we use to take Sage and Parsley in a morning to breakfast And if it be too bitter it may be taken with honey instead of butter It may be taken in pottage boiled among other herbs and being shred small it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine It is sometims given in Beer with aqua composita and that without harm when the stomach of the patient is weak and he not troubled with any hot disease The juice of it is either outwardly applied the leaf powder and water of it is received in the mouth It may be taken in Pottage also in the green leaf or with Wine which if it be burned and drunk hot it is the better If you please you may boil it with Wine and honey or suger to make it sweet and then drink it very warm The powder may be taken with honey upon a knives point or with bread and honey if you please or else it may be drunk with Ale Beer or Wine The distilled water may be drunk by it self alone or else with white Wine before meat or with Sack after meat especially if the stomach be weak and cold The liquor or broth in the which this herb is boiled may be made thus Take a quart of running water seethe it and scum it then put into it a good handful of the herb and let it boil until the better part of the liquor be consumed then drink it with wine or if you think fit with honey or suger to make it more pleasant in the taste Or else make a Potion thus Take a good handfull of the leaves with a handfull of Raisins of the Sun washed and stoned and some Sugarcandy and Licorice sliced small boil them all together in a quart of Water Ale or Wine If it be too bitter it may be made sweet as is aforesaid It is also to be observed that the Powder and Water of the Herb is most to be regarded and specially the water For they may be long preserved so that one may have them alwayes in a readiness to use as need shall require when aâ— the juice cannot be had nor the green leaf And the Water which onely is void of bitterness may be drunk by it self alone for the stomach and taste will bear it and like of it as well as of Rose-water Notwithstandig if the seed be sown as soon as it is ripe one may have the Herb both winter and summer from the time that it beginneth to grow until the seed wax ripe again Therefore I councel all them that have Gardens to nourish it that they may have it alwayes for their own use and the use of their Neighbours that stand in need of it Of the time and quantity to be observed in taking of Carduus Benedictus Here perhaps some will ask a question of the time and quantity which things are to be considered in taking of medicines As touching the time if it be taken for a preservative it is good to take it in the morning or in the evening before one goes to bed because that is a convenient time to sweat for one that feeleth not himself greatly diseased But if a man take it to expel any ill humours it is good to take it whensoever any grief is felt in the body immediately to go to bed and sweat As touching the quantity one needs not be so careful in taking this Herb as in taking those medicines that do purge vehemently by â—gestion as some term it or by vomit For â—n taking them if great discretion be not used â—n considering the time the quantity and the state of a mans body they may cause present death or otherwise they may much weaken the Patient This I counsel all that use it that when they or any of theirs are diseased they defer not the time but take it presently as soon as it may be had and that they do not think it sufficient to take it once but that they take it three or four times at the least Of the Sovereign Vertues of ANGELICA NOw I have written what is sufficient of Carduus Benedictus I will adde unto it anothe◠〈◊〉 much like it in the vertue called Angelica that if the one be wanting the other may be taken As â—â—uching the name the latest writers in my judgement most to be credited in this matter finde no other name for it neither in English nor in Latine Howsoever I know that some much to be commended for their learning anâ— also for the publishing of the same to the benefit of their countrey have given it other nameâ— but I think erroneously If we
English it is as thâ— Latine word soundeth we may call it Herb Aâ—gel or The Angelical or Angel-like Herb. 〈◊〉 what occasion this excellent name was first giâ—â— unto it I know not unless it were for the â—â—cellent Vertues thereof or for that God made 〈◊〉 known to man by the ministry of an Angel I suppose the former cause rather to be true howsoever as I am not able to prove the other so I think no man can give any good reason to the contrary For this we know that God hath made his Angels ministring Spirits to serve us for the safeguard of our souls and also of our bodies But upon what occasion soever the name was given it is excellent and so are the properties Angelica is hot and dry at least in the third degree All the later Writers agree upon this and experience proveth the same that it is gooâ— against Poison pestilent Airs and the Pestilence