or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
together and let the pacient or diseased party drinke it euery night going to bed and there wyll not ten dayes passe but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte and for the swelling of ioynts for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks Take May butter a quarter of a pound halfe a pound of coomyn seede beaten in fyne powder a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope one handfull of Hearbe grace halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet stampe all these together in a morter then take the gall of an Oxe and a spoonefull of bay Salt and frye them all together tyll it be thycke then laye it on a woollen cloath and so apply it to the ache as hotte as it maye be suffred and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke and then laye another plaster thereof to it and let it lye vnremoued as long then lay the thyrd plaster therto and let it lye therto as long as the other which wyll be in the whole three weekes and without doubt it wyll helpe him I haue seene it proued This I had out of a verie olde booke THere be and truly with proued successe that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell at theyr neckes for the Swyne pockes and also in lyke case of Planten Mizaldus WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe be it neuer so great nor greeuous let them drinke the wine wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces is sodden and streined if the party haue an ague for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues and so streyned which is an approued sure medicine for that disease whether the party haue an ague or not A Ring made of an Oxe or Cowes horne worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe It puts the same away This is proued to be true of many And Mizaldus affyrmes it IF the Lorde of the seuenth house be in the thyrd or nynth house and any euyll Planet beholde him he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him Ptolomeus IF you seethe Bryonie in water and vse to drinke the same It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie Proued MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright do followe Let the leaues stalkes and flowres with the whole substaunce be distylled when it beareth flowres the water wherof stylled dropped and streaked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes sharpneth the syght and seaseth the paynes of the eyes The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night and stryked about them and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the syght especially in aged persons and in stematick complections The hearbe dried and brought to powder eaten euery day in a poâ—ched Egrere for a certain time together restoreth sight lost the water mixed with half a dram of the powder and drunk euery euening for a month or forty dayes together recouereth a weake syght THis precious medicine folowing wyll bring forth a Cankaâ— and plucke it vp by the rootes out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee eyther in man or woman Take Bosâ—alger and make powder therof then take Bâ—rrowes or Hogges grease that is new and fresh fyrst melted and aâ—ter colde then myâ—e the powder there with very well then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether which may couer the â—ore theÌ„ sprinckle on the sayd plaster fyne flowre of pure wheete then vpon the same spreade Honny and then put vpon the sayd Honny womans mylke and whâ—n all this is done put the sayde plaster vpon the sore where the canker is and put the neather crust of a new whyte loaâ—e vpon the sayde plaster and tye it fast vpon the same that it remoue â—â—t And in the morning thou shall finde the cankar dead on the said plaster this is most true This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke LEt a woman make water in an Urinall that is â—ayre and cleane or rather newe vppon certaine cornes of Barly and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes and if tâ—e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne or bring foorth newe corne then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not but rather in the man Yf otherwyse then the lette of conception is in her STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble and make thereof a very fyne powder then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water then write therewith in paper what you wyll then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes and Uynegar of eyther lyke much mixed togeather and the sawse fâ—eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes dooth helpe it perfectly YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde by this that followeth Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete and go vpwarde then it comes of a hotte cause If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face and goe downewarde then it comes of a colde cause This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night on red nettels if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease if they be greene styll then he is lyke to lyue A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father dyd syt in coÌ„pany with his companions eating drinking ouer whose heads there was a swalowes nest with young swallowes in the same at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse chittering when suddenly the sayd wicked fellow got a long powle brust the swallowes nest wherby the swallowes fel down he trode on them and crushed them in peeces Being asked of one of them why he dyd so I haue good cause so to doo sayde he for dyd you not heare sayde he how they tolde that I kylled my Father Whervpon he was suspected examined and so confessed and therfore executed Plutarchus DRye a Gotes Sheeps or Neates blather make powder therof let them drinke therof with Uineger or water wheÌ„ they go to bed that cannot hold their water and it wyll helpe them Galen affyrmes this IF the Sun the Moone the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent be all safe and not with the Lord of the eyght house or in his aspect without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases and recouer the same If two of them be so he is like to escape lykewise If contrary
which is about the beginning of September or immediatly after for then through the great heate and drynes of the Sommer the earth wants rayne Mizaldus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges Which was a maister Carpentar IF any be bytten or stricken of a Scorpion which shall eate Basyll the same daye he shall be made whole therof Aphri reports it IF any fall sicke in the howre of the Sunne he wyll haue a strong Feuer or ague And many times shall be vexed in his minde which wyll bring no small hurt vnto him Haly Abenragel THe iuyce of Coryander geuen to them that haue the falling Euyll to drinke wyll not suffer the humor to ascende into the head and it worketh great helpe to the diseased This was written in an olde booke WHosoeuer is brought weake either by some greuous sicknes or disease of long continuaunce or by woundes receyued or any other waye and thervppon haue a syege of Melancholy lyke to blacke bloud he shall doubtles dye the next daye after Hippocrates in suis Aphor. A Sausfleame or redde pympled face is helped with this medicine following Take Enula Campana fowre ounces and seethe it with vinegar tyll the vinegar be sodden in then stampe it small and then put thereto quycksyluer and brymstone of eyther fowre drams and Barrowes grease fowre ounces beate them all together and make therof a plaster and laye it to the enfected or spotted place in the face all night and on the morrowe wash it of with warme water Doo thus sixe or seuen nightes and it wyll helpe it without doubt THe fyrst seedes that the Hee or Male Pyony brings forth being round and black do maruelously recreate or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scillitick which is to be had at the Apothecaries and with the syrrup of Sticados a lytle Nutmug which Lemnius doth wytnes for a very trueth WHosoeuer is stricken or hurte of any venemous woorme or other thing or else bytten of a madde Dogge Let them take heede dillygently that the same thing that dyd hurt them see them not vntyl they be perfectly whole For the Hebrew Phisitions saye that the party hurt shall then dye or els be in peryll afresh yea though they begynne to waxe whole when they see them Mizaldus ONe handful of Basyll with ten sea Crabs stampt or beaten together doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place that are nye to the same Aphri as Mizaldus sayth IF the Lorde of the eyght house be afflicted in the fowrth house it sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall dye in pryson Taisnier WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden drunke fasting sixe or seuen morninges together doth perfectly helpe thē that are tormented with the paines of the splene Which makes one to haue a great payne in the left syde there most griefe is after meate And if you annoynt the grieued place so long with an oyntment called Deathea euery morning and euening It is an excellent thing lykewise BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine which dryeth and mightely perseth where the same is applyed taken out of the secretes of Fallopius Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten one pounde and two ounces of new yellowe waxe that is odoriferous twelue ounces of Nutmugges and Cloues of eyther one ounce of common ashes syxe ounces beate all these wel together then put the same into a Retorte fenced with Lute of Wisedome and set in ashes and distyll it with a slowe fyre at the fyrst and after encrease the fyre vntyl all be distilled which gathered distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade receauer putting vnto it before the distylling fowre ounces of the powder of brycke or Tyles Which dyllygently luted in the ioyntes maynteyne fyre vnder it vntyll no more wyll come then haue you purchased an Oyle of a rubyne cullour which worketh myracles in woundes especially where synnues be harmed This also helpeth any manner of rewme proceeded of a colde cause it helpeth besydes the cough by annointing the region of the breast therewith and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes inuented and proued by the aboue sayde Author many tymes This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke called the new Iewell of Health which many perhappes should neuer haue read in this my booke that neuer shall heare tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable thinges therein vttered A Notable and often proued plaster to destroy any impostume swelling and stytche in what place of the body soeuer it be is now described as followeth Take of the roote of Hollyocke cleane washed and cutte in peeces two good handfull and seethe the same in fayre water vntyll the sayde roote be something tender Then take out the sayde roote and put into the same water of Fenecreeke and Lyn seede of eyther one handfull something stamped or brused seethe them together vntyll the water be ropeing like byrdlime then stampe the sayd roote of Hollyock before sodde And put it therto with an handfull of Barly meale and frye them together with Bores grease or Barrowes grease and if neede be you maye take sheepe suet then laye a plaster thereof to the sore or grieued place as hotte as the party maye suffer it and let the same lye twelue howres vnremoued at the least and after applye another plaster of the same therto in such order and within nyne plasters it wyll worke the full effect It hath helpt dyssolued the Pluresy with the applying of three or fowre plasters A thing of smal cost and great vertue WHen the Lord of the Ascendēt is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house It sygnifies that the syck shal not be healed but with great expences of money or els dye And vniuersally marke what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascēdent The sycke is lyke to haue harme or hynderance by such things as that house doth sygnifie whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord or Sygnifyer Iatromath Guat Ryff EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder and geuen in whyte Wine breaketh the stone It is a tryed medicine as one affyrmed to me SUgar especially Ualencia sugar made in pouder and put into a wound or cutte doth not onely clense all corruption from it and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it but also heales it maruelously If you lyst you may mixe a lytle fresh butter therewith wherby it wyll not be of the lesse vertue This is a sure excellent easye and a ready medicine who lyst to trye it shall finde it a syngular thing A Certaine Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London who within a yeare and a halfe after her byrth dyd begyn to eate earth stones bricke and grauell And so continued therin hauing all her delyght in eating of such baggage
