is cured by being let bloud vpon the veine vvhich is found in 〈◊〉 middest of the thigh to the quantitie of sixe ounces or about the place vvhich is somewhat about the fundament but if in neither of those two places or vvhere they â—annot be found you must take the necke veine toward the vvind-pipe if you perâ—eiue that there is need of a drinke you shall straine a handfull of Purslane and â—â—ingle the juice vvith Gumâ—tragacanth fine Frankincense and a few Prouence Roâ—â—s you shall make him take it all vvith honied vvater in some prettie small quantiâ—ie It is knowne amongst other markes that he hath an ague if he haue the stopping of his vrine and his eares become cold withering and hanging downe In the faintnesse of the heart it is good to keepe the horse verie hot and to giue him this drinke Myrrhe two ounces Gum-tragacanth foure ounces Safron foure drams Mehlot in powder an ounce Mercurie a pound and fine Frankincense so much as shall be sufficient and proportionable all these mixt together and made inâ—o powder shall be reserued for your vse and that shall be in giuing two good spoonfulls thereof with one pinte of water two spoonefulls of Home and two bowles of Oyle of Roses This drinke vvill serue for many daies euen till the horse doe find himselfe better And further know that this drinke is good for those that haue their â—acke or loynes broken and members verie stiffe For the horse that is ouer-heated you shall cause him to swallow with the horne 〈◊〉 Winter three ounces of Oyle vvith one pinte of red vvine and in Sommer two ounces of Oyle onely vvith the like quantitie of Wine that is aboue named In the paine of the bellie vvhich some call the Birth you shall take the seeds of vvild Rue or of the garden Rue you shall poune it well and vvith hot vvine you shall make him a drinke vnto this drinke you may adde Cummine and Fennel-seed in like quantitie and after keepe him hot in some close and vvell couered place before you giue him this drinke you must get vpon his backe and vvalke him a long time and that rather in high places than in low and plaine fields when you are comming homeward if the season be cold you shall cloath him vvith a good vvoollen cloth rubbing his flankes vvith Oyle vntill such time as he be become cold and doe breake wind It vvould be good also to conuey into his fundament some hollow joynt of a Reed or Rose tree sufficient thicke and halfe a foot long annointed vvith common Oyle and let this same hollow Reed be in such sort fastened vnto his taile as that it may not by any meanes come forth and this done then to get vpon the horse and to vvalke him But howsoeuer things goe you must let him haue meat of hot qualitie and to drinke vvater boyled with Cummine and Fennell-seed in equall quantitie mingling vvith it Wheat meale and keeping it verie vvarme in a verie closâ— place For the difficultie 〈◊〉 vrâ—ne it is an approued thing to take fiue or nine of the flies called Cantharides to lap them in a linnen cloth and applie them to the thigh and howsoeuer it fareth with him yet to keepe them there for some time this will procure vrine but in anie case giue him them not in powder clister or drink◠〈…〉 good also to rub his cods with the decoction of Cresses Pellitorie and 〈…〉 Leekes For the sniuell take Orpin and Brimstone cast them vpon burning coales and 〈◊〉 the fume goe vp into the Horses nosthrils that so the humors congealed aboue in 〈◊〉 braine may be resolued and cast forth For the Flying worme take from him some bloud vpon the veines of the 〈…〉 applie a hot â—earing yron verie deepe vnder the throat and in the hole put 〈…〉 plegets vpon them moystened in the white of an egge and after let him stand 〈◊〉 dayes in the stable For the Iauar take Pepper as also the leaues of Coleworts old Swines 〈…〉 make an emplaister to be layd vpon the place For the Figge you must pare the hoofe so farre forward as that you may 〈◊〉 reasonable roome and space betwixt the sole of the foot and the figge then 〈◊〉 Spunge there and tye it verie hard that so the rest of the figge may be 〈…〉 euen to the cleft For the Wenne open it when you shall perceiue it to be full of matter 〈◊〉 make a plaister of Goole-turdes wine salt and vinegar and lay vnto the 〈◊〉 beware in any case that there be not in the bottome of it some strange and 〈◊〉 thing For the galling of the backe that is new done take two great Onions and 〈◊〉 decoction thereof in boyling water afterward you shall applie it to the sore place 〈◊〉 hot as the horse can abide it all the swelling will be gone away in one night Otherwise take salt in powder and wet it in strong vinegar putting thereto the yolke of 〈◊〉 egge with all this together you shall rub the place and you shall see the proofe 〈◊〉 else wash the place with wine or verie strong vinegar lay aloft vpon it Lime made 〈◊〉 powder and mixt with Honie continue this remedie so long as till the flesh be 〈◊〉 againe and the bone couered with it then to cause the haire to grow vpon it yoâ— must poune the shells of small nuts burned and being mingled with oile annoin◠〈◊〉 places wanting haire and it will be ouergrowne in a short time For a Horse â—wayed in the backe or complayning of hauing beene ouerladen â—â—â—plie vnto the reines of his backe an emplaister made of stone-pitch with the 〈◊〉 of Bole-Armoniake Dragons-bloud Olibanum Masticke Galles of each â—quall weight let the plaister be layed somewhat hot vpon the offended part which you shall not take away vntill it easily forsake the place when you touch it for 〈◊〉 the Horse is healed For the swellings caused on the Horse backe by the Saddle open it first with 〈◊〉 Knife afterward lay plegets vpon it wâ—t in the whites of egges three dayes together and the place if it be swolne and hard it will be healed with Coleworts 〈◊〉 Wormewood and Beares-breech bruised together and stamped and boâ—â—led together with sweet Seame applie it vnto the place offended and hurt For the disease called Graps which are moules and scabbes on the heeles 〈◊〉 way the scabbes and them wash the place with the decoction of Mallowes 〈◊〉 and Mutton Sewer put the drosse or thicke substance of this vpon the 〈◊〉 and bind it fast and close thereto afterward take it away and annoint the place 〈◊〉 an oyntment made of vinegar Mutton Sewet the gum of the Firre tree and new 〈◊〉 of all alike and boyle them altogether It is a singular good remedie for the Iaundise vvhich followeth take of â—â—nicke Corne and Smallage of eaâ—h a pound boyle them all vvith
which you distill because the â—legme commeth forth sometime first sometimes the last in the distillation as in the distilling of Aqua-vitae is stayeth the last notwithstanding that it be distilled diuers times in the distilling of the most part of other things it commeth forth first as in vinegar honie and such things and the thing is discerned by tasting of the first and last distilled waters And if it happen that the flegme be not seuered in this sort as indeed it is not in some such as with which it is mixt then the next course is to set such vvaters in the Sunne certaine daies in vessells couered with linnen clothes or parchment prickt full of small holes that so the excrementous part by such meanes may be consumed and wasted or if the Sunne faile as in Winter time then you must set your vessell contayning your distilled waters in other vessells full of vvater and cause them to boyle to the consumption of the third part The distillation is to be judged to be in good state and case if betwixt the fall of euerie drop you can account to the number of twelue and hence also is the judging of the force and quantitie of the fire to be learned and fetcht If any man desire that waters should haue some smell taste or other qualitie of something as of honie cinnamome camphire muske or other like sweet smelling thing whether it be to giue such smell to the thing that hath none at all or vnto something that hath a bad and vnpleasant smell as we will speake of by and by in the water distilled of mans dung it vvill be good to annoynt and besmeare the head of the still vvith these things or else to tie vp the same in some little knot of linnen cloth and hang them at the verie poynt of the spout or pipe to the end that the vvater distilling through this matter may retayne that smell or other qualitie intended And vvhereas distilled vvaters by force of the fire are euermore seene to retaine some impressions and printes of the heat it will be good presently after they be distilled to let them stand some time vncouered in the vessells wherein you meane to keepe them hauing yet therewithall regard that neither their small nor any part of their force doe vvaste or spend and therefore to take the fittest course it will be best to set your vessell close and fast stopt in some cold place in moist sand to diminish and take away the great heat of the same Notwithstanding you must marke and know that cold waters vvhich shall be distilled in Maries-bath will haue no great need to be so vncouered but that they rather must be set in the Sunne in a glasse vessell not altogether full or else that they with their vessell be set ouer head and eares in hot sand for the space of fortie daies to the end that their flegme and thickest humour may be consumed If your distilled vvaters become troubled you shall restore them to their clearenesse by putting thereinto some one or two drops of Vinegar for euerie pint of water CHAP. LXV Of the particular manner of distilling of Hearbes Rindes Flowers and Rootes DIstilled vvaters are of diuers sorts and vertues some are physicall or medicinable as the water of roses sage marierom and such like Others are nourishing as restoratiues and many both medicinable and nourishing as nourishing restoratiues vvhereinto are put medicinable things Others are purgatiue as the water or liquor of rhubarbe if it were new and greene Others serue to grace the face and hands and to make beautifull Others for to gratifie the nose by yeelding a sweet smell as those which are drawne out of spices and sweet smelling simples vsed also to vvash the hands face and whole bodie and againe all these waters are either simple or compound but we will first speake of the simple medicinable ones Wormewood must be distilled in Maries-bath to draw out his vvater in such sort as that it may expresse by smell and taste from whence it came and for the better doing of it you must see that you distill it not verie new but somewhat dried and afterward infusing it a little in wine to distill it in Maries-bath or in hatâ— ashes Mugwort Agrimonie Sorrell and such other like plants are thus distilled also but with obseruation had of the generall things specified before Thus the water of Winter cherries is distilled seruing against the stone and grauell as well of the reines aâ— bladder The vttermost pilling of common vvalnuts vvhether it shale willingly or no may be distilled in the moneth of September and the water drawne from them drunke in small quantitie with a third part of Vinegar is a certaine remedie against the plague if before drinking of it you cause the partie to be let bloud it is singular good also to make gargarismes of for the vlcers of the mouth it is good also to foment goutie places withall and good to colour the haire blacke Water distilled of the leaues of the Walnut-tree in the end of the moneth of May is singular for to drie and cicatrize vlcers if they be washed euening and morning with a linnen cloth moistned therein To distill strawberries you must let them putrifie in a glasse vessell putting thereto a little salt or sugar and then afterward to extract and draw out their water which is verie soueraigne against venime as also to take away spots to prouoke the termes and drie vp weeping eyes it will performe all these vertues in admirable manner if there be mingled with it a little Aqua-vitae The inward rinde of the ash-tree being distilled doth yeeld a singular water against the plague if it be drunke in equall quantity with aqua-vite as three 〈◊〉 of either especially if the same drinke in the same quantitie be drunke againe vvithin three houres after it is good also being dropt into the eares for the noyse in them The stones of blacke cherries being broken or the kernells alone distilled make a vvater vvhich doth quite take away the fit of the Falling-sicknesse in young children presently after that there hath beene put into their mouth about an ounce The distilled vvater of new filberds drunke the weight of two drams is a present remedie against the collicke and gripings of the bellie a thing that will not failâ— hauing beene proued and tried The vvater vvhich is distilled of the barke of Danewort or Elder-tree being oftentimes drunke doth euacuate and draw the vvater out of such as haue the dropsie The vvater of betonie You must stampe the leaues of betonie and infuse them a certaine time in Wine and after distill them The vvater of balme and sage is distilled in like manner The vvater of betonie is good for the diseases of the head reines and bladder The water of balme rejoyceth men keepeth away the fits of the Apoplexie and Falling-sicknesse
mornings Water of horse-taile Take horse-taile plantaine red roses Winter-cherrie-berries rootes of holihockes and scraped licorice of each an ounce of bole-armoniacke halfe an ounce of the seed of gourds and cucumbers of each three drams of the seede of white poppie six drams of the seed of quinces halfe an ounce Infuse them all in vvhay made of goats milke the space of two daies afterward distill the vvater which will serue for the vlcers of the reines and bladder if there be foure ounces of â—â—taken vvarme in the morning Water of corneflag Take equall parts of corneflag hyssope and southernewood stampe them throughly and leaue them so a certaine time afterward distill them this vvater prouoketh womens termes and killeth wormes in young children burnet-Burnet-water burneâ—- Take the seed of burnet parsley smallage the leaues and rootes of clotburre and smallage of euerie one equally stampe all together after put thereto of draggons bloud an ounce and a little good vinegar â—et all to infuse together a certaine time afterward distill it this vvater hath a meruailous vertue against the stone and grauell A singular vvater for the grauell vvhich the deceased Monsieur de Tillet had great vse of vvith happie succesâ—e Take the rootes of parsley and fennell made verie cleane and the vvooddie part taken out of each â—oure handfulls boyle them in twelue pintes of riuer water vvhen they are halfe boyled put thereto of the tender buds of Mallows holihockes violets and sea-weed of each foure handfulls boyle all together to the consumption of the halfe after straine them through a white napkin distill them putting thereunto two pound of Venice turpentine A singular water for the eyes Take celandine veruaine betonie eye-bright rue and fennell all new and fresh of each two handfulls stampe them together sprinkling them with halfe a pound of white Wine presse out the juice and afterward infuse in the same pepper and ginger made in powder of each halfe an ounce of saffron three drams of myrrhe aloes and sarcocol of each one ounce of verie good honie a pound distill them all in a glasse stillitorie at a small fire and keepe the water for the spots of the eyes Take foure ounces of the pills of Oranges dried in the shadow of the Sunne sixe dayes nutmegs and cloues made into powder either of them by themselues of each foure ounces infuse the said aromaticall powders in a glasse viole with rosewater the space of seuenteene dayes in the Sunne after cast vpon the said powders the rindes of oranges vvhich you shall let steepe there a certaine space of time Afterward take of new red roses gathered two daies before a pound of the roote of cypeâ—us halfe a pound of the leaues of rosemarie hysâ—op balme roses of the bush of each two handfulls of bay-leaues a handfull lay them all to drie in the Sunne for two houres after infuse them in rose-water the space of three houres this done put them all into a Still after this manner In the bottome of the Still make a bed of one pound of new red roses then next a bed of aromaticall powders and the rindes of oranges in the third place a bed of Violet flowers and in the fourth place the last and fourth bed of the afore named hearbes distill them all in Maries-bath with a gentle fire Adde vnto the distilled water two pound of rose-water or thereabout so that it may be in proportion equall to the third or fourth part of the water drawne out by distillation This vvater taken in the morning the weight of a dramme keepeth the bodie sound lustie and reneweth youth It is singular for the paine of the head tteeth bellie gripings palsie conâ—ulsions apoplexie faintings and other such cold diseases This is the vvater that is so much esteemed in the courts of kings and princes and amongst the great and renowned ladies An Allome-water Take Verjuice the juice of Plantaine and Purslaine of each a pound seuen whites of egges ten ounces of Roch-allome mingle them together and distill them Otherwise take plantaine purslaine sorrell gourds nightshade and verjuice of each a handfull poune them grosly mixe therewith ten or twelue whites of egges put them all in a glasse stillitorie to distill mingling amongst them halfe a pound of Allome as you lay bed vpon bed this water is good for caâ—kers for the rednesse of the face and for vlcers applying linnen clothes thereunto that haue beene wet therein You may likewise distill purging waters in infusing purgatiue medicines both simple and compound seeing that they be as new as may be and that in Aqua-vitae wine milke whay distilled waters or conuenient decoctions and such waters vvill haue the like vertues as the purging medicines haue thus you may distill Catholicum Diaphoenicon confectio Hamech and Electuarium de â—ucco rosarâ—m Thus you may distill rhubarbe agaricke hellebor scammonie and such other purgatiues that are sound and new The maner of distilling rhubarbe may be this take a quantitie of new and greene Rhubarbe vvhether it be a pound or halfe a pound more or lesse make it â—â—to small pieces or make it into grosse powder and vpon it cast of the iuice of Borage and Buglosse of each two pound for one of Rubarbe infuse them all together for the space of foure and twentie houres vpon hot ashes then distill them in a Stillitorie in Maries bath This distilling of purgatiue Medicines is for such kind of people as are verie delicate and cannot abide the smell of the purging medicine to be ministred otherwise vnto them CHAP. LXX Of sweet Waters particularly described SWeet Waters serue to wash the hands face haire of the head and beard as also to make Linnens Garments Gloues and such other things to smell sweet Water of Lauander Take the flowers of Lauander new or drie beâ—prinkle or infuse them in Rose-water Wine or Aqua-vitae afterward distill them The water will be sweeter if you drie the flowers in the Sunne in a Glasse-violl close stopped and cast vpon them afterward some white Wine And if in the time of want and lacke of distilled water you would haue a water presently made which should resemble the smell of the water of Lauander cast a drop or two of the Oyle of Spike into a good sufficient quantitie of pure water and swill them well together in a bottle or Glasse-violl with a narrow necke This water though it be not distilled yet it ceaseth not to haue the sweet smelling sent and sauour that the distilled hath Water of Cloues Take halfe an ounce of Cloues well bruised set them to infuse in a pound and a halfe of Rose-water the space of foure and twentie houres after distill them in Maries bath The water of sweet Smells Take Basill Mints Marierome rootes of Corneflag Hyssope Sauorie Sage Balme Lauander and Rosemarie of each a handfull of Cloues Cinnamome and Nâ—tmegs of each halfe an
Beanes infuse them a day or two in white Wine in a Glasse-violl in the Sunne afterward distill them This water taketh away the spots of the face if it be washed therewith morning and euening The rootes of great Dragons distilled maketh a singular water to take away the prints and marks which the pocks haue left behind them so doth likewise the distilled water of the root of wild Vine of Corneflag Sowbread Costmarie Angelica Elicampane Tutneps wild Cucumbers white Onions Gentian Capers Lillies Madder Alkanet Cinquefoile Crowfoot Tasell and manie other hearbes Water of Guaiacum Take Guaiacum and cut it in small pieces infuse them a certaine time in the decoction of other Guaiacum and a third part of white Wine afterward distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie The water that shall distill thereof is singular for the taking away of all spots out of the face especially if you ioyne with it in the distilling of it some Lillie rootes The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the leaues of Peaches and Willowes taketh away the red spots and rubies of the face The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the whites of egges and iuice of Limons scoureth the face and maketh it faire In stead of this water if you haue not the fit meanes to distill it you shall take seuen or eight Limons or Citrons which you shall cut into quarters and after infuse them in white Wine in the Sunne Another water Take six ounces of the crummes of white bread infuse them in two pound of Goats or Asses milke mingle them diligently together and afterward distill them Water of Snailes Take white Snailes about thirtie of Goats milke two pound of the fat of a Pigge or Kid three ounces of the powder of Camphire a dramme distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie Water of the whites of egges Take the whites of new egges about twelue fine Cinnamome an ounce and Asses milke twelue ounces distill all in a Glasse-Stillitorie This water maketh a woman looke gay and fresh as if shee were but fifteene yeares old Water of Calues feet Take the feet of a Calfe and taking away their skinne and hooues of their hoofes cut the rest in pieces that is to say the bones sinewes and marrow and so distill them This water maketh the face Vermillion like and taketh away the blemishes of the small Pocks A singular water to make one white Take the dung of small Lizards or of the Cuttle fish the Tartar of white Wine the shauing of Harts-horne white Corall the flower of Rice as much of one as of another beat them a long time in a Mortar to make them into fine powder afterward infuse them a night in an equall portion of the distilled water of sweet Almonds Snailes of the Vine and white Mulleine and put thereunto likewise the like weight of white Honey distill all together in a Stillitorie Water of bread crummes compounded Take the crummie part of Barly bread indifferent betwixt white and blacke two pounds of Goats milke three pounds of white Wine halfe a pound of the foure great cold seeds of each two ounces of the flowers of Beanes or dried Beanes and Cich Pease of each two pound of Rice halfe a pound of the flowers of water Lillies and white Roses of each two pugillâ— the whites and yolkes of twentie egges distill them all in Maries bath and the water will be a great deale more excellent if you put vnto the distillation some Venice Turpentine Water of the broth of a Capon Take of the broth of a Capon Henne or Pullet three pound of the iuice of Limons one pound of white vineger halfe a pound of the flowers of Beanes and water Lillies of each three pugills the whites of two or three egges the weight of two French crownes of Camphire distill them all This water is of a maruellous vertue to take away the spots and staines of the face and other parts of the bodie The water of Branne Take Branne the best that you can find sift it diligently and afterward temper it with strong vineger put them into a Still and cast vpon them tenne or twelue yolkes of egges distill them all This water maketh the face cleane glistening and verie faire Another water Take the flower of Beanes and water Lillies of each a pound of bread crummes Rice flower flowers of Corneflags of each six ounces of Honey a pound of white Wine and water of the fountaine of each three pound let all be well mingled together and afterward distill them in Maries bath Take the rootes of Corneflag and wild Cucumbers of each three pound of the rootes of Holihockes and Lillies of each two pound of ripe Grapes halfe a pound of Beane flowers and leaues of wall Pellitorie of each a pugill of water Lillies and Mallowes of each a handfull of the crummes of Barly bread a pound infuse it all in white Wine or in the household store of Goats milke putting to the infusion halfe an ounce of the rootes of Turneps and of the foure great cold seedes another halfe ounce of the vrine of a little girle halfe a pound let all be distilled together This water is singular good to take away freckles scarres the prints of the small pockes and all other spots of the skinne A water vsed amongst the Ladies of the Court to keepe a faire white and fresh in their faces Take a white Pigeon a pint of Goats milke foure ounces of fresh Butter foure pugills of Plantaine and as much of the roots and leaues of Salomons seale 〈◊〉 ounce of Camphire halfe an ounce of Sugar candie and two drammes of Alloâ—e let all settle together and afterward distill it Another wâ—ter Take of the crummes of white bread two pound of the flowers of Beanes one pound of white Roses the flowers of water and land Lillies of euerie one two pound of Goats milke six ounces and of the flowers of Cornflag anounce distill all this water is good to keepe the hands cleane and white Take Cowes milke in the moneth of May in other moneths it is not worth aniâ— thing two pounds foure Oranges and fiue Citrons Roch Allome and fine Sugar of each an ounce cut the Oranges and Citrons into small quarters and infuse them in milke afterward distill them all this water is good to keepe the colour neat fresh Take a certaine number of egges the newest you can get and lay them to steepe in verie strong Vineger three whole dayes and nights afterward pierce them with a pinne in such sort as that you may cause all the water that is within them to come forth and then distilling this water you shall find it excellent to beautifie the face Likewise to wash the face with the water of Almonds or Sheepes or Goats milke or else to lay vpon the face when one goeth to sleepe a white Linnen cloth dipped in these
the Ouen and taken in the weight of a French crowne with white Wine halfe a quarter of an houre before the fit Furthermore the Liniment made with Mithridate or the oyle of Scorpions applyed to the ridge of the backes soles of the feet palmes of the hands brow and temples some small time before the fit The verie same vertue hath the oyles of Bâ—yes mixed with Aqua vitae Some townesmen doe vse this superstitious rite against such manner of agues that is to say they eat nine dayes together being fasting the leaues of Sage the first day nine the second eight and so consequently they diminish euerie day a leafe vntill the last of the said nine dayes and the confident persuasion that they haue of this medicine doth cure them Some find it verie singular in a Quartane Ague after purging to drinke white wine wherein there hath beene Sage steeped all night if you eat before the fit a head of Garlicke pilled you shall scape the fit of shiuering cold if you drinke one or two ounces of the iuices of the root of Elder stamped and strained some small time before the fit and take the same againe two or three times you shall lose your ague The distilled water of the roots of Sea-Holly or else take a dramme of Myrrhe in powder and drinke it with Malmesey an houre before the fit The distilled water or decoction of Carduâ— Benedictus and taken before the fit Pills made of Myrrhe and of Treacle as big as a â—ich pease taken an houre before the fit For the Thirst of an Ague let him roll to and fro vpon his tongue the three-cornered stone found in the heads of Carpes or the leaues of round Sorrell or a piece of Siluer or Gold or a Snayle stone or a piece of Crystall oftentimes dipt in water or the leaues of Purslâ—ne or of Houseleeke or the husked seeds of Cucumbers For a Tertian Ague steepe in white Wine the bruised root of hearbe Patience for the space of three or foure houres afterward straine it and reserue about a pretie draught to giue the sicke to drinke an houre or two before his fit or else doe the like with the rootes of Plantaine steept in equall quantitie of Wine and Water or take a pretie draught of the iuice of Plantaine or of Purâ—lane or of Pimpernell and drinke them a verie little while before the fit or else drinke with Wine euerie day six leaues of Cinquefoile that is to say three in the morning and three at the euening or the iuice of Smallage of Sage and good strong Vineger of euerie one an ounce three houres before the fit The most soueraigne remedie that some men doe find for it is to drinke fasting fiue houres before the fit two ounces of the iuice of Pomegranats and presently after to lay to the wrists temples and soles of the feet small pills of the bignesse of a Pease made of an ounce of the oyntment of Populeon and two drammes of Spiders webs and there to leaue them vntill such time as that the houre and feare of the fit be past or else a Cataplasme made of Sage Rue Greeke Nettle gathered before Sunne-rise of each a handfull Salt and Soot the quantitie of a Walnut it being all stamped with vineger and applyed to the pulset an houre before the fit Some doe greatly approue of a Liniment of Earthwormes boyled with Goose grease to rub the brow and temples of the sicke partie withall before the fit or else to carrie about his necke the hornes of a swift Hart which is a singular remedie For a Quotidian it is good to drinke somewhat before the fit the iuice drawne out of Betonie and Plantaine or to drinke euerie morning a reasonable draught of the decoction made of the root of Smallage Parsley Radishes Sperage leaues of Betonie and Spleenwort red cich Pease and the middle riâ—de of Elder or to steepe in white wine the roots of Danewort and to drinke a small draught thereof an houre before the fit but after that hee must take heed of sleeping or let him drinke euerie day with Wine two leaues of Cinquefoile one in the morning and another at euening as also let him apply vnto his pulses the Cataplasme that wee haue set downe for the Quartane Ague To take away the paine of the Head comming of great heat namely such as befalleth Mowers during the Summer time there must be applyed vpon the browes slices of Gourds or Linnen Clothes dipped in Rose water or the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade Lettuce Purcelane and Vineger of white Wine or let her beat two whites of egges with Rose water and with Flaxe make a Frontlet or stampe bitter Almonds with Veruaine water and apply them vnto the browes or to wash the head in warme water in which hath beene boyled the leaues of Vines and Willowes the flowers of Water-Lillies and Roses and with the same water to wash the feet and legges and if in case the paine be so great as that there is feare that hee should loose his wits let there be applyed vpon the crowne of his head browes and temples a Cataplasme made of the white of an egge Bole-armoniacke Crabbes throughly boyled and Poppie seed with the water of Betonie and Vineger If the Head complaine it selfe of too much Drinke there may be made a Frontlet with wild Time Maiden haire and Roses or receiue and take the fume of the decoction of Coleworts or by and by after the head beginneth to be ill to eat one or two short-started Apples or some bitter Almonds or else to drinke of the shauings of Harts-horne with Fountaine or Riuer water or if you see that your stomacke be not sicke thou mayst take of the haire of the Beast that hath made thee ill and drinke off a good glasse of Wine If the Head become sicke of some great Cold apply and lay to the Head a bag full of Branne Millet and rubbed Salt or of Sage Marierome Betonie Tyme Annise-seed Fennell-seed Bay-berries and Iuniper-berries as hot as you can endure them or else chafe the temples with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To cure the Frensie that commeth of a hot cause you must apply vpon the head of the patient the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or the whole Gather or some Henne or Pigeon slit along the backe and applyed vnto the same place or rub his browes and all his head ouer with oyle of Roses Vineger and Populeon or with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To awake those which are giuen to sleepe too soundly it is good to make a Frontlet of Sauorie boyled in Vineger or to make a perfume for the patients nosthrils with strong Vineger or seed of Rue or Nigella or feathers of a Partridge or of old Shooe soles or of the hoofes of an Asse or of mans haire or else to apply vpon the browes a Cataplasme of