it self The Practicioners of Germany writâ— thus of it If any man be suddenly taken either with the Pestilence or with any Pestilent Ague with too much sweating let him drink of the powder of the root half a dram mingled with a dram of Tâ—eacle in three or four spoonfuls of the water of Angelica distilled from the roots and after his going to bed covering himself well â—t him fast at the least three hours after which if he do he will begin to sweat and by â—he help of God he shall be cured of his disâ—ase For lack of Treacle one may take a whole â—ram of the Root of Angelica in powder with 〈◊〉 much of the distilled Water as aforesaid 〈◊〉 â—ill have the same effect The Root of Angelica well steeped in Vineâ—â—r and smelt to in time of the Pestilence 〈◊〉 the same Vinegar being sometime drunk â—â—ing preserveth from infection But in my â—â—dgement it is better to take an Orenge or â—emon cut off the top pick out the meat prick full of small holes put into it a piece of spunge 〈◊〉 fine linen cloth dipped in the foresaid Vineâ—â—r and smell unto it The water distilled out of the roots of Anâ—â—lica or the powder of the same is good against â—â—awing and pains of the belly occasioned with â—â—ld if the body be not bound withall It is â—od against all inward diseases as the Pleurisie 〈◊〉 the beginning before the heat of the inflamaâ—â—â—n be come into the body for that it dissolveth 〈◊〉 scattereth abroad such humors as use to cause â—â—e Pleurisie Moreover it is good for the disâ—ases 〈◊〉 the Lungs if they come of a cold cause and 〈◊〉 the Strangurian if from a cold cause or of a â—â—pping It is good for a woman that is in traâ—â— It expelleth winde that is in the body and â—eth the pain that cometh from the fame The 〈◊〉 â—t may be sod in wine or water as the nature â—he sick requireth The juice of the root put into an hollow tooth taketh away the ache the same effect hath the distilled water being put in at the ear The juice and water of Angelica quickens the eye sight and breaks the little films that cover the eyes causing darkness of the sight Of the roots of Angelica and Pitch may be made a good Emplaister against the bitings of mad beasts The water the juyce or the powder of this root sprinkled upon the diseased place 〈◊〉 a very good remedy against old and deep foreâ—â— For they do scour and clense them and cover the bones with flesh The water of the same in a cold cause is good to be laid on places diseased with the Gout and Sciatica For it stancheth the pain and melteth away the tough humors that are gathered together The seed is of like vertue with the root The wilde Angelica that groweth here in the low woods and by the water-side is not of such vertue as the other is howbeit the Chyrurgeons use to seethe the root of it in Wine to heal green wounds Thesâ— properties I have gathered out of Germanâ— Writers I have not as yet proved them all mâ— self but divers of them I have proved and havâ— found them to be true I have set down thâ— pill of an Orange or Lemmon the meâ—â— whereof is also commended by Physicians to bâ— both a preservative good against poison anâ— the infection of the Pestilence Late Writers affirm that the roots of Angelica are opposite to all poison and infectioâ— If any be infected with the plague or poisoneâ— they give him immediately to drink a dram of the powder of this root with Wine in the winter and in summer with distilled water of Carduus benedictus then get him to bed and cover him until he have sweat foundly The same root being taken fasting in the morning or but held in the mouth doth keep and preserve the body from the evil of the air The leaves of Angelica pounded with the leaves of Rue and Honey are very good to be laid to the bitings of mad dogs presently taken after the hurt the Wine being drunk wherein the root or leaves of Angelica hath been boiled To conclude I have thought good to write of these Herbs Carduus Benedictus and Angelica either because they are not known to many or else that Artists would have their secret vertues concealed But I do not think it fit that any thing should be secret which may be profitable for my Countrey For God hath not made any thing for the use of a few but for the commodity of all men And we that are the children of God ought to frame our selves so that we may be like affectioned unto our Father who is beneficial to all men who hath made his sun to shine and his rain to rain upon the wicked as well as upon the good that is to say who feedeth all both good and bad by heat and moisture which proceed from the Sun and the rain all things grow upon the earth whereby our lives are maintained I conclude that forasmuch as Almighty God is good unto all men we ought to be like minded and not to keep secret nor to hide any thing that may profit one another I wish all men rightly to use the good creatures of God and to give him hearty thanks for all his benefits Fragmenta Aurea The first Golden CENTURY OF Chymicall and Physicall Judiciall APHORISMES AND Admirable Secrets BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Fragmenta aurea The first Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. THe Hoofs of the forefeet of a Cow dryed and taken any way Mizaldus increase milk in Nurses the smoke of them being burnt drives away Mice 2. If you fry Earth-worms in Goose-grease and drop a drop or two of the Grease warm being strained in your ear helps the pains thereof I suppose you had best first slit them and wash them in white wine 3. The