thinges which are in all a thousand Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully willingly as I haue bestowed them friendly and freely Being bould to affirme this much that a great deale of golde cannot counteruaile this Gyft if but some twenty of the sayd thousand be dilligently marked faythfullye followed and perfectlye practised And thus in fewe wordes I byd you farewell Thomas Lupton ⧠The first Booke of Notable thinges IN the first beginning hereof a rare straunge matter shal appeare worthy to be marked especially of such as loues or vse Sage A certaine man being in a Garden with his Louer dyd take as he was walking a few leaues of Sage who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith immediatly fell downe and dyed whervpon his said Louer being examined howe he dyed she sayde she knew nothing that he ayled but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage and she went with the Iudge and other into the same Garden place where the same thing hapned and then she tooke of the sayde Sage to shewe them how he dyd and lykewise rubbed her teeth and gums therwith and presently she dyed also to the great maruayle of all them that stoode by wherevpon the Iudge suspecting the cause of their deathes to be in the Sage caused the sayde bedde of Sage to be plucked and digged vp and to be burned least other might haue the lyke harme thereby And at the rootes or vnder the sayde Sage there was a great Tode founde which had infected the same Sage with his venemous breath Anthonius Myzaldus hath written of this maruelous matter This may be a warning to such as rashly vse to eate rawe vnwasht Sage Therfore it is good to plant Rew rounde about Sage for Todes by no meanes wyll come nye vnto Rew as it is thought of some A Certayne Poet by the report of Mizaldus dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoes least the winde shoulde ouerblow him his body was so light and so lytle IF any do myldlie or softlie beate the plant or stalkes of an herbe called Mullen some calles it Hedge taper in the morning when the flowers thereof beginnes to open all the flowers by lytle and lytle wyl â—all and come to one as though the plant were wythered or blasted which the ignorant haue thought to be done by Magicall artes or by some Inchauntment specially if he that doth stryke the same Mullen doth seeme to mumble some wordes whyles he doth it Mizaldus THe hooues of the forefeete of a Cowe dryed and made in fine powder encreaseth mylke in Nurses if they eate it in their Pottage or vse it in theyr drinke and being cast on burning coales the smoke thereof doth kyll Myse or at the least doth dryue them away This Mizaldus wrytes of the experyment of a certayne Spaniarde AQua vite being outwardly applyed doth helpe very well the Synewes and Muscles and all other parts of the body tormented or payned of a cold cause with his heating strength and swift penetration IF one vse to rubbe chapped or rough lyppes with the sweat behinde their eares it wyll make them fyne smothe and well culloured a thing proued WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles and the Sunne or Moone applyes vnto them corporallye or by opposition it sygnifyes that the partie then borne wyll be eyther croackbackt or wyll halte or it sygnifyes the destruction or losse of some member especiallye if the Moone bee with the Dragons tayle in these sygnes Aries Taurus Cancer Scorpius or Capricornus or in the begynning or ende of the Sygne Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes fryed with Goose greese then streynde and a lytle therof dropt warme into the deaffe or payned eare doeth helpe the same you must vse it halfe a dosen tymes at the least This is true ANthonius Beneuenius an excellent Phisytion doth glorie that he with the water wherein Smithes dyd quench their hote and burning yrons geuing the same often to drinke and with the eating of Cappares dyd perfectly heale a Citizen of Florence that had the griefe and swelling of the Splene seuen yeares ADdars tongue wrapt in Uirgin Waxe and put into the lefte eare of any Horse it makes the Horse to fall downe to the grounde as though hee were deade and when it is taken out of his eare it doeth not onely waken him or reyse him but also it makes him more lyuely or quicke Myzaldus wrytes this of the report of an Englysh man. IF a water Snake be tyed by the tayle with a cord hanged vp and a vessel full of water set vnder the sayd Snake after a certaine tyme he wyl auoyde out of his mouth a stone which stone being taken out of the vessell he drinkes vp all the water let this stone be tyed to the belly of them that haue the dropsie and the water wyll be exhausted or drunke vp and it fullie and wholie helpes the partie that hath the sayde Dropsie Iacobus Hollerius OFt thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie but if the Wines be then in Cellers being paued and the walles of stone they take lesse harme then in boorded Cellers therfore it is good before such tempest or thunder to lay a plate of yron with salt or flint stones vpon the sayde vessels with Wine Leuinius Lemnius by Mizaldus report THey wyll haue the palsey or be so that they cannot moue themselues or wyll be geuen to tremble in whose Natiuities the Moone is in an Angle with Saturne Saturne then being vnder the beames of the Sunne combust Lykewise if the syxt house and the Lorde thereof be infortunate of Saturne without the aspect of a good planet Iatromath Guat Ryff MAke powder of vnslackt Lyme and mixe it with black Sope and annoynt any Men therwith the Men wyl fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt it with oyle of Balme it wyl heale it perfectly IF you wyll make wood of the cullour of the wood Hebenus especially such as be harde as Boxe and Peare tree and such lyke do as followeth laye the wood you meane to cullour in Allam water so that it be couered with the layde water and let it rest so three dayes then laye the sayd wood against the hote Sunne or the fyre that it may onely waxe warme then seethe the same wood in common oyle wherin put asmuch of Uytryol Romaine and Brimstone as a Hasel nutte let it be dyssolued the longer you seeth it the blacker the wood wyll be so that you keepe a measure therin and it wyl be fayre elegant Mizaldus had this of an Italian a professor of many experimentes THe iuice of Mullen leaues of som called Hedgetaper of some Lungwoort put to any part that is brused or that hath had a strooke and the staÌ„ped leaues thereof then put vpon the same and tyed fast on with a cloath if you let it lye so a whole daye and night vnremoued it wyll heale it finely yea though it be a wounde but the
a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
into the fyre Lemnius wrytes this SNayles without their shelles or otherwyse with their shels stamped myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe if they be applyed to the place And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe Iacob Hollerius FINIS Lib. 1. ⧠The seconde Booke of Notable things WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne or in any euyll aspecte with him and in any Angle and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect in any bodyes Natiuitie It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne shal haue inseperable diseases or griefes in the eyes Iatromath Guat H. Ryff Argent IT is manifest by experieÌ„ce that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft the Kings Euyll which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes As daylye experience doth witnesse Mizaldus ERastratus a Phisition dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse that Antiochus the soÌ„ne of king Seleucus dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices his mother in lawe that vnlesse he might haue his desyre with the good wyll or pardon of his Father he woulde dye These are Authors thereof Valerius Maximus and Galenus Which also by the lyke did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius a councellor of Rome dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre Mizaldus CElendine with the harte of a Woont or a Mould-warpe layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke if he be in daunger of death Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce or syng if not he wyll weepe Mizaldus THe iuyce of Henbane mixte with the bloud of a Hare and sodde within the skynne of a Hare it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for meeting or sodaine seeing of an Hare or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe and forkedwyse called a Hare lyppe Daylie experience confyrmes it Mizaldus THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect and if an euyll planet doth theÌ„ beholde her it wyll be very perillous But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth that sicknes wyl be without any dauÌ„ger Hermes Trismegistus Ptolomeus Claudius Galenus Authors AN Egge layde in strong Uineger three dayes or a lytle longer it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft that one may draw it through a Ring Cast the same into a warme water and let it lye therein and it wyll be harde againe Mizaldus A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger Mizaldus WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of Hâ—mpe is sodden being cast or sprinckled on the earth wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground if any be there Mizaldus THe oyle of Tartar made of the leese of excellent Wine doth take the spottes from yron the yron being clensâ—d from all rustinesse and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes if the yron be rubbed therwith Mizaldus THe roote oâ— Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica It is sayde that it helpes maruelouslie because this herbe belonges to Iupiter which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie which gouernes the huckle bone And of Pisces which chalâ—ngeth the feete Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes IF some droppes of Aqua vite be myxt with wryting ynke the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen Proued WHosoeuer is apt to any thing hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth Myzaldus As thus for exaÌ„ple I may say by the way He that is apt to Martial feates or Warlyke affayres hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting drawing wryting syphering or to the science of Arithmatike or to any wyttie or notable inuencions without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth Which by dayly proofe is infallyble And so you may know of the rest THe woodde of the Sicamore tree is neuer drye in the ayre or hye grounde and in the bankes of ryuers and where waters runne ouer it dryes verye quicklie Mizaldus THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse doth procure sleepe As Actius doth saye THey wyl haue paines in the stomack or be weake stomackt in whose Natiuities Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house or in the twelfth house infortunating the Moone or the Lord of the Ascendent Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed or brusten Take nine redde Snayles and put them betwene two tyle stones so that they slyde not away drye them in an Ouen so that you make them in powder then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning tyll all be done which wyll be in .xviii. dayes The partie must take it fasting and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after And if the disease be so loÌ„g rooted that these nine times wyl not suffice then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles do as before is declared in all points I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter wyll make them laye egges a pace Cardanus THe oyle of Tartare doth take awaye cleane all spottes freckles and fylthy wheales of the face chyn or forehead with his cleansing strength This is well proued WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes froÌ„ any place that there shal none be seene there againe make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring or as my booke sayth Mizaldus in a plate of brasse or copper or of Tyn make the image of a Flye of a Spyder of a Serpent the second face of Pisces then ascending And whyles you are making or grauing of them saye This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer Then
to the Ascendent the seconde quarter of his lyfe to the tenth house the thirde quarter to the seuenth house and the fowrth parte of his lyfe to the fowrth house And marke in which of them there is fortunate Planets and the parte Fortune and the Moone free froÌ„ Infortunate Planets and not combust Iudge that that part of the lyfe is or wyll be most fortunate Haly Abenragel IF you woulde not haue heairs to growe plucke them first vp by the rootes then vse to rub the same place with Aqua fortis dyuers times a lytle at once and it wyll staye the heair from growing there any more A woman tolde me this for a great secrete MAke a plaster of potters clay mixt with vineger the whyte of an egge and apply it to the cods of him that bleedes at the nose and streight way his bleeding wyll stay or ceasse This is a sure proued medicine and an excellent secrete GEue to a woman that suspects her selfe to be with chylde at nyght when she goes to bed a cloue of Garlyke to eate and if she feele any sauor thereof in the morning when she ryseth then shee is not with chylde If she feele no sauor thereof then she is with chylde This I had out of an olde written booke THey wyll haue weake or feeble hartes or wyll be much geuen to sounding In whose Natiuitie the Sunne is Lorde of the sixt house or Lord of the part of infyrmitie being impedite or Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff AN excellent approued thing to make them slender that are grosse Let them eate three or fowre cloues of Garlyke with asmuch of bread and butter euery morning and euening first and last neyther eating nor drinking of three or fowre howers after their taking of it in the morning for the space of fouretene dayes at the least and drinke euery daye three good draftes of the decoction of Fennel that is of the water wherein Fennell is sodde and well streyned fowretene daies after at the least at morning noone and night I knewe a man that was maruelous grosse and could not go a quarter of a myle but was enforst to rest him a doosen tymes at the least that with this medicine tooke away his grosnes and after coulde iourney very well on foote FINIS Lib. 2. ⧠The thirde Booke of Notable things FYue Egs layde in the euening in strong and tarte Uineger and taken out of the same the next morning so that you perceyue theyr shels therwith to be somthing sost else let them lye longer therin and then put or thrust them downe into the throate of a Horsse that hath the coughe hys tongue being holden all that whyle out of hys mouth wyll helpe him perfectlie of the same THe Turtle Dooue hath such a loue one to another being makes that when one of them is dead the other wyll neuer after haue any other make Aristot. IF one aske the Astrologian which part of the lande or countrey is best for him Or if one would go out of the place he dwelles in to dwell in another and doth aske into what quarter or parte were best for him to go Marke in what part of the Heauens the good Planettes bee from his Ascendent and iudge that that part where they are found is best for him but consider that from the degree ascending to the beginning of the tenth house is for the East part and from the Cuspe of the tenth house to the beginning of the seuenth house is for the South part and from the Cuspe of the seuenth house to the beginning of the fowrth house is for the West part and from the Cuspe or begynning of the fowrth house to the Cuspe of the Ascendent is for the North parte Haly Abenragel And as these quarters and partes are good to remoue vnto where the good Planets are placed euen so those quarters where euyll Planets are placed are euyll to dwell in A Certayne woman a Florentine was so pulled and gryped in her stomacke with such torments that no Phisitions coulde helpe which woman of a suddaine dyd vomytte long and croked nayles needles of brasse with waxe and lumpes of heair and at last shee auoyded out of her mouth a great fleshie peece such a one as a Gyaunt coulde not swalowe The Author hereof is Beniuenius de admirandis morborum causis But hee sayth that the sayde woman was possest of a wicked spyrite Mizaldus Which I beleeue was done by the deuyl PLynie reportes that men in auncient tyme dyd fasten vpon the gates of their Townes the heads of Woolues thereby to put away Wytcherie Sorcery or Enchauntment Which many hunters obserues or do at this daye but to what vse they know not A Mowle or a Woont enclosed in an earthen pot If you set then the powder of Brymstone on fyre she wyll call other Mowles or Woonts to helpe her with a verie mourning voyce Mizaldus IF you take an Oake Aple from an Oake tree and open the same you shall finde a lytle woorme therin which if it doth flye away it sygnifies warres if it creepe it betokens scarcenes of Corne if it run about then it foreshewes the plague This is the countrymans Astrologie which they haue long obserued for trueth Mizaldus IF a man be sicke marke his eyes when he sleepeth for if any whyte thing appeare betwixte the eye lyddes and the patient haue no great laxe nor receiued any purgation before it is a terrible and deadly sygne Aphor. Hippocr WHosoeuer is troubled with the coughe or shortnesse of breath let them drinke a good drafte something warmed of this folowing thryse euerie daye fyrst and last and one howre after dynner for the space of seuen or eyght dayes and it wyll helpe them God wylling for it is an excellent and often proued thing Take of the rootes of Enulacampana cut in small peeces of Hysop and Peniryall and also of good scraped Lyqueris of each two handfull Seethe them all in a gallon of pure and fayre water vntyll the water come to one pottell then streyne it well and keepe it in a cleane vessell close stopte or couered and vse it as is before sayde SOpe myxt with a lytle salt healeth perfectly a Fellon Uncome or other sore or swolne fynger with speede I knowe that this hath bene well proued THe whyte of an egge wall beâ—ten and mixed with the powder of Masticke helpes chapt handes if they be annoynted therewith MOwseare any manner of way ministred to Horses bringes this helpe vnto them that they cannot be hurt whyles the Smith is shooing of them Therefore it is called of many Herba clauorum the herbe of nayles Mizaldus IF a Fyrre tree be touched wythered or burned with lyghtning it sygnifies that the maister or mistresse therof shall shortly dye Seruius GAlen sayeth that he hath founde by experiences folowing the opinions of many when any shall fall sicke and the Moone then be in the sygne wherin a good Starre or planet was
Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
Eucharius Rosenbader of Wessemburge and Iohn of Ettenstet â–ª Surgions in the presence of many which dyd cutte or open the bellye and Mawe of the sayde dead Husbandman Wherein was founde being maruaylous and prodigious a long and rounde peece of woodde fowre knyues of Steele partlye sharpe and partlye nyckte lyke a Sawe and two sharpe instrumentes of yron that was longer then a spanne and they had therin also heair rowled together as it were a round Bowle or Ball. This was layde or put in his Mawe by none other arte but onely by the crafte and subtyltye of he Deuyll This hath Iohannes Langius wrytten in the fyrst parte of his medcinal Epistles Epistol 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis Mizaldus reportes it also IN many Pondes all the water wood taken out by and by Eeles do breede if rayne water come into them for that with the dewe they do lyue and are nourished Aristo Plutarch And other IF the ryght knee of a Bull be tyde with a broade bande it wyll make him tame Aelianus LEt the partie that bleedes chawe the roote of a Netle in his mouth but swallowe it not downe and without doubte the bloud wyll stanche for if one keepe it in his mouth he can lose no bloud Petrus Hisp. IF a mad man finde ease in sleeping it is good but if his rage encrease it is to be feared Hippocrates in suis Aphor. IF the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone or the Lorde of the syxt house be Combust or Retrograde the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eyght house conuinct to Mars or Saturne the sicke must dye of that disease Iohannes Ganiuetus But God can restore health past all hope THis medicine folowing doth maruelouslie breake winde in the bellye Take Coomyn seede Fennell seede and Annes seede of each a like much beat them to powder then seeth the same in wyne and drinke a good draught therof fyrst last fowre or fyue dayes together you shall finde a great helpe thereby for it hath bene often proued to their great ease comfort that tooke the same TAke a spoonefull of Aqua vite and two spoonefull of the water of Arsemarte and annoynt any ache therwith twyse euery day morning and euening for the space of fyue or sixe dayes at the most and it wyll heale it for euer I had this out of an olde wrytten booke HE wyll be weake in the act of generation in whose Natiuitie Venus is ioyned with Saturne especially in the tenth or eight house or that the Moone is ioyned with Saturne in an euyll aspect of Venus or if Saturne be in the syxt or twelfth house in a moyst sygne Infortunating Venus Iatromath Guat Ryff THis folowing is an excellent medicine for the stone Seethe an handfull of Holly berryes in a pynt of good Ale tyll halfe the Ale be consumed then streyne it putting then a lytle butter to it and let the partie drinke therof fiue or sixe spoonefull and within halfe an howre after the party wyll make water if euer any medicine wyl cause it This was tolde me for a very true secrete THe learned and wise men among the Persians affyrme that if Sage be putrefied or layde to rot in horse dung whyles the Sunne and Moone do both occupy the seconde face of Leo thereon wyll breede a Byrde lyke an Owsell or blacke Byrde the ashes wherof being burned and strowed or cast into a burning Lampe wyll make the house seeme to be full of Serpentes Hermes IF the eares of Cattes be stowde or cutte off it wyl make them keepe home the better For that then the water which they can not abyde wyll drop into their eares being open And if they be gelded especially the male Catte they wyll not onely be more tamer and fatter but also thereby they wyll raunge abroade the lesse Mizaldus IT is sayde that Cockles Oysters in great thunders do vomitte and cast out then Pearles Whervpon many are founde in the sandes Mizaldus WHen any drawes nye towarde their death and that their members lackes bloud vytal heate Then Fleas and Lyse leaues them quyte or else drawes to that parte of the bodye where the sayde heate tarryes the longest which is in the hole in the necke vnder the chyn c. This is a token that death is at hande Lemnius THe leaues of Walwoort sodde with Wine doth maruelouslye mytigate the paynes of them that are tormented with the gowte if they be applyed to the place where the griefe or payne is There be that preferres and extolles with maruelous praises The iuyce expressed out of the leaues rootes therof sodden with Wine and May butter and in the steede of a Lynyment annointed styll on the grieued member That is three or fowre tymes euerie daye Mizaldus learned this of one that proued it A Ryshe dryed and put into Wyne if there be any water therein it drawes it to it The Wine left alone or together Which is good and profytable for trying of Wine Mizaldus A Notable medicine to heale lame members doeth folowe Take of oyle Olyffe Aqua vite ole of Exetor and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much myxe all together and annoynt the lame members therewith twyse euerie daye morning and euening the space of a fortnight being well rubbed before and it wyll helpe the same of a certayntie An olde Woman in Worcester shyrâ— dyd helpe many therewith IF out of one pounde of excellent Wyne with as much Salt as you can holde in your hande and the leefe of pure Wyne you do distyll a water You shall finde that it wyll be the whottest water of all other Mizaldus had this of a certaine Alchemyst IT is sayd that Hartes in Crete being stroken with Dartes enuenomed do eate of a certayne hearbe called Dyttanie and thereby the pricke or any other thyng that styckes in them is dryuen foorth Mizaldus THere was a certaine Woman great with chyld in Pago not farre from Andernacus a Towne of the Byshoppe of Cullen Desyring or longing to eate or to feede on her Husbandes fleshe and although she loued him intirely she killed him in the night being satisfied with the halfe of his flesh she powdred the rest with Salt but after when her great longing dyd cease and that she dyd repent the deede she dyd confesse it to her friendes that sought for her husbande Iohannes Langius in his medcynall Epistles Therfore it is good for the husbands to take heede whiles theyr wyues haue such inordinate longyng vppon them MAny haue bene helped that haue had fowle and leprous faces onely with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberies the Strawberies fyrst put into a close glasse and so putrifyed in horse dung Conradus Gesnerus IF at the time of the byrth of any Mercurie be Occidentall from the Sun not vnder his lyght or his beames except in Aries or Leo nor Retrograde being then in any of the
together Which I know to be excellent the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true and proued by Anth. Beneuenius IT is a great token of health when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche though the other parts of the body be weake But then take heede of Uenerius actes least you pay for your pleasure This out of Mizaldus COryander seede made in powder and mixt with Honny and unplastred vpō a Carbuncle or other grieuous byles destroyes the same quite Arnold de villa noua THe black Sea coale mixed with oyle wyl be made soft Wherwith if one annoynt Uines it wyll destroye the woormes which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines Seuerinus Gebelius THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone it wyll helpe them maruelously Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued IT was credibly told me for a very truth that there was a very poore woman being brought to bed of a chylde hauing many chyldren before to whome a syster of hers being rytch and that neuer as yet had any childe came to see her who sayd vnto her as followeth Ah syster syster here are many mouthes and lytle meate To whom her poore syster answered cōtent your selfe syster God neuer sends mouth but he sendeth meate After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde which when it was borne had neuer a mouth So that ther was much meate no mouth A worthy rare example to make al couetous greedy carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the lord And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth If it were not for the great goodnes of God we should haue no more meate for our mouthes then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate But if we haue both mouthes and meate and lacke good stomacks for the same what are we the neare So that both mouth meate and stomack are not in our wylles to haue when welyst but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll HErmes sayth if in the Natiuitie of the Husband Venus be Combust the wyfe shall dye before the husbande If in the Natiuity of the wyfe Mars be Combust the husband shall dye before the wife WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last for the space of twentye dayes at the most doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy It is an excellent medicine for the same CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water and then with a stick labour well the water and if the water then be troubled the baulme is not perfect But if the water abyde cleare then the same is good and perfect baulme For the good and true baulme doth gather it selfe alwayes into one place And thus you may trye a true good baulme from a false and sofysticate baulme IF the roote of Pyony especialy of the male Pyony be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye that hath the falling sycknes it doth helpe very much Lykewise doth Pellyter and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke Lemnius FINIS Lib. 4. ⧠The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours whyles she is taking the Horse For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse whyles he doth horse her without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts Mizaldus THe berryes of Halicacabus called wynter Cherries being stampt and the iuyce prest or wroong out of the same and then dryed in the shaddow the same if it be geuen to such as haue the stone or cannot make water and also to them that haue the Dropsie it wyll prouoke vrine or dryue forth the water and also expell the Hydropycall humors Mizaldus HOrus Apollo doth saye that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones therfore when he is constrayned to go by stony places he treades very demurely or softly For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone it breedes woormes wherof at length he is consumed or brought to his death Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor that layes wayte to stryke him with stones IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together and both be Combust He that is then borne shall lacke a wyfe or neuer marrie Ptolomeus IF the leaues of Elderne fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples if any painelye there It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously This is very good and well proued HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe Take of Opium thebaicum and Garlicke heads pylled of each two ounces beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel put therto the Opium grinded incorporate these well together that it maye be lyke a Sawce Distyll this in a Retorte with a most soft slowe fyre in ashes With this water distilled when neede shal require annoint the temples the forehead and pulses of the wrestes And beware you mynister nor vse this but vppon a great necessity as in franticke persons as you shall thinke it good THe iuyce of the buddes leaues inner rynde or of the young braunches of Elderne something warme put into the eare doth not onely breake the impostume thereof within sowre or fiue tymes but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes This was tolde me for a great secrete and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case TO see Moonks in ones dreame doth portēd death or calamity to see fatte Oxen betokens plenty of thinges to loose an eye or a toothe sygnifies the death of a friende or of a kynseman or some other euyll lucke to dreame to be dumme foreshewes speedie gladnes to see Oxen plowe betokens gaine to enter into waters betokens euyll Artemidorus THis following makes a soft beard and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire Take butter witstout salt the iuyce of a redde Onion the grease of a Gray or a Badger the roote of Bryony of Beetes of Radysh and of whyte Lyllies whereof make a Lynyment and annoint the chyn often therewith being shauen Mizaldus PUt vp an olde Gander into a house and let him be there three dayes without meate then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled then gather the dunge that comes from him after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling Is a present remedy therfore HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne shall see true dreames or dreame of things that be true Mizaldus THe brayne of a Wesell dryed and drunke with Uinegar doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes Mizaldus IVpiter and Venus or the one of them in the eyght house not Combust nor Retrograde doth sygnifie the chyld then borne shall dye a naturall
