brused Anyseseedes or Dilleseedes and poulder of red meadowe Mintes and poulder of Yreos roote or of galanga roote compound them in forme of an electuarie and eate thereof Also for the same Make lyniment or fomentation of the region of the stomak with Nitre and iuyce or decoction of Mintes Rue Dill Cummine complete Roses bitter Almondes and Rue For suffocation or strangulation by such sliemy clinging matter in the stomak or in the veynes or cōduittes betweene it the Liuer or Splene DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or onely with posca or warme water vinegre and salt or else in warmed wine Or else for the same Make Almond milke of sweete Almondes and bitter Almondes brayed and drawne with the decoction of Nitre Camomel Flowers Uiolets Borage Buglosse Balme-hearbe red Mintes of the meadow Roseleaues and Lazer or Assa dulcis and drinke thereof Also for the same In the same Almonde milke and decoction warmed dippe sponges and make warme bathing or fomentation on the region of the Stomake Liuer and Spleene enointed first with the oyles of bitter Almondes Camomell Dill Rue and complete Roses Likewise for the same Drinke a dragme of Nitre with broath of Rue red Roses and Dill or Commin or with the oyles aforesaide receiue it downe Likewise for the torment of the stomak and bowels DRinke Nitre and Balme-hearbe with warmed wine or with Ale warmed or with warme water To vnstoppe and discombre the Liuer from the distentions stuffinges and chokings of the conduites thereof DRinke Nitre with broath of Cicorie Endiue Dent de Lion adding in the broathe a few red Rose leaues and on the region of the Liuer emplaister or enoynt Nitre with oile of bitter Almonds oyle Rosate and vinegre of Roses wherein fiered steele is often quenched Also giue glisters with the saide decoctions and with the oyles of bitter Almondes and of Cammomell and with honie of Roses dissoluing therein an ounce of Nitre at a time To asswage and ease the swelling or stuffing and hardenes of the Spleene TAke Nitre and Caper rootes and Fenegreke seedes brayed with also a curtesie of red rose leaues fresh or dry Boyle them in water adding Rose vinegre or simple vinegre wherein fiered steele hath bene quenched with sponges or peeces of soft frise make outward bathing and supyling on the region of the Spleene enointed first with oyles of Cammomell of Dill of complete Roses of vnripe Roses of sweete Almondes of bitter Almondes of Capers or proceede by degrees turnes of mollifying rarifiying and resoluing alwayes mixing the comfortatiues Also Make an Oximell or syrupe of honie Rosate or of common honie well clarifyed adding vinegre Rosate or simple vinegre wherein fiered steele is often quenched as aforesaide boiling therin Nitre Fenegreeke seedes brused red Rose leaues Capers both fruit and barkes of the rootes receiue downe by the mouth a sponefull euerie morning fasting Also Eate downe Nitre with figges and Capers Or else Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope And also for the same Make emplayster to the region of the Splene of stamped figges mixed with Nitre Hysope and fruites and rootes of Capers tempred with vinegre Rosate and vinegre of Elders or with symple vinegre wherein fiered steele hath bene often quenched and much the better if the place be first as aforesaide softened by degrees with hennes greace or capons greace oyle of Cammomell oyle Rosate complete oyle of sweete Almondes oyle of Dill oyle of bitter Almondes oyle of rootes of Capers ech after other alwayes mixing steeled vinegre and some oyle of vnripe Roses or else some decoction of Willowe barkes Likewise Enoynte the region of the Spleene with Nitre meale of Fenugreke seedes or of Lupynes steeled vinegre oyles Rosate Omphacine and also complet oyles of sweete Almonds and of bitter Almondes oyles of Cammomell of Dill of Elders and of rootes of Capers or such of them as for the purpose shalbe conuenient For gurgling heauing and torment of the vnderbulke MAke warme bathing or fomentation vnder the bulke of the chest and shorte ribbes with sponges or with softe fryze cloutes dipped one after an other in white wine boyled with Nitre Cammomell flowers Marigolde flowers Borage Buglosse