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A38839	Every woman her own midwife, or, A Compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed : to which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.		1675 (1675)	Wing E3553; ESTC R42020	118,941	210

and so let it stand to infuse two dayes and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Vnguent Take Triacle ℥ ss Terra lemnia Red sanders araʒ i Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apyly chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum ʒ vi Ebeni ʒ ii Saffron ℈ ss Lettice seed ʒ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana ℥ vi Vinegar ℥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana ℥ iiii Vinegar of Roses ℥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaʒ ss Mithridatum ℥ i. Triacle ℥ ss Boil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaʒ iii. Red sanders Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana ʒ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaʒ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Julep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana ℥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar ℥ iiii Camphire ʒ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Julep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana ℥ i. Juice of Limons ℥ i. Sorrell water ℥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Julep to quench thirst ℞ sorrell-Sorrell-water four ounces burrage-Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following ℞ Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat ℥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so cause him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away ther● use all the means you c●n to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain of lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some ●urrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little

sirrup of dried roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack ℞ Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Card●us Ben●dictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following ℞ Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it ℞ Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one scruple and a half Bruise them a little then knit them in a fine linnen cloth and let it soak in the drink which he useth and when you give him drink wring out the bag therein and let him drink it and that will stay it also the order aforesaid to help vomiting is good to stay the yoxe or yexing but if neither of them prevaile then will the ●●ex hardly escape death Flix how to stop it You must first give the patient this purpation following which doth not onely purge away those sli●n●e humors which is the cause thereof but doth also leave an ast●ingencie behind it ℞ Rhab. elect ʒ iii. Cinamoni ℈ ii Aquarum Endiviae Borraginis ana ℥ ii Infuse them together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of Sirrup of roses laxative and so drink it warm refraining from meat and drink and sleep three houres after it and at night when it hath done working give this confection following ℞ Conserve ros ʒ iiii Dioscordit ℈ i. ss Pul. Diatragag frigid ℈ i Dialkerm●s G. x. Sir de Lemon ʒ ii misce When you have given this confection then doe you Epithemate the region of the heart with this Epithemative following Epithemation for the heart ℞ Aquatrum Buglossae Burrag Rosarum Oxialidis ana ℥ iiii Throchiscorum de camphera ℈ i. Pul. diamargarit frigid ʒ i. Aceti alb ℥ i. Offa de corde cervi ℈ ss Santal Rub. Coral Rub. misce ana ℈ i. With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of an hour and if by this meanes it stay not then the next day give some of this confection following which I have found excellent good for the stopping of any flix whatsoever ℞ Conserve ros siccae ℥ i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat ℥ i. Terrae lemniaeʒ ss Lap. Hemattitis Sang. Draco Bolarmoni anaʒ ii Mithridatii misce ʒ i. You must every morning and evening give two drachms hereof and drink some Plantaine water after it Now here you must understand that if the flix come in the beginning of the sicknesse and that no botch Carbunkle not spots appear in the body then in any case you may not goe about to stop it but suffer nature to discharge it selfe and onely help nature with Cordials and Epithemations applyed to the heart but if by the continuance thereof the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith then is it to be repressed as before is shewed but it must be the third day before you attempt to doe it But if this flix come when the botch or Carbunkle doth appear and tending to maturation then is it very dangerous for by that meanes the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principall parts and so killeth the Patient CHAP. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly FIrst give Cordials and use the defensive before taught you in the second Chapter thereby to keep it from the heart and then bring it to maturation as followeth A good Maturative Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes then pound him with some powder of white Mustard-seed and for lack thereof some Triacle and pound them together and so apply it to the greif warm and renue it twice a day which within three or four dayes at most will bring it to suppuration Another Take white Lilly roots Enulacompane roots Scabios and Onyons of either two ounces Roast all these together in a Cole leafe or a wet paper then pound them with some sweet Butter and a little Venice Triacle whereunto doe you adde some Galbanum and Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and strained from the fesses and dregs and so mix them altogether and apply it renewing it twice a day Another where no inflammation is Take Vnguentum basilicon ℥ iiii soure Leaven ℥ ii Oil of Li●ies sweet butter ana ʒ iiii Triacle ʒ i. ss yolks of two Eggs. Mix them together and so apply it and when it is come to suppuration then open it in the lowest part either with a potentiall Caustick or by inscition but the Caustick is best and when you have opened it if no matter flow out then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore as before hath been shewed after that put into the wound a digestive as followeth A Digestive Take the yolk of an Egge clear Turpentine ʒ iiii clarified Honey ʒ ii Mithridate or Triacle ʒ ss Mix all these together and use it in the wound untill it be well digested which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and thick matter that will flow out of it and upon the fore lay this Cataplasme untill it be digested A digestive Cataplasme ℞ Fat Figs and Raisins the stones pickt out ana ℥ ii Sal nitrumʒ iv

the expelling of the pox the sick be very thirsty and dry then give this Julep to drink morning and evening which I have found very good ℞ Sirrup of Jujubes Nenuphare and Burrage of either four drachms Water of Burrage Cichore and Bugloss of either two ounces Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning and the rest at night and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following Take the conserves of Nenuphare Violets and Burrage of either six drachms Manus Christi made with Perles four drachms Sirrup of Nenuphare and Ribes of either one ounce and half Mix them together and with a Licorice stick clean scrap'd and a little bruised in the end let the sick lick thereof CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne FOr that oftentimes the face and hands which is the beauty and delight of our bodies are oftentimes disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I have used with good and happy successe for preventing thereof which is you may not do any thing unto them untill they grow white and that they are come to maturation which when you perceive then with a golden pinne or needle or for lack thereof a copper pinne will serve do you open every pustulae in the top and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linnen cloth and if you perceive the places do fill againe then open them againe as you did first for if you do suffer the matter which is in them toremain over long then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pitts which remaine after the Pox are gone as Avicen witnesseth now when you have thus done then annoint the places with this oyntment following Take Elder leaves one handfull Marigolds two handfulls French Mallowes one handfull Barrowes morte or grease six ounces First bruise the hearb in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coales untill the juice of the hearbs be consumed then strein it and keep it to your use the best time to make it is in the middle or the latter end of May. You must with a feather annoint the places grieved and as it drieth in annoint it againe and so continue it oftentimes for this will soon dry them up and keep the place from pitts and holes which remain after the Pox are gone Also if you annoint the Pox with the oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation it will cure them without pitts or spotts and easeth the pain and burning and helpeth excoriation Some do onely oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season and in winter the juice of the roots will serve and by that onely have done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the Pustulaes are opened Take Barley one little handfull red Roses a handfull red Sanders white Sanders of either one ounce Saffron two scruples Salt four drachms Clean water three pound Boyle all together untill a third part be consumed you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will dry them up I have heard of some which having not used any thing at all but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching have done very well and not any pitts remained after it When the Pox after they come out do not grow to maturation how you shall help it Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation or grow white now here you must help nature to bring it to passe which you may well do with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figgs twelve in number Water a quart Cut the Figgs small and boyle altogether untill half and more be consumed and then wet a fine soft linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith oftentimes which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the paine if any be Vlceration to help it If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations which is oftentimes seen then for the curing thereof use this order here following Take Tamarinds leaves of Lentils Mirtils budds of oaken leaves red Roses dried of either a little handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water untill half be consumed then strein it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this powder following Take Frankincense Mastick Sarcocoll and red Roses of either two drachms Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves the●●●i● t●em together and so res●●e 〈…〉 thy 〈◊〉 A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and Plantaine-water one ounce and half clear Turpentine iii. drachms Camphire half a drachm You must first melt the wax in the oyle then put in the Ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with an iron spalter and let it boyle on a gentle fire of charcoles untill it grow black but stirr it continually in the boyling for feare least it burn then take it from the fire and add thereto the camphire and lastly the Turpentine this unguent is good both to mundifie incarnate and sigillate For extream heat and burning in the soales of the seet and palms of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water and that will ease the pain and burning and may boldly be used without any danger For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this disease that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jawes called Aptham which if it be not well looked unto in time will grow to be Cankers now to cure and prevent the same this gargarisme is excellent good Take Barley-water a quart red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and Rybes of either two ounces juice of Pomegranates ℥ iii. Boyle them altogether saving the juice of Pomegranates untill a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while Also to prevent the same the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron or juice of a Pomegranate For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate Take plantaine-Plantaine-water a pint Sirrup of Pomegranates two ounces Mix them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm Another Taste nightshade-Nightshade-water

it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the rose-Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the rose-Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take anew layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quatter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Johns Wort three ounces steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Johns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick Ê’ ss of Myrrh of Frankincense ana Ê’ ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of sine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell-feed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watercresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Johns Wort well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then put in a quart of Saint Johns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you

Sugar 5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting ℞ Of the best Treacle one drachm in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink bloud warm and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux If the fumes of the head be not asswaged let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water and the yolk of a new laid Egg and a little Salt mix these and drink it this is also good for an Ague An Ointment for the Flux ℞ Two pound of May Butter or a gallon of Cream if of May Butter take Lunaria sanicle Salomons Seal Mouseare Plantain Adders-tongue ana one handfull stamp these small and put them into the May Butter and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire scumming it with a feather If you use Cream boyle it till it come to an oyle which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon and put your Hearbs into it as into the May Butter when it hath boyled strain your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth and let it stand till it be cold after which set it over the fire again till it begin to boil then put it up in pots This is also good for burning scalding or Aches but especially for the Flux for which when you use it observe this direction Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointments and melt it by the fire and stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in use this for seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the Back or Liver and for inward effects ℞ Cinnamon Cassia lignea Opium ana two drachms Mirrh Pepper and Galbanum ana one drachm stamp them and mix them with a little clarified Honey and make it into a lump or masse give thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap of a roasted Apple and let not the party drink for two houres after and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one hour or two and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly you may give it two or three nights together if the Patient be strong but if they be very weak give it every other night three or four times but if he be in extream pain give it when you list If the stomack be full of meat or flegm it will work lesse effectually Probatum A powder for the Flux ℞ Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister ℞ A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin ℞ Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pin of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face ℞ The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach ℞ The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether in●o 〈◊〉 bladder and chase it up and down with your hand for t●e space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening F●r the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half and hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composita by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the galsse to your admiration I A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee

tender then take out the roots and put into the water of Fenugreek and Linseed ana M i. being first stamped or bruised and seeth them together in the water untill the water rope like birdlime then stamp the Hollihock roots before boyled and put them to the Fenugreek and Linseed with a handfull of Barlie meal and fry them together and if need be put to some Sheeps suet and lay a plaister thereof to the sore as hot as may be suffered Let it lye twelve hours at least and then lay another to it and within nine plaisters it will work the full effect It dissolveth the Plurisie also in applying of three Plaister For an Imposthume of the Stomack Whosoever shall dayly take in a draught of Ale or Beer a spoonful of the pouder of Matselon or Scabios it will destroy any Imposthume within him Probat A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four dayes with Oyle of Cammomil then against the Patient goeth to bed you must have two Neats feet or so many of them as may cover the dislocation with the peelings round about then lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place as hot as the party can indure it and in the morning remove them and after with it annoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oyle of Cammomil and then apply fresh peelings This for certain hath brought in joynt that which hath been out of joynt six years and giveth strength to the veins and sinnews and will keep the joynts i● their first place and the effect will appear in three or four dressings For the Black Jaundies Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house and put in Geese and watch them when they dung take their dung up with a knife and scrape away the white about the dung untill you have a good quantity of it then dry this in an Oven make pouder thereof and drinke of it morning and evening warmed in Ale and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundies 2. Dry the gall of a Raven and grate it into powder and take a quantity of it in a spoon temper it with Beer or Ale and drinke this fasting three mornings together Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp doe away the husks and bruise them and put them in Ale and drinke this fasting for eight or nine dayes For the black Jaundies ℞ Of Hearb Ambrose Betony Mugwort ana M. i. three or four Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stamp all these together in a Morter till they be beaten indifferent small then take Spicknard Turmerick and Gallingal ana p. ae stamp them in a Morter likewise then put the Hearbs into a clean cloth by themselves and tie them fast with strings and hang them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or four dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart and fast after it three houres and doe so the like when you goe to bed To make Hartshorn Jelly ℞ Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped and a pint of fair water one Nutmeg sliced one race of Ginger a branch of Rosemary boyle all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire till it be very clammy then strain it into a Bason and put to it Rosewater and Sugar For 〈◊〉 yellow Jaundies ℞ Celandine English Saffron and powder of Ivory seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof eight or nine dayes mane vesperi 2. ℞ The Urine of the Patient and drink it with the juyce of Horehound 3. Seeth the juyce of Cammomill Morrell and Mouseare in white Wine twice and drink of it fasting For the yellow Jaundies ℞ The pap of a roasted Pippin and put as much powder of Saffron as will lye on a penny and twice as much Harts-horn finely scraped mingle them well together and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg and as much at going to bed 2. ℞ Of the inner rind of Barberry bark and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and a little Saffron steep these in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting 3. ℞ Of red Nettle-tops M. i. seeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same four or five mornings together 4. ℞ Alicant or hard Spanish Sope and a little stale Ale in a Cup rub the Sope against the bottome of the Cup till the Ale be white then shave a little Ivory and let the Patient drink of this first and last till he be recovered Also take Celandine leaves and put them into your Stockings next to your feet 5. Put a good handfull of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine boyle them to a pint in the winter use the roots and drink thereof morning and evening 6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple put into the place some sweet Butter a little Turmerick and English Saffron cover it with the top you cut off rost it tender and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together 7. ℞ One pennyworth of Turmerick of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. ii of Celandine M. i. seeth the Celandine and the bark in Ale-wor●● putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning and when it hath stood two nights draw it at the spicket and warm it with a gad of fine Steel and put to it the powder of the Turmerick and drink of it first and last 8. ℞ The juyce of Liverwort and the scrapings of Ivory and of Saffron as much as you shall think fit of French Sope as much as a Chestnut bind them all in the corner of a linnen cloth and swinge them up and down in fair water till all the vertue be gone into the water and give the Patient to drink of it L. For a lame Leg. REcipe Aqua composita and oyle of Roses anae p. ae mix them together well and annoint the greived place with it morning and evening but let the Patient first be well rub'd with a warm cloth Probatum For the same ℞ Oyle of Exter oyle Olive and Aqua vitae and Beast● gall ana p. ae Mix them all well together and annoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening for the space of a fortnight but alwayes use to rub the place first very well with warm clothes For chopt Lips Rub them with your sweat behind your eares and this will make them smooth and well coloured A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption ℞ Of Earth-wormes two pound in a May morning those with black heads are best you may gather enough put these in white Wine for three or four houres then slit and wash them

be not weaned you must wean it otherwise no Medicine will recover it Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes but when you doe be stirring it and make it try to use the legs if it be of that bignesse Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae â„ž Mercurie sublimate sublimed with â„¥ iv of Roman or Danisk Vittriol Antimonie crude â„¥ ii grinde them well together an hour and half retort these with sand half way up the body of the glasse with a gentle fire five houres and then increase the fire by degrees till with a good fire red begins to come into an Urinal half full of water which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white pouder which pouder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone Then make an extract of Zedoarie Cinnamon and Galingale ana Ê’ i. and red Sanders Ê’ ii with spirit of Wine â„¥ vi mingle this Extract with â„¥ i. of the foresaid white pouder and grinde them together well and it will dry it self into a red pouder It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter this will give some five or six vomits It also helpeth Agues and Fevers Dropsie and divers other diseases and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose Probat per me T. S. S A Sear-cloth for divers causes REcipe Of Oyle olive lb i. ss red Lead lb i ss of white Lead lb i. Castile Sope â„¥ iiii Oyle of Bayes â„¥ ii Put your Oyle olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyle of Bayes and the Castile Sope. Seeth these over a gentle fire of Embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little red lead and white being mingled together in pouder still stirring it with a great spatter of wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottome to keep it from burning for an hour and half together them make the fire somewhat bigger till the redness be turned into a gray colour But you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as Pitch then drop a little upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the trencher nor your singer it is enough Then take long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloths thereof they will keep 20 yeares let your pouder of your Lead be searsed very fine and shred the Sope small The Vertues of this Sear-cloth are Being laid to the Stomack it doth provoke appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomack being laid to the Belly it is a present remedie for the Collick Being laid to the back it is a present remedie for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidnies and weakness of the Back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away Aches It breaketh Felons and other Imposthumes and healeth them It draweth out any running humour and helpeth him without breaking of the skin and being applyed to the Fundament helpeth any disease there It helpeth all old Sores and will be made in six houres For the Stone â„ž The Clawes of a brown Pionie root and the root and Jet Beads ana p. ae dry the clawes and roots and pouder them and the jet also very finely then mingle them and in Ale or White wine drinke a little of the pouder 2. Peel a red Onyon slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine let him lye six houres then strein it and drinke of it twice in a sit and it will expell the stone For Stone Strangurie and Collick Take the inner rinde of the young branches of a Hasell tree boyle them in small Ale till half be consumed and let him that hath the Strangurie drink half of it at a draught let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last for nine dayes together for it never fails For the Stone in the Bladder â„ž Of Turpentine â„¥ iiii and burn it to pouder then mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water and give it twice a week in the morning to the Patient and this will not onely preserve him from the stone but drive it out if any use this but two moneths Probat 2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drinke it and it will cause Urine to come To break and drive out the Stone â„ž The juyce or water strained out of Raddish roots mixe it with White wine and the pouder of Turpentine dryed in the Sun and so drinke This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone To cause Vrine and break the Stone Take Parsely and stamp it in White wine then strain it well and drinke a good draught thereof and this will cause you to make water and break the stone but you must use this five or six times Probat â„ž Pouder of Brionie berries and drink it in water wherein Water-cresses have been boyled and it will both help you and give you ease For the Stone â„ž The bloud of two Hares as much Sheeps or Goats milk mingle them well together and boil them in a new pot to a coal beat it to pouder and searce it finely and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water luke-warm this will break the stone to dust and make it come away To try this put the stone into it with a little water bloud-warm and in half an hour it will dissolve it into peeces 2. Take five Cloves of Garlick and stamp and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine and so drink it This being taken three times together is a sure Remedie For the Stone in Reins and Bladder 1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to pouder and drinke thereof every morning with white wine and a little oyle of Almonds and this will cure the stone of the Kidnies and Bladder being given four ounces at a draught 2. Pouder of Manati which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head being exhibited in the aforesaid manner will doe the like The white for the man and the yellow for the woman 3. â„ž Spikenard Carraway Fennel Annise and Cummin-seeds Cinnamon and Galingale ana â„¥ ss Gromwell seed and Liquorice ana â„¥ i. beat them all into pouder and take half a spoonful of this pouder in Ale or Beer warmed and after walk an hour before you eat or drinke doe this four or five times and you shall finde a notable operation A Posset for the Stone Make a Posset very thinne and clear with a quart of Milk and put into it eight or ten roots of Althea and two Parsly roots having their pithes taken out and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean so that no durt be on it and let them boyle well in the Milk-Posset then strain it clean and let the Patient drink a good draught put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat

and hearbs on the earth it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt and the Plague shortly after to follow Also by the beasts of the field we may perceive it especially sheep which will go mourning with their heads hanging down towards the ground and divers of them dying without any manifest cause known unto us Also when we see young Children flock themselves together in companies and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongs them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournfull sort this is a token which hath been well observed in our age to foreshew great mortality at hand Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause or suddenly vanish away and become dry And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foule and troubled Also when the small-Pox doth generally abound both in young and old people all these do foreshew the Plague to come CHAP. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague THere are three principall meanes how to prevent this contagious disease The first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifold sins and wickedness unto almighty God our heavenly Father with a hearty repentance and amendment of our former sins committed against his divine majestie The second means is to fly far off from the place infected and as Rondoletius saith not over hastily to return thither again for fear of an after-clap which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these words Non enim morietur in bello qui non est in illo and the farther from it the safer shall we be yet were it a very uncharitable course that all which are of ability should do so for then how should the poor be relieved and good orders observed but for Children it were best to send them far off from the place because their bodies are most apt to receive the infection as also for that they cannot so continually use antidots and preservatives which by their great heat may indanger them almost so much as the disease it self The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three points which are these Order Diet and Physicall helps For the first you shall have a care that your houses be kept clean and sweet not suffering any foule and filthy clothes or stinking things to remain in or about the same and in summer season to deck your windowes and strow your floors with sweet and wholsom hearbs floures and leaves of Mints Balme Penniroyall Lavender Thime Majoram red-Roses Carnations Gelliflowers and such like for your windowes your floors to be strowed with green Rushes and Mints Oaken and Willow leaves Vine leaves and such like your windowes which stand towards the North and East do you alwaies keep open in the day time if the ayre be clear and that no infected and unsavory smell be near the same as Fogs dunghils c. and every morning before you open either your doors or windowes as also in the evening when you go to bed cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber and burn some odoriferous or sweet perfumes in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in stead thereof some Juniper Frankincense Bay leaves Rosemary Lavender Majoram or such like which you must alwaies have dried in a readinesse and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in summer season ℞ Rose water and Vinegar of either six spoonfulls Rinds of sower Citrons and Lemons Bay-leaves of either the weight of two pence which is ℈ i. Camphire the weight of three pence which is ʒ ss The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put all together in a perfuming pan or instead thereof a peuter dish set on a chafer of coles will serve the turn Another good perfume in winter ℞ Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Laudanum Benjamin Frankincense of either ʒ i. which is weight of seven pence The hearbs berries and Roses being dried must be made in grosse powder as also the gumms and so mixed together and when yee list cast some part thereof on a chafer of coales and receive the fume thereof CHAP. V. NOw having received the fume as aforesaid before you go forth of your chamber eat some Cordial electuary or preservative as hereafter you shall find choise which I have alwais used with good and happy success after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water wherein you must put a little Vinegar and then if you list you may break your fast wirh some good bread and butter and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar and for plethorick and melanchole bodies it were good to drink a draught of wormewood wine in the morning fasting because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethorick and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholie An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe ℞ Conserve of Roses and Borrage floures of either two ounces Minardus Mithridate Andromachus triacle of either half an ounce Dioscordium two drachms Dialkermes one drachme Powder of the seed of Citrons pilled one drachme Sirrup of Lemons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compound all these together in the form of an opiat you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beanes and drink a draught of Rennish wine Beer or Ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender years so much as a bean thereof is sufficient and give them onely Beer or Ale after it the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice if you go not into any suspected company Another excellent good preservative ℞ Kernils of Wallnuts and Figs of either four ounces Leaves of Rue one ounce and half Tormentill roots four drachms Rind of sowr Citrons one drachme right Bolarmoniak six drachms fine Myrrh two scruples Saffron one scruple Salt half a drachm Sirrup of Citrons and Lemons four ounces The hearbs roots and rinds must be dried the nuts must be blanched and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder and then wash'd in the water of Scabios and dried againe you must pound the figgs and wallnuts in a stone morter severally by themselves very small and the rest must be made in fine powder and so mix them altogether in the morter and then add thereto sirrup by little and little and so incorporate them altogether you may give this in the same quantity and in like sort as the other before Another very good ℞ Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts ℥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle ʒ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons ℥ i. Compound all these together in the morter as the other before you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence every second or third day and drink a draught of Rennish or white wine after it in Winter season but in the heat of the yeer Sorrel