shaued or scrap 〈…〉 a linnen cloth in manner of a Cataplasme and apply it vnto the pained 〈◊〉 Otherwise take the roots and leaues of Danewort the leaues of Scabious 〈◊〉 Coâ—â—frey and wild Sage boyle all together in wine after let it passe 〈…〉 put thereto oyle of Spike Aqua vitae and the oyle of Neats 〈…〉 take a very fat Goose puld and the garbage taken cleane out after 〈◊〉 her with 〈◊〉 that are well liking and chopped verie small with common 〈◊〉 and roasted at a small fire and looke what droppeth forth let be reserued for 〈◊〉 for the grieued place Some likewise apply for the paines of the ioints 〈◊〉 whelpes vpon the pained places Galen saith That hee was wont to softer 〈◊〉 such hardnesse as is wont to happen about the knees by applying vnto 〈…〉 Cheese all mouldie stamped with the broth wherein a salt Gammon of 〈◊〉 hath been boyled To take away the Swellings procured of Wind you must take fried salt and 〈◊〉 it betwixt two Linnens vpon the Swelling or apply a Cataplasme made of the 〈◊〉 of white Wine the branne of 〈◊〉 and new Oxe dung For such Swellings as are 〈◊〉 make a Cataplasme with the leaues and flowers of Violets flowers of Heâ—â—ane leaues of Nightshade flowers of Camomill and Meliloâ—e all boyled in wine and water strayned through a Searce and applyed vnto the aking place Or else draw the iuice of Houseleeke with a little red Wine and the flower of Barley make an emplayster for the place The dung of Goâ—â—â— hath power to wast spend and consume the hard Swellings how hardly soeuer resolued and wasted especially the old hard Swellings about the Knees mingling the same with Barley flower and water and vineger in forme of a Cataplasme To ripen an Impostume apply vnto it the dung of Goslings which haue 〈◊〉 kept from meat three whole dayes together and after fed with the gobbers of a fresh Eâ—â—e It is good also to apply raw Wheat champed or chawed a long time A Cataplasme made of the leaues and roots of Mallowes Holihocks Onions Lillies crumâ— of white bread all â—od together and after strayned through a Colander adding thereto the volke of an Egge and a little Saffâ—on It is true that if the Aâ—ostâ—me be very cold there may be added to the decoction of the Cataplasme abouesaid the roots of Elacampane Danewort Lilâ—â—es and Brionie flowers of Camomill and Melilot Oâ—ons and Wheat Leauens To ripen a Naile otherwise called a Felloâ— or Cats-haire take raw Wheat a long time chawed or the flower of Wheat the yolke of an Egge Honey and Hogges grease after heat them all together and make a plaister to lay to the sore or else lay vpon it Sheepes dung steept in vineger if in 〈◊〉 you mind to soften and resolue it For Tetters you must vse the iuice of Purcelane Celandine Plantain Nightshaâ—â—eâ— and Limons and if this medicine appeare not to be strong ynough it will be good to mixe some red Tartar amongst and with this composition to rub the spotted places Otherwise infuse for the space of a whole day in strong white vineger the rooâ— of hearbe Patience cut into shiuers rub the place where the Tetter is with one of the shiuers three or foure times a day Or else boyle tenne graines of Sublimate and halfe a dramme of Aloes in equall quantitie of Plantaine and Nightshade water vnto the consumption of the one halfe Or else steepe the powder of a Slaâ—e in very good vineger with salt and rub the place Otherwise take the gumme of Cherrie trâ—e a verie little Brimstone with twice so much salt as Brimstone steepe all together in the strongest vineger you can get and with this composition rub the spotted places Or else rub the place with your fasting spettle or with the guâ—â—â— that groweth about the Vine but before this you must rub them with Salt Nitre or else with the hearbe Nicotiana applying both drosse and iuice together vnto the place To take away the markes and pits of the small pocks take an ounce of Oyle or of the flowers of S. Iohns wort halfe an ounce of Venice Turpentine as much of Sperma coeti melt it all vpon the fire in a dish of earth well glased when it beginneth to boyle and to swell vpward take it from the fire and let it coole rub and chafe the places of blacke spots with this oyntment and continue it so long as till the pits be filled vp For Vlcers and Apostemes which happen about the Nailes lay vpon the soare a little worme which is found in the head of the Tasell when it is drie For hard Swellings take Mallowes Holyhocks the roots of Lillies Pellitorie the leaues of white Mullein seed of Line and Holyhocks flowers of Camomill and Melilot let all be boyled in equall portions of water wine and vineger after passe them through a Colander adding thereto the flower of Barley and Beanes the powder of Camomill and Roses Hennes grease and fresh and new Butter make a playster to lay to the soare Likewise it shall be good to lay hot thereunto a Cataplasme made of the drosse of Bee-hiues dissolued in white wine and fried in a Frying panne For such at are fallen from on high giue the weight of halfe a French crowne of this powder with good wine Mummia Tormentill Rhaponticke Sperma coeti of each a dramme or else giue the weight of a French crowne of the powder of the seed of Garden-Cresses of Mummia of the seed of Houseleeke prepared and Sugar Candie For a greene wound you must take Garden Baulme the great and small Comfrey and a little salt poune them all together and apply them vpon the wound It is good also to drop into the wound the iuice of Nicotian or for the more profitable vse thereof to apply both the drosse as also the iuice thereof stamped and to bind vp the wound by and by and assure your selfe that within three dayes it will be recouered Otherwise take the Elme apples the flowers of S. Iohns wort and of Rosemarie the knops or buttons of Roses put all together in a glasse-bottle full of oyle Oliue stop the bottle diligently and set it to the Sunne so long as till all be so farre consumed as that it may seeme to be rotten afterward let it runne through a linnen cloth diuers times and then keepe it in a violl to drop into wounds The readiest and most soueraigne remedie is the iuice of Nicotiana and the drosse or substance likewise and also the oyntment made thereof which wee will handle hereafter viz. in the seuentie six chapter of the second Booke This oyntment is very singular Take Veruaine Agrimoniâ— Beâ—onie and Pimpernell of each a handfull wash them diligently and being washed swing them well stampe them together in a mortar being stamped put them in an earthen vessell well glased with seuen pints of white wine to boyle till halfe
Maries-bath or vpon hot ashes after the manner of Roses Thus the young and tender storke which did neuer flye is distilled but he must first be bowelled and stuffed with an ounce of camphire and a dram of amber the water that commeth thereof is excellent to make liniments and fomentations in palsies and conâ—â—lsions After the same sort is the pie frog snailes ants liuers and lungs of calues of a Foxe and other such like beasts distilled howbeit vvithout any such long and teadious preparation they may be distilled by and by after the manner of other vvaters as vve vvill forthwith declare in the distillatioâ— of restoratiues The vvater of Swallowes Take Swallowes the weight of sixe ounces and castâ—reum an ounce let them infuâ—e a whole night in vvater and put into a Limbecke be distilled This vvater is singular to preserue one from the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken but once a moneth to the quantitie of two spoonefulls and that in a morning fasting The flesh of beasts is distilled on this manner Cut and chop the flesh small incorporate and stampe it vvith a tenth part of common salt after put it in a 〈◊〉 like vnto a gourd vvell stopped that so you may burie it in the earth set and 〈◊〉 passed round about with vnquencht lime and dung of horses halfe rotten to be digested in the same for the space of a moneth or thereabout during vvhich time you shall vvater the said vnquencht lime and dung often with vvarme vvater to stirre vp their heat and you shall renew the lime and dung three or foure times euerie weekeâ— for you must thinke that for vvant of heat the flesh might putrifie in steed of digesting And after they haue beene sufficiently digested vvhich you may know by seeing the grosser parts seperated from the more thinne and subtile the vessell shall be taken out of the dunghill and the head of a Still set thereupon the nose or 〈◊〉 being vvell luted and so it shall be distilled in Maries-bath diuers times ouer powring the distilled vvater againe vpon the residence or drosse remayning in the bottome so oft as you redistill it And after the fifth distillation you shall set aside the water to keepe if so be you had not rather circulate it to giue it the nature as it vvere of a quintessence As well the vvhites as the yolkes of egges are distilled after the manner aboâ—â—sayd but they must not be digested in the dung aboue fiue or sixe dayes at the most The vvaters thus distilled are more than restoratiues hauing the vertue to encrease the substance of the bodie and members as naturall flesh and nourishment doth CHAP. LXVIII Of the manner of distilling of restoratiues REstoratiues are prepared after diuers sorts notwithstanding the most vsuall and best is thus Take the flesh of a Veale Kid or Weather cut and chopped as small as possibly may be or else take musculous flesh which is called the vvhites of capons pullets fat and well fleshed hens after they haue beene well hunted and tired cut likewise and chopped small put vnto this flesh calues feet peeces of gold or rather the thin beaten leaues of gold put all in a glasse Still well luted with mortar made of flower whites of egges and a little masticke into this Still you shall cast for the giuing of some grace vnto the distillation and somewhat to mitigate the heat which it might get by the fire halfe a handfull of cleane barley a handfull of drie or new red Roses which haue beene infused in the juice of pomegranates or rose-water and a little cinnamome place them all in the Still as it were after the manner of little beds and strew thereupon the powder of the electuarie of cold Diamargariton or of precious stones and a little coriander prepared and finely powdred to discusse and waste all windie matter If you would make your restoratiues medicinable you may adde thereunto things concerning the disease that presseth as rootes and hearbes respecting the head in the diseases of the head as betonie penniryall staechados organie sage and others such like for the diseases of the reines the rootes and plants that are good to breake the stone for the Falling-sicknesse the seed of pionie and misletoe of the oake for the quartaine ague polopody scolopendrum and the rootes of Tamariske for the French disease the rootes of gentian enula campana and the wood guajacum and so of other things yet it seemeth vnto me that it were better that the cordial powders 〈◊〉 not be mingled among the rest for feare that their force which is thin subtile and verie fragrant should euaporate through the heat of the fire and that it would be farre better to straine the distillation through a linnen cloth that is verie cleane and which should haue the cordiall powders in the bottome of it there may likewise be added a quantitie of Treacle with some conserues as occasion shall be ministred the matter thus disposed of it shall be distilled in a stillitorie of glasse well luted as we haue said and in Maries-bath or else in ashes grauel or hot sand for by this meanes the distillation vvill taste least of the fire It will be good before the flesh be put into the still to be distilled that they should haue boyled a boyle or two in a new earthen pot to take from it the grosse excrements hanging about the same Againe it must be remembred that if there be any gold put into the distillation that it will be better to put in such as is wrought into leaues than grosse peeces because that grosse peeces in respect of their solidenesse consume but a verie little and with much adoe This is called a diuine restoratiue and must be giuen vnto the sicke partie prettie and warme Another manner of restoratiue after the Italians fashion Take a Capon or a good Henne which yet neuer laid egges let her or him be pulled aliue that so the bloud may be stirred and dispersed throughout the bodie after you haue pulled them â—â—ke â—out the guts and afterward stampe bones and all together in a Mortar putting thereto as much â—rummes of new bread as there is stamped flesh pound all together with a handfull of Seabious either greene or drie and the weight of a French crowne of the leaues of gold let it all settle a whole night after distill it adding thereto three pound of verie good Wine such as is of a ripe Grape Another manner of restoratiue Boile a Capon or some such other flying fowle whole and entire with Borage Buglosse Scariole Endiue Lettuces or other such like hearbes as shall be necessarie in respect of the disease and when it hath boiled till it seeme as rotten with boiling take the broth or supping and put it into the stillitorie afterward put thereinto also the flesh of partridge hen or other such flying fowle cut and chopt small and adde vnto these such other
matter as you shall know to be necessarie for the present disease as conserues of roses and buglosse damaske raisins the powders of the electuaries of precious stones aromaticum rosatum and such like things and finally distill them after the manner aboue specified Some there are vvhich vvill not make any restoratiues but of capons-flesh the oldest they can get such they strangle and plucke by feather and feather not vsing the helpe of any hot vvater then they take out the entrailes and chop them small adding thereto flowers or conserues of buglosse burrage damaske raisins mundified barley whole coriander-seed pearles powder of the electuarie diarrhodon or some other like vnto it and the leaues of gold they distill all together and cause it to be giuen to sicke persons women in child-bed and old folke To make a restoratiue in shorter time and that vpon the sudden with lesse cost charges as also paine and labour chop your flesh small after the manner alreadie deliuered put it into a glasse viole or bottle of a sufficient bignesse and in such sort as that all your peeces of flesh be strung or put vpon a double threed and hold one by another and the double threed vvhereupon they hang be vvithout the bottle which must be well stopt aboue with a linnen or cotten cloth wet in a mixture made vvith whites of egges and barley â—lower set this bottle in a caldron full of water boyling at a small fire and there let it stand foure houres more or lesse vntill such time as a good part of the flesh bee conuerted into moisture See that the bottle stand in the vvater vp to the necke and that it touch not the bottome of the caldron and vvithall vvell stayed vp on euerie side that so it may not slip or bend more one vvay than another When the foure houres are spent rebate the fire gently that so the bottle also may coole by little and little vvhich if so bee that you should take all hote out of the water it vvould breake presently Afterward vnstop the bottle vvith vvarme vvater if you cannot vvell otherwise and then draw forth the string and the flesh softly that so the liquor may remaine alone straine the vvater after the manner of Hypocras and aromatize it vvith Sugar and Ciâ—â—â—mome that so it may be giuen to the sicke that are vvasted You may after this manner make restoratiues such like as you shall thinke good either cheaper or dearer more or lesse pleasant and delicate and more or lesse medicinable as occasion may require CHAP. LXIX The manner of distilling compound waters WAters are not onely distilled of one onely or simple plant liquor or other matter but also of many mixt together and such vvaters are called compounded vvaters by reason of the mixture of many things These compound vvaters are of three sorts some are for physick othersome for sweetnesse and the other for â—ukes and painting as ornaments to the bodie vve vvill first and before the rest speake of those which serue for medicine and physicke Sage water compounded Take equall parts of sage and penniryall stampe them in a mortar and distill them This water taketh away the paine of the bellie and stayeth cold rheumes if it be drunke with a little quantitie of castoreum Water of turneps compounded Take turneps either garden or wild ones or both together the roots of smallage and parsley and anise-seed infuse them all in white wine or vinegar and distill the vvater as good against grauell Angelica water Take equall parts of Angelica as well the rootes as the leaues but especially the rootes and the flowers of lauander infuse them in Wine there will distill from them a singular water against the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken in the quantitie of two or three spoonefulls Water of Celandine Gather in the beginning of the moneth of May the leaues of celandine veruaine rue and fennell pound them and draw from euerie one of them three ounces of juice vvhich you shall mix together put vnto them some buds of roses of sugar-candie three ounces of verie good Tutia foure ounces and as much of dragons bloud distill them all in a stillitorie This vvater taketh away the rednesse and spots in the eyes Water of the Vine Take the vvater that distilleth from the vine-stockes at such time as they are cut vvhich is in the Spring-time distill it with like quantitie of honie this vvater healeth itchings heat and rednesse of the eyes the verie vvater of of the vine alone vndistilled doth the like Rose-water Take roses three parts fennell and rue of each one part shred them small and mingle them verie well together afterward distill them and let the distilling vvater fall into a vessell wherein is a handfull of the foresaid hearbes this vvater preserueth the sight if the eyes be vvashed therewith in Sommer Water of Eye-bright Take Celandine Fennell Rue Eye-bright Veruaine red Roses of each halfe a pound Cloues and Long-pepper of each two ounces bruise them all and distill them in a glasse stillitorie This vvater is singular good for a vveake sight Water of Rosemarie Take Aqua-vitae distilled of white Wine the distilled vvater of rosemarie and sage of each fiue pound of sugar two pound in these infuse of the flowers of sage and rosemarie for the space of eight daies of each two ounces straine them and keepe the water to heale the fistulaes of the eyes Water of Treacle Distill in a glasse stillitorie Treacle with a like quantitie of Aqua-vitae and Vinegar This vvater is good to touch the vlcers and rawnesse of the mouth vvithall especially if there be added vnto it a little bole-armoniacke Another Treacle water Take old Treacle a pound of the rootes of Enula campana Gentian Cypers Tormentill of each an ounce of blessed Thistle halfe an ounce of conserues of Borage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each an ounce infuse them all together in three pints of white Wine a pint and a halfe of Cesterne water and two pints of Rose-water distill them Water of Cloues Take equall parts of Cloues Ginger and flowers of Rosemarie infuse them in verie good Wine the space of eight daies distill the whole This vvater comforteth the stomacke assuageth the paines and vvringings of the bellie killeth vvormes and maketh fat folke to become leane or maketh fat the leane if they drinke it mixt with sugar Water of Saxifrage Take of the juice of Saxifrage two pound of the juice of Pearlewort Parsley Anise and Clotburre of each halfe a pound of vvhite Vinegar eight ounces distill them all This vvater drunke in the morning breaketh the stone Water of Swallowes Take Swallowes and drie them in an ouen make them into powder mixe it vvith a little Castoreum and a little Vinegar distill it all this water cureth the Falling-sicknesse if it be drunke foure
high places and such as are not ouer-shadowed the fall whereof doth enioy the Sunne-rising for water out of such Fountaines is a great deale more light and pleasant in tast and by how much it runneth the swifter and longer way in the Aire and Sunne before it come to the bottome so much it groweth the better as when it falleth from high Rocks it is as it were beaten and broken in falling through the downe-right places of stones and craggednesâ—e of the Rocks We must also see that such Mountaines be full of Dogs-tooth Plantaine Fox-taile wild Penny-ryall transmarine Sage which is called Adianthum Milfoile Chameleon and generally all other hearbes and plants which grow without being planted and are by nature greene well branched good and thicke and well flowred The time most apt in all the yeare and affoording greatest perseuerance for the finding out of the heads of Wells and Fountaines are the moneths of August or September for then it is easie to know the greatnesse of the head when the earth by the great heat of Summer hath no moisture of raine left remaining in it and then also we may gather assurance of such as will neuer drie vp altogether If it happen that the head Fountaine be somewhat too farre from the Farme you may force the water to come thither by little Riuers or rather more conueniently by chaâ—els and conduits made of Lead Wood or Pot-earth the best are made of Aller tree Fâ—rre tree or Pine tree out of which distilleth Perroâ—en because that such Trees haue an oylie humour and hot which easily resisteth the hurtes which water might cause Next to them are those which are made of Pot-earth if that the water carried along in them were not the cause of breeding obstruction These must be two fingers thicke and sharpe at one end the length of halfe a foot to goe the one of them into the other the worst sort is those made of Lead because the water carried along by them purchaseth from the Lead an euill qualitie and that because of the Ceruse thereof so that it oftentimes causeth bloudie fluxes and other such like diseases if we beleeue Galen and them which for this cause call the inhabitants of Paris Squitters because they vse fountain-Fountaine-water which runneth through Leaden pipes which point notwithstanding seemeth not to be without all doubt seeing that Ceruse cannot breed nor be made of Lead without vineger and for that we see also diuers Countries doe drinke of such waters without being troubled with bloudie fluxes whatsoeuer it is wee must set well together and soulder the pipes with a compound made of vnquenched lime and the greaâ—e of a hogge or of Perrosen and the whites of egges or of lyme whites of egges oyle and the filings of yron because that all these things doe hinder corruptions and rottennesse which the water might cause If any Mountaine doe hinder the laying or bringing along of these Pipes wee must make them way if any Valley we must reare arches such as are to be seene in a Village neere vnto Paris called Arâ—ueil and that because of those said arches or rayse pillars and other matter to support those water-passages But it is not sufficient to haue found out those Heads of Wells and Fountaines but we must further consider of the goodnesse and wholesomenesse of the Water as Aristotle teacheth vs For seeing the greatest part of our life dependeth vpon the vse of this element it is requisite that the Master of the Household should haue care to procure good Water in as much as Water must be the most of his seruants drinke and that the Bread which he and his familie doe eat is kneaded therewith and the greatest part of his victuals boyled therein The best and most wholesome Water of all others is Raine Water falling in Summer when it thundereth and lightneth verie much and yet notwithstanding Raine Water causeth costiuenesâ—e and obstructions especially that which is kept in Cesternes newly made and that by reason of their Mortar wherewith they are ouer-layd It doth also corrupt very quickly that onely excepted which falleth in May and being so corrupted it maâ—reth the voice bringing Hoarsenesse and a little Coâ—gh Next to this in goodnesse is 〈◊〉 Fountaine Water which falleth from the Mountaines and runneth along amoâ—gst Stones and Rocks Next to this in goodnesse is Well Water or that which issueth at the hanging parts of the Mountaines or that which springeth in the bottome of a Valley The fourth different sort of Waters is that of the Riuer The worst of all the rest is that of the Poole and Marish Grounds and yet that which runneth not is worse than all the rest and more apt to inâ—ect The Water of Snow and Ice is the most vnwholesome of all because it is the coldest and most earthie as not hauing beene prepared by the heat and vertue of the Sunne And as conceâ—ning the Water of Wells and Fountaines seeing it is not found good alwaies and in all places we shall know them to be good if it haue neither tast sâ—â—ell nor any colour whatsoeuer being notwithstanding verie cleere and of the nature of the Ayre taking quickly the colour of anie thing that one shall cast into it being also cleane warme in Winter and cold in Summer easie to make hot and as soone becomming cold againe in which Peason Beanes and other such like things doe boyle easily and which being put for some space in a Brasen Copper or Siluer Vessell well scoured leaueth no discoloured parts or spots in the same and which when it hath beene boyled in a Caâ—ldron made verie faire and cleane doth not make any â—etling or shew of filth in the bottome if such as vse to drinke it haue a cleere voice a sound breast and the die or colour of the face be neat and liuely finally that which together with the rest of the markes is verie light and by consequent as principall of all the rest shall that be iudged which excelleth in the foresaid markes and qualities and for to know which is the lightest weigh as much with as much of euerie sort of Water or else take two three or â—oure Clothes of one and the same webbe length and breadth according to the quantitie and sorts of Water which you would compare together and in euerie one wet a Cloth distill the Clothes or let the Water drop out of them and then weigh them for the Cloth which was moistened in the â—ightest Water will then weigh lesâ—e than the rest It is true that the lightnesse of Water is not so truely tryed by weight as by drinking not causing at such time anie burthenous weight in the places about the short Ribbes and passeth through the bodie speedily as also in being quickly hot and quickly cold Drie Places and Countries abounding with Mountaines doe commonly bring forth Stones which is easily perceiued by the rough and boisterous handling of the Earth
place with a Liniment made of Linseed and the powder of the tooth of a wild Boare or else to apply vnto the place a Cataplasme made of the dung of a young boy of a good constitution fed for the space of three dayes with Lupines and well baked Bread leaâ—ened and salted and hauing Claret Wine to drinke and no other eyther meates or drinkes and adding to the foresaid childs dung an equall quantitie of Honey Against the Pleurisie drinke presently with the syrrup of Violets or some other appropriate to the Breast whatsoeuer the weight of a scruple of Nettle seed or of the Ash Trees or take three ounces of the distilled water of Maries thistle or of Carduus Benedictus or of Broome a spoonefull of white Wine six springs or straines of Egges that are verie new the weight of a French crowne of the shells of French small Nuts made into powder eighteene graines of red Corall powdred all being mixed together let it be giuen warme with as much speed as may be mundified Barley and the seeds of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Poppie are in that case highly commended roast a sweet apple vnder the embers mix therwithall when it is roasted the iuice of Licorâ—ce Starch and white Sugar giue thereof vnto the diseased twice a day two houres before meat or else take the weight of a French crowne of the powder of a wild Bores tooth and cause him to swallow it either with the iuice of sweet Almonds and Sugar Candie or with the broth of red Coleworts or decoction of the water of Barley or some other such like which is appropriate for the Breast or else burne to ashes the pizzle of an Oxe and giue a dram thereof with white Wine if the ague be but small or with the water of Carduus Benedictus or Barley water if the ague be strong and great and assure your selfe that such remedies are singular if they be vsed within three dayes of the beginning of the sicknesse The manner of making these ashes is to cut the pizzle of the Oxe in gobbets and laying it vpon the harth that is close layd to set a new pot ouer it and afterward to lay hot burning coales or hot embers about the pot which must be oft renewed vntill one be assured that it is burnt into powder and the better to iudge of the time he must thinke that this will not be done vnder a whole day It is good to lay a playster of blacke Pitch vpon the grieued side and where it commeth to passe that the paine of the side continueth and that the sicke partie cannot spet cause him to vse the decoction of the flowers of red Poppie or of the powder of them the weight of a French crowne with the water of Scabious and Pimpernell and syrrop of Hysope if there be no great Feauer or Violets if it be great Furthermore for a Pleurisie which is desperate and past hope take a sweet Apple euen a verie excellent one and take the kernels forth of it and fill vp the hollow place with fine Olibanum rost it couered ouer and rolled in stupes vnder the hot embers throughly and then giue it to the sicke of the Pleurisie to eat For the spetting of Bloud cause him to drinke the distilled water of the first little buds of the leaues of the Oake or the decoction of Comfrey or of Plantaine Horse-taile or Knot-grasse otherwise called the hearbe of S. Innocent or to swallow downe some small drops of Masticke or Harts horne or Goats horne burnt or Bole Armoniake or Terra sigillata or Corall or Amber or the powder of the innermost rind of Chestnut tree or of the Corke tree or frie the dung of an Hogge with fresh Butter and of that cluttered bloud which the sicke partie shall haue spet and so giue of these thus fried together to the sicke partie to eat For the beating of the Heart it is good to hang about the neck so much Camphire as the quantitie of a Pease or to drinke two or three ounces of the water of Buglosse and of Baulme some hold the distilled water following for a singular and soueraigne remedie Take two Hogs harts three Stags harts or the harts of three Bulls Nutmeg Cloues and Basill seed of each three drams flowers of Marigolds Burrage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each halfe a handfull steepe them all in Malmesey or Hipocras for the space of a night after distill them with a Limbecke and reserue the water for vse which shall be by taking three or foure ounces when necessitie doth require The conserue of Betonie and Rosemarie flowers Cinnamon water Aqua vitae and Imperiall Waters which wee haue set downe in our worke of the beautifying of mans bodie For the faintnesse of the Heart or Swouning it is good to straine and wring the ioynt of the Ring or Physitions finger as also to rub the same with some piece of Gold and with Saffron for by the meanes of that finger his neere communicating with the heart there is from it conueyed and carried some vertue restoring and comforting the heart For the flagging and hanging breasts of Women make a liniment with the drosse of the oyle of Linseed a little gumme Arabick Tragacanth Mastick and Camphire or with the iuice of Succorie or apply thereunto ground Iuie or the egges of Partridges which you shall change oftentimes or small Basins of the distilled water of young Pine-apples or the iuice of wild Pine-apples To procure much Milke vnto Nurses they must vse the fresh and new-gathered iuice of Fennell oftentimes or the iuice of Smallage or of Beets or the powder of the rootes of Maries thistle adding thereto the seed of Fennell and a little Pepper the fore-hoofes of a Cow burned and drunke with Wine or Broth or other conuenient liquor or the powder of Crystall powdred very finely and drunke with Wine or some broth or let them eat of boyled Coleworts seasoned with Pepper or of the roots of Rapes boyled with Pepper To cause Women to loose their Milke you must apply vpon the nipples of their Breasts the roots of great Celandine â—odden and powned or vse a fomentation of verie sharpe Oxicrate vpon the Breasts or else you shall apply a Cataplasme of the flower of Beanes or an emplaister of Rue Sage Mints Wormewood Fennell Branne boyled and mixed with Oyle of Camomill or the leaues of young and verie greene Gouâ—ds or of Cray-fishes all to brayed and stamped in a Mortar For the inflammation of the Breasts comming of the great aboundant store of Milke take the dyrt found in the bottome of the Troughes of Cutlers or Grinders and therewith couer the Breast and so you shall asswage the paine in one nighâ—â— you may adde thereto a little of the Oyle of Roses or if the Milke be much curded without any great inflammation in the Breast you may apply vnto it a Cataplasme of the flower of Rice or of
with water or the dung of Hennes drunke with Hypocras made of honey and wine or a Clister made of Brine or the heart of a Larke swallowed downe while it is fresh and new or the said heart of a Larke fastened to the thigh As concerning outward remedies some approue greatly to take the skin of a sheepe all new or the kell of the intrailes of a sheepe newly killed to apply it vnto the bellie or to make a bag of Millet Branne Wheat and Salt fried together to lap vpon the bellie A Cataplasme made of Wolues dung is also profitable against the Collicke the same dung drunke with a little wine doth verie much good the bones found in the dung of a Wolfe powned small and drunke with wine haue the like qualitie Some say that if you take ashes comming verie hot from vnder the coales of fire and put the said ashes in a dish or pot and afterward poure thereon a good glasâ—e of Claret wine and afterward couer the said dish with ashes with a linnen cloth foure double and apply it vnto the bellie you shall find release and mitigation of your paine For the â—uâ—orall â—lux of the Bellie it is good to drinke milke wherein hath beene quenched a gad of Steele or of yron or milke boyled with a halfe quantitie of water and that vnto the consumption of the water or hee shall take of a Stags pizzle with Cesâ—â—rue water to vse Rice parched to take a dramme of Masticke powdred with the yolke of an egge to make a Cataplasme with the flower of Wheat to apply all ouer the Nauell but it must be wrought with red Wine and after baked in the Ouen For the bloudie Flux giue to drinke with red wine the bloud of a Hare dried and made in powder or the powder of mens bones or else gather the dung of a dogge which for three dayes hath fed vpon nothing but bones and this you must drie to make into powder of 〈◊〉 powder giue vnto him that is troubled with such Flux twice a day in milke wherein you shall haue quenched manie stones of the Riuer verie throughly heated in a verie hot fire continue this two or three dayes or else giue to drinke the distilled water of the great Burre oâ— the decoction of shepheards Purse or the distilled water of Woodbâ—nd or else giue to drinke the seed of Plantaine in powder or the distilled water of the first buds of the Oake or the powder of Snayles burnt with the powder of Brier-berries and a little white Pepper and Galls or of the Harts and Goats horne burned or rather of the pizzle of a Haâ—t prepared as wee haue taught here aboue in setting downe the remedies for the Pleurisie For to stay the flux of Bloud drinke a reasonable draught of the iuice or decoction of dead Nettle make Clysters with the 〈◊〉 of Plantaâ—ne and Horse-taile vse the broth of Coleworts â—odden vâ—rie tender the iuice of Pomegrants and the substance it selfe Sallads of Plantaine and Sorrell chaw oftentimes some Rubarbe To loosen the Bellie â—ou must eat sweet Cherries or Peaâ—hes Figges or Mulberries fasting to sâ—p the first broths of Coleworts of Beets of Mallowes or Lettuces or of Cich-pease without salt to apply vnto the stomacke a Cataplasme made with Honey the gall of a Bull and the roet of Sow-bread or the leaues of Apples of coloquâ—â—tida to take a Suppositorie made of fat Bacon or the stalke of a Mallow or Beet To kill the wormes of little children it is good to cause them to vse preserued Rubarbe or the câ—nserue of Peach flowers to drinke the distilled water of Gentian or the â—â—ce of Câ—trons the iuice of Mints or Basill of Purcelane Rue or Wormwood or else to cause them to swallow with a verie small draught of Wormewood wine of the powder made of Wormes first dried and after burned on a fire-pan red hot and make it into verâ—e â—ine powder or of the powder of blessed Thistle or of Coralline the weight of a French crowne also to apply vnto the Nauell a cataplasme made of Wormewood Tansie and an Oxe gall and all this must be done toward the later end of the Moone To stay the excessiue paine of outward Hemorrhoids you must make a Liniment of oyle of Roses waâ—â—ed in the water of Violets fresh Butter oyle of Linseed the yolke of an egge and a little waxe or else to make a little cataplasme with the crums of a white loafe sleept in Cowes milke adding thereto two yolkes of egges a little Saffron and a little Populeon There may also a little Liniment be made with fresh butter and the powder of Corke-tree burned In the paine of the Hemorrhoids therâ— is nothing more singular than the perfume made of shauings of Iuorie To stay the excessiue flux of the Hemorrhoids it is a most singular remedie to drinke a dramme of red Corall or of the scumme of yron with the water of Plantain and also to make a fomentation of the decoction of white Henbane or in place of this a Cataplasme made of the powder of burnt Paper or of the shauings of Lead or of Bole Armoniack with the white of an egge or of three Oyster shells finely poudred either raw or burnt and mixt with a little fresh butter For the stone in the Reines you must drinke often of the iuice or water of the bodie of the Beech tree which water must be gathered in the Spring time in as much as then the bodie or the rinde thereof being 〈◊〉 or cut to the qâ—â—cke doth yeeld a great quantitie of water verie singular for this purpose The fruit of the Eglantinâ— preserued before it be ripe after the manner of Marmalate with Sugar hauing first taken the kernels from within taken fasting to the end of the last quarter and first daies of the Moone following in drinking somewhat more than a reasonable draught of white wine or of the water of wild Tansie or such other is verie excellent therefore He must also drinke very oft with white wine the pouder of the pâ—lling of Rest-harrow or Buck-thorne or of the gumme which groweth round about the riâ—des of Vines or of the seed of Goose-grasâ—e finely powdred or to drinke the distilled water of Radish roots and Nettle roots with a little Sugar or the water of Broome or of Dogs-grasse or of wild Tansie the water or iuice of Radish wherein is dissolued the powder of egge-shels burnt or of the stones of Medlars or of the eye of a Partridge or of the braine of a Pie or of the inward skin of thâ—â— stomacke of a Henne or Câ—pon Euerie man prayseth this decoction whereof Aetius maketh mention in his chapter of Sea-Holly Take the roots of Sea-Holly the pith taken out and make them verie cleane steepe them eight houres in Fountaine water after that to boyle them till the halfe of the water be consumed in the end of the boyling cast