Languedebeof Hysope Dill Mugwort Balme-hearbe and a curtesie of saffron annointing first the place with oyles of Uiolets of Cāmomell of sweet Almonds of bitter Almondes and of Roses complete Also for the same It auaileth to drinke that decoction with Nitre and poulder of Amber and Lazer or Assa dulcis Or else for the same To drinke Nitre it selfe with sugar or without sugar were it but with warme drinke or warme whaye or warme water For the Illiacke passion to wit the torment of the vpper bowels and gutts DRinke the like decoction of Nitre Cammomell flowers Marigolde flowers Hysope Basill minte balme-hearbe poulder of Yreos roote and Galanga roote and Lazer or Assa dulcis adding brused seedes of Parslie Fenill Anyse Dill and Cummin and that broath to be made in Almonde milke drawne of sweete Almondes and of bitter Almondes Also for the same Make outwardlie on the greeued place a hoat bathing or fomentation with the same decoction first enoynting on the place grieued the oyles of Cammomell Dill and of bitter Almondes Likewise for the same Drinke a dragme of Nitre in warmed wine or in other warmed licour conuenient with Rue croppes or with Dill braunches and seedes or with Cummin seedes or Annyse seedes For the Collicke passion VSe the selfe same remedies inwardes by the mouth and outwardes by hot bathing and fomentation and enointings as afore described for the Ilyake passion Moreouer Giue glisters of Nitre with the like decoctions and oyles For the Hydropsie Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope Also Stampe Nitre with figges and Hysope and applie it playsterwise one the bellie and other partes affected Or else Temper Nitre with garden Snayles stamped shelles and all such as feede on hearbes hot and drie as Rosmarie Sage Lauender Thyme Organie Basill Sauerie Penirorall Towne-cresses Hysope Parcelie and such like Adding fine poulders of Baye-salte Cloues Mace Nuttemukes Mastik Frankencens tempering them all with vinigre Rosate quenched with steele and apply it plaisterwise and so let it remaine on vntill of it selfe it fall of and then renewe it from time to time vntill the swelling be abated the distemperance be amended Also for the same Giue Nitre in glister with decoction of Daneworte hearbe and rootes or of the berries leaues and inner rinds of barkes of the bowes and rootes of Elder tree and rootes of gladen Acorns or Yreos therewith boyled or poulder of either of those rootes thereinto cast Also for the same Use Nitre baynes made either with the saide decoction or else at least with salt-water For Nitre bayne by qualitie and vertue doth more effectually then salt baine remedie all colde and moyste distemperances and by the subtilitie and penetration vnto to the depth doth carrie therewith the vertue of heating deuiding
vnstopping euaporating and drying aswell as of dispersing wasting extenuating mundification absâ—ersion skowring and auoyding Wherefore Nitre serueth properlie against Hydropsies Gontes dolowres of sinewes Paralysies CraÌ„pes Stitches shorte breath Cough thicknes of the eye-sight sounding wattring of the eares Scabbes Maunge c. For to asswage and abate inflamation swelling and anguish of the Coddes STampe Nitre with great Raysons be they vnkerneled or not brayed verie small and softe and mixing therewith a competent portion of oyles of Uiolets and Roses warme it and applie it in cataplasme or pultes To dispare or swage other swellings inflammations and inflations or heauings outward TEmper Nitre with the pulpe of Casia fistularis honie of Uiolets honie of Roses oyle of Uiolets oyle of Roses complete oyle of Cammomell and iuyces of Cammomell Marigoldes and Elders And if the euill be inwardes Drinke Nitre with broathe of Cammomell flowers Marigolde-flowers and Uiolet-flowers adding also Roses or Cicorie or Dent de lion c. For Carnosities or knobbes growing in the conduit of the yearde or in the purse of the coddes TEmper Nitre with ashes of vine twigges and steeled vinegre and apply it on the outside and vsing that medicine it shall disperse and consume those carnosities and knobbes To breake the stone in the kidneyes and bladder and to vnstoppe and discharge the stuffing and chokeing there and in the