up in height tending to suppuration for then should you hinder nature which like a diligent workman hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter which otherwise would have killed us And here touching Phlebotomy or bloud-letting you must have this speciall care that you draw not bloud on the opposite side as if it be on the left side the sore appear then draw not bloud on the right side if it appear in the flanke then draw not bloud in the arme but in the foot for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts and so kill the body And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venome lieth hidden for on that side where nature is opprest there shall you find the pulse more weak feeble and uneven greatly differing from the other side And here you shall understand that in some it hath been seen that nature of it self at the first hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration or a carbunckle or spots called purples Now here if you draw bloud you doe then greatly indanger the body but in this case you must onely give Cordials and use all the meanes you can to bring it outward either by maturation or evaporation as hereafter shall be shewed you And here you shall further understand that where the age constitution nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses with reasonable deep scarification unto the next place adjoyning where the party complaineth thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficiall parts and there to apply the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you and so apply to the place some strong maturative and atrractive plaister or Cataplasme as hereafter shall be shewed you If the greif be in the head or throte then apply Ventoses to the neck If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart then apply them to the shoulders If in the emunctuaries of the liver then apply them to the buttocks or thighs now when this is done either by Phlebetomy or Ventoses then within an hour or two at the most after it you must give the sick some good Cordiall Medicine which hath power to comfort the heart resist the venomous matter and also procure sweat whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list An excellent good Powder to expell the Plague which also provoketh sweat ℞ Roots of Gentian Bittanie Petasitis ana ʒ i. Roots of Tormentill Dittander ana ʒ iii. Red Sanders ʒ ss Fine Pearle of both sorts ana ℈ i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared fine Terra sigillata ana ʒ vi Rindes of Citrons red Corrall Roots of Zedoiar shaving of Ebony bone of a Stags heart ana sixteen graines Fragments of the five pretious stones ana ℈ ss Shaving of a Unicorns horn Succini ana ℈ ss Leaves of Gold and Silver ana one and half in number Make all these in fine powder every one severall by himself and then mix them all together and give thereof ʒ i. or ℈ iiii more or lesse as occasion requireth either in Sorrell Scabios or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces whereunto you must adde a little Sirrup of Lemons or sour Citrons and give it warm the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small then washed in Scabios water and so dryed Another good Powder ℞ Leaves of Dittander called Dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittanie Pimpernell Gentian Zedoiar ana ʒ i. Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrina fine Myrrh Rinds of sour Citrons anaʒ i. Mastick Saffron ana half a drachm Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid ʒ ii All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may give two scruples or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters A good Opiat to expell venome and provoke sweat Conserve of the floures of Burrage Bugloss Violets Bittanie ana ℥ ii Venus Triacle ℥ ii Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mithridate ana ℥ i. Shaving of Ebonie And Harts-horn Orient Pearls Roots of Tormentill anaʒ i. Shaving of Unicorns horn Root of Angelica ana half a drachm Sirrup of the Juice of small Sorrell and Bugloss ana so much as shall suffice Mix all these together in the form of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one drachm and half Scabios water Balm water ana ℥ ii Dissolve the Opiat in the waters and drink it warm then walk a little upon it and then goe to bed and sweat Another excellent good means to expell the venom and procure sweat Take a great white Onyon and pick out the coar or middle of him then fill the hole with good Venus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle and Aqua vitae then stop or cover the hole of the Onyon again and rost him in the hot ashes untill he be soft then strein it strongly through a cloth and give it the sick to drinke and the rest that remains pound it small and apply it to the sore and sweat upon it Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials if he chance to vomit it up again then wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar and then give him more of the same again which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then give so much more if lesse then according to the quantity vomited and if he vomit that also then give him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe reta●n it then is there small hope of recovery I have known divers which have vomited their Cordials three or four times and at last giving the juyce of the Onyon as aforesaid hath kept that and sweat upon it and so recover their health Also Minardus Triacle or And●om●chus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Diosco●dium and dissolved in two o● three ounces of this water ●●llo●ing or Carduus benedictus Sor●ell and Scabios water hath been found excellent good and available both to procure sweat and expell the venomous matter An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June Take Angelica Dragons Scabios ana three handfuls Wormwood Sage Salendine Mugwort Rue Rosemary Varvein Endive Mints ana one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agrimonie Bittanie ana two handfulls St. Johns wort Fetherfew and Pionie ana a little handfull You must mix all these hearbs together then bruise them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a clean vessell of glasse or earth and add thereto a pottle of White wine or three quarts a pint of Rose-water and a pint of Vinegar then mixe them well together and presse down the Hearbs close together with your hands then stop the pot close

Hysop with some Parsley roots the inner pith being taken out must be bolled whereof he must take a little at a time three or four times a day and betwixt times in taking of his broth give him three or four spoonfulls of this Julep following which doth resist venenosity from the heart and also quench thirst A Julip to quench thirst and resist Venenosity ℞ Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana ℥ ii Sirrup of Lemons sowre Citrons and the juice of Sorrell of either one ounce Mix all these together and give thereof as cause requireth Then at night he may sleep three or four houres more and the next day being the third or fourth day of his accubet you may purge him with one of the purgations here following but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine because it may cause an extream flux which will be most dangerous because it will overmuch weaken the body and hinder concoction for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subject to fluxes A good Purgation in a strong body ℞ Rad. Cichoriae ʒ iiii Rad. Petasitis ʒ ss Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedic●us Pimpin●llae Acetosae ana M. i. Flor●m Cord. P. i. Prunor●m dumma● no. x. Sem Coriandri ʒ ss Aquae font ℥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it ℞ Decoct col ℥ iiii Fol. Senna ʒ iii. Rhab. elect ʒ iiii Spica G. iii. Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. ʒ vi Oxisacchari Simp. ʒ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refra●●●ing from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body ℞ Fol. Scabiosae Buglosae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae ʒ iii. Rad. Fenic licho anaʒ iiii Passularum enucleat ℥ i. Pruncrum dammas no. vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana ℥ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana ℥ i. Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill half the water be consumed then strain it and keep it ℞ Rhab. elect ʒ ii Agarici tros ʒ i. Croci ℥ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. anaʒ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax Mannae Calabriae ana ℥ i. Decoct col ℥ ii vel ℥ iii. Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body ℞ Fol. sennae ʒ iii. Rhab. elect ʒ i. Sem. anis ʒ ss Schenanthi ℥ ss Aquae Acetosae ℥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax ℥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation ℞ Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestem ana ℥ i. Rhab elect ʒ ii ss Cinamomi ʒ ss Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros lax ℥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as heareafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging ℞ Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali-Citri anaʒ iiii Confect Alkermisʒ i. Boli Veri ʒ ss Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid ʒ i. Manus Christi perlati ℥ i. Sir de Lemon ʒ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is ℞ Conservae Borag ʒ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae ℥ i. Bolarm veri ʒ i. Manus Christi cum perlis ℥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion ℞ Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana ℥ i. Pul. diamarga frig ʒ ss Conf●ctio alk●rmis G. ii Sir de accto Citri vel de Lemon ℥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms ●ften chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep ℞ Hordei m●ndi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum ℥ i. ss Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana ℥ i. ss Sacchari perlati ℥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep ℞ Vnguent popillieris ʒ iiii Vnguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana ʒ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging ℞ Florum Nenupharis P i. Cort. Pap. ʒ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana ʒ i. Florum ros rub P. i. Florum Viol. P. ss Florum camomil Betonicae anaʒ i. Shread them all small then pound them grossy and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth ℞ Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Plan●aine leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and

Enula campana Angel●●a Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced ther●take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fire it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Jaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Caelidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one penny-worth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Enula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May. For a Stitch. Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half be consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in fix pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb. Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in

must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides cancr●rum to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half an ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small Cinnamon water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water ana ℥ iiii Of very good Angelica water ana ℥ iiii Of Clove water ana ℥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana ℥ iiii Of Balm water ana ℥ iiii Of spirit of Saffron ℥ ii Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevenninght in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm of posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Jaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation ℞ of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell thereto An Electuary for the green Sicknesse Take of Diatrion santalon and Diarrhodon abbatis of each one drachm of Diacurcuma and