honey 100. Syrup of Borage and Buggloss resist Melancholly and cause light Hearts taking away grief and passions thereof Fragmenta aurea The second Golden Century of Chymical and Physical Judicial Aphorismes and admirable Secrets 1. Mizaldus THe Roots of Sorrel hung about their necks that have the Swine Pocks doth wonderfully help them 2. Briony Roots boiled in water and the water drunk helps the Dropsie 3. Eyebright is an herb of the Sun and is a wonderful strengthner of the eyes used any way either outwardly or inwardly both the leaves stalks and flowers for it is an herb appropriated to them 4. You may easily know whether a Dropsie be hot or cold thus If it begin below and swell upwards it is hot because the nature of heat is to ascend but if it swell downwards it is cold because the nature of cold is to descend 5. Dry a bullocks sheeps or goats Bladder Galen and beat it into powder and give a dram of it in water vinegar or any convenient liquor to such as cannot hold their water or use to piss in bed and it will help them give it at night or morning according as you see cause 6. Rub a green Marigold leaf between your fingers and put it up into your nose and it will draw away abundance of humours and help Rheum anoying the head 7. The Roots of Elder-trees sod in water and the decoction drunk for common drink cures the Dropsie 8. Garlike and Housleek of each a like quantity stamped and applied plaister-wise to the place will help the Gout be it hot or cold 9. White wine Benenius wherein the ends of a pair of tongs have been quenched being before red hot six or seven times being drunk divers times doth help such as have grieved swelled or diseased Spleens 10. Mizaldus It is a signe of health in a sickness when the Gods begin to itch but take heed then of Venerious acts lest you pay for your pleasure 11. The decoction of Walwort either in wine or water doth admirably by being drunk cure the Dropsie 12. Arnoldus de villa nova Coriander-seed being beaten into powder and mixed with Honey and applied Plaister-wise either to Carbuncles or Sores helps them 13. Mizaldus The Berries of winter Cherries stamped and the Juyce pressed out and dryed helps both the Stone and Dropsie 14. Elder-leaves made hot between two Tile-stones and applied to the Forehead and Temples ease the pains of the Head 15. Take the buds leaves or inner-rind of an Elder-tree beat it and drop a drop or two of the juice thereof into the Ear it cures not onely Imposthumes there but also Deafness 16. Mizaldus The Brain of a Weazel dried and drunk in Vinegar cures the Falling-sickness 17. Many men are troubled with watry Stomachs much thin fresh water comming out of their mouthes towards morning it usually comes with a proneness to vomit the vulgar call it water-springs for such or any other Rheum whatsoever that molesteth your body take this most excellent though cheap Medicine Take a little stick and tye some old Oken-leaves about the end of it and cut them pretty round then put them into your mouth as far as you can well suffer them and hold the stick fast between your teeth and abundance of Rheum will come out of your mouth hold your mouth over a porringer and you may see how much Then wash the leaves in water and put them in your mouth again do so as often as you think fit If you do so before meat it will help your digestion 18. Earth-worms slit and washed well in white wine and dried and beaten into powder and a spoonful taken of them in any liquor in the morning fasting in a little time cureth the black Jaundies 19. Olibanum mixed with as much Barows-grease beat the Olibanum first into powder and boiled together make an Ointment which will kill the Lice in Childrens heads and such as are subject to breed them will never breed them after A medicine cheap safe and sure which breeds no anoyance to the brain 20. Tormentil boiled in wine Petrus Hisp and the wine drunk for ordinary drink and the Herb it self that was boiled being applied Plaister-wise to the eyes at night helpeth such as are so blinde they cannot see at all 21. Andr. Mathiolus Briony roots boiled in white Wine and a draught of the Wine drunk every night going to bed helps such as have the fits of the Mother 22. The juyce of Coleworts snuffed up the nose purgeth the head marvellously and taketh away the pains thereof though of never so long continuance 23. Mizaldus The Gums of young children being often rubbed with the brains of a Hare or Cunney their teeth will cut easily 24. Pet. Hisp Fine Aloes boiled well with the juyce