the end of the decoction white Wine honey of Roses and syrrup of drie Roses In the meane time the wound must be cleansed with white Wine warme and there must be layed vpon it a leafe of red Coleworts warmed at the fire and reasonably greene and there must care be had to keepe the wound from salt and thicke meat from strong wine great paine and vse of women To cause knobs to wast and goe away in any part of the bodie whatsoeuer take the oldest and most mouldre Cheese that you can find knead it with broth wherein there hath boyled a piece of fat Bacon â—r Lard a long time make thereof a playster to lay vpon the place or else stampe in vineger Conchula Indica with Myrrhe apply it to the place and you shall find a maruellous effect Otherwise take nine pints of vrine wherein boyle for a good while two handfuls of Baulme and Dent de lion in a pot of Earth verie close couered and that so long as vntill all come to a pint after strayne out the hearbes in the liquor strayâ—ed out put halfe a pound of Hogges greaâ—e verie new and neuer salted foure ounces of Aqua vitae boyle them all together the space of halfe an houre after put thereto the oyle of Pike and Rosemarie of each an ounce Quicksiluer the weight of two French crownes mixe them all together and stirre them well with a Spatull and by this meanes you shall make an oyntment with which you shall vse to chafe the members troubled with knots before the fire For haire that is fallen by the disease called Tinea or otherwise Rub the bare and bald place with a piece of dyed Cloth vntill it bleed afterward annoint it with an oyntment made of Honey oyle of Linseed and the powder of small Flies burnt vpon a tyle red hot or with Mise dung brayed with honey or with shells of Nuts burnt powned and mixed with wine and oyle For vlcers that are hard to be cured gather with linnen clothes spread vpon the grasse before Sunne rise in the moneth of May the dew of the same moneth afterward wring out the said linnen for to haue the dew which you shall boyle and scum and in boyling dip therein diuers bolsters or plegers of fine linnen which you shall apply vnto these maligne vlcers afterward when you shall perceiue that these vlcers doe not continue any longer so foule and filthie and that they begin somewhat to shew to haue faire flesh boyle in this dew water a little Allome and Olibanum and by this meanes you shall heale them throughly Or else make a powder of the raw or burnt shells of Oysters or of the dung of a dogge which hath gnawed and fed vpon nothing but bones for the space of three dayes after you haue dried the same dung and made it readie to apply vnto the vlcers there is not any thing to be found that will more drie vp the same Or else make a powder of a rotten post For Kibes on the heeles make powder of old shooe soles burned and of them with oyle of Roses annoint the Kibes or else lay vnto the Kibes the râ—nd of a Pomegranat boyled in wine For the blewrieslse comming of stroakes or otherwise steepe in boyling water a cloth hauing salt tyed within vpon a knot and with this foment the bruâ—â—â—â— place To take away Warts or brawnie tumours in the ioynts rub them with the 〈◊〉 of Tâ—thymal or apply thereunto the powder of Sauine or of Hermodactilis mixed with Oxymel Squilliticum or with the iuice of Marigolds The dung of Sheepe wrought with vineger and made soft and applyed doth heale all hanging Warts For the Nolime tangere it is killed if that Nicotiana be applyed thereunto as we will further declare in our second Booke and 76 chapter To kill Crab-lice make a decoction or Lee of the leaues of Wormewood Aron and Nâ—t-tree in very strong vineger For all Burning or swinging with firâ—â— take the decoction of Radish with the lee of vnquencht Lime or an Onion rosted vnder the embers or oyle of Nuts with water or the yolke of an egge dissolued in oyle or Hennes dung tempered with oyle of Roses or mosse of the black Thorne the finest that you can find dried in the Ouen or in the Sunne made into fine powder and with the milke of a woman which giueth sucke vnto a boy to make a Liniment to annoynt the places burned or else take salt water or brine dip therein a linnen cloth and apply it vnto the burning or common Sope with honey and butter or the iuice of an Onion or the oyle of an Egge or else dissolue Allome Copperas the â—at of Glasse and a little Camphire in Fountaine water and good vineger powre this water oftentimes from pot to pot dip a linnen cloth in the same water warmed vpon ashes and apply it to the place or else take two whites of egges beat them together with oyle of Nuts and Rose water adding thereto the remainder of such water as Quicke lime hath beene quenched in stâ—rre them all yet once againe well together and afterward let them stand and settle For Ringwormes Scabs and all manner of sorts of Itchings which happen in the hands legs and other parts of the bodie take the water of a Smiths Forge and put a handfull of salt to melt therein with this water made warme wash the place where the Ringworme spreadeth when the scab is drie annoynt it with the creame of Cowes milke Or else take of Venice Turpentine two parts wash it fiue or six times in fresh water or in Rose water after that it is thus well washed adde vnto it onâ— part of new butter salted the yolke of an egge and the iuice of a sowre Orenge make hereof a Liniment and annoint the scabbie places therewith before the fire Or else for little children take the iuice of Nettles and Populeon and make thereof a Liniment Or else take Soot finely powdred mix it with strong vineger therewith you shall annoint the place hauing first rubbed it well euen to the raising of rednesse in the skin For the Canker take honey of Roses Roch Allome salt and white wine boyle all together till the haâ—â—e be consumed and then straine it through a linnen cloth afterward keepe the water for to wash the Canker Some doe greatly allow and like of the distilled water of Cowes dung newly made to wash the places troubled with the Canker For the falling of the haire called the Moth wash the head of the patient with Oxe pisse till the bloud come and afterward cast vpon it the powder of the white of Hennes dung dried in the Oâ—en or of fine Soot mixt with strong vineger To make any mans haire black Take such quantitie as you shall thinke good of Galls powder them and put them ouer the fire in an yron chasingdish and let them continue there
till they become very blacke then powre vpon them by little little the oyle of Oliues alwaies turning them to fro in such sort as that they may drinke vp all the oyle and after become drâ—e againe insomuch as that they being taken from the fire may be pouned very well whereunto adde of Vitriol Roscmarie Sal gemmâ— the drie earth whereof tyles are made Cloues all these being likewise made in pouder On the other side boile in wine the â—ind of the Walnut of the Pemgranat and Allome as much of the one as of the other so long as till the Wine become blacke as â—inke straine this Wine and cast into it your powder before you vse it scoure your â—ead with some good lee and then hauing dried it againe afterward wash it with this Wine wherein these drugs be and then put on a coise and so keepe it for fiue or six houres after in the end wash it verie well with water and wine and drie it the haire will abide blacke for fiue or six moneths Against the biting of a maâ— dogge giue to eat the root of sweet Eglantine â—oment the place with the vrine of a young infant or with the grosse partâ— of the decoction of Rue Figges red Coleworts and salt mixt with honey and butter If the Husbandman or any of his people haue beene bitten with a Snake or other Serpent let him drinke presently an indifferent draught of the iuice of the Ash tree pressed out with white wine and let him apply vnto the bitten place in manner of a Cataplasme the leaues out of which the iuice was pressed or let him drop into the hole made by the Snakes biâ—ing three or foure drops of the milke of the Figge-tree or of Figges or some Mustard seeds powned with vineger or else take the leaues of white Mullein Auens red Goose-berrie bush of each a handfull boyle them all in vineger vrine of a man a like much vnto the consumption of the halfe drinke an indifferent draught of this decoction and foment the bitten place with the leaues If it fall out that a Snake or any other Serpent be crept into the Farmers bodie or into the bodie of any of his seruants lying asleepe with their mouthes open in the Medowes Gardens or other places there is nothing more soueraigne to force the fame againe out of such a bodie than to take at the mouth with a Funnell the smoake of a perfume made of some old shooe sole for the Snake detesteth such stinking fauours aboue all other things and to drinke the decoction of Veruaine made in white wine A thing tried and approued If a man haue swallowed downe a Horse-leach in drinking water you must giue him fleas with strong vineger If any Rat Spider Flie Waspe Hornet or other venomous Beast by his sting or biting haue caused your flesh to rise rub verie gently the offended place with the iuice of Houseleeke and incontinently the painâ— aud swelling will cease or else rub the place with your owne spettle or else put vpon the stung place the dung of a Cow or Oxe verie hot To kill Lice rub the place with the iuice of Brooâ—e mixe it with the oyle of Radish or of Iuâ—iper or with the decoction of Sâ—auesaâ—â— or else boyle within an earthen pot well leaded equall parts of Olibanum and lard of Bacon make them in forme of an Oyntment passe them through a Sâ—arce and keepe it afterward to rub the head withall or any other place where Lice are 〈◊〉 the danger ensuing of the eating of Mushromes drinke with honey and vineger Hennes dung brayed and you shall within an houre be healed of the heauinesse and strangling fits of the stomacke or else drinke the lee made of the Vine branches with a little salt And for as much as in the most part of the diseases aboue named and such others it is needfull that there should some purgation be taken to cast out the hurtfull humors which gather in the bodie the wise huswife may prouide and make this purgatiue following Take Virgins honey one pound Rubarbe or Sene or Agarick euen of any one of them or all three made into powder foure ounces mixe this powder with the honey and let it stand in the shadow sixtie daies in a potwell couered stirre it euerie day and take away the froth which you shall find on the top of it the honey will keepe all the force of the medicine and will cast vp in a scumme the substance thereof in such sort as that still it will abide without mixture To make this composition the more pleasant you may mixe therewithall some one or other drug that is pleasant and of a good rellish If you further desire to be instructed in diuers other remedies which are readily and easily to be gotten looke in our Latine worke called Thesaurus 〈◊〉 paratu facilis CHAP. XIII Of Kine and Calues FOr the better keeping of Kine let the Huswife procure and cause 〈◊〉 maids to ouer-looke oftentimes and see that all things be well in the Cow-house for there is nothing that doth them so much good and keepe them so well in health and good liking their meat and â—odder excepted as the cleane and neat keeping of their houses let them rub them along the backe about the necke and head and no more with a wispe of Straw hard wrythâ—â— together and made somewhat rough At their comming from the Pasture and in 〈◊〉 morning after they haue beene dressed let them carefully fill vp the holes that are in their house floore wherein their pisse might stand and stinke and let them cast Sand or Grauell vpon the floore that they may haue the faster and surer setting of theâ—â— feet Let them not be put to the Bull before they be vpon their third yeare nor any longer than vnto their twelfth yeare for if they be put too sooner than they be growne vp to their full strength and growth they will bring forth Calues halfe cast small and little weake and feeble And againe if you goe about to continue theâ—â— bearing after twelue yeares their Calues will not be so strong not of so comely a shape Yet in our neighbour Countries as great Britaine and other places of 〈◊〉 temperature their Cattell will beare well till sixteene or eighteene yeares of age and some till twentie but not generally You shall lead them thereto throughout all the time of the moneth of May Iune and Iuly when the grasse doth most flourish and againe about this time they are chiefely set to goe a bulling seeking for the Bull of themselues without being led vnto him And you shall know their inclination to the taking of the Bulâ— by their hoofes if they be puffed vp or swolne as also by their continuall lowing and by their leaping vpon the Bulls backe The profit which riseth by their taking of the Bull at this time is for
Barly meale wherein you shall put a whole egge the shell excepted and with a quarter of a pint of cured wine you shall make him drinke it with a horâ—â— or otherwise Or else take of Dogges-grasse and stampe it after mixe and steepe it in warme water with Beane meale cold Gruell and the meale of Lentils all this being well mixed you shall giue it to the beast early in the morning For an old Cough it is sufficient to take two handfuls of Hysope old or new and make a decoction in common water after when you haue strained it you shall mix therwith of the flower of Starch two parts and cause the beast to take them thus The distilled water of Hysope may be put amongst or else the decoction of Mints and Hysope together The iuice of Leekes is good for the same being pressed out well and strongly and giuen with oyle Oliue for there hath not beene knowne so old and long growne a Cough which the roots of Leekes washed made cleane and giuen in decoction with the flower of Wheat hath not put downe and rebated the strength of Of the same effect is the flower of the euerlasting Tare commonly giuen and vsed or offred with hoâ—ied water at such time as the Oxe driueleth most at his mouth For all manner of pains in what parts of the bodie soeuer they be causing the Oxe that he can neither goe nor doe anie other thing well make somentations and apply cataplasmes with the decoction of Camomill Melilot and Linseed For the ach of the head bray Garlick in wine and make him let it downe through his nosthrils after bath all his head with the decoction of the leaues of Sage Marierome Lauander Rue Bay leaues and Walnut-tree leaues in wine Scabs are healed with Duckes grease mingled with oyle Oliue or else take the gall of an Oxe and powder it with Sulphur viuum adding thereto Myrrhe Oyle and Vineger and a little plume Allome well brayed and small powned Exulcerated places caused either without manifest occasion or else by some accident are verie much holpen with the powder of Galls well brayed in a Mortar So are they likewise by the iuice of Horehound wherein hath beene steept the soot of a Smithes Forge In the diseases of the flanks wherewith Oxen are oftentimes tormented you must make a Cataplasme of three handfuls of the seed of Coleworts with a quarter of a peck of Starch well powned together and mingled with cold water applying it afterward vnto the pained places But the most soueraigne that may be found is to take of the leaues of Cypresse without the boughes three handfuls and to doe as is abouesaid adding thereto strong vineger to knead and dissolue the same in but if this will not then take three ounces of Perrosin or Colophoni which is more hard and dissolue and make them liquid at the heat of the fire and whiles it is yet good and hot mixe therewith the flower of Barly and make it all boyle together and so you shall applie this cataplasme verie hot vpon the flankes and so vp to the reines It is to be knowne that the Oxe hath paines in his reines when he seemeth to draw his hinder parts after him and cannot lift his legges behind for his best ease he staggereth and soltreth behind he breaketh not vp his taile but suffereth it to draw all along after him his stale hath an ill sent and all his hinder loynes shew heauie mooue not but constrayned and that in mincing manner If there be any inflammation about them he pisseth red as bloud If this continue and that he cast forth much such there is then no more remedie but and if it be but a little coloured with bloud there is some hope of recouerie For this disease you shall cause him be let bloud vpon the taile veines behind or else of the veine called the Mother-veine which is found alongst the flanke to draw neere vnto the reines For his drinke make him to take the juice of Leeks vvith vvarme vvater or else his owne vrine For the inflammation of the muscles as well outward as inward of the reines and flankes vvhich commeth of some fall that the beast hath taken in some hard and stonie place and vvhich happeneth not without the companie of a contusion appoint that the Oxe which hath fallen so soone as he commeth into his house doe not remoue from one place bath the hurt part vvith cold vvater after that vse and applie vnto it comfortable liniments and seare-clothes which may not be too hot The markes of this disease are the outward parts ouer against the reines are hard the cods hung short being gathered into the bodie and that in such sort as that there is not much of them left out to be seene he stirreth not his hinder legs vvith any ease and vvhen he is laid he riseth not but vvith verie great paine Of verie great cold gotten by hauing trauelled in snowie and frosen places or else after some thaw the fault also may be committed in not hauing his pasternes so well bathed vvith vrine and couered ouer with dung as they should at euening after his labour for vpon these causes the heele groweth exuleerated and maketh shew as though it would fall off and loose his place there beginneth a bearing out vvhich afterward turneth to an vlcer and troubleth the gate of the Oxe the place must be verie deepely scarified and a sleight fire applied afterward to the places searified and againe vpon the places so scorched the sweet oyntment otherwise called oyntment of Roses vvith a defensatiue of vinegar and vvater and so bound vp and rolled The core once fallen out the place must be vvashed vvith vrine and vinegar made hot after this there must be an emplaister or cataplasme of Melilot made either of the fore appointed or of old Swines-grease vvrought and plied betwixt your two hands If the cods be swolne vpon any occasion whatsoeuer you shall annoint them euening and morning vvith sweet seame or else bath them vvith strong vinegar wherein shall be tempered sine fullers earth and the dung of Oxen. Some hold it for a naturall remedie to haue the dung of a dogg to cure the swellings of an Oxes genitories if so that they be often rubbed therewithall The Oxe is inchanted as vvell as the horse either by hauing eaten or by hauing passed vnder the crosse of a charmed straw or ouer a marked logge the signes are he becommeth sad and not cherefull and quicke as he vvas wont at his vvorke yea he consumeth and pineth away if there be not prouided for him a verie good remedie cause him to take downe through his nosthrils Bitumen judaicum Brimstone Bay-berries or Iumper-berries all mingled vvith vvarme vvater So soone as you know that the Oxe is sicke of any disease vvhatsoeuer it be cause him to take this purgation the root of the Sea-onion
or Harts-thorne and of common Salt all being boyled in vvater and taken in the same vvater vvarme and giue him nothing to drinke or eat vntill it haue done purging And to the end that you may keepe him from being sicke all the yeare at the beginning of the Spring Summer Autumne and Winter cause him to take downe a drinke made of the leaues of Capers Mercurie and Cypres pouned and mixed in water and let rest in the vessel one whole night and so continuing this for three mornings If he haue beene bitten of any Adder Scorpion or Shrew or Mad-dogge it 〈◊〉 ordinarie to annoint the wound with Oyle of Scorpions or with Sope tempered and softened in Vinegar also some vse to vvash them with the decoction of Bâ—â—â—â—burre And against the stinging of Hornets it is accustomed to rubbe the place with Ceruse tempered in Water and some doe sprinkle the place of the Oxe his feeâ—ding with the dâ—coction of Bay-berries thereby to cause the Oxe flies to auoid and keepe away or else they rub the Oxen themselues with the said decoction and if he be alreadie stung some doe moisten the place with the Oxe his owne driuell The small beast abiding in the grasse called of the Latines Buprestis and resembling in soâ—â—e sort the beast which the French men call Fouillemerde if it be eaten of Oxen Kine or Horse as they feed in the meadowes it so swelleth them as that they burst and die as we haue obserued in many in the yere past 1572. Now if the Neaâ—heard doe perceiue that any of his Oxen or Kine haue eaten any of these beasts he must make them presently to drinke some Cows milke or the decoction of drie figs or Dates in Wine and withall giue them verie strong Clysters For the scabbe some rubbe them with bruised Garlicke Sauorie Brimstone and Vinegar of Galls stamped in the juice of Carmint or Hore-hound and Iuie And as for vlcers they are rubbed with Mallows stamped in white Wine and as for 〈◊〉 and apostumes they must be killed with strong leauens onions lillies or squils and vinegar and afterward to digge them out and wash them with the beasts owne 〈◊〉 hot and also put into the hollow places tents of Tarre and finally lint dipt in Goata or Oxe sewet For the paine of the Eyes if they beswolne and puffed vp there must be made an Eye-salue of the floure of Wheat kneaded with Honie and Water If there be in them euer a spot or naile you must take Sal-armoniacke and make an oyntment thereof with Honie When the Oxe hath his eye continually trickling downe teares and berayeth all his cheekes with the humour dropping downe from it take of the pappe that is made with Wheat floure and make a cataplasme to be applyed vnto the eye The vvill Poppie stalke and root stampt with Honie serueth to make a medicine for this purpose In the paines of the flankes which oftentimes torment Oxen you must make a cataplasme of three handfulls of Colewort seed with a quarter of a pecke of Starch well stamped together and tempered with cold water and after applie it vnto the parts pained The best remedie that can be found for them is to take of the leaues of Cypres without the boughs three handfulls and to doe as before adding to them strong vinegar to worke and dissolue them in In the paines of the reines you must let him bloud in the veines vnder the tayle behind or else the veine called the Mother-veine which is found along the flankes drawing neere vnto the reines for his drinke giue him of the juice of Leekes with warme water or else with his owne vrine For the scabbe you must rubbe it with his owne stale and with old salt Butter or annoint it with Perrosin melted in white Wine Vnto Lice you must vse the decoction of the wild Oliue tree with Salt and you must take away the bladders which he hath vnder his tongue For the paine of the Lungs some make him drinke the juice of Leeks with sweet white Wine and some put into his eare the root of Hazle tree For the difficultie of breathing some doe pierce his eare or the great skinne of his throat with the root of Beare-foot or Lyons-paw or Hellebor If he haue his should pitcht and shrunke you must let him bloud vpon the foot behind and on the contrarie side and if both his shoulders should be shrunke then you must let him bloud on both his hinder legges If he haue his necke broken and the chine bagging and swolne you must let him bloud vpon one of his Eares and if it be in the middest of the necke then of both and lay vnto the disease an emplaister made with an Oxe marrow and sewet of a male Goat molten in equall portions in Oyle and Tarre or melted Pitch as also to rub the swelled part with a collop of Bacon without anie fat and which is of a Hogge and a little heated and this to be continued morning and euening the space of fiue or six daies If his feet swell you must apply vnto him a Cataplasme made of the leaues of the Elder tree stampt with seame made of Hogges grease If his hide cleaue to his bones you must bath him with wine either alone or mingled with honey If he halt by taking cold on his feet you must wash them with his owne stale old and warme If it come through aboundance of bloud falling vpon his pasterne and foot it must be dissolued by rubbing it hard and scarrifying it If yet it will not away and be notwithstanding but newly fallen downe you must cleaue the horne of the hoofe at the tip thereof euen to the quicke and so cause it come forth and wrap his pasterne in a Leather pouch in such sort as that the water may not hurt him till he be whole If he halt by reason of some sinew hauing taken a blow by some other beasts heele then you must bath his legges with oyle and salt If it come with anie swelling in the knee you must bath it with vineger made hot or with the decoction of Millet and Linseed In all such haps you must burne with a hot yron the part diseased and then put vpon it fresh butter washt in water and vineger and after in the end to make an oyntment with salt butter and the grease of a male Goat If it grow vpon anie splint or dash against anie stone or stocke you must bath the place with hot stale and lay vpon it old Hogges grease melted in Oyle and Tarre And there is nothing that will more keepe them from halting than to wash their feet with cold water so soone as they be vnyoaked and after to chaâ—e them with old Hogges grease If the horne cleaue or shiuer you must first foment it with vineger salt and oyle mingled together after put vpon it old Swines
made as also counterfeit Shamois drie leather or Spanish â—â—ather and all the baggs wherein Oyles are wont to be carried in to and fro the 〈◊〉 of the male goat whereof are made the best drie and Spanish leather so much 〈◊〉 request for pumpes and pantofles the sewet of the male Bucke whereof the phyâ—â—tions doe make such vse and find so singular in the curing of bloudie fluxes the â—kins of Kids whereof are made handsome daintie and soft gloues good girdles â—â—urses and needle-cases and Cheese which shall be made after the fashion of Cow-milke-cheese It is most true that some doe make them after the fashion of little thin Angelots and those are the excellent cheeses which haue beene wont to be made at Nismes heretofore as Plinie recordeth howsoeuer now at this present Baus doth carrie away the name And now somewhat as concerning the baggs made of Goats-skins for to carrie Oyle in as we haue daily experience out of the countries of Prouence and Langueâ—oc you must first cut from the dead Goat the head onely close by the necke and â—he feet at the second joynt of the leggs afterward fleying the rest of the leggs vnto the priuie parts of the beast to turne the rest ouer all the bodie and keeping the haiâ—ie side outward to salt it three or foure times and to rubbe ouer all the skin euerie where with salt verie well afterward to sew it and make it into a bagge for Oyle as it may best serue you must notwithstanding keepe it alwaies full blown vp and tied somewhere vp on high that it may not touch the earth for otherwise it would be gnawed in pieces of vermine She shall not make account to make Butter of their milke in any great quantitie for the milke of goats hath no such store of fat or oilie substance in it seeing there is alwaies much adoe to get forth euen some small portion and yet which is more when it is out it looketh whitish hard and tasteth like tallow and thirdly because in Languedoe and Prouence they gather not any Butter at all being giuen to make Cheese namely those Cheeses which are called small Cheeses As concerning the diseases of a Goat she is neuer without an ague in this Countrie and that in such sort as that if they be free from it but a little they die besides the diseases of sheepe whereunto Goats are subject there are three other whereunto the Goat is subject that is to say the dropsie swelling after she hath brought forth her young and the drie disease The dropsie happeneth vnto her by drinking too much vvater and then you must make incision vnder the shoulder and draw forth all the gathered superfluous moisture and after heale the wound vvith tarre After she hath brought forth her young if her matrix be swolne or if she be not vvell purged of her after-birth you must cause her to drinke a great glasse ful of verie good wine The drie disease commeth vpon her in the time of hot seasons as wherein her teats are so dried vp as that they are like vnto wood for drinesse and in such case you must rubbe her teats with creame and as for other her diseases you must cure them with those remedies vvhich are set downe for the diseases of ewes The good huswife that setteth by the health of her folke shall not giue any goats flesh vnto her people to eat except it be in time of great dearth and scarcitie because the eating of this flesh doth breed the falling sicknesse Likewise our predecessours had the flesh in such a loathed detestation as that they would not deine to touch it no not name it notwithstanding if necessitie doe force vs to feed vpon it as many poore peasants dwelling in villages doe hauing good store of goats and which onely are the store of their powdring tubs as also being persuaded thereto through couetousnesse then they must boyle them in a pot not couered and in great quantitie of vvater with good store of spices and cloues and yet after all this not to eat it before it be cold she may gather some profitable thing both of the male and female goat for the health of her familie For the milke of the female is verie singular for the hardnesse of the spleene if so be that she haue beene fed any space of time with Iuie The reddish and bloudlike liquor which distilleth from her liuer vvhen it is roasted is good for the vveake eyes The bloud of the male or 〈◊〉 Goat fried stayeth the flux of the bellie The bloud of the male hardeneâ—◠〈◊〉 dried vp in lumps is â—ingular against the stone The poulder of the Goats 〈◊〉 burned cleanseth and maketh vvhite the teeth drunke with Rose or 〈◊〉 vvater it stayeth the bloudie flux The fume or smoake comming of the burning of Goats horne doth driue away Serpents in vvhat place soeuer that they be The dung of Goats applyed in forme of a cataplasme doth resolue swellings vnder the eares in the flankes the Sciatica and other Apostumes especially if it be 〈◊〉 vvith the floure of Barley and vvater and vinegar or with fresh Butter or the 〈◊〉 of the Oyle of Nuts vvhich is more if you giue but fiue trottles of Goats dung witâ— a small draught of vvhite Wine the space of eight dayes euerie morning it 〈◊〉 heale the Iaundise CHAP. XXVII Of the Dogges Kenell VNto the Shepheard seruing also in steed of the Goatheard doth belong the charge of the Dog-house in the ordering of this our Countrie gouernment as vvell because necessitie commaundeth that he should 〈◊〉 Bloud-hounds to fight and chase away the Wolues Hounds and vvater Spaniels for the purpose of such things as now and then he may meet withall iâ— the fields or vvhich escapeth vnawares out of the riuers or standing vvaters as also Mastiues vvhich are giuen him in charge by the farmer as being for the guard and keeping of his house and of these there shall be one or two vvhich shall be kept faâ—â— all the day chained to some post reared in the Court on the left hand as you goe iâ— for to giue aduertisement of the comming in or going out of strangers and to make such afraid as might come to doe mischiefe but on the night such dogges shall be let loose and put amongst the rest which come from the field to bolden them 〈◊〉 their charge as in ranging and keeping the Court as well to defend it from theeues as to free it from the rauen of vvild beasts vvhich giue themselues wholly to the purchase in the night time This then is his charge to feed them to make theâ— cleane to brush them and wipe off the dust from them to correct them reclaimâ— them teach and fit them for that which it is needfull that they should doe and to this end the farmer must not withhold from him the great of the siftings which may be