also she dyd eate the woollen sleeues that were on her armes besydes that she dyd eate a gloue And on a tyme as her mother dyd feede her with mylke there chaunst to fall a great peece of soote out of the chymney into the sayd mylke which soote the sayd chyld tooke out of the dysh with her fyngers and dyd eate it most greedâ—ly She abhorred then bread butter and other such natural foode Wherby she was maruelously consumed with a fluxe and she yet lyueth hauing nothing on her but skyn and bone I sawe her in Iune 1577. She was borne in Chayrsey within two or three myles of Stanes at which tyme she was full three yeares of age IT is sayde that Myse dung with the ashes of burned Waspes and of hasel Nuts and a lytle vinegar of Roses put therto doth trymly decke a bauld place with heayrs if the same place be often tymes rubbed or annoynted therwith Mizaldus IF any Beast of the female kinde doth pisse vpon the vrine of a Woolfe newly made the same Beast shal neuer conceaue Pithagoras AEtius geues counsayle that that Dogge be buried or put into the ground in any wyse which is dead by taking his disease froÌ„ a man for it is certain saith he that daungerous and many effects the man being escaped are turned or ouerpowred into him THe troublesome or vnpleasaunt noyse of Frogges in the night wyll cease if you set a Candle burning on the bancke syde nye the water where they be Or els many lyghtes according to the greatnes of the place where they be Africanus Geopon And this was proued at Parys by the meanes of a Presydent there that therewith was troubled Mizaldus IT is the opinion of many that an hearbe called Leucacanthus that is Whyt thorne euen as the Bay tree is neuer strucken nor touched with lyghtning nor is not touched with any euyl from heauen Mizaldus ZAel sayth that he hath proued in many Natiuities where the Moone is in Virgo opposite with the Sun that the chyld theÌ„ borne hath ben drownd SIxe cloues of Garlycke stampt and strayned into a draught of Rennish Wine so drunke is a present remedy for the collyck stone the strangury An excellent tryed medicine if you take it three dayes MAke powder of the flowres of Elderne gathered on Mydsomer daye being before well dryed and vse a spoonefull therof in a good draught of Burrage water morning euening fyrst and last for the space of a month and it wyl make you seeme young a great whyle This I had out of an olde wrytten booke as proued TAke Horseleaches and burne theÌ„ to powder and myxe it with Eysell then vse to rubbe the place therwith where you would haue heaire to grow no more and there wyll no heaire growe in that place This was a secrete of a notable Practyser WHosoeuer vses to drinke butter mylke they wyll be laratiue although they be very much bound and can not go to the stooâ—e Proued THey are lyke to haue the falling sycknes in whose natiuities the Moone and Mercury do not behold the one the other Or where neither of them do behold the Ascendent and wheras in the day tyme Saturne is the sygnifyer of the qualyties of the mynde and being then in an Angle and Mars in natiuityes of the night THat young Beasts be not hurt of their fetters or that being hurt of them they may be cured Tye vnto their necks a Date stone bored through Mizaldus IF you geue to them that haue the falling sycknes this medicine or Antidote following three dayes whiles the Moone is coniunct to Iupiter it wyl helpe him Take of Mase the seedes of Pyony the rootes of the same halfe a dram the leaues of Gelyuors and of Prymroses which some takes to be the Daysie one dram stampe them and geue it to drinke with whyte Wine The party being fasting Mizaldus AS a certayne countrey man dyd sleepe open mouthed in the fieldes a Serpent crept in at his mouth and so into his body but after the sayde man cured him selfe therof with the eating of Garlyke But he enfected his wife with poyson by hauing to do with her carnally wherof she dyed which was very rare and straunge Volateranus POwder made of the stone of a Swallow geuen in drinke to them that haue the falling sycknes healeth them without doubt for it is a sure experiment Petrus Hispanus IF thou would know whether a Woman be conceaued with chyld or not geue to her two spoonefuls of water and one spooneful of clarified Honny mingled together to drink when she goeth to sleepe and if she feele grypings and paynes in her belly in the nyght she is with chylde if she feele none she is not This is very true and often proued HE wyll neuer be poore of whose Natiuity Iupiter is rular or Lorde Celi enarrant The Author of which worke is vnknowne THis following wyll take spots out of the face and bewtify the same Put seuen whole Egs in most pure and strong Uineger and let them lye therein so long vntyll theyr shelles be as soft as theyr inwarde skynnes and myxe therto fowre ounces of mustarde seede before made in powder or stampt then stampe or grinde them together and therwith let the face be often annoynted This hath bene proued and Trotula affyrmes it also for the lyke purpose GReene nettels layd in the vryne of one that is sick and so stieped therin for the space of .xxiiii. howres if after the same tyme they be taken out greene and fresh it betokens that the syck party wyll recouer of that sycknes if they be wythered it is a great token of death Mizaldus FINIS Lib. 5. ⧠The syxt Booke of Notable thinges IF you would haue any Beast or any parte of the same of what cullour soeuer he be to be turned into white shaue of the heairs smoake the same that is shauen with the fume of Brymstone and whyte heayres wyll growe there You may proue the same in flowres Mizaldus THe berryes of Whyt thorne taken with whyte Wine is of great force for destroying or expelling of the stone It is knowne by the practise or experience of the countrey men Mizaldus IN a question of a vision or dreame marke the Lorde or the Alumten of the Ascendent and the Moone and consider if thou findest eyther of them in the ninth or the thyrde house but if you finde none of them there then marke if you finde eyther of them in the Ascendent or fyrst house or in any of his Angles and if you so finde eyther of them and the same be seperate from a good Planet applyed to a good Planet It sygnifyes that the dreame is good pleasant and of a good sygnifycation and is of the condition of that good Planet to whom he applyes and the profyt or coÌ„modity of his dreame shal be of the condition of the house where he is in the figure and of the condition of
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. WHosoeuer is greued tormented with the stone let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe cut in slyces and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night then streyne the same well and put therto of the Electuary called Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum one dram myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine wherein the Radish was infused and let him that is grieued with the stone receyue all the same at one tyme and you shall see a maruelous woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together This is proued to be a sure an excellent thing for breaking and auoyding the stone and grauell Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe A Head of Garlycke the skyns pulled off and a lytle brused layde by equall partes to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache especially if it come of a colde cause and be on the neather iawe it wyll helpe them with speede by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent opposyte to Venus or if Venus be in a barraine signe infortunate of Saturne or if Venus be in the house of Saturne especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus ELephants of all other Beastes do chiefly hate the Mowse So that if they shall see or perceyue that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury IF any Woman great with chylde shall take this drinke following euery other day in the morning three howres before she eate any meate begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth the byrth shall not onely be made more easye but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne Take of the great Treackle one scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes the powder of Lycquerys and the powder of Cynamom of eyther three graynes of good whyte Wine one ounce and a halfe myxe all together and make there of a drynke and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde in such manner as is before sayde Benedictus victorius fauentinus in his Booke called Emperica THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe Take Yarrowe and Planten of eyther a lyke muche stampe them well together and put thereto redde Wyne and streyne it well and drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last three or sowre dayes together and certaynly it wyll stay it It is an easy and precious thing IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not let her make water in a copper or brasen vessell and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght that is bryght and cleane and if she be with chylde the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it If not then it wyll be blackish or rusty It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before the same Crow wyll dye soone after Aclianus and Philes NEyther falling sycknes neyther deuyll wyll infest or hurt one in that place wheras a Bay tree is The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt is safe from mothes and if there be any there it wyll driue them awaye Diascorides THe howre of Mars is to be abhord in all thinges bothe in the begynning and when the thing is done Haly Abenragel Therefore you were best to take heede that you take no notable thyng or great matter in hande or beginne any long iourney in the howre of Mars if you can by any meanes knowe when it is But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde be they neuer so symple and vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked learned yea though they know the tymes shall not haue power to auoyde them As I haue seene in many which afterwarde they dyd well consyder though to late And as I haue sayde of Mars so I say of Saturne For there is neuer a good of them both Yâ—t I doo not thinke that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers or beares rule in the Ascendent but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the xii.vii.v or .viii. house But surely I haue markt it long and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne that came to a good ende Which they shall well finde that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea in Saturnes howre I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth which I shoulde not haue consydred so much but by his counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn to the skyn of a Woolfe of any other Beast it wyll make them without heayre or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away Mizaldus COâ—ewoorts and Rew called hearbe Grace are so contrary in nature the one to the other that they ought not to be sowne nye together Fracastorius IF any Sheepe or else heayry Beasts or els Man or Woman be full of woormes in any wound or sore take of the wooll of the same Sheepe or heair of that Beast or some of the heair of that Man or Woman and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun vnder the barke of a tree called Trembla which is a kinde of black Popler tree Do thus certayn dayes and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously or else they wyll dye or leaue that place There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke in manner of
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
swolne and also the face necke and legges who dyd lye as though she were halfe dead to whome I gaue the rootes of Daffadyll stampt and myxt with water and saffern which being drunke she was quickly hole I wrote this â—ut of an olde written booke TAke heede in letting of bloud or geuing of Purgacions or strong medicines that the Lorde of the eyght house be not with the Moone or with the Lorde of the Ascendent Lykewise that the Moone nor the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the fowrth or eyght house nor that the Lord of the eyght house be in any Angle and it is not good that the Moone be in the Ascendent Iatromathematica Guat Ryff A Winde rysing in the North in the begynning of the nyght or in the twye lyght by and by he ceaseth and leaueth his place Therfore it is that the Shypmen or Marryners hauing iust tryall therof wyll not set forth in that wynde vnlesse it hath continued three dayes The South winde is contrary which if it ryse or begyn in the beginning of the day it bringes hope to the Marryners that it wyll continew and not quickly depart out of that place Mizaldus THe skynne of the ryght heele of a Uultar layde to the ryght foote and of the lefte heele to the lefte foote of them that are payned with the gowte It is sayde that it doth mytygate the griefe and ease the paynes Mizaldus LUte stringes or Harpe strynges cutte in lytle peeces and cast vpon flesh newly sodden or rosted wyl seeme to be woormes Whereby they that knowes not thereof wyll refuse the same meate Mizaldus IF the Yarde doth swell and be grieuously payned myngle Waxe Oyle and the iuyce of Purslane together and apply it to the swolne Yarde and it wyll helpe it It is often proued IOhannes Ganiuetus wrytes that in the yeare of the Lorde .1431 the seuenth daye of August being Tewsday about seuen of the clocke in the morning one Maister Henricus Amici a Doctor of Phisicke borne at Bruxelles in Brabant dyd aske him for the Lord Deane of Viennens then being sycke whether he should dye or recouer of that sycknes In the fygure of which question he founde that the Moone was going in coniunction to the Sunne vnder the beames of the Sun which was a testimony of death With dyuers other lykelyhoods of the same But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde within one degree of the Ascendent corrupting the degree ascending dyd iudge that he woulde shortly fall into a frensye at the furthest within a naturall daye although he was a very wyse man And so it came to passe For within lesse then a naturall daye he became franticke And so dyed within two dayes after TAke cloues of Garlycke and burne them in a potte all to powder and if you vse to eate of that powder in your pottage doubtles it wyll procure you to make water if you are troubled with the stone This I had out of a very olde booke IF you put the powder of Allom in water whatsoeuer you wryte therwith the wryting or Letters wyl not appeare vnlesse you put the same paper in water and then you shall reade it perfectly Bapt. porta THis that followeth is a most excellent true sure proued medicine for a great and olde griefe and payne of the head Take of bay Salt stamped by it selfe as much of Coomyn seede stamped lykewyse by it selfe as much browne Fennell and then stampe or beate them all together then with as much pure vynegar also a lytle Rosewater mixe sturre them all together in a dyshe ouer a 〈◊〉 dyshe