and Fennell-roots Anise-seeds and Fenell-seeds and such other simples that provoke urine which as I sayd before are very profitable in this case Also Sweet Wines as Muscadine Canarie and High-Countrey white wine Sometimes also to please the pallat let him licke of Oxymel simplex Syrrup of Citrons or Syrrup of Lemons He may also eat River-Crabs or Cray-fishes either raw or buttered But from the beginning the flesh that he eateth must be of Mutton Veale Lambe Kid Rabbet Pullet Chicken Partridge or Pheasant Some counsell to mince some roasted Veale and the Liver of the mad dogge roasted together and so let him eare it with a little butter water and Vineger To conclude His Belly must be kept soluble if need require by gentle Giysters and Suppositories And his Sleepe must in the beginning be but little but when he beginneth to rage and is of himselfe overwakefull it is good by some safe outward meanes such as the Artist shall see cause to appoint to cause Sleepe CHAPTER XI Bitings of Creatures not venomous yet in some Constitutions apt to turne into venom SOme are bitten by Dogges that are not madde or by Apes Monckeys Squirills by Horses by Mankinde or any other creature not venomous yet somtimes these woūds in some kinde of Flesh are hard to heale The reason is either in the Creature biting or in the partie bitten In the Creature biting though in it's owne nature it be not venomous yet there is at that time a malignant qualitie in the moysture of the mouth begotten by the disturbance of the braine through immoderate anger In the partie bitten Some men are made up of a kinde of Flesh alwayes by what accident soever wounded hard to be cured These either are very melancholike of Constitution and Melancholy is the most offensiue humor in the body and therefore apt through any extraordinary passion to become corrupted and in a sort venomous or they are very fearefull and Feare corrupts the juices of the braine through the force of imagination and makes them fall downe and disperse thēselues into all the parts of the body filled with a sickly qualitie and so contrary to nature This is the reason why fearfull men are apt to die of a slight wound whereas a valiant Spirit hath alwayes flesh apt to be healed Now for such hard healing Flesh from which of the two causes soever it cōmeth I counsaile that besides the ordinarie course of curing wounds artificially according to the Rules of Chururgerie there be also given some temperate Cordiall as it were an Antidote against this venomous Accident to call up the Spirits and to comfort the Faculties For I know it by experience that the Cure is thereby made much the more easie Such an Antidote is this following which because it cannot be rightly made but by an Artist I will set downe in Latine for the Apothecaries understanding onely least the Ignorant tampering beyond their skill discredit the Medicine Re. fol. Melissae summitatum Rosmarini florum Primulae veris florum Cheyri florum Calendulae ana m. iij. florum Angelicae m. ij Rad. Angelicae ʒj ss Gariophyllorum ʒiij Rad. Enulae Campaniae ʒvj Infundantur omnia in Aquae Vitaeli xxiiij horis 24. Tum in alembico destillentur s a. In Aqua elicita infunde etiam Glycyrrhizae parum sic gustui arridebit This Cordiall Water my Father called Nepenthes If the Angelica be good indeed it will haue both a pleasant taste and smell A spoonfull or two of this Water recalls rectifies and confirmes the Spirits Animall Vitall and Naturall And is therefore very good against Fayntings and Swoundings CHAP. XII Inward or Outward Bruises by a fall from an high place Somtimes it happeneth unfortunately that a Man falleth downe from an high place as from a house-top a high tree a scaffold or a ladder and is taken up for dead yet in a little time may by good meanes be recovered to life and the Bruise whether it be inward or outward may be cured In this case the maine things to be looked to are First to recover the partie to life sense which may be done by the use of my Cordiall Water called Nepenthes described in the Chapter immediately going before or els with some other comfortable drinke of like nature Secondly if the Bruise be Inward there will be either ejection of Bloud at the Mouth Nose Fundament or passage of Vrine or els congealing of Bloud within wherewith will be Inward paine and difficultie of Breathing If the partie avoyd bloud it is not amisse so it goe not too farre to the expence of his Spirits But if so then giue him halfe a dram of Terra Sigillata in a draught of Posset drinke wherein the flowers of St. Iohns Wort are boyled Or The tops of St. Iohns Wort boyled in Posset-ale Or Take red Corall white Corall white Amber Bole Armoniak Terra sigillata of each j. dram Camphor iiij graines Make all into fine powder and divide it into foure equall quantities or Doses Take every dose in two ounces of Plantaine water and as much red wine mixed together once in six houres as need shall