EVERY WOMAN Her own MIDWIFE Or a COMPLEAT CABINET Opened for CHILD-BEARING WOMEN FURNISHED With Directions to prevent miscarriages During the time of Breeding and other Casualties which usually attend Women in Child-bed Publisht for the Publick Good To which is annexed Cures for all sorts of Diseases incident to the Bodies of Men Women and Children LONDON Printed for Simon Neale at the Sign of the Three Pidgeons in Bedford-street in Covent-Garden 1675. A SHORT COMMENTARIE Concerning the Care ought to be had of Women which are with child such as are ready to bring forth such as are brought to bed and also of Infants SInce many sad and incommodious things are wont to happen to women with child and in bringing them into the world by ignorance and carelessnesse I thought I should undertake a thing not unbeseeming a Christian Physitian if I should reduce as it were into a breif Comment what things were fit to observe as well in their time of bearing as also in the birth from which being somewhat more instructed they might better enjoy their health preserve their off-spring and after birth better defend their bodies CHAP. I. What things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths SO soon as the woman shall begin to be with child which she shall easily know by stopping of her monethly flux without disease or ancientnesse of yeares she shall abstain from all vehement motions and excrcise whether she walk on foot or ride on horseback or in a Coach or be carried in a Horse-litter For where the body is too much stirred the internall membrane of the Womb is either accustomed to be broken or to be loosly resolved and thereupon abortment presently followeth To these things the woman with child must diligently beware that she lift not her armes up too high nor carry great burthens nor repose her self on hard and uneasie seats But instead of exercise which may alwayes in some precede before meat she may walk on foot gently or suffer her body and armes gently to be rubbed and stroked or may stretch them forth with spinning or carding Let her moderately use meat of good juyce and easie concoction and Wine not too strong and too sharp but a little mingled with water or if she be abstemious she may use water wherein Cinnamon is boyled But she may not feed on sweet meats sharp and windy she must also avoid fasting thirst watching mourning sadnesse anger and all other perturbations of the mind Her familiar freinds must present no unwholsome thing to her nor so much as name it least she should desire it and not be able to get it and so minister her an occasion of abortment or the Child carry with it some foule impressions But if she desire chalk clay or coales let beanes boyled with sugar be given unto her or if she cannot get her longing let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth BEfore the fourth moneth be ended she must neither be let bloud nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine But if too much bloud abound or some incident disease happen which may require evacuation you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arme especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth VVHen now the fourth moneth is past bloud-letting and physick is permitted especially if it be gentle and milde such as best may agree with women with child and tender or delicate persons And by Hyppocrates precept may be conceded even untill the seventh moneth CHAP. IIII. From the fifth sixth and seventh Moneth FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is wont or ought from thence to be used because the Babe being now become greater standeth in need of greater nourishment and bloud and also can bear no commotion of physick Although sometimes I have met with women which have so much abounded with bloud that unlesse they had been let bloud in the second moneth they would have aborted in the third others again unlesse they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight moneth they could not carry their great belly so long or else would be delivered of a dead issue But since these things happen but to few they may not be granted to all but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child that they give not way to take any bloud from the ancle bone of the foot during the whole time of the womans going but in stead thereof if the disease so require an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock or so much Cassia fistula or of Sirrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew about the quantity of an ounce with a little water of Cinnamon may safely be taken a little before meat But if the belly be bound onely without any apparent disease the broth of a Chicken or of Veal sodden with Oil or with the decoction of Mallowes or marsh-Mallowes Mercury and Linseed put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amisse yet in a lesser measure then is wont to be given in other Children to wit of the decoction five ounces of common Oil three ounces of Sugar two ounces of Cassia fistula one ounce But sharper Purgations as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt are altogether hurtfull to great bellyed women or such as lie in childbed But of fat Pork which they call Lard or the yolks of Eggs without salt Purgations and Glysters are commended But if she will not take a Glyster either for modesty or otherwise because she was not accustomed to take it one or two yolks of new laid Eggs or a few Pease pottage warm with a little salt and sugar supped up a little before meat will be very convenient But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder and mingled with Honey or with Sugar made after the manner of an Electuary will doe very well But if the thighs and feet swell let them be annointed with Oxphrodinum which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and Rose-water mingled with a little Salt CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth IN the eighth moneth which is usually perillous the better diets rather than plentiest will be most commodious But as they must abate their diet so their bodily exercise must increase And because then women with child by reason of the sharp humours alter the belly are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon or Aromaticum Rosatum or Diamargariton in the morning before meat and sometimes they may lick a little Honey even as they which loath and nauseate their meat may take green Ginger condited with Sugar or the rindes of Citrons and Oranges condited

as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nail● CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment Take of Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of marsh-Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Hour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine and Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M. i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of Linseed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Eath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts ●djoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery S●ffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal ●alamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt

In stead of meat the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best being well sodden with a little Dill and so taken A Drink For the drink a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar which they call Hippocras which is made after this manner Put unto water boyled and hot and drawn unto â„¥ xx Of Cinnamon half an ounce Of Sugar three or two ounces Three grains of black Pepper Mingle them well and infuse them for six hours and then strain them in a bag which the Apothecaries call Hippocrates sleeve Let the child-bearing woman use this potion warm but very sparingly but if she loath this let her use thin small and clear wine unlesse a Fever shall hinder her A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine of each two ounces to mittigate paine by reason of flatuous humours retained Some exhibite the jawes of the Pickerell with Amber and Ginger ana finely powdered to drink in white Wine CHAP. XVII The government of the Nurse LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mothers Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than four and twenty yeares nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy complexion which is not infected with other vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed nor hath not long given suck let her not have sore Dugs or Breasts nor to big but a large Breast and moderately fat Let her use choise meats of easie and light concoction engendring good bloud or juyce let her abstain from hot aromaticall Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamome and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in children lepry or scurfe and other contagious diseases Let her abstain from cares and vexations and let her take heed least she provoke her menstruous disease She must not sleep much or be given to sleep for that maketh the Milk flegmatick she likewise ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastfull to the Infant she ought moderately to excrcise her selfe especially her armes to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this meanes evill humours are consumed as by ease and sloth they are augmented Also copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth and hurteth the Child as that which cheifly retracteth and diminisheth the Milk and maketh it of an unsavory taste tasting hot and rank or goatish which bringeth no small inconvenience and hurt to the Child For which cause in times past Husbands were driven away from their Wives and restrained from their companies But if the Milk decrease Pultesses of Bean meal and Rise are meet to be used also like paps made of Bread with Milk and Sugar to which may be added a little Fennel-seed And if the Milk be thick it must be made thinne with slender diet and subtill Wine and Sirrup of Vinegar as also with exercises But if it be too thinne and waterish grosse and strong meats and longer sleeps will be convenient and meet For the corruption of the Milk a litile Mugwort grosly bruised and put into a linnen cloth and so into broth with a little Honey added thereto will doe very much good The care of the Infant And if the Childes belly be loose the food ought to be more grosse and strong and her sleeps longer But children may suck so long as till they have brought forth sharp and great teeth But if you suffer them to drink Wine or strong drink or other Potions before they have toothed them they will be corrupted but when they have gotten these teeth their armes and back bones are gently to be rubbed after their sleep CHAP. XVIII A Bath of sweet water very profitable for children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase THey are fasting to be bathed in water before meat for the space of a quarter of an hour yet so that the belly may first goe down or be emptied and then they are to be annointed with oyle of Olives made hot And it is not of little concernment in what swadling clothes children are wrapped for when they are not tied up at all or the clouts are too loose they are subject to Fluxes Imposthumes apt to be crooked backt and other discommodities but especially when their knees are too strictly tied and bound up and their thighs left at liberty they are lamed When they cry or feel pain or will sleep they are to be pacified either by shewing the breast or by singing or by rocking either in Cradles or hanging Beds or by carrying up and down But we must observe that children may lie strait whensoever they lie down and ought not to be covered too much or hot with coverings nor yet with too few least they may catch cold Moreover let the linnen cloth wherein they are wrapped be neat and clean for children are offended and infected by foul and filthy excrements From three years of age till the seventh they are to be educated gently and kindly not to be severely reprehended chidden or beaten for by that meanes they be made throughout their whole life after too timorous or too much terrified astonished and sotted Being yet in their first years they are not to be compelled to going for seeing all their bones are soft as Wax and the body fall the heavier they either become lame or universally resolved in their feet Food must be daily given them thrice a day till they are three years old for if they be much filled they are subject and accustomed to be troubled with Convulsions and other diseases In the sixth or seventh year of their age they are to be sent to schoole and committed to the breeding and instruction of courteous and temperate Schoolmasters who may not terrifie them Before these yeares they are not to be compelled or forced to harder labours otherwise they will not thrive well but stand at a stay and keep little or become Dwarfes CHAP. XIX The Diseases of Infants VVHen as the Infant beginneth to grow sick as for example from a cold disease the Nurse is to be nourished with hot and dry meat and drink so that thereby forthwith it may grow well again so also if it be taken with other diseases as with an Ague the Nurse shall use plantain water and such like things Paps made for children of crums or morsels of bread broken or sliced are more wholesome than made of meal or flour Till two years old give them Honey often for that keepeth them from Convulsions and costivenesse of the belly and that the milk they eat hurt them not When Infants cast up their milk a Corrall should be hung about their neck

consumed away then strain it thorough a fine linnen cloth and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm and you shall finde present remedy Probatum For purging of Colds Coughs and comforting the Lungs ℞ Rubarb two drachms Sena half an ounce Anniseeds one ounce steep them in a pint of white Wine and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night stop the pot very close that no water come out and in the morning when it is blood-warm strain it and take a pretty quantity of it and put two drops of oyle of Sulphur into it and drink it fasting and fast two or three houres after then take a little broth and keep you warm A Julep for a Cough ℞ A pottle of Spring water and put into it ten branches of Hysop and two of Rosemary Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces of Anniseeds bruised two ounces French Barly which hath been cleansed in one water boyle these till half the water be consumed then strain it and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough this will loosen the flegm and cause you to bring it up easily Another Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound of white Wine of Mace two flakes of Nut-Neg two or three slices Saffron six or eight blades burn the Wine and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink a good draught warm mane vesperi and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon For Canker in the mouth Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal it Probatum Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring water and making it as milk warm from the Cow with a stick and a linnen cloth fastened to the end of it he washed his tongue mouth and lips herewith every morning and evening and cured him in short time But if it be in an old man let run too long that it eat still and Vitrioll Salves nor other waters will cure it there is no other way to save this man but to wash carefully his lips or mouth with a very little oyle of Vitrioll to cauterize the veins and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it But this course must not be taken unlesse the Patient be in intole●able pain and in a desperate case for doe it herewith never so little yet this oyle of Vitrioll will gnaw and bite and put the Patient to great pain that was opprest with great pain before unlesse you mitigate the pain by often continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines and places with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can that this may cauterize and sear up the veines the better that so he may be cured which otherwise will corrode and eat continually although he may purge and vomit also and so this at last will kill him For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs ℞ Coltsfoot Betony Burnet and red Rose leaves ana M. i. of Comfry roots scraped and sliced M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double refined Sugar and put it into it and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it up and drink of it six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon 2. ℞ Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goats milk and give the Patient mane vesperi two or three weeks together and this will help them but first give the Patient some gentle diet-drink to purge them before you give the Saccharum and Milk Probatum For Collick and paines in the backe ℞ The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed and cut it in peices and put it into a new pot well covered and set it in an Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught and this will presently release the pain and give ease Probatum 2. ℞ The decoction of Hollyhockes mix it with Honey and Butter and drink thereof bloud warm Probatum For the Cramp ℞ The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary and put them between every toe and if you are much troubled with the Cramp use it continually and this will cure it 2. Annoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae and this will help it Probatum For a Canker ℞ Burnt Salt burnt Eggshels burnt Copperas burnt Bones burnt Verdigrease Wormwood and Rue burnt ana p. ae make powder thereof and mingle them well together and strow the powder into the Canker and let no water come to it Another Take Hog-lice stamp them till they come to an oyle and annoint the place therewith For a Canker in the lips ℞ The juyce of Agrimony and mingle it with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal them Probat A Water for a Consumption R. Rose-water three pound of Muscadine three pound of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon two ounces of sliced bread a penny loafe the yolks of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound Distill all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting and you will find much good For the Cough ℞ Of the best Flores Sulphuris one ounce and half as much white Sugar Candie finely poudered mix them together and take as much hereof as will lye upon sixpence mix them well in the yolk of an egg and swallow it down then walk upon it untill you sweat and keep your self warm and use it four or five mornings together to take it and walk after it For a Cough or shortness of Breath ℞ Of Aqua vitae or Annise-seed water four ounces mix it with white Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces boyl it in a peuter dish over a chafing-dish till it be dissolved and indifferent thick like an oyle and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four nights together ℞ Elacampane roots cut into small peeces of Hysop Penniroyal and Liquorice ana M. ii seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water till it come to a pottle then strain it well and keep it in a clean pot or glasse close stopt and use this every day thrice First and last and one hour after dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption ℞ Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out