a liniment of the gall of an Oxe or of 〈◊〉 and tartar beaten together with strong vinegar And as concerning a drinke you must take of Oyle two pound of old wine a pottle amongst all this you shall mix nine fat figges with nine leekes heads temper them all well together and afterward make a decoction in the end whereof but before it be strained you shall adde of Salt and Nitre well pouned so much as you shall see necessarie of all well strained you shall make a drinke which you shall cause him to take with a horne twice a day that is morning and euening a quarter of a pint at a time For his meat cause him to eat greene Barley or Fetchets or the meale of Barley amongst which you shall mingle Nitre The Strangles of a Horse or Glandules vvhich happen vnder his throat and fall downe from the braine much cooled are oftentimes cured by pricking him vnder the throat in the morning afterward couer his head vvith some kind of Linnen cloth and rubbe his throat oftentimes with fresh Butter but especially the place of his disease The Barbes hindering the Horse from eating by reason of 〈…〉 swolne are healed by making him eat Pease Beanes or the stalkes of Pease or 〈◊〉 because that the bruising and breaking of them causeth this swelling to go 〈…〉 if the Barbes doe grow there againe you must cut them out with a verie 〈…〉 being likewise verie hot for thus are they taken out of the hollow of the 〈…〉 mouth and for the rest taken away by burning you must cut them away 〈…〉 of sheares euen to the quicke For the excrescence of flesh growing vnder the Horses bodie you must 〈…〉 place and make incision with some knife fit for the purpose and then afterwards â—â—noint it morning and euening with the ointment called Dialthoea Flies are kept away from Horses â—ores with pitch and oyle or grease mingled 〈◊〉 powred vpon them and then by strawing Fetch flowers vpon them againe The disease of the gums and teeth happeneth oftentimes vnto colts when they 〈◊〉 growing their teeth temper of fullers earth the best you can come by 〈…〉 Remes in verie strong vinegar and therewith rubbe their jawes on the outside 〈◊〉 more a great deale in the place where the paine or swelled gums be The short winded Horse or he which cannot easily draw his breath and 〈◊〉 hath his flankes beating incessantly and which notwithstanding that he be 〈◊〉 haled and whipped will not stirre but pant verie much and blow exceedingly 〈◊〉 and which eating of his meat cannot abstaine coughing this same Horse wil 〈◊〉 euer be cured It is true that this disease being new and caused of dust 〈◊〉 windes foâ—stie hay or of hauing eaten some kind of dung in his prouender 〈◊〉 â—â—medie for it may be to draw bloud vpon him with a greene withie and to 〈◊〉 hot vpon his breast and backe the said bloud mingled with wine and Oyle 〈◊〉 and hauing done this for the space of fiue daies then the next fiue daies following 〈◊〉 make him take downe Lee at his nosthrils wherein there is mixt a portion of Oyle to giue him this drinke after Mustard-seed well fried quicke Brimstone graines 〈◊〉 Paradise of each alike much make them in powder and make thereof a decoctiâ—â— in honie and water or else in some composition that is good and thicke whereof you shall giue him euerie morning the bignesse of a bigge Wall-nut with sage and with thicke red wine but such as is good and noble or else make him a drinke 〈◊〉 cloues ginger cummine fennell-seed and the roots Galanga as much of the one 〈…〉 the other all these being powdred mingle therewith some egges and a little 〈◊〉 make the Horse to take it downe vvith Wine holding his head high to the end 〈◊〉 may swallow the more easily and not suffering him to hold it downe at the 〈…〉 a good halfe houre to the end that the drinke may passe through his bowells 〈◊〉 this drinke you shall giue him fresh grasse or the leaues of Roses or vvillow 〈…〉 temper the heat of the said drinke but the horse must not haue eaten any thing 〈◊〉 the space of one halfe day before the taking of this neither yet must he eat any thing for the like space after the taking of it Let him vvalke and lead him gently by the head-stall or else getting vpon him let him pace him verie softly that so he may not cast it vp againe and thus much for the cure of the 〈◊〉 â—vinded horse if the disease be not growne too old Which notwithstanding that it should be yet 〈◊〉 may relieue it for some time if you feare him a little vpon both the sides of the 〈◊〉 to the end that this heat may cause to cease this great panting vvhich doth paine 〈◊〉 in his flankes and if vvithall you slit his nosthrils that so he may attract and 〈◊〉 in the aire and his breath and as easily let it goe besides these vvaies I vvould 〈◊〉 you also to giue him to eat some grapes oftentimes and to drinke some sweet 〈◊〉 Another singular remedie there is which consisteth in giuing him a drinke 〈◊〉 vvith Agaricke and Fenugreeke tempered vvith red Wine or else to cause him 〈◊〉 swallow the bloud of a little dogge vvhich yet is not aboue ten daies old or to take the roots of Gentian of vvild cucumers and bitter Almonds and to poune theâ—â—vvith Honie and Water and to make a drinke thereof or else to giue oftentimes 〈◊〉 eat of siluer grasse The Cough hath many causes notwithstanding that vvhich commeth from the 〈◊〉 as from the lungs and parts adjoyning or else from some other of the inward 〈◊〉 which are noble and principall and haue accordingly some notable office in 〈◊〉 bodie hath not a more soueraigne remedie than the slitting of the beasts noâ—â—hrils and if after this the beast doe not amend then to cause him to take downe a â—ood pinte of the drinke following with a horne Take Fenugreeke and Linseed of â—â—ch a quarter of a pecke Gum-tragacanth Olibanum Myrrhe of each an ounce â—ugar the oatmeale of great vvild Tare of each an ounce all these being vvell pouâ—ed and let run through a bagge you shall cause it to be infused all a whole night in hot vvater and the day following you shall giue it to the beast as hath beene sayd â—nd this shall be continued adding thereto a bowle of oyle of Roses euen to the end of the cure Some cause fiue egges to be layed to steepe one whole night in strong Vinegar and the next morning when they see that the shell is become verie tenâ—er and soft they giue them to the horse to take downe Furthermore you must neâ—er draw bloud from the horse in what palce soeuer that it be but it shall be good to â—iue it vnto him and to continue the Gum-tragacanth with sweet Oyle The ague of a horse
Lâ—pines 〈◊〉 good Honie and of the whole strayned make him take a Pine eight 〈◊〉 â—â—gether If he be costiuene he may be helped by drinke or clyster the drinke shall be 〈◊〉 giue him ordinarily of the powder of vvild Rue with the seed thereof 〈…〉 good red wine or else take the root of yellow Flower-de-luce with Annisseed◠〈◊〉 Opopaâ—ax and of all these beaten together verie small you shall make 〈…〉 or draughts vvith three ounces of good Red vvine and as much Oyle oliue and those on three seuerall dayes In the clyster you shall put the juice of pale coloured Flower-de-luce in three pound of the decoction of Mallows and Perrie and into the vvhole you shall put of Sall-nitrum and the dung of Pigeons of each an ounce of Oyle-de-bayes and Rue of each three ounces After the clyster giuen he must be vvalked a great vvhile and verie softly Some Farriers or Horse-leaches haue in this disease made triall of Hares dung with nine spoonefulls of Honie and fiue grains of Pepper to make a drinke to take with the broth of Cich Pease or Red Coleworts The Horse oftentimes hauing eaten too much Barley or other prouender that is hurtfull is troubled vvith the swelling of his flankes and the rest of his bodie to take the same away you must make a decoction of Mallowes Pellitorie Beares 〈◊〉 Mercurie and other soluble hearbes putting thereto Bran Salt Honie and Oyle and hauing vvarmed this decoction he shall haue a clyster giuen him with a clysterpipe hauing the shanke thereof proportionably great and long this being well accomplished annoint his bellie with Oyle and after cause it to be rubbed vvith a round staffe by two men beginning before and so going backward stopping vp his fundament after this get vpon him and vvalke him verie softly and a long time vntill that he haue voided not onely this clyster but vvithall some part of the dung which he had in his bodie and he will be well by and by after For bursting or rupture some are of opinion that there is nothing so soueraigne as to take seuen ounces of the ashes of the vvood of vine braunches or of Elme with three ounces of Oyle oliue Scallions brayed seuen in number Honie three ounces fresh Butter and Goats Seweâ— of each an ounce the juice of Plantaine three ounces vvith old white vvine or the broth of Cych Pease this will serue for thrice to be taken three seuerall daies together To keepe your great Horses that they may not be molested and troubled in great heat vvith the stinging of Flies you must rub their haire vvith the juice of leaues of gourdes For the farcie of the legges you must shauâ—â— the place and after annoint it with the Oyle of Iuniper for the space of foure daies euening and morning and let not the horse goe forth to water all the whiles that his haire is not growne againe or else let him haue a strake vvith an yron long-waies and ouerthwhart otherwise for the farcie of a horse how hard to cure so euer it be you must take the roots of common cotton thistle which is the broad and white leaued thistle and make him eat them in shiues with his oats it will heale him without all faile in lesse than fifteene daies or three weekes if it be continually giuen him to eat and the remedie is verie easie seeing the horse will willingly eat it For clefts which happen betwixt the joynt of the legge and the hoofe shaue away the haire wash the place with vvine annoint it vvith an ointment made of Soot Vâ—â—degrease and Honie pouned and boyled together mingling therewith in the end some Lime if the chaps be verie deepe in â—â—are them For the scabbe you must let him bloud in conuenient places according to that place vvhere the disease is for a conuenient purge it vvill be good to vse of the powder of the root of vvild Cucumber mingled vvith Sal-nitrum and giuen in a â—oâ—ne vvith vvhite vvine the medicine oftentimes giuen doth purge him of euill humours for an ourward remedie take quicke Brimstone fat Pitch Clay of Iudea called Asphaltuâ— mingle all together and dissolue it in new Butter salted and with this oyntment you shall rub him all ouer his bodie in the greatest heat of the Sunne and by many persons and a long time If you loue not rather to take of vinegar a quarter of a pinâ—e of Perrosin foure ounces Pitch or Gum of the Cedar-tree foure ounces and mixe them all vvell together in an oynâ—ment vvith mans vrine and vvarme vvater putting thereto of sweet Seame and old Oyle of each three ounâ—â—â— make a liniment or cerote if it like you not better to vvash him all ouer 〈◊〉 else to foment him vvith vrine and warme vvater and after to applâ—e your linâ—ment vpon the places so washed The hearbe called Rose-baie or Oleander boyled in Oyle I meane the leaues onely is an exquisite remedie for this disease 〈◊〉 thereto fat pitch vinegar and waxe and remember alwaies in rubbing and annointings to rubbe the beast against the haire It is also a soueraigne remedie to 〈◊〉 him first in the sâ—abbed place vntill it bleed and after to wash it with Lee made with one part of Lyme two of Beane-meale and three of the ashes of Ash-tree all these not boyled but steeped onely in the Lee. After the washing you must annoint the place with an oyntment made of quick-siluer hellebor brimstone alum colts-foot 〈◊〉 Swines-grease When the horse complaineth himselfe and his flankes be swolne as also the reâ—â— of his bodie by hauing eaten some bad Hay or Prouender you shall make him this drinke take the thin skinnes that are in the stomach of three Hens and drie theâ— vvell in an ouen afterward powder them vvith halfe an ounce of pepper and fouâ—â— spoonefulls of Honie and an ounce of the powder of fine Frankencense make him take this medicine vvith a pint of vvarme vvine and to the end that it may loosen his bellie giue him at the fundament by a clyster sufficient great and long a clyster of the decoction of Mallowes Mercurie Pellitorie and other loosening hearbes putting thereto Bran Salt Honie and Oyle Against the colicke take Asarum bacchar the leaues and roots of Parsley and Fennell of each one ounce blacke Pepper two ounces Horehound an ounce Soothernwood halfe an ounce fine Honie a pottle boile it well and scum it altogether and thereof make trochiskes of the bignesse of Filberts and with a quarter of a pint of good wine you shall make the horse to take it in manner of a drinke and the day that the colicke doth paine him you shall bruise three or foure spoonefulls of Fennel-seed and cause him to drinke it downe roundly with wine and then count him well to cause him to sweat For the swelling of the cods or stones make as it were a pap of strong vinegar fullers day and salt to
annoint the cods withall twice or thrice a day For a Fistula make the hole wider seare it cast into it a salue made of vnquenche Lime so long as till the core or dead flesh within doe fall out For the canker wash it with strong vinegar afterward sprinkle vpon it the 〈◊〉 powder of the root Daffodils Rats-bane and Vnquencht-lime put together into â— pot and burnt to ashes For the Iauar in the houghs or hams seare the places along and ouerthwart with a hot yron afterward applie thereto a cataplasme made of verie new Oxe dung 〈◊〉 vpon the fire vvith Oyle If the horse be cloyed you must take out the naile and pare him to the quicke and till bloud come then making verie cleane the pared place to drop into it 〈◊〉 Brimstone or to fill it vp with an oyntment made of Turpentine Waxe Oyle Hâ—nie and Salt all being made verie hot and a little Cotton also dipped in the same oyntment Or else which is an approued thing to put vpon the hurt place on thâ— inside of the hoose of the horse the leaues of white female Mullein bruised betwâ—â—â— two stones And in case the maladie be a day or two old then you must hold the horse focâ— in warme water well salted and lay and bind aloft vpon the foot a 〈◊〉 of Bran Swines-grease and salt-Salt-water or with small Salt and strong Vinegar or the powder of gals or mittles or of the masticke tree and then to seare him aboue 〈◊〉 to fill vp all the hollow of the foot with Porkes-grease and hauing thus dressed it so much and so oft as it shall be needfull let it be made vp filling notwithstanding the hoofe on the inside with pitch and annointing it oftentimes with swines-grease as iâ— abouesaid And to preserue the hoofe in his soundnesse and strength apply vnto 〈…〉 lost a cataplasme made of boyled mallows stampt and mixt with hony and bran put in the hollow of the hoofe the sewet of a sheepe and aboue the hoofe his owne dung 〈◊〉 For the horse which halteth because of some stroake giuen him by some other horse vpon his sinews take of the sewet of a Male-goat a pound Molibdenâ— halfes pound Resin a pound and Copperas halfe a pound make an oyntment The 〈◊〉 â—â—roken or wounded or hauing receiued any other kind of wrench in the Knee or â—oynt by the horse his setting of his foot in some bad and inconuenient place is heaâ—ed by taking an ounce of Fenugreeke as much of Linseed foure ounces of Swines-grease all this being boyled together so long as till it be thicke and much dimiâ—shed If the horse interfering doe wound himselfe vpon his hinder feet you must cut away the haire verie short and bare from the place that is hurt and rub it with common salt tying vpon it some prettie plate of thin Lead afterward taking that away â—o wash it with Wine For the spauin in the hammes you must raising the thigh vp on high tie the veine called Fontanella and giue it a wound with a flemme to let it bleed and after to applie the actuall cauterie or hot yron vpon the spauin and to burne it long wise and ouerthwart and to heale vp the seared place as in the Iauar The chaps are healed if you burne them at either end with a round hot yron for his burne will keepe the chaps from going further and then afterward rubbe them with washed Lard in diuers waters or with oyle of Bayes mixt with Masticke Franâ—incense Vinegar and the yolke of an Egge The grapes would when the haire is once taken away be washed with the decoction of Mallows of Brimstone and Mutton-sewet afterward applying the drossie parts vnto the places which being taken away there shall an oyntment be made of new Wax Turpentine and Gum-arabecke equally mingled For the hornie swelling in the circle of the houghs or hams you must shaue the disease and put vpon it the drossie parts of the decoction of hollihocke roots stamped and after that a plaister of Mustard-seed the roots of Mallows and Oxe dung all boyled together with Vinegar Cut the head and the taile from a snake and deuide the rest of the bodie into gobbets roast them on a spit gather the fat which droppeth and applie it to the sore or wound The disease of the hoofe or the corne stampe Coleworts that are greene with old Swines-grease lay it vnto the disease and get vpon the horse and ride him indifferently to the end that the medicine may pearce into it For the garrot plucke away the flesh that is dead with a sharpe instrument and wash the place with warme Wine afterward applie plegets thereto moistened in the white of an Egge The disease of the necke pearce the flesh in fiue places on both sides the necke with an yron sharpe like a Naule put a Seton through eâ—erie hole and let them abide there fifteene daies For the palamie take away the flesh from the palate of his mouth with a very fine instrument and that in such quantitie as that the humour may easily come forth afterward cleanse and rub his palaâ—e with honie of Roses juice of Chibolâ—s Scallions and burned Wheat The courbe cut the skin alongst the haire acording to the bignesse of the courbe applie thereto a linnen cloth wet in warme Wine straw vpon it the powder of Verdegrease and thus continue vnto the end of the cure For the Knee swollen take a pinte of strong vinegar wherein you shall temper a little Salt of burnt Copper halfe a pound and of Sinople so much as shall be needfull and necessarie For the Knees that are broken and chapt take common Oyle Linseed ashes of Rie-straw and all being put together make an oyntment thereof to annoint the sore place euening and morning vntill it be whâ—le For the chafings which most commonly happen vnto the necke or backe of a horse carrying Saddle-packs or Saddle lay vpon the place the leaues of wild blacke â—ine In old and hard tumours make this cerote Galbanum two ounces Rosin and Waxe of each a pound Gum-ammoniacke and blacke Pitch of each halfe a pound and of oyle so much as shall be needfull to incorporate and make vp all the rest 〈◊〉 good forme But if the tumor be broake and hollow and hath beene an old 〈…〉 verie long continuance then you shall dissolue a quarter of a pound of Allome 〈…〉 pinte of running water and with it first wash the sore verie vvell and the take Vâ—guentum Aegyptiacum and lay it vpon the sore vvith flax hurds doe thus once 〈◊〉 twice a day and the cure will soone be made perfect Against the bots or vvormes make him drinke vvater vvherein Rye hath boyled or mingle amongst his bran some Brimstone or make ashes of the wood of 〈◊〉 Oliue-tree or powder of dried Wormewood together with the cornes of raw â—â—pines
from the other the smell of which Elder is so odious 〈…〉 beasts that they haue no desire to come neere it either vnder or aboue the 〈◊〉 so long as it is greene and therefore when these first stickes shall be drie you 〈◊〉 renew them Othersome put Thornes that are verie sharpe and pricking or 〈…〉 of Chesnuts vnder the earth round about the plants of the Artichokes 〈…〉 one neere vnto another to the end that the Rats comming neere vnto the 〈◊〉 may presently be driuen backe againe Others cause Beanes to be boyled 〈…〉 poysoned water and doe put them in the holes of this wicked cattell for they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sent thereof they run thither presently As concerning Moules we will speake of 〈◊〉 manner of killing them hereafter The root of Artichoke sodden in Wine and drunke is soueraigne against the difâ—â—cultie of making water for the stinking and strong smell of the arme-pits and of 〈◊〉 vrine also for the hot and scalding fretting of ones vrine whether it come of the 〈◊〉 or of some other cause and so also for the dropsie the pulpe boyled in flesh 〈◊〉 and eaten with Salt Pepper and Galanga made in powder helpeth the weakâ—sse of the generatiue parts The Italians eat them in the morning raw with bread 〈◊〉 salt whiles they be yet young and tender CHAP. XV. Of Sorrell and Burnet SOrrel and Burnet notwithstanding that they grow vntild in great aboundance yet they may be sowen in fine ground and well manured in the Spring time especially the Sorrell for as for Burnet it groweth likewise and as well in drie grounds nothing tilled or stirred both of them 〈◊〉 planted in gardens must from the beginning be well watered and he that deâ—reth to gather the seed must take them vp and plant them againe suffering them to â—row to their perfection and then to drie and wither They feare not cold or frost â—either yet aboundance of water but they looke especially the Sorrell that they 〈◊〉 become the fairer to be cut three or foure times a yeare All the sorts of Sorrell as well those of the field as those of the garden haue this â—ertue that being boyled with flesh how old and hard soeuer it be yet they make it â—nder and loose the bodie The leaues of Sorrell rosted in hot ashes haue a singular force to resolue or to cause 〈◊〉 Apostumate the swellings of the eyes or as some Surgeons vse if you take the 〈◊〉 of Sorrell and lap them vp close in a Burre-docke leafe then lay it in the hot 〈◊〉 and rost it as you would rost a Warde then open it and applie it as hot 〈◊〉 the patient is able to endure it to any impostumation or byle whatsoeuer about 〈◊〉 part of a mans bodie it will not onely in short space ripen and breake it but also â—raw and heale it verie sufficiently it is also being boyled in Posset-ale a verie â—â—od cooler of the bloud and a great comferter against inflamations which come by â—â—urning Feauers A Cataplasme made of the leaues of Sorrell with twice as much 〈◊〉 Swines-grease all beaten and mingled together and afterward put in the leafe of 〈◊〉 Colewort vnder the hot ashes is soueraigne against cold Apostumes The seed of â—orrel powdred and drunke with water or wine doth asswage the paine of the blouâ—ie flux Sorrell steept in vinegar and eaten in the morning fasting is a preseruatiue â—gainst the plague as also the Syrope or Iuleb made with the juice thereof The â—aues of Sorrell well stamped and applied vnto the wrest doth tame the fiercenesse 〈◊〉 the ague Burnet of the garden being an herbe that some vse to put in their salades whereof 〈◊〉 haue here spoken and which is also the same which the Latinists call Sanguisorâ—â— taken in drinke is good to restraine the monethly termes of women and all other 〈◊〉 of the belly but especially such as are of bloud it is good also to dry vp wounds â—nd vlâ—ers if it be applied vnto them in forme of a Cataplasme Some doe much â—teeme it in the Plague time and some say that the often vse of Burnet especially 〈◊〉 juice thereof is a verie soueraigne preseruatiue against dangerous diseases beâ—â—use it hath a propertie verie much strengthening the Liuer the Heart and the Spiâ—â—â—ts The leaues of Burnet put into the wine make it more pleasant more strong and â—omewhat Aromaticall and of the taste of Millions they are verie good to be put in sallades made with Oyle Salt and Vinegar according as we see them vsed 〈◊〉 day CHAP. XVI Of Harts-horne Trickmadame and Pearcestone AS for Harts-horne and Trickmadame they haue no need of any 〈…〉 or planting for both of them will come in any ground that 〈◊〉 would haue them whether it be husbanded or not True it is that if 〈◊〉 would haue Harts-horne flourish and faire liking you must cut it oft 〈◊〉 it along vpon some roller or cause it to go vpon foot by it selfe for it delighteth to 〈◊〉 so intreated and vtterly refusing to grow otherwise than against the ground 〈◊〉 madame doth nothing feare the cold and doth grow principally vpon the old 〈◊〉 of vines in a stonie and grauelly earth These are put in Summer-sallades 〈◊〉 neither of theâ—â— haue either tast or smell fit for the same The Harts-horne is goodâ— stay the flux of the bellie Trickmadame stamped with Lettuce and applied vnto the pulses doth delay 〈◊〉 heat of an ague The distilled water thereof being often times drunken doth 〈◊〉 roughly heale burning and tertian agues Pearcestone is sowen in a drie and sandie soile and craueth to be much 〈◊〉 euen from the beginning he that desireth the seed must let the hearbe grow to 〈◊〉 perfection and afterward to drie the seed as corne is dried It may be preserued in salt and vinegar after the manner of purcelane and then 〈◊〉 soueraigne for the difficultie of vrine for the jaundise and to breake the stone to proâ—â—uoke vvomens termes and to stirre vp ones appetite if it be vsed in the beginning 〈◊〉 meat For want of such as is pickled in vinegar you may make the decoction of 〈◊〉 leaues roots and seeds in Wine for to vse in the same disease CHAP. XVII Of Marigolds MArigolds haue not need of any great ordering for they grow in 〈◊〉 fields and in any ground that a man will neither doe they 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 sowen euerie yeare for being once sowen they afterward grow of theâ— selues and beare flowers in the Calends of euery moneth of the yere 〈◊〉 in Sommer as in Winter for which cause the Italians call them the flower of all 〈◊〉 moneths To be short the place where they haue once beene sowen can hardly 〈◊〉 of them If they be neuer to little husbanded and cut many times they will beare 〈◊〉 faire â—lowers and verie great but yet euer more in Autumne than in the Spring The juice of the
Toâ—d-stooles and to preserue from drunkennesse or else to driâ—e 〈◊〉 away being alreadie possessed If you boyle Leekes with Earth-wormes in Oyle vnto the consumption of the third part and afterward straine out this Oyle it will be singular good for the vlcers and noise in the eares Small Leekes must be sowne in the Spring at such time as other hearbs are sowneâ— they make a faire shew because of their thinne and little leaues and because also they keepe greene all the yeare long they may seeme to be the same with Chibols and Cyues which are wont to be vsed in Salads to helpe to temper the coolenesse of other hearbes vsed in Salads because the Chibols and Cyues haue no head but onely a long stalke like vnto Leekes CHAP. XXII Of Purcelane PVrcelane loueth to be sowne in Februarie March Aprill May and Iune but not at anie other time for it cannot abide the cold It commeth in great aboundance vpon Beds mixt well with old dung or in a ground that is verie fat of it selfe especially if it be sowne amongst Colewoâ—â— Onions and Leekes and after it hath once taken with the ground it will not faile anie yeare afterward though you take no paines with the sowing of it notwithstanding it craueth to be oft watered that it rise not vpright like the stocke of a tree It must be placed in the shadowes of trees and amongst clods full of hearbes but not thicke for then it could not well spread it selfe abroad Purcelane eaten doth cure the roughnesse and astonishment of the teeth stayeth spitting of bloud and quencheth the heat of the reines notwithstanding that this hearbe is hard to digest and nourisheth but a little being applyed vnto the browes is appeaseth the head-ach and being layd vpon the nauell it killeth the wormes 〈◊〉 children The decoction of the leaues thereof or the seed or the water distilled is â— soueraigne remedie against the Bloudie flux and the Wormes in children A leaâ—e of Purcelane put vpon the tongue assuageth thirst A Cataplasme made of Purcelane and Barly mâ—ale applyed vnto the liuer and â—lanke worketh a maruellous effect against burning Agues A Liniment made with Honey and the powder of the root of Purcelane dried healeth the chaps of the lips and hands This Purcelane is an excellent Salad and by a cooling operation which it hath keepeth the bloud in a most excellent temper You preserue it all the yeare by boyling it first in faire water then drayning the water from it spread it vpon a faire table and cast good store of salt amongst it then when it is throughly cold pot it vp in cleane sweet pots of Earth and poure vpon it either a good strong Brine or Vineger and Salt mixt together till the Purcelane be cleane couered or if you feare the ouer-saltnesse of it then you need but onely make a well-tasted pickle such as you put to Oliues and with it couer the Purcelane then close the pot vp close till you haue cause to vse it And if at anie time you find the pickle or brine to 〈◊〉 away from the hearbes and leaue them drie you must immediately renew it and couer it all ouer againe for it is apt to putrifie and nothing bringeth it more sooner thereunto than the want of moisture Therefore you must haue care euer once in three of foure dayes to open your pots and to mend what you shall find amisse in them and if you find anie hoâ—rinesse cleauing vnto the pots sides you must cleanse that away also CHAP. XXIII Of Onions Chibols and Chyâ—es FOr the most part Onions so called of the French because they haue but onely one white root like to a pearle which the Latines call Vnio whether they be white red or round would be sowne in Ianuarie Februarie and March in a fat ground well dunged blacke well turned as also well cleansed from stones and enriched or else in a red earth which is short and murlie for in it they grow excellently They would be remoued in Aprill all along well weeded and often laboured to cause them to grow great and thicke and they must be kept from cold and freezing winds In them we must obserue a nature contrarie vnto that of other Hearbes and Plants being of greatâ—â— force and vertue in the encrease of the Moone than in the decrease quite conrarie to that of Onions which in the wane of the Moone is more effectuall and in the growth of the Moone more drie and weake Such as are intended to be kept for seed when they begin to put forth their stalke and to rise aloft must haue small sâ—ickes or poles to set by them and keepe them vpright that the wind doe not bow or breake them downe They must be gathered in the old of the Moone in faire and drie weather when the leaues begin to drie and the seed to grow blacke 〈◊〉 then you must pull vp the whole stalkes and drie them in the Sunne And it is said that if they be sowne and planted when the Moone is vnder the earth they tast the stronger but are smaller and lesse Furthermore they must be ordered as Leekes But iâ— must be obserued that they loue and delight in a red earth and to be sowne in faire weather in the decrease of the Moone to be taken vp againe and by and by watered and for to make them grow great they must haue their top taken away when they are planted and their heads vncouered and their earth must be digged twentie daies before they be remoued againe that so it may drie and not haue anie moisture in it And to keepe Onions from rotting you must cast them into warme water and drie them in the Sunne and after that they are drie to lay them vpon Barly straw so as they may not touch one another Who so would make choice of Onions must know that the round and white ones are a great deale better than those of a rusâ—etish or reddish colour and not to be so hot and sharpe as the other The best in France are those which grow at Fertlonion a small village neere vnâ—â— Estamps for it hath his name vpon that occasion The Onion though it be the Countrey mans meat is better to vse than to 〈◊〉 for he that eateth euerie day tender Onions with Honey to his breakfast shall liue the more healthfull so that they be not too new for the drie are more healthfull 〈◊〉 the greene the boyled than the raws the preserued than the drie wherefore the drie must be chosen to vse in Salads fried Meats Gallymawfries baked Meats Sawces Beane pottage and other vses The iuice of Onions causeth haire to grow againe cleanseth filthie â—ares and such as runne with mattar taketh away white spots as well out of the face as from the rest of the bodie It cureth the Dropsie with the iuice of Fennell if it be but beginning it purgeth the braine through
that they be not sowne in a 〈◊〉 ground for the shade is altogether contrarie vnto them though the earth be good and fertile They are gathered in Nouember kept in Winter vpon sand 〈…〉 vnder the earth for to eat in Winter and Lent time I report my selfe vnto them of Meason and Vau-Girard neere vnto Paris which gather great store of thâ—m 〈◊〉 yeâ—re to sell at Paris This fruit is windie and begetteth wormes in young children by their 〈◊〉 but they must be eaten with Mustard It is true that their seed doth resist 〈◊〉 and there it is put into Treacle it likewise killeth the Wormes being mingled 〈◊〉 the iuice of Oranges or Limons and it driueth forth the small Pocks and 〈◊〉 with the decoction of Maidâ—n-haire or of Lentils It prouoketh vrine mixt in eqâ—â—ll quantitie with Linseed and giuen to drinke in wine it bringeth vp the crudities of the stomacke by vomit being taken with honied vineger and warme water The Aegyptians make a verie good Oyle of it CHAP. XXXIII Of Turneps TVrneps called in Latine Raepa are of two sorts the round and the long and they differ not much from Napes and Nauets saue onely in greâ—â—nesse and tast For Turneps are a great deale bigger and of a 〈◊〉 pleasant taste than the Napes for the truth whereof I report my selfe to the inhabitants of Limosin in Aquitaine and the people of Sauoy who hâ—uing no store of Corne haue no more excellent a meat than Turneps and for the same cause they are so industrious in sowing and dressing of them as being that commoditie and encrease of the earth vnto them which is as well yea better beloued and more necessarie than anie Corne or Graine for they feed themselues and their Cattell with the leaues great and small stalkes tops and roots of Turneps insomuch as that they complaine of a Famine when in their Countrey their Turneps are frozen in the ground or haue receiued some ouerthrow by the iniurie of the heauens The manner of ordering and dressing of them to make them grow is as it were like vnto that of the Napes It is true that they would be sowne verie thicke and not thinne for else they will proue but verie small and little and it would be râ—â—her in September than at 〈◊〉 other time in a moist ground well manured and diligently corrected of such faults as it may haue because they reioyce and 〈◊〉 great deale the fairer and of a better tast in cold snowie and foggie weather 〈◊〉 they doe in faire which is the onely cause that in the Countrey of Sauoy and 〈◊〉 they doe grow more sweet tender faire and great because of the Fogs Snoweâ— and cold Seasons that they suffer much in those places If they be sowne in the Spring time there must care be had that their leaues be not â—aten with wormes and such other vermine and the better to free them from this plâ—gue it will be good to mingle of the dust that is to be found vpon floores with the seed 〈◊〉 they before it be sowen or else of the foot of the furnace or 〈◊〉 or else to steepe it in the juice of houslâ—â—ke and afterward to sprinkle it oâ—er well with water 〈◊〉 it may receiue some moisture and then to â—ow it the day after it hath beene so steeped It is one of the wonders of nature that of so small a â—eed there should grow so greaâ— a fruit as should sometime weigh thirtie or fortie pounâ— There must spâ—ciall carâ— be had that the seed be not aboue three yeares old for if it be it will bring forth colâ—worts in steed of turneps To haue them faire and great after they become 〈◊〉 great as a finger they must be remoued a good distance one from another afterward they must be couered with earth and troden downe veriâ— hard for by this 〈◊〉 the juice which should haue beene spent in putting forth of leaues and stalke will turne to the making of the root great They must be gathered in Nouember and for to keepe them all the Winter they must be buried in holes or couered with leaues or seed of Mustard The vse of turneps is not verie good for health notwithstanding their decoctioâ— is verie excellent good for to wash the feet of such as haue the gout withall The Cutlers and Armorers doe constantly affirme that kniues daggers and swords quenched three or foure times when they are in forging in the juice of turneps mixt with equall quantitie of the water or juice pressed out of earth wormes bruised doth make their edge so hard as that therewith you may cut yron as easily as any Lead CHAP. XXXIIII Of Radishes RAdishes are properly the same which is called in Latine Raphanus in Italie Raâ—anels and at Paris Raues they are vsed in manner of a saladâ— with meat for to stirre vp the appetite They grow better when they are planted than when they are sowen and there are two seasons to set or sow them in â—hat is to say in Februarie in the waine of the Moone if we intend to haue the benefit of them in the Spring and in August or September if we would vse them sooner and this season without doubt iâ— the better because the Radish in a cold and moist time groweth in the root and is more tender but in a hot and drie time it groweth in stalkes and leaues So soone as they are sowne they take root the leaues whereof you must tread and trample downe that so the root may grow the greater which otherwise would runne vp all into leaues likewise they must be gatherâ—d within two or three moneths otherwise they will quickly go to seed and put them in the ground vnder sand or grauell after you haue cut off their leaues The manner of ordring of them is to set them good and deepe in earth which is well husbanded stirred vp even from the bottome and dunged and after they be pretty great ones to coâ—er them againe with earth and to take off their leaues from them for so they will become more sweet and pleasant You must not plant or sow them aboâ—â— vines or arbours for they are great enemies vnto vines as making them to run out their juice when they are neighbours to it by reason of their acrimonie and 〈◊〉 Some likewise say that radishes doe keepe away drunkennesse because they greatly weaken the force of Wine To haue sweet radishes their seed must be watered oftentimes with salt water to haue them the more tender and not so sharpe for the salt water doth greatly diminish their bitternesse likewise we ordinarily 〈◊〉 that they are eaten with salt and vinegar Their goodnesse is knowne by their leaues which by how much they are the gentler in handling by so much is the root the tenderer and more pleasant to eat The rinde doth likewise shew the saâ—e for the thinner it is so much the more delightsome are the