require Or els Take the quantitie of a Walnut of old Conserue of red Roses mixed with a scruple of the powder of Mastick or rather with fiue or six drops of the Oyle of Masticke Repeat the taking according to need But if there be no evacution but suspition of the Bloud congealed within Then Take Nep stamped and strayned with a little Ale or Beere and drinke a draught of it once in six houres After three times taking it so stamp it new and strayne it with Muscadine and drinke a little draught in the morning fasting and at night when you goe to bed Or Take the quantitie of a Beane of quicke Brimstone in powder in a little white Wine warmed Or els Twentie graines of Irish-Slate in powder in a draught of Posset-Ale made with white Wine Some giue ij drams of Rheubarb with one of Madder made into powder in a draught of white wine repeating it as need requireth Or two drams of Rheubarb alone in neate white wine Or Take of Rheubarb one dram Madder and Mummie of each two scruples Make them into fine powder drinke it in a draught of some ordinary Pectorall Decoction Outwrdly annoynt the Brest or Backe as cause electeth with two ounces of Oyle of St. Iohns Wort and halfe an ounce of Sperma ceti mixed together and warmed Doe this morning and evening Or els use this Oyntment Take of new charned butter unsalted ij pound Madder one ounce powdered Tormentill roots powdred vj. drams Mummie halfe an ounce powdred Sugar Candie powdred iiij ounces Sperma ceti ij ounces Boyle them together in a sufficient quantitie of good white Wine till all the wine be boyled away Then with a little Wax boyle it againe to an Vnguent Thirdly if the Bruise be Outward onely you must consider
dip woollenclouts then wring out the liquor from them and apply one cloth reasonable hot to the mould of the head and another all over the stomach And when these clouts wax dry dip them againe in the same liquor well warmed wring them and apply them as before Thus having rid the body of all evill Accidents you must roote out all the reliques of poyson yet left behinde lest they remaining still beget as dangerous though not so suddain or violent an issue Therefore then betake your selfe to Antidotes Such as are named in the first Chapter for Praevention but their Dose must be doubled In way of Cure these also that follow are especially commended against all kindes of Poysons whatsoever Viz. The Hoofe of an Oxe cut into parings and boyled with bruised Mustard-seed in white Wine and faire Water The Bloud of a Malard drunke fresh and warme or els dryed to powder and so drunke in a draught of white Wine The Bloud of a Stagge also in the same manner The Seeds of Rue and the leaues of Betony boyled together in white Wine Or Take ij Scruples that is fortie graines of Mithridate of prepared Chrystall one dram that is three-score graines fresh Butter one ounce Mixe all well together Swallow it down by such quantities as you can swallow at once and drinke presently upon it a quarter of a pint of the decoction of French Barley or so much six shillings Beere Of this I haue had happy proofe There is also another excellent course to be taken besides all these by those of abilitie and that is Take a sound horse open his belly aliue take our all his entrayles quickly and put the poysoned partie naked into it all saue his head while the body of the horse retaines his naturall heate and there let him sweat well This may be held a strange course but the same reason that teacheth to divide liue Pullets and Pigeons for Plague-sores approveth this way of Sweating as most apt to draw to it selfe all poysons from the heart principall parts of the Patients body But during this time of Sweating he must defend his braine by wearing on his head a Quilt thus made Take Cynnamom Nutmegs Cloues all the Saunders of each halfe an ounce Roots of Angelica Tormentill white Dittany and Valerian of each one ounce Dryed Sage Rosemarie Balme of each halfe a handfull and of Red-Rose leaues dryed two handfulls Make all these into a grosse Powder and Quilt them up in Sarsnet or Calico and let it be so big as to cover all the head like a Cap Then binde it on fast with a kerchief In all this time the Patients dyet is not the lest to be thought upon which must be new Milke from the Cow fresh Butter Sallet Oyle fat Broths of Mutton or Veale or of fresh Beefe For fat things stop the vessels hinder the course of the Poyson to the principall parts In his broths also boyle these hearbs Burnet Buglosse Borrage and wilde Tyme He must reside in a cleare ayre or els haue the Ayre rectified with perfumes and those must be temperate and milde not too full of fume lest they suffocate his Spirits I need not set downe any every one knoweth the use of Rose-water Iuniper Rosemary Bayes and Frankincense Let him be ever smelling to Rosemary rubbed in ones hand to Iuniper berries a little bruised Lemons stuck with Cloues Myrrh Storax or Lignum Aloës He must