the strings and bloud and lay them in water to soke a night and a day then wash them clean and put them into a Pipkin lay in the bottome of the Pipkin stalks of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron then lay the hearts on them every heart being stuck with three cloves and half a quarter of Sugar being put into every heart Then stop up the Pipkin very close with paste and put it in an Oven with houshold bread and when you thinke it is sufficiently stewed take out the Pipkin again then every morning and evening take a spoonful of this Sirrup D For the Dropsie REcipe Half an eggshel full of the juyce of Ireos of Mellicratum four ounces with ponder of the best Rubarb half a drachm Take this hot in a morning once a week This is held for an excellent help Another â„ž A lap-full of green Juniper tops chop them small and take a great bathing tub and put them therein and set the Patient in the tub so that he may not touch the water wherein these tops were sodden but put a cricket under his feet and cover him well up to the throat let him sweat so long as he is able and when he cometh forth of the bath take care he taketh no cold but carefully put him into a warm bed E For pains in the Eyes REcipe brown Fennel white Rose-leaves or other Rose-leaves Rue Vervain Celandine and Eyebright ana p. ae distill it and keep the water in a Violl For sore Eyes by salt Rheum Pound Housleek M i. in a morter and take the juyce strained through a linnen cloth put it in a new laid eggshel and put a quantity of white Sugar-candie to sweeten it Set the Egg over some Embers and let it stand and as the scum ariseth take it off with a feather and being clear take it off the fire and when it is cold wash your eyes herewith ever and anon Mr. Nepier commendeth Rulandi aqua opthalmica to bee the best for sore eyes Pin and Web of all waters To clear the Eye-sight â„ž Rain water of the clearest you can get one gallon let it settle and clear by it self at least one day and night and after put it into a fair bason of earth glased or of silver then put thereto of Roch Allom the bigness of a Pigeons Egg and and a quarter of as much white Coperas and let them stand 24 houres well covered then scum it clean with a feather and drein it into another bason then take away the scum and the grounds and so doe it every 24 hours till it be clear without scum or grounds and when it is perfectly purified put it into a full pint of the best Rosewater which is white and put it into a good big glasse then set it in the Sun thirty dayes or more Afterwards take it in and wash your eyes with it three or four times in a week when you are in bed or oftner till you bee eased when you wash your eyes lye upon your back that it may the better soke into them and if it be too sharp then abate it by mingling some spring water with it The best time to make it is in Aprill or May but if need be at any time in the Summer If you take the rain-water in glasses or glased earthen pans as it falleth from heaven free from durt sand or other filth that will be much better F For the Flux REcipe A Bason and set it forth in the rain and save the rain that falleth therein then take a few Violet leaves and boyl them in the water then boyl some Almonds but blanch them not and make Almond milk of the same water If the Flux be very sore boyle the Almond Milk and put thereto a little Cinnamon and Sugar and drink it For the Flux â„ž The nether jaw of a Pike and make it into fine powder and put it into drink or broth and it will stop the Flux For the bloudy Flux â„ž An old Cock and dresse him put into his belly of Sow-thistles M. i. and put him into a fair earthen pot and put to it five peices of Gold four Dates ten Prunes and a quart of Malmsey then close up the mouth of the pot as close as you may then put it into a brasse Pot with fair water let it boyle the space of twelve houres but take care that none of the water come into the earthen Pot and when the flesh is consumed from the bones take it up and let it run thorough a clean peice of lochram then put it up into a clean Gallypot and when it is cold it will be like jelly put two spoonfuls hereof into broth or other meat which the Patient useth to eat For the bloody Flux Seeth a good proportion of Plantain in fair water till it wax yellow and all the strength be boyled out of it then strain the water and heat a clean peice of Iron red hot and quench it in the said water doe so nine times and give it the Patient 2. Seeth a pint of Milk and when it is boyled put into it as much Allum as will make a Posset of which mane vesperi drink a good draught 3. â„ž That which is shorn from Scarlet make it to a powder and give the Patient half a spoonfull thereof in a pretty draught of Tent and use this five or six times 4. Dry the powder of an Hare and give it the Patient in red Wine and it will help him For the bloody Flux Cut Hollihock roots in small peices and boyle them in red Wine strain it well and give the Patient and if he have a Fever or Ague seeth the roots in water with some Plantain leaves and let the Patient drink it 2. â„ž Yarrow and Plantain ana p. ae strain them together and put thereto old red Wine called Hollock or Tent strain it well and let the Patient drink a good draught of it first and last for three or four dayes together 3. â„ž Plantain Ribwort and Sheapherds purse ana M. ss stamp them small in a Morter then put thereto Bole armoniack and Terra sigillata and stamp them again and lay it plaister-wise to the forehead cold 4. Mingle Mint water with sirrup of Mint drink it cold fasting this will stop both flux and vomit For the bloudy Flux 1. â„ž Hay well boyled and keep it over the fire and every time the Patient goeth to stool let a wispe thereof be put into the stoole 2. â„ž Two quarts of Milk and boyle in it of Sage four handfuls washed boyle these to a quart then put to it a little beaten Cinnamon and let the Patient take this bloud warm instead of other drink when he is thirsty 3. â„ž A Nutmeg pare a great hole in it and rost it in embers full of Sanguis draconis and eat it all up This was Colonell Hambletons Secret 4. â„ž red Bryer leaves and boyle them well in Milk and sweeten it with

in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Annise seeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a Sirrup then take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane vesperi and after as often as the Cough tickles you 2. Take Virgin Honey and old Conserve of red Roses ana p. ae mingle them well together and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg and keep warm after it A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs â„ž A pottle of spring water put into it of Oak leaves M. ss of Colts foot of Butter burr roots and leaves ana M. i. of S. Johns wort Mousear Maiden hair ana p. i. 3 or 4 Harts tongue leaves a little Liverwort 6 branches of Maiden Hysop 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary pick and wash all these clean 16 Figs slit in two Set this over the fire and let it boyl softly till half be consumed then take it off the fire and strein it and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss and when it is melted put unto it six of seven drops of oyle of Sulphur and put it into a glasse and shake it well and drinke every morning eight spoonfulls which you must drink leasurably that it may the better fall on the Lungs about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much this will both cleanse and heal the Lungs and stop the coughing M A cooling Almond Milk TAke Lettice Spinage Succory Violets langde Beefe Endive and red Fennel ana half a handful three spoonful of Anniseseeds five whole Maces and one Nutmeg cut into peices seeth all these in a pottle of running water to a quart then blanch your skins and beat them with the cold seeds and so draw it with this decoction and put into it Sugar and Manus Christi to sweeten it N A Water to restore Nature TAke of good new Milk three pound of red Wine-one pound the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs having their whites taken out beat the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquour distil this with a soft fire take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day this is rather to be used in Hectick Fevers then in other diseases because they are alwayes hot in the palmes of their hands and in the soles of their feet both after sleep and after meat which shew the consumption of the solid and fleshy parts of the body To restore Nature consumed Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six houres then take them out and with four Dates and a pint of Muskadine or Alicant make a Cawdle therewith as followeth Take of Rosewater one pound a pint of Muskadine boyle therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Oxe back clean pickt a large sawcer full of good Currans clean washt four yolkes of Eggs six Dates a stick of Cinnamon and a good Nutmeg make a Cawdle of this with Sugar and having so done strain it and drink thereof at morning fasting and at four in the afternoon it is singular good for a weak back and decaying of nature P For the French Pox. REcipe Of Lignum vitae lb i. of Sarsaparilla â„¥ v. of Sena Alexandrina â„¥ iv of Sassafras â„¥ iv of Bole Armon â„¥ i. of Chalk â„¥ i. of Hermodactilis â„¥ ii of French Barlie â„¥ ii bruised of long Pepper a half penniworth of Saffron one penniworth of London Triacle â„¥ i. Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed when it is to be boyled put in the long Pepper Saffron London Triacle Bole Armoniack and the Hermodactilis What is to be pounded pound and what to be bruised bruise let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot close stopped Then strain it and with the dregs you may make a smaller drinke for the Patient to drinke at meat or when he is dry but of the fomer drinke he must drinke â„¥ iiii thrice a day Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning at noon and at 10 at night He must eat dryed Bisket and great Raisins and his meat must be mutton dry roasted without Salt The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice before he drinke the drinke viz. six penniworth of Pulvis Sanctus with â„¥ i. of Sirrup of Roses solutive well mixed in lb ss of white Wine drinke it blood warm fasting two houres and then take some warm broth Another Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa

Brackish this is a safe and admirable Medicine 2. ℞ The braines of a Magpy newly killed and put it into a wine Glasse of white Wine and stir it well till it be throughly mixed and then drink it and this will presently cause Urine and ease the pain For the Spleen Seeth the rindes and keyes of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together it doth much ease the Patient when you drink this annoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Splene to the place Probat Another Put of oyle of Gold one drachm into half a pound of anniseseed-Anniseseed-water shake it well together every time you take of it and take a spoonful at a time and it will help you Probat Heat a pair of Tongs six times red hot and quench them in white Wine drink this nine mornings together and this will help the Spleen For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet ℞ Linseed Wheat Bran Brooklime Chickweed and Groundsel ana one handful seeth them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick then lay a plaister thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it and it will help it with three or four plaister For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder ℞ Of Earth-wormes one handful put them in a cloth and cleanse them well from the earth that done take Sack half a pound and of Sallade oyle half a pound mix them together and infuse the Wormes in this untill they be suffocated then stop the pot very close and lute it well and set the pot in hot horse dung for eight and forty houres till the Wormes be rotten then take them out and presse them and adde thereto of common Oyle half an ounce of Venice Turpentine two drachms then relute your pot and set it on a soft fire for three or four houres For Bruises or streined Sinewes 1. Annoint the place greived with Aqua composita and Neat-foot oyle luke-warm laying hot clothes thereon 2. Stamp live Earth-wormes and apply them to Sinewes cut For shrinking of Sinewes ℞ Two Swallowes nests that are ready to fly of Lavender Cotton the tops of young Thyme the strings that run out of Strawberries Cammomil and Hollihock leaves ana one handful stamp the Swallowes quick and the Hearbs together till no feathers be seen then put thereto of May Butter one pound or two and stamp it again to a salve and let it stand again close for seven dayes then seeth it the space of two houres with a quick fire stirring it still then strain it thorough a course cloth and annoint the joynts therewith or any other place where the Sinewes are shrunk and use often to stretch out the joynts and splint For Sinewes shrunk and to supple impotent Limbs ℞ Rosemary Thyme Parsly Hysop Bayes Sage Lavender Spike Lavender Cotton Balm Cammomil Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Yarrow red Nettles Lovage Hearb Robert Plantain Rag-wort Vervain Adders-tongue Daises Nightshade Comfry Orpine Strawberry strings Violet leaves Walwort Amber leaves Southernwood Knot-grasse Vine tops Valerian Honisuckle leaves Polipodium of the Oak Dill Mallowes Perwinckle Rue of these one handful slice them a little and stamp them very small in a Morter with powder of Cloves bruised small put thereto oyle Olive and Neats-foot oyle so much that they may swim mixing them together set it on the fire till all the strength of the Hearbs be boyled out and take heed it doe not burn then strain out the Hearbs and clarifie it over the fire then put to it a little Wax to harden it withall this Ointment should be made between May and Bartholomewtide Probat To cure an old Sore ℞ Of fresh Butter one pound put it into a pot in the moneth of Aprill then take of Violets of Rosemary red Sage Buglosse Wormwood Broom Hysop Pennygrasse Vervain Selfeheal Hypericon and Speedwell ana one handful gather them as they be ready and put them into the pot with the Butter and set them into the Sun until Michaelmas then take it out of the pot and beat it in a Morter then make it up plaister-wise and reserve it for your use For the Scurvy Chop small the knotted place of a Pine Tree and boyle it well in A●e or ●eer that the steem may come out and drink of it and it will cure the Scurvy This was Colonel Hamiltons Secret To cool the Skin and heal a Sore ℞ Of oyle Olive one pound and a half Wax six ounces of Minium two ounces Litharge of Gold two ounces Ceruse one ounce and a half Camphire one ounce and a half first boyle your Oyle and Wax till it be melted then take it from the fire and put in all the aforesaid things being beaten very small and searced and stir them together till they be cold and as occasion serveth annoint the sore place To help paines in the Stomack ℞ Four graines of Mastick Swallow them every night to bedwards this preserveth the Stomack from all paines and cureth the same An Ointment for the Stomack ℞ Capons Grease five pound Origanum Wormwood the tops of Rosemary Stomack Mints ana M. i. and a few Buds of red Roses pickt chop the ●earbs very small and pownd them in a stone Morter afterward boyle them in the Capons Grease till you see the goodness of the Hearbs boyled out then strain them and put so many more Hearbs as aforesaid and let them lye all night then boyle them all again till the vertue of the Hearbs be boyled out then strain them and take of Cloves and Mace ana ℥ i. beaten very small and let it boyle a walm or two keeping it still stirring that it may not grow black then take it from the fire and put it into a pan or broad dish and stirre it till it be almost cold and put into it a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of the distillation of Vine leaves this is good for any thing that lieth heavy upon the stomack being annointed therewith T For the pricking of a Thorn REcipe Of Violet leaves one handful of Mallow leaves one handful stamp them together and take a quantity of Bores Grease and of Wheat Bran one handful set it on the fire in clean water and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the greif To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh Moisten the tongue of a Fox and make it soft with Vinegar if it be dry put this on the thorn or any place where you would have any thing drawn out and it will doe it 2. Black Sope laid to it will also doe it For the Tooth-ach Take of Opiumʒ i. distill it in ℥ ii of the best Aqua vitae and hold a spoonful of this in your mouth and it will ease you Probatum To keep Teeth White and kill the Worms Take a little Salt in the morning fasting and hold it under your tongue till it

a pint Seeds of Quinces four scruples Boyle them together a little then strein it and add thereto two ounces of the sirrup of Pomegranates and gargarise therewith oftentimes How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. Sometimes the eye-lids are so fastened together that you cannot open them without great pain and danger then to open them you must foment or bath them well with a decoction made of Quince seed Mallowes and water boyled together wherein wet some fine linnen clothes five or six double and apply them warm and continue it untill you may easily open them and then if you perceive any web or filme to be grown over the sight then thrice a day do you put some powder of white sugar-candy into the eye or if you list you may dissolve the sugar in Rose-water and so use it in the eye which will fret it away and preserve the sight A good Collery for a Web or Vngula in the eye Take the juice of Rue Fennell Salendine Mallowes of either two ounces Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse or peuter over a chafer with coales and scumme away the froth that doth rise thereof then add thereto the gaule of an Eel one drachm and let them boyle together a little then put thereto four scruples of white copperas and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder boil all together a little then let it run through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glasse you must every morning and evening put one drop thereof into the eye provided that first due evacuation be made so well by phlebotomie as purging CHAP VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone how to help it TAke Barley Beanes Lupins of either one handfull bruise them all in a morter grosely and boyle them in three pints of water untill it grow thick like a jelly then straine it and annoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day for three or four daies together and then you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with this water following Take Vine leaves two handfuls Beane-flower Dragons wilde-tansey of either one handfull Camphire three drachms two Calves feet the pulpe of three Lemons a pint of raw cream You must shred the hearbs small as also the Lemons and break and cut the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour or rednesse of the face For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day for it is excellent good A good ointment for the same purpose Take oyle of sweet Almonds oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons-grease Goats-tallow of either four drachms Sarcocoll half a drachm Flower of Rice and of Lupins of either one drachm Litharge of gold one drachm and half Roots of Brionie and of Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-candy white one drachm Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them through a searce then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working do you put the water of Roses Beane-flower and of white Lillies ana a great spoonfull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour them altogether untill it come to an unguent You must every evening annoint the face therewith or hands and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley Wheaten-bran and the seed of Mallowes hath been boyled For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone For helping of this accident I have shewed many things yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I have tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the water wherein Bran and Mallowes have been boyled and continue this order twenty daies or a moneth together Running of the eares how to help it Sometimes the eares do run very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning but suffer it so to run and the eares to remaine open but if there be great pain in them then wet a spunge in warm water and oyle of Roses mixt together and lay it upon the eares For stopping of the nostrills to help it Sometimes the nostrills are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them therefore to prevent the same take red-Rose and Plantaine of either one handfull Mirrh in powder half an ounce Boyle all these in a quart of water untill half be consumed and so being warm cause the sick to draw the sume thereof into his nostrills oftentimes Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar it is good For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone Take Licorice Sebesten Jujubes of either two ounces Fat-Figgs four ounces clean water four pints Boyl all these together untill half be consumed then strain it and give one spoonfull thereof to the sick oftentimes and it helpeth For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of gold and of silver of either two drachms Quick br●mstone and ●eruse anaʒ ii Bring all these into fine powder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent and annoint the place therewith every morning and evening FINIS Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise PAge the eighth of this precedent Book a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent it is reported to be Pope Adrians Bag which he used against infection and in the great last Sicknesse in London it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries who kept it as a great secret and affirmed it would prevent infection and preserve them safe in that dangerous time and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate But that you may not be deluded in the prescription I have set down the true receit thereof as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend A Preservative against the infection of the air and the Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many others of great rank and credit Take Arsenick two ounces Auripigmentum one ounce make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs and Gum Dragacanth and hang them about the neck against the heart I have also set down a red Cordiall water very good against infection which I had also from that noble friend Take a quart of good spirit of Wine or very good Aqua

you must have respect to the signes before rehearsed The infection of the Plague entereth into a man after this sort In a man are three principall parts that is the Heart Liver and Brains and each of these hath his cleansing place If they appear in the neck they shew the Brains to be cheifly vexed if under the arme-holes the Heart but if they appear in the share the Liver is most infected For when a man hath taken infection it presently mingleth with the bloud and runs to the heart which is the cheif part of man and the heart putteth the venome to his cleansing place which is the arme-holes and that being stopt putteth it to the next principall part which is the liver and it passeth it to the next principall part which is the liver and it passeth it to his cleansing place which is the share and they being stopt passe it to the next principall place that is the braines and to their cleansing places which are under the eares or under the throat and they being stopped suffer it not to passe out and then it is moved twelve hours before it rest in any place and if it be not let out within the space of four and twenty hours by bleeding it brings a man into a pestilentiall Ague and causeth a botch in one of those three places or near unto them The Cure of the Plague When thou feelest thy self infected bleed in the first hour or within six hours after drink not and tarry not above twelve hours from bleeding for then when the bloud is flitting too and fro the venome is then moving and not yet setled and after it will be too late those that are fat may be let bloud or else not If the matter be gathered under the arme-holes it comes from the heart by the Cardiacall vein then bleed on the same side by the Basilica vein the innermost vein of the arme If the botch appear behind the eares above the chin or in any other part of the face or neck bleed out of the Cephalica vein on the same side you may bleed with cupping Glasses and Scarification or Horseleeches If the botch appear in the share bleed in the ankle on the same side in any case not in the arme for it will draw up the matter again But if no botch appear outwardly draw bloud out of that side where you feel greatest pain and heavinesse and out of that vein the greif of the members affected shall point thee out If you perceive the Plague invade you at meat or on a full stomack vomit speedily and when your stomack is empty take some Medicine that may resist Poyson as Mithridate or Triacle or some of these following which as choise Medicines I have inserted as being Doctor Edwards Experiments For the Plague Infuse two peices of fine pure Gold in the juyce of Lemons four and twenty hours and drink that juyce with a little Wine with powder of the Angelica root It is admirable and hath helped divers past all hope of cure Another Take two drachms of Juniper berries of Terra lemnia ℈ i. make both into fine powder and mix it with Honey and take of it as much as a hasell Nut in three drachms of honeyed water made up thus Take a pint of Honey and of water eight pints seeth and scum it at an easie fire till the fourth part be wasted It is an excellent Antidote against Poyson and Plague if the Poyson be taken before it will expell it by vomit if not the Medicine will stay in the stomack Another Take Zedoary roots the best you can get great Raisins and Licorice champ it with thy teeth and swallow it if you be infected it preserveth without danger Another fo●●botches boyls and tokens Take of ripe Ivy berries dryed in the shade as much of the powder as will lye upon a groat or more and put it into three or four ounces of white Wine and lie in bed and sweat well after your sweat is over change shirt and sheets and all the bed clothes if he may if not yet change his shirt and sheets Some have taken this powder over night and found themselves well in the morning and walked about the house fully cured One having a Plague sore under the thigh another under the left arme-pit taking this powder in the morning and again that night the sores brake of themselves by this excellent Medicine sent by Almighty God It is good for Botches Boyles Plague-sores Tokens Shingles Erisipella and such like c. Thus farre Doctor Edwards Doctor in Physick and Chirurgery Experiments tried by my selfe For the Plague TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales called Ruffi or of Panchy Magogon or for want of it of extraction Rudii of each half a drachm mingle these into six pills for two doses whereof take three at a time in the morning fasting for two dayes together Another excellent approved Remedy Take eight or nine grains of Aurum vitae either in Triacle water or made up in Diascordium fasting Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrorum of Aromaticum rosatim and of Corusa Antimonii of each half a scruple mingle these up together in a diaphoretick powder and take it in four spoonfuls of Triacle water well mingled together The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions The Calenture HAppeneth to our Nation in intemperate Climates by Inflammation of bloud and proceedeth often of immoderate drinking of wine and eating of pleasant fruits which are such nourishers thereof as they prevent the meanes used in curing the same To know the Calenture At the first apprehension it afflicts the Patient with great pain in the head and heat in the body which is continuall or increasing and doth not diminish and angment as other Fevers doe and is oft an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence but then the body will seem very yellow To cure the Calenture So soon as you perceive the Patient possest of the Calenture except the Chirurgion for danger of the sign defer it I have seen the time of the day not respected open the Median vein of the right arm and take such quantity of bloud as agreeth with the ability of the bodie but if it asswage not the heat by the next day open the same vein in the left arme and take so much more like quantity of bloud at his discretion and if the body be costive as commonly they are give him some meet purgation and suffer him to drink no other then water cold wherein Barley and Annise-seeds have been boyled with bruised Liquorice And if within 4. dayes the partie amend not or being recovered take it again open the vein Cephalick in one or both hands bathing them in warm water untill there come so much more bloud as cause requires Suffer not the Patient to drinke seven dayes after he is perfectly recovered any other drinke then such water as is before herein directed The Taberdilla IS