of Coleworts and made into pills a scruple being taken at a time at night going to bed doth gallantly purge the head and ease the pains thereof 25. Take a good handful of Arsemart wrap it up in a Bur-leaf and take it up being so wrapped first in cold ashes then cover those cold ashes with hot embers those hot embers with hot coles and let it roast and apply it being well roasted to the place grieved with the Gout change it morning and evening and in three dayes you shall see the most wonderfull effects of it 26. If you beat a plate of Gold very thin when â—ol is in Leo Hermes Arnoldus de villa nova Jupiter and Luna in good Aspect â—nd Fortunate it will do wonders for being â—id to the seam of the Head it strengthens the â—rain and helps the infirmities thereof being â—anged against the region of the Heart it helps â—he diseases thereof faintings sownings c. â—nd causeth gladness being hanged to the Back it cools and strengthens them and helps pains in the back 27. Take all the Urine the party makes at one time that hath the Quartain Ague Mizaldus and knead flour and make a cake with it and when it is baked give it to a Dog of the house do so twice or thrice and in so doing the party will be well and the Dog sick Chuse a Dog for a Man but a Bitch for a Woman 28. To swallow down three grains of Mastich every night when one goes to bed Emp. Ben. Vict. delivereth from the pains of the stomach 29. Mark where a Swine rubs himself then cut off a piece of the wood and rub any swoln place with it and it will help it with this proviso that where the Hog rubs his head it helps the swellings of the head and where the neck those of the neck c. If you cannot apply a part of the thing the Hog rubbed against to the grieved place you must apply the grieved place to that 30. The rinde of an Ash-tree boiled in wine anâ— a draught of the wine drunk six or seven mornings together easeth the Spleen 31.
of Solomons-seal to come much behinde it 5. Make a Pessary or Goats-dung and the juice of Shepheards purse or Ribwort or Plantane and Yarrow and Pomgranate-flowers it helps mightily in this case 6. Make a bathe of Plantane Ribwort Teazle Shepheards-purse Pomegranate flowers the rinde of an Oak put it in a Close-stool and let the diseased Woman sit over it 7 As many Grains as a Woman doth drink of Corriander-seed so many dayes shall the tearms be stopped saith my author I set it down rather for the oddness of the conceit rather then to perswade any one of the truth of it 8. Red Corral being drunk stops the tearms 9. The ashes of burnt A corns cast up the 〈◊〉 trix stops the tearms and rids the Womb of all filthy noysom humors 10. The Decoction of Ribwort drunk is a most excellent remedy to stop the tearms 11. The water that is found in a hollow Oak is very good being drunk to stop the tearms 12. Dried Acorns beaten into powder and Acorn Cups and Comfry Roots and the Roots of Solomons-seal of Bistort Tormentil and Cinkfoyl are very good to take inwardly 13. The herb St. Johns-wort being beaten into powder and drunk doth stop both White and Red Flux 14. Also Dragons blood is much commended for it 15. The Flowers of Red Archangel or dead Nettles stop the Red Flux the Flowers of White the Whites 16. Many times this Flux comes upon women in Labour especially such as fall in Labour before their time and then it is exceeding dangerous in such a case the speediest cure for there must be no dallying is to force away the conception 17. If you can save them and dry them and give them her down back again it may do wonders CHAP. 14. For the fits of the Mother THe cause is cleerly windy vapors ascending from the Womb upwards 2. Stamp nettles and apply them to the matrix is very good 3. Apply a plaister of Galbanum to the Navel it is a most admirable remedy to restrain those noysom vapours I never yet knâ—w it fail 4. It is a strange thing that many that lie sick of this infirmity though their speech be even taken away yet their pulse gives no indication of any sickness at all 5. Therefore if you finde any Woman in that case especially if they fetch their breath short do not say they counterfeit but judge the disease to be the fits of the Mother 6. Let her receive stinking Vapors at her Nose and sweet vapors at her Privities for the Womb draws to all sweet things and flies from all stinking 7. Nettle-feed beaten into powder and drunk in Wine doth asswage all pains of the Womb and takes away the windiness thereof 8. Take of extract of Arrach half an ounce Assa-foetida two drachms make them up into Pills with powder of Arrach and let the diseased Woman take a scruple morning and evening 9. The Leaves of Burs draw the Womb which way you please therefore in this disease apply them to the soles of the feet but in falling out of the Womb apply them to the crown of the head 10. Bur-seeds do the like CHAP. 15. Of swellings of the Breasts and Nipples THe cause may be either cold taken at the Breasts which causeth inflamations there such as women call the Ague in the