with hotte coales and then laye some of the same hotte vpon a cloath and apply it so to the hynder part of the heade at nyght and tye it fast thereto that it fall not away And also laye an other plaster therof hotte therto the next nyght and so do nyne nyghts together one after another and it wyll not onely helpe the same perhaps within three or fowre tymes so doing but also it wyll cleare the syght and draw the humors cleane away that runnes out of the head into the eyes and drye vp the same This medicine neuer fayles Therfore it is a precious thing and worthy to be estemed A Good waye to get the stone called Craupaudina out of the Tode Put a great or ouergrowne Tode fyrst brused in dyuers places into an earthen potte and put the same in an Antes hyllocke couer the same with earth which Tode at length the Antes wyll eate So that the bones of the Tode and stone wyll be left in the potte Which Mizaldus and many other as he sayth haue often tymes proued IT is sayde that the female Uyper doth open her mouth to receyue the generatyue sparme of the male Uyper which he doth by putting his mouth into her mouth which receyued she doth byte off his head This is the maner of the froward generating of Uipers And after that the young Uipers the springs of the same do eate or gnaw a sunder theyr mothers belly therby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth And so they being reuengers of theyr Fathers iniurye do kyll theyr owne mother Galen de Theriaca ad Piâ—onem You may see they were a towardly kynde of people that Christ called the â—eneration of Uypers SEethe Sage and drinke it eyther stampe it and lay it to the Matrix for both wayes it prouoketh the flowres and after burthens Petrus Hispanus THe gyrdle worne of a Chylde being vnder seuen yeares of age some sayes twelue yeares of age taken and tyde about the mydle of one that hath the fallyng sycknes and then presently taken from the sayde party and cutte in nyne peeces and euery peece throwne nyne seuerall wayes is a present and perfect remedy to heale and helpe the same party therof without saying of any wordes They that tolde it to me did see it proued a thing no doubt very straunge and almost incredyble Some thinkes that this wyll not preuayle but at the fyrst falling of the party THe tongue of a Dogge layde vnder the great toe within the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so weares the same Mizaldus THe skyn of an Asse being tande and shooes made of that part of the hyde wheron the burthens dyd lye that the Asse caryed they wyll neuer teare nor be worne No although you go continually among stones and thornes and with the oldnes therof they wyll waxe so harde that one can not suffer to weare them as Cardanus hath written TO stoppe the bleeding of the nose take nine or ten fresh new Leekes and put a threede thorowe the myds of them but cut of the toppes of the leaues then hang them about the parties neck that bleedes so that the leaues be vpward to the nose the heads of them downward It is good also to smell to Camphere dyssolued in vynegar and also to put the roote of Pyony vnder the tongue Iacobus Holleriâ—s IF you
laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes and then cast it among the chaffe and then a great sort of Pygiōs wyll resort to that Doouehouse LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses for hauing this you neede neither vynegar nor Salt as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me sayth Mizaldus FOxes being sodde and cutte in peeces and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after for the space of two monthes Mizaldus THe seedes of Docks tyde to the left arme of a Woman doth helpe barrennes or sterilyty Africanus THe Moone and the Ascendent are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe of the state therof and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same wherof if all they be Infortunate the Shyp is broken and they that sayled in her are drownde vnlesse some one of them be receyued that is of the sayd Sygnifyers and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning and some clymers of the Shyppe wyll escape but if all they be Fortunate all shall escape and be saued that is both Shyp and men chiefly if there be any reception Furthermore if the Ascendent the Moone be both fortunate the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate the Shyp is safe the Saylers in her are destroyed but if the Ascendent the Moone be Infortunate and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate the shyp is ouerwhelmed or lost the saylers in her are safe Haly Aben. GOates dung mingled with Uynegar bran and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast It hath bene proued BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade doth not onely draw out the broken bones but also doth heale the same with speede A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back Take a quart of whyte Wine and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates and of Marygooldes Planten Bettony Pearsley rootes and Fennel rootes of all two handfulles boyle all these together vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away and then streyne them through a cloath and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye FYue leaued grasse sod in water which water if it be droonke and gulpt vp downe into the throte is an excellent helpe for sore throtes THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne especially in Sagitary Haly Abenragel TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse called a Shrew do not byte them Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke which when it is hard hang the same about the necke of the Beast that you woulde keepe safe from such byting And it is most certayne that he shall not be toucht nor bytten as is before sayde Vegetius I Heare sayth Mizaldus that it is obserued proued that a Cowe an Ewe a she Asse a Bitche a she Catte and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde wyll cast theyr Calfe Lambe Colte or that that they go withall if the Male by whome they conceaued be kylled whyle they went with the same Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement of nature is betweene or among them IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne or if Saturne be founde in the same except it be Aries they that be then borne shall for the most parte see true Dreames but if in a moueable sygne his Dreames wyll be without effect c. Taisnier A Notable oyntment for the head ache comming of any cause wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples and all the forehead Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle fowre ounces of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses two ounces of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony of eyther one ounce and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock two ounces of oyle Rosate Omphacine one pound and a halfe of the best and purest Alablaster three ounces powder the Alablaster finely and put it into the sayd oyle and let it lye therein a daye and a nyght then myxe them all together and with sufficient whyte waxe make it into an oyntment which oyntment is good for any payne of the head proceeding of any matter or cause And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne except the begynning Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti AN excellent distilled water for hearing foloweth Take of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Onions of eyther of them syxe ounces of the leaues of Rosemary stamped one handfull of the oyle of bitter Almondes three ounces and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces myxe them all together and destyll them and the lycquor which cōmeth therof keepe in a cleane glasse droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare fowre or fyue nyghts together and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes IT is much to be marueled at that the lytle Byrde called a Wren being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell newly gathered doth turne about and rost him selfe Cardanus and Mizaldus THou mayst make fayre Pictures Uesselles and many other fyne thinges with small coast and expences as followeth Seethe the barke of the Elme tree and the toppes of the Populer tree and whyles they are very hotte put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is well and fynely beaten into powder and searced and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll then drie them in the shadow Hieronimus Gardanus HErmes doth saye that an euyll Planet in Gancer doth threaten short lyfe and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne BRymstone stampt with Wyne and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women breakes the hardnes of them Isac WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde wyll much helpe and relieue him But fyrst tyckle him on the browe and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe and then apply it to him as is beforesayde But if he be farre gone that it wyll not helpe him then take a Tenche and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes and so warme lay the one part to his brow and the other to the nape of his necke and without doubt it wyll helpe him if euer he shall haue helpe This I tooke out of an excellent written booke FOr burning with syre Take oyle
Olyffe and put it into colde water and sturre it well together tyll it be well myxed then annoint the burned place therwith and laye a woort leafe vpon it and it wyll helpe it speedely Proued STampe Mallowes and Garlycke together and myngle it well with whyte Wyne then streyne it well and drynke a good draught therof nyne tymes and it wyll make thee make water of what occasion soeuer the same is stopte Thys is affyrmed for trueth IF you wyll bring forth or hatch Egges without a Hen couer your Egges in hotte Horse dung so that the bygger part of the Egge be vpwarde but euery fyft or syxt daye shyfte them with newe Horse dung with a temperate heate as the heate of a Hen. But remember that the Egs must be turned and about the tyme of the hatching or when they shoulde come forth of the shell put them vnder a Hen. Mizaldus ALthough the fruite of a Medler tree by nature be restryctiue or bynding neuerthelesse the powder of him doth vehementlye breake the Stones in the reynes and dryues them forth Which Anthonius Musa an excellent Phisition doth wytnesse that hee hath proued with most happy successe on him selfe Mizaldus THe bloud of an Hare dryed made in powder and throwne vpō flesh newly roasted or sodden makes the same flesh seeme to be blouddy and corrupt So that they that be present and sees the same vnlesse such as knowes the secrete therof wyll loath to eate therof Mizaldus THe auncient Wyse men haue sayde that he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Sun shal escape within the space of one month and in the howre of Venus he shall escape at the ende of forty dayes and in the howre of Mercury he shal haue long imprisonment and he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Moone his busines state shal be changed according to the applicatiōs which the moone hath with fortunate and Infortunate Planets whereby the easynes and slownes of his delyuering shall be esteemed Also he that is taken prisoner in the howre of Saturne he shal endure long imprisonment and he that is taken prysoner in the howre of Iupiter he shall be delyuered quickly And they that be taken prysoner in the howre of Mars many sorrowes and troubles shall happen to them during theyr imprisonment For he shall be put in setters and shall be beaten and he shall suffer great sorrowes and labours Haly Abenragel THis medicine following wyll surely heale a scalde heade Take oyle Olyffe and put it into a dyshe with fayre water and beate or sturre them well together as you woulde make butter then take it vp and put it into a vessell and put powder of Brimstone and May Butter thereto make an oyntment therof wherwith annoynt the sore head and doubtles it wyll heale it WOodbinde leaues stampt and layd vpon Warts vsing the same halfe a dosen tymes wyll quyte destroye them FRaunces Marques of Mantua did so instruct or teach a Dogge that he vsed him as a very good seruant in calling of such of the Court as he would Blondus A Benzoar an excellent Phisition among the Arabians declares that once there was such a famyne in his countrey that the people was dryuen to pluck out the dead bodyes out of theyr graues dyd sucke the marrowe of theyr bones A thing horrible to be heard but more horryble to be done from which neede or hunger I beseech God keepe vs. IF the seedes that are founde in the round knobs of the lesser Burre leafe be made in very fyne powder and so geuen with a lytle good and pure whyte Wyne it purgeth the sande maruelous effectually from the reynes but more speedely if it be droonke with Aqua vite Mizaldus had this of one that proued it IF you seethe Mugwoort in water and plaster it hotte vpon the Nauell and thyghes of a Woman labouring with chylde it causeth both chylde byrth and the after burthen also but if it tarry long there it wyll cause the Matrix to follow Rogerius FOr scalding and burning that it be not seen Take sheepes suet and sheepes dung and the inner rinde of Elderne and boyle them all together then streyne them through a course canuas cloath and so keepe it in some cleane vessell which when you do occupy you must melt it in a sawcer or some other thing and laye it on the burned place with a fether proued TO drawe out a toothe fyll an earthen potte with Emets or Ants and theyr Egs and set the same potte in hotte embers so long vntyll all be burned in to ashes and when any toothe doth ake which you would drawe forth without paine then take of the same Ants and theyr egs made in fyne powder and touch the tooth therwith and it wyll fall out ANnoint the freckled face with the bloud of a Hare or of a Bull and it wyll do them away and make the skyn fayre Proued THis following wyll helpe the hardnes of the syde called the Elfe cake Take the roote of Gladen and make powder therof and geue the diseased party halfe a spoonefull therof to drynke in white Wine and let him eate so much thereof in his Pottage at one tyme it wyll helpe him within a whyle This was tolde me for a very trueth MUgwoort stieped in Rose water doth helpe trēbling or shaking hands if they be washt therwith Mizaldus YOu shall knowe whether the Tode stone called Crapaudina be the ryght and perfect stone or not Holde the stone before a Tode so that he maye see it and if it be a ryght true stone the Tode wyll leape towarde it and make as though he woulde snatch it from you He enuieth so much that man should haue that stone This was credibly tolde Mizaldus for trueth by one of the French Kings Phisitiōs which affyrmed that he dyd see the tryall therof GArlycke being sowne when the Moone is vnder the earth and pluckt vp when the Moone is aboue the earth it is sayde that then his stynking smell wyll be gone Sotion Grecus And Palladius reports that Garlicke wyll be made the sweeter if in the planting therrof you do set the stones of Olyues round about it Or els if you set the Garlicke brused LAye a Spunge vpon any ache or gowte dypte in warme wyne of the decoction of Coomyn and it wyll drawe out the hurtfull humors It hath bene proued Petrus Hisp. IF in the degree of the Ascendent or nye vnto it within two degrees there is an euyll Planet It is an argument of the death of the party that dyd fal sycke at that tyme or for whome the question is then asked for the state of his sycknesse And if it be in a moueable sygne it betokens that the sycke shall dye within so many dayes as the sayde euyll Planette is degrees from the degree of the Ascendent if in a fyxed signe then it sygnifyes a long tyme that is as I haue tryed euerye
