manner Take of the middle bark of the Elder of Peony-roots each 6 drams of dried Elder-leaves and buds of Linden tree-flowers of each one handful of the seeds of Rue two drams of the berries of herb Paris Number 20. of Jews-Ears numb 6. This being cut and pounded put asmuch of the Spirit of Elder-flowers thereon as will be a hand broad high above them let them stand eight days in a hot place and in a vessel close stopped distill them in glasse Vessels in Balneo Mariae till they be dry with them mix the distilled Spirits the salt drawn out of its dregs and keep it for the Anti-Epileptick Spirit of the Elder whereof you may give a spoonful to the patient in the time of his fit afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon to dissipate the Epileptick corruption by sweating or insensible transpiration and to strengthen the brain with this same in the time of the fit rub the nostrills Gums and Palate adding thereto a grain or two of Castor The Water of the flowers drawn up into the Nose prevails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo in the same affects the Eyes and Face are to be washed often with this water in the time of the Fit anoint gently the contracted members with the oyle of the flowers of the first description the oyl of the second sort is much commended to anoint the palms of the Hands and Soles of Feet the Temples and nape of the Neck Of the Apoplexy and Palsie The salt of the Spirit of Elder is much commended as a preservative against these grievous diseases if it be mixed with a third part of the volatile Spirit of Amber and given in the time of the new Moon or full Moon in a convenient liquor in the weight of a scruple or half a dram the salt of the Elder must be first excellently crystaliz'd in the water of Sage Oximel Sambuci is likewise useful in these cold distempers of the Brain whereof give often in Sage water a little before purging for the cutting and preparing that grosse matter The Spirit likewise distilled from the Berries is excellent if once a week or at least each Quarter of the Moon a spoonfull thereof be taken mixt with crums of Wheat-bread and a little Sugar or you may prepare it new in what quantity you please Thus. Take Sage Marjoram Ivy of each two drams Cowslip-flowers Lilly of the Valley-flowers of each one dram and an half of Rocket-seeds two drams which being cut and grossely powdered infuse them in a sufficient quantity of the Spirit of Elder and after eight dayes distil them in Balneo dissolve a little Castoreum in it and strain it of this give the Patient a spoonful in the time of the Fit and with the same rub the Crown of the Head Temples Nape of the Neck and Nostrills But if the Apoplexy end in a Palsey of the sides or other Members as usually it doth or in death 't is necessary to provoke sweat which may be done with two drams of the spirit before mentioned or two drams of the Rob of the berries in Sage water or of the extract of the rob of the Elder five drams and an half of which every morning give to the patient being exactly mixed one dram in two or three ounces of the decoction of the great Burdock and keep him warm to sweat in his bed for half an hour Of Catharrs In this the Wine prepared of the flowers and berries is much commended drink a cupful in the morning after you have taken a litle broth For diseases of the Eares and Hearing For to ease and mitigate pains of the Eares use Fomentations of Elder and Camomile-flowers and anoint the place with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of Elder To take away the tingling sounding and other noises of the Eares drop in a drop or two of the oyl of the flowers and stop the Eares with Bombace dipped therein and with the decoction of the roots and leaves of the Elder with some Originanum let the Eares be often washed therein and receive the hot sume thereof Of the defects of the Nose and Smelling Water of Elder-flowers often snuffed up into the Nose helpeth the Smelling when it is lost or diminished by any great Cold or sickness and if you wash the Face often with the distilled water of the leaves and flower of the Elder it cleanseth and dryeth up all pimples and pustules of the Face For diseases of the Throat and Mouth The expressed juice of the leaves mixed with Simple or Elder hony doth cleanse and dry very much all the Ulcers of the Gums and Throat they being gargled therewith and outwardly anoint them with the oyl of Elder-flowers by infusion For Hoarseness The new Rob of the Elder-berries which is liquid is with good successe given to Coughing and unquiet Children for older people a Lohoch of the oyl of Elder-Sugar is profitable but where there is much matter and corruption feared this medicament following is profitable Take of fresh Elder-leaves a little dryed in the shadow one handful boyl them in a quart of Fountain water to the Consumption of a third part strain it and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy or clarified hony of which every day morning and evening drink a draught warm To make the Voice clear Take of Elder-flowers dryed in the Sun and pulverized of which drink a little every morning in white Wine fasting if the Cough and Hoarseness proceed from heat in Feavers the syrrup made of the juice of Elder-berries with equal parts of the syrrup of violets is an excellent remedy Or you may make Elder-Sugar in imitation of violet Sugar-Candy Cinnamon or Rose Sugar of which in these pectorall diseases hold some still to be dissolved in your mouth that it may gradatim descend into the Wind-pipe 't is thus made Take of the best Sugar 6 pound let it dissolve and boyle in the fragrant water of the flowers till it come to a fit thickness to be made into tablets then infuse the fresh juice made from the berries well clarified or the frequent infusion of the flowers as you please to have the colour on a soft fire boyl to the consistency of a syrrup then in a glasse or earthen pot put sticks in order two fingers breadth asâ—under and pour the Liquor hot thereon and in a warmed shop the vessel being bound up in a thick Cotton-cloth let it stand to congeal For Swooning and Faintness The Vinegar of Elder-berries imbibed in a Sponge recovers those as it were from death that are subject to Swoonings and Faintings it excellently refresheth the vital Spirits in this also dip Linnen cloaths and apply them to the pulses of the Temples Wrists and near the Ankles Of Agues and Feavers As soon as any one finds a Feaver at first begin to approach let them take of the Rob of the Elder in the Vinegar Spirit or water of the flowers thereof and so in their beds being well covered
Tisan or Barley-water or Plantane-water wherein you are to dissolve two ounces of brown sugar and an ounce of Honey of Roses mix them and inject them warm with a Syringe if you see symptoms continue you may put in a leaden Pipe till the wound runs little and good matter then take it out and cure it up the manner of dressing such Patients is this having warmed your medicine as before cast it in with a syringe which done let your Patient betake himself to that posture that it may all come forth again after put the Pipe into the wound and lay a sponge dipt in Aqua vitae on it which will keep forth the aire and draw out the matter contained in the wound Instead of the Sponge you may make use of this Take half a pound of the clear and best Rozin and two ounces of Gum-elemy melt them over a gentle fire till they be well mixed together then add to them Oyl of Bays and common Turpentine of each one ounce boyl them a little then strain them through a thick linnen cloath which spread upon leather lay it upon the Pipe which will powerfully draw matter out of the wound Renew it once a day if in winter and twice a day in Summer remembring always to snip your plaister in the middle that the mater may have passage to flow out With this and Artificial Balsom may wounds be cured which are piercing Forget not if you see occasion to bleed first on the contrary side of the wound and if need be and strength permit afterwards in the other arm To dissolve clotted bloud give this medicine inwardly made of half a dram of Rhubarb Madder and Mummy of each one scruple half a scruple of Sealed earth Scabious and buglos-Buglos-water and the juice of Lemmons of each one ounce To help difficulty of breathing and ease pain let the Patient take a quarter of a pinte of this Decoction following Four ounces of French barley three ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned three handfulls of Buglos roots two ounces of Liquorice scraped and bruised twenty Jujubes fifteen pruans and a handful of Parsley-roots Boyl all these in seven quarts of rain or running water to the consumption of the third part and to make it palate-able and pleasant for taste Boyl two or three drams of Cynamon in the straining dissolve three ounces of Pennids Syrup of Roses and Comfrey and of the two opening roots made without vinegar of each two ounces four ounces of Sugar Candy this nourisheth so much that he need no other food for three days unless he drink Tisan wherein you may boyl Fennel and Parsley-roots If the Patient find ease by spitting help him by the using of Vinegar water and sugar for his cough administer this Take Sugar-Candy and Pennids of each one ounce two ounces of Diatragacanthum frigidum syrup of Violets and Juiubs of each as much as is sufficient to make a Linctus or Lohoc which he is to use often with a Liquorish-stick if he spits thick matter then use syrup of Coltsfoot with Oxymel simplex or simple which is thus made Take four pound of the best honey clear water and white-wine vinegar of each one quart boyle the water and honey into a syrup afterwards add the Vinegar then boyl it to the consistance of a syrup scumming it with a wooden scummer But when the matter is coming to suppuration let the patient drink half a pint of this following in the morning which he may sleep after and the like quantity at four of the Clock in the afternoon Take Eupatorie Scabies Sanicle Clove-gilliflower Privets and Colts-foot of each one handful of the root of the greater Comfrey and Burridg of each one ounce boyl the roots first then the herbs according to Art in five quarts of water till one half be consumed afterwards put to it Sugar and Honey of each four ounces which being clarified with the whites of two eggs keep it for use which you may also use for an Injection if you please indeavouring to get out all again for what remains will be of a sharp quality and so may increase if not beget Symptoms A wound made in the lungs if it be on the skirts and without inflammation c. then giving your Patient things to hinder his coughing much and great breathing may be cured while the patient takes those Linctus's or others before described he is to lye on his back for so the medicine will fall by little and little upon the wind-pipe otherwise if they should fall down hastily or in great quantity it might cause the Patient to Cough Cows Asses or Goats-milk if they may be had with a little Honey that they corrupt not in the stomach are very good in these wounds or the mulcians of Almonds which is made by bruising the Almonds being first blanched in a stone-morter and pouring Barley-water upon them and stir them well and strain through a cloth doing this often and it will look like milk Sugar of Roses likewise is excellent in this case because it is of a cleansing and strengthening quality but when you shall think it time to close up the wound after you have cleansed it with the medicines before spoken of The Patient must use in Broths or Linctuses some sealed Earth Boll-Armonack Plantan Knot-grass Shumack Acasia or the Juice of Sloes and such like sharp and binding medicines which being mixed with Honey of Roses may carry away that filth which may hinder the closing up of the wound Wounds happen to divers parts of the Belly some whereof are piercing as you will see the Guts and Caule sometime come forth if the great Guts come out put them up again presently into the Belly But if they have been a good while out and so the cold Air hath injured them and they be full of wind and the like then they must be fomented with medicines that will discuss the wind such as is made of Thyme and Calemint Camomil Mellilot Penni-royal Origanum Wormwood and the like or else prick them with needles if after all this you cannot make it go up there is no other way but to enlarge the wound But if the Gut it self be wounded which you will know by perceiving the excrements come forth at the wound if it be wounded longwayes and little it is easily cured if overthwart-ways and great 't is difficultly cured if black 't is deadly then it must be sowed up so as Glovers use to stitch in making Gloves Then put upon it powder of Mastick Mirrhe Boll Armonack and the like after you have stitched it up you must not put up the Gut into its place all at once but by little and little the patient lying on the side opposite to the wound as if the wound be on the right side the patient shall lie on his left by which means you may more easily restore the Gut fallen down if the lower part of the guts being wounded fall through the wound
then the Patient shall lie low with his head down and his buttocks raised higher putting a pillow under him If the Cawl fall out of the wound it is to be put into his place as soon as may be because it is subject to putrefie but if it be putrified before it can be restored to its place which is when it looks black and is cold then bind it near the warm and sound parts and cut off that which is corrupt leaving the string hanging out if the colour of it be not altered and it be warm put it in and stitch up the wound after this manner putting your needle first through the skin and muscles to the Peritoneum not touching it on that side and then putting the needle from within outwards on the other-side thrust through all and after tye it an inch further make another stitch contrary to the former and remember that you leave an Orifice for a Tent For more security you may strengthen it if you please with a dry stitch to the wound it self use Arceus his Liniment with oyl of St. Johns wort compound or some artificial Balsom and the like before often prescribed In summer lay over all the Diapalma plaister moystned in oyl of Roses in the winter Paracelsus anointing the part if it be painful with this following Oyle of Roses and Mirtles of each half an ounce oyl of Lillies and Earthworms of each one ounce oyl of Cammomil and Dill of each six ounces oyntment of Marsh-mallows and poplar buds of each three drams mix them and make a Liniment according to Art Those wounds which pierce into the Belly onely require to be joyned together and so to be cured as simple wounds If the stomach be wounded there follows vomiting of Choler and Hickets sometimes meat and drink comes forth as it is taken If the wound be quite through the stomach or near the mouth of the stomach or if in the bottom of the stomach and very great then no hopes if not if the Patient be full bodyed then let him be let blood making him wound-drinks as before prescribed if the wound be large stitch it up leaving only a place in the depending part for a tent to be applyed with Balsomes of which you have several laid down before in the cure of wounds let the Region of the stomach be annointed with the oyles of Mint Mirtles Roses and Quinces giving them first cleansing glisters afterwards nourishing ones likewise Broths wherein wound-herbs have been boyled You may know the Liver is wounded if the wound be on the right side and there hath followed a flux of blood sometimes he vomits Choler sometimes casting forth blood by stool and urine and his face grow pale and wan If the wounds of this part be not very great having not bled much but little they are curable as one says if a peece be cut off For cure inwardly Take Troches of spodium or burnt Ivory in Plantaine water or the decoction of Red Rose leaves To which add syrup of dryed Roses and Mirtles two scruples of the powder of red Roses is very good if blood fall down into the cavity of the Belly and clots dissolve it by medicines before mentioned in wounds of the Breasts if you perceive that Nature hath a mind to cast out the matter by urine assist it by boyling Smallidg Parsley Fennel and Radish in his Drinks or Broths If the wound be on the left side and blackish blood issues out there and he be very thirsty then the Spleen is wounded if the wound be small it is Cureable if deep deadly and it is Cured as in wounds of the Liver If the small Guts be wounded there ensues Vomiting of Choler pain joyned with a Feaver and meat and drink and Chile comes forth the flanks will swell and be hard and the patient will be troubled with Hickets and ringing pains in the Belly apt to have some cold-sweats and the outward-parts wax cold These wounds are very difficultly Cured especially if in the Gut called Jejunum in English the empty Gut by reason many vessels which run to it are in danger and it self is of a Nervy substance they are to be stitcht with a Glovers stitch after put them up fomenting them first with red Wine then upon them apply this powder Mastick Sarcocol of each one dram Borax and Myrrhe of each half a dram make a powder of them for use then stitch up the outward parts For inward means you have several medicines prescribed before Mastick is good to be taken in all things especially in the wounds of the stomach Difficulty of making water or it is altogether stopt in those that are wounded in the Kidneys pissing blood with his urine paine stretched about the groines if the wound be but slight and superficial and in the fleshy part then much blood flows and his water is stopt if it pass to the cavity or hollowness of the Kidneys then blood passeth with the urine If Urine be stopt anoynt the Pecten with the oyle of Scorpions and bitter Almonds apply a pultis made of Pellitory Mallows and Saxifrage for Injections use Trochisces of Amber called Trochisci de Carabe dissolved in Horsetailer Plantain-water When the bladder is wounded there comes but little urine and that bloody if the wound be in the bottom of the bladder the urine will fal in the lower part of the Belly and as if there were a seeming dropsie pain will reach as farr as the Groin and Stones in men For help let him use this following inwardly Shumack Mirtle-berries of each three ounces red-Rose leaves dryed one pugil Pomgranate-flowers half an ounce boyl them in six quarts of Rain running or fountain-fountain-water strain it and therein dissolve syrup of dryed Roses and honey of Roses of each six ounces syrup of Myrtles three ounces gum dragon half an ounce drink of this decoction ten days if you cut in four Quinces it will be the better outwardly use some Anoâ—ine unguent as before or else Turpentine with oyle of St. Johns-wort with the yolk of an egg and a little Saffron powdered mixed together and applyed inebricating the part with oyl of Roses Lillies and Scorpions Wounds of the Limbs as Arms Thighs Leggs if they peirce the great Vesâ—els within-side sometimes cause death or else are very difficult to cure if they peirce not the vessels they are to be cured as other ordinary wounds For the wounds of the long Tendon which goes near the Heel suffer not your Patient to goe except with Crutches for it is very requisite that he rest as much as possible may be for fear if he go too much upon it before the Cicatrize and Scar of the wound be drawn very hard the wound break out again Likewise you are to take notice that great and deep wounds in the Limbs require often bleeding and purging especially if it be near the joynts and then you are to apply fit and convenient Bolsters for the purpose The most Material