breast 2. Or else the curdling of the Milk there when it is turned into a substance like Cheese 3. Sometimes the nipples are so swelled through superfluity of Milk that the childe cannot draw them 4. In such a case take Bean flowers and mix it with the white of an Egg and apply unto them 5. Nettles boiled in Vinegar and applied to them instantly helps them 6. Crumbs of Bread mixed with the juyce of Smallage and applied unto the Breasts helps them when the Milk is curdled in them 7. If there be any hollow Ulcer in the Breast Goats-dung mixed with Honey soon easily and gently cleanseth out all the filth and healeth it 8. A Poltiss made of Mallows Chickweed Malt-flour and Sheeps-suet takes away the Ague in the Breast without breaking 9. Goats-dung mixed with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise dissolves the curdled Milk 10. The ashes made of a Dogs Head helps cankrous Ulcers of the Breast 11. Pigeons-dung mixed with Honey is of great efficacy in knotted Breasts 12. Knot-grass being carried about the person takes away the swelling of the Nipples incontinently 13. The Breasts anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog helps the curdling of Milk and opens the Pores exceedingly also if the Nipples be swelled anoint them with it it instantly helps them 14. The shells of Partridges Eggs stamped and mingled with Tar helps the Nipples when they are so chapped that they are ready to fall off Crab-claws taken inwardly are very good in all diseases of the Breast yet my opinion at present is that the whole Crab converted into Mummy and taken a drachm at a time is better CHAP. 16. Of Childe-birth DAte stones beaten into powder and given in Wine doth give most wonderful ease to women in labour 2. Dip a linen cloth in the juyce of Parsley and put it up the Privities it causeth the deliverance of the dead childe 3. The same being drunk brings away the After-birth 4. It is also it very good thing being taken inwardly to cleanse the Womb of ill humors and therefore a syrup of it ought to be kept alwayes in the House it furthers conception much 5. Polipodium stamped well and applied to the feet of a woman in travel bringeth away the childe whether it be alive or dead 6. Castorium or the spirit of it taken inwardly is held to be very good 7. The ashes of an Asses-hoof mixed with Oyl and the Privitives anointed with it is a very good and easie remedy 8. Also give unto a Woman in this case another Womans Milk to drink it causeth speedy delivery 9. The decoction or rather the juyce of Vervine given to drink to a woman in travel causeth speedy deliverance also 10. A dram of Myrrh given in powder to drink in any convenient liquor bringeth the childe away whether it be alive or dead 11. Boil Mugwort in water till it be a Poltis and apply it hot to the Thighs of a woman labouring with childe it causeth both birth to come away and if you let it tarry long there it will bring the Womb away also 12. Dittony in powder given a dram at a time to a woman labouring with a dead childe bringeth it away 13. Take Peony-seed in powder mix it with so much Oyl that you may make it into a Plaister and apply to the small of the back of a woman in labour according to the opinion of my Authour it causeth delivery without pain 14. A suffumigation made of the Horns and Hooss of a Goat being put in a Close-stool the woman sitting over it wonderfully moveth the Womb to deliverance 15. Betony is held to be a precious herb to be taken
ounce Olibanum two ounces Aloes Hepatique Mastick Cloves Galangal Cinnamon Saffron Nutmegs Cubebs one ounce Gum of Ivy five ounces beat what can be beaten into very fine powder and still them in an Alembick with a gentle fire The first water will be clear and white when it begins to change colour take away the first water and receive the second The second water will be of the colour of Saffron and thick when the colour changeth again take away the second water and receive the third The third water will be like Honey then distil the feces dry The first water cureth Fistula's and noise in the ears a drop or two being put into them * Mark the quality of the disease and give the hottest water in the coldest disease or at least qualifie them one with another The second cureth infirmities in the eyes they being washed with it The third water cureth ulcers and scabs in any part of the body and swellings of the eyes it presently easeth pains of the teeth it resisteth cold poisons as Toads Spiders Serpents Scorpions c. Neither can any sting hurt one a drop of this Oyl being warmed and applied to the place it cureth all ulcers lie they never so deep in the flesh nerves or bones and that without any tent in nine days be they never so foul fistulated or cankered it cures wounds with a stone or fall or shot a linen rag being wet in it and laid upon it it strengtheneth the nerves and sinnews helps swellings of the Legs Joynts or any place coming of a cold cause or corrupt blood It is so hot in operation that nothing can be found