with the syrrup of Hysop Emperica benedicti victoriâ— fauent You maye haue it well made at the Apothecaryes I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in this case YF you wyll breake the great heate of Wyne in the vessell cast into the same a lytle peece of cheese and then you shall see a maruelous thing And why that is Georgius valla placentinus doth teache YF you annoynt your hands or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettels oyle and a lytle Salt it wyll defende the party therwith annoynted from the bytterest colde that is Mizaldus THere be braunches of a Bay tree wrapt vp or layd among cloathes and bookes wyll keepe the same safe from mothes woormes and other corrupcion Dioscorides IF you stampe Ants egges strayne them through a cloath and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse or Knot grasse and distyll it into the eares it helpes a long continewed deafnes A Powder to conserue the syght Take Bettony Rewe Celondine Saxifrage Louache Annyse seedes Cynamom Eyebryght of each one handfull Cardamomum Gynger Fennell Petroselyne Hysop Organy Syler mountaine of each one dram Galinga one ounce Sugar one ounce Let a powder be made of these and let it be taken continually with meate and the syght wyll be restored and kept This powder was ordeyned by Maister Geralde whose tryall an olde man dyd proue which vsed spectacles twelue yeares so that without them he could not see great letters but after he had vsed this powder onely one forty dayes he was free in so much that all the tyme of his lyfe he dyd see and read the least letter that was This Trotula hath written in the later ende of his Booke De passionibus mulâ—erum AN excelleÌ„t way to get out the water out of swolne legges wherby to make them as slender as they were before Seethe Otes in water vntyll they be tender then let the party diseased hold his legge that is swolne ouer the vessell that it maye receyue the fume or smoake of the sodde Otes and couer the partye with some thing that it may go downe rounde about the vessell and then blysters wyll come vpon the legge or swolne place out of which wyll runne much water and corruption then after annoynt the place with butter Doo thus fowre or fyue seuerall tymes if neede be This is well proued TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita put into the eyes morning and euening euery other daye for the space of fowre or fyue dayes wyll cleare the syght and helpe the eyes of a colde cause maruelously An olde Gentlewoman that tryed it on her selfe dyd reueale it to me THe hearbe Dandelyon well sodde in water is counted to be a chiefe helpe for the ioygning or knytting of woundes It is good for Ruptures or for them that be broken or brusten c. Mizaldus A Maruelous Water that soone and easily may be prepared more precious then Golde is made as followeth Put fayre and cleare water into a vessell wherein there was neuer before any lycquor or before neuer occupyed and when the water is verye hotte powre it to quicke Lyme being before in another newe and cleane vessell and let it remayne and rest so long vntyll you haue taken all the fowle spume that fleetes aboue from the same and that all the Lyme bee settled to the bottome and the water verye cleare then powre out the water very softlye without mouing the Lyme in the bottome and keepe the same water in a fayre cleane glasse or some other cleane vessell well couered or stopt vntyll you vse the same It wyll scantly be beleeued what a myraculous vertue and power it hath in all kynde of Ulcers and chiefly such as springes of the Frenche Pockes For the same being bathed or moystned with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet in the sayde water something warme a prety whyle and then a lynnen cloath well wet in the same and so layde vpon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster and after renewed againe it wypes cleane away all the fylthe or corruption it ceaseth the paynes it fylles the Ulcer with flesh and it quyte quencheth the heate or inflamations in a small tyme Not without a great myracle for otherwyse quicke Lyme dooth burne with vehemencie of his heate Let them enioye this most excellent secrete which for great prayer and pryse to many I haue refused to vtter Thus much Mizaldus MYrre geuen to drynke in warme Wyne the quantity of a bygge Nut causeth the delyueraunce of the the chylde eyther quicke or dead Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gowte Take of Romaine Uitryall two poundes of distylled Honny fowre pyntes distyll these together making the Uitryall fyrst in powder and when it is distylled adde to the same the thyrde part thereof of Aqua vite rectifyed which dillygently myâ—ed keepe to your vse and annoynt the sore or grieued place therwith Doo thus morning and euening vntyll you feele your selfe well which wyl be God wyllyng within seuen or eyght dayes at the furthest I wrote this out of an olde Booke I thinke it be also in the new Iewell of Health which is a worthy booke and full of many straunge and excellent things THe smoake of Iuy burned doth driue away Backs or Reremyse from that place where the same smoake is Anatolius IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie for any thing wherin he hath a hope to haue marke if the Lorde of the eleuenth house apply to the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Lord of the fyrst house to the Lord of the eleuenth house Iudge that he shall haue the thing which he hopes to get or haue and he shall come to it And if the Aspect be of a Tryne or Sextyle he shall quickly and easilye and by a good meane obtayne it but if it be by a quartyle or opposyte Aspect he shall get it with tediousnes and labor Furthermore if thou doost fynde the Lorde of the eleuenth house in an Angle receyued then iudge that he shall haue the thing which he so hopes to haue euen as he desyres Haly Abenragel A Peece of the roote of Craw foote eyther put into the hollowe toothe if there be any or applyed to the toothe that aketh wyll helpe the same presently A sure proued and often tryed medicine WHosoeuer hath a sorenes in the throate or else any harde swelling there called the Squinancie or Angina and perhappes thereby doth hardly draw his breath let them apply this following often times in a day and it wyll soften it and resolue it For it is proued Take of the rootes of Hollyock cut in small peeces and made cleane Camamell the flowres of Uyolets the flowres of Mallowes with the rootes of each one handfull let them boyle all in a sufficient quantitye of water vntyll the water be consumed then put to the same the flowre of barley Lynseede and Fenecreeke well stampt and beaten of each
successe it was coumpted for a myracle Iohannes Agricola dooth say the lyke is done if a lytle peece of the same Hoofe be hanged vppon one that hath the same disease so that it may touche the skyn I doo heare sayth Mizaldus that the scrapings or fylings therof is geuen in Polonia for the same disease The Hoofe of the ryght hinder foote is to be chosen But you must take heede of false deceyuers which sels the Hoofes of Oxen or Kyne for the true Hoofes of Alces IT is a most sure and proued remedy as well in curying of spitting of bloud as also in preseruing from the same euery day in the morning fasting to eate a scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. Barly cornes of Rubarbe tosted at the fyre Emperica benedicti fauentini BAye Salt well beaten into powder and syfted and incorporated or myxed well with the yolke of an Egge and so layde vpon any Carbuncle plague sore botche byle or impostume assuredly by the grace of God it wyll drawe to it selfe all the venome of the plague or the sore and breake any byle or other thing So that in short tyme the same wyl be healed A tryed thing IF the foreheade of the sycke waxe redde and his browes fall downe and his nose waxe sharpe and colde and if his left eye become lytle and the corner of his eye runne if he turne to the wall if his eares be colde or if he maye suffer no bryghtnes and if his wombe fall if he pull strawes or the cloathes of his bedde or if he picke often his nosthryls wich his fyngâ—â—s and if he wake much being a young man or â—â—ing an olde man sleepe much These are most cerâ—ayne tokens of death POttage made of the leaues and rootes of Strawberies being eaten fasting certayne dayes of them that haue the Iaundise doth helpe them perfectly This was the secrete of a certayne Moonke wherwith he got maruelous much money A Serpente doth so hate the Ashe tree that she wyll not come nye the shadowe of them And therefore shee goes farre from them both morning and euening because then they geue the longest shadowes And Pliny sayth that he hath proued it that if one compasse a place about with the braunches of an Ashe tree so that there be a fyre and a Serpent enclosed in the same the Serpent wyll rather go into the fyre then she wyl seeke to escape ouer or through the sayd Ashen braunches c. Mizaldus YF the Lord of the Ascendent be found in the twelft house he that is then borne shal procure his owne enemity Taisnier IUmper berryes are medicinable against poysons for there is none of lyke operation vnto it And Dioscorides sayth also that they do helpe against poysons and styngings of Serpents Petr. Hispanus TO trye whether precious Stones be pure or not Heate a plate of Yron on the fyre then annoynt the same with Oyle and cast or strowe on the same the powder of glasse wherevpon saye qucke buâ—ning coales and then holde the stone that you would trie a good whyle ouer the same coales that the stone maye be hotte not touching the fyre and then iâ— the stone lose his cullour he is not good or pure But if he keepe his cullour he is then perfect and right AS principall a medicine as euer was ordained for the bone ache eyther in Woman or Man in what place so euer it bee Take a penny woorth of Aqua vite and an other of oyle Debaye and myxe them well together and annoynt the grieued place therewith not by the fyre and it wyll doo awaye the payne for euer vsyng it often But you must warme the Oyntment a lytle in a Sawcer before you laye it on and chafe it well vntyll it be dryed in and couer it warme at all tymes vntyll it be hole Thus I founde it wrytten EGremony Mugwoort and Bettony both leaues and rootes stampte with olde grease and vynegar or veriuyce and a plaster thereof applyed to the grieued or sore payned backe wyll quyte put away the paynes and griefe therof So that you vse it three or fowre tymes A sure and proued medicine IF you wyll catche Mowles or Woontes put Garlycke Leekes or an Onion in the mouthes of theyr hoales or in theyr entringes into the grounde and you shall see them come or leape out quycklye as though they were amased or astonied Albertus IF the Fystula be outwarde put into it the iuyce of Culuerfoote for it healeth it If it be inward drink it and it healeth also This is true for it hath bene proued FOr them that haue surfeyted or eaten too much let them stampe Bettony and temper it with hote water and a lytle Wine then strayne it well drinke a good draught thereof morning euening fyrst and last three dayes together and it wyl throughly helpe him God wylling This was told me for a trueth THe two hornes of a Snayle borne vppon a man wyll plucke away carnall or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof I had this out of an olde wrytten booke But howe true it is I knowe not FOr all euyls of the stomacke and for them that can not eate Take an hearbe called Centory seethe it well in stale Ale when it is wel sodden then stampe it after that seethe it againe in the same Ale let there be two handfull of Centory to three quartes of Ale and let them seethe as is before sayde to three pynts then put thereto one pynt of pure Honny and boyle them together and keepe it in some cleane vessell and geue to the party grieued three spoonefull therof fasting euery daye tyll he be hole and well for it driues away all the fleame corruption from the stomacke makes him haue a great desyre to his meate within fowre or fiue dayes Often proued THe powder of Bettony put in Wyne that is a spoonefull of the powder to a draught of Wyne a lytle boyled on the fyre being drunke doth presently helpe such as haue drunk poyson before And whosoeuer drinks the same in a morning fasting no poyson taken after the same day can hurt him This is a proued and tryed medicine THe dung of a Catte dryed so myxed with strong vynegar that it may be something thycke therwith any heayrye place rubbed often tymes or annoynted in a day it wyll cause that heair wyll grow no more in that place Proued of a countrey man Mizaldus IF the Lapwing doo syng before the Uynes doo budde it is sayde that it foreshewes great plentie of Wyne Mizaldus WHosoeuer deliuers a sum of Money in the howre of Iupiter he shall receyue it againe well with gayne Haly Abenragel THis pocyon or drinke following is wonderful and very often proued of me sayth Petrus Hispanus for it kylleth the Fystula in what place so euer it be and draweth out the corrupt and broken bones Take the rootes leaues of Planten Strawbery leaues the leaues or seedes of