Seamen or others is chiefly or almost the very same used to those troubled with Hypochondriack melancholy so that you are first to begin the Cure with general evacuations as Bloud-letting Purging and sutable to the nature of the disease strength and constitution of the Patient for Bloud-letting you must do it in the Liver-vein little and often that you cool not the body too much at once the next thing to be looked after is good dyet which because often wanting at Sea in long Voyages they are to carry with them some such comfortable things as may be useful as Wine Sugar c. Then you are to administer Glisters or Suppositories such as formerly has been spoken of in the Cure of Wounds and afterwards such a Bolus or Morsel as this following Take of Diacatholicon and lenitive Electuary of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar half a dram with three or four drops of Spirit of Viteral make a Bolus to be taken in the morning fasting you may if you see the Patient weak open the Hemrod-veins with Leeches you may repeat Bloud-letting in the Arm if you see occasion the gentle purges are the best often given such as common Pills of Ruffus called Pillulae Ruffi communes Pillulae Macri Mercurii dulcis one scruple two scruples or a dram are enough for a dose Barley-water is good the juice or syrrup of Lemmons to which you may if you will add some few drops of cinnamon-Cinnamon-water or Oyl of Viteral and Sugar then you may make use of specifical medicines which are such as have a peculiar faculty against the Scurvy such as Dutch or Sea-scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses Worm-wood Fumitory Turnips Lemmons juice or syrrup of Oranges Limes Tamarinds those which have not so great force against the Scurvy are these that follow viz. Agrimony Maiden-hair Betony Borrage Bugloss Ceterach Elecampane Germander Hysop Polypody of the Oak the Bark of Ash Capers and Tamarisk the flowers of Alder dodder of Time and Tamarisks but alwayes observe that if the Patient be feaverish or inclining to a Feaver you must be sparing of the hotter things and give them in a smaller quantity adding to them Endive Succory Sorrel c. with some few drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Of all which you may make several sorts of medicines as Decoctions Apozems Syrrups c. Or else this following Take the juice of Scurvey-grass and Brook-lime of each three pound two pound of powdered Sugar boyl them together till they come to the consistence of a Syrrup Or thus Take two pound of the juice of Scurvy-grass one pound and three quarters of the juice of Lemons and three-quarters of a pint of the spirit of Wine or Brandy to which adding a sufficient quantity of Sugar is made a syrup of which you may take three or four spoonfulls fasting two hours after To your juice of Lemmons alone you may add a spoonful of Aquavitae As much spirit of Vitriol as will sharpen a cup of Beer water or wine is very good also Diatrium piperium taken from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor as Wine Beer or Ale first and last is good Theriaca Diatessaron from half a dram to two and Theriaca Londinensis two drams taken in the morning are good so are conserve of Roses Conserve of Wormwood with a few drops of the spirit of Viteral Likewise green Ginger Rosa-Solis and Wormwood water also it will not be amiss to sweat after purging which you may do by giving him a dram of Venice Treacle or Mithridate or half a dram of Antimonium diafreticum more or less as you find the constitution of your Patient There is commonly accompanying the Scurvy swellings and putrefaction of the gums for which you may take Bistert and Tormentil-roots boyled in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half to which add some drops of Vitriol to make it sharp or else take this following of Roman or white Viteral two ounces one pint of water and two spoonfuls of Honey being boyled to the consumption of the third part add to it half an ounce of Salâ—prunella for your use To conclude when you come to any place on shore you may make use of these following Receipts Take a pint of the decoction of Barley four ounces of white-wine Horse-raddish root but thin and bruised two ounces three handfuls of Scurvy-grass leaves strain them through a Cloth mingle them and take a spoonful of this morning and evening Or else take of Wormwood and Juniper-Berries bruised of each one handful Goats-milk if to be had or in want of it Cows-milk or Sheeps-milk two quarts Boyl them till the third part be consumed strain them and to the straining put one dram of Saffron in powder let them boyle a walm or two then strain it again give of this morning noon and evening Or Take three pints of white-wine a quart of small Ale four ounces of the juice of Scabies Brook-lime and water-Cresses of each two ounces half a handfull of Rosa solis boyl them to the Consumption of one pint to which add half a pint of the juice of Scurvy-grass let them boyl a little in a pint of this steep three spoonfuls of Horse-dung let them stand all night strain them in the morning and let the Patient take half a pint thereof being sweetned with Sugar-Candy For a Beer to drink constantly of Take a pound of Scurvy-grass a little dryed Brooklime and water-Cresses of each four handfuls a handful of Sage an ounce of Saxifrage six ounces of Sarsaparilla six drams of Nutmegs Let the Herbs Roots and Spice be bruised a part then mix them hang them in a bag in four gallons of beer after it hath stood nine days the Patient may drink thereof Half a pint of this following-drink every morning for fourteen dayes hath been often tryed and approved and hath cured divers Take Scurvy-grass stamp it and strain it with posset-drink made of thin skim-milk turned with just as much white-wine Vinegar as will serve to turn it during all the time of your cure you must forbear salt meat strong-drink fruits and old Cheese drinking whey at your Meals if you can get it if not instead thereof small Ale and you must chew Brook-lime for three mornings together if your teeth be loose In Voyages at Sea there happen to Sea-men the disease Called the Callenture It is a kind of contagious Fever sometimes with fits sometimes without the Patients being often possessed with a Frenzy for they oft think the Sea to be a Meddow and so make an offer to go into it on some the fits are very violent which are hot and cold in some This Disease happens through great obstructions caused by ill dyet and intemperature of the Climate which aire being somewhat Contagious causeth an ill habit of the Body For the Cure of this Distemper you are first to begin with Cordials which strengthen and defend the faculties from the venemous quality of the
Disease and so may either be said to Preserve or Cure therefore you are to adminster them before evacuating Medicines for a Cordial take this for an example made of one scruple of Mithridate half a dram of London-Treacle or that called Diatessaron one ounce of Syrup of Lemons three ounces Of Plantane or rose-Rose-water and six drops of Spirit of Viâ—riol for one dose about three hours after give an other dose Or this following Take of Confectio Alchermes burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples syrup of Lemons one ounce as much spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste after this first administer a Suppositer or Glister of which you have several examples before then after they have done working let him blood plentifully if he be of a strong and gross body as you see occasion his dyet is to be but thin broth water-grewel ponadoes or such like two or three dayes together for purges give him about a scruple of Mercurius dulcis or else this Take six drams or an ounce of Lenitive Electuary two scruples of the Cream of Tarter and one scruple of Confectio Alchermes with Sugar make it into a boll for a dose if it should be convenient to give them a Vomit then give him six drams one ounce or ten drams more or less as you see occasion of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum if sweating be to be procured give him from a scruple to half a dram of Antimonium Di afreticum in a little London or Venice Treacle or Mithridate if he want rest give him from two grains to four of Laudanum Opiatum or else Syrup of wild Poppy six drams of Frogs-spawn and poppy-poppy-water of each one ounce and a half with three drams of Treacle make a potion and give the Patient at night to cause him to rest let his ordinary drink be either a decoction of Barley with Liquorish or else this following Take three quarts of fountain-fountain-water put an ounce of Harts-horn burnt and prepared into it let it boyl to the consumption of the third part then take it from the fire and put to it four ounces of rose-Rose-water two ounces of syrup of Lemons as much Sugar as will serve to sweeten it and as much spâ—rit of Vitriol as will make it sharp this is an excellent drink in all feavors and for all sorts of persons Remember too much purging bleeding and thin dyet is dangerous in all diseases at Sea and will bring your Patient into the Scurvy which is usually the end of most diseases at Sea and then if your Patient be too much weakned the Scurvy discharging it self by a flux is often mortal If you shall have occasion to be concerned with Armies by Land or in Garrisons there will sometimes a continual malign and contagious Fever called the Camp-Disease seize upon the Souldiers which will be seconded by a great pain in the head and his stomach will be clogged with many foul humours sometimes there will follow swooning and often faintings the Patient grows very weak without manifest cause his pulse will be sometimes weak but quick and sometimes strong there will appear oftentimes many large spots of several colours he complains of a pain in his stomach and joints little or no appetite oft-times troubled with vomiting and sometimes difficulty of breathing and singing in the ears all which proceeds from putrefaction or corruption of the humours in the veins or from contagion the corruption or putrefaction of the humours comes from ill dyet ill vapours arising from the earth corrupted naughty air dirty foul apparrel and such like for the cure if there be an inclination to vomit which you may perceive by pain and fulness of the stomach then provoke it with this made of six drams of the infusion of the glass of Antimony two ounces of Barly-water Oxymel of squils and syrup of the 5 opening-Roots of each six drams mix it and give the Patient The manner of infusing your Antimony is this Take two drams of the glass of Antimony put it into a pint of white-wine Cloves and Ginger of each one dram infuse all these together when you have occasion administer it from two drams to an ounce after that you have used all the wine you may put more to the ingredients adding to them the same quantity of fresh ingredients as before after you may bleed if the Patient be not very weak or if you see your Patient of a strong constitution you may begin with blood-letting not forgetting glysters or suppositories with cordials made of the Carduus benedictus Scabious Sorrel Angelica-waters with Venice or London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn Mithridate Dioscordium confection of Alchermes bezoar root of contrayervae as for example Take of the wild Poppies and sorrel-Sorrel-water of each one ounce and a half London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples one scruple of Mithridate one dram of Dioscordium and three drams of treacle-Treacle-water with some syrup of Lemons and as many drops of the spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste make a potion and give it at one dose or take two scruples of Dioscordium and one scruple of burnt Harts-horn mix them and dissolve them in Mace-ale a little Sack or in Beer and Ale wherein Harts-horn and Marigold flowers have been boyled to cause him to sleep Take syrup of Dioscordium and syrup of wild-poppies of each half an ounce of Angelica and wild-poppy-wild-poppy-water of each one ounce and an half and a dram of Diascordium mix them and give it going to sleep Take notice that Cordials are to be given often For purges they must be somewhat strong as one dram of Pulvis astrictionis one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Diaphrenicon Electuarii three drams dissolve all in three ounces of endive-Endive-water For bleeding in this Disease if the veins be full and stretching out and be burthensom to nature let it then be plentiful for the blood is corrupted in all putrid Feavers it is very safe to let blood which may be done til the fourth day and if your occasion require till the seventh day though spots appear As for vomiting that removes nauseousness pain bitterness and sadness by freeing the stomach from the abundance of naughty humors Vesicatories or blisters may be good applyed to the wrists any time but on a Critical day The form of a blister-plaister may be this Take half an ounce of Cantharides call'd Spanish-flies two drams of Turpentine Olibanum Myrrhe Mastick and Camphire of each half a dram oyl of Roses and Bees-wax as much as will be sufficient to make it to the consistence of a Plaister The Patient is to keep a spare dyet not to eat any flesh but brothes wherein is boyled the shavings of Harts-horn the opening roots with Sorrel and Borrage and Panadoes water-grewel c. And posset-drink with Harts-horn boyld in it dropping a little spirit of Vitriol into it and burnt Harts-horn boild in the Calenture is good to which you may add the syrup
of the juice of Citrons For preservative you may drink Wormwood-beer or a small quantity of the former Cordials or eat mince and sage with bread and butter and smell to the herbs or you may steep those herbs with Wormwood in white-wine Vinegar which is excellent good in the Plague-time also Seamen and Soldiers are often troubled with Fluxes therefore it will not here be amiss to lay down some convenient remedies for the Cure of the same but being there are several kinds of Fluxes I shall begin first with that which is called Lientery which is when the food received into the body is cast forth in the same substance colour and smell as it was received This proceeds from a weakness of the retaining faculty of the stomach when it cannot keep the meat long enough therein till it be concocted likewise from a cold distemper of the stomach and liver begetting cold and raw humours which fill up the wrinkles of the stomach that it cannot keep the food it receives or else from â—harp humours pricking and twitching the parts by which the stomach and guts are provoked to send forth their meat too soon If this comes from a cold cause you may know it from the sowr belching that follows and phlegmatick excrements that are voided If the humors come from the head the excrements are frothy and after sleep the flux is greater if it come by provocation caused by sharp and pricking humors he will have a great thirst heat in his flanks gnawing in his stomach voiding sharp and chollerick excrements If this disease come from tough phlegmatick humors covering the wrinkles of the stomach you must cut them with honey of Roses Oxymel simplex and Oxymel-squils and the like Then you must give him gentle Purges for which purpose Pills are the best because they stay longest in the stomach of which you may take these for an example Take of Pillulae Cochiae and Pill Ruffi of each half a dram mix them and make them into six Pills of which let him take three at night going to bed and the other three the next morning or night according as you see occasion or else Pills of Hiera with Agrick or Pillulae Alephenginae the same Dose of either a part for Glisters they are here of no great force except the flux be violent and then they must be binding such as shall be spoken of hereafter In a Bloudy-flux after you have purged the humors offending you must then strengthen the stomach wiâ—h cooling Syrrups and Julips if it come from a hot cause mixing therewith some few drops of the Spirit of Viteral or Sulphur also some Marmalet of Quinces will be good or this following Take of the Conserve of Sorrel and Wormwood of each one ounce Conserve of Roses Suckery and Buglas of each half an ounce Diamargariton frigidum and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dram one scruple of Troches of Spodium with as much Syrrup of Lemmons as will serve to make them up to the form of an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night or this following Take six ounces of old Conserve of Roses six drams of London or Venice Treakle with as much Marmalet of Quinces as will make it into an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take about the quantity of half an ounce in the morning drinking nothing after for the space of three or four hours if from a cold cause let the Patient boyl some Guaiacum or Sassafras in his drink of which take this for a pattern Take of guaiacum Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each two ounces English Liquorice and Cinnamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed an ounce Infuse them in four quarts of spring or running-water twenty four hours afterwards boyl it gently to the consumption of half of this Let the Patient drink half a pinte at a time about the quantity of a quart in a day here Mithridate Nutmeg Diatessaron and Diatrion pipirion is good if he wants rest and the flux continue give him three grains of Laudanum Opiatum where note in the taking of all which things if the Flux heing stayed break out again it is a sign ill humours are to be purged away to which purpose Rubarb prepared Infused often in Indiff-water is very excellent The next sort of Fluxes is called Diarrhaea which is a Flux in which excremental cholerick or phlegmatick humours are cast forth without either blood or food and these come either from the whole body or from the brain or stomach Guts Liver Spleen Mesentery and if in women from the womb and the like If the Patient hath had or have at present a feaver or be dropsical or of an ill habit of body or have eaten excessively and not digested his food it is a sign that it comes from the whole body If the excrements be frothy and he void more by night than day and he have some manifest disease in his head as a Catarrh Lethargy Deafness c. then it proceeds from the head If the fault be in the stomach the Patient hath eaten food apt to corrupt and there appear signs that the concoction is injured either from a hot or cold cause if from the first the humours will be sharp cholerick stinking and nature labours to throw it out if from the last then the excrements will be crude and phlegmatick If the Flux proceed from the Liver the excrements are cholerick and you will perceive some distemper of the Liver if from the Spleen they will be blackish and you have signs of a distempered Spleen If from the Dysentery you will have an extension of the humours but they come from the Liver and Spleen if from the Guts there 's worms if from the womb there hath been obstructions of the Courses and now some symptom that vexes and increases the Flux at that time the Courses are wont to flow For to help this Disease first of all open a vein if the body be full of bloud and if it be not it is good to let bloud if the Patient hath a feaver then purge with such things as leave a binding quality behind them such as Rubarb dryed and given in plantane-Plantane-water with syrrup of Quinces or take a dram of Rubarb and half a dram of the yellow Mirobolans and half a scruple of yellow Saunders infuse them in plantane-Plantane-water strain it and to the straining add half a dram of Rubarb in powder and one ounce of Syrrup of Roses a potion for one dose or you may add the lenitive Electuary or Catholicon according to the strength and condition of the Patient and humours vomiting is good if the body be strong before and after purging give this or the like glyster Take Wheat-bran and red Rose leaves of each one pugil whole Barley two pugils Liquorice sliced and Raisins of the Sun of each one ounce boyl these in a sufficient quantity of water till they come to a pinte in the straining
dissolve one ounce of white sugar and the yolks of two eggs for a glyster After the body is sufficiently emptied then give binding Glysters such as you shall find next in the cure of the Bloudy-flux at the mouth likewise you shall there be directed If the Patient have not a feaver boyl new milk if you can get it and scum off the foam then quench red hot steel in it often drink it warm it is a present remedy Unripe Blackberries and Mulberries dryed and powdered is good to stay this Flux likewise this Opiat is excellent Take of the juice of Quinces Conserve of Roses of each one ounce Dragons bloud sealed-earth and fine Bolearmonack of each one dram Bloud-stone and the Troches of Amber of each half a dram with syrrup of comphry make an Opiat take a little often Or take one ounce of the powder of Rheubarb two drams of the Troches of Sanders mix them and give the Patient two drams thereof twice a day this purgeth away the ill humours and strengtheneth the bowels Or this Take half an ounce of the old Conserve of Roses one dram of Marmalet of Quinces a scruple of Tormentil-root in fine powder half a scruple of fine Bolearmonack with sugar make a bole for one dose which is to be given often if the Flux continue long and strength much decay give Laudanum a grain or two amongst your other medicines you may for ordinary drink use one made of three pintes of water wherein two drams of Mastich hath been boyled Plantane boyled in broth is good and for fear it turn to a Bloudy-flux give an Emulsion of Barley-water and the four cold seeds The last of the Fluxes of the belly is called Dysenteria or the Bloudy-flux which is known by the Patients voiding of bloud with tormenting pains from the ulceration of the guts by sharp and salt phlegmatick and cholerick humours which is cured by removing those sharp humours asswaging pain cleansing and consolidating the ulcer and stopping the Flux To evacuate the humours you must purge with Rubarb every second third or fourth day according to the strength of your Patient season of the year and the like the Dose from half a dram to two drams being dryed as before or made into a Potion thus Take Liquorice scraped and sliced Raisins of the Sun of each three drams Tamarinds and yellow myrobolans of each two drams boyl them in Barley and plantane-Plantane-water to three ounces in the straining infuse a dram of Rubarb thin-sliced then add an ounce of the syrrup of Roses solutive and make a potion This following is excellent in desperate fluxes Take two ounces of the bark of Guiacum bruised and beaten boyl it in a sufficient quantity of water til half be wasted then add red Rose leaves Pomgranate-flowers and Plantane-seed of each two drams let them boyl an hour then to the straining add a dram of Rubarb in powder and three drams of Catholicon for a Potion Mechoacan with Cinnamon is good If with the Dysentery there be a seaver and inflamation of the bowels let the Patient bloud according to strength sometimes vomiting is profitable to intercept those sharp salt humours that fall from the stomach to the Guts omit it not if you see a loathing and perceive the stomach stuft full of humours your vomiting may be this Take from half a dram to a dram of salt of Vitriol syrrup of Quinces and bettony-Bettony-water of each one ounce with ten drams of cinnamon-Cinnamon-water