conduits of the vrine And for mundifying of soores in the kydnyes and bladder TAke by mouth Nitre with Oximell of Raddish adding honie of Roses or poulder of red Roses Or else in like sort Swallowe downe Nitre with pulpe of Cassia fistularis drawne with the broth of a Coney farced with Parsley and Cammomell Or else in like sorte Swallowe downe Nitre and poulder of Rhwebarbe tempred with conserue of Roses with Cassia fistularis drawne as aforesaide And moreouer also for the same Enoynte the region of the Kidneyes and downe from the Reynes aloft by the Hippes and Flankes as the conduits of the vrine doe descende and betweene the coddes and the fundamente with the fat of Conyes kydneyes mixed with Nitre And also Put into the fundament a Suppositorie made with Nitre fat of Coneyes kydneyes and iuyces of Cammomell and of Parslye hardened with sufficient quantity of honie of Uiolets and of Roses and tallowe of a bucke Goate molten together And also Giue glisters in sufficient quantitie of Nitre with Cassia fistularis and broathe of a Coney farced with Cammomell Maidenhaire Parsley Raddish Sampier Saxifrage and such like adding honie of Roses and of Uiolets and oyle of Cammomell For to supple and dissolue the Cake or hardenes growen in the substance of the Matrice and for remedie of suffocatioÌ„ tortures of the Matrice and to open and clense and apte the Matrice vnto conception and to procure it the benefit of the ordinarie and monthlie auoidance GIue Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell herbe Mercurial Hysope and Mugworte to drinke Or else Farce those hearbes with Nitre in the bodie of an old Cock weried with longe chasing and vnfeathered while it is aliue Then strangled with salte and cast forthwith into colde water and then to be farced with Nitre and those hearbes and boyled according to Arte and giue the broath of that Cocke to drinke Or else Boyle Nitre with those hearbes in wine and giue it to drinke Or else Dissolue Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or Belzoynye by steeping and warming them in wine and giue it to drinke Or else to the poorer sort Giue drinke of Nitre it selfe with those hearbes boylled in warme water or with warme water mixed with a curtesie of vinegre or with wine Likewise Use iniections or pessaries into the matrice of Nitre mixed and dissolued with iuyces of Hysope Marigoldes Cammomell Mugworte Motherworte herbe Mercuriall and olye of bitter Almondes and therein dissoluing Galbanum Assa dulcis or Belzoynie and a curtesie of Ambregrise or Aliapta museata And likewise outwardlie Applie emplaisters or vse enoyntmentes or bathinges of Nitre with the like herbes decoctions gummes and oyles To smooth the wrinckles of womens bellies after childing â—Ray Nitre with the leaues of Idianthose or black maidenhaire in a stone morter with a boy childes brine and therwith let them vse to bath their bellyes To bring the blood and plumnes and supplenes vnto anie member decated and wythered by not receiueing nutriment TAke blacke pitche waxe and Colophonie of eche thrce ounces melt them and put thereunto an ounce of Tharre an ounce an halfe of Nitre three dragmes of Sulphure vif poulders of pepper and of Aderge of ech two dragmes Belzoynie two dragmes Euphorbium or Catharides halfe a dragme Labdanum an ounce oyle of sweete Almondes and oyle Ciprine of eche an ounce mixe them according to Arte and make a liquide sticking plaister syreade on leather to put on and to plucke of againe often times after it cleueth To procure sweating DRinke Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell and Marigoldes in warme posset-ale Also Enointe the skinne with Nitre mixte with oyles of Cammomell and of bitter Almondes and lye downe lapped warme with cloathes To stay immoderate sweating DIssolue and temper Nitre with poulder of drie Iris in oyle Rosate Omphacine adding vinegre Rosate or other vinegree steeled and anoynt the place to much sweating To supple and nimble the stifenes and wearines of the lymmes ENoynte the lymmes with Nitre dissolued with oyle and a fourth part of vinegre Or rather Enoynte the lymmes with Nitre onelie dissolued with oyle of Cammomell Or else With a sponge dipped in warme broathe