dyssolued in the water of hearb Iue as much as doth suffice And thereof make a Lectuary according to art and know that it is maruelous Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini TO helpe swolne legges Take Mallowes seethe them in water then stampe them well strayne them then put therto Barrowes grease frye them together vntyl it he something thyck lyke an oyntment lay some therof vpon a cloath and make a plaster and apply it to the sore swolne legge and lay a new plaster therto twyse euery day morning and euening three or fowre dayes together and by that tyme it wyll be asswaged and as small as the other This was tolde mee by a Woman that had tryed it many tymes ONe neuer hath the gowte vntyll he hath knowne a woman carnally Hippocrates ALexandrinus Iouianus Pontanus doth say that he saw a man was grieuously stung or stricken of a Scorpion which presently was deliuered helped therof with drynking of Frankensence wherein was sealed the sygne of Scorpij or of a Scorpion being after made in powder But it must be grauen in the stone of a Ryng Scorpio ascending the Moone then being there and plaste in the Angle and the Frankensence must be sealed with that seale when the Moone is in Scorpio and founde in an Angle And let it be geuen in powder as is before sayde eyther in water or in whyte wyne or in any other meete lycquor HEre ensueth the making of a myraculous Oyle called oyle Incombustyble Take of whyte Sope the best that maye be gotten and after you haue beaten it well and fyne put it into a great Retorte on which powre so much weyght of Aqua vite seuen tymes distylled ouer then set the Retorte into ashes fyxing a large receyuer to it and very well luted in the ioyntes this done make vnder it a soft fyre in the begynning and encrease the fyre by lytle and lytle vntyll all be yssued forth that wyll come Which together wyll be an Oyle and Water then drawe away the receyuer and seperate the Water from the Oyle which oyle is Incombustle and myraculous in sūdrie matters in the worke of Alkemy for this greatly avayleth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle and serueth well to incorporate with all mettalles and ceasneth such as be crude and lykewise sweetneth when they beegar This also dissolueth all paynes swellings caused of grosse and clammy humors and healeth in a manner all sortes of wicked Ulcers And in this sayth the Author I conceyued a great delight as to worke such a maistrie to see so many straunge fumes and varyeties but a more pleasure I tooke in the practyse as to see how the same auayled in euery matter wherto it was applyed By which I proue this to be a diuine substaunce and an oyle worthy of eternal memory And this was the greatest secrete with which that syngular Matheus the Hungaryan dyd so many great maruels in Padua for he heald with it the gowte the quarten ague the payne of the French disease and the drye scab on the head with sundry other griefes for which whyle he remained in Padua he was highly esteemed and wondred at And at the last in his departure from Padua he reuealed it to mee that the onely medicine which he vsed to all the griefes was this oyle and none other The making of which he fully vttered vnto mee at his departing which before he would not teach to any man And the same I haue many tymes made haue also seene such straunge practises of it that to repeate them I should scantly be beleeued Hec de secretis Fallopij TO put a Shedule or lytle wryting into an Egge lay an Egge certaine dayes in strong vynegar vntyl it be soft and wryte your name or what you lyst in a lytle peece of paper and folde the paper as harde together as you can then with a Raser cut the sayd Egge in the toppe fynely and aduisedly through the which put the litle paper into the Egge cyrcumspectly and then put the Egge into cold water and immediatly the shell wyl be hard as it was before A proper secrete THe quieter Beasts haue the lesser galles the fearefuller the greater hartes the lyghter or more leaping the more Lyuer the meryar or more pleasant the greater Splene and the greater voyce the more Lyghts Much like to these verses folowing Cor ardet Pulmo loquitur Fel commouet Iras Splen ridere facit cogit amare Iecur That is The Hart doth burne the Lungs do speake the Gall to yre doth mooue The Splene or Mylt doth make vs laugh the Lyuer makes vs looue Mizaldus CAuda Draconis in the seconde house called the house of Substaunce sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall wastfully consume and spend his goodes or sygnifyes the losse therof And that he shall come to pouerty and open mysery Haly Abenragel A Grymony is of woonderfull profyte in medicines especially against hollow woundes vlcers Petr. Hispanus And Trotula saith that though the Fystula that penetrates to the eyes is incurable yet some do wytnes that such a Fystula may be cured by Agremony alone by often vsing it eyther in drynke or in powder Filipendula is good for the same and the graines o◠lytle round things that are found in the ende of the roote Gordonius alleadgeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine for the curing of a Fystula FOr the webbe or spotte in the eye Take the great bone of the Goose wing the elder the better for though it be a yeare old it is not the woorse breake it take out the marrowe that is within it then put some of it vpon the webbe or in the spotte and it wyl breake it and saue the syght Proued THe vertues of Tormentyl This hearbe cōforteth the sight cleanseth the body of dyuers maladies the powder therof is good to clarify the syght of the eyes though one be blinde And this hearbe is drest on this manner Take the hearbe with the roote seethe i◠with whyte Wine tyl the thyrd part be sodden away and geue him that is blynde to drinke of this lycquor nine dayes in the morning colde and at night bloud warme and within that tyme he wyll recouer his syght by Gods grace But if the syght of the eye be hurte take also the hearbe and stampe it and seeth it in whyte Wyne with a lytle water put into the Wyne then laye or spreade the hearbes on a lynnen cloath bynde it vpon his eye or eyes and it brings a woonderful helpe If thou stampe this hearbe with the roote a good quantitie and put it into a lytle vessell full of Wyne and let it remaine therin three monthes Whosoeuer drinkes often of this Wyne though he hath bene blynd nyne yeares he wyll recouer his sight againe This I had out of an old written booke which doth much agree with Petrus Hispanus in this case whose minde thereof I haue mencioned in another
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
or forwarde in the howre of Saturne I sayde to one of my fellowes which vnderstoode some thing in this Science all these men are geuen to be lost and within a while after they all perished Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow Which although many doo not nor wyl beleeue to be true because they know neither this excelleÌ„t Science neither the proofe of these things yet many that be wise and learned and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof doth thinke this no lye But if some of them dyd know the same howre and should practise some such lyke thing therein the euent thereof would teach them I thinke not to be so incredulous I know I thanke God therfore that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God for he wyll so guyde them that neither man nor deuil nor any other thing can destroye them though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them And as he doth preserue them from harme euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in the very beginning of theyr iourneyes Assured and am fully satisâ—yed that he by his diuine prouidence makes them auoyde that howre other euyll tymes and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme to theyr destruction Therefore for my part I attribute nothing to the tyme but all honour to God that made the tyme whose glory and power is to be extolde that foreshewes such things to man by such howres or tyme. BLack Sheepes wooll myxt and chafed by the fyre with freshe butter and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together it helpeth deafnes perfectly and speedely A proued thing HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite Take Galengale Cucubarum Ginger Nutmugs Cloues Cynamom of euery one an ounce fresh sage fowre ounces water that is distilled sixe times out of pure good Wine ten ounces put them all together and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes then distyll the same keepe that that is distylled in a cleane close vessell Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously and keepe them from many diseases and bring them to olde age It is sayde that M. Gallus Phisition to Charles the Emprour vsed this water and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares Georg. Alapide deuised this water IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith or by and by put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke in a good deale of pure water and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth Euonymus AN excellent oyle for colde aches Take the wood of Iuie dryed cutte the wood in lytle peeces and of the berryes and gum of Iuye of each a lyke weyght let them be put in an earthen vessell boored through in the bottome in two or three places and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground then make a fyre on euery syde and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell This oyle before all oyles healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof As appeares in Euonymus IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flowre deluce and myxe the yolke and it well together then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure This is proued to be true Much lyke vnto this Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers after rubbe the naked place with Nettels then setting young Chyckens vnder him he wyl maruelously cherish them then and bring them kyndly vp And the rather if you vse him thus for a time for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly to cherysh bring vp and feede yea to loue them as the Hen would do naturally And the reasoÌ„ therof is for that by the pricking of the nettels he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe fethers of the young Chickins sytting vnder him This I had out of the natural and Artificial coÌ„clusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into English by Th. Hyl. ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer that he should be kylled by some ruyne or something that should fal vpon him vpoÌ„ a certaine day or tyme who to preueÌ„t the same did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time would by no meanes come into any house thinking therby to auoyde that daunger vnles the heauens should chauÌ„ce to fal but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head froÌ„ whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head kylled him Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents especially by directions which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this other notable examples And sure I am by many proofes tryals that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections that is when the Signifyer coms to the very place minute of the Promissor accouÌ„pting for euery degree betweene theÌ„ one yeere euery minute about six daies if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliquâ— AsceÌ„cions or els Intermixtim which is not very easily or soone done then they sygnify sometimes more sometymes lesse according to their swift or slow asceÌ„ding Which dyrectioÌ„s to be infallible the learned expert herein cannot chuse but affirme For that they are found as perfect by proofe as true by tryal as the breake of the day doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia as IohaÌ„nes Langius wrytes a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete who being taken with such a loÌ„ging or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete that she priuely behynde his backe dyd holde his legge with her hands and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest which cryed out both of God and man. IF
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
dead being layde in warme Ashes but they must not be burning or verye hotte the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe This is very true IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe and immediatly cut away the new springes tops and the vppermost branches of that yeere you shall haue new fresh Roses grow againe out of the same the same yeere about Mighelmas I know this to be true and for trueth I haue published it abroade THe Indians do vse the Tabaco a notable hearbe for to suffer the dreyth also for to suffer hungar and to passe dayes without hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke by any desart or dyspeopled countrey where they shal find neyther water nor meate They do vse of these litle balles which they do make of this Tabaco they take the leaues of it and do chew it and as they go chewing of them they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned and they myngle it in their mouth all together vntyll they make it lyke to dowe of the which they make certaine lytle balles lytle greater then Peason and they put them to drye in the shadowe and after they keepe them vse them for the auoyding of hunger thyrst in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke for the space of three or fowre dayes This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten with many other woonders and notable vertues therof in his booke before mencioned intituled Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde This Tabaco is a maruelous woonderfull hearbe growing in the west Indyas called the new Spaine and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryueÌ„ away from any place with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde as Rasis wrytes QUick syluer kylled burned Leade the scales of Yron or black Hellebor mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues if any Mice eate therof it wyll kyll them Mizaldus THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme â—â—nde of the Peru which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces and geue the same to the patient the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day This Monardus affyrmes to be proued manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new fouÌ„d World. The name of the Goom he names not THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots remoued and set amongst broome wyl bring forth yallow Roses Iohan. Bap. Por. THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt wyll not putrifye neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru a boowe wherof if one doth hold fast in his left hand a good whyle that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye of that disease or at that tyme if the sycke shall lyue and escape the party that holdes the same shall shewe much gladnes If the sycke shall dye then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad whiles shee dyd holde the same whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite as great as a Nutte with maruelous rounde and harde bâ—â—cke stones in them is brought out of the new Spaine by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus whereof two or three with hotte water doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes then one pound of Sope doth wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade discrybed at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation and commendation IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt tyll the kernelles be broken then tempered with a lytle fresh grease and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore as hotte as she may suffer the same it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof and if it be ready to breake it wyll breake it or else not This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue called quycke Brimstone beate it in powder and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope that is of the most stinking smel and tye the same in a lynnen cloath and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar for the space of nyne dayes and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes or morphew therwith though neuer so olde or rooted being eyther on the face or on any other parte of the body with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet therin and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body All this is well proued AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande in the yeare of our Lorde 1548. For euery one that vsed it then escaped Take Aloes Hepatick pure Cynamom Myrre of each three drammes Cloues Mace wood of Aloes called Lignum Aloes Mastick Bole Armoniacke of each halfe an ounce myxe them all together and make thereof a very fyne powder wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water and by the grace of God you shall be preserued safe from the Plague VVeckerus IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde or place where they are TAke of English Saffern beateÌ„ in fyne powder and as much of pure good blacke Sope which when they be well myngled together spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather then laye it vppon the Nauell of them whose vryne or water is stopte and it wyll procure the water to come forth and therby they shall make water within one howre This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete whereof I dare make no warrantyze but fauour it as you fynde it MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe then let it lye so two or three dayes then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye your Garner or rowme where you wyll laye your Corne then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle al ouer where you haue dawbed and when it is drye laye Wheate therein and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce hurt touch or