through a Limbecke in Maries-bath doth maruailously heale the Agues caused of the obstructions of any noble part and which is more it killeth the wormes and wipeth away all the spots of the face it they be often washed therewith It is exceeding good against the inflammation of the eyes It is verie soueraigne against any infection or mortall sicknesse if it be drunke with Water and Honie it abateth the swelling of the bodie and easeth the colicke whether it be in the stomach or in the bowels it also cureth the biting or stinging of venimous beasts and it causeth a woman to be deliuered of her dead birth The root is a present remedie against the Plague not onely in men but also in all â—orts of cattell it is a speciall preseruatiue against all poyson and a meanes to withstand all putrefaction in regard whereof the Switzers mingle it amongst their owne meat and the sodder or prouender of their cattell that so they may continue in good health Arsmart so called because the leaues applied to the fundament for to wipe it doe cause great paine and of the Latines Hydropiper doth require a marshie ground full of water or at the least verie moist or often watered and it groweth rather being planted of a root then sowne of seed It is verie singular in ointments for old vlcers and fistulaes as also in clysters for bloudie fluxes the leaues thereof washed in cold water and applied vnto wounds and vlcers either of man or beast doe take away by and by the paine thereof and doth throughly heale them as the swellings or gaules vnder the saddles of horses that 〈◊〉 hurt if they be renewed euerie day and the horse needs not to be forborne for all that Or else take the hearbe new steepe it in water and wash it then rub therewith the swolne or gauled place then put the hearbe in some place where it may quickly rot or else burie it in some fat ground and coâ—er it with a great stone so soone as the â—hearbe is rotted so soone will the fore be healed If you spread it all greene in the bed it killeth fleas you shall keep powdred proke from wormes if you wrap it in the leaues of this hearbe thâ— juice thereof dropped into wormie eares doth kill the wormes that is in them Eye-bright delighteth in a leane ground and shadowed place and yet where moiâ—ture is not altogether wanting such as are the meadows and little mountaines is groweth of roots not of seed It is singular good against the dimnesse waterishnesse â—ataract rheume and weaknesse of the eyes being either applied and layd thereto or â—aken inwardly by the mouth there is a powder made of â—he dried leaues which beâ—ng oft taken by the mouth with the yolke of an egge or alone or mixt with aloes â—nd swallowed downe with Fennell-water or with water of veruaiâ—e doth comfort â—nd strengthen mightily the weake and diseased eyes some vse much to take Winâ— wherein eye-bright hath beene infused and steept a long time for the same purpose or the powder vsed with wine but the powder alone or the decoction without wine 〈◊〉 a remedie far more certaine than the wine of eye-bright as I my selfe haue proued â—y experience in as much as the Wine by his vapours doth fill the braine and proâ—ureth rheumes and therefore if you would auoid these inconuenienees you must â—elay your Wine vvith the vvater of Fennell or mixe Sugar therewith 〈◊〉 de â—illa-noâ—a aâ—â—irmeth that by the continuall vse of this heâ—healed an old man which â—â—ad alreadie wholly lost his sight by the often vse of the leaues of this hearbe as well 〈◊〉 as drie as well in his drinke as in his meat Veruaine as well the male as the female must be planted of roots in a moist soile â—nd that it may grow the fairer it requireth to be remoued and that into a place of â—he like nature and qualitie Besides the helpes that this hearbe affordeth vnto vveake eyes it is also good aâ—ainst the paine of the head teeth and vlcers of the mouth and principally in the â—â—fections of the skinne as the itch the tetter the flying-fire the ring-worme the â—prosie the Gangrena and Shbaâ—lus if it bâ— vsed in manner of a bath 〈◊〉 in manner of a foâ—entation made with Fâ—mitorie in Water and Vinegar Elicampane must not be sowne of seed because the seed hath no power to 〈◊〉 but it must rather be planted of the young sprouts pulled gently from the 〈…〉 that in a verie well tilled ground and which hath beene manured not verie 〈…〉 yet ouershadowed It is good to plant it in the beginning of Februarie leauing 〈◊〉 foot distance betwixt plant and plant for it hath great leaues and the roots do 〈◊〉 verie much as doe the young sprouts or roots of Reed The Wine wherein the root of Elicampane hath steept for the space of four◠〈◊〉 twentie houres is singular good against the colicke as we haue alreadâ—e said in 〈◊〉 first booke the juice of the root is singular good to continue and keepe the 〈◊〉 and beautifull hew of women The decoction of the root is likewise good 〈◊〉 â—â—joyce the heart and to prouoke vrine and the termes of women as also to 〈…〉 to spit out but then it must be vsed inwardly and whiles it is new and greene 〈◊〉 when it is old and drie it is fit to be vsed outwardly and not to be taken into 〈◊〉 bodie Dittander which hath the tast of pepper and mustard for which cause it is 〈◊〉 of the Latines Piperitis must be planted before the first of March cut as the 〈◊〉 but not so oft for feare it should die with cold It will continue two 〈◊〉 prouided that it be carefully weeded and dunged it continueth in many 〈◊〉 whole ten years and it cannot easily be destroyed The root of Dittander stamped with Hogs-gâ—ease or with the root of 〈◊〉 and applied in forme of a cataplaâ—me vnto the Sciatica doth cure it throughly It taketh away the great spots freckles and scales or pilling of the face by 〈…〉 the thin skin wherein these are fixed and as for the rawnesse left after the away of this skin it is healed easily with ointment of Roses Great Celandine groweth in euerie ground so that there be any shadow 〈…〉 and it would be sowne in Februarie and may so continue ten yeares so that â—waies after it hath cast his seed the stalkes thereof be cut downe within 〈…〉 of the root The juice of the flowers mixt with honie or womans milke or some othe◠〈◊〉 asswage the sharpenesse of it doth take away the spots in the eyes 〈…〉 scartes and vicers healeth the ring-wormes and itch of the head and the 〈…〉 the haire of little children The Alchymistes doe make great account of it 〈◊〉 their extractions of mettalls Some say that the old Swallows doe recouer the 〈◊〉 of their young ones being pore-blind by applying vnto their
the seed of Gromell to the quantitie of two drammes Ceterach halfe a dramme and Amber two scruples all being powdred with the iuice of Plantaine or Purcelane or Lettuce In like manner two drammes of the seed of Gromell with womens milke doth much comfort and strengthen a woman in her child-birth Hyporicum loueth the like entreatie that Gromell loueth and yet withall it doth refuse a fat and well tilled soyle The iuice of the leaues and flowers healeth cuts and wounds The seed drunke with white wine taketh away the tertian Ague The flowers and crops are principally in vse to make Balmes of for the curing of wounds such like as this is Take of the fruit of the Elme tree the flowers of Hypericum and the buds of Roses put them all together in a Glasse-bottle and set them in the Sunne so long as vntill you see them all so altered and changed as that they may seem to be rotted then straine them all through a linnen cloth and reserue it for your vse See further in the third Booke of the oyle of Hypericum Ground-pine loueth a drie sandie and stonie soyle and groweth better planted than sowne The whole hearbe boyled in honied water doth heale the laundise prouoke the termes in Women prouoke Vrine and is soueraigne against the Sciatica either taken in drinke or applyed vpon the hippe in forme of a Cataplasme for the whole hearbe with the flowers and roots made into powder and taken at the mouth fortie daies with halfe an ounce of Turpentine doth throughly heale the Sciatica The conserue made of the flowers is good for such as are subiect vnto the Palsie The whole hearbe boyled in vineger and taken at the mouth doth minister insinit helpe to a trauailing women when the child is dead in her bodie Agrimonie would be planted in a stonie and drie place and further craueth no great helpe of hand or husbandrie The decoction openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and strengtheneth it and it being boyled and drunke doth helpe against the bitings of venimous beasts The iuice of Agrimonie mixt with vineger and salt in a Liniment doth cure the Itch. Agrimonie is good against the cough of Sheepe and for broken-winded Horses The liquor of the decoction of Agrimonie with fumitorie made like Whay doth prouoke Vrine expell the Termes heale the Itch and Scab of the whole bodie whereupon it is singular in the beginning of the Leprosie The seed mixt with the iuice of Agrimonie and taken in manner of pilles doth kill the Wormes The Stagge being shot and wounded is healed so soone as he hath eaten of this hearbe If you gather good store of this hearbe and steepe it in faire Spring water in a large earthen pot till the water putrifie and then euerie morning wash the face therein it will take away all manner of Morphew Sunne-burning Farn-freckles and other spots or dunnesse of the skinne whatsoeuer making the same also cleare and smooth and filling vp euerie manner of wrinekle Some likewise vse in this case to vse with Agrimonie the like quantitie of Goose-grasse and sure it is not amisse for they haue both one manner of force and working White Mullein groweth euerie where but best in a stonie and sandie ground The white Mullein both leaues flowers rootes and seed is singular good against all manner of venime as also to containe in his place the falling Fundament Good wiues in like manner for this consideration doe make a fume of the seed and flowers of Mullein the flowers of Camomill and Masticke all made into 〈◊〉 The iuice pressed from the root before it put forth his stalke and drunke foureâ—â—â—â— in the quantitie of an ounce with Hippocras or Malmesey in the beginning of a 〈◊〉 of a quartane Feauer doth driue it quite away The iuice pressed out of the floweâ—â— or leaues applyed to Warts doth take them cleane away Likewise Gentlewomâ—n find no better remedie than the iuice of white Mullein flowers to take away the wrinckles and other blemishes in their face The leaues bruised betwixt two stoneâ— and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme vpon the foot of a Horse that hath beene cloyed doth affoord him a singular and present reliefe The water distilled of the flowers quencheth the firinesse of the face if there be a little Camphire added thereâ— unto It doth in like manner with the tumor called Erisipelas the itch burnings 〈◊〉 other diseases of the skin The flowers of white Mullein with the yolke of an eggâ— crummes of bread and the leaues of Leeks applyed vnto the Hemorrhoids doe 〈◊〉 them altogether There groweth about the leaues of white Mullein a whitish 〈◊〉 which is good to make match or tinder to take fire Mercurie craueth one and the same ground with the Vine there to be sowne and grow in great aboundance without anie great care of husbanding and yet thâ—â—â— must care and regard be had not to sow it among Vines because the wine which 〈◊〉 Vines should yeeld amongst whom Mercurie hath beene sowne would retaine the tast of Mercurie and become verie vnpleasant to drinke The iuice of Mercurie being drunke helpeth conception prouoketh womeâ—â— termes and deliuereth them of their after-birth The decoction of Mercurie doâ—â— loose the bellie being drunke or taken in a Clyster Some make a honey of the 〈◊〉 of Mercurie with a halfe quantitie of honey and this is good for laxatiue Clysteâ—â— The iuice of Mercurie taketh away Warts the seed of Mercurie in a decoction with Wormewood doth cure the Iaundise and the iuice thereof with vineger doth ripâ— vp the scab and scurffe Yarrow doth grow in a ground that is indifferent fat and moist The decoctioâ— thereof doth stay all manner of fluxes and especially the red termes of women 〈◊〉 also that which commeth of a wound especially the leaues dried made in powder and drunke with the iuice or water of Comfrey or Plantaine The leafe put into the nose stayeth the bleeding and put into a Clyster it stayeth the bloudie flux Milfoile bearing a white flower being powned with his flower and drunke with 〈◊〉 distilled from the same and Goats milke doth cure the burning of the vrine in 〈◊〉 and the whites in women Danewort groweth better plunted than sowne and craueth a fat ground well â—â—nured and somewhat moist The iuice pressed from the roots of Danewort being drunke for a certaine time preserueth a man from the Gout The seed of Danewort being well washed and drunke in powder to the quantitie of a dramme hauing beene first steeped a whole night in Wine doth helpe the Dropsie because it procureth stooles downward and vomit vpward to the voiding of great store of water Being drunke also with the dâ—coction of ground Pine it asâ—uageth the paine of the Gout and Pocks There is also made a soueraigne Oyntment of the same for the appeasing of the said paines Taâ—â— the iuice of the roots of Danewort the flowers of Rye and
of the colour in this case you shall distill your vinegar either in a Limbecke or other ordinarie Still and with the water which commeth from it which will be of a most pure and chrystaline colour and is indeed the spirit and sharpest part of the vinegar you shall preserue your flowers and then without doubt they will not abate any part at all of their owne brightnesse and colour White yellow and red Gillo-flowres do craue the like ordering that the March Violet doth and grow better vpon walls house tops and old ruines of stone than planted or tilled in gardens especially the yellow which come neerer to the resemblance of a shrub than of an hearbe hauing hard and wooddy stalkes and set full of branches commonly called of Apothecaries Keyâ—y The seed of Gillo-flowres stampt and drunke with white wine is soueraigne to prouoke womens termes and to further deliuerance in them that trauell Daisies must not be sowen but planted after the manner of violets this is the least kind of the 〈◊〉 which is likewise found in the fields without being tilled it flourisheth all the yeare long if it be well ordered Daisies stampt with Mugwort resolueth the King-euill A Cataplaâ—me made of Daisies is good for the palsie and all manner distillations For wounds in the brest whereinto tents may be put it is good to dâ—inke by and by a drinke made of stamped Daisies they heale the pastules of the tongue if they be chewed as also of the mouth being braied they asswage the inflammation of the priuie members eaten in sallades or broth of flesh they loosen the bellie Purple Veluet flower called in Latine Aramanthus doth recreate more with his colour than with any smell that it hath for it smelleth nothing at all notwithstanding who so will haue it in their gardens must plant it in a drie and sandie place The flower supt in pottage doth stay the flux of the bellie the termes and white flowers of vvomen the spitting of bloud especially if there be any veine broken or bruised in the lungs of brest The flower hereof infused in vvater or white vvine the space of an houre maketh the colour of the wine red and thus one may helpe himselfe the more easily to beguile any that are sicke of some ague and cannot abstaine from Wine Canterburie-bells as well the simple as the double require a fat ground and well inriched The Latines call it Viola Calathiana Their â—lowers mingled with Wheat flower make a good Cataplasme against scuruinesse and other sorts of scabbes likewise their roots boyled in white Wine to the consumption of the halfe and a linnen cloth dipped therein and applyed to scabbes and scuruinesse doth heale them the roots boyled in Wine and taken in a potion doe heale all the ruptures of the inward parts of the bodies doe cleanse the exulcerated lungs and spitting of bloud brayed and ground in manner of meale and drunke in Wine the weight of a French Crowne with two or three graines of Saffron are singular good against the jaundise if the partie sweat thereupon presently the like vertue is in the distilled water of the flowers the juice drawne out of their root and flowers applyed vnto wounds doth heale them presently a pessarie drencht in this juice prouoketh womens termes and draweth out the child dead in the mothers vvombe being dropt into the eare whereinto there hath some Flea or such other vermine crept it killeth them Gillo-flowres of all sorts are seldome sowne but oftentimes planted of roots or braunches pluckt from the plants the root shall be planted in the beginning of Autumne in a fat mould and so put in pots of earth thâ—t it may be remoued and set vnder some couert in Winter for feare of the frosts Sommer being come before the great plant haue cast forth his sprouts you may breake off so many small branches from about the root as will almost serue to set and plant a whole bed withall and so you may breed new plants of them You may make Gillo-flowers smell like Cloues if you lay bruised Cloues round about their roots In like manner you may make them haue faire flowers large pleasant and sweet smelling if you plucke away their leaues often and take paines to digge and water their earth furthermore such Gillo-flowers are commonly called Gillo-flowers of Prouence of the place where Gillo-flowers so ordered doe grow large tufted and ample those which haue not their flowers so large nor so sweet neither yet are so carefully looked vnto and dressed are properly called Purple Gillo-flowers The flowers of Gillo-flowers of Prouence as also their root are soueraigne against the Plague And for this cause such as are well aduised in the time of the Plague 〈◊〉 make conserues or vinegar of the flowers of Gillo-flowers to keepe themselues 〈◊〉 the euill ayre Indian Gillo-flowers called of the Latines Flos petillius and Ocellus 〈◊〉 although it refuse no ground notwithstanding if you plant it of the whole plant or of the branches thereof or else sow it in a fat and wel manured ground especially in the beginning of Iuly it will grow vnto such a height as that it will seeme to be a thing degenerated into the bignesse of a tree and will put forth of his stalke many boughâ— after the manner of a tree or shrub and by the same meanes there will put 〈◊〉 flowers induring vntill Winter Who will be counted carefull of preseruing his health must not smell vnto the flower of the Gillo-flowers of India for the smell thereof doth procure head-ach and giddinesse and is a meanes to breed the Falling-sicknesse further also which is more dangerous some haue found it by experience that it ingendreth an infectious aire likewise Physitians giue speciall prohibition to smell vnto the Indian Gillo-flower in the Plague time because the flower thereof is venimous and of temperate much like to the Hemlocke which may easily be perceiued by the vnpleasant smell it yeeldeth being both most strong and stinking That it is so namely that 〈◊〉 is venimous I haue giuen thereof sometimes vnto a Cat the flower the Gillo-flowres of India beaten and mixt with cheese to eat and she hath thereupon become verie much swelled and within a short time after dead I saw likewise a little young child who after hauing put these flowers in his mouth his mouth and lips did swell and within a day or two after became verie scabbed Wild Gillo-flowers as well white as red although they grow in the edges of fieldâ— and along the waies may notwithstanding be planted and set in gardens where 〈◊〉 they be oft remoued they will grow to haue a double flowre Their seed flower and whole hearbe is good against the stinging of Scorpions and indeed haue so greâ—â— vertue this way that the hearbe onely cast among Scorpions taketh from them all power to hurt their seed taken
is another note of admiration in this flower which is that it changeth it colour euerie yeare of it owne nature for the which no Gardiner is able to giue anie account Also there be some Tulipans which will not â—â—ourish aboue foure or fiue daies in the yeare and then after it carrieth no flower 〈◊〉 all The Martagon is a plant which putteth forth verie rare and excellent flowers â—uch what is shape like the Flower-de-luce and are infinitely desired for their exâ—ellencies it is most commonly either of an Orange or red colour and may be eiâ—her sowne or planted in a good ground in the Spring time when the Moone encreaseth It groweth in height seldome aboue three foot neither hath it anie branâ—hes it garnisheth the earth with manie greene leaues both long and sharpe â—ending their points downeward At the toppe of the stemme the flowers put â—orth vpon seuen or eight round buttons or cuppes which after a few daies doe open and out of euerie button springs forth a flower which will continue 〈◊〉 upon at least three or foure daies and then they will fall away and the bowle is perceiued in which the seed is retained which is not verie great but of a little and 〈◊〉 compasse Pâ—onie are flowers of diuers kinds some being single and some double and are 〈◊〉 esteemed for the beautie of their flowers they may be sowne or planted on any 〈◊〉 earth immediatly after Winter the stalke of it is greene and being risâ—n 〈◊〉 foot from the earth it putteth forth diuers large branches vpon the tops whereof 〈◊〉 many great buttons out of which breaketh forth the flowers being round 〈◊〉 and large so that some haue beene measured from the circumference to be the 〈◊〉 part of a foot in the diameter these flowers are euer of one colour as being all 〈◊〉 all white or all purple and not mixt or stripped as other flowers are Amongst all the flowers which beauitfie gardens none may compare with this other for odour glorie or generall delicacie whence it commeth that it is 〈◊〉 the Crowne Emperiall it may be sowne from the seed in any well drest 〈…〉 the Spring of the yeare and the new of the Moone yet it is much better if it be 〈◊〉 from the root which root is bigge and round like vnto a great S. 〈◊〉 Onion about which in the planting you shall â—ould a little fine mould 〈◊〉 with cows dung and then set it a good depth into the earth the stemme of this 〈◊〉 will spring out of the ground three or foure foot garnished all along with fine 〈◊〉 yet without any braunches at the top of all it putteth forth eight or nine 〈◊〉 borne vpon seuerall little branches distinguished from the stalke euerie one of 〈◊〉 being of equall height and length the flowers thereof for the most part shew 〈◊〉 because like the Helitropian they continually follow the Sunne and 〈◊〉 stand streight vpright but at hie noone onely the colour of them most 〈◊〉 is a pale red and they haue within the inward part of them a round liquid 〈◊〉 like vnto an Orient pearle which whilest the flower is in strength being for the 〈◊〉 part fifteene or twentie dayes you can by no meanes shake off nor will it be 〈◊〉 way with showers or tempests but if with your hand you wipe it away a new 〈◊〉 will arise againe presently in the same place this pearle if you tast vpon your 〈◊〉 is sweet and pleasant as Honie or Sugar This flower must be carefully 〈◊〉 from the frost and the slips of it would be seldome or neâ—er set because they are 〈◊〉 they bring forth flowers as three or foure yeares at the soonest CHAP. XLIX Of sweet smelling Hearbes BAsill as well the great as the small is sowne in Aprill and May in a 〈◊〉 ground and commeth vp quickly if so be that by and by after it is 〈◊〉 it be watered with water somewhat heated It may be sowne 〈◊〉 in Autumne and the seed would be watered with vinegar for so 〈◊〉 it but a verie little it will grow forth into branches If you sow it in a drie ground 〈◊〉 open vpon the Sun it will by and by turne and become either mountaine 〈◊〉 or cresses When you haue sowne it you must draw vpon the ground some 〈◊〉 fasten and set it close together for if it should lye light and hollow the seed would 〈◊〉 corrupt It must be watered at noone-tide cleane contrarie to other hearbs 〈◊〉 would be watered at morning or euening To cause it to grow great it is 〈◊〉 crop it oft with your fingers and not with any yron thing Some report a 〈◊〉 strange thing of Basill as namely that it groweth fairer and higher if it 〈◊〉 sowne with curses and injuries offered vnto it and further that there is a deadly 〈◊〉 betwixt ambeâ— basill for whereas amber or blacke jet it giuen to draw 〈◊〉 â—nto it vpon the touching of them it driueth and putteth farre from it the leaues and 〈◊〉 of Basill Such as are subject vnto head-ach or feare to be troubled therewith must shun the 〈◊〉 of Basill altogether for the smell thereof begetteth paine and heauinesse of the 〈◊〉 yeâ— sometimes it ingendreth in the head little small wormes like vnto Scorpiâ—â—s as we read to haue happened to a certaine Italian in our time as Monsieur â—â—oulier D. in physicke doth testifie in the beginning of his Practica in whose â—â—aine the oft smelling of Basill did beget a scorpion which caused him to endure â—â—treame paine and brought him to his death in the end The greatest vertue that 〈◊〉 hearbe can haue is that if a woman doe hold the roots of Basill in her hand toâ—ether with a Swallows feather when she is in trauell she shall be deliuered by and 〈◊〉 without any paine Rue as well that of the garden as the other which is wild doth not loue eyther a â—oist or cold ground neither yet a ground made verie fat with dung but rather a 〈◊〉 and drie ground free from vvind and where the Sunne shineth much in respect â—hereof it must be couered with ashes during the Winter time for the naturall heat 〈◊〉 the ashes doth cause it to resist the cold It may be sowne in March August and â—â—ptember although in deed it grow better set of roots or braunches than sowne â—hen it groweth old it degenerateth into a wooddie substance and therefore you â—ust cut the stalkes twice euerie yeare euen to the root to recouer his youth againe 〈◊〉 must not be suffered if possibly it may be let to flowre for if it be suffered to put 〈◊〉 any flowres it groweth so much the more drie Some report that this hearbe 〈◊〉 a maruailous propertie as that if it be toucht or come neere vnto be it neuer so 〈◊〉 by a woman that hath abused her bodie or that hath her termes that it dyeth 〈◊〉 and by To cause that it
it will keepe a yeare or two without being spoyled if you gather them cleane and not mixt with anie filthie things hauing 〈◊〉 dried them a little in the Sunne vntill they haue lost their newnesse and freshnessâ—â— afterward drie them vp throughly in the shadow and put them not vp to keepe 〈◊〉 they be perfectly dried It is good in the Plague time to perfume the house with Rosemarie for the 〈◊〉 thereof driueth away the ill ayre The leaues and flowers are good against headach especially to stay the whites if a woman doe vse them long time euerie morning 〈◊〉 more specially to make the sight better if the partie that hath the weake sight 〈◊〉 eat fasting both the leaues and the flowers of Rosemarie ioint together with 〈◊〉 and salt euerie morning The flowers thereof made in conserue doe comfort 〈◊〉 Stomacke and are good in melancholike Passions the Falling sicknesse 〈◊〉 and Palsies The seed drunke with Pepper and white Wine doth heale the Iaundise and take away the obstructions of the Liuer The decoction of the 〈◊〉 thereof in white Wine doe comfort weake and oppressed Sinewes If you 〈◊〉 your head therewith it will make a hard skinne and comfort the little 〈◊〉 and also keepe the haire from falling so quickly Some doe make Tooth-piâ—â—â— of the wooddie parts thereof and those verie good as also Coales to draw 〈◊〉 first Lineaments and Ground-worke of Pictures and such other things to be painted The ordering of lesamine is like vnto that of Rosemarie saue that Iesamine doâ—â— continue alwaies greâ—ne and not so subiect to frost as Rosemarie and is much in 〈◊〉 quest for Arbors and Shelters and for the setting forth of a Quarter There may 〈◊〉 made an Oyle of his flowers infused a long time in Oyle of sweet Almonds 〈◊〉 in a bagge from betwixt a Presse which will be soueraigne to comfort the 〈◊〉 â—inewes and other parts of the bodie troubled with cold distillations and to 〈◊〉 the frets of young children Mountaine or wild Thyme delighteth to be planted or sowne in grounds 〈◊〉 some Fountaine small Rundle or Well and such as is ill tilled being drie in 〈◊〉 and full of water in Winter and thus placed it yeeldeth a great deale the 〈◊〉 leaues It requireth notwithstanding a ground that is neither fat nor dunged 〈◊〉 open to the Sunne and would be oft transplanted Sometimes it commeth of 〈◊〉 that is ill husbanded Mountaine Thyme boyled in vineger and oyle of Rose assuageth the headach if the temples be rubbed therewith boyled in Wine and drunke it prouoketh Womens termes bringeth forth the after-birth and dead child with Honey iâ— cleanseth the Lungs and helpeth the Falling sicknesse The decoction is good 〈◊〉 the windinesse swellings and hardnesse of the Matrix The perfume of 〈◊〉 Thyme killeth Serpents and other venimous Beasts and driueth away Fleas 〈◊〉 weight of a French crowne of the powder of Mountaine Thyme drunke with 〈◊〉 assuageth the belly ach and deliuereth the partie which is troubled with 〈◊〉 of vrine Penyryall groweth well either sowne or planted wherein this must be marked that if it be planted of the root or branches in Autumne it will bring forth 〈◊〉 and flowers in mid Nouember It being once planted continueth alwaies so 〈◊〉 it be well wed and pickt euerie yeare it must be watred verie diligently Penyryallâ—â— excellent good against the Dropsie for the Spleene Iaundise and furthering of womens deliuerance in trauell as also to bring forth the after-birth and to 〈◊〉 the termes being drunke with white Wine The perfume of Penyryall killeth 〈◊〉 and venimous Beasts A Cataplasme made of Penyryall boyled in Wine doth assuage the paine of the Sciatica Dill loueth better to be planted than sowne and craueth chiefely a ground somewhat warme but more enclining to cold If you would haue it to grow faire you must water it oftentimes When it is sowne it is not needfull that the seed should be couered with earth because it is not subiect to be eaten of Birds Dill hath power to take away Belchings and inward Gripes Vomit and Hicket and that onely with smelling to it to prouoke Vrine and helpe the digestion of the Stomacke it causeth a spring of milke in Nurses healeth the suffocation of the Matrix and ripeneth all manner of tumours Annise craueth a well batled tilled fat and manured ground It must be sowne in March and oft watered Euerie man knoweth how good and profitable the seed thereof is eaten in the morning for such as are subiect to the gripes of the Stomack and Guts to the Hickeâ— Belchings stinking Breath and which desire to haue a beautifull and comely countenance after meat it also helpeth digestion it is good for Nurses to cause them to haue much milke It also taken away the stopping of the Stomacke or Spleene it helpeth Collickes prouoketh Vrine makes a man apt to sweet and lastly keepes the bodie soluble Bishops-weed craueth such ground and such tillage as Annise which being once sowne doth lightly grow there euerie yeare by the seed falling from it it groweth chiefely in rested grounds The seed is excellent good against Wringings and Gripes to prouoke Womens termes and Vrine if it be drunke with Wine so that it be vsed but seldome for otherwise it causeth a pale colour The perfume doth mundifie and cleanse the Matrix and maketh barren women fruitfull if together with this suffumigation the barren woman doe take euerie second morning the weight of a dramme of the powder of this seed three houres before shee eat anie thing continuing it for foure of fiue times but in the meane time the husband must lye with his wife vpon such daies as shee shall vse this powder a thing proued diuers times Caraway is sowne in the moneth of May in a good cleane and manured ground in such sort as we haue said in the Kitchin Garden The seed helpeth Digestion prouoketh Vrine expelleth Windinesse and hath the same vertues that Annise hath being made into powder it is with good successe mixt amongst such remedies as are vsed to be giuen for drie blowes Cummin doth grow fairest when it is sowne in a fat and hot ground or in a ground lying open to the Easterne Sunne amongst the pothearbes for so it groweth better in the beginning of May. Some likewise say that for to make it grow faire and well it must be cursed and rayled vpon It must not be watered so presently after it is sowne but after it is put forth of the earth it must be oftentimes watered The seed taken at the mouth scattereth the winds which breake vpward it mendeth the inward gripes and taketh away the difficultie to make water as also the blacknesse of drie blowes the powder thereof being presently applyed after it hath beene beat verie small and fine and heated at the fire