hotter and of such a piercing quality that warm a drop thereof and lay it on your hand it will presently soak in and you shall not feel it If you would try the vertue of it take a Capon or any other Fowl the feathers being plucked off and the guts being taken out then heat him so hot as you can well hold him in your hand then anoint him with this Oyl and lay him in the Sun two hours to dry then anoint him again and dry him as before then lay him where you will he will never putrifie Chap. 4. A Precious Water TAke of Aqua vitae many times distilled over a gallon Sperma caeti Ambergrease Rheubarb two drams Musk one dram put the Aqua vitae in a glass then tie up all the aforesaid species in a linnen cloath and hang the Nodulus in the water by a string it being close stopped lest the spirit evaporate with Wax and Parchment putting a little Cinamon into the Nodulus so shall you have an excellent water of the colour of Gold This is indeed a precious water and I am of opinion that if an Astrological time were observed for the beginning of the business it would be ten times better It expelleth Poyson a drop of it being taken in any convenient substance resisteth both pestilence and putrefaction if any be infected with the pestilence or any other Feaver coming of putrefaction or inflamation of blood or humors as most Feavers if not all do six or seven drops given in any cordial cures them Chap. 5. An Apprehension worth experience TAke of the Juyce of Chelondine which was gathered when the Sun was in Leo which is called his own house let him be free from Malevolent Beams and if he apply to the aspect of Benevolents 't is the better let the Moon be strong applying to the Sun and encreasing in light let the Angles of the Heavens be clear from the bodies of Saturn Mars or the Dragons tail from this Juyce draw the Elements apart and rectifie them all severally the triplicity the Patient was born under and his Disease being known and discretion in the administration accordingly used why may not it alone cure all Diseases though not in all people Chap. 6. A Balsam TAke of Turpentine one pound Oyl of Bayes four ounces Galbanum three ounces Gum-arabick four ounces Frankinsence Mirrhe Gum of Ivy Wood of Aloes of each three ounces Galanglal Cloves Comfrey-roots Nutmegs Cinamon Ginger Zedoary Diptany of Creet one ounce Musk Amber-greece one dram the things being in powder which may be beaten put them into a Retort and put to them Aqua vitae six pints then wet a rag in Aqua vitae and set fire to them let it burn stopping it close and after nine dayes still it in sand first with a gentle fire At the first will come out a clear water with Oyl amongst it let the fire be gentle till you see it begin to look black When it changeth colour then change your receiver and separate the Oyl from the first water then increase the fire and perfect the distillation Keep the last water also apart which being suffered to stand and settle will have a liquor which may be separated from that which is called the Balsam it self The first is called water of Balsam The Oyl is called Oyl of Balsam The last water mother of Balsam And the residence in the bottom of the last water is the Balsam it self and is the most precious of all The first water cleanseth the eyes causeth a clear sight the face being washed with it makes it fair it preserveth Youth breaks the Stone in the Reins brings forth Urine stopped by carnosity or fleshiness it marvellously cureth all sort of wounds being washed with it and a Lint dipped in it and put into them it also helpeth Hecktique Feavers and Coughs The Mother of Balsam helps Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms and Leprosie The Oyl of Balsam helps many Diseases as Wounds in the Head though the Skull be broken a drachm of it at a time being drunk in water helps Pleurisies wonderfull speedily The Balsam it self is the wonder of the world two drachms of it being taken easeth any pain it helps Coughs Hoarseness infirmities either hot or cold being used in unction it pierceth to the utmost extream parts curing thereby old Aches and bruises it cures Quartane Agues all the body being anointed with it once a day Chap. 7. A Balsam for the Stone TAke of Turpentine a pound old Oyl six ounces Oyl of Bayes four ounces Cinamon Spikenard of each two ounces Bricks well burnt eight ounces still them altogether in an Alembick It provokes Urine breaks the Stone kills Worms helps noise in the Ears the Palsie Gouts of all sorts all pains in the Joynts either by drinking of it or anointing with it but you must use but very little of it at a time inwardly mixed with apt things for the disease you take it for Chap. 8. A Balsam for the Palsie TAke of Galbanum a pound Gum of Ivy three ounces bruise them and still them in Balneo mix the liquor with Oyl of Bayes one ounce Turpentine a pound still them again then separate the Oyl from the water and keep the Oyl for your use For the dead Palsie Convulsion Apoplexy Shaking-palsie or any disease of the