give it for one Dose In the mean time you must give mild and cleansing Glysters first as this made of the roots of Marsh-mallows and Butter-burr of each one handful one pugil of Camomile-flowers Fleabane-seed and Flux-seed of each two drams Boyl them in Barley-water or milk or water wherein steel or Iron hath often been quenched or mutton or sheeps-head-broath to a pinte strain it and dissolve therein the yolks of four eggs well beaten oyl of Roses and syrrup of Quinces of each one ounce and make a glyster At Sea instead of milk use the decoction of Bran boyling in it such of these following herbs as have virtue to cleanse the ulcer such as Centory Wormwood St. Johns wort to the straining of which add Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg and the chymical oyl of wax of each one dram for excoriations or fretting of the guts a glyster of the decoction of bran with Deer-suet the yolk of an egg if to be had is good you may add some Anniseed Fennel-seeds Comin-seeds and Dill-seeds when there is need of more binding then make a Glyster thus Take of the Roots of Comfrey Tormentil and Bistort of each one ounce Plantane Shepherd-Purse Knot-grass and Mouse-ear of each one handful Pumpranet-flowers Acorn-cups Cyprus-nuts of each one dram parched Rice French Barley and red Roses of each one pugil boyl them in Smiths water or water wherein Iron hath often been quenched To a pinte of the straining add of the juice of Plantane and Yarrow of each one ounce and the yolks of two roasted eggs Or instead of the juices you may use the muscilage of Gum Draganth made with Rose or Plantane-water and Goats or Deer-suet of each one dram All this while you must not forget internal remedies to stay the flux nutmegs are excellent if desperate dryed and burnt to powder Rice pottage or this Take of sealed-Earth Harts-horn prepared with Plantane and knot-grass-Knot-grass-water prepared Corral Crocus Martis of each one dram mix them the Dose is from a scruple to one dram in Knot-grass or plantane-Plantane-water one dram of crude Allum given in the said waters doth in a manner charm the flux Or take a pinte of syrrup of Prunes without Sugar a spoonful and half of Tormentil-root in powder boyl them a little together and drink a quarter of a pinte first and last Lastly the Body being well cleansed before make this binding Decoction to compleat the Cure Take the roots of Bistort Comfrey and Tormentil the leaves of Plantane Tarrow Shepherds purse Horse-tail Mouse-ear and Agrimony of each one handful Seeds of Sorrel Grape-stones and Sumach of each one ounce boyl them in four quarts of water till half be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with syrrup of Comfrey Quinces Mirtles dryed Roses and Corral or else make use of this following Opiat Take of Conserve of Quinces and Conserve of old Roses of each one ounce half an ounce of the Conserves of Comfrey-roots prepared Corral Dragons-bloud Bolarmenick sealed-earth Conserve of Slowes Acatia of each one dram Spodium burnt Ivory of each one scruple with as much of any of the Syrrups aforesaid as will make it to an Opiat Give thereof the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night Narcoticks do wonders especially if they be mixed with Strengtheners and Binders as this Take of the old Conserves of Roses and Services of each one dram half a scruple of Confectio Alkermes three granes of Laudanum make thereof a Bolus four ounces of the juice of
by cutting and extenuating and digesting the grosse and tough Flegm therein all the properties before-said of the Elder the Walwort doth perform more strongly and is more effectual in opening and purging Choler Flegm Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout Water Gout the Piles Piles and Womens diseases coloureth the Hair black helpeth the Inflamations of the Eyes and pains in the Eares Womens courses hair Eyes ears the stinging or biting of Serpents Serpents Mad-dog Burning or a Mad-dog the Burnings or Scaldings Scaldings by Fire or Water Wind Cholick Wind Cholick and Stone and Stone the cure of all old sores and fistulous Ulcers Vlcers and all other the griefs and maladies before of the Elder specified Thus in general Terms I have given the species nature and vertues of the Elder and Dwarff-Elder with their excellent operations deducted from the Testimony of the best Authors and late admired experience I shall now lay down some more particular and late experienced medicaments composed of some parts of the Elder and appropriated to several diseases in several parts of Mans body For pain in the Head Take the Cake of the flowers of Elder left in the Still after the distillation and sprinkle upon it the Vinegar of the flowers and apply it to the Temples renewing it with sprinkling on fresh Vinegar or you may use Rose cakes be sprinkled with the Vinegar of Elder which is far better for the brain where the heat is more vehement and the brain more sensible Or Take of fresh Elder leaves two handfuls of Roses and waterlilly-flowers of each one handful being cut and pounded pour upon them of Elder Vinegar the water distilled out of the flowers of each a like quantity presse the juice out strongly and mix with it two whites of Eggs well beaten in which dip a double Linnen cloth and apply it to the Head repeating it often This decoction is excellent to dispell the Vapours of the brain and make one sleep soundly if the Legs and Arms be soundly rubbed therewith when you go to bed Take six Umbells of the Elder flowers when they are full of Annise Umbells four of Roman Camomil flowers one handful six poppy Heads with their seeds being cut together beat them in rain water and so apply them The Elder 's remedies again Hypochondriack and flatulent Melancholy In these diseases if the Patient be subject to Vomit it is expedient first of all to provoke it by the oyl of the infusion of the flowers and bark of the Elder lest by preparing and purging medecines those crude and Excrementitious humours which often are gathered in the Stomack be carried to the more principal parts of the body and augment the obstructions Or give of the syrrup made of the juice of the buds and berries an ounce with some grains of the extract of Scammony and three drops of the oyl of Elder-flowers distilled in the distilled water of the flowers thereof Or use this clyster following which will mitigate pain expell wind and loosen the belly Take of Elder leaves two handfulls of Elder flowers and Roman Cammomil-flowers of each an handful of the stones of Elder-berries dryed two drams which being cut and pounded boyl them in good Wine or Wine of the Elder till the colature come to eight ounces add the oyl of the infused flowers three ounces of Elder-honey two ounces the yolk of one egg mix them and make a clyster and inject it hot After this the Wine which is drawn out of the berries and flowers is very profitable for it opens obstructions cuts grosse humors and by degrees carries them off It doth likewise refresh the vital and animal Spirits drink a cupful thereof each morning for a Month taking before a spoonful or two of flesh broth or a soft Egg with these you may also mix once or twice a week the powder of the buds of Elder which is thus prepared Take of Elder-buds dryed in the shade half an ounce of Elder-kernels trochiscated of Sene leaves of Crystalized Elder Salt of each three dams of the extract of Scammony two drams of Galingale and Mace each half a dram being all subtilly powdered distill upon them of the oyl of Cloves and Fennel of each six drops of Cinnamon and Caraway of each three drops let them be mixed exactly in a marble Morter for a powder whose dose is from a scruple to a dram The Trochiscation or preparation of the seeds of Elder is thus Take one ounce of the lesser Esula prepared in infusion in Vinegar and pulverized grossly put it into Spanish Wine and let them macerate eight daies in the Sun or in the Winter in the Chimney-corner the mouth of the glass being well stopt after strain them through gray Paper and purifie them take the clean Arilla's of the Elder-berries dry them pulverize them and with a sufficient quantity of the powder of Esula make them in paste dry it and then sprinkle them with the same infusion and again work it into paste of which form your Troches dry them and keep them for your use The specifick cure of the Epilepsie or Falling sickness from the Elder The Cure of Children To Infants new born before you give them any thing to swallow you may give them with great profit a spoonful of the syrrup of the flowers or juice of the Elder-berries to carry off that putrid yellowish and sometimes blackish water gathered in the Stomack and parts about while the Infant is in the Mothers womb for these syrrups do not only change and evacuate but they also preserve from and resist malignities Macerate a handfull of Elder-flowers well dryed in Wine with which wash the new born babe it consumes the humors gathered about the joints and comforts the members this also is profitable Take of the powder of the buds one dram of the berries of herb Paris Numb 6. powder them very finely of which give half a scruple for 9 daies together in the water of Elder-flowers or in any other convenient Liquor In the Fit the least spoonful of the spirit of the flowers given with three or five of the seeds of Peony excorticated is much commended or of Peony-seeds excorticated of the best Water of Elder-flowers one ounce and an half of the flowers of Linden half an ounce The cure of those that are of age and grieved with the Falling-sickness In the cure of such persons first purge the body very well In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the Whey of Cows milk which being sweetned with Sugar let him each morning drink an hearty draught thereof or take of the compound powder of the buds two scruples or a dram or take of the new rob of the Elder well thickned with Sugar asmuch as will make a Bolus The Spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in and out of the fit is very effectual but it may be made more efficacious in this
with clothes dispose themselves for sweating But this is onely to be done in the beginnings of Feavers and in such bodies as are not full of grosse and corrupt humors otherwise it is more safe to open the passages of the whole body by Emeticks and Catharticks The purified oyl expressed out of the kernels of the berries is commended in strong and lusty bodies one dram or a dram and an half thereof being taken in the broth of flesh for it gently moveth Vomiting and loosneth the Belly The oyl made of the infused flowers and bark of the Elder from one ounce to three provokes Vomit and purgeth the Belly the same alone or in a decoction may be given in a Glister In young ones the syrrup of the juice of the berries of the buds or bark sufficeth There are some which testifie and call experience to witness that if the middle bark of Elder be pulled downward from the tree it purgeth the body downwards but if they be pulled upward it worketh by Vomit In such Feavers which are lengthened from the stopping or fullness of the Meseraick Veins and from the grosseness and toughness of the humor Oxymel Sambucinum dissolved in the distilled water of the flowers or Barly-water and dayly on the intermitting dayes drank an hour or two before supper is commended the Crystallized salt of the Elder taken from half a scruple to a whole one is profitable also six drops of the Spirit of the fame taken in the broth of flesh all these do powerfully open obstructions and cut asunder the grossenesse and roughnesse of the humor they cleanse the Bowells and Vessels and both by Urine and Sweat dissipate the Feaverish matter In the time of the Fit give the patient a spoonful or a dram and a half of the oyle pressed out of the berries-kernells in warm Ale the rob of Elder in greatness of a Walnut being mixed with half a dram of the powder of Carduus benedictus and swallowed and drinking Vinegar above it and afterwards provoking sweat in bed is a very good medicine In continual and hot burning Feavers where the heat is more intense and great drought tormenteth the Patient make this Julap Take of Fountain or river-River-water three pounds of Elder Vinegar three ounces of the finest Sugar two ounces let them boyl together a little in a fit Vessel unto which being warm add an ounce of Cinnamon in powder let them cool of themselves in a close Vessel and strain them for a Julap of which give the Patient oft in a day it extinguisheth the Feaverish heat cuts the grosse and tough matter cleanseth the thin and Bilous opens obstructions it purgeth the peccant humors and by its acidity sharpneth the appetite and refresheth the strength Of Worms The Crystalline salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from Worms it robs them of their nourishment kills them and purgeth them out the dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or two scruples for those of riper years you may prepare in the Spring time a dish made of Elder-buds freed from their bitter nauseous tast by the infusion of boyling water with Oyl Salt and Vinegar which is to be used as a sallad before supper That this sallad may be the more pleasant you may add some tender leaves of Sorrel Briefly whatsoever I have here said in relating the properties of the Elder the Dwarff-Elder doth more strongly effect in opening and purging Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout the Piles and Womens diseases it coloureth the hair black helpeth inflamations in the Eyes and pains in the Eares the biting or stinging of Venemous creatures or a mad Dog the Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water the Wind Chollick the Chollick and Stone difficulty of Urine the cure of old sores and Fistulous Ulcers the Dropsie and Gout and all the other griefs before specified Eglantine Name IT is also called Sweet-bryar Descript Eglantine or Sweet-bryar is much like the Wild Rose plant having very sharp prickles shutes springes and rough branches the leaves also be not much unlike but larger and of a pleasant smell the flowers be single smaller than the flowers of the Wild Rose most commonly white and sometimes red after which there come also little knaps or long red berries like as in the other Roses wherein the seed is contained Place The Eglantine aswell as the manured Roses is planted in Gardens if it be set against a wall under a Window it will cast a most pleasant smell into the room and so will the branches thereof being set in flower-pots in Windows and Chimneys in the Summer Months Time Eglantine flowers in May and June about the time the Garden-Roses doe Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the fruit is of an astringent quality It stoppeth the Lask Lask and all other issues of blood Bloody-Issues being eaten There is a rough Spongeous ball or Excrescence that groweth on the Wild Rose bush and also on the Eglantine which is of great efficacy and virtue against the Stone Stone and Strangury strangury It bringeth forth the Gravel and Stone and provoketh Urine Vrine White Ellebore Names IT is also called Hellebore and Neese-wort Veratrum album in Latine and Helleborus albus Descript The White Ellebore hath great broad leaves with ribs or Sinews like the leaves of the great Plantain or Gentian the stalk is round two or three foot high at the uppermost part whereof grow along and round about the top the flowers one above another pale of colour divided into six little leaves the which have a green line overthwart the flowers being passed away there cometh in their places small husks wherin the seed is contained the root is round as thick as a mans finger or thumb white both within and without having many threddy strings appending unto it Place White Ellebore or Hellebore groweth in Anticyra neer about the Mountain Octa and in Cappodocia and Syria but the best groweth in Cyrene in this Country the Herbarists plant it in their Gardens Time White Ellebore flowereth in June and July Government and Virtues The root of White Ellebore is hot and dry in the third degree a plant of Mars The root causeth one to Vomit up mightily and with great force all superfluous slimy Venemous and naughty humors Slimy-humors likewise it is good against the Falling-sickness Falling-sickness Frenzies Frenzy Head-ach Melancholy old pains in the Head Melancholy the Gout Gout Sciatica and Sciatica all sorts of Dropsies Poison and against all cold diseases that he hard to cure and will not yield to any medicine But it ought not to be given to any body to be taken inwardly but from a skilful hand and with good advice and due preparation and correcting Galen adviseth not to give of this root in any medicine to be taken into the body but to be used only in outward applications Therefore Outwardly it is good
and among the flowers which are whiter spreading forth into many branches and consisting of five or six small white leaves a peece hardly to be discerned from the white threds which are in the middle after which come brownish three square seed the Root groweth in time to be very great with divers and sundry great spreading branches of a dark brownish or reddish colour on the outside and with a pale yellow thin skin under it which covereth the inner substance or Root which rind and skin being pared away the root appeareth of so fresh and lively a colour with fresh coloured Veins running thorow it that the cheifest of that Rubarb brought us from the Indies doth not excell it which Root being carefully dryed will hold his colour almost aswel as when it is fresh Descript 4. The true Rubarb and Rhapontick of China and of the shops Rhabarbarum ponticum genuinum officinarum The form of the root is somewhat great round and long for the most part yet there are smaller and shorter peeces that come together the colour on the outside is not all alike for some is of better colour and sounder than other the best is firm and heavy not spongy or light somewhat brown but fresh on the outside without many blackish spots with fresh coloured veins running thorow it bitter in tast and somewhat Aromatical in smell especially if it be fresh and causing the spittle to be yellow being a little chewed in the Mouth The True Rhapontick brought to us with the Rubarbe is only the lesser and longer peeces of the Root of the true Rubarb Descript 5. The broader Elecampane leafed Rubarb Rhaponticum Enuliae folio latiore This hath divers leaves rising from the root somewhat large and long but not so large as the leaves of Elecampane greenish on the upper-side and greyish or woolly underneath every one standing on his own stalk pointed at the end and dented about the edges from amongst which riseth up a reasonable big round stalk about half a yard or a foot high bearing at the top thereof one great scaly head consisting of very broad and loose or open brown scales like a small Artichoke head at first but that the scales are much more open The flower standeth in the middle and is composed of many blewish red or purple thrums very pleasant to behold after which come blackish round and long seed the Root is somewhat long and thick blackish on the outside and of a deadish colour on the inside And hath formerly been used for Rha Ponticum Descript 6. The narrower Elecampane leafed Rhubarbe Rhaponticum alterum angustifolium This differeth not much from the last but onely in the leaves which are a little narrower and longer then it and a little unevenly waved on the edges the head flowers are alike but a little larger and so is the Root Place and Time Tragus saith that the first groweth naturally about Lausanna in Savoy but onely in Gardens with us The second groweth upon the hills not far from Caria in Germany as also neer Friburg in Switzerland and on the Mountains in Austria The third as is reported was natural in Thracia and from some seeds thereof it hath been planted both in England and other Countries The fourth groweth chiefly in China and Cataga and in the Mountains of Persia The fifth groweth on Mount Baldus neer Verona in Italy and upon the Hills in Switzerland and in some craggy places in Savoy All these sorts of Rhubarbe do grow with us in our Gardens and do flower about the beginning or middle of June and the Seed is ripe in July The Roots that are to be dryed and kept all the year following are not to be taken up before the stalk and leaves be quite withered and gone which will be about the middle or end of October Government and Vertues Culpepper with a great deal of foolish non-sense assigns all these plants to the Government of Mars But I say that they more properly are under the particular influence of Jupiter the leaves of these kinds of Docks do a little mollifie and loosen the Belly being boyled in Broth and taken but the Roots have a more opening and purging quality in them and some more or lesse then others according to their quality The round-leafed Rubarb is stronger in operation than the Garden-Patience or Moncks Rubarb but this last is of Excellent use in dyet drinks and decoctions to purge the Liver and cleanse the Blood Liver Blood Tragus saith that a dram of the dryed Roots of Moncks Rubarb with a scruple of Ginger made into powder and taken fasting in warm Broth purgeth Choler and Flegm Choler Flegm downward very gently the seed thereof contrariwise doth bind the Belly and helpeth to stay any sort of Lask or Bloody-flux The distilled Water of the leaves is used with good successe to heal Scabs and foul ulcerous Sores Lask Bloody-Flux Scabs Sores and to allay the inflamations of them the juice of the leaves or Roots or the decoction of them in Vinegar is a most effectual remedy to heal foul-Scabs and Running-Sores The round-leafed or bastard-Rubarb hath all the same properties but more effectual and is also good against the stinging of Scorpions as Dioscorides saith the decoction thereof in Vinegar dropped into the Ears Scorpions pain in the Eares taketh away the paines thereof and gargled in the Mouth taketh away the pains of the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach and being drunk healeth the Jaundice the Seed thereof taken helpeth the gnawing and Griping pains in the Stomack Jaundice gripings in stomach and taketh away the loathing thereof unto Meat which cometh by vicious sharp humors which are gathered together at the Mouth of the Stomack the Root thereof helpeth the ruggedness of the nails Rugged Nails and being boyled in wine it helpeth the Kings-Evil Swellings of the Throat and kernels Kernels of the Ears being swollen and it helpeth them that are troubled with the Stone provoketh Urine and helps the dimness of the sight The Roots of this bastard Rubarb are of good use in diet-drinks which are opening and purging or in Ale or Beer prepared for opening the Liver cleansing the blood and to allay the heat thereof The properties of the round leafed Dock or English Rubarb are the same with the former but much more effectual and hath all the virtues of the Indian Rubarb but only is not so purgative but being taken in a double quantity it worketh almost in an equal quality without bitterness or Astriction The true Indian Rubarbe doth excellently and safely purge the body of Choler and Flegm Flegm Choler either taken it self in powder in a draught of White-wine or steeped therein all night and taken fasting or mixed among other purgers cleansing the Stomack Stomack Liver and Spleen Liver Spleen and the Blood opening Obstructions Obstructions and helping those griefs that come thereof as the Jaundies Jaundies Dropsie