the said tooth-ach It is good also for them which haue the swimming of the head as also for them which are troubled with Melancholie or with the Stone Caâ—s-mint or Nept is a kind of Calamint whereof wee haue spoken before so called because that Cats doe exceedingly delight in the smell thereof and doe tumble themselues round vpon the leaues and stalkes it groweth without anie great husbanding in marshie and waterish places as may easily be seene and tryed It is reported to haue a singular vertue in helping women to conceiue In like manner Physitians are wont to prescribe Bathes and Fomentations made of this hearbe for women that cannot conceiue and haue children Also it is verie delicately purgatiue and openeth the bodie verie gently without offence or danger aftercoâ—â—iâ—enesse French Lauander being and hearbe of a verie good smell and verie vsuall in Languâ—doâ— and Prouence doth craue to be diligently tilled in a fat ground and lying open to the Sunne The decoction syrrup or distilled water doth comfort the braine and memorie taketh away the obstructions of the Liuer Spleene Lungs and Matrix but such as are cholericke must not vse it because it disquieteth them mightily in causing them to vomit and altering them much by bringing a heat vpon all the bodie The drie stonie and Sunne-shining place is verie fit for Lauander whether male or female Before it flower it must be cut and picked verie carefully It is of a sweet smell and good when it is dryed to put amongst Linnens and Woollen Clothes â—mparting of his sweetnesse vnto them and keeping of them from vermine It is verie excellent to comfort weake and wearied sinewes or otherwise ill affected through some cold cause and by reason hereof Baths and Fomentations made of Lauander for Palsies Conuulsions Apoplexies and other such like affects are verie soueraigne The flowers with Cinnamon Nutmeg and Cloues doe heale the beating of the heart The distilled water of the flowers taken in the quantitie of two spoonefuls restoreth the lost speech and healeth the swownings and disease of the heart The consâ—rue and distilled water thereof doe the like The Oyle thereof dryeth vp Rheumes also and beeing annoynted vpon the nape of the necke it is singular good against conuulsions and benummednesse of sinewes All-good otherwise called in French Orualle because it is as much worth as gold groweth in anie ground without seed and with seed it delighteth notwithstanding to be often watered The leaues stamped and applyed doe draw forth thornes and prickes that are fastened and runne into anie part of the bodie whatsoeuer It doth in like manner bring the child out of the mothers bodie being in trauell The wine wherein it hath been steeped in small quantitie doth make men pleasant and cheerefull and apt to carnall copulation The seed thereof put into the eye and turned manie times round about the eye doth cleanse and cleare it in wiping away the â—â—egmaticke humour wherewith you shall well perceiue the seed to be laden and aâ— it were wrapt in small filmes after that it is taken out of the eyes The flowerâ— and seed put in a vessell full of sweet Wine whiles it yet purgeth giueth it the tast of Malmesey It is true that such Wine will quickly make one drunke and cause the head-ach as we see that Beere doth wherein Brewers boyle Clarie in stead of Hoppes Nigella of the Garden must be sowne in a ground that is fat and well tilled The fume of the seed taken doth stay the rheume drie the braine and causeth the smelling that is lost to come againe boyled with water and vineger and holden in the mouth it assuageth tooth-ach Sweet Balme groweth rather in Woods and Forests than in Gardens notwithstanding he that will haue it in his Garden must sow it in a fat and well battild ground where the heat of the Sunne commeth not verie strongly It serueth to reioyce the heart and deliuereth the spirit from melancholike imaginations and fansies it is good not onely against bitings and stingings of venimonâ— beasts but also against the Plague in whatsoeuer manner it be vsed And further if anie man doubt himselfe to haue eaten anie venimous or poysoned meat as it falleth out often in them which haue eaten Mushromes and such like things then this serueth for a singular remedie against the same Such as esteeme it a fine thing to keepe Bees to the end he may preuent their flying away and forsaking of their Hiues as also to cause them to come againe if they be gone away doe rub the Hiues with the flowers of sweet Balme as on the contrarie to driue them and to cause them to forsake them they rub them with the flowers of Fetherfew Camomile as well the white as the yellow hath no need of great tilling it is sufficient to plant it in a drie leane and stonie ground Camomile is singular good to mollifie resolue raâ—ifie and loosen and in this respect there is no remedie better for laâ—â—itudes or wearisomenesse without iust outward causes than bathes made with the leaues and flowers thereof The leaues of Camomile stamped with white wine make a verie good drinke to cure all sorts of Agues but especially Tertians for which reason the Priests of Egypt did consecrate it vnto the Sunne Also the water of Camomile drunke warme in the beginning of the fit doth throughly heale the Tertian by vomit The leaues of Camomile yet greene being dryed vpon a Tyle or hot Fire-panne doe by and by appease the head-ach Being also fried with sweet Sewet and vnset Leekes in a Frying-paâ—â—e and put hot into a Linnen bagge and so applyed to the nauell it killeth Wormes either in old middle age or young infants and taketh away all manner of paine in the bellie Melilot refuseth no ground be it fat or be it drie and yet it loueth to be watered Melilot doth mollifie resolue and rarifie as doth Camomile and yeeldeth a verie good smell especially when it is new or when it raineth in Summer it also assuageth the ach of anie part or member whatsoeuer it be Also the â—uice thereof mixed with Turpentine Waxe and Oyle ripeneth breaketh and healeth anie Impostume whatsoeuer it taketh away all hard swelling and cleanseth wounds Manie men being verie desirous to adorne and set forth their Garden with all sorts of Plants doe amongst the rest prouide to furnish it with Apples of Loue which the Latines call Mala insana by reason of the beautie of their fruit which which is as thicke as a Cucumber drawing towards a red colour They must be sowne in the Spring in a fat and well battild soyle and where the Sun hath great power because they cannot abide any cold they craue the like ordering and husbandrie that the Cucumber doth Many licorish mouthes let not to be eating of these no more than of mushroomes they take
well â—earce it wash it in cold water and after leaue it a whole night in the water then take it out and when you haue wrung it or pressed it as neere as you can drie with your hand then put it in a new or verie cleane Mortar and bray it with a pestle with strong vineger and then after that straine it But the most ordinarie way for the making of your Mustard is onely to wash the seed verie cleane then put it into your Mustard Quernes and grind it either with strong vineger which is the best or with good Beere or Ale or with Butter-milke onely the Beere will make it eat a little bitter whilest it is new and the Butter-milke will die soone Some make a verie pleasant Mustard in this manner Take two ounces of the seed of Seâ—uie halfe an ounce of Cinnamon powne them verie small and with honey and vineger make a paste and of the paste little loaues which you shall drie in the Sunne or Ouen and when you would vse it dissolue one or some of one of your loaues in Veriuice or Vineger or some other liquor Some to take away the great sharpnesse that is in it doe steepe the â—eed in new Wine during Vintage time and then make it as we haue said alreadie after they put it in little Barrels such as Mustard of Anion is wont to be put in The people of Dijon make it in small loaues and when they will vse it they dissolue it in vineger The Mustard of Dijon hath woon the praise from all other either because of the seed growing there which is better than that of other Countries or by reason of the making thereof which the inhabitants there doe performe more carefully than in other places To preserue Cucumbers you must put them in Lees of white Wine which are not sowre and in a pitched Vesâ—ell and stop it well Otherwise you must put them in salt Brine or else hang them in some Vessell wherein is a little Vineger but so also the Vessell must be verie well stopped Some preserue them in an earthen Vessell with Salt Vineger and Mariâ—rome Others cast them into sandie Pâ—â—s and couer them with the seed of Senuie bruised with Vineger and after that put vpon them drie hay and earth To preserue Gourds take them when they are tender and cut them then powre vpon them warme water and let them coole in the open ayre for a nights space after that sowce them in strong salt Brine and so you shall preserue them a long time or else drie them in the Sunne and after hang them vp in some smoakie place In France they are preserued all Winter being hanged vp vnder some chamber floore or set in rowes vpon planks especially the Citruls To keepe Onions you must drie them in the Sunne and afterward put them in some drie place and well ayred Some preserue them after this manner First they drie them in the Sunne and lay Thyme and Sauorie below in the bottome of a pot and lay the Onions aboue putting thereunto pickle which shall be made of three parts of vineger and one of salt brine and aboue this againe a bunch or small bundle of Sauorie to the end that by the weight of it the Onions may be sunke downâ— into the pickle and when they are so drencht as that they haue receiued of the pickle into their owne iuice then they fill vp the pot with the same pickle Some doe steepe them onely in water and afterward preserue them the whole yeare in vineger But there is no better way to preserue or keepe Onions long than after they are first gathered to spread them thinne vpon a boorded floore where they may receiue both Sunne and Wind and then after they are sufficiently dried to bind them vp in long Ropes or Bundles and so hang them neere the ayre of the fire as ouer your Kitâ—hin chimney or such like CHAP. LII A briefe discourse of small and great trees as well strange as growing in the Countrey planted or remoued in the Garden and first of such as Arbours are made of THe Garden of Pleasure hauing beene deuised and ordained for the onely recreation of the chiefe Lord of the Farme as hath alreadie beene said and seeing that this his recreation cannot be altogether so great and so sufficient in the onely smell of flowers and sweet hearbes as and if there be withall presented vnto the sight the view of strange and Countrey-borne trees both great and small which doe not onely yeeld a more pleasant smell without comparison than the hearbes but doe also the greatest part of them bring forth fruits of great wonder and admiration as Pomegranate-trees Câ—per-trees Citron-trees Orange-trees Limon-trees Citron-trees of Assyria Date-trees Figge-trees Oliue-trees bastard Sene-trees and others such like Therefore to the end we may leaue nothing out of our Garden whereof the Master of the 〈◊〉 may reape anie solace we will speake briefely of handling and husbanding of great and small Trees which must be planted in it of which some are imployed as necessarie about Arbours and the Garden is to be set about with them they are the Cypresse-tree Iuniper-tree Sauin-tree Cedar-tree Rose-tree Box-tree and others othersome are sowne or set and remoued vnto Beds only proper vnto them or into Vessels and Cases as the Bay-tree Mulberrie-tree Date-tree Pine-tree Citon-tree Orange-tree Limon-tree Figge-tree Oliue-tree and such like which shall be spoken of hereafter The Cypresse-tree as well the male as the female notwithstanding that in the 〈◊〉 of Crete it doth grow in great Tufts and Forests without anie sowing or planting of his owne accord yet in this Countrey it cannot be got to thriue without the great paines of the Gardiner and notable goodnesse of the ground for naturally 〈◊〉 delighteth not but in hot Countries where it groweth as one would wish it It groweth either set or sowne in a drie ground farre from Flouds Riuers Marishes dyrtie and moist places and on the tops and sides of Hills where the Sunne shineth better than in valleyes It abhorreth all manured ground especially and most of all be it neuer so little yea if one doe but fill a trench with dung round about where 〈◊〉 is planted it will die in a short time notwithstanding it is requisite some certaine time before you plant it to put some good mould into the pit where you intend to plant it or to sâ—w it This is as it were a wonder of Nature in the seed of this tree which though it be so small as that one can scarce see it yet it bringeth 〈…〉 goodly and so tall a tree When you sow it you must sow it in furrowes from after the twentieth of October vntill Winter and neere vnto it some Barly for there is such great familiaritie betwixt these two seeds that they grow as it were in spight one of another whereupon it will come to passe that when it is
euill aire It is vvith good successe vsed in the decoctions prescribed against the pockes take seuen Iuniper-berries and as many Bay-beâ—ries halfe a dram of Zylocassia and a dram of Cinamome put all this whole in the bellie of a Turtle-doâ—e roast the said Turtle thus stuffed and baâ—t her with Capons grease giue euerie second day one of these at supper to a woman that is readie to be deliuered and she shall haue an easie deliuerie boyle twelue pound of Iuniper wood cut small or raspt in a great cauldron and in a sufficient quantitie of water to the consumption of the third part of the water put this wood and water inâ—â— a bathing tub and let the partie troubled with the gout â—it in this water vp vnto the middle he shall feele incredible reliefe hereby Elder tree is fitter to plant in the garden hedge than to make at bouâ—s in 〈◊〉 notwithstanding where other sorts of small trees are wanting there may vse be made of the Elder-tree It would be set in the moneth of Nouember vpon sciences and shoots in a moist and shadowed place neere to some little riuer or brooke To cause it to grow well you must take this diligent course to cast the earth as it vvere into furrows of a good halfe foot broad and a whole foot deepe with a spade and not with a pickaxe for there must no earth be taken away then presently after the 〈◊〉 of Saint Martin in Winter plant your Elder-trees the great end thereof which shaâ— be put into the earth shall be cut bias like the foot of a Hind and thrust downe 〈◊〉 the ground thus prepared a foot or nine inches deepe and let it stand vp aboue the ground at the least a foot and a halfe or two foot so as that in all your plant mâ—st be two good foot and a halfe or three foot long before you put them into the groâ—nd open it vvith a dibble either of yron or vvood so that the rind of the plant may 〈◊〉 be torne in putting of it into the earth If you plant it in the furrows there must be at the least three foot betwixt euerie furrow and a foot betwixt euerie plant Hauing once thus planted them you shall neuer need to take any further paines 〈◊〉 them if you vvill not your selfe but to cut it two joynts at the least euerie yeare 〈◊〉 the space of the two or three first yeares to the end the root may grow the 〈◊〉 and the first two or three yeares being past you may cut it from two yeares 〈…〉 yeares to make props for vines in any case you must â—op it euerie yere and cut away all the euill sciences and shoots vvhich it ill fauouredly putteth forth Some distill the vvater of the flowers as singular to appease the head-ach comming of heat if the brows or hinder part of the head be rubbed therewith Some likewise doe make verie good vinegar vvith the â—lowers and juice of the beâ—â—ies The juice pressed from the rind of the root moueth vomit and draweth forth the 〈◊〉 that is in thoâ—e that haue the dropsie the juice pressed from the leaues and takeâ— vvith some pottage doth loosen the bellie the dried seed is good against the dropsie and for â—at folke to make them leane taking of it the quantitie of a dram in 〈◊〉 vvine and continuing it a certaine time and mixing therewith a little 〈◊〉 because it is a procurer of vomit and a disquieter of the stomach Rose-marie and Iesamin are likewise fit for the adorning of arbours in 〈◊〉 of the ordering vvhereof vve vvill say nothing in this place because vve haue before spoken thereof verie largely Iuie as vvell the great as the small doth delight to be planted in moist and vvaterie places from the moneth of Nouember vntill March and it flowreth not but in Autumne neither doth the berâ—ie thereof become ripe but in Winter it groweâ—â— not high if it be not neere vnto some tree or old ruine vnto both vvhich in the end 〈◊〉 vvorketh ruine and ouerthrow It vvill bring forth a goodly fruit if you 〈…〉 vvith powdred Allome or ashes made of burnt Oyster-shells Blacke Iuie vvill become vvhite if you vvater the root thereof vvith vvhite earth tempered vvith vvâ—ter eight daies together continually If you take three Iuie berries and tying them vp in a cleane linnen cloth 〈…〉 thread giue them to some one that is troubled vvith paine and stifnesse of his 〈◊〉 to vveare about his necke the said partie so vvearing them three daies together 〈◊〉 be vvhole and cured of his disease The leaues brayed and applyed doe heale â—â—nings and â—â—â—ldings made vvith hot vvater boyled in vinegar and applied 〈◊〉 cure the hardnesse of the spleene the gum thereof killeth lice and niâ—s and 〈◊〉 annointed in any hairie place causeth the haire to fall away The vessells 〈◊〉 the wood of Iuie are singular to know if there be any vvater in the vvine for the 〈◊〉 vvill abide in the vessell and the vvine vvill run out Seuen Iuie berâ—ies 〈…〉 many peach kernels the skinâ— taken off boyled in oyle and afterward stamp◠〈◊〉 applied vnto the temples and brows doe assuage the head-ach comming from the braine the juice of the leaues of Iuie drunke with red vvine doth heale the swelling of the spleene a cap made in forme of a head-piece or skull of the leaues of Iuie sowed together and applied vnto the head of a little child which hath the falling of the haire called Tinea doth heale it throughly the water or gum which droppeth out of the stocke of an Iuie tree the rind being cut killeth nits and lice Priuet groweth more than a man would wish amongst brambles and bushes from which places it may be transplanted into the garden for the benefit of arbours The water of the flowers thereof may be distilled and it is most singular against all manner of â—luxes vvhether of the bellie matrix spitting of bloud and of the eyes as also for all sorts of cankers the same vertue hath the juice pressed out of the leaues especially for the canker growing in the mouth There is an oyle made of the flowers thereof infused in oyle in the Sun which is singular good for the head-ach comming of a hot cause and also for inflammations CHAP. LIII Of Hearbes for the Arbours of the Garden FOr want of trees of low growth such as haue beene spoken of here before you may helpe your selfe in the making of your Arbours for your Garden of Pleasure with certaine hearbes which are plyant and with their leaues apt to make shadow still prouided that they be borne vp by poles of Willow or Iuniper dressed and ordered in forme and after the manner of Arbours They are such as follow the wild Vine Hoppes Gourds Cucumbers the maruellous Pease Winter Cherries the maruellous Apples and other such like And as concerning the wild Vine it groweth more plentifully than a man would
inconueniences it is good acâ—ording to the counsell of Columella to steepe the seeds for a certaine time in the juice of 〈◊〉 madame or to mingle with the said seed some â—oot or else to water them with 〈◊〉 wherein soot hath beene tempered but it is better to speake of these things pâ—â—ticularly Generally against all such beasts as doe hurt gardens it is good to 〈…〉 place of the Garden as where you thinke these beasts doe most abound and keepe the paunch of a Sheepe full of dung as it commeth out of the Sheepes belly and to couer it with a little earth and within two daies you shall find all these beasts gathered together into this place before you haue done thus twice or thrice you shall be prouided of the meanes to kill and root out all these 〈◊〉 know then in a word what be the necessarie remedies for the auoiding of such accidents Against Haile ancient men were wont to set the whole compasse of their ground about with white wild Vine or else to fasten vnto the top of a high post an Owle hauing her wings spread The Lightnings and Thundring will doe no harme if there be buried in the midst of the Garden a kind of Toad called a Hedge-toad closed vp in a pot of earth Others doe hang in the midst of the Garden or at the soure corners thereof the seathers of an Eagle or the skinne of a Seale Others plant manie Bay-trees round about the Garden It is true that to breake or dissolue the Thunder accompanied with a great thicke cloud threatening haile there is nothing better than to ring the belles as is vsed to be done in hot Countries and to send forth the roaring sounds of the Canons as is wont to be done at Sea or else to set on fire some heapes of Weeds or stinking and rotten Seeds There is nothing more hurtfull or dangerous for hearbes than Frost which commeth when Snow and Ice are thawing And for to preserue your hearbes from this inconuenience of cold you must spread all ouer the ground great store of straw and ashes withall about that for by this meanes the heat of the earth will be preserued and the frost hindred that it cannot enter If you conceiue that your hearbs are like to be hurt by mists or fogs you must get together in diuers places of your gardens diuers heapes of tender twigs and straw or of weeds and shrubs pulled vp in the same place and after to set them on fire for the smoake thereof doth correct and cleare the duskish and cloudie ayre Against blasting which is a corruption happening to hearbes and trees by some euill constellation there is nothing better than to burne with the dung the right horne of an oxe in such sort as that there may on euerie side be caused a verie great smoake for this smoake will driue away and resolue the euill qualitie of the ayre which is the carrier of this maligne influence or else it will be good to plant in diâ—erâ— places of the gardens diuers Bay-tree-boughes for the blasting will fall all vpon them To preserue seeds from being eaten of birds you must sâ—atter round about your gardens wheat or barly sod in wine mingled with hellebor or else water and sâ—eepe the seed in the decoction of â—ray fishes boyled in fresh water assuring your selfe that looke what groweth of such seeds will be free from all danger of these fowles or else water your seed with water and the lâ—â—s of wine or else â—caâ—er throughout the gardens some boyled leekes for so soone as they shall haue swallowed thew they wil be easily taken vp with your hand Some put ten cray fishes in a vessell full of vvater which they couer and set out in the Sunne for the space of ten daies afterward they 〈◊〉 the seeds they would sow with this water twice once before they be sowne and the other eight daies after that they are sowne By this meanes the seeds will not onely be kept safe from birds but also from all other manner of beasts To take away all harme which may come by little beasts it will be good to drie vpon the skinne of a Tortoise all such seeds as you intend to sow in your Gardens or else to plant in diuers places of your Gardens some Mints especially amongst your Coleworts or else to sow amongst your pot-hearbs some Cich-pease or Rocket or to fill the ground of your Kitchin Garden with Goose-dung tempered with salt â—rine or else to sow the seeds in the first quarter of the Moone New Oyle lees or the foot of the Chimney sowne all about in your Gardens is good against Snailes To keepe away Caterpillers you must water your hearbes with water wherein haue beene steeped the ashes of the young shoots of Vines or perfume your hearbes and trees with quicke brimstone Some steepâ— the seeds in the 〈◊〉 of fig tree 〈◊〉 and to kill the caterpillers doe cast vpon them the ashes themselues others like it better to plant a great onion called Squilla or else to burne â—oad-stooles that grow out of the nut-tree or else some great store of garleeke without any head to the 〈◊〉 that by the strong smell which shâ—ll 〈◊〉 thereof they may die Columella maketh mention of a certaine and approued remedie in this 〈◊〉 Caterpillers which is that when they will not be driuen away by other meaâ—â— to 〈◊〉 a woman baâ—e footed hauing her termes her bosome open and 〈◊〉 about her eares to walke three times about the quarters and alleys of the hedges or 〈◊〉 of the garden This done you shall see the Caterpillers fall vpon the earth from the hearbs and trees bearing fruit neither more nor lesle than and if by shaking you beat 〈◊〉 the raine or water from a tree but in the meane time there must be care bad that this be not done at 〈◊〉 rise because that then euerie thing in the garden would 〈◊〉 and pine away If you water the fleas or lice with strong vinegar mingled with the juice of â—enbane wherein the water of hemlocke shall haue boyled or with water 〈◊〉 Nigella hath bin steeped or with the decoction of mustard-sâ—eed they wil die shortly Gnats will be killed if you lay 〈◊〉 in sleepe and sprinkle the water about the garden or if you make a perfâ—me of Galbanâ—m or of Brimstone or of 〈◊〉 or of ox-dung If you would 〈◊〉 away flies make a perfume of Colo 〈◊〉 or water the place with water wherein it hath steeped To gather together all the Paâ—mar-wormes and other like beasts into one place to the end you may kill them you must spread in the place especially where they 〈◊〉 bound the gâ—ts and 〈◊〉 of some sheepe newly killed the same made 〈◊〉 cleane but still full of filth and dung then two daies after you shall find them all come together vnto the entrailes For to kill Weazles you
the Apple-tree will not hold and beare his fruit 〈◊〉 it be ripe compasse the stocke of the Apple-tree a good foot from the roots vpâ—ard about with a ring of a lead before it begin to blossome and when the apples shall begin to grow great then take it away Apples must be gathered when the moone is at the full in faire weather and about the fifteenth of September and that by hand without any pole or pealing downe because otherwise the fruit would be much martred and the young siences broken or bruised and so the Apple-tree by that meanes should be spoyled of his young vvood which would cause the losse of the Tree See more of the manner of gathering of them in the Chapter next following of the Peare-tree and as for the 〈◊〉 of keeping of them it must be in such sort as is deliuered hereafter You shall 〈◊〉 frozen Apples if you dip them in cold water and so restore them to their naturall goodnesse There is a kind of wild Apple called a Choake-apple because they are verie harsh in eating and these will serue well for hogges to eat Of these apples likewise you may make verjuice if you presse them in a Cyder-presse or if you squeese them vnder a verjuice milstone Vinegar is also made after this manner You must cut these Apples into gobbâ—â—â— and leaue them in their peeces for the space of three dayes then afterward cast them into a barrell with sufficient quantitie of raine water or fountaine water and after that stop the vessell and so let it stand thirtie daies without touching of it And then at the terme of those daies you shall draw out vinegar and put into them againe as much water as you haue drawne out vinegar There is likewise made with this sort of Apples a kind of drinke called of the Picardines Piquette and this they vse in steed of Wine Of others sorts of Apples there is likewise drinke made which is called Cyder as we shall declare hereafter An Apple cast into a hogshead full of Wine if it swim it sheweth that the Wine is neat but and if it sinke to the bottome it shewes that there is Water mixt with the Wine Infinit are the sorts and so the names of Apples comming as well of natures owne accord without the helpe of man as of the skill of man not being of the race of the former in euerie one of which there is found some speciall qualitie which others haue not but the best of all the rest is the short shanked apple which is marked with spottings as tasting and smelling more excellently than any of all the other sorts And the smell of it is so excellent as that in the time of the plague there is nothing better to cast vpon the coales and to make sweet perfumes of than the rinde thereof The short stalked Apple hath yet further more one notable qualitie for the kernells being taken out of it and the place filled vp with Frankincense and the hole joyned and fast closed together and so rosâ—ed vnder hot embers as that it burne not bringeth an after medicine or remedie to serue when all other fayle to such as are sicke of a pleurisie they hauing it giuen to eat sweet apples doe much good against melancholicke affects and diseases but especially against the 〈◊〉 for if you roast a sweet apple vnder the ashes and season it with the juice of licoâ—ice starch and sugar and after giue it to eat euening and morning two houres before meat vnto one sicke of the pleurisie you shall helpe him exceedingly CHAP. XXIX Of the Peare-tree BVt the Peare-tree being the most in request and precious next vnto the Apple-tree amongst all the fruit-trees that are is ordered for the most part after the manner of the Apple-tree although the vvood and fruit of the one be more firme than that of the other and that the Peare-tree bring forth his fruit late as not before the end of Autumne vvhen as all the great heat is alreadie past notwithstanding you shall set it in the same ground with the Apple-tree and in the first foure or fiue yeares of his grouth you shall lay it open at the foot a litte before the end of December vncouering it euen vnto the rootâ—â— which you shall shaue and trim with a knife bowed againe and in the end of Iaâ—â—arie you shall couer it againe with his owne earth mingled with good made mould keeping from thence forward his place well weeded the foot verie neat and cleane and the stocke verie well freed from intanglements of boughes so farre as the hand can doe it and throughout verie carefully cleansed from mosse snailes and caterpillers husbanding and ordering the earth at the foot of it euerie two yeares at the beginning of Winter for the fruit which the Peare-tree thus husbanded shall beare will be both more faire and better relished and keepe longer The Peare-tree that is planted in a leane drie chalkie or grauelly ground is but of a starued growth bearing a sharpe small and ordinarily a stonie fruit The kernels are sowne in the Nurcerie as those of the Appletree but the hoped fruit is long in comming and scarce attained throughout the whole life of a man for it is farre longer time in comming to perfection than the Apple-tree It groweth also of a branch well chosen and he that will haue it so grow must plant it in September and October in hot Countries but in cold Countries in Februarie and March and in temperate Countries it may be done in either of the two times as it shall best please him But the Peare-tree that is most sure and likeliest to bring contentment of it selfe is that which is grafted vpon the young plant in the Nurcerie and in such curious sort maintained and ordered as hath beene said as also if it be remoued some three yeares after affoording it a large and deepe roome in a good mouldring earth It may also be grafted in a Peach-tree Quince-tree and Almond-tree but yet better vpon it selfe than vpon anie of these for so it becommeth of a better nature It is knowne by proofe that the Peare-tree grafted vpon a Mulberrie-tree bringeth forth red Peares and if it happen that your Peare-tree bring forth a stonie Peare you must remoue the earth from the foot and powre in vpon the rootes euerie day for the space of fifteene daies the lees of good old wine Peares must not be gathered before the later end of Autumne when the great heat of the yeare is past because their moisture being weake and in small quantitie the Sunne suffereth not that it should come vnto anie good consistence before such time as the ayre begin to turne and change into coldnesse and therefore saith Theophraâ—â—us this is the onely fruit-tree that ripeneth his fruit best and soonest in the shadow Such gathering of Peares also must not be taken in hand but after that the Autumnall blasting and dew
make candles in such countries as where the oyle is much in request as in Mirebalois and thereabout it affordeth a gristle betwixt the two halfes of the kernell which being dried in the shadow after that the kernell is once perfected and afterward made into powder and drunke with a 〈◊〉 draught of red vvine doth by and by assuage the paine of the colicke as also the fruit comming of it when it is worth nothing but to make refuse and outcastings of as the nut growne old and all hoarie ceasâ—th not notwithstanding to doe good seruice for and if you burne it lightly or squeese it out easily with a hot yrâ—â— the oyle that then wil come forth of it is singular good to take away blewnesse of strokes whether about the eyes or elsewhere in the face or other part of the bodie the old 〈◊〉 serueth also for other vses as shall be said by and by The wood of the walnut tree is good and handsome to put in worke when you would make any faire and 〈◊〉 worke because it is listed and smooth of his owne nature The small buds of the walnut-tree called of he Latins Iuli appearing in March being dried and after powdred and drunke with white vvine the weight of a French crowne are exceedingly good in the suffocation of the matrix The oyle of the nut drunke to the quantitie of fiue or sixe ounces doth cure the colicke if you mixe a little quicke lime amongst the oyle of nuts it will make a singular liniment for the swellings and shortnesse of the sinews The old oyle of walnuts cureth the falling of the haire called Tinea If you pill off the greene pillings of the walnuts and cast them into water and after cast this vvater vpon the ground there will grow from thence great store of wormes good for fishers if you boyle the pillings in a câ—ldron after they be fallâ—â— from the Tree as opening of themselues and rubbe any kind of white wood whatsoeuer with this water it will turne to the colour of the Walnut-tree but more faire and beautifull Some steepe the barke of the roots of Walnut-trees in vinegar and after lay it vpon the wrests of such as haue the ague This draweth out all the heat of the ague but it swelleth the skin of the wrest Some make a soueraigne mithridate against the plague as we haue said in the chapter of rue with two old walnuts three figges twentie leaues of rue and one graine of salt The walnut closed vp in a hen or capon set to the fire to roast causeth the said hen or capon to be the sooner roasted The distilled vvater of vnripe Walnuts gathered about Midsommer is singular good to driue away tertian agues if one take about some foure or fiue ounces of it The Walnut either new or drie but yet the drie somewhat lesse is of hard digestion causeth head-ach and hurteth the cough and short breath and therefore it must be vsed sparingly steepe whole walnuts pillings and shells and all in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill such time as that their shell be sufficiently softned and moistened and that the kernell may be pilled easily from the thin filme that couereth it ouer as it falleth out in greene walnuts this done take the kernells so pilled and let them steepe in a pot vvell couered in verie good Aqua-vitae giue two daies after two or three of these kernells whole to a woman that cannot haue her termes for the space of eight or nine daies before her accustomed time of hauing her termes and that in the morning and after that she hath purged This medicine hath neuer a match in prouoking of the termes that are stayed and it is a thing well proued And as for the manner of keeping and preseruing of them we will speake in his fit place If the same day that you haue beene bitten of a dogge which you doubt to haue beene madde you put vpon the biting an old nut well brayed and after take it away and cast it to a hungrie cock or hen if the same eating it die not it is a signe that the dogge which did bite you was not madde but and if it die then it is a signe that he was madde and therefore the sore must be looked vnto as is meet within three daies CHAP. XXXIIII Of the Oliue-tree NOw we come to speak of the Oliue-tree which is for the most part small thicke of leaues and round for there are some sorts also that haue great branches dispersed here and there out of order both the one and the other sort are contented with a shallow ground for in many places they grow vpon the thin green swarth or turfe that couereth the rocks vpon the ground hanging vpon the sides of some great steeres thus you may see how the oliue-tree disposeth of it selfe euerie where how vnfitting and vnlikely soeuer that the ground be prouided that it haue a warme ayre and Easterly or Southerly wind at command He that would carefully appoint it out such a plot as the vine would require might erre in many places for the oliue-tree is not so much to be regarded in respect of his soyle and seat at the vine for it contenteth it selfe with a great deale lesse than the vine vvill If you giue it ground that is good and fat earth and the Sunne and Winds which it delighteth in in other places doubt not but it will doe as the Spaniard who pleaseth himselfe with as good as nothing when he knoweth not how to amend himselfe or do better and performeth his seruice therewithall but if he come where he may but haue the smell of it he is stuffed as full as the greatest 〈◊〉 in all Lymosin so the Oliue-tree being once seised in his tallance of a good piece of ground contenteth it selfe and beareth fruit handsomely As concerning the planting of it vpon the North in hot Countries and there searing it vpon the toppes of mountaines or lesser hills or vpon the South in cold Countries these are but troubles and paines without anie great foundation for as concerning cold Countries there is no talke to be had of growing of Oliue-trees in them and as concerning hot Coâ—â—tries there is neither taking nor leauing of quarters or coasts in respect of this tree The Oliue-tree doth encrease it selfe by shoots which it putteth forth at the sootâ— for being pulled vp vnhurt and planted elsewhere they grow vp verie speedily And to prepare them a faire place to grow in you must digge them pits where you mind to set them a yeare before hand of foure foot depth and if you cannot haue holes made readie for them so long before but must be constrained to set them downe in new digged ones then you must season and purifie the said holes by burning of the leaues and some small branches of the Oliue-tree therein or else some straw at the least for the fire