a disease so called by the Spaniards by the Mexicans Cocalista and by other Indians is named Taberdet and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious that whole Kingdomes in both the India's have been depopulated by it for want of knowledge to redresse themselves of it To know the Taberdilla It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back and the body seeming yellow is some sign thereof and within 24 hours it is so torturous that the possest thereof cannot rest or sleep turning himself on either side back or belly burning in his back most extreamly And when it growes to perfection there will appear red and blue spots upon the Patients breast and wrists And such persons as have not presently requisite means applyed to them to prevent it will be by the vehement torment thereof deprived of their wits and many to cease their pain by losse of their lives have despairingly slain and drowned themselves The Cure of the Taberdilla When you perceive it afflict the Patient permit him not to lie very warm nor upon feathers for of what quality soever he bee in Spain having this sickness he is laid upon wheat-straw Then immediatly open the Median Vein first in one arm and the next day in the other taking a good quantity of bloud Let him have water cold wherein Barlie and Annise-seeds have been sodden without Liquorice for the Spanish Physicians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desi●e which will be every moment but no other drink nor any 〈◊〉 f●uits Assoon as the spots appear give him some C●●dia●● potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses ●●gether on his back between and beneath the shoulders and sca●●●ing them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath sle●● he will find ease within twenty four hours and s●ch alteration in himself as he will thinke he is delivered of a most strange torment Then give him moderately nourishing meats for he will desire to eat much the fourth day give him some convenient Purgations And if in the mean while he is costive provoke him every day by Clisters and warn him to forbear 15 dayes all other drink then what is ordained And be very carefull of his diet for if this Taberdilla which we call here in England Gods Tokens come againe unto the Patient he can hardly escape it And it is no lesse Infectious then the usuall English Plague The Espinlas IS a strange sicknes usuall in those parts to such as take cold in their Breasts after great heat or travell It comes most times to those that lye with their breasts upon the ground especially in the night To know the Espinlas The Party having it will be giddie in the head and have pain and pricking at his breast as with many thornes from whence I thinke it is called for Espina in Spanish signifies a thorn and there will be upon the Focell being the upper bone of his arm a hand breadth above the wrist a little kernell by the which it is certainly known He that hath this disease will have appetite neither to meat nor drinke nor can digest meat though he be invited and moved to take it To cure the Espinlas The Espinlas appearing by the former signs take presently oyle Clives and therewith chafe the kernell upon the Patients arm using so to doe twice every day untill it be dissolved and laying oyle likewise upon his breast stroke it upward somes hat hard with the hand then spread fine flaxe upon it and the kernel making it fast with a rowler and within two or three dayes the diseased will be recovered thereof whereas else it is very dangerous to deprive them of lire Camera de Sangre LAxativeness or Blondy Flux proceed in those parts of divers causes As by eating Grapes Oranges Limons Melons Plantains and especially a great fruit growing in the West Indies called Pina like a Pine-apple but bigger then four of the greatest which I have seen which the Spaniars hold for the most delicate fruit that is there and many other fruits Also by sudden cold or sitting being very hot upon a cold stone or being hot by drinking water abundantly And also eating of Butter ●yle and ●ish is so hurtfull to the parties that have it that they must refrain to eat thereof and whatsoever else that may ingender any slimie substance in the Intrals The Cure of the Bloudie Flux There is more possibility of cure by how much more expedition the medicine is ministred and detracting it the Patients often die suddenly without feeling much grief For speedy and assured remedie the Patients bodie must be cleansed of the sliminess ingendred in the passages of the nutriments before any sustenance can remain in his bodie To that purpose purge him in the morning with halfe a pint of white wine cold wherein half an ounce of Rubard being smal cut hath been sodden putting some Sugar Candie to it to sweeten it and immediatly after he hath so purged keep at his navell Rosemary sod in strong Vinegar applyed in the morning and evening very hot untill it be stayed giving him often Quinces bruised and rouled in Marmalade like Pills which he should swallow whole and none of the fruits or meats before recited nor any more white wine but red wine of any sort And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats especially Sheeps or Bullocks rosted not willingly permitting the Patient to eat any other meat And if at Sea Rice onely sodden in water rather then any thing else usuall there untill the infirmitie bee perfectly asswaged The Erisipela REigneth much in those Countries proceeding from the unwholsome aires and vapours those hot Countries doe yeeld whereof many perish and if it bee not prevented by Medicines presently ministred to the Sick Patients it proveth incurable To know the Erisipela Hee will be swoln in the face or some part of him and it will be of yellow colour mixed with red And when it is pressed with the finger there will remain a sign or dint of the same and then by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion It speedily infecteth the inward parts because such swellings come sooner unto perfection in hot places then in temperat Countries and therefore the diseased thereof must immediatly be provided of remedie To Cure the Erisipela The Savage people first found out perfectly how to cure this disease though it is the Spanish name of the Maladie by bruising so much Tobacco as will yeeld four spoonfuls of juyce and to drinke it presently after they are infected therewith and to launce the places swollen thereunto putting Casade wet and made into paste continuing in cold and shadie places neer Rivers and not to travell and labour till they bee recovered The Spaniards in India doe recover themselves by taking the same juyce of Tobacco and setting so many Ventoses upon the swoln

Head swim Take of Cammomil three ounces a penniworth of pouder of Cummin sewed in a Poke like a stomacher boil it well in stale Ale lay it to the side hot and when it is cold renew it again hot Contra Surditatem 1. Betonica saepe injecta tepide mire proficit contra aurium dolorem surditatem alia vitia sonos extraneos non sinit manere 2. Rost an Onion as hot as you may suffer it lay it upon the ear with a linnen cloth laid between Probatum est Cont●● lupum venit saepe s●per oculum aut pedem If it be incurable it stinketh fretteth and the wound waxeth black Take Salt and Honey and ●●●●lty ana burn them in an Oven wash the wound with Vin●gar and dry it with linnen clothes and then lay on the pouder and doe so till it amend Pro Cancro Lupo Take half a pint of Juyce of Mollein and half a pint of Honey sodden to the thickness of honey and mingle with these pouders and lay on the sore Take Orpiment and Verdi-grease of either a drachm and a half juyce of Walwort a pound and a half honey a quartern Vinegar boil them altogether till it be as thick as honey lay thereof on the hole of the sore twice every day with juyce of Ribwort and drinke juyce of Avence Ribwort stamped and laid on the sore will kill it Pro Oculis 1. Lac mulieris quae masculum genuit sed praecipu● quae gemines masculos genuit mixtum cum albumine ovi in lana comp●situm passiones lachrymas oculorum mitigat et desiccat si fronti lac●ymantis imponatur proficit etiam ad oculum ictu percussum sanguinem emittentem vel epiphoras habentem vel in dolore constitutum 2. Si quis duarum faeminarum matris filiae lacte perunctus fueri● qui uno eodem tempore masculos habent in omni vita sua dolorem oculorum non habebit 3. Eyebright juyce or water is excellent good for the eyes 4 Annoint a red cole leaf cum albumine ovi quando is cubitum oculo applica For Bleared Eyes Take the juyce Peritory temper it with the white of an Egg and lay it all night to your eyes quando removes lava cum succo Corn●s Annoint thy cornes often with fasting spittle Or cleave a black Snail to it Take Woodsoure and say to the c●●●● and that shall gather out the Callum thereof and be whole but you must first cut it about with a kni●e Apostema 1. Gentian used twice or thrice in a week ad quantitatem pili destruit Apostema 2. Drinke water of Endive Petty Morrell with the pulp of Cassia Fistula 3. Take Scabios red Pimpernel Solsickle and Fumitorie make these into pouder and use a spoonful thereof in the morning especially in May. Probatum est Pro stomacho frigido 1. Oates parched and laid in a Satchell upon a cold stomack is an approved cure 2. The crust of a brown loaf made hot and sprinkled with vinegar and laid on a cold stomack Salvabit 3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar Eysell or Ale wrapt in a clout and laid to the stomack is good Pro dolore stomachi 1. Stamp Fennell and temper it with stale ale bibat tria ccclearia sin●ul Seeth Penniroyall and binde it to his Navel as hot as he may suffer it For winde or gnawing in the Belly Take Calamus Aromaticus Galingale and a little Fennel seed Cloves and Cinnamon grate or beat them together and take them in pouder or drink them with ale For the Small Pox. Take Almonds and make Almond milk and take the cr●am thereof and bath the face twice or thrice though all the Pocks be pulled away it shall not be Pock fret Annoint oft the Patients eyes with a linnen cloth wet in the juyce of Sengreen and it will save them from the Pox. For a stroke in the eye Juyce of Smallage and Fennel and the white of an Egg mingled together and put into the eye Bloudshed in the eye Five leaved grasse stampt with Swines grease and with a little salt bound to the eye Pro Oculo Aure. Sint calida quae aure imponuntur frigida quae in oculo For a Venomed sore Take Lavender Marigolds Sengreen and Betonie and stamp them together and lay them to the sore To make a swelling break Take pisse and Vinegar and Sage M. i. stamped and flour and boil them together and lay it hot on a cloth to the sore For the Squinsie Bray Sage Rue and Parsely Roots and lay them hot to the throat For Biting of a mad Dog Stamp Mint and clear Leeks and lay it to the sore To breake a Botch Make a Plaister of Woodbine leaves and lay to the sore For gnawings Take Hearb Bennet and Sheeps tallow and oyle Olive frie them together and lay it to the sore place To increase Milk Pouder of Annise and the juice of the bark of Fennell root drunke If milk be thick Eat mints and boil mints in wine and oyle and lay on the breasts For Botches Wounds and Sores a salve Boil black Rosin red Lead and oyle Olive together fiat emplastrum Qui bibit novem dies simul propria● urinam nec habebit epilepsiam paralysin nec colicam Venenum 1. Qui bibit propriam urinam sanabitur a sumpto veneno 2. Garlick Rue Centaury graines of Juniper valent contra venenum 3. Pouder Hempseed and mingle it with Goats milk and let them boyle a little and use this drink three dayes valet contra inflationem venenum Bubonem Felon squinanciam Pro Auribus Green Ash leaves burnt and the liquor that drops out of them impositum valet Euphorbium pounded with Oil Citron and laid hot on the eares cureth sounding of the eares tingling and Fistulaes Caput-purgium Take the juyce of Ivy and powder of Pepper mingle them together and drink it For the bloudy Flix The yellow that groweth in red Roses put into pottage and so eaten is good for the bloudy Flix Vermes Stomachi The same yellow drunk in Ale valet contra Vermes For a Felon Scabious stamped small a good quantity of Tar and greace ana temper them together and all raw lay them to the sore place For the Reines of the back Boyl your own water well scum it then take a quart of that water oyle of Bayes one ounce oyle of Roses one ounce boyle all in a pot and therewith annoint well the reines in the hot sunne or against the fire Vnge renes cum nasturtio propria urina jejunus saepe juvat renes Coque mel butyrum simul unge renes coram igne Seeth Smallage and temper it with Wine and drink it fasting and you shall be healed For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their back and reines Take a fat Hen and scald her and draw her and fill her with Sene c●ddes 1d weight and