sleepe little for sleepe draws the venom to the center of the body but watching driues it to the outward parts As for Thirst let him beare it as much as he can But if it afflict past sufferance let him drinke now and then new milke turned with Vinegar into Posset-drinke CHAPTER III. A more Particular way of Cure wherein is touched the eating of Mushroms Muskles and Perewinckles THough I intend not to discover the particular nature of every Poyson which might be a way to instruct evill minds in evill purposes yet without some distinction I shall take much pains to little purpose Therefore this generall difference must be made knowne namely that there are Poysons both Hot and Cold and their Cures are as different as their Complexions Therefore if the Poyson taken be hot as will appeare by the Accidents that will follow viz. Bitings Prickings and Gnawings within extreame Heats Burnings inflamations and Hot Swellings Inward or Outward Then the Glysters must be gentle As thus Take Mallows and Violet leaues of each two handfulls French Barley one handfull Camomill-flowers halfe a handfull Boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of faire water till the third part of the water be boyled away Then srayne it to three quarters of a pint of the strayned liquor put an ounce of Diacatholicon or for the richer sort an ounce of Cassia Fistula newly drawne and three ounces of Course Sugar or else Honey of Roses two ounces and a little Salt Eate fat Broths with coolehearbs boyled in them as Borrage Bugloss Violet leaues likewise French Barley with juyce of Lemons the tartnesse being taken off with Sugar or Honey as also Sorrell so corrected Giue the Patient leaue to sleep if he can but enforce it not And for his Antidotes use Mithridate mixed with Conserue of Roses Or els Take of Diamargariton frigidum one dran of oxymel fimplex one ounce and Carduus water three ounces Mix them together and let him drinke it In all other poynts keepe him as is taught before But if the Poyson be of a Cold nature which will appeare by coldnesse within or without or both numbnesse fullnesse dulnesse and drouzinesse Then use Vomits shape Glysters and the like as are appointed in the precedent Chapter Keepe him from Sleeping Make him neeze often with powder of strong Tobacco blowne up into his nose with a quill or if the Tobacco alone will not doe it mix a little powder of Euphorbium with it Rub his Brest Sides Backe and Limbs with warme woollen Cloaths Speake much to him and enforce him to stirre his body as much as may be Endevour also to make him Sweat to which purpose you may use this Medicine following Take one dram of Gentianroote in fine Powder with two or three graynes of Bezoar-stone Giue it in a little draught of Carduus Posset-drinke made with white wine and a little Vineger Giue it hot and cover him well with cloths ordering him so before in and after sweating that he take no cold neither eate nor drinke in fiue or six houres after Let his Antidotes be Andromachus or London-Treacle With his meate boyle Garlicke Onions Balm and Sweet Fenel-seeds And let him endure Thirst as long as he possibly can In all otherthings order him as occasion shall serue or require according to the prescriptions in the Chapter before Some out of wantonnesse and apish imitation of Strangers haue learn'd
to eate Mushroms commonly called Toadstools which is an excressence of the earths superfluitie not voyd of a venomous qualitie though some are lesse hurtfull than others and to some constitutions little or nothing at all apparantly offensiue I knew a Mountebank in Devonshire that perswaded many to the use of them whereof two the one a young man and the other a woman to the hazard of their liues were over-taken with his Cookery To the young man I gaue this Medicine two drams of Hens-dung dryed and powdered faire water white wine Vineger of each halfe a quarter of a pint with halfe an ounce of Honey All mixed together he drank it vomited had also two stooles and so recovered The woman being his mother and seeing me use the dung cōjured me to giue her some other Medicine that was more cleanly Whereupon I made her go to her well warmed bed then gaue I her a draught of Posset-ale wherein Penyroyall was boyled to which I put a little Aqua Vitae and Salt Peter Shee hereupon did Sweat abundantly and recovered Others there are that out of an Antipathy to their Constitutiō are directly poysoned if they eat Muskles others againe are in the like case with Perewinckles I haue seene some with Muskles swelled and spotted all over In which case after a Vomit and a Glyster such as are before described in the second Chapter I gaue this Antidote following I tooke Terra Sigillata for want of terra Lemnia which I account the better and Iuniper berries of each a like quantitie made them into fine Powder And of this Powder I tooke the weight of halfe a dram with a sufficient quantitie of fresh Butter made a Bolus or lump which the Patient swallowed and after the third time which was done every 12. houres he recovered And in fiue dayes was perfectly well CHAPTER IIII. Serpents or VVormes crept into the Body THough it happeneth very rarely yet somtimes it hath so fortuned that some lying asleepe on the grasse with their mouth open as many doe sleepe so haue had a Snake some an Est one had a Slow-worme crept in at his mouth into his Body Any of these will much torment a man but especially the last Because therefore I haue knowne many take delight to sleepe on the grasse in the fields and since such an accident may happen I thought it not amisse to teach a helpe for the same While it is yet in the Stomach labour by vomiting to cast it out If that preuayle not Take the juice of Rue mixed with your own vrine and drinke a draught of it and if need require drinke diverse of these draughts one within an houre of another Marcus Gatinaria commended the smoake of burnt old shooes received in at the mouth through a Funnell Telling of a man that had in vaine tryed many other Medicines and with the use of this avoyded a Viper downeward This Mizaldus recordeth in Centur. 8. Num. 94. Some enforced through great thirst in the heat of Summer to drink of any water next to hand haue in their greedinesse swallowed a Horse-Leech which being in the throate and finding it selfe in a place full of such food as it loved fell to sucking of bloud there which must needs be a great torture to the Partie For which Accident I finde in Authenticall Authors these Remedies following The juice of Willow leaues drunk hath the property of vexing that creature making him let goe his hold and so the partie enforcing himselfe to vomit may cast it out Assa faetida dissolued in Vineger the throat therewith gargled if it be not gone downe into the stomach will doe the like But if it be gone downe so low drinke a draught of white wine wherein Garlicke is boyled Or els Take halfe a dram of Aloës Succotrina powdered in a draught of white wine or wormwood Beere If an Earewig or other like creature chance to get into the Eare Blow the smoake of Tobacco through a pipe into the eare Or Take the juyces of Wormwood and Southernwood of each a like quantitie mixe them warme them and drop a little into the Eare. CHAP. V. Poysonous Humours spurting or dropping out of the wounded bodies of venomous creatures and lighting upon a Mans bare skinne THus haue some been outwardly poysoned My selfe while I was a Student in Cambridge was so hurt by the spurting of a venomous humour from the body of a great Toad into my face while I pashed him to death with a brickbat Some of the moysture lighted on my right eye which did not a little endanger it and hath made it ever since apt to receiue any flux of Rheume or Inflamation Others I haue knowne to receiue like harme from a Spiders juice The skin that it toucheth swelleth and groweth red and painefull The mischiefe of this may be prevented by presently washing bathing the place for halfe an houre or an houre with the juyce of Rue and the distilled water of St. Iohns Wort or with Plantaine water mixed with Andromachus-Treacle a drop or two of Oyle of Anise-seeds Hereunto I may add the Stinging Blistering of Gnats Ants and Nettles Though no danger doth follow this Accident yet we may avoyd the temporary trouble By fomenting the place with the juyce of Lavender Cotton or els annoynting it with Sallet Oyle and Wood ashes Or Take Nettle-seeds and Anise-seeds of each a like quantitie bruise them and steepe them in Sallet Oyle in a glasse with somthing a wide mouth set it in the Sunne in Summer time for a month together Annoynt the place with it Oyle of Anise-seeds will doe it also CHAP. VI. Certaine Generall Notions for the Helpe of such as are Stung or Bitten by venomous Beasts AS there are divers kindes of Creatures that sting or bite venomously so are the mischiefes different that breake forth from their venomous natures For the Hornet hath a more venomous Sting than the Bee or Waspe So the Biting of the Adder which is a kinde of Viper or of the Slow-worme which some also call the Blind-worme is more dangerous than of the Est or Shrew-mouse As for the Snake I know by experience that he hath neither sting nor tooth to offend with though his likenes to the Adder at first sight hath long deterred people from so neare acquaintance as to take notice of his innocencie Likewise the Stings and Teeth of the living Creatures are more pernicious than those of the dead because natiue heate that ministreth spirit to the venom maketh the venomous substance more thin and subtle as also more actiue and piercing Furthermore the Female of every kinde is more fierce and more dangerously venomous than the Male the young than the old And those that liue in rockes mountaines and dry places than they that breed in fens moores marishes such moyst grounds Moreover those that feed vpon other venomous