your hand then reach vp and take them vpon the siences with your other hand For Snailes and Ants lay ashes or saw-dust of wood or the meale of lupines at the foot of the trees and when the raine hath fallen vpon it stir it vp againe and put also new vpon it otherwise set certaine small vessells full of water at the foot of your trees or else powre lees of wine round about them When a tree letteth fall his fruit you must compasse his stocke about with Iuorie as it were with a crowne or else with a plate of lead or which is best you must vncouer the roots of the tree and pieâ—ce them and put into the hole the wedge made of the wood of a ceruise tree To hinder the rust from hurâ—ing of your trees you must smoke them with straw in the Spring time and that round about When a tree looseth his flower or that the leaues doe fall from it you must vncouer the roots and lay beane straw wet in water round about them The best is to looke to Caterpillers in the time of Winter before that the trees be leaued and if you find any remnant or remainder of them behind or their pallaces or round gathered bunches take them away with your Caterpiller crookes made for the purpose before they be hatched Cut not the wood when you cannot come by them with your hand or as little as can be and cleanse you trees well and throughly in euerie place that so there remaine not any egges then looke vnderneath at the feet of your trees and see that there be no young ones which can spin and haue betaken themselues thither and setled themselues betwixt the siences and the rootes If there remaine any clewes or round bottomes of them in the spring or that some blasting or small raine hath bred some young ones then marke at the height of the day their repaâ—â—e in which place you shall see them together vpon heapes whether it be vpon the armes of the tree or vpon the branches from which you must either with old clothes or else with some large and great leaues held in your hand beat thâ—m and kill them euerie one weighing hard vpon them with both your hands and oftentimes haue recourse thither and spie if you haue not let some of them â—all vnto thâ— ground but beware there spâ—rt nothing from them in your face and to the end they may not breed anie more you shall tie and make fast the branches of the Sallow about the foot These branches will serue likewise to make this vermine fall downe starke dead There breedeth likewise a little worme which the inhabitants of Bouâ—deaux call Quayre betwixt the wood and the barke which eateth trees in such sort as that it cauâ—eth them die These you must kill with an yron wyre probing for them on euerie side of the tree When a tree beareth too much it must after that it hath beene vncouered at the roots haue diuers of them so they be not of the principall clouen and the water that is within them let out if there be anie at all in them and this will be as good for them or better than letting of bloud is for a man for by this medicine the life of the tree is renewed The sicknesse of the barke of the tree commeth of the moisture of the place where the branch is planted and likewise on the contrarie trees become â—ame when they be planted in too drie a place To keepe tame young trees in the kernell Nurserie and to cause thâ—m to thriue the better they 〈◊〉 be couered a mans height with stubble or with straw but the couering must be borne up with poles layd long and crosse-wise To hasten and helpe forward a tree in his bringing forth of fruit which is long before it beare anie thing you must make a hole with a wimble in the thickest branch of his root without boring of it through and in the hole which you haue made put a staffe and stop it vp with wax afterward couer the foot ouer againe and the tree will beare the yeare following As concerning trees that haue beene lately planted and begin to wither away if you cause them to be digged and watered you shall much helpe them and withall they must be kept from heat in prouiding something which may make them shadow and against the cold they must be couered with straw Swines dung will kill wormes as also mens vrine put in the hole where the wormes are and quicke-lime in like sort but and if the barke be hurt then let it be clouen in manie places and likewise in the foot of the tree a little in such sort as that the humor may runne out The moisture oft times will cause wormes to breed in fruits that haue kernels and therefore at such time you must pierce the tree with a wimble and that throughout if you doe well and as neere the root as is possible to the end that the humors breeding the wormes may pasâ—e away It Apples or any other such fruit fall from the tree cleaue the root and put in the cleft a great stone or a wedge of vvood It fruits grow vpward wash the foot of the Tree with Purcelaine water or vinegar or powre about it less of vvine or take two parts of Oyle-oliue and one part of blacke pitch mingle them together afterward annoint thâ—m or put ashes to the foot of the tree or â—lse some vessell full of water about it or some hoope cut and annoynted with Petroleum or a little cord drest ouer with swines bloud wherewith quick-siluer hath beene mixt To kill Ants from about a tree you must vncouer the earth about the tree and put in place some chimney soot and that a reasonable quantitie Take also of the saw-dust of the Oake and lay good store of it at the foot of the Tree and the raine when it falleth will either cause them to depart or else they will die as for other accidents which may annoy and hurt trees as haile fogges or mists flies frogges and such other inconueniences see in the second Booke and the sixtieth Chapter CHAP. XLVIII To keepe and preserue the fruit of Trees to be taken and eaten in their due time and season and out of it ALl such skill as man is to haue resteth not alone in the well ordering of the Fruit-tree and carefull maintaining of it but the must know withall the keeping and preseruing of the fruit either to sell it when the time is good and fit or else for vse of his houshold and familie especially in places where the most delicate and daintie fruits doe grow as in the countrie of Touraine which for this and such other considerations is called the garden of France wherefore we will intreat briefely of the manner of keeping of fruits and we wil begin with the Almond Almonps are
that so the ashes and small coales of fire may fall through to the bottome below the more easily and not stay behind to choake vp the fire that should heat the Still The vnderfloore may haue one or manie mouthes for the more conuenient taking away of the ashes which shall be gathered there on a heape but as for that aboue it must haue but one onely of a reasonable bignesse to put the coales or wood in at but in the roofe of it it must haue two or three small holes to giue aire and breath vnto the fire at such time as you mind to amend it Euerie one of the mouthes shall haue his stopple For want of a furnace or matter for to make one you may fit and set your Vesâ—ell Cauldron or Bowle vpon a brandâ—ith and kindle your fire vnderneath CHAP. LXIII How the matter must be prepared before the waters be distilled IT is not ynough that the furnace and instruments for distillation be made readie in such sort as wee haue said for the matter to be distilled must in like manner be prepared before that it be put into the Still This preparation is of three sorts that is to say Infusion Putriâ—action and Fermentation Infusion is nothing else but a macâ—rating or sâ—eeping of the thing intended to be distilled iâ— some liquor not onely that it may be the more apt and easie to be distilled but also to cause and procure greater store of iuice to be in it 〈◊〉 else to helpe them to keepe their smell or else to bestow vpon them some new qualitie or to encrease their force and vertues or else for some other ends as we will handle them in particular and onely one It is true that this preparation is not necessarie for euerie matter for some there are that need not anie infusion or steeping but rather to be dried before they be distilled by reason of their too great and excessiue moisture othersome content themselues with being watered or sprinkled ouer lightly with some liquor as is done in the distilling of drie Roses and Caâ—â—â—â—â—ll which are wont to be sprinkled onely with common water Some spread them all a Summers night in faire weather vpon a Linnen cloth to take the dew and after they be moist to distill them Such as are steeped and infused lye in the Sunne or are held ouer the fire the space of some halfe houre or manie houres a whole night a whole day two daies three daies one or moe â—oneths according to the nature of the medicine the diuers intention and purpose of the Physician and the present necessitie Sometimes we presse and wring out things which we infused before the distillation and making our distillation afterward of the iuice onely that we pressed forâ—h sometimes againe we distill the whole infusion that is to say both the infused maâ—ter and the liquor wherein it was infused Wherefore in this preparation which is made by infusion you must diligently obserue two things the time of the infusion and the liquor in which the infusion is made The time of the infusion must be measured according to the diuersitie of the matter for those things which are hard or solide 〈…〉 or entire and whole deserue a longer time of infusion than those which arâ— tender new or bruised whereupon it commeth to passe that rootes and seedes râ—quire double time to infuse the leaues and flowers a single and lesser time and so consequently of such other matter or things The liquors wherein infusions are to be prepared must not onely answere the qualities of such matter as is to be distilled in such sort as that hot matter and things be infused in hot liquors and the cold in cold but likewise the scope and driâ—t intended in the thing distilled which is the onely cause of the vsing of varietie of liquors in the making of infusions and these are for the most part Raine water Fountaine or rose-Rose-water and they either raw or distilled crude or distilled iuices distilled waters Aqua vitae raw or distilled Vineger Wine raw or distilled Vrine Whey raw or distilled mans bloud Swines bloud and Goats bloud distilled or vndistilled For this respect things that haue small store of iuice as Sage Betonie Balme and Wormewood or which are verie fragrant as all sorts of Spices all sorts of odoriferous Hearbes all aromaticall Rindes or Woods as Cinnamome would be infused in Wine to the begetting of some reasonable store of iuice in them which haue but a little and to keepe the aromaticall fragrantnesse in those which smell sweet which might otherwise euaporate and spend through the heat of the fire their best and most precious parts they being of so thinne and subtle a substance It is true that the best and surest course is not to infuse Spices or aromaticall things neither in Wine nor in Aqua vitae but rather in common water because in distilling of them as proofe will make triall the vapours will rise too soone and leaue behind them the vertues of the aromaticall things whereas water will not goe vp before it haue them with it Such matter and things as are hard and mettallous as Pearles Corall shells of egges Crystall Emeralds 〈◊〉 and other such are infused commonly in raw or distilled vineger or else in vrine distilled or vndistilled but such waters are not to be taken inwardly but onely to be applyed outwardly In like manner when it is intended that a water shall haue an opening qualitie and pierce deepe or swiftly the matter thereof may be infused in raw and crude or in distilled vineger as for example the waters distilled against the stone or grauell or to take away the great obstructions of the liuer spleene and matrix When you desire that the water should retaine and keepe in good sort the vertues of the matter whereof it is distilled it may for the better infusing of it be distilled in his owne iuice or in some iuice obtaining the like vertue Things are likewise sometimes infused in bloud either of Men Swine or Goats for the encrease and strengthening of their vertues as the water vsed to be distilled for to breake the sâ—one whether it be in the reines or in the bladder may first haue receiued an infusion made in the bloud of Goats As much in like sort is to be thought of the Whey of Goats milke wherein things are wont to be infused to draw waters off which are to serue in the cleansing of vlcers of the reines or bladder Generally regard must be had that all infusions be made in such liquor as will strengthen and encrease the vertue and force of the things intended to be distilled as also that such matter before it be set to infuse be shred stamped small or bruiâ—ed putting into it sometime the twelfth part of salt as vnto those that are too moist as flesh bloud of men or other beasts as well to keepe them from corrupting as also to
helpe forward the separation of the humour that must be distilled Sometimes the things which are to be distilled are suffered to putriâ—ie and then afterward they are distilled yea and sometimes the verie putrifaction it selfe is the way and whole worke for the distilling of such things as wee will declare hereafter Fermentation is accomplished and performed vpon the matter of infusion alone or the whole infusion together in the heat of the Sunne in the Dogge-daies or else in some Furnace or Horse-dung it requireth manie daies continuance as foure or more and by how much this fermenting and preparing of the thing is the more substantially performed by so much the greater quantitie of water will be distilled and drawne ouâ— CHAP. LXIIII. Generall precepts about the distilling of Waters AFter that the matter is in this manner and fashion prepared as we haue said there remaineth nothing more to be done but the putting of it into the Stillitorie and herein you must carrie your selfe very wisely and discreetly in obseruing certaine generall precepts for the ordering and directing of the whole worke vnto a good and perfect end First prouide that your furnaces be set in such a place as where they may not endanger the setting of your whole house on fire as that they also may not be subiect to haue any thing to fall vpon them If you distill Quicksiluer or any other such thing which hath a venimous malignitie come not neere vnto your Stills all the time of the distilling of such matter for the smoake or fume which at that time they breath out doth draw vpon a man the Palsie exulceration of the Lungs Lethargie or oftentimes sudden death as you may see by experience in such as are Plummers and employed in melting of Mettals If you distill in Glasse vessels you must make choice of such as are well baked and seasoned hauing no bubbles or knots but equall on euerie side and smooth thicke and proued before hand The coales must be throughly kindled and halfe burned before you put any thing into the Still that so the fume or yet any other noysome qualitie of the coales may not remaine to breath vpon it or at the least put some few ashes or small quantitie of sand betwixt the Still and the furnace that so the coales may not infect the water with the smoake Likewise the fire is not to be made with wood halfe rotten or that stinketh or with charcoale burned and made in a pit or of coale drawne and digged out of the earth whether they be of stone or earth for feare the stilling vessels and water should be infected and marred with the filthie and stinking vapour thereof The fire must not be hastie or headlong at the beginning as well for the safetie of the vessels which might thereby be broken taking too sudden a heat as also to the end that the matter distilled may become acquainted with the fire by little and little and that so farre as vntill the fire be come to the third degree if need doe so require You must not put into your Stills or Limbecke too great a quantitie of matter for so it might runne ouer and be cast forth againe and furthermore that vnderneath would be parched and dried away and that aboue would remaine as it was put in but it is rather the safer course to shift them oft and so by this meanes you shall haue greater store and plentie of water The water of Maries bath may not be hoter than the finger may endure to slay in it howbeit oftentimes there come things to be distilled in the double vessell for the distilling whereof if it should come to passe that the heat of Maries bath should not be vehement ynough then mixe therewith some small sand to encrease the heat of the water If the glasse still happen to cracke being set vpon the fire you shall let the spirits from euaporating if you dip diuers linnen cloathes in the whites of egges vvell beaten and applie them vpon the cracke of the glasse hot one after another in such sort that so soone as one shall be dried like a crust another be readie by and by to put vpon it and so to continue If you distill your waters in the heat of sand as many doe and that verie often or of ashes or the filings or scales of yron made in powder the bodie of the still must be armed whether it be of glasse or brasse or any other matter with verie fine ashes that haue beene sifted or with sand or with the filings of yron finely powdred in such sort as that the ashes may be higher about the glasse than the matter is within by a halâ—e foot good The ashes shall be placed in the vpper part of the furnace or in a place of hold made vpon the furnace and heated with a coale fire which shall be below in the bottome of the glasse The waters so distilled indure much longer than those which are distilled in Maries bath but in all other points they resemble and are like one vnto another If you haue not the leasure to make your distillation in a still and that yet you would gladly distill some certaine juice or liquor then cause your juice to boyle in some vessell and ouer this vessell set a glasse in this glasse the vapour will turne into water by this meanes vinegar is turned easily into a vvater vvhich is verie profitable for the spots and stayne of the eye especially if before the distilling of it you cause some few slips of Rhue to be boyled in white vinegar Hot things that they may proue effectuall would be distilled three or foure times putting adding vnto euerie time new matter or else to rectifie them by themselues but as for cold things such as the rose is once distilling is sufficient for by this means it holdeth still his cooling qualitie in better sort seeing the force of the fire begetteth heat and sharpenesse in things When you would distill one vvater three or foure times you must at euerie distillation diminish the heat of your fire halfe a degree and afterward a whole degree and so consequently vntill in the end you come backe vnto the first degree spoken of before and called such a heat as is but vvarme the reason is because that the matter becomming more and more subtile at euerie distillation craueth not so great a heat at the end as it did at the beginning when it is in his grosâ—est state and condition But it is contrarily practised in the extracting of quintessences out of any thing 〈◊〉 then the heat is to be increased and augmented more and more In all manner of distillations of vvaters you must carefully see to the seperating of the flegme that is to say the grosâ—est thickest and most waterie part of the humour distilled and for the doing hereof you must carefully consider of the matter
it which is called the bladder as we haue declared before namely in that it is fashioned like vnto a streight gourd euen so much as may fill it within one third part of the top that so the vapours may haue space to rise then set the head vpon it hauing a long 〈◊〉 and this must be well closed with the mortar of wisdome being the same which we haue before described to the end that no vapour may passe out there by and thus cause it to distill with the heat of hot but not boyling water or else at a reasonable heate in ashes or in small sand increasing the fire continually by little and little and yet taking heed that the wine doe not boyle and to the end that you may haue excellent good Aqua-vitae you may distill it ouer foure or fiue times for by how much the oâ—ter it is distilled by â—o much the better will it be as we haue said alreadie For the first distillation it shall be ynough to draw the tenth part that is to say of ten pintes of vvine one pint of Aqua-vitae more or lesse for the second halfe of that which you shall haue put in that is to say halfe a pinte for the third likewise the halfe or a little lesse vvhich should be a quarter of a pinte in such sort as that the ofter it is distilled â—ou must haue lesse in quantitie but more in value and worth and therefore in the beginning you must either take a great quantitie of Wine or else haue many vessels It is true that if the distillation be well made the fourth will yeeld the like quantitie of water to that it receiued and there will be no losse in it and herewith likewise it is to be wished that euerie man would be contented without going ouer it any more because so many repetitions and redistillations is a matter of great labour and cost In the meanetime this must be remembred namely to lessen the fire at euerie distillation halfe a degree and afterward a whole degree that so in fine you may come to the first degree called blâ—â—d vvarme And truely by mine aduise the first distillation should be in the fire of ashes and the other in Maries-bath This repeating and going ouer with it by distillation after distillation shall be to take from it his flegme that is to say his grossest and most waterie humour which resteth in the bottome and is accustomed to come forth last after that it is well digested by being oft distilled Finally it may be gathered that the Aqua-vitae is sufficiently distilled by these signes If there come backe the like quantitie of water if being set on fire it consume and vvaste all away not leauing any signe of moisture behind it in the bottome of the vessell if a linnen cloth that hath beene dipt in the Aqua-vitae being set on fire doe not burne any jote at all if a drop of oyle being put into it go to the bottome if a drop of Aqua-vitae being powred in the ball of your hand doe wast away and vanish verie speedily if yellow amber being set on fire doe burne in the Aqua-vitae and likewise if caâ—â—phire being put into Aqua-vitae be dissolued of it You must also note that Aqua-vitae is sometimes distilled of lees of verie good Wine being neither sower nor spent nor otherwise tainted and such Aqua-vitae sometime is not inferiour but superiour in goodnesse vnto that which was distilled of the Wine it selfe Againe if it be often distilled ouer it becommeth more hot and drie then that which is made of the verie Wine but yet indeed that which is made of Wine is more pleasant vnto the taste and of a more delightsome smell Aqua-vitae is also sometimes distilled of beere but that is not so good as the other of Wine The vessells for the distilling of Aqua-vitae are diuers that is to say a good still sitting in ashes or sand or a resort in Maries-bath or the bladder Aqua-vitae may also be distilled in a caldron or pot of Copper or Brasse made in manner of a Beefe-pot couered with a couer and hauing a straight nose comming out of it and rising vp on high and turned downeward againe with a direct angle and so passing through a bucket full of cold water After that the Aqua-vitae is distilled you must set it out into the Sunne a certaine time to make it yet more and more subtle After this 〈◊〉 you may distill all iuices and liquors as mans bloud vrine vineger the deaw milke whites and yolkes of egges mans dung or beasts dung The vertues of Aqua-vitae are infinite It keepeth off the fits of the Apoplexie and Falling sicknesse in such sort as that they which are subiect vnto that disease in the time of Winter must euery morning take a spoonefull of Aqua-vitae sugred and eat a little bit of white bread it driueth away venime keepeth Wines from spending themselues from putrifying and from growing thicke and troubled it cureth speedily all the cold diseases of the sinewes muscles and starued members if they be fomented therewithall it killeth wormes and assuageth the paine of the teeth c. See more in our Booke of secret remedies For the distilling of Vineger you must vnderstand that there is some difference betwixt the distilling of Aqua vitae and Vineger for seeing that Wine is of a vaporous and fierie substance the chiefest and principallest parts in it doe runne at the first distillation that is to say with the water that first commeth forth insomuch as that that which remaineth and stayeth behind in the vessell tasteth no better than common water hauing in it no force or vertue On the contrarie the first that distilleth of Vineger tasteth nothing at all saue onely that it sheweth it selfe somewhat more in his earthie parts by the alteration of his qualitie for Vineger is no other thing but a corrupted Wine made eager by putrifaction for indeed his true naâ—â—rall and proper qualitie of eagernesse and sowrenesse as also the force and strength thereof stayeth behind with that in the vessell till after the first water be past And by this it appeareth that that which remaineth in the Wine after the first distillation of it should be called flegme as that should also which commeth out first in the distillation of Vinegar be called flegme of Vineger Wherefore to haue good distilled Vineger after you haue put it in like quantitie as we haue said of Wine for to make Aqua-vitae into the Stillitorie you must let the flegme that is to say the watrie humour distill and set it aside in some vessell by it selfe afterward when the Vineger shall be consumed vnto the third or fourth part and that it shall rellish in tasting of the distilling drops that the eager parts of the Vineger begin to come it will be good to set that aside to serue for infusions and then afterward to encrease the heat of your fire
a little and so continue your distillation vntill such time as the water begin to looke red and to haue the consistence of Honey or of Pitch and then you may be bold to set it aside for your speciall vse not in medicine but otherwise in all things concerning mettals and corrosiues for this water making the third alteration in distillation tasteth of adâ—stion and is called the sanguine part of Vineger Vineger would be distilled in the same vessell that rose-Rose-water is distilled in especially in ashes or hot sand rather than in Maries bath In like manner and after the same sort you shall distill Vineger of Roses of Elders of Cloues and other things Distilled Vineger is good to dissolue hard and mettallous things as Pearles Corall Egge-shells Crystall and Emeralds notwithstanding Gold and Siluer cannot be dissolued by it This is the cause that when Alchymists would distill any mettall or stones to draw out their oyle they vse first to dissolue their matter in Vineger or Vrine distilled Salted water or sea water is made sweet by this meanes Fill a pot of salt water let it boyle by the fire-side and afterward distill with a stillitorie as you doe rosâ—-water and the salt will stay in the bottome And this is also the way to trie what mettalls are mixt with minerall vvaters The manner of distilling of honie is such When the honie is once well purified put it in small quantitie into a stillitorie for in a great quantitie it vvould swell ouer after that it should once feele the heat distill it in Maries-bath with a gentle and warme heat the water that commeth first forth is the flegme which must be kept by it selfe for to colour and make long the beard and haire Afterward increasing the heat a little there will come forth a water of a yellow and as it were a golden colour which you may keepe in another vessell seeing it is good to cleanse vvounds both shallow and deepe ones your distillation continuing there will come another vvater high coloured and more red than the former and then if you doe vvell you shall change the heat of the vvater into the heat of the ashes or sand that is to say that you should remoue your Still and set in ashes or sand euen almost vp to the verie mouth and that there be not aboue three inches in bredth betwixt the fire and your Still continuing to increase your fire and to make it bigger than it was before and by this meanes there will come forth a water more clamâ—ie than the former and may be called the oyle of honie After this manner you may distill turpentine and such other thicke and clammie liquors Indeed to distill such thicke liquors vvere better to be done by a reâ—ort rather than in Maries-bath as we will manifest when we come to speake of the distillation of oyles For to distill the bloud of a male Goat Take the bloud of a young male goat being vvell fed but not that bloud vvhich shall come forth first nor that which shall be last but that which shall come forth in the middest let it stand and settle for some time and then cast out the vvater that shall swim aboue after vvith a tenth or twelfth part of salt stir it vvell a long time and worke them together very throughly this done put it vp into a vessell well stopt and luted and bury it in a dunghill of horse-dung for the space of fortie daies afterward distill it oftentimes ouer powring it still againe and againe vpon the drosâ—e or bottome of the distillation staying behind After you haue thus distilled it foure or fiue times you shall haue a maruailous water and yet it will be better if it be set in horse-dung fortie daies moe after that it is distilled This water is singular for the breaking of the stone The bloud of a young man is distilled in the same sort but the man must be of a good complexion and sound bodie of the age of twentie yeares or thereabouts of a well fed and fleshie bodie and it serueth in steed of restoratiues vnto those vvhich are in a consumption it is good likewise against rheumes and distillations falling vpon the joynts if the diseased places be fomented therewithall Howbeit I do not greatly approue the distilling of mans bloud for any such end seeing it is an vnworthie and heynous thing and not beseeming Christians and a thing likewise which in the middest of so many other helpes may easily be spared See more amongst our secret medicines The bloud of a Drake is in like maner distilled against poyson and after the same sort may the bloud of a Calfe Badger or Hare be distilled You may distill milke also alter the same manner that Aqua-vitae is distilled It is reported that in Tartarie the water of distilled milke maketh men drunke such milk therefore must be good and fat such as is the milke of a heyfer Some physitians hold that distilled milke is good against the jaundise as also against a quartaine ague if it be distilled with the like quantitie of Wine The milke of the she goats is oft distilled to serue for the cleansing of the vlcers of thereines and bladder whereunto the milke it selfe would serue a great deale better if they be fed for the most part with burnet Mans dung is distilled in a glasse stillitorie in such manner as Aqua-vitae is distilled the vvater that it distilleth especially if it be of the dung of a red or freckeled man is soueraigne good to heale and cicatrize deepe hollow old and rebellious vlcers and to take away the spots of the eyes Taken also in manner of a drinke it deliuereth from the Falling-sicknesse and in like sort if the head be rubbed therewithall it deliuereth also from the stone of the reines and bladder and from the dropsie and doth them verie much good that are bitten of a mad dogge or of other venimous beasts Notwithstanding whereas such water simplie and without any manner of mixture distilled doth retaine the smell of the said excrement it will be good to the end to giue it some good taste to clap to the end of the nose of the Still some nodule or little knot of linnen cloth contayning muske in it or else to annoint the head vvithin vvith the said muske or some other such like thing that is of a good sauour And thus may the dung of kine or pigeons be distilled the distilled water whereof is good to breake the stone CHAP. LXVII Of the manner of distilling of liuing creatures or their parts TO distill the bodie of any beast you must first strangle it that so it may not shed any bloud and after take away all his fat if he haue any and the entrailes then chop the flesh small and cast vpon it the tenth oâ— twelfth part of salt and so distill it in
is gone before the riotousnesse and pleasure of men hath beene the cause that Vineger came euer in request not onely for sauces but also for many other vses It shall not therefore be thought vnreasonable to vse a word or two about making of Vineger The most common way to make Vineger is on this sort They vse to take good wine and therewithall to â—ill the vessell to the halfe leauing it vnstopt and set in a hot place as in some corne loft or in some gutter betwixt the tiles If you desire to make Vinegar in hast you must cast into your wine salt pepper and soure leuen mingled together and yet to make it the more hastly you must heat red hot some stone tile or gad of steele and put it all hot into the wine or else the mouth of the vessell must stand alwaies open or else the vessell must be set in the Sunne three or foure daies and therewithall a little salt put in the vessell or else fill a new earâ—hen pot that is not halfe baked with wine and stop it well afterward put it in a kettle full of boiled water vpon the fire and letting it there remaine a long time in the boiling water it will grow soure or else put into the wine a beete root stamped or a radish root or medlars ceruises or hornes mulberries vnripe sloes or a shiue of barley bread new baked or else you must take of the blossomes of the ceruise tree in there season and drying them in the Sunne after the manner of rose-leaues either in a glasse vessell or in one of blacke earth fill vp the same vessell with pure Vinegar or Wine and so set it forth againe into the Sun or in the chimny end to the heate of the fire and in a short time it will become strong and very sharpe Vineger but if you would restore it againe to his former state of wine then you must cast of colewort roots into it CHAP. XX. Of some obseruations and instructions concerning Vineger TO make strong vineger take the fruit of the cornell tree when it beginneth to grow red and of bramble berries such as grow in the fields when they are halfe ripe drie them make them into powder and with a little strong Vineger you shall make little prettie balles which you shall drie in the Sunne afterward you must take wine and heate it and when it is hot put into it this composition and it will bee turned very speedily into very strong Vineger To make Vineger with corrupted wine take a rotten and corrupt wine and boile it taking away all the scum that riseth in the boiling thereof thus let it continue vpon the fire till it be boyled away one third part then put it into a vessell wherein hath bin Vineger putting thereto some cheruile couer the vessell in such sort that there get no aire into it and in a short time it will proue good and strong Vineger To make drie Vineger to carrie whither a man listeth take of wild cherries when they begin to be ripe and yet the fruit of the cornell tree is better of mulberies when they be red and vnripe grapes thâ—t are very thicke and of wild a cornes before they bee ripe stampt all together then take of the best Vineger you can finde and mingle them all together make vp the masse into small loaues setting them to drie in the Sunne and when you would make Vineger temper some of these small loaues in wine and you shall haue very good Vineger Otherwise take the vnripe iuice of corne that is very greene and stampe the same putting Vineger thereto and thereof make a past wherof you shall make little loaues to be dried in the Sunne and when you would haue Vineger temper of these loaues in so much wine as you shall see sufficient and you shall haue very good Vineger To make rose-vineger take good white Vineger and put therein red roses either new or dried keeping them many daies in the vessell and afterward taking them out put them in another glasse and so keepe them in a coole place after the same manner you may make Vineger of elder-tree flowers To make Vineger without wine put into a vessell soft and daintie peaches and vpon them pearched barley letting them putrifie all a whole day then straine them and vse the liquor or else take old figs and burnt barley together with the inner parts of orenges put all these into a vessell and stir them vp very well and oft and whenas they are become putrified and resolued straine them out and vse the liquor To make sweet Vineger take fiue pints of strong Vineger and with as much new wine reserued vpon the treading out of the grapes adde some quantitie of pitch and and put altogether in a vessell which you must stop very carefully and after that all these haue continued together for the space of some thirtie daies you may vse thereof for Vineger otherwise take a vessell of new wine and mingle it with two vessels of Vineger and boile them together till the third part be consumed Some doe adde three vessels of spring water vnto two of new wine and one of Vineger boiling them all together vntill the third part be consumed To make mightie strong Vineger drie the grosse of grapes two whole daies then put it in new wine put thereto some of the vnripe iuice of corne and you shall make a strong Vineger whereof you may haue the vse within seuen daies after or otherwise put pellitorie of Spaine into Vineger and it will make it strong Furthermore if you boile the fourth or fifth part of Vineger vpon the fire and put it vnto that which is before prescribed putting it after all this in the Sunne some eight daies you shall haue a pleasant and strong vineger The rootes of couch-grasse when they are old boiled grapes the leaues of the wild peare tree stamped the roots of brambles and whay the quicke coales of burned acornes and boiled ciche pease and hot tiles euen euery one of these by themselues being cast into Vineger doe make the same strong Pepper vineger is made by casting into vineger or hanging therein whole pepper made vp in a linnen cloth for the space of eight daies You shâ—ll know if there be any water in the vineger if you put into it any Salnitrum for then if it swell vp as though it would boile you may boldly say that there is water in it To make vineger good to helpe digestion and for your health take eight drams of the sea onion and two pints of vineger put them together into a vessell and vvith them as much of pepper mints and iuniper berries then vse it afterward To make vineger of sea onions you must put ten such onions salted into fiftie quartes of sweet new vvine and foure pints and a halfe of strong vineger and if it be not sharp