Bryar-ball is often used being made into powder and drunk to break the stone to provoke Urine and to ease and help the Chollick Whites Stone Vrine Chollick In the middle of these balls are often found certain white worms which being dryed and made into powder and some of it drunk is found by long experience of many to kill and drive forth the worms of the belly Rice Descript THis grain or Corn riseth up with a stronger stalk than wheat about a yard high with sundry joynts and a large thick leaf at each of them like unto the Reed at the top it beareth a spiked tuft spread into branches whose blooming is said to be purplish with the seed standing severally on them inclosed in a hard brown straked husk and an Arm at the head of every one of them which being hulled is very white of the bigness almost of wheat Cornes blunt at both ends Names Rice is called in latine Oriza and the Italians call it Rizo the French Rys Place and Time This grain originally was brought out of the East-Indies where in many places it yieldeth two Crops in a year being the chiefest Corn they live upon and not with them onely but through all Aethiopia and Africa and from thence hath been brought into Syria Aegypt Italy c. It delighteth to grow in moist grounds and is a Summer Corn ripe about the middle of Autumn Government and Vertues It is a Solar grain The physical use thereof is chiefly to stay the Lasks and Fluxes of the stomach and belly especially if it be a little parched before it be used and steel quenched in the milk wherein it is boyled being somewhat binding and drying It is thought also to increase seed Lasks Fluxes increase Seed being boyled in milk and some sugar and Cinnamon put thereunto The flower of Ryce is of the same property and is sometimes also put into Cataplasmes that are applyed to repell humours from flowing or falling to the place and is also conveniently applyed to womens breasts Repell humors Inflamations in womens breasts to stay Inflamations therein in the beginning thereof Spanish Safron Kinds and Names I shall describe severally the sorts hereof and therein set down their names Descript 1. The manured Spanish or bastard Safron called in Latine Cnicus sive Carthamus sativus This hath sundry large leaves lying next the ground without any pricks or with very few white ones at the corners of the leaves and divisions among which riseth a strong round stalk three or four foot high branching it self up to the top bearing shorter leaves sharp-pointed and prickly at the edges and at their ends a great open scaly head out of which shoot forth many gold yellow threads of a most orient and shining colour which being gathered in a dry warm time and kept dry will abide in the same delicate colour which it bare when it was fresh for a long time the seed when it cometh to maturity is white and hard somewhat long and round and a little cornered the root is long white and woody perishing yearly after seed time Descript 2. Wild or bastard Safron of Candy Cnicus alter Creticus This hath a thick and long black root from which riseth up one streight round stalk half a cubit high set here and there with long sharp-pointed leaves thick set with prickles at the dents of the edges at the top whereof standeth a scaly head compassed with prickly leaves of the bigness of the Atractylis or distaff-thistle out of which break forth divers thick yellow Safron-like threads thrust thick together a fier which the seed groweth therein being white and as big as the greater Centory-seed Descript 3. Clusius his everliving bastard Safron Cnicus alter perennis Clusâ—i This groweth up with divers hard strong and round stalks without any branches at all from them to the height of three or four foot bearing thereon at several places somewhat large and long leaves dented about the edges of a sad or dusky green colour at the top of every stalk standeth one great close hard scaly head but not prickly at all not so great as the other bastard-Safron never opening the scales of the head as that doth from the middle whereof cometh divers threads yet nothing so many as in the other of a sad blewish ash colour and whitish at the bottom of them the seed which lyeth among the down in those heads is greater than of the other thick and short but not white and in lesser quantity than it The Roots run down deep into the ground and being there increased do run and spread themselves taking up a great deal of room Place and Time The first is generally sown in Spain Italy and other places for the especial use thereof The second Alpinus saith was brought out of Candy the last groweth wild in Spain aswel about Sevil as Cordula and in several other places as Clusius saith These kinds of Safron are called both in Greek and Latine Cnicus and Cnecus and in Apothecaries shops Carthamus of some also Crocus Saracenicus the Arabians call it Kartan the Italians Saffarano Sarasenisco the Spaniards Alacor and Acafran Salvia the Germans call it wilder Safron the French Safron-bastard and graine de Peroquets because they use to feed Parrots with the seed in English wild Safron Bastard-Safron Spanish Safron and Catalonia Safron Government and Virtues These are all Solar the flowers of the first Spanish Safron are much used in Spain and other places to be put into their broths and meats they are also of great use in dying silk into a kind of a Carnation-colour the seed is chiefly used in physick or rather the kernels within the seed which beaten and the emulsion thereof taken in honyed water or the broth of a Pullet and taken fasting doth open the body and purgeth watry and Phlegmatick humours Phlegm Watry humours Chollick Dropsie both upwards and downwards which it also performeth if the emulsion thereof be given in a Glyster and thereby helpeth the Chollick and dropsie and those other diseases that proceed from those humours Being made into a lohoch or licking Electuary with Sugar and honey and a few Almonds and Pine-kernels it wonderfully cleanseth the breast and lungs of phlegm sticking thereon causing it to be spit forth Phlegm Breast Lungs Sperm Voice cleared it clears the voice and increaseth seed by the often use of it but it doth somewhat trouble the stomach and therefore some stomachichal helpers are to be used with it As Anniseed Galanga Mastich or if need be of more forceable Cardamoms Ginger Salgem a dram of the flowers in powder taken in Hydromel or honyed water or in Barley-water helpeth the Jaundise Jaundise a dram of the pulp of the seed taken with an ounce of Syrup of wormwood doth the like also the Confection made of the seeds of it called in Shops Diacarthamum is an especial good medicine to purge Choler and flegm as also to clear and
two ounces Barley and Bean-flower of each one ounce Wormwood and Bettony of each half an ounce two drams of Commin-seeds powdered Boyl them all in a pinte of Red-wine to the thickness of a Pultis according to art then add oyl of Roses and Oyl of Camomile of each one ounce and two ounces of honey being mixt it is to be applyed morning and evening or Paracelsus plaister hath been applyed with good success but from the eleventh to the twentieth day apply this following plaister Take twelve ounces of fresh Porks greese of sweet oyl and red lead of each twenty ounces Calcit is burnt but not till it be red burnt Allum of each two ounces four ounces of Deer-suet Mastich and Olibanum finely powdered of each two ounces of these make a plaister according to art before you use it you must moisten it with oyl of Lillies then make use of Paracelsus his stiptik-plaister moistened in Oyl of Camomile to the end of the cure If there be a wound with the fracture in children dress it with a feather dipt in Arceus his Linement not taking away any part of the skul unles there be either a feaver Convulsion a vomiting or a Palsey then open as before and dress it according to art In older persons if in Summer make a Pultis called a Cataplasm of Barley-meal vinegar water apply it If it be in winter make it with wine adding thereto powder of Roses Mastich Myrtle-berries and oyl of Roses administring to the Patient this purge Take of the Electuary called Cariocostinum and of the Electuary of the juice of Roses of each one dram Syrrup of Chichory with Rhubarb one ounce with three ounces of the distilled water of Endive make thereof a Potion letting him bloud before and as often afterwards as you shall see it necessary and having given him a glyster or glysters or Suppositories as you thought good drop some Oyl of sweet Almonds into his ears and nose about the fourth day make him some Gargarisms made of the flowers of Rosemary and Roses Violets Cinamon and the like boyled in Barley-water to which you must add honey of Roses or honey and White-wine-vinegar and water boyled together called Oxymel simplex the seventh day use the same plaister you applyed to children from the eleventh to the twentieth day moistned with oyl of Roses but if you see any appearance of dangerous symptoms after the seventh day open the skul and cure it according to art For wounds of the brain and the other Membrans prevent what possible you can the entrance of the air for the first seven days use oyl of Roses and Turpentine Honey of Roses of each one ounce Aqua-vitae two ounces but honey of Roses and Spirit of wine are to be compared to none upon all which apply Paracelsus plaister When there is a moving of the brain from its natural place by reason of violent external causes such as blows falls from a high place and the Patient be astonished vomit and at length fall a Raving sometimes it is more gentle wherein no vessels are broken sometimes more violent wherein the vessels are broken and the brains shaken then follows speechlesness bleeding at the nose and ears vomiting the matter putrifying a feaver follows First begin the Cure in letting the Patient blood in the arm or the veinunder the tongue give him often cooling glysters such as before were mentioned if occasion be gently purge him then shave the head and anoynt it twice a day with oyl of Roses after apply this Pultis warm Take of Barley-meal three ounces powder of Bettony and Roses of each half an ounce Boyl them with the decoction of Bettony and a little Rose-water to the form of a Pultis adding towards the end half an ounce of oyl of Roses yolks of two eggs mix them and so apply it if there be a wound use this following Oyntment Take new wax and Collollony of each one ounce Gum-Elemie Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earth-worms Sweet Almonds and the yolks of eggs and of Roses of each two drams Saffron one dram mix it and therewith make an Oyntment if with two ounces of this you shall mix the yolk of one egg it will afford more ease to the Patient If there shall happen to grow a Tumor called a Mushroom from its likeness to the thing so called which is sometimes hard without bloud almost sensless sometimes it will be soft and tender and it will smell noisome being narrow beneath and broad above sometimes increased to the bigness of a Hens egg caused from a thick melancholy blood springing from the broken vessels as before and will partake of the nature of the part to which it grows which will prove dangerous if it happens from the flowing of vicious humours from the brain In the beginning of the cure use such glysters as this every day afterwards every third day take the roots and leaves of Marsh-mallows Mallows the herb Mercury flowers of Camomile Myrtle-flowers and leaves of Bettony of each half a handfull Linseed and Fenugreek Anniseeds of each half an ounce Boyl them in Spring or running-water till the third part be boyled away Strain it to one pinte of the straining add Benedict laxativum and Hiera picra compound of each three drams the yolk of one egg oyl of Camomile two ounces common salt one dram mix them and make a glyster use the following fomentation twice a day Take of the leaves and flowers of Bettony Sage Camomile Mellilot Roses tops of Sweet Margerum and Rosemary of each one handfull Anniseeds and Fenugreek of each one ounce cut them and bruise them then take as many of them as will fill a Bag which may cover almost half the head let it be quilted then boyl it in equal parts of Red wine and water and apply it hot Then cleanse the head with hot Linnen which done be sprinkle the Mushroom or fungus and the wound with this following powder Take of the root of Avens Angelica sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed of each half a dram of the root of round Birthwort Orrice and Lignum-vitae of each two drams flowers of Sage tops of Sweet margerum and Rosemary of each one pugil i. e. as much as you can take up betwixt your thumb and the two fore-fingers make all of them into a powder and use it as is before directed upon which apply the Basilick plaister the Receipt is as follows Take four ounces of the Bettony-plaister Gum-elemy dissolved in one ounce of Oyl of Roses Powder of Red Roses and Myrtles of each one dram Mastick Sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed Angelica Avens or Herb-Bennet of each half a dram as much wax as will serve to make it into a plaister But if it be grown to such a bigness as a Hens egg bind it with silk 〈◊〉 â—he root very fast and when it is fallen off use the former powders for a Swelling coming from wind use the same method Wounds of the
eye-lids if they be made overthwart-ways are to be stitched up and this following powder strewed upon them which hath a virtue to heal them speedily Take of Bolearmonack and sealed earth called terra sigillata of each two drams of Dragons bloud called sanguis Draconis and Sarcocol of each one dram mix them for your use or else use Arceus's Liniment or artificial Balsom Purging and bleeding must not be forgot if the wound be great wounds of the eyes are carefully to be handled if the eye and eye-lid be both wounded keep them from growing together and apply defensatives to the forehead and temples to hinder Inflamations and pain and so dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound Arceus's Liniment and the like with Paracelsus his plaister over the eye-lids But to cleanse the eyes from any filth use this medicine following Take Syrrup of dryed Roses one ounce the waters of Fennel and Rue of each two drams Aloes wash'd Olibanum the gum of each half an ounce mix them for your use or this Take one ounce of Barley-water three drams of clarified honey Aloes well wash'd in plantane-Plantane-water and Sugar Candy of each half an ounce mix them for use also this ensuing is good Take of the pulp called Muscilages of Olibanum Gum-Arabick Gum-dragant and Sarcocol of each three drams the pulp or muscilages must be drawn in Barley-water one dram of Aloes being thrice washed in rose-Rose-water Cerus wash'd and prepared Tutty of each half a dram mix them for your use you may if you find occasion make use of Rhasis his white troches called Trochisci albi Rhasis cum vel sine Opio being made with or without Opium likewise at any time you may use those Troches dissolved in Plantane or Barly-water instead of Breast-milk Wounds in the Ears if altogether cut off are cured by applying the Powders of Gentian Orrice Dittany Aloes myrrhe Mastich Barley-flower Sarcocol of each equal quantities and the oyntment of red Lead laying over them Paracelsus plaister if they be divided and must be stitched take hold of the skin onely and dress them with Arceus his Linement if the division be but small then you may use the dry stitch to keep them joyned together the dry stitch is when peeces of cloath are dipt in such and the like glutinating oyntments Take Mastich Myrrhe Dragons bloud powder of Red Roses Gum-Dragon of each two drams powder them all very finely that done put to them the white of an egg and as much rose-Rose-water as will make them of a glewy substance standing so all night The next day if the medicine be too thick put more Rose-water and Plantane-water to make it of a fit thickness the peeces of cloath are to be indented and applyed on each side the wound four hours before you stitch them this is done without pain and therefore may be used where-ever you can without stitching or needles Wounds in the nose if in the soft part only may be cured by dry stitch as before observing the same method if in the hard part it is either the bone or gristle otherwise called Cartilage if in the former broken restore it by putting up some Instrument or fit stick wrapt about with a soft linnen rag then with Pledgets dipt in this astringent medicine made of the white of an egg Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud applyed to the sides of the nose you shall endeavour to confirm the restored bones then put up small Pipes into the nostrils not exactly round but something flattish put them not up too high so fasten them with strings to a Cap lest they fall out by this means the bones will be kept in their place and you will make a passage both for the matter and breathing Remember the wound is to be brought together either by dry stitch or needle and Bol Armanack Mastich Dragons bloud Burnt-Allum mixt with the white of an egg is to be applyed using convenient binding which may not press the bones too much lest the nose become flat If in the gristle or Cartilage in stitching take hold only of the skin and to prevent the growing of proud flesh within use tents according to art In wounds of the Cheeks use the dry stitch with the aforesaid medicines The other manner of using the dry stitch is thus having spread the glutinative oyntment or Plaister set down before in wounds of the ears upon peeces of strong cloath or the cloath dipt in the glutinating oyntment apply on each side of the wound one peece of the same a singers breadth distance asunder or so let it ly on till it be well dryed to the skin then draw the edges of the cloaths together with your needle and thred and the flesh will follow and so come to joyn together If the wound be large use two or three needles as in manner of curing the Hair-lip shall presently be shown which you may fortifie with the dry stitch i. e. use the dry stitch upon the other Wounds of the lips are to be cured as other common wounds if they pierce not through but if they do they are to be cured as in the hair lip which is done by piercing through the lips of the wound with a needle or two if occasion be putting a thin piece of lead on both sides Lastly snip off the ends of the needle and cast the silk about the ends thereof as Taylors do when they fasten them to the skirt or sleeves this must be done in the middle but at the ends an ordinary stitch will serve especially in children the wound is to be dressed with Arceus his Linement if the inward part of the lips be wounded as happens by falls and the like then use within Honey of Roses Syrrup of dryed Roses c. Wounds of the tongue happen several manner of ways as by falls when it is bitten by the teeth c. If the wound of the tongue be great and deep then you must stitch it deep to hold it the stronger and surer cutting the thread close to the knot Then make use of this gargle called a Gargarism following Take of the leaves and flowers of Privet Plantane-leaves and red-Rose leaves of each one handful of the rindes and flowers of Pomgranates of each half an ounce boyl them in a quart of Smiths water or water wherein Gads of Steel have been often quenched let them boyl till the third part thereof be consumed then strain them and dissolve in the liquor two drams of Acacia or the juice of Sloes and two ounces of the syrrup of dryed Roses with which let the Patients often wash their tongues Moreover you must have and hold constantly almost in your mouth either Marmolet of Quinces preserved Cherries Rasberries or the syrrup of dryed Roses or syrrup of Quinces The Patient is to feed on liquid things as broath Almond-milks c. Or a Poatch'd egg at most c. Now the manner of stitching up wounds of the tongue whether long-ways or athwart when