of Cammomell and Marigold-flowers or Elder leaues boyled in wine or Ale and Nitre therein dissolued adding hennes greace or capons greace or oyle supple and bath the lymmes afore a fire or in the warmth of the Sunne To preuent the grudg or cold shrugge or shakeing inuading with the accesse of fits of Feuers DIssolue and temper Nitre with oyle oliue or rather with oyle of bitter Almondes or of Dill or of Raddish seedes or of Nettleseedes or of Castorie or of Spyke or of Nardus and annointe the chine of the backe from the nape of the necke downe beneath the shoulder blades and also the wrestes of the handes and the feete Or else Afore the accesse of the fit procure to sweate according the instructions aforesaide To laxe and scoure the bowells DRinke Nitre with poulder of Yreos in iuyce of rawe colewortes Or else Drink Nitre onely with iuce of rawe colewortes Or else Drink Nitre with the first broath of colewortes not ouer-boyled Or else Drinke downe a large sponefull of poulder of Nitre with warme water or with warme whey or or with white wine or with broath of great Raysons or with warme water and honie Moreouer Nitre also so taken clenseth the stomacke and bowels of the clinging slymie filth and dirte cleuing thereunto and riddeth the choking of the conduites and veynes and warmeth and restoreth them their natural operation euaporing the sweltring heate and restoring
naturall heate For burning or scalding TAke Nitre tosted as aforesaid vntill it become black bray it then into fine poulder and sprinckle it thick on the place burned or sckalded For the byting of a madde dogge and for other venemous byting or stinging TEmper and melt Nitre with Roson or with Therebyntine adding vinegre and goosegreace or swynes greace and applye that treate for the beginning of the cure And in the coÌ„tinuance of y e cure driane vinegre through vnquenched lime and temper that vinegre with Nitre and with that lotion soake and bath the wounde and mixe also that lotion with the aforesarde treate to be still vsed to the cure Likewise Rube the wounde with Nitre tempered with dogges vrine when it can be had Against the venome of Henbane receiued into the bodie DRinke Nitre dissolued with warme water with the singer or with a feather procure to vomite it vp and so do eftesones againe and againe Against the estonyeng venome of Mandragora taken into the bodie FIrst procure often vomite by the meanes aforesaide with Nitre and warme water and honie Then drinke largely of the bruage of stamped wormewood boylled in Muscadeli or Bastard or Maluesie or other â—at sweete wine and the iuyce or broth of the saide herbe well streyned and wronge into the wine and therein a good portion of Nitre dissolued and the patientes heade to be sponged with vinegre and oyle Rosate adding smelles hot and sharpe and Ranke to the nose and causing the patient to exercise the bodie mightelie and then also procure sweating as aforesaide Against the venome and strangling of vnkinde Mushrowmes eaten STampe and strayne the leaues and stalkes of Melissa otherwise called Apiastrum or balme herbe with Pusca or with vinegre water and salte and in strayned licour dissolue Nitre and drinke it warme in large quantitie and procure as aforesaide to yeelde it vp by vomit and so do often againe againe Against the venome and vlceration and strangulation and tormente caused by receieuing inwardes of Buprestes or of other Cantharides DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or Belzoynie dissolued teÌ„pred with warme water honie or with sweete wine or with other wine and honie warmed and as aforesaide yeelde it vp by vomite and so renewe it often and then take troeiskes of Alkakengie with Almonde milke or else take Almonde milke drawen with broth of Lettice Uiolettes Borage Petimorell Purcelane Plantaine great Reysons the colde seedes and such like Against the venome and strangulation of Bulles bloode taken inwardes DRinke Nitre with Pusca and salte or with water and vinegre and salte or with Aleger and salt warmed and after a while by procurement as aforesaid yelde it vp by vomite and renewe that remedie againe and againe And vniuersallie for all strangulations or suffocations stuffinges or