for their leane dogs which hunt the hare and you must mingle sometimes amongst these pottage a little brimstone to heat them withall As for your raw flesh meate which amongst huntsmen it called ket if you do not eate it all at a meale you shall preserue it in some cleare running streame by suffering it to lie hid in the water till your next occasion to vse it Oates ground hulls and all and so scalded in hot water is a very good mange or meate for hounds and so is also your mill-dust scalded in the same manner But if your hounds happen to fall weake or sicke or bee ouer hunted then you shall take the bagges and intrailes of sheepe hauing turned the filth and excraments forth and washt the bagges well and also the sheepes pluckes and boyle them in faire water with a good quantiof â—atemeale till the pottage bee thicke and so giue it reasonably warme to the hounds this is a soueraigne good meate and it is very comfortable for weake and sicke dogs of what kind soeuer they bee and bring them into lust and strength sodenly Their kennell must be made in some place standing vpon the East through the midst whereof dotâ—â—un some little riuer or spring The place wherein the dogs shall lie shall be builded with very white wals and floores of boords close ioined for â—eare that spiders fleas wal-lice and such like should breed there He that shall be appointed to keepe them must be gentle mild and courteous louing dogs of his naturall instinct and such a one as will make them cleane and dresse them carefully with wisps of straw and little brushes being readie to giue them some prettie dainties to â—ate and to draw them alongst the greene corne and meadowes as wel to giue them appetite to their meat as also to learne them to run and to cause them to passe through the the flockes of sheepe and other tame cattell that so they may bee accustomed vnto them and be made to know them Iâ— the dogs be sicke you must vse the remedies following for lice â—leas and other vermine wherewith dogs are loden oftentimes especially in the times of great heat you must bath them or at the least wash them and rub them with a wispe with a decoction made of large quantitie with ten good handfulls of wild cresses wild marierome sage rosemarie rue patience and fix handfulls of â—alt all being well boiled together to the consumption of the herbs To driue out wormes you must soke perrosin made into pouder aloes poâ—dred vnquencht lime and liue brimstone made likewise into pouder euen all these in one oxegall and with this liquor rub the place infected with wormes If dogs be bitten of serpents you must cause them to take downe the iuice of the leaues of ash tree incontinently or else a glasse full of the decoction of rue white mullein mints and broome whereunto must be added the weight of a French crown of treacle applying treacle in like manner vnto the bitten place When the dogs are bitten of mad dogs they must forthwith be cast into a vessell of sea water nine times one after another or for lacke of sea water into common water wherein hath bin dissolued foure bushels of salt this will preserue them from going mad And if it happen that you haue not prouided this remedie timely inough but that now the dog is fallen mad to the end that you may keepe the other from the same mischiefe you shall be carefull that the mad dog run not abroad and therefore you shall kill him by and by for it is but all in vaine and altogether impossible to goe about to cure such madnesse the signes of such madnesse are the drawing vp of of his taile at the vpper end hanging the rest straight downe a very blacke mouth without any froth a heauie looke and that aside in ouâ—â—thwart and crosse manner Against the scabs tetters itch and gauls of dogs you must take three pounds of the oile of nuts one pound and a halfe of the oile of oile of lees two pounds of old swines grease three pounds of common honie a pound and a halfe of vineger and make them all boile together to the consumption of the halfe of the vineger putting thereto afterward of perrosin and common pitch of each two pounds and a halfe of new waxe halfe a pound melt altogether casting in thereto afterward the pouders that follow a pound and a halfe of brimstone two pounds of reboiled coperas and twelue ounces of verdegrease making them all vp together in an ointment but they must be washed with water and salt before they be annointed with this ointment For the wormes in dogs you must make a drinke of the decoction wherein haue beene boiled wormewood southrenwood and the shauings of harts-horne or else cause them to swallow downe pils made of harts-horne brimstone aloes and the iuice of wormewood When the dogs are tired rub their feet with this restrictiue made of the yelkes of egs the iuice of pomegranets and soot finely poudred all of it being wel mingled together and left to settle one whole day Dogs are often hurt of wild bores in many parts of their bodies and then according to the places where they are hurt they must bee ordered and looked to with dressing of their wounds If the wound be in his bellie and that the guts comeforth vnhurt you must first put them in againe and then afterward put into the bellie in the place where the hole is a slice of lard and so sow vp the skin aboue but the thred must be knit of a knot and made fast at euerie stitch of the needle and withall cutoff the thred at euery stitch so fastened as much is to bee performed in the wounds that shall be made in other places alwaies obseruing to put some lard into them For wounds which dogs shall receiue the iuice of the leaues of red coleworts is a very souerainge balme being applied presently vnto the wound healing them vp very speedily or else take the iuice of Nicotiana whereof we haue spoken in the second booke Against the canker breeding in the eares of dogs taking a dramme of Sope of oile of Tartar Salarmoniacke Brimstone and Verdegrease incorporated all together with white vineger and strong water and rub the cankered eares therewith nine mornings If the dogs after they haue run in frost after raine and such other bad weather or swum the riuers lakes after the game come to take cold presently as soone as they come to their kennell they must be chafed and dried at a great fire and after that their bellies rubbed and wiped with wispes thereby to wipe away the dirt sticking vnto them Oftentimes in coursing ouer the fields rocks dogs come to haue the skin striken off of their feet for the remedying whereof it will bee good first to wash their feet with
water and salt and after to make a cataplasme of the yelkes of egs beaten with strong vineger and the iuice of the herbe called Pilosella Iâ— in coursing they shall haue taken any thrushes vpon any part of their bodies with the the tip of the harts horne or with the bores tuske you must applie to the place a plaister of the root of great comfrey an emplaister of melisote and oile of roses as much of the one as of the other but before you applie the plaister you must cut the haire away from the place where the griefe is To cause dogs to pisse make them drinke the decoction of mallowes hollihocks the roots of â—ennell and brambles made with white wine If dogs haue gotten any disease in their eares drop therein veriuice mingled with the water of cheruile continuing to do so three or foure mornings You shall find a larger discourse of the nature conditions differences and diseases of dogs in the first Booke in the chapter of the kennell Yet because there is one other sort of hunting dogs which although they are for birds and not for wild beasts yet in their kinds they are as noble and as generous as any other dogs whatsoeuer and as much in vse amongst great persons and these dogs are called field or land spannels of which sith before no Auther hath fully intreated I will here giue you a little touch or tast of the nature disposition and manner of goâ—ening them To speake then of the land spannell you shall vnderstand that he is be nature very gentle courteous and louing to the man more than any other sort of dogs whatsoeuer they also naturally loue to hunt the wing of any bird whatsoeuer especially partridge pheasant quaile raile poots and such like when you make choice of any spannell you shall chuse him by his shape beautie mettall and cunning hunting his shape is descerned in the good composition of his bodie as when he hath a round thicke head a short nose a long well compast and hairie eare broad and sydelips a cleere red eie a thicke neck broad breast short and well knit ioints round feete strong cleys high dewcleyd good round ribs a gaunt bellie a short broad backe a thicke bushie and long haired taile and all his bodie generally long and well haired his beautie is discerned in his colour of which the motleys or pide are the best whether they bee blacke and white red and white or liuer hued and white for to be all of one entire colour as all white or all bladke or all red or all liuer hued without any other spot is not so comely in the field although the dogs notwithstanding may be of excellent cunning his mettall is discerned in his free and vntired laboursome raunging beating a field ouer and ouer and not leauing a furrow vntrodden or vnsearcht where any haunt is likely to bee hidden and when hee doth it most coragiously and swiftly with a wanton playing taile and a busie labouring nose neither desisting or shewing lesse delight in his labour at night than he did in the morning and his cunning hunting is discerned by his casting about heedfully and running into the wind of the pray he seeketh by his stilnesse and quietnesse in hunting without babling or barking but when hee is vpon an assured and certaine haunt by the manner of his raunging as when hee compasseth a whole field about at the first and after lesneth and lesneth that circumference till he haue trodden euery path and brought the whole circuit to one point and by his more temperate and leasurely hunting when he comes to the first scent of the game sticking vpon it and pricking it out by degrees not opening or questing by any meanes but whimpring and whining to giue his master a warning of what he scenteth and to prepare himselfe and his hauke for the pleasure hee seeketh and when he is assured of his game then to quest out loudly and freely Now it is to be vnderstood that it is hard to haue one spannell to be absolute cunning in all the qualities of hunting as to be an excellent raunger an excellent finder and an excellent retainer because one qualitie is almost in nature cleere contrarie to another for he that is a good and free raunger can neuer be confined or bound into one particular small compasse but will out of his owne mettall breake forth into much larger compasse and so both lose time in hunting and also giue the game more leasure to get breath or fleit away priuatly from the place where it was markt and so deceiue the hauke of her expectation and in like sort a good retainer which will sticke vpon the place whereto he is oppointed and will beat it ouer and ouer many times euen as it were by inchmeale neuer leauing till he haue sprung the game he seeketh can neuer bee esteemed for a good raunger because the leasure he taketh will not giue him leaue to rid much ground and so likewise of all other seuerall qualities therefore euery man must esteeme his spannyel for the one good qualitie he holdeth and cannot for diuers and so mixing his kennell of good raungers good noses and retainers he shall bee sure to attaine to the vttermost height of his pleasure he wisheth There bee some spannels which delight in the plaine and open field and those are the best for the partridge quaile or raile there be othe others which delight in woods hedges bushes and couerts and those are best for the pheasant and moore pooâ— and these are commonly the best retainers and the former the best raungers There is also another sort of land spannyels which are called Setters and they diffor nothing from the former but in instruction or obedience for these must neither hunt raunge nor retaine more or lesse than as the master appointeth taking the whole limits of whatsoeuer they doe from the eie or hand of their instructer they must neuer at any time quest what occasion soeuer shall happen but as being dogs without voices so they must hunt close and mute and when they come vpon the haunt of that they hunt they shall sodainly stop and fall downe vpon their bellies and so leasurely creepe by degrees to the game till they come within two or three yards thereof or so neere that they cannot presse neerer without daunger of retriuing then shall your Setter â—â—icke and by no persuasion go further till your selfe come in and vse your pleasure Now the dogs which are to be made for this pleasure should be the most principall best and lustiest spannyell you can get both of good scent and good courage yet young and as little as may bee made acquanted with much hunting the way to traine him to his knowledge is by all louing meanes or else awfull where loue taketh not effect as by fasting threatnings and some stripes to make him both feare and loue you far aboue all other persons
the streame to bereaue the dogges by that meanes of comming by the sent of him The horsemen shall see to such his escapes and therefore if he haue taken his way into any champion ground they shall find out his traces by the sight of the eye and with the blast of the horne they shall cheere vp and encourage their dogges to a new course If the Hart haue taken the water whether it be for the cooling of himselfe or as the vttermost refuge he hath for the sauing of his life the hunter shall looke at what place the Hart shall haue taken the same and there cast in good store of boughes attending his passage and if they see that he commeth not out of the water they shall cause their dogges to take the water or else if they be afraid of causing them to take cold they shall send to seeke a boat or else if they can swimme they shall put off all their clothes and with a dagger in 〈◊〉 and swimme vnto him to kill him and yet they must looke that they see not vpon him but in some deepe place because that if the Hart find ground for his feet he would be able to hurt one of them with his horns whereas in a deepe place he hath no strength Furthermore there must great wisedome be vsed in the hunting of the Hart when he can no longer hold out but being out of all hope of his life standeth still and suffereth the dogges to barke at him for then he groweth dangerous as being giuen to strike with his hornes the first of the hunters that he can meeâ— withall And this is the cause why it is growne to a prouerbe A Beere for a Hart and a Barber for a vvilde Bore Wherefore it standeth euerie man vpon to looke vvell to himselfe in comming neere vnto the Hart when he endureth the bay and not to aduenture too farre and hazard himselfe too boldly When the Hart is taken he that shall haue giuen the blow shall â—orthwith thereupon sound the retrait to the end hee may call together his fellow hunters and the dogges and after he hath presented the right foot of the Hart vnto the King or vnto his Lord then to cut him vp as he shall know it meet to be done In the meane time he must not forget to take care of the dogges and to giue them some reliefe sustenance of the prey they haue gotten in hunting vnto the bloud-bound that is vnto the dog which by his sent hath led the way to the Hart his lodging he shall cast the head and the heart as his right and due vnto the rest he shall giue the necke and braine of the Hart or which is better he shall take bread and cut it into little lunches into to a panne with cheese and temper the same both together with the bloud of the Hart in his greatest heaâ— and afterward put all this prouision forthwith vpon the skin stretched forth vpon the grasse and in the meane space euery man shall put his horne vnto his mouth and therewithall comfort and cheere vp the dogges Some men vse now and then and yet after this first prouision to make a second with the entrailes of the Hart all whole which the master hunts-man doth cast vnto the dogges after they haue ended their feast holding them vp on high and whiles the dogges are eating these entrails they must be cheered vp with the noise of the hornes shoutings and hallowings CHAP. XXVI Of the profit that may be reaped by the killing of the Hart. NOtwithstanding that the hunting as vvell of the Hart as of other vvilde beasts be vndertaken and performed by great States rather for the exercise of the body and recreation of the spirits than for any other desire and hope yet the killing of the Hart is not without great profit and that in two respects the first being for the making of meat thereof and the second for the medicinable helps which may be made of his parts and members As concerning the meat made of the Hart his flesh is not very pleasant if it be not of that part of him which is commonly called the pizzle for to speake generally according to the truth Harts flesh is verie hard of an euill iuice melancholicke hard to digest in the stomacke and verie apt and easie to procure many great diseases It is true that many great Ladies hauing an opinion that the flesh of Harts being eaten often doth free and deliuer men from all danger of Agues because the beast himselfe is not subiect at all thereunto at their rising euerie morning haue accustomed to taste of Harts flesh notwithstanding vvho so is carefull of his health should not touch anie such flesh except it be of some tender Fawne or young Hiude vvhich are made seruices for the most part at the Tables of Princes and great Lords The medicinable helpes vvhich may be prepared and made of the Hart are infinite Some find a bone in the heart of the Hart howsoeuer there be some that thinke it to be false which is singular good against faintnes or swowning trembling and beating of the heart and other effects of the same as also against the venimes poysons and dangers of the plague and likewise against the hard â—rauell of vvomen The bloud of the Hart fried in a frying-panne and put in clysters doth heale the bloudie flux and stayeth the flux of the belly being drunke with vvine it is a soueraigne remedie against poysons The priuie member of the Hart washed diligently in water and the water wherein it hath beene so washed drunken appeaseth forthwith the paine of the collicke and retention of the vrine if it be steept in vineger the space of foure and twentie houres and afterward dried and made in pouder the weight of a French crowne of this pouder being drunke with water of plantine stayeth the flâ—xe of bloud and all manner of fluxe of the bellie Likewise dried and poudred it may be mingled with remedies which haue power to prouoke carnall copulation It may also bee made seruiceable and of good vse in the pleâ—risie and against the bitings of Serpents if it be taken either alone or mingled with things which are good for such diseases The horne of the hart burned made in pouder and drunke with honie killeth the wormes which is a signe that the harts horne hath great vertue against venome and that not much lesse than the horne of the vnicorne The tender hornes of a young hart 〈◊〉 in small gobbets and put in an earthen pot wel leaded and close stopped with clay and afterward put in a hot furnace vntil such time as they be dried they may also be beaten to pouder putting thereto pepper and myrrhe do yeeld a pouder which is singular good against the cholicke taken in excellent wine The marrow and sewet of the hart are good to make liniments and cataplasmes for cold gouâ—s
vnto wine Of the boyling ouer of the new wine while it is in working How new Wine is pâ—rged To haue new Wine all the yeare long To know if there be any Water in the Wine The way to correctiâ—e ouermuch waâ—rishhesse of Wine To recouer the new Wine which beginneth to sowre To cause new winâ— to sâ—ttle quickly To separate water from wine To make an odâ—riferous Wine To make white wine red and red wine white To make claret wine Wine beâ—ring great store of water Wine that flowreth not Boiled wine To continuâ— wine sweet all the yere long Greekish wine Good houshold wine To cause troubled wine to settle The taking away of the strength of the wine To drinke much wine and yet not to be drunke To hate wine To make them which are drunke sober To cause wine that it shall not become strong To make old wine of nâ—w Wine that will keepe long The keeping of wine To make medicinable wines Rose-wine Wormewood-wine Wine of Horehound Wine of Annise Dill Peares Bayes Asarum bacchar and Sage Wine of Thyme Betonie wine Hysope wine Wine of pomegranats quintes mulberries and seruices How Wines must be ordered in cellers or roomes vnder ground Against the eagernesse or sowrenesse of Wines At what time Wine is most apt to turne and corrupt To helpe the â—ine that is turned For troubled Wine To helpe Wine the beginneth to wax away and diâ— To take away the fustie smel of Wine To helpe the sowrenesse of Wine To keepe the Wine from sowring Oyle oliue a preuenter of the the sowrenesse of Wine For wattrish Wine Against venime or venimous beasts falling into Wine Vineger is a â—ault of wine Radâ—sh and beete roots maâ—e vineger The roots of cale-words make Vineger to â—uâ—ne againe into wine Strong Vineger To make Vineger oâ— marrâ—d wine Driâ— Vineger Rose Vineger To make vineger without wine Sweet vineger Mightie strong vineger Pepper vineger Water in vineger Vineger of sea onions The necessitie of drinke Sapa Defrutum Passum Noe. Why wine is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke Icarus Why it is called Vinum Why Temetum The definition of wine Olde wines are hotes than the new New wine 〈…〉 in France The iuice of the grapes not 〈…〉 wrought New wines or the iuice of grapes which haue â—ately wrought vp The benefit of wine The hurts and inconueniencies that wine worketh Drunkennesse Wine goeth bare-foot 〈◊〉 filleth the dâ—spositions of the dâ—â—nkers That drunkards their seed and nature is not apt for generation That vndelaied wine is not wholesome for such as be in health What quâ—ntitie of water is to be put to â—â—ine For what ages wine is mâ—st fit That wine is hurtfull vnto hat and drie natures and good vnto moist ones The differences of Wine Red Wine or darke coloured Sweet wines Sweet white wine Galens iudgement of white wine Rough and harsh wines Greene wines The cause of sowrenesse in wines That there is great difference betwixt sowrenesse and greennesse in wines What wines are to be called bastards The consistence of wine The 〈◊〉 or smell of wine The vertues of wine Wâ—ake wines Wines of Coussy Wines of Prepaton Wines of Dijâ—n The diuersities of the wines of Orleance Wines of Sainctay S. Hillaries Chappel S. Mesmain and S. de Bouc Wines of Messay of Orleance Orleance wines of the grounds of the Abbey of Neighbours White wines of Orleance Wines of high Normandie Wines of Compeigne Wines of Nerac The profit of the Warren A good conie dieth alwaies in her earth The vertues and speciall properties of conies The aller The oake The chesnut tree The elme Eâ—meâ— are barren anâ— bâ—are no fruit Chesnut trees Locusts euery three yeares Alleyes Fruit-trees The time to plant trees That dressing of the earth is necessarâ—â— for yong plants Such dressing of the earth in dâ—y weather in not good To pull vp weedes by the roote The third dressing of trees The growth of plants commeth by heate and moisture The experience of dressing trees and of letting of them go vndresse Wood of Solonge Whereof wild trees 〈◊〉 grow Nine things requâ—site for the maâ—ing of a beautifull place Woods haue in tâ—â—m three commodities The pleasures and pastâ—mes that the wild woods aâ—â—ord The profit of woods The profit of ground imploied about the bearing of wood Trees louing to liue neere the water White wood Trees must be well and surely planted at the first The time to plant Willowes Allers c. Ash 〈◊〉 Elmes of three sorts Male and female Elmes Columella Theophrâ—stus The Ash. The vertues of the Elme Shooting â—owes The different names of the okes are Robur Quercus Ilex The male and female of oakes Theophrastus The barren is called the male and the fruitfull the female That the life of an Oake containeth 100 yeares of growth 100. yeares of standing in a sâ—ay and 100. to perâ—sh and die in The horse at his full growth at fiue and a man aâ— fiue and twentie Horne-beame Beech The linden tree The corke-tree The yew-tree Tâ—e stone The whites oâ— womâ—n presages Falling sicknes Chaps of the lips The stone The grauell The profit of the parke The situation of the parke Prouision of â—ood â—or wild beastes What place is fittest â—o a Hâ—ronrie Two things giuing occasion to make choise of some certaine place for a heronrie 〈…〉 What place is best to 〈◊〉 at the 〈…〉 The properties oâ— the heronshew To prâ—câ—re rest and sleepe The profit of 〈◊〉 â—oure footed beasts Grey-hounds and Hounds Two sorts of Grey-hounds 〈…〉 To breed a good wâ—â—lpe The bayâ—â—â—alâ—ow 〈◊〉 dogs The gray dogs Blacke dogs The marâ—eâ— of a good hunting dog The reason of these markes of a good hunting dog The kennell for hunting dogs The feeding and keeping of hunting dogs Flesh-meate Pâ—â—â—age The diseases of hunting dogs For 〈◊〉 and vermâ—â—e Wormes The â—iâ—ing 〈◊〉 Serpents 〈…〉 Signes of madnesse 〈…〉 Wormes Hurts giuen by wild bores Wounds 〈◊〉 of cold 〈…〉 Knocks of thrushes Against the 〈◊〉 of making water The disease of the eares How to teach a Spaniell to 〈◊〉 well Hunting is for great states The marks of distinction betwixt Hart and Hart as also of their ago The Hinde The cariages or largenesse of his tines The time when Harts cast their 〈◊〉 To iudge of the age of the Hart by his hornes The hornes of an old Hart. The gate or going of the Hart. The beatings and 〈◊〉 of the Hart. The rubbing of the Hart. The knowledge of the Hart his priuie haunt and place of retraâ—â—â— The Hart hath a seueral haunt euerie moneth The rut of the Hart. The meanes of finding out the particular place and lodging of the Hart. The report of the hunts-man vnto the king Three sorts of dogs as bloud-hounds coursers and for easements The mâ—â—e dog is 〈◊〉 which openeth not but followeth the trace of the Hart. How to place the greyhounds for Teâ—sers Reset Bacâ—â—â—t Directions how to hunt the Deere with hounds onely Dogges
he shall make them drinke pottage made of a pint of Wine stamped Garlicke and tenne whites of egges or else the iuice of red Coleworts mixed with white Wine In the meane time hee must take away from them their Oates and Barly altogether and to feed them with nothing but their owne and accustomed Fodder and Grasse meat to see and if they will recouer through the time of the yeare It will be good also to put within the sheath of their yard a Collirie of Honey boyled with Salt or else a Gnat or line Flie or quicke Fleas or a prettie little piece of Frankincense as also to lay vnto the Reines and Flankes Oyle mixed with Wine or else to annoynt his yard with Wormewood stamped and boyled with Vineger and moreouer to squirt a Syring full of coole water against his cods These Medicines are good when the Vrine hath scalded the priuie parts or when they haue great heat in their Vrine The cruell paine of the Head and rage of the Horse is cured by the often vse of Smallage and much Branne in which you shall haue chopped the leaues of Lettuce and Barly straw newly gathered let him bloud vpon the place where the braine lyeth or vpon the temples or vpon both places and let him stand in a verie darke Stablâ— and such a one as standeth low You shall know if hee haue paine in his head by the distilling and dropping downe of water from it in that his eares-will be withered and hanging his necke and head heauie and hanging downe The ouer-cooled Horse is cured by giuing him to drinke Swines bloud all hot with Wine or Masticke and Rue boyled with Honey or a little common Oyle with Pepper This disease commeth vnto him when as sweating and being hot he is set in a cold place and thereupon it draweth vp his sinewes and hardeneth his hide you must set him in a verie hot place couering him verie warme with couerings downe to the ground and putting vnder his bellie seuen or eight great thicke stones red hot you shall quench them there by casting warme water vpon them by a little and little and oft that so by this meanes the heat may make him sweat The naile in the eye shall be lifted vp with a little small needle of Iuorie and then cut quite away with Scâ—â—ars or else make a powder of a greene Lizard and Arsenicke put it into the eye for to fret away the naile Against the suffusion there is a singular remedie an Eye-salue made of the iuice of ground Iuie stampt in a Woodden Mortar or else the iuice of the berries of Iuâ—e running along vpon the ground or the leaues of great Clarie beaten and stamped in a Mortar in Wine after that you haue let the Horse bloud vpon the veine of the eye that hath the suffusion and to continue this remedie manie daies euening and morning Or else blow into the eye through some Pipe or Quill the bone of Cuttle powned small or the seed of Rocket whole or else the seed of the hearbe called Tota bona and there let it alone till by his vertue it haue cleansed and taken away the spots or the powder of the yolke of an egge and salt burnt together and put into the eye or the powder of Sal-Armoniake Myrrhe Saffron and the shauings of the Cuttle bone The strucken eye is cured by applying vnto it a cataplasme made of bread 〈◊〉 steept in coole water or bread tosted and steept in white wine if this doe no good you must open the head veine The bleared eye is cured by an eye-salue made with frankineense myrrhe starch and fine honie as also by a frontlet made of frankincense mastick finely powdred â—â—nd brayed vvith the vvhites of egges applied to the brows and suffered there to lye â—ntill the eyes cease to shed teares and after to raise the frontale vvith annointing the â—â—dges thereof vvith Oyle and warme water beaten together The scarres of the eyes are healed with rubbing them vvith your owne fasting â—pittle and Salt or vvith the powder of the Cuttle-bone mingled vvith burnt Salt or the seed of vvild Parsnep pouned and pressed out of a linnen cloth vpon your eye scarres All paines of the eyes are cured by annointing them vvith the juice of Plantaine vvith Honie The Enceur doth bring present death vnto horses vvherefore you must so soone as euer you see the brest kernell to be swolne plucke it away immediatly without 〈◊〉 staying and if in thus pulling of it away any veine should burst you must tie it 〈◊〉 both ends with a silke threed looke how much the kernell shall grow greater so much greater an impostumation it would make and not so onely but therewithall â—â—â—ause death The horse hauing drunke much or watered verie quickly after his heat and trauaile and vpon it growing cold and not being vvalked doth beget the Auiues which doe but little differ from the disease called the Kings-euill because as well in beasts as in man the Kings-euill commeth of too much cooling of water the throat hauing beene heated vvhereupon the horse looseth his appetite to eat and his rest likewise and his eares become cold you must presently prouide to helpe him in taking away the Auiues after this manner Bend downe the eare betwixt his necke and his chyne make incision with a knife for the purpose along vpon the hard fleshinesse which one would say to be nothing but a verie whitesinew plucke away the white carnositie or fleshie substance lay to the place as well within as without a linnen cloth dipt in the white of an egge couer the horse by and by vvith a good couering and vvalke him so long as vntill that his eares become warme giuing him a drinke made with water salt and meale but first causing him to eat a little good Hay let him rest three daies in the stable and eat and drinke there or else make him hot fomentations and those of such things as are proper in that case to be applied vnto the part for to remoue the humour afterward applie a cataplasme made of Barley meale and three ounces of Rosin all boyled in due sort in good strong red wine and when the matter shall be gathered and readie for suppuration giue it a gash with a knife to let the suppurated and ripe matter out afterward put in the hollow place tents wet in water oyle and salt with bolsters layd vpon them and dipt in the same This disease craueth a speedie remedie for and if you stay till the Auiues be gotten vp higher it is past hope of curing The Squinanciâ— otherwise called the disease of the throat and swelling of the tongue requireth first of all that the horse should be let bloud vpon the veine vnder the tongue or of the palate of the mouth after that a fomentation for the whole mouth and for the tongue with warme water then after that