Polipody of an Oak and of Annis 1d weight boyl her well and strain her into a vessell and take two spoonfuls thereof and give it the sick first and last For the Stitch. Take three handfuls of Mallowes seeth them in a litte raw Milk and put thereto a handfull of wheat bran and let them boyle together and then wring out the Milk and lay it hot to the Stitch apply it often Take a few leaves of Rue and Yarrow stamp them together and wring out the juyce and drink it with a little Ale For the Stitch in the side Make Balls of red Wortes sodden and burne them in a new pot and then grind them to powder and mingle them with Honey and old Greace and make a plaister and lay it thereto when it is well sodden To heal Wounds Take Ribwort Plantain Smallage ana take well nigh as much May Butter as of the juyce mingle it together that it be standing and put it in a Box that no air come thereto and make an Ointment and this is the securest Medicine for healing Wounds For swelling of Joynts Bray Mallowes and boyle them in new Milk and make it into an emplaister and apply it to the place To knit Sinews or Veins that are kickt or broke Take two Onions in summer when thou findest two Wormes knit together cut off the knots and lay them to dry against the Sun and make thereof powder and cast it in the Wounds and it will doe as aforesaid Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur Formicas istas pulverisabis misce cum vaccinio lacte da euivis in potu c. Verrucae Porri ficus Cortix salicis combustus temperatus cum aceto appositus verrucas porros ficus tollit Portulaca fricata tollit verrucas Agrimonia trita emplastrata cum aceto verrucas tollit Stercus ovis si misceatur cum aceto fiat emplaistrum tollit variolas verrucas For Cornes Take Beanes and chew them in thy mouth and lay them to the Corn doe this at night For Warts 1. Purslane rubbed on the Warts maketh them fall away 2. The juyce of the roots of Rushes applied healeth them For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly Take Filago and temper it with Ale or Wine and give it him and anon the bloud shall goe out by his mouth and if the Patient cannot open his mouth open it with a key and put it in and he shall receive his speech this hath been proved If men have any blood within them of any hurt Let them drink Eufrase sodden with water and anon they shall cast it out by vomit Aqua proscabie tumore prurita Ashes made of green Ashen wood sifted clean and mingled with clean water and often stirred all a whole day the water thereof that is clear gathered and mingled with a little Vinegar and a little Allome and sodden together is a pretious water to wash with sores of swellings and for itchings and cleansing of divers sores An vulneratus vivat vel non The juyce of Pimpernell drunk with water if it come out at the Wound of a wounded man he shall dye if it come not he shall live Also give him Trefoile to drink if he cast it out he shall die To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be Take the roots of marsh-mallowes wash them and boyle them afterwards take the same water and boyle it with the seed of Fenugreek and Line then bake it with the bran of Barly afterwards fry it with Bores greace make thereof an emplaister and apply it hot and within a short time the Patient will be cured For Warts 1. Agrimony stampt with Salt and tempered with Vinegar and laid on the Warts within four dayes doth take them away 2. Take the yolk of an Egg well roasted stamp it with oyle of Olive or oyle of Violets and make it in manner of a plaister and this will doe away the Warts in a night 3. Rub them oft with oaken Apples and bind a plaister thereof on them and bray blossomes of Golds and Agrimony with Salt and lay them to as a plaister 4. Burn Willow tree rind and temper the Ashes with Vinegar utere Oleum Nucum Take Nuts whole seeth them in water and then break them and take out the kernels and stamp them and then wring them through a cloth and that Oyle is noble and mollificative Vnguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra Take Brocks greace Swines greace Ducks greace Capons greace Ganders greace suet of a Deer Sheeps tallow ana p. ae melt them in an earthen pan then take the juyce of Rubarb marsh-Mallowes Morrel Comfrey Daysie Rue Plantain Mace Heyrif Matfelon and Dragons ana p. ae fry them in a pan with the foresaid greace secretum pro podagra For the Collick and Stone â„ž Cepas Rubras pista commixta cum mulvasceto bibe calide Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum â„ž Aquam fabri potell i. salviae cuprifolii nasturtii modicum mellis coque ad medium lava locum Aqua pro alceribus â„ž Apii Salviae Sempervivae ana M. i. pista coque in una lb. 8. aquae currentis postea cola adde â„¥ iiii Aluminis Mellis lb. ss Bulliet alumen modicum adde â„¥ iiii Camphora reserva Capitis dolor Coque Cumium in malvazeto lava caput Pista rutum cum sale fiat emplastrum For Bones broken in a mans Head â„ž Agrimoniae Contisam fiat emplastrum Item bibe Betonicam p. i. resurgant ossa sanatis pro acto vulnera Capitis dolor â„ž Rutae hederae terrestris folia lauri coque in aqua vel vino fiat emplastrum super caput â„ž Celidoniam pista coque cum butyro versus dolorem capitis etsi cranium cecidit de loco c. lava cum decoctione ejusdem erbae Corvi albi Attende cum corvus habet ova unge ter vel quater cum melle pulli eorum erunt albi Ebrii Qui prius biberit crecum quam ad potationem inierit crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret Acetum Vt acetum redeat in vinum semen porri immitte per duas noctes Ova rotunda producunt gallinas longa vero gallos Fistula Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata vel succus ejus in eam posita eam curat Succus caprifolii naribus impositus polypum recentem cancrum fistulam curat Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere â„ž Sume morellae sedi axungiae porcinae p. ae frixa suppone Contra exitum ani â„ž Vrticas rubras pista in olla terrea coque in vino albo ad medium postea bibe mane sero calide faeces superpone Contra fluxum 1. â„ž Cornu cervi conchas ostrei combure da pulverem mane sero 9 dies Plaister of Paris 2. â„ž Pulverem alabastri misce cum albumine ovi pone super tempora alia

loca An virgo corrupta Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores da ti comedere de illo pulvere si est corrupta statim minget Ut dens cadat Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem facit cadere cave alia Pro combusto cum muliere Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt and take the yolks of eggs and mingle them well together and therewith annoint the sore and put the pouder into the hole A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them in a morter and temper them with wine and give the sick that is wounded to drinke twice or thrice in a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open the wound Millfoil cleanseth the wound Sanicle healeth it but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head if the brain-pan be broken for it will slay him and therefore it is better in another place This is a good and tryed Medicine Vnguentum genistae Take Flores genistae floures and leaves of Woodbind ana p. ae stamp them with May Butter and let them stand so together all night and in the morning make thereof an ointment and melt it and scum it well This Medicine is good for all cold evils and for sleeping of hand and foot Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell and stamp them and temper them with May Butter and put them in a pot fast closed and let them stand so nine dayes and then frie it over an easie fire and strein it through a cloth and put it in a box for your use Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the mormale no ointment worketh stronger then this Take a pound of Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal gemmae this ointment may be kept 40. winters Valet contra cancros and for running holes it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old wounds put it within the wound that it fester not Put to this ointment Pitch rosin and waxe and it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Vnguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vomitum 1. ℞ Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats stancheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigs turd burnt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menth●● rutae mixtus curat fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma emplastri dolori Freckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succum plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no. Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma emplastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1 Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes ℞ I eaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud ℞ A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee fodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud ℞ The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine or ale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be wa●ted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venic● Tria●le and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the M●asels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Seabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill

a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superfluous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the abovenamed and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tatia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put

water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. ℞ Arsenike cristaline ℥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take it away for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little There are some writers which doe utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I have given this bag unto divers to wear with most happie and good successe for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid that hath been infected with the plague but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby I never found any hitherto other then the ampring of the skin as aforesaid Another Bag. ℞ Ireos ℥ ss Calamus aromat Ciperus ana ʒ i. ss Storax Calam. root of Angelica ana ʒ iii Cloves Mace anaʒ i. Red roses dried ʒ iii. Pellemountain Penniroyall Calamint Elder floures ana ʒ i ss Nutmegs Cinnamon Yellow Sanders anaʒ i. Nardi Italicae ʒ i. Amber greece and Musk ana six grains You must pound all these in powder and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson Taffatie as aforesaid A Pomander good in the Summer time ℞ The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare Roses Yellow sanders anaʒ ss Storax liquid Benjamin ana ʒ i. Myrrh ℈ ii Ladanum ʒ i. ss Musk and Amber ana six grains Powder all that is to be powdered and then work them together in a hot morter with a hot pestell adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant dissolved in sweet Rosewater or Rosevinegar and so make your Pomander Another good one for the winter time ℞ Storax liquid Benjamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrrh ana half a drachm Cloves one scruple Nutmegs Cinnamon of each half a scruple Red Roses Yellow Sanders Ligum aloes and Ireos of each half a dram Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron ana four grains Amber greece Musk and Civet of each six grains You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum dragagant infused in Rose-water A good Nodule for the Summer season ℞ Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of each one drachm Red White and Yellow sanders of each half a drachm Camphire xii graines Cause all these to be beaten in grosse powder then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will use it then wet it in Rosewater and a little Vinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the Winter season ℞ The dried leaves of Mints Majoram Thime Penniroyall Lavender Pellemountain and Balm of each a little handfull Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Angelica roots Lignum aloes of each one drachm Saffron two scruples Cause all these to be infused in Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffaty or your handkerchief whereunto you must smell oftentimes A Nosegay for the same purpose ℞ Hearb grace three branches Rosemary Majoram Mints and Thime of either one branch Red-Rose buds and Carnations of either three or four Make your nosegay herewith then sprinkle him over with Rose-water and some rose-Vinegar and smell often unto it Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company do you alwaies carry in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a Citron dried or a great Clove which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar CHAP. VII FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness both in the time of the Plague and otherwise I have here set down how and by what meanes you may keep your self soluble which you must use once four and twenty hours if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custome A Suppository Take two spoonfulls of Honey and one spoonfull of Bay-Salt small pounded boyle them together untill it grow thick alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it and so stirre them well together and when it is almost cold make up your suppositories of what length and bignesse you list and when you minister any you must first annoint it with Butter or Sallet oyle you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease and so cover them up close therein A good Glister ℞ Mallowes Mercury Beets Violets Red-Fennell of either one handfull Seeds of Fennell Annis Coriander of either one drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water untill half the water be consumed them straine it and keep it in a glasse close stopt untill you need for it will keep a whole week Take of the same decoction a pint ℞ Mel Rosarum or common Honey one spoonfull Oyle of Violets