obstructions by anie of those causes or cluddred blood or humors grosse claÌ„mie slimie clinging pasted or cleuing NItre is an effectuall remedie for all those aswell by taking it inwardes as also to be bathed enointed emplaistred outwardes For as aforesaid it perceth deuideth dissolueth subtileth looseth suppleth rarifieth enlargeth extenuateth vnstoppeth openeth maketh waie euaporeth auoideth skowreth and clenseth all such collections congeallings cludeeringes suffocations and encombrances without anie extoriation or seltring which Nitre of it selfe doth rather heale then empaire And yet moreouer besides the foresaide vses of Nitre in medicine it is seruiceable vnto other vses As. For soldring of golde siluer or copper and to yeeld fayre colour vnto golde vnfine BRaie or rather fret Nitre and some Alume du plume with boy childes vrine in a morter of pure red copper with a pestell also of pure red copper setting the morter ouer hot ashes or ouer hot sande or in the hot Sunne vntill the mixture togethers with the limell or fretting of the copper becomme at the last thicke almost dry then with a thinne chippe or an other sit instrument take it out of the morter and also from the pestell and drie it in the Sunne on a glased earthen dish and so reserue it to be made into fine poulder to the like vse as golde smythes and coppersmythes doe newe occupie Borace and it yeeldes fayre colour vnto the mettall by waie of cemtecing For sponginge or skouring of greace or of filthie spottes or soyle out of silke or lynnen or bombazine or wollen or leather SPonge with the foresaide Trociskes of Nitre and Sope dissolued and vsed hot with a yong boye childes vrine distilled or vndistilled or with vinegre distilled or white vinegre vndistilled or more speciallye with iuyce of Lymondes or of verie soure Orenges repeating the doing thereof sundrâ— times if it so needeth For skowring and whytting of lynnen cloth or lynnen yarne DIssolue Nitre in sharpe Lie made reasonable hot therein steepe and washe the lynnen cloath or yearne sundrie times and lastlie rinse it out as often as needeth in warme water and spread and white it in the ayre and Sunne according the ordinarie For skowring of woll or of wollen cloath or of wollen yearne from the soyle greace and fatnes therein whereby to make it apt to receiue and reteine Die and moreouer to yeelde it soft and supple VSe Nitre in the same maner first with Lie rosonably hot not verie hat and lastlie vse onely Nitre with warme water and it so effectually suppleth softeneth and rariefieth the wolle and skowreth out the greacestnes and oylynes of the wolle As in deede the helpe of winestone named Arguille to fret and drie out the greacesines or fatnes of the wolle or yet the helpe of Alume or of copporas to gumme the woolle and to cause it to receiue or to sooke in and receiue the die shal be founde not onely superfluous but also rather harmefulll to the cloathes softnes and supplenes and fiuenes thereof in that euerie of them doe yeelde the woolle harde stubborne stiffe rough brittle So as of auncient time while Nitre was to be had plenteouslie and of price not excessiue to much a-aboue the others Nitre was vsed to that purpose especiallie for the most precious cloathes and colours For to skowre supple Buffe-leather Shamois lether and such like skinnes to make them to become cleane drie suplle and soft NItre vsed first with warme Lie dulce and not ouer sharpe and then Nitre eftesones with warme water doth that busines so well as none better For to taw and make furres supple and soft WAshe them in warme water with Nitre sope afore described they shall become so softe and perfectlie supple As drying them at the fire or neuer so manie times after wet and dryed they shall not be hard nor stiffe THus haue I exceeded the measure of a letter while I followe to recite vnto you the so manifolde and commodious vses of Nitre which thing it selfe being found againe and nowe knowne to be had will I assure you be gratefully accepted of and more sufficientlie recommended to the publike vse and vtilitie by the learned Phisitions and experimentors Wherefore I thus commit you to God from Lambay c. Your verie friende and louing Cosine TH. CH.