come neere that Wheate This I had out of an olde Booke And Iacobus VVeckerus also affyrmes the same WHen you first see the Cuckoo marke well where your right foote doth stande for you shall fynde there an heair Which if it be black it sygnifyes that you shall haue very euyll lucke all that yeare after If it be whyte then very good lucke But if it be graye then indyfferent It is sure that such a heair hath bene founde accordingly but what euent dyd follow therof I am yet vncertayne But this was affyrmed to mee for a very trueth It was also credibly reported vnto mee that the lyke heair wyll be founde vnder the ryght foote at the fyrst seeing of the Swallowe after they are comd at the spring tyme so that you looke after the sayde Swallowe as long as you can see her A Quantitie of Hempe seede stampt and strayned through a cloath when it is wel sodden with running water and a good draught thereof droonk last going to bed and so vsed wyll make one laxatiue and loose bellyed This is a proued thing therfore THe great Alexander being desirous that the long lyfe of Hartes might be knowne to his posterity caused golden Chaynes to be made fast vnto many Harts about theyr neckes I thinke the tyme when the same was done being exprest or marked in the same and they which were taken of the same Harts an hundreth yeares after dyd not yet seeme to be of the age of olde Hartes Mizaldus wrytes this who affyrmes that Pliny is the Author therof QUicke Lyme mixt with olde Cheese and well beaten together wyll fasten and glew strongly together broken stone vessels and also broken glasses This was very credibly tolde me for a very great secrete by one that proued it many tymes as he sayde WHosoeuer hath an extreame heate or sore burning Feuer let them vse to drinke fowre or fyue tymes in one day a good draught of the distylled water of wylde Poppy that is Papauer erraticum which growes among Corne with a red flowre much lyke the leafe of a Rose it is called of some red corne Rose This haue I tryed to be true THey in whose Natiuitie Saturne is Lord of the seuenth house are not lyke to marry before they be thyrty yeares of age or else vntyll Saturne from that tyme hath compassed the whole Zodiack which differs not much This is proued true by long experience I haue seene many whose seuenth house is Capricorne or Aquary the houses of Saturne and yet I neuer knew any of them but either dyed vnmaried or else married after they were thyrtie yeares of age And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein IF the bottom of a seething potte with meate newly taken from the fyre may be touched or felt without harme or daunger of burning then certaynly the same meate is boyled inough But if it be hotte and not sufferable then it is not sufficiently sodde This I know to be true for I haue seene the tryall thereof LAy a greene Iuy leafe in a dyshe or other vessell of fayre water eyther for your selfe or for any other on Newyeares euen at night and couer the water in the sayd vessel and set it in a sure or safe place vntyl Twelfe euen next after which wyll be the fyft day of Ianuary and then take the sayd Iuy leafe out of the sayd water and marke well if the sayde leafe be fayre and greene as it was before for then you or the party for whom you layd it into the water wyl be whole and sound and safe from any sicknes all the next yeare following But if you fynde any black spots theron then you or the party for whome you layde it into the water wyll be sicke that same yeare following And if the spots be on the vpper part of the leafe towards the stalke then the sycknes or paine wyll be in the head or in the neck or there about And if it be spotted nye the myds of the leafe then the sycknes wyll be about the stomack or hart And lykewise iudge that the disease or griefe wyll be in that part of the body according as you see the black spots vnder the same in the leafe Accoumpting the spots in the nether or sharpe end of the leafe to sygnify of the paynes or diseases in the feete And if the leafe be spotted all ouer then it signifies that you or the partie shall dye that yeare following You may prooue this for many or fewe at one time by putting in the water for euery one a leafe of greene Iuy so that euery leafe be noted or marked to whom it doth belong This was crediblye tolde me to be very certaine who affyrmed to me faithfully that it was diuers times proued for a verye trueth But because I neuer tryed it therefore I refer euery one that shall reade it to the tryall thereof BRusonious wryghtes and Georgius Fabricus affyrmes the same that the bones of Hens myxed with melted Golde doo consume the same Golde in to themselfe THe water distilled of Honny makes faire and comly cullored Heyre if it be often moystned or spunged therewith This is prooued THe rootes of Hollyockes stampt and myxt with the Grease of an olde Hogge and plastred to the Gowte healpeth it in three dayes Petrus Hispanus VEriuyce sodde vntill it be very hot and then put into a tâ—â—nen Bottell with a narrow mouth and then holden too or in the eare that the fume thereof may enter into the head it will helpe the head ache meruelously and the sounding of the eares And if there be any quick thinges in the head it wyll bringe them forthwith great speede A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head esteeming it as a precious secret but I neuer tryed it therefore as it prooues so prayse it IF one be wounded that hath the dropsye it is hard to heale him Hippocrates Therefore this is worth the marking YOu shall knowe how many dayes old the Moone is if you do as followeth especially shee being in the fyrst quarter holde before your eyes a peece of fyne Lawne and looke through it straight vpon the Moone and so many dayes old as the Moone is so many Moones shall you see or at the least they wyll seeme so many in your sight Assoone as you try it you wyll saye it is true For I haue seene the proofe thereof I Hard it tolde for a very truth by diuers persons that in a plague time in the Citty of Cullen there was a certaine woman dyed and was buryed with a Ring of golde on her fynger for the greedines whereof a couetous fellow within a whyle after she was buryed digged her Graue and opened the coffyn wherein shee did lye thinking thereby to take away the Ringe from her fynger but immediatly the sayd woman did soddainly sturre and mooue and began to syt vp which when the sayd fellow sawe with great feare he did runne
pag. 174.46 For swellings in a sore breast pag. 175.47 To helpe a wound in the hand pa. 175.48 A speciall medicine to strengthen the back pag. 175.49 For sore throates pag. 175.50 They are diuellishe that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 175.51 That Beastes be not bytten of the blynde Mowse pag. 175.52 A good lesson to be obserued in Beastes that are with young pag. 176.53 Who are lyke to see true dreames pag. 176.54 A notable oyntment for â—ny payne in the head pag. 176.55 An excellent water for hearing pa. 177.56 A Wren wyll turne at the fyre by it selfe pag. 177.57 To make fyne pictures and vesselles with smal coast pag. 177.58 When the mother shall be of short lyfe pag. 178.59 To take awaye the hardnes of Womens pâ—ps pag. 178.60 To helpe mad â—â—en pag. 178.61 A precious thing for burning pag. 178.62 To cause one make water pag. 178.63 To hatche Chyckeâ—s without a Hen. pag. 179.64 The straunge vertue of the Medler pag. 179.65 That toasted or sodden flesh seeme bloody pag. 179.66 Of quicke and slowe deliuering out of pryson pag. 179.67 To heale a scalde head pag. 180.68 To destroy Wartes pag. 180.69 A Dogge taught to do the offyce of a seruaunt pag. 180.70 A most extreeme famine pag. 180.71 To dryue forth sande out of the reynes pag. 181.72 To cause speedy delyueraunce of a Chylde pag. 181.73 That scalding be not seene pag. 181.74 To drawe out a tooth easâ—ly pag. 181.75 To put away freckles in the face pag. 182.76 To helpe the Elfe cake in the syde pa. 182.77 To helpe shaking hands pag. 182.78 To know a ryght Tode stone pa. 182.79 To make that Garlicke shall not smell pag. 182.80 An easie medicine for the gowte pa. 183.81 An argument of death pa. 183.82 To make a Woman be speedely delyuered pag. 183.83 To know who shal be gelded pag. 184.84 To make that no Dogge bark at you pag. 184.85 To put away the quarten agâ—â— pa. 184.86 To helpe â—â—â—olde and incurable gowâ—e pag. 184.87 A notable medicine for the falling sicknes pag. 184.88 An excellent oyntment for the gowte pag. 185.89 To destroy an Itche pag. 185.90 To make a candle that wyll not be put out pag. 185.91 An excellent oyle for the Synewes and ach of the ioyntes pag. 185.92 To bring woormes and hurtfull things in a garden into one place pag. 186.93 A token of the fathers short life pa. 186.94 To helpe paynes and deafnes of the eares pag. 186.95 A proued water to heale the Fystula pag. 186.96 That horses be liuely quick pag. 187.97 To make a horse pysse pa. 187.98 A maruelous precious water pa. 187.99 For winde or sounding in the eares pag. 188.100 The Table of the eyght booke TO make vineger presently pag. 189.1 The straunge propertie of the Woolfe pag. 189.2 Deadlye wâ—â—re betweene the Hawke and the Eagle pag. 189.3 To take Byrdes that eates seedes that are sowne pag. 189.4 An euyll howre to take iourney on the seas pag. 189.5 Approued Pyls for the Palsey pa. 190.6 A straunge thing of a woman with chylde pag. 190.7 To turne whyte wine into red pag. 190.8 A rare medicine for the cough pag. 191.9 Who shall possesse greater rytches and honours then their Auncestors pa. 191.10 To cleare a dym syght pag. 191.11 A maruelous medicine for woundes and sores pag. 192.12 A straunge diuersitie betweene dead men and dead women pag. 192.13 The great vertue of Marygooldes pag. 192.14 A rare thing to helpe the gowte pa. 193.15 If one doo come or sende to thee in a good howre pag. 193.16 To cause a speedy byrth of a Chylde pag. 193.17 To knowe whether one that is sycke wyll lyue or dye pag. 193.18 To helpe them that be deaffe pag. 193.19 To drawe out a toothe without any paine pag. 194.20 A â—awe that no syck person shoulde drinke Wine pag. 194.21 Whether any water be myxt with Wyne or not pag. 194.22 To encrease Pigions in a Doouehouse pag. 194.23 An excellent thing for deafnesse pag. 1â—4 24 One dyd foretell of the tyme of the death of one that was sycke by Astrologie pag. 194.25 For ache in the bones or in any other place pag. 195.26 They that bee gelded are neuer gowtie pag. 196.27 A prowde and vaine glorious Emperour pag. 196.28 It is not good to burie any too hastelye pag. 196.29 A notable medicine for shortnes of breath pag. 197.30 To breake the great heate of Wine in the vessell pag. 197.31 To keepe any parte of the body from colde pag. 197.32 To keepe cloathes bookes from moaths pag. 198.33 To helpe a long continewed deafnesse pag. 198.34 A precious powder to concerue the syght pag. 198.35 To gette out the water out of swolne legs pag. 198.36 Aqua vite good for the eyes pag. 199.37 To ioygne or knyt wounds pag. 199.38 A water more precious then golde pag. 199.39 To cause a woman bee speedily delyuered pag. 200.40 A blessed water for the gowte pa. 200.41 To driue awaye Backes or Rearemyce pag. 201.42 To knowe whether you shall obtaine that thing you hope for or not pag. 201.43 A present helpe for the toothache pag. 201.44 To resolue the sorenes and swellings of the throate pag. 201.45 For the weaknes and paines in the backe pag. 202.46 To make one syng cleare and to haue a cleare voyce pag. 202.47 The straunge property of mints pa. 203.48 A daungerous howre to fall sycke in pag. 203.49 To breake a tooth and to take awaye the paine pag. 203.50 â—uido bonatus learnedly foretold a great daunger to the Emperour by his reuolucion pag. 203.51 A meruelous matter of a woman with châ—â—de pag. 204.52 A child borne in a certaine time wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler pag. 205.53 A perfet helpe for the Gowte pag. 205.54 To restore the deaffe to hearing pa. 205.55 A notable thing to stop the rewine p. 206.56 To help the Pocks in the eyes pa. 206.57 When the PhisitioÌ„ shall not profit the sick pag. 206.58 To make a toothe to fall out by the roote pag. 207.59 To restore one that is brought lowe pag. 207.60 A noble receate for the black Iaundyes pag. 208.61 Bettonye is meruelous good for the gowte pag. 208.62 An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomack pag. 208.63 To make gotes giue much milk p. 209.64 He that is borne at a certaine time wil be a maister Carpenter pag. 209.65 To cease the outragious paine of the gowt pag. 209.66 A most approoued medicine for the Gowt pag. 209.67 To catch Byrdes with your handes pag. 209.68 To make a woman be speedelye deliuered pag. 210.69 A true medicine for the Gowte pa. 210.70 To kindle a Candle and to burne in the water pag. 210.71 To make that a Ram shall not putte pag. 211.72 A good howre to fall syck in pag. 211.73 A present help for the tooth ache pa. 211.74 A warranted medicine for the Gowte pag. 211.75 A specyall medicine for all suddaine sicknesse pag. 211.76 A straunge