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A09407 The vvonderfull and strange effect and vertues of a new Terra sigillata lately found out in Germanie with the right order of the applying and administring of it: being oftentimes tried and experienced by Andreas Bertholdus of Oschatz in Misnia. Bertholdus, Andreas.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594. 1587 (1587) STC 1970; ESTC S110682 13,625 48

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well couered in his bedde he shall happily driue it out by sweating The Lyquors that are most méetest to take it with are these the water of Carduus benedictus Dyuils bitt swallowwort The water of the rootes of the great brode Clott Angellica Pympernell aud such like If you haue not these waters at hande this souerayne preseruatiue may be taken verie well in white Wine Secondly against the plague it may be vsed in the like maner especially when it is to be giuen vnto such as are alreadie infected But if you meane to take it but as a preseruatiue you néede not to take a whole dramme for halfe a dramme taken in the morning in a little wine or vineger of Marygolds or any other conuenient Lyquor will very well serue I my selfe haue alwayes vsed this earth with very good successe in maner as followeth as soone as a man féeleth any paine of his heart or his heade or perceiueth any anguish grudging lothsomnesse guiddinesse or other signes of the pestilence I do streight disolue in wine water or other lyquor a dramme of this earth and giue it to the sicke man in his bedde casting him in a sweat wherewith the venome is in a very fewe houres driuen out without any outward sore or swelling But if it so fall out as it be not taken in time the bloud being for the greatest parte infected there cōmeth out in the sweating either sore or carbuncle In this case you must open the veyne as nere to the sore as may be As if it be vnder the arme open the Mediana of the saide arme if the botch bee in the flanke or grayne the great veyne on the inside of the legge is to be opened if the sore be vnder the knée open the veyne in the soale of the foote In the meane time bee not negligent in quallifying of euill humors least the poyson gathering force shoulde strike to the heart the heart being relieued will forthwith driue the venom into a sore which sore being ripe must by an expert Surgeon out of hand be launced and well healed vp neither must you omit to take a little portion of this earth and stéeping it in vinager with pouder of Cynamon make it in a playster and lay it vpon the heart you shall perceiue a great quantitie of the poyson drawen out by the playster Herewithall must you remember after the receit of the medicine to take a toste wet in very good vinager and to cause the patient to holde it to his nose to kéepe him from casting it vp againe And if he fortune to cast it vp you must giue it againe and againe till his stomacke doe kéepe it This manner of vsing of it a man of great authority and calling in the Turkes Court did send to a noble man his friende as a great secret with this protestation that a principall Phisition of the Turkes did leaue this order written in the Arabyck tongue which the experiences of a great nūber hath since confirmed Thirdly against the biting of a madde dogge the stinging of Serpents Scorpions Spyders or any other venemous wormes as also against woundes made by poysoned weapons this earth may in this sort be most commodiously vsed Take as much thereof as shall suffice for the bignesse of the wound and with fasting spittle make it into a paste spred vpon Linnen and lay it to the soare or being made more thinner anoynt the soare with it whereby the venome shall not all onely be drawen backe but the force thereof quite abated so as in this case it is not possible to haue a better medicine And if it happen the plasture bee applyed too late then must you of neressitie driue out the poison by receiuing inwardly a dram of the earth infused in wine or other medicinable Lyquor Fourthly it doth wonderfully asswage the paynes and raging of the head whether it come of heate wind labour watching care or trouble of minde and restoreth the consumed spirits if it be taken with good Aqua vitae the waters of Betony Rosmary Mageram Penyroyall or such like or in great heate a dramme of it taken in the morning with Rosewater The paynes and trembling of the heart it asswageth and the heart it selfe being dumpish it greatly reioyceth if a dramme of it be taken with the waters of Balme Salendine Mother-wort Buglasse Borage or Geliuer Flowers or dronke in like sort with good white wine For the burning heat of the eyes bleerednes rumes or any flux this earth is specially good applyed eyther with rose-Rose-water the waters of Planteyne Eybright Valeryan Fenell or any such and dropped into the eye with the fether of a blacke henne or linnen cloth dipped in the water and layde to it for any stripe in the eye it healeth it if it be layd to with y e whit of an egge and any conuenient water as shall séeme good to the Phisition or Surgeon It helpeth the wounds of the head or of the stones if being disolued in Rosewater a linnen cloth dipped therein be layd to the hurt place for therby shall the soare be kept from any inflamation flux of euill humors or hurtfull accident Fiftly you may quickely stanch bloud breaking out from any part of the body if you beate a Trocyse of this earth into pouder mingling it with spittle or any other lyquor apply it to the place you shall soone restreyne bléeding at the nose if mingling this earth with vinager y e white of an egge the water of Tormentyll you spreade it vpon linnen cloth and lay it to the temples to the parte of the head and put it into the nose you shall easily also dissolue cluttered bloud congealed within the body by any casualty if you take either this earth alone in warme wine or if you cause the patient to drink a dramme of the earth and a dramme of that bole which they that digge in quarreyes finde in the midst of the stones and name it it in Dutch of the colour Lyuerstone and of the place Steynmarle dissolued in the white of two egges and warme vinager with a scruple of Saffron Sixtly to cure the Rewme vse often to drinke this earth morning and euening eyther in white wine or other lyquor whereby you shall immediately sweate and finde great ease Seuenthly you shall stoppe any loosenesse of the bodie if you giue a dramme of this earth in the morning and at night in the water of Tormentyll of Oke leaues or of the flowers of our Acacia Eightly to kéepe any parte of the body that it blyster not after burning and skalding and to skinne it verie spéedily powre vpon this earth cléere Fountaine water wherein vnquenched Lime hath soaked the night before and herewithall with the fether of a blacke henne anoynt often times very tenderly the sore place Ninthly if this earth be put in any playster stéeped in any lyquor or receiued any wayes into the body it perfectly cureth al paines inflamations or euill