any happens to come under your hands is this Let the Mate Assistant or some other body hold the tongue very firmly in his hand with a soft Linnen cloath lest it should slip from between his fingers whilst the other stitch it together which when he hath done let him cut off the thread as near the knot as he can lest it be tangled by the teeth as he eats or otherwise and so put the Patient to pain by pulling and tearing the stitches wherewith the part was sewed The parts of the neck which happen to be wounded are the Wind-pipe and Gullet veins of the throat called the jugular veins sleepy arteries called also the soporal arteries and the recurrent Nerves A transverse or overthwart wound of the Trachea Arteria called the Wind-pipe is dangerous by reason of a feaver Gangreen or often following thereon If the wound be between the rings it is cureable if holding a Candle before it whilst the Patient speaks it be either blown out or moved then it is wounded quite through if not stitch it up as neatly as you can dressing it with Arceus's Linement and Oyl of St. Johns wort compound and let not the Patient swallow any hard solid thing but liquid broaths Gellies and such like when you shall have occasion to use Gargarismes then this and the following may be used with profit to the Patient Take a handful of French barley a pugil of Rosemary flowers Raisins of the Sun stoned Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice let them be boyled all together adding thereto when you have strained them honey of Roses and Julep of Roses of each two ounces The other is this take three spoonfuls of French barley one pugil of the flowers of red Roses Sumach Pomgranate-flowers of each two drams Raisins of the Sun stoned and Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice boyl these together according to art in three pintes of running water to the consumption of half strain them to which add honey of Roses and syrrup of myrtles of each two ounces for a Gargarism either of these moisten the mouth and throat will mitigate the harshness of the part asswage pain cleanse and agglutinate and cause a more free and easie breathing If the veins of the throat or Jugular veins sleepy or soporal arteries be deeply wounded 't is mortal if not first stanch the bloud which is done by several means as with Pledgets dipt in a medicine made of the white of an egg vinegar and water being well mixt together and applyed or by astringent powders whereof you have had choice often before which you may apply thus Touch the vessels with your finger then wipe away the bloud with lint or a sponge dipt in red wine then put some powder with your fingers to the vessel after that apply the same medicine upon Pledgets to the place where your fingers were and keeping them close down fill the wound with pledgets armed with the same and last of all a four-doubled cloath wet in Red wine or some astringent liquor as of the decoction of the roots of Lungwort Ciniquefoil the leaves of Knot-grass Burnet Hors-tail Plantane and the like either boyled in water or red wine and water or red wine alone In other places where you may use rowling you must rowl below the wound upward and when you come to the wound rowl three or four times about but if you cannot make use of rolling the part then if you can come at the mouth of the vessel with your finger or thumb press it so long till the bloud shall be so thick as a clot about it and so stop its passage or use this powder following Take two drams of Frankincense Aloes Dragons bloud Cobwebs Mastich Sarcocol Vmber of each one dram and make them into a fine powder if this prevail not notnigh a noble part some add sublimate and auripigmentum of each half a dram to two drams of these powders If you fear an Aneurisma known by the beating of the Arterie apply this following Take of the leaves of Nightshade Henbane Mandrakes bruised of each one handfull as much Barley-flower as will serve to make it a Poultis without boyling if it be deep To incarn use this Take of oyl of St. Johns wort four ounces three ounces of Gum-elemy half a pound of Venus Turpentine melt them all together and strain them when they begin to be cold add to it Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud of each one ounce Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich of each one dram with two ounces of Aqua vitae mix them and apply them warm and over them a Diapalma-Plaister moistned with Oyl of Roses to hinder Inflammation so dressing till the end of the cure as in other wounds If the Gullet be wounded and wholly divided or over-thwart it is then incureable if not it is to be stitched leaving a passage in the lowermost part and cure as in the Cure of the Wind-pipe aforesaid using the Gargarisms as aforesaid outwardly use this Take half an ounce of the Syrrup of dryed Roses one dram of Bolarmanack Gum Mastich and Dragons bloud of each one scruple half the yolk of an egg with as much Cyprus Turpentine as is sufficient incorporate them if wounds do not pierce to the Wind-pipe veins of the throat soporal Arteries and be not very deep they are to be cured after the manner of ordinary wounds If the recurrent Nerves be wounded without hurt of any other notable vessel it is easily cured dressing it with a sufficient quantity of Venus Turpentine with Boll Armanack or the Balsome mentioned in the cure of wounds of the veins and arteries In wounds of the nerves to hinder pain and Inflamation Bleeding and purging are to be used or suppositories and glysters outwardly Embrocate with oyl of earth-worms Dill and Roses to the wound it self apply with Lint Wax Colophony of each one ounce Gum-Elemy and Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earthworms Oyl of sweet Almonds and the oyl of the yolks of eggs oyl of Roses of each two drams with one dram of Saffron make therewith an oyntment according to art If you take the yolk of one egg and put two ounces of this unguent it will be the more anodyne i. e. ease pain the better and if to the aforesaid oyntment you shall add of each a dram of myrrhe and Sarcocol it will be a good sarcotick medicine i. e. procure good flesh to grow in the wound If you have occasion to use tents take heed they touch not the Nerve if you see it necessary and convenient lay this Poultis or Cataplasm upon the part Take half an ounce of Marsh-mallow roots Camomile-flowers Melilot and Bettony of each one ounce of the powder of Linseed and Fenugreek of each one ounce and a half Bean-flower one ounce boyl them in Lixivium i. e. Washing-lee or water and salt then put to them Oyl of Earthworms and Roses of each one ounce two
Iron hooks being soft under water but by the Air is hardned as Coral is the white which is the lighter and sweeter is best for Medicine the yellow serveth more to Mechanick uses and being rubbed it will draw strawes and other small things unto it as the Loadstone doth Iâ—on and it will burn like Rozen or Bitumen with a strong heady sent the powder thereof cast into the flame of a Candle or other light will make a sudden flash like Nitre by being distilled in a retort it will yeeld an oyle which at the first is very red and smelleth very strong and almost odious but being several times Rectified both colour and sent will be amended and the oyle fit for medicinal use Government and Virtues Amber is of a moderate hot and day temperature and under the particular influence of Mars if it be burned on Coals and the fumes therof received into the head Head it doth much help the moyst distillations thereof on the Eyes Eyes Teeth Teeth Nose Nose or Stomack Stomack and is good for those that have the falling sickness Falling-sickness It provokes womens courses and is very good for to help the fits of the Mother Courses Mother it prevents miscarriage and procures Easie delivery to take half a dram of the powder in a teare Egg or in Wine three or four mornings together which also helpeth the whites and men that have the running of the Reins it stayeth fluxes and strengthneth the parts it provokes Urine plentifully being taken in saxifrage-saxifrage-water It is very good for those that are troubled with old Coughs or are fallen into Consumptions to take the powder therof mixed with conserve of red Roses and taken in the mornings fasting and is also profitable for Joynt-Aches and the Running Gout the chymical oyl of Amber being taken inwardly three or four drops in a little Muscadine doth wonderfully help the Stone and the stopping of Urine Strangury or pissing by drops Two or three drops used outwardly to the Temples and the nape of the Neck or behind the Eares doth warm and dry a cold moist brain discusseth wind in the Eares and head strengthneth the memory and is good in all diseases of the head or brain Ambergrease Names Descript IT is called Ambra Grisea in Latin and Ambergrise in English But what it is or from what it cometh there are various opinions yet none certain some suppose it be the spawn of a Whale others affirm it to bee the excrement which hath long continued in the belly of the whale which being cast forth is by the motion of the Seas cast on shore some others think it to be the excrement of certain great fishes and some take it to be the Foam of the Sea but all these opinions are vulgar Errors and Erroneous The most certain received opinion of the most Judicious is That it is a kind of Bitumen whose springs are in the Rocks of the Sea or as some and with good reason affirm that it groweth on the Rocks as Mushrooms do on Trees condensate into that fâ—rm and substance we observe it in oily and unctuous originally and being light is carried by the waves of the Sea unto the shores of sundry Countries and climates There is much variety in the colour thereof and some in the substance as white more or less or gray lighter or darker or inclining to redness or darkness that which is not very white as being usually very dry and inclining to a grayish colour more or lesse and either with spots and veines or without so as it be fat that is upon a knives point heated will shew oyly is accounted the best and the black sort is the worst Government and Vertues It is governed by the Sun and is hot and dry of temperature in the second degree it warmeth resolveth and strengthneth what way soever it be taken it easeth the paines in the head being dissolved in a warm morter and mixed with a little oyntment of Orenge flowers the Temples and forehead being anointed therwith It likewise comforteth the brain warmeth and resolveth the cold defluxions of humors thereon and on the Nerves and Sinews it doth also comfort and strengthen the memory and vital spirits it is good for women troubled with the mother to be applied to the place it helpeth barrenness proceeding from a cold cause and is good for those to smell unto who are subject to the falling sickness it doth well agree with aged persons to warm comfort and strengthen their cold decayed spirits adding vigour unto them and is likewise accounted to have a property to stir and excite Venereous exercises Amomum Description IT is a bunch or cluster of whitish round berries somewhat like unto grapes for the outward form and bigness but else very like unto Cardamomes within yet bigger and rounder having within the outer whitish thin shell or skin many blackish brown seeds close thrust together very like to the inner seeds of Cardamoms but larger and of somewhat a hot peircing sent smelling like unto oyle of spike and of a sharpe hot and quick tast as most Indian spices are Government and Vertues Sol hath the peculiar Government hereof it is of an heating binding and drying quality procuring rest and sleep Sleep Rest and easing pains in the head Head-ach Imposthumes Scorpions being applied to the forehead it digesteth and discusseth inflamations and Imposthumes and helpeth those that are stung by Scorpions being used with Basil it is good against the Gout and Griping in the Guts Gout Gripings to swallow three are four of the seeds and for the fits of the mother taken in the same manner or made into a pessary and so used or else in a Bath It is convenient for the Liver and Reines and is an ingredient of cheif account in great Antidotes that are preservatives Annise Name IT hath no other name but Annise and Anniseeds Descript This plant hath leaves much like young parsly newly sprung up his stalks be round and hollow the leaves at first coming up somwhat round but afterwards spring forth other leaves cut and jagged like those of Parsly but a great deal smaller and whiter at the top of the stalkes grow divers fair tufts or spikey Rundells with white flowers which being past cometh the seed whitish and sweet in smell and tast Place Annise grows naturally in Syria and Candy but may now be found in some gardens in England Time It flowers in June and July Nature and Vertues It is under the dominion of Jupiter of temperature hot and dry in the third degree the seeds are only used in Physick which do much dissolve Wind Wind Stomack Bow Belly lask Vrine stone Hiccop Flux Whites dropsie Liver Thirst Lust milk Mouth breath flegm Cough poyson Venemous Beasts Fa ling-sickness Squinance Throat help belchings and blastings in the Stomack and bowels Gripings and pains in the belly it stoppeth the Lask and provoks Urine and
it giveth small nourishment though not bad and is withal a little statuâ—ent or windy yet Country-people in divers places of Germany and Italy do feed hereon as almost their onely bread-corn and are strong â—nd lusty Persons following hard Labor for the bread or cakes made â—herof are pleasant but do somwhat presse or lye heavy on the stomack I never knew any bread or cakes made of it for people to eat â—n this Country but it is generally used to fatten Hogs and Poultry of â—ll sorts which it doth very exceedingly and quickly The physical uses of it are these It provoketh Urine Vrine Milk Belly Melancholy Sight increaseth milk loosneth the belly and being taken in wine is good for melancholy persons the juice of the leaves dropped into the eyes cleareth the sight Bane-wort Names IT is also called in some places of England Sperewort Descript This plant hath reddish stalks full of knees or joynts upon which grow long narrow leaves almost like the leaves of Withy but longer and a little snipt or toothed round about especially those that grow lowest the flowers are yellow as Gold somwhat rough in the middle in Fashion and Colour like those of Golden Crowfoot After the flowers be past there succeed knops or heads like those of Crowfoot the reed is threddy Place It groweth in moist medows watry places and standing puddles Time It flowreth in May and yeeldeth his seed soon after Government and Vertues This is an herb of fiery Mars hot and dry in the fourth degree it blistereth the body as Ranunculus doth and is like it in complexion and operation This herb is no way to be given inwardly for it is hurtful both to man and beast the sheep which happen to eat thereof are troubled with a greivous inflamation which burneth up and consumeth their Livers whereof they dye the Dutchmen call it Egelcoolen because sheep that have eaten of it have a disease which they call Egel that is the blistering and inflamation of the Liver Spanish-Broom Names IT is also called Italian-Broom Descript The Spanish-Broom hath woodish stems from which grow up long slender and pliant twiggs which be bare and naked without leaves or at least having very few small leaves set here and there far apart from one another the flowers are yellow not much unlike the flowers of our English Broom after which it hath Cods wherein are contained brown and flat seed Place This Broom groweth in dry places in Spain and Languedoc and is not found in this Countrey but in the Gardens of Herbarists It is plentifull in the Physick Garden at Westminster Time It flowers in this Countrey in June and somwhat after the seed is ripe in August Government and Vertues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry of temperature the flowers and seed of Spanish Broom the quantity of a dram being drunk in mede or honyed-honyed-water cause strong Vomiting Vomiting but without danger the seed taken alone looseth the belly Belly loosned and bringeth forth great plenty of watry and tough humors out of the twigs or little branches being steeped in water is pressed forth a juice which taken in quantity of a little glass full fasting is good against the Squinancy and also is good against the Sciatica Base-broom Name IT is called also in English Woodwoseen Descript This is not much unlike the common broom saving that it is not so high nor so straight but lieth along almost upon the ground with many small branches proceeding from a woody stem and set with little long small leaves and at the top with small fair yellow flowers not much unlike those of the Common Broom but smaller after them come narrow husks or Cods wherein is a flat seed the root is hard and of a woodish substance Place It groweth in untilled places that lye low and is very frequent in moist clay pasture grounds Time It flowers in July and August and sometimes after and shortly after the seed is ripe Government and Virtues It is hot and dry of temperature and under the same planetary influence as the other Brooms and is in nature and operation like unto the common Broom but not so powerful It is seldom suffered to grow while the seed is ripe in the Country they gather it while it is in flower for the dyers who dye clothes yellow with it Behen Names IT is also called Been-album and Polemonium Descript Behen hath tender stalks with joynts the leaves are meetly broad set two at every Joynt one against another at the highest of the stalks grow white flowers hanging down and joyning one to another like a little nose-gay after the flowers there cometh black seed inclosed in round huskes the root is white plain and long Place Behen groweth upon mountains and rough stony places but is planted here in Gardens Time It flowers in June and July Government and Vertues It is dry in the second degree a Saturnine plant the root being drunk in wine is good against the bloudy Flux flux Venemous bitings Vrine Strangury and the bitings and stingings of Venemous beasts the same drunk in water Provokes Urine and helps the strangury and pains in the huckle bone It is good to be taken with Vinegar against the hardnesse and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen and all pains thereof being chewed in the mouth it helpeth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach the same being pounded and applied cureth the stingings of Scorpions and is reported to have so great Antepitheticall power against Scorpions that whosoever doth but hold the same in his hand cannot be stung by any Scorpion Black-bind-weed Name IT is also called With-wind Descript Black-bind-weed hath smooth red branches very small like great threds wherewithal it wrappeth and windeth it self about trees hedges staks and all things it can lay hold upon the leaves are like to Ivy but smaller and tenderer the flowers be white and very small the seed is black tryangled or three square small and black growing thick together every seed is enclâ—sed and covered with a little skin the root is also small and tender as a thred Place It groweth in borders of Fields and Gardens and about hedges and ditches and amongst herbs Time It delivereth ' its seed in August and September and afterwards perisheth Government and Virtues Bind-weed is a plant of Mercury of a hot nature and of subtil parts having power to dissolve the juice of the leaves being drunk do loosen and open the belly and being pounded and laid to the grieved place dissolveth wasteth and consumeth hard swellings Rough bind-weed Names IT is also called prickly Bind-weed and commonly known in shops by the name of Sarsa-parilla Descript Rough or prickly Bind-weed groweth with tender stalks and branches garnished or set round about with many sharp prickles or thorns winding it self about trees hedges and bushes like our English Bind-weed taking hold with its clasping branches upon every thing stands near it the leaves be
Dropsie Swelling of the Spleen and the pricking pains of the Sides Spleen Sides it also stayeth the spitting of Blood coming aswel from the Lungs as any other part The powder taken with Cassia dissolved and a little Turpentine washed cleanseth and strengthneth the Reins and is effectual for the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reines It is also good for pains and Swellings in the Head and against Melancholy the Sciatica Reins Head-ach melancholy Sciatica and Gout and pains of the Cramp Gout Cramp for which purpose one dram or two of the Extract thereof made in this manner doth work effectually being given in Broth. Take a sufficient quantity of Rubarb and let it be steeped in cinnamon-Cinnamon-Water which being strongly pressed-forth let it be stilled in a glasse Limbeck in Balneo untill the Water be drawn forth and the substance remaining be of the thickness of Hony which keep in a close covered-pot or glasse for the use aforesaid The powder of Rubarb taken with a little Minnia and Madder-roots in some red Wine dissolveth congealed or clotted-Blood in the Body happening by any fall or Bruise and healeth Burstings and broken-parts aswell inward as outward the Oyl likewise wherein it hath been boyled worketh the same effect the part being anointed with it It helpeth also the Yexing Hiccop Yexing Hiccop and all Fluxes of the Belly if it be toasted or dryed a little by the fire but much more if it be roasted or half burnt and taken in Wine after this manner Take a pint of good Claret-Wine and burn it with some Sugar and a top or two of Rosemary into which put a dram and an half of Rubarb roasted as aforesaid and one dram of Chebol Merobalanes a little broken or bruised let these stand in the burnt Wine all night by the fire and strain it forth in the Morning giving this at two times fasting which will in three or four dayes stay any scouring or Lask Scouring Lask strengthning the Stomack and inward parts afterwards It is used to heal those Ulcers that happen in the Eyes Stomack Eyes or Eye-lids and to asswage the Tumors and allay the inflamations being steeped and strained and applyed with Hony or Cute that is to say any boyled Wine it taketh away any black and blew Spots or marks that happen therein This Rubarb is so gentle a medecine that it may be given to all Constitutions whether they be Children or Women with Child and that safely at all times of the year the whey of Milk but especeially of Goats Milk is the best and most proper liquor wherein it is to be steeped and taken or else in White-wine whereby it worketh more effectually in opening Obstructions and purging the Stomack and Liver from Choler and Flegm a little Indian Spikenard used therewith is the best Correcter thereof Rosemary Kinds and Names THere was formerly but one kind of Rosemary known to us which was the ordinary Rosemary but now we have discovered several sorts which shall follow with their Names before their Descriptions Descript 1. Ordinary Rosemary It is called in Latine Libanotis coronaria sive Rosmarinum vulgare This is no natural English plant yet in divers Gardens in this Land where it hath stood long aswel as in its naturall Soil it groweth in time to a great height with a great and Woody stem of a close firm substance and whitish within branching forth into many Arms from them again into many other smaller branches at the joints whereof are set at several distances many long and very narrow leaves green above and greyish underneath and with all along the stalks towards the tops divers small gapeing flowers of a pale bleak blewish colour standing in whitish husks the seed is small and reddish but seldom doth any that is sown in our Country endure the first Winter without Extraordinary care and therefore is usually increased by slipping The whole plant hath an Aromatical smell Descript 2. Gilded Rosemary Rosmarinum striatum sive Aureum is the Latine appellation This differeth not from the former in any thing but in the leaves which are edged or striped or pointed with with a fair Gold yellow colour which so continueth all the year yet fresher in Summer than Winter Descript 3. Broad-leafed Rosemary called in Latine Rosmarinum Latifolium This groweth like the former but not so great in our Country nor with such Woody branches and is more tender to keep the leaves are larger and of a more shining deep green colour on the upper side and little or nothing whitish underneath more thinly also or sparsedly set on the stalks the flowers differ nor from the former kinds Descript 4. Double flowred-Rosemary Rosmarinum flore duplici This differs from the former in this that it hath stronger stalks while it is young then the last or not so easie to break fairer also and larger leaves then the first and the flowers are double like those of the Larkes-heel or Larks-spur Descript 5. Whild-sweet Silesia Rosemary or Mathiolus his Wild Bohemian Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre Bohemicum Mathioli sive Laedum Silesiacum Clusii This riseth with Woody ash-coloured branches two foot high or more which shoot forth other branches of a purplish colour covered with a brownish-yellow hoariness on which are set many narrow long green leaves like unto those of Rosemary but covered with the like hoariness as the stalks are especially in their natural place but not so much being transplanted folding their sides so close together that they seem nothing but ribs or stalks of an excellent pleasant and sweet smell at the ends of the branches grow certain brownish and scaly leaves out of which spreadeth a tuft of many flowers consisting of five white leaves a peece with ten white chines or threeds in the middle and in some plants with six leaves and twelve threds or Chives after which follow five long square heads spotted with silver-like white spots while they are green but grow brownish when they are ripe and turn down their tops opening their husks at the stalks least the seed which is as small as dust should fall out the Root is Woody with short sprigs Descript 6. Unsavory Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This doth nearly resemble Rosemary but is not sweet like them It groweth above a foot high having divers reddish branches which divide themselves into others smaller of a whitish colour set confusedly with long and narrow leaves green on the upperside and hoary underneath like those of the Dwarffe-Willow of no pleasant scent at all but of an Astringent taste At the tops of the branches stand divers heads composed of many short scales out of which shoot forth sundry flowers standing on long foot-stalks made of five leaves a peece of a fine pale reddish or flesh colour after which rise short five-square heads with blunt points containing small pale coloured seed Descript 7. Our Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre minus
either of them is good for the heat and redness of the Eyes and to dry up the Rheums and watering of them Lask Spitting of blood Heart Stomach Liver Retentive-faculties pains of heat Inflamations Sleep Rest Womens Courses Gonorrhaea Fluxes Heat and redness of the eyes Rheumes and watering Of the red Roses are made several Compositions as Electuary of Roses Conserve Sugar of Roses Syrup of dryed Roses and honey of Roses The Cordial powder called Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum rosatum The distilled water of Roses Vinegar of Roses oyntment and oyle of Roses and the Rose-leaves dryed The Electuary is purging whereof two or three drams may be taken for one of a weak constitution but six drams for stronger bodies This purgeth Choler and is good in hot Feavers in pains of the head arising from hot and Cholerick humors and heat in the Eyes The Jaundies also and Joynt-Aches proceeding from hot humours The moist Conserve is both binding and Cordial some of the younger Conserve taken with Mithridate is good for those that are troubled with Rheums and defluxions of Rheums into the eyes And for Fluxes and Lasks of the Belly and being mixed with some powder of Mastich it is good for the running of the Reins Choler hot feavers heat in the eyes Jaundies Joint-aches rheums Defluxions Eyes Lasks Running of the Reins and for looseness of humours in the Body The old Conserve mixed with Diarrhodon Abbatis or Aromaticum rosarum is a very good Cordial against Faintings Swoonings and weakness and tremblings of the heart it strengtheneth also both them nd a weak Stomach Faintings Swoonings Trembling of the heart Weak Stomach helpeth digestion stayeth Casting and is a very good preservative in time of Infection Digestion Casting Infection The Sugar of Roses is a very good Cordial to strengthen the heart and Spirits as also to stay defluxions The Syrup of dryed red Roses strengtheneth a relaxed stomach given to Casting cooleth an over-heated Liver relaxed Stomach-Casting Liver-heated and the blood in Agues comforteth the heart and resisteth putrefaction and Infection and helpeth to stay Lasks and Fluxes Agues Infection Lasks and Fluxes honey of Roses is much used in gargles and Lotions to wash sores either in the mouth throat or other parts both to cleanse and heal them and stay the Fluxes of humours falling upon them hindring their healing It is used also in Glisters to cool and cleanse The Cordial powders called Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum rosarum doth comfort and strengthen the heart and stomach causeth an Appetite helpeth digestion stayeth vomiting and is good for those that have slippery bowels to strengthen and confirm them Red Rose-water is cooling and Cordial and of better use than Damask Rose-water it refresheth and quickneth faint and weak Spirits Mouth Throat Fluxes of humours strengthens the heart and Stomach Appetite Vomiting Bowels Faint weak Spirits either used in meats or broaths to wash the temples or to smell to at the nose or else by the sweet vapours thereof out of a perfuming-pot or cast on a hot fire-shovel It is also of much use against the redness and Inflamations of the eyes to bathe them therewith and the Temples of the head against pains and ach thereof Vinegar of Roses is of much use for the same purposes and to procure rest and sleep Inflamations of the eyes Head-ach Rest and sleep if the nose and temples be moistned therewith but rather if a peece of red rose Cake made fit for the purpose be moistned thereon and heated between a double-folded cloth with a little beaten nutmeg and poppy-seed strewed on that side shall lie next the forehead and temples and so bound thereto for all night The oyntment of Roses is much used against heat and inflamations in the head to anoynt the forehead and temples and being mixed with some Populeon to procure rest It is also used for heat of the Liver Back and Reins to cool Inflamations pushes wheals or other red pimples Heat and Inflamations in the head Heat of the Liver Back Reins pushes wheals Pimples rising in the Back and other parts Oyl of roses is also used by it self for the same purposes and is likewise put into many Compositions both oyntments and plaisters to cool and bind and restrain the flux of humours The dryed leaves of the red roses are cooling binding and cordial Rose-leaves and Mynts heated and applyed outwardly to the stomach stayeth vomiting and strengtheneth a weak stomach Vomiting weak stomach very much And applyed as an Epitheme or fomentation to the Region of the Liver and heart Liver and heart doth much cool and temper the distemperature in them Of the Damask roses are not made so many medicines and Compositions but onely the Conserve and Preserve the Syrup and honey of those roses both which are called solutive the water and the distilled oyl or spirit which serveth more for outward perfumes than inward physick the Syrup of Damask-Roses is both simple and Compound and made with Agarick the simple solutive Syrup is a familiar safe and gentle easie medicine purging Choler taken from one ounce to three or four The Syrup of roses with Agarick is more strong and effectual in working than the simple Syrup and worketh asmuch on phlegm as Choler The compound Syrup is more forceable in working on melancholy humours and available against the Leprosie Itch Tetters and the French disease Honey of roses solutive is made of the same Infusion that the Syrup is made of and worketh the same effect in opening and purging but because the honey is not so convenient to be given to hot and Aguish bodies it is oftner given to phlegmatick than Cholerick persons and is more used in Glisters than potions as the Syrup made with sugar is The Conserve and Preserved leaves of these roses are operative to the same effect in gently opening the belly the dryed Damask rose leaves powdered and drunk in Whay gently purgeth The Musk Roses both single and double do purge more forceably than the Damask and the single is held more forceable than the double the wild roses are few or none of them used in physick but are generally held to come near to the nature of the manured roses both in the earthy and binding quality Pliny lib. 8. Cap. 4. saith that the root of the wild-Rose is singular good to cure the biting of a mad dog the fruit of the wild Bryar which are called Heppes and in some Countreys Canker-berries being thorow-ripe and made into a Conserve doth gently bind the belly and is very pleasant to the taste and stayeth defluxions Bind the belly Defluxions from the head upon the stomach and dryeth up the moisture thereof and helpeth digestion the pulp of the Heppes dryed into an hard consistence like to the juice of Liquorish or so dryed that it may be made into powder and taken in drink stayeth speedily the Whites in women the
which inconveniences are taken away by putting those things into your decoctions that do cool and quench the heat thereof and such are the Muscilage of the seeds of Psyllium or Fleawort Prunes boyled or rather the pulp of them the juice or the julep or the water of Roses or Violets or if before the boyling thereof that is the Scamony you steep it in the oyl of Roses or Violets or in the juice of a Quince and mingle it with a little Sumach or Spodium A third is that having a strong opening and drawing faculty it causeth immoderate fluxes of the Belly by opening the mouth of the veins more than is fit This harm is also taken away by mixing restringent and restraining things with it such as Mastich is and especially yellow Myrobolans and Quinces or the juice of them Again it raseth the intrails and guts by reason of the sharp juice wherewith it doth abound and by which it procureth torments and pains therein Dysenteria or the Bloody flux and Tenasmus which is a disease when one desires to go often to the stool and can do nothing This danger is remedied if moist fat and slippery things be used with it as Gumtragacanth Bdellium and oyl of Almonds and Roses as also the pulp of prunes made up with Sugar the muscilage of Fleawort-seeds Mastich and Quinces taken afterwards and warm water last of all all which cause it to pass the quicklier from the stomach and bowels and thereby prevents its doing harm This fault is also helped if cold medicines aswell as hot be mixed together to be given thereby to yield help to the heart liver and stomach thus far Mesue Dioscorides saith that if the juice be applyed to the womb it destroyeth the birth Birth destroys Wheals Pimples pushes Leprosie headach being mixed with honey and Ox-gall and rubbed on wheals pimples and pushes takes them all away and boyled in vinegar and anointed takes away the Leprosie and outward marks in the skin being dissolved in Rosewater and vinegar and the head moistned therewith easeth the continual pains thereof A dram or two of the roots of Scamony purge in the same manner as the juice doth if some of the things that are appointed therewith be given in it The roots boyled in water and made into a Pultice with Barley meal easeth the Sciatica Sciatica Scurfs Scabs Imposthumes being layd thereon it taketh away Scurfs and scabs if they be washed with the Vinegar wherein the Roots have been boyled and also healeth Imposthumes The Scarlet Grain Descript Names THis is called in latine Chermes seu Coccus insectorius This grain or berry is a kind of Excrescence that nature thrusteth forth upon the holme-oaks while the branches are young and groweth all along the branches at the several joynts and footstalks of the leavs being as big as a pease of a reddish ash-colour before they be ripe but of the colour of the holly or Asparagus-berries when they are ripe or somewhat darker but are gathered for the most part before they be too ripe When as they will contain a clear juice of a crimson colour as deep as any pure fresh bloud which by the heat of the Sun breed small red worms little bigger than fleas at the first but being suffered to grow great consume the inward substance of the berry or grain creeping away and leaving the husk or shell empty They are gathered for the Apothecaries use to make the Soveraign Cordial-confection called Alkermes which is Cordi Amica and press forth the juice which being boyled up with a proportion of Sugar fit to preserve it from sowring is kept for a whole year after when they are somewhat more ripe they are gathered for the Dyers use to dye fine Scarlet withal and are brought into powder in this manner when these grains or berries are gathered in their fit time they cast them on a sheet or other such thing sprinkling them with some wine or vinegar born up from the ground by the sides or four Corners and dry them in the hot Sun some put them in a bag or Bolter and dry them in an oven Place and Time These trees grow in Spain Portugal Italy and France in Provence in Affrica also and Asia both greater and lesser the berries begin to appear in April and are gathered in May. Government and Vertues These berries are solar and are used to heal green wounds and sinews that are cut to be mixed with vinegar or Oxymel Green wounds Sinews cut Miscarriage and is much commended to be given to women with Child who are subject to miscarry with their Children but especially the Confection which is called Alkermes which is made of the juice of these berries is effectual for that purpose and is also a soveraign Cordial to revive the fainting spirits of the heart and to drive away melancholy This Confection also is used with good effect against the trembling and shaking of the heart Faintings heart Melancholy heart Trembling Swoonings Passions and against Swoonings it is used also against melancholy passions and sorrow proceeding of no evident cause and to procure mirth asmuch as physical means may effect Sebesten or the Assyrian Plum Descript Names THe Sebesten-tree groweth not so high as the Plumtree covered with a whitish bark the branches are green whereon grow rounder thicker and harder leaves than they The blossoms are white and consist of five leaves a peece growing many together on a long stalk which afterwards turn into small Berries rather than Plums of a blackish green colour when they are ripe every one standing in a little cup of a sweet taste and glutinous or clammy substance and a very thick skin within which lyeth a three-square hard stone with a thick shell and a small kernel these are gathered and layd in the Sun whereby they grow wrinkled and so they are kept and brought to us in Boxes The wild Sebesten Sebesten Sylvestris THe wild Sebesten is in all things like the other but that it groweth lower much like unto a Hedge-bush and with lesser and thinner leaves The flowers and fruit are alike but less In shops they have only the name of Sebesten but in Latine the Tree is called Myxos and Myxa and Myxaria for the fruit Place and Time The first groweth in Syria and is but planted in Aegypt from thence they were brought into Italy in Plinies time which were grafted in the Service-tree and do now grow in many places in their Orchards it is so tender that it will not endure the cold with us The wild kind as Alpinus saith is natural in Aegypt they flower in May and the fruit is ripe in September Government and Vertues This is a Plant of Venus the Arabians and Greeks hold that they open the body asmuch Open the Body Cool the stomach and Liver hot Agues Choler hoarsness roughness of the throat or rather more by reason of the muscilage in them than the damask prunes yet more while
paler white colour The flowers stand in the same manner three or four together upon a stalk but are somewhat of a paler white colour to whom succeed sometimes but one and sometimes two pods together which are thicker and shorter than those of the white kind straked all along and double-forked at the ends wherein lie silk and seeds as in the former The roots have not so strong a smell as the last and have aswel as the rest of the Plant a strong smell like Box-leaves Place and T me The two first grow in rough and untilled ground upon divers Mountains in France about Narbone Marseilles and Mompelier and in Italy also The last in Candy They flower in the months of June and July and sometimes not until August and their Cods are ripe about a moneth after the empty husks abiding on the dry branches when the seed and silk is fallen out Government and Virtues These are Solar Plants the roots have a most soveraign faculty against all poysons Poysons Venemous beasts Serpents mad doâ— Plague Pâ—stilence Pâ—ssions of the heart Griping in the Belly particularly against the Apocynum or Dogs-bane and is effectually given to such as are bitten by any venemous beast or stung by any Serpent or other Creature as also against the biting of a mad dog and a dram and an half thereof taken in carduus-Carduus-water for divers days together It is taken also in wine every day against the Plague and pestilence a dram thereof taken in bugloss-Bugloss-water is effectual against all passions of the heart if the same quantity of Citron-seeds be taken therewith it easeth all the griping pains in the belly the Decoction of the roots made with white-wine taken for divers days together a good draught at a time and sweating thereupon cureth the dropsie The same also cureth the Jaundice Jaundice Dropsie Vrine provoketh Urine and easeth the cough and all defects of the Chest and lungs The powder of the roots taken with Peony-seeds is good against the Falling-Sickness Cough Chest Lungs Falling-Sickness Melancholy Worms or with Basil-seed or the rinde of Pomcitron-seeds is good against melancholy and taken with the roots of Dictamnus albus or bastard-Dittany will kill and expell worms of the maw or belly the roots are also used amongst other things for baths for women to sit in to ease pains of the Mother and to bring down their courses the decoction hereof with comfrey roots made in wine Pains of the Mother Courses Rupture Bruises Vlcers Sores is good for those that have a Rupture or are bursten or have received hurts by bruises The powder of the roots or leaves is effectual to cleanse all putrid rotten and filthy Ulcers and Sores and may safely be used in all Salves Unguents and Lotions made for such purposes The leaves and flowers boyled and made into a Pultis and applyed to the hard tumors or swellings of womens breasts cureth them speedily and all sores in the matrix Womens breasts Matrix Tobacco Names Descript IT is called Petum and Nicotiana There have several kinds thereof been planted here in England which they did manure for Smoaking but that is now prohibited I shall only describe one kind which is planted here for its uses in physick and Chirurgery only It riseth up with a thick round stalk about two foot high whereon do grow thick fat fleshy green leaves nothing so large as the other Indian kinds neither for breadth nor length somewhat round-pointed also and nothing dented about the edges the stalk brancheth forth and beareth at the tops divers flowers set in green husks scarce standing above the brims of the husks round-pointed also and of a greenish yellow colour after which followeth the seeds contained in great heads The root is woody byt perisheth in winter but generally riseth of the seed that is suffered to shed it self Place and Time This as is supposed was first brought from Brazile it giveth ripe seed in our Countrey here earlier than the other Indian sorts It flowreth from June to the end of August or later and the seed ripeneth in the mean time Government and Vertues Tobacco is a Plant of Saturn Culpeppers deity of a stupifying quality it is held to be available to expectorate tough phlegm out of the stomach chest and lungs the juice thereof made into a Syrup Phlegm Stomach Chest Lungs worms or the distilled water of the herb drank with Sugar The same also helps to expell worms in the stomach and belly as also to apply a leaf to the belly and to ease the pains in the head or Meagrim Pains in the head Meagrim Stone Gravel Mother and griping pains in the bowels It is also profitable for those that are troubled with the stone in the kidneys to ease pains and by provoking Urine to expell gravel and the stone ingendred therein and hath been found very effectual to suppress the malignity and windy vapours which cause the strangling of the mother The seed hereof is much more effectual to ease the pains of the teeth than Henbane-seed and the ashes of the burnt herb to cleanse the gums and teeth and make them white The herb bruised and applyed to the place of the Kings-Evil is a speedy rememdy as is said It is also said to be effectual to cure the Dropsie Kings-Evil Dropsie by taking four or five ounces of the juice thereof fasting which will strongly purge the body both upwards and downwards And too strongly too unless it be a well steeled body indeed The distilled water is often given with some sugar before the fit of an Ague to lessen the fits and alter them and to take them quite away in three or four times using if the distilled faces of the herb having been bruised before the distillation and not distilled dry be set in hot dung to digest for fourteen days and afterwards hung up in a bag in a Cellar the liquor that distilleth therefrom is singular good to use for Cramps Aches the Gout and Sciatica and to heal Itches Cramps aches Gouts Sciatica Scabs Cankers Lice Green wounds Old Sores Scabs and running Ulcers and foul Sores whatsoever The juice is good for all the said griefs and likewise to kill lice in childrens heads The herb bruised and applyed to any green wound doth speedily heal the same the juice put into old sores doth heal the same A good salve thereof may be made in this manner Take of the green herb three or four handfulls bruise it and put it into a quart of good oyl-olive boyl them on a gentle fire till the herb grow dry and the oyl will bubble no longer adding thereto wax Rozen and sheeps-tallow or Deers suet of each a quarter of a pound of Turpentine two ounces which being melted put it up for your use Some will add to it the powder of round Birthworth and white Frankincense each half an ounce which is to be put in when it is nigh cold and well
sides 14 15. 97. Strangury 17. 24. 26. 33. 40. 52. 54. 71. 81. Seed to increase 19. Scabs 20. 35. 53. 101. 110. Scurfs 27. 32. 75 76. 97. 104. 148. Scars of wounds 27. 53. 78. Spots 32. 48. 56. 97. Secret members 33. Skin to keep its colour 38. 78. 101. 141. 199. Skin to keep from roughness 72. Swellings to dissolve 49. 74. 76. 95. 127. Splinters to draw 51. Scurvy 56. Scalding by fire or water 57. 61. Sneezing 72. Speech lost p. 75. Small Pox. 78. 116. 171. Sweat 86. Sprains 103. Spiders 149. Sun-burned 209. T. Teeth to make white and firm 89. Teeth loose 127. Tumors hot 1. 19. 24. 29. 78. 93. 112. 121. Terms to provoke 3. 14. 22. 24. 38. 60. 209. 237. Teeth to stop 20 21. 37. 78 79. Toothach 6. 11. 18. 22. 26. 32. 40. 72. 108. 122. 148. 182. 230. Terms to provoke 6. 11. 26. 83. Thirst to stanch 8. 39. 81. 126. Tongue 10. Throat 14. 24. 54. 62. 68. 78. 87. 121. 126. 164. Tetters and Ringworms 32. 78. 97. 149. 228. Temples 40. 93. Tympany 61. Tissick 79. 84. 90. Thorn and Splinters to draw forth 80. 84. The Taste to help 115. Trochis 210. V. Vlcers 141. 160. 213. Vrine to provoke 158. 160. 211. Vrine sharp 206. Venemous beasts 3. 8. 11. 13. 14. 18. 20. 50. 56. 73 74. 85. 104. 171. Vlcers in the Matrix 3. Vlcers in general 10. 20. 48. 54. 56. 62. 94. 103. 107. 123. 133. 136. Vrine to provoke 5 6. 8 11. 13 14. 22 23 24. 34. 60. 71. 83. 102. Venereous Exercises to excite 7. 36. 38. 42. 119. The Vvula falling down 11. Vomiting to stay 29. 33. 39. 99. 169. 209. Vomiting to force 47 48 49 103. Voice to help 42. 68. 195. 209. Vdders of Kyne how to help 115. W. Wind to dissolve 3. 8. 19. 21 25. 38. 61. 89. 93. 129. Womens Courses See Terms Womens delivery to be easie 6. 34. 53. 84. 151. 224. Whites or Reds to stop 6. 8. 13. 34. 108. Womens milk to cause plenty 8. 107. Womens flowers and the After-birth 9. 11. 13. 27. 52. 83. Warts 11. 78. 224 Wounds 13. 27. 50. 52. 82. 94. 107. 162. Worms 22. 29. 38. 52. 70. 81. 104. 108. 115. 138 168. 172. 233. Wasps to kill 72. Women subject to miscarry 91. 204. Wens 122. 168. 227. Womens Longing 168. Wheasing 206. 221. X. Y. Yard to help 36. A new Tract for the Cure of Wounds made by Gun-Shot or otherways fitted for the meanest Capacities exceeding useful in times of War and Peace FIrst How Wounds are to be ordered at the first dressing The first thing to be done in order to the curing of these wounds is to remove whatsoever is within the wound offending it as Linnen Paper Bullets and the like with instruments for that purpose as Forceps Crows-bills Catch-Bullets c. The next thing must be to stanch the flux of blood which is done either by filling the wound with dry Lint or Powders of Bole-armonack Draggons blood Aloes Frankincense the hairs of a Hare cut very small and such like applyed either with the white of an Egg Oyntment of Bole-armonack and such like or without as you shall see cause If the wound be large and you think it will not joyn together by rolling then you must stich it together with needle and silk well waxed for that purpose then at the next days dressing the Contusion or bruising of the part caused by the Gun-shot must be considered to which end you are to use such like medicines as these that follow viz. Oleum Catellorum i. e. Oyl of whelps or Oyl of Turpintine called Oleum Terebinthinae or Arceus his Lineament c. The next dressing proceed as before unless you suspect a Gangreene then mix with the former medicines some Aegyptiacum-oyntment more or less as you shall find cause then the wound with these remedies being come past danger of gangreene with good flesh and matter then you must seek to supply the part with good flesh if there be any wanting which may be done with Vnguentum Basilicon Vnguentum Aureum i. e. golden oyntment And at last wholly to skin it firmly over use desiccativum rubrum the red drying or shining oyntment All this while you must have regard to such other Symptoms as oftentimes are known to follow and accompany these wounds And first for pain which being commonly joyned with Inflamation or great heat is to be asswaged and mitigated with these medicines following Vnguentum album i. e. the white oyntment Vnguentum nutritum oyl of Roses Vnguentum Populeum Id est Oyntment of Poplar-buds and oyl of Lillies Elder Earth-worms Camomile If the Patient shall chance to faint through pain or loss of blood or any other ways administer to him one dram of Confectio Alkermes with the smaller sort of cinamon-Cinamon-water If a Convulsion happen to the part you are to anoint it with oyl of Bayes called Oleum Laurinum Spike and Castor c. The oyntment of Aragon and Agrippa are likewise very good or anoynt the part and all the Back-bone with this Take oyl of Turpentine half an ounce oyl of Cloves six drops the pulp of Bryonie as much as sufficeth to make an oyntment But this following is excellent Take salt Butter and old rusty Bacon of each four ounces the gums of Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce Myrrhe and Castor of each two drams the flowers of Lavender Cotton and Rosemary-flowers of each a pugil which is as much as you can take up between your thumb and two fingers Nutmegs and Cloves of each one dram a young Kitlen the skin being pulled off and the guts being taken out and bruised and cut in small pieces put all these into the belly of a fat Goose sew them up and so roast the Goose upon a spit the first juice or Liquor that drops from it being waterish may be thrown away but when the fat dripping comes let that be taken in a Pan half full of vinegar and with this anoynt the part troubled with convulsion and all the Back-bone After anoynting keep a Fox or Cats-skin to the part If he be full bodyed he may bleed and purge with a dram of Pillulae Cochiae to which add three grains of Castor if he will not bleed apply Cupping-glasses with scarification to the neck and shoulders if the Arm be troubled but to the hips and loins if the thigh be affected Sometimes a Palsie happens to the wounded through several causes as a cold and moist distemper cutting of the Nerves c. For which you must Purge the Patient every fourth or fifth day or once a week as you find the strength and Constitution of your Patient with these Pills following Take Pillulae foetidae and Pillulae Corticae the lesser of each half a dram Trochise Alhandal four grains make them into six Pills let them be taken in the morning keeping warm afterwards let him use the decoction of Lignum vitae and the Bark
thereof for his ordinary drink till he be well If he chance to be burnt with Gun-powder then presently take common salt half an ounce Juice of onyons four ounces mix them together and anoynt the Patient therewith but where the skin is burnt off then use this following oyntment Take two pound of Linseed oyl one pound and a half of oyl of Roses Violet-leaves Mallows Water-Lillies of the Bark of the green Alder-tree House-leek each one handful Porks greese first well washed in waters of Roses and Nightshade as much as is sufficient Infuse all these for the space of six days then boyl them over a gentle fire till the vertue of the herbs be drawn out then strain them and add thereunto white wax as much as is sufficient to make them into an oyntment and if in the boyling you put in one pound of Shoomakers peece greese it will be the better But if the eyes chance to be burnt apply this Remedy red Rose-water four ounces Womens milk if to be had two ounces two whites of eggs and a little Sugar-candy mix them together apply it to the eye or anoynt the Eyelids with this excellent oyntment Take four ounces of Oyl of Roses one ounce of Cerus wash'd in red Rose-water two whites of Eggs one ounce of white wax one dram of Camphire mix them for use But beware in any case you apply not Soap or any such like medicines to any part where the skin is off and if there follow any swelling then apply this Pultis following made of two handfuls of Mallows and two handfuls of Violet-leaves Camomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each one handful boyl these in new milk or Barley-water till they be soft then stamp them in a Mortar and add thereto the oyntment of Roses and Unguentum Populeum or oyntment of Poplar-buds of each one ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs two ounces of Barley-meal the roots of Marsh-mallows and the seeds of Flea-bane of each half an ounce sometimes you may put in the pulps of these of each two ounces and half an ounce of oyl of Roses with the Crums of white bread You are in the mean time to have regard the Patients body be in good order either naturally or by Art if not naturally administer this Glyster or the like as often as you see occasion Take of Mallows Violet-leaves Pellitory Beets and Mercury Camomile-flowers of each one handful half an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two drams of Linseed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water to a pint in which dissolve one ounce or six drams or half an ounce according to the nature of your Patient of Diaphenicon or lenitive Electuary or Diacatholicon with butter or oyls with about a dram of common salt Bloud-letting is not to be forgotten you may likewise make the Patient a drink after this manner taking of Egrimony Mugwort Angelica St. Johns wort Mouse-ears of each two handfull Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Bettony Buglos Comfrey the greater and lesser roots and all her Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanacle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Barbery and Oak of each a handful take of all these herbs mixed together three handful boyl them in two quarts of water and a quart of white-wine gently till the third part or one half be consumed strain it and add one pound of Honey being scummed and let the Patient drink of it or you may sweeten it to make it pleasant with boyling Reasons of the Sun stoned pruans or the like with Sugar Now when you meet with any wounded in the head apply a playster of the white of an Egg Bolarmonack and Aloes next day dress it with Arceus his Lineament and lay upon it Emplastrum de Janua or else de Gratia Dei which will perfectly heal the wound But if it be deep you may apply either the above-mentioned or this medicin following which will bring the wound to run with good matter which is made with Venus Turpentine the yolk of an egg oyl of Roses and a little Saffron afterwards you must add honey of Roses and Barley-flower to the former medicine till the wound be perfectly cured But if you find the former medicines not to answer your expectation then make use of this that follows viz. Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Syrrup of Roses Powder of Myrrhe and Mastich of each half a dram mix them together for your use Lastly wholly to close and dry up the wound use this following powder which is made of Burnt Allum and the rindes of Pomgranates burnt of each one dram mix them apply it either alone or mixed with Unguentum desiccativum rubrum But if the wound be very large stich it up first washing the wound with some warm wine then dressing it with Venice Turpentine mixed with a little Aqua vitae dissolving therein some sanguis Draconis i. e. Dragons-bloud Mastich and Aloes let not your stiches be too streight or close together for fear of pain and Inflammations which may happen till the wound comes to maturity or suppuration but only to keep out the air and put somewhat a broad-like tent into the lowest part of the wound that the Matter may have passage forth then apply this following Cataplasm above the other dressing Take Barley and Bean-meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three drams as much vinegar as will serve to make it a Pultis which doth cool dry repell or drive back and mitigate and asswage pain and inflammation and stayes bleeding If you suspect or fear that the Patient have a feaver let bloud forthwith according to the strength and ability of your Patient daily administring cooling glysters made of Barley-water wherein may be boyled Violet-leaves Mallows and Mercury and such like dissolving syrrup of Violets and Roses pulp of Cassia and such like therein or you may give him a gentle Purge of Electuarium Diacatholicon Electuarium lenitivum or the like an ounce more or less for a Dose according to the strength of your Patient or if he like Pills rather give him Pillulae Cochiae and Pillulae Ruffi of each half a dram mix'd well together let the Patient take three over night and three the next morning if he have a foul body and you see need you may continue them every other day for a week or more as you see cause likewise you may administer suppositories made of honey boyl'd to a due hardness with common salt But if you meet with only a bruised head without a wound then the head is to be shaved applying this following Oyl of Myrtle and the powder of the same of each one ounce the white of an Egg mix it and apply it Or this Pultis instead thereof consisting of flower of Barley and Beans with vinegar and oyl of Roses Dress it twice a day till the part comes to its former temperature if you were not at the beginning then first anoynting it with oyl of wax lay on
Emplastrum Cuminum or the plaister of Cummin-seed But if after all this there remain a tumor or swelling apply Emplastrum de Betonica or plaister of Betony or de Minio or the Red-lead Plaister or take two ounces of Emplastrum de Mucilaginibus or Emplaister of the Muscilages Oxicroceum Emplastrum Meleloti or the Melilot plaister of each one ounce oyl of Camomile and Dill of each two ounces of these make a Cerat or Cerecloath as they call it Or this Three pintes of red-wine commonly such as loches are wash'd with a quart twenty cypress nuts and Myrtle-berries both bruised one ounce of red rose leaves Wormwood Sage-leaves Sweet Mariorum Camomile and Melilot-flowers of each half a handful make a water of them being boyled together dipping flannel cloaths in it wrung hot out and applyed then apply one of the plaisters above The Melilot plaister alone hath been found of admirable effect in Contusions or bruisings If these remove not the tumor then you must see to ripen it asâ—oon as you can which may be done by this medicine made of two parts of water one of oyl with as much wheat-flower as will make it to a Pultis of a good body adding thereto the yolk of an egg Now having brought it to matter it must be opened in the most declining part then if the skul be found dress it with this Syrup of dryed Roses and Wormwood of each an ounce half an ounce of Turpentine Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich and Bean-flower of each one dram mix them according to art If the skul be foul then smooth it with an Instrument called a Raspatory made for that purpose apply this powder thereto Take of Orrice-root Gentian round Birthwort Dittany Barley-flower of each half an ounce Aloes Draggons bloud Myrrhe Mastich Sarcocol of each two drams make a powder for your use After the bone is scaled cure it as ordinary wounds if from a Bruise or Contusion a gangreen should follow which you may know by the hardness of the part when it looks black then you are to Scarrifie or cut the flesh with your Incision-knife or Rasor and apply Cupping-glasses dressing it with Aegyptiacum Spirit of wine and such like till you have secured it from going further then cure it as in other wounds If a wound happen upon the muscles of the Temple either by pricking or thrusting over thwart ways or long ways the two first if deep are dangerous being accompanied with vomi ing convulsion and deep sleeping if it be by a thrust the hair being shaven away dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound oyl and Earth-worms upon that apply Paracelsus plaister if over thwart ways stich it dressing it with Arceus his Liniament upon that Paracelsus plaister if the wound be long ways stay the bloud and stich it and apply the foresaid Lineament of Arceus with plaister of Paracelsus If the membranes of the brain be hurt with the brain which seldom falls out without the skul be broken the first Membran being wounded cal'd Piamater the bloud flows with much pain the next to that call'd Dura mater cleavs close to the brain which is under it that they always suffer together There follows foaming at the mouth darkness of sight loss of Reason and Palsey and flux of bloud To stay bleeding use the powders before mentioned and to swage pain use Oil of Roses warm till matter be procured after use equal parts of honey of Roses and Spirit of wine or oyl of Roses till it be digested then to procure new flesh use Syrrup of dryed Roses if there happen an Inflamation joyned with the swelling then open a vein use slender dyet and bathe the part with the decoction of Marsh mallows Linseed Fenugreek Violet leaves and such like after apply oyl of Roses Myrtles or Quinces if the tumor increase open the passage wider in the skul if it come to be fully ripe then open it warily that you touch not the brain after apply honey of Roses and Syrrup of dry Roses if this swelling come from a bruise then use oyl of Roses Honey of Roses or oyl of eggs with Aqua vitae and powder of Orrice root Gentian round Birthwort and the like if congealed bloud be the cause use this Aqua vitae two ounces and a half Saffron in powder one scruple Honey of Roses two ounces and a half Sarcocol three drams mix them over a gentle fire and so use it till blackness be gone if from improper medicines applyed cure it as in a Bruise if from Putrefaction or rottenness which is known by the ill scent of the matter use this medicine Take an ounce and half of Aqua vitae Syrrup of Wormwood and honey of Roses of each two drams oyntment of Aegyptiacum one dram and half Sarcocol myrrhe and Alloes of each one dram White wine one ounce and half boyl all together gently strain them and keep them for your use or take Plantane water one ounce and a half Egyptian oyntment one dram and a half Mercury precipitated one scruple mix them and apply it warm If you shall imagine that the skul of any Patient is broken not touching the membrane of the brain which you shall gather either by sense or reason the first is found out either by the finger of Probe by both which you will feel it rugged only have a care that the Sutures in the head do not deceive you The rational signs are taken diversly as if he fell from on high the person strong or the weapon great that caused the wound its probable the skul is broken if they bleed at nose ears or mouth if they swoon or vomit if he often touch the wound if he raves or falter in his speech be dull weak of judgment and understanding all these are signs of a broken skul If a Feaver happen to the Patient before the thirteenth day in Winter and seventh in Summer it will go ill with him If the skul be blackish most commonly deadly but if the flesh be red the membran called dura mater be of its right colour and he move well his neck and jaws there is hope of his Recovery If the Patient be old if the fracture be upon the fore part of the head called Sinciput or the Temples or Sutures then the case is doubtful Then the first thing you are to do having prepared your Patients body by blood-letting Suppositers glysters and gentle Purges as you shal see cause and your judgment shall direct you is to shave the head an Incision being made after the maner of a cross or letter X take up all to the skul either with a Chisel or your fingers but make not your Incision on the Temporal muscles that done keep it open with pledgets armed with the astringent powders then roll it up the next day if a flux of blood be not feared or upon the skul about the fourth day after wounding if ill symptoms hinder not then upon the
half an ounce Gypsum one ounce and a half two ounces of prepared frogs one ounce of the moss of a dead mans skull two drams of the Hairs of a Hare cut very small the white of an egg dryed in the Sun finely powdered and spunge being dryed or burnt and powdered of each one ounce mix them all finely powdered together Arm four great Buttons made of Tow and moistned in Vinegar and Water with these powders and apply them to the great Vessels upon which apply presently a thick bed made of Tow fit for the dismembred part covered over with the Restrictive then upon that lay on another made after the same manner but made as much larger as will reach an inch or two over round on every side over all these you must draw a bladder binding it near the top with a Ligature an inch broad lay a double linnen-cloth over all these remembring allwayes to have buttons ready to apply to the places where blood appears especially if you doe not use the bladder then bind up the member with Rowllers by which means the flux of blood will be stayed some after they have loosed the Ligature above the Incision apply onely the beds first dipt in water and vinegar after in the whites of Eggs then strowing them over very thick with powder after all apply this Desensative Take Bolarmonack Dragons-blood Mastick Gypsum of each one ounce oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each 1 ounce a half the whites of two Eggs mix all together in a mortar with as much Vinegar as will serve to make it into an Oyntment if the leg be to cut off apply it above knee if the hand then apply it to the Elbow you must remember that your Rollers be all wet in water and Vinegar they must not be stirred unless to renew the defensative till the second or third day The second dressing moysten the dressings which were applied before with stuphs of white wine that they may be removed with more ease then besprinkle the Vessels with restrictive powders laying upon them three or four pledgets dipt in the whites of Eggs armed with the powder then use to the rest of the wound this digestive unguent Take an ounce and half of wax gum Elemie and Turpentine of each one ounce half an ounce of Colophony oyle of sweet almonds oyl of Roses oyl of the yolks of Eggs of each one ounce dissolve them all over a gentle fire and strain them to the straining add a dram of Saffron finely powdered mix the yolk of an Egg with one ounce of this and as much oyl of Roses as will serve to moysten it for your use This is also good in all wounds made by Gun-shot especially as also in all wounds whether bruised or cut or else make use of this following Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in Plantain-water oyl of Roses and oyl of sweet Almonds of each one ounce half an ounce of Gum Elemy dissolved in the foresaid oyles and strained a scruple of Saffron finely powdered mix them well together to which add the yolk of one Egg for your use you must observe that you are not to dress it until the third day unless pain be much then you must remove your dressings gently if the bed next to the wound stick let it alone to the third dressing you may remove the defensitive every day and annoint the whole part with oyle of Roses or Mirtles using the former oyntments till there be perfect digestion by sprinkling the Vessels to prevent bleeding with the restrictive powders after it is deiested cleanse it with this Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in white-wine powder of the root of round Birth-wort Orrace-root Barley-flower of each half an ounce one ounce of the honey of Roses half an ounce of Aquavitae with two drams of Treacle mix them up for your use You may every dressing endeavor to draw by degrees the skin and muscles together by usesing the dry-stitch that so the bone may be covered sometimes the plaister is loosened by the much flowing of the matter for which use this remedy following Take the roots of round Birthwort hog-fennel and Orrace-root the bark of the Pine-tree and the bark of Lignum vitae of each half an ounce being all finely powdered mix them together strowing it upon the wound once or twice a day as you see occasion This will also cause the bone to scale within thirty or forty dayes if there grow proud flesh either use this following Medicine made of two drams of burnt Allom Lapis Calaminaris burnt-Lead Sereus of each one dram with half a dram of Calcined Viteral make a powder of them or else apply Vnguentum Aegyptiacum hot lay another pledget upon it and dress it up use onely dry lint the next dressing by which means the sensibleness of the wound will be taken away also afterwards siccatrize or skin the wound with red deficcative oyntment called Vnguentum desiccativum rubrum or Diapompholeges or the like if the Fingers and Toes are to be taken away it is best done with Chisels or cutting mullets so cure them up as before according to Art OF FRACTURES AND Broken-bones THus much for wounds may suffice Now I think it convenient to say something of Fractures or Broken-bones the which are known by comparing the parts together you finding them unequal and the Patient cannot move in the Members in handling the part you will hear a noise there sometimes happens that they are broken overthwart which you may know by the distance between the ends of the broken-bone and where they are broken you may perceive a hollowness more then ordinary sometimes the bones are shattered into many pieces then there follows a pricking pain and in handling of it you will hear as it were a crackling but if the part be very much thicker than ordinary then the bone is broken length-wayes Lastly somtimes it is broken obliquely in curing of all which the first thing you are to doe is to restore the bone as exactly as you can to its natural form which may be performed if the bone be broken but little by the Chirurgion himself otherwise there will be need of two for extending the member which must be done by little and little with as little pain as possibly can be so reducing it to its natural place the Mate or Assistant extending the member the Chirurgion with his fingers shall put the broken bones in its right place which being done lay a plaister upon the place about six inches or so broad as will cover more then the Fracture three fingers breadth both above and below afterwards apply your Splints being well armed with Linnen or Tow so near one another as may be the space of a Splint between every one which must not be too long lest it gaul the joints then you are to tye the splints on gently with tape not too hard which besides the Patients complaint may produce sad accidents as Gangreens and
not too slack for then the broken bones will not well joyn together upon your splints use your junkes made either of straw or bents which are to be tyed on with filletting putting bolsters into the hollow places All which being done you are to lay the member in a soft place letting it lye reasonable high to keep humours from flowing see the Patient have every day a stoole either by Nature or Art open not your first dressing till after six or seven dayes unless pain or other symptomes force you to it then you are to open it to give ease and hinder other accidents and so to bind it up again as before till fourteen dayes then you may renew your plaister and when in applying your plaisters you find a hard fleshy substance call'd a Callus to increase too much and bunch out you are to keep it down by straight rowlling and a plate of lead laid to the part if you shall perceive that the bones will not naturally join-together for want of the said Callus to confirm and agglutinate them then you must use artificial means to procure the Callus such as every three or four dayes to foment the member with hot water keeping a plaister of â—itch to the broken part If there be a wound with the fracture you must so order your business that you leave a way to dress the wound and not unbind the member but keep it firm and steady which may be done after this manner Taking strong clothes that may but little more then come round the part being three or four double the edges of which are to over-meet at the wound then with filtring in convenient places tye on your splints which are to be made of such as they make sword-scabbards of then dress the wound either with Liniment of Arceus mixt with oyl of St. Johns wort compound or else with this unguent following If the bone be fowl made of syrrup of dryed Roses and Turpentine of each two ounces powder of the Orrice roote Aloes Mastick and Barley-flower of each half a dram incorporate them into an unguent the Thigh being broken commonly knits in fourty or fifty dayes the Arm requires not above thirty or fourty the broken member being subject to slip aside by turnings and the like you are to view it often which you may know by the Patients complaining a fresh of pain and the unevenness of the part The accidents which may happen to broken bones and which you are to consider of and seek to remove them are first pain which if it proceed from too hard binding which will cause a swelling and the like then you are to slacken the binding if it come from a flux of humours cure it as an inflammation if it come from a pricking of the bones which the Patient will resolve you if you gentle touch the part then you must either put them into their places or take them quite away but if it come from the placing the part ill at ease you must needs remedy that by putting it into a better and more easie posture after which you are to overcome by blood-letting cooling Juleps or such like made of common water boyld or Barley water sweetned with Sugar and the juice or syrrup of Lemmons boyling in the water a little Cinamon Sometimes there happens an inflammation sometimes a Gangreen for both which you have had choice of remedies before sometimes itching and gaulings happen which are caused from the flowing of the matter for the which after having first dryed the part clear apply spread upon Paper the white oyntment with Camphire unguentum tripharmacum oyntment of Roses and the like Lastly if the member fall away which may happen either by too spare a dyet or too long binding of the part you are to help the Patient in both these by using good nourishing dyet and comfortable things to draw it to the part by fomenting it with warm water and the like annointing the part with unguentum resumptivum emplaster of Oxycroceum and the like where note that in fractures it is a good sign if the Ligatures or binding be loose on the third or fourth day And if you see the broken stand forth your are to rowl it streighter with bolsters and splints and when on the seventh or eighth day the Symptoms shall be past you may venture to bind the part streighter Lastly remember and consider that the Thigh being broken requires great care in as much as may be that it be kept in its proper posture by reason the bone of it self is naturally bowing and that which hath been said in general may serve for Fractures in the Arms and Leggs We have before spoken of the Fractures of the Scull and Nose now when the Jaw-bones are broken you must restore them by putting your finger into the Patients mouth and on the outside with the finger close them smoothly together if the Teeth be shaken and loose put them to the right places tying them with a thred to the sound Teeth if you see occasion you must devide your splints at the chine and these to be made of Leather such as they sole shooes wiâ—h your Ligatures must have four ends and be made two fingers broad Two of the ends of the Ligatures must be fastned to the crown of your Cap the other two ends must be fastned to the hinder part of the Cap to the nape of the neck you may know when it is well set when the teeth are in order when these bones are broken you will have occasion to administer purges to your Patient by reason of the flux of Humours unless there happen inflammation the bones joyn or knit together within twenty dayes you are to feed the Patient with water-grewel and liquid things for he must have nothing hard to chew If the Coller-bone be broken athwart it is more easily put into its place than if it were broken longwaies In putting these bones or any other into their place have alwaies a care that the bones lie not one over another then drawing the shoulder forward and the arm backward you may that way put the bones into their places or else put a bottom of yarn under their Arm-pits so forcing the arm down to the Ribbs you may restore them or else lay a Tray with the bottom upwards under the shoulder having a Rugg or Blanket or some such thing over it or a pillow stuffed hard so pressing down the shoulder till you see the bones fly out then you may restore the broken bone or else setting the Patient on the ground cause your mate or Assistant to set his knee behind over-against the broken place and he putting the shoulder to him you may put the bones in the right place Here you must take notice that if there be any splints to cause pain or difficulty of breathing as they will doe if the Ribs be splintred then you must open the skin if you cannot well restore them cut off the sharp
Plantane given alone is excellent Now to conclude I thought it convenient to give you a Catalogue of the most necessary Instruments and Medicines both simple and compound which a young Chirurgion ought to carry with him to Sea or have in readiness by Land First a case of good Lancets for his plaister-box that must be furnished with these Instruments following a pair of Scissars a Spatula with a Capital Instrument and two small Probes a pair of Forceps a Director an Incision-knife stiching quils with three or four Chirurgions Needles or as many as you will a Fleme a small Rasier a Levatory Uvula spoon and Spatula Linguae Next for his Salvatory it must alwayes have these Unguents in it Arceus his Liniment Basilicon Vnguentum Aureum or the golden oyntment Vnguentum Apostolorum or oyntment of the Apostles Vnguenttum de minio or oyntment of Red-Lead Desiccativum Rubrum or the red drying and skinning oyntment Then besides these Instruments and Unguents in his Plaister-box and Salvatory he must have alwayes in readiness by him these medicines and Instruments following Viz for Emplaisters Diapalma de minio and the Diachilon-simple plaisters of one of which he is to put some ready spread upon cloth or paper into his Plaister-box Paracelsus-plaister Oxycrotium Diachilon with gums and the Mellilotplaister For Unguents Aegyptia cum Vnguentum Albium or the white oyntment Vnguentum Laâ—â—inum or common oyl of Bayes Vnguentum Nicotianae Peti or Oyntment of Tabacco Vnguentum Nutritum Vnguentum Opthalmicum or Oyntment for Inflamation of the Eyes Vnguentum Populion For Oyles Take Oleum Catulorum oyl of Camomil Lillies oyle of Exeter oyle of Saint John wort compound of Foxes Turpentine Roses Earth-worms Elder-Flowers Linseed Vitriol and Sulphur Likewise you must have these distilled waters with you water of Mint Plantain Burridg Bugloss Suckery Endif Lettice Purslane Poppy Roses Carduus Benedictus or the holy thistle these for simple waters Then for Compound you must have Anniseed Cinamon Aqua-Coelestis or the heavenly-heavenly-water Doctor Stephens water Aqua-mirabilis Aquae-Menthe or mint-Mint-water treacle-Treacle-water Spirit of wine Brandy or Aquavitae wormwood-Wormwood-water Likewise you must have with you strong Lee white-wine Vinegar Vinegar of Roses For Syrups you must have syrup of Wormwood Vinegar Simple or Compound of Lemons Sloes Diamoron or syrup of Mulberries Violets honey of Roses Oximel Simplex Simple or Compound Oximel Scilliticum or Oximel of Squils Then for Conserves c. Electuaries the Conserve of Red-Roses Barberries Quinces Wood-Sorrel and Slowes London and Venice-Treacle Diascordium Mithridate Confectio Alchermes for Purging Electuaries the Lenitive Diacatholicon Confectio Hamet Diaprunes Solutive For Pills you must have Pil-Ruffi Communes Pil-Choche Pil-Hiera Comagarico Extractum Rudii Pil-Alofangine For Lohoâ—ks you must have Lohoch de farfara or Lohoch of Colts-foot Lohoch of Poppies Lohoch of Pine-nuts Lohoch of Pursley Lohoch of Fox-Lungs and Lohoch Sanum expertum For Troches you must have Trochisci Albi Rhacis with and without Trochischi Gordonii Trochischi Alchakengi or Troches of Winter-Cherries Pectoral Rolls white and black Troches of Barberies Troches of Camphire Troches of Saunders and Rubarb Troches de terra Lemnia or earth of Lemons For powders you must have alwayes in readiness powder to stay flux of blood and eat away proud-flesh of which you had receipts before Aromaticum Rosarum Diamagaritum Frigidum diapenidion Diarodon Abbatis Diatragacanthum Frigidum Diatrion Santalon Pulvis Haly for purging Powders you must have Diacenne Pulvis Sanctus or the holy powder For Simples you must have these roots following Birthwort long and round Aron-root Smallidg Bistort China Turmarick Dittany Elecampane Gentian Liquorish Heirodactils Orrace Lillies Polypodie Rubarb and Monks Rubarb Madder and Sarsaparilla Squils Turmentile Turbith Ginger Jollap Guiacum Liquorish For Herbs Wormwood Mallows Muâ—sh-mallows Beers Bettony Carduus Benedictus Centory â—notgrass Fumitory Broom St. Johns-wort Hyssop Baulin Mint Plantine Rosemary Rue Sage Elder-leaves and buds Savery Senna Stechas Coltsfoot Golden-rod For flowers Rosemary-flowers Orange Pomgranat Camomil Marigold Bean Broom Cowslip Mellilot Baume white black and red Poppies Roses white damask and red Elder Violet Saffron For Fruits Winter-Cherries Almonds bitter and sweet Barberries Figs Cassia fistularis Chestnuts Quinces Dates Jujubes Ivie Juniper and Bay-berries Lemons Oranges Cytrons Sebestins Cubebs Medlers Mulberries all the Mirabolans Mirtle-berries Olives Nutmegs Peaches Apricocks Mellons Damask-pruens Capers Cloves and Mace Cherries black and red Sloes Pears Damosens Services Pine-nuts Raisins of the Sun and Currants Tamerins Elder-berries Sebestines For Seeds Annis Cowcumbers Cumin Fenegreek Lettis Grumuel Lupines Pursley French-barley Linseed Fennel Coriander Carua Beanmeal Barly-meal wheat-flower wheat-Bran Mil-dust and White-starch For Gums c. Aloes Sugar Camphire Balsom Galbanum Ammoniacum Arabicum Trachanthum Manna Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Opium Pitch Rosin Turpentine Dragons-Blood Scammony Frankinsence Storax oyl of Olives new and old Agarick Jews-ears Cantharides or Spanish-flies Goose Duks Geese Dogs Cats Mans Fox Badgers Bears-grease Deer and Goats-Suet Album-Graecum Virgins-wax white and black Harts-Horn Ising-glass the marrow of an Ox Deer Calf and Lamb Roman and Virgin-honey Musk and Mummy the Hairs of a Hare Spermaceti Allum For Mettals and Minerals you must have Verdigreese Allum Litharg of gold and silver Quick-silver all kinds of Arsenicks Bolarmanack Lime-stones Vitriol white Roman and green Sinclere Choak Redlead Terra lemnia Brimstone and flower of Brimstone Troches of red-Lead praecipitat For Instruments let these be allways in readiness Crows-bills Catch-bullets strait and crooked and the Terra bellum a dismembring-knife and sharp dismembring-saw Cauterizing-Iron head-saw and Trafine Speculum-Oris and Speculum forceps and a punch for Teeth small wax-candles syringes Catheter cupping-glasses glister-pot dyet-pot morter and pestle spatulas spl nters spunges juncks clouts rollers thred needle tape toâ— weights and scales serces